Yesterday BBC Scotland were headlining the complaints of one care home relative (above) – ‘I missed Mum’s death by seconds because of care home Covid rules’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67346268
As always, missing from the reporting of a taxpayer-funded public service broadcaster with a charter requiring it to inform, was any discussion of the reasons underlying the practice to limit care home visits – the critical vulnerability of care home residents and the consequent level of deaths in these places which in Scotland alone was moderated by it.
In the first wave, Scotland had to follow the SAGE advice as part of the 4 Nations approach until the devolution of powers at the end of March, yet by its end in the Summer of 2020, Stirling University research revealed a far higher death rate in care homes in England. https://www.stir.ac.uk/news/2020/august-2020-news/care-homes-in-england-had-greatest-increase-in-excess-deaths-at-height-of-the-covid-19-pandemic/
In the second wave, as England chose not to follow the JCVI advice to the letter and vaccinate all care home residents as quickly as possible, based on ONS and NRS data, they suffered twice the death rate. https://twitter.com/nasirfmusiqi
Talking-up Scotland 
The UK government propaganda service aka BBC notScotland news will be using this format of misinformation – deceit and usually down right lies for anything to do with Scottish COVID inquiry.
Thanks for continuing to provide the evidence for everyone of us to call it out wherever and whenever we can
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If you remember, during lockdown the National Theatre of Scotland commissioned short films about life in lockdown. Mark Bonnar’s brilliant performance in ‘Larchview’ was very dramatic and quite telling for the time.
“Following a breach of the nation’s lockdown rules, one of the government’s most senior scientific advisers is forced to practice for his groveling public apology in a fictitious new short sharp drama. As he struggles to justify his actions, he slowly comes to terms with what he has done, and the horrifying scale of his mistake becomes clear.”
Maybe someone at the BBC should have watched this wee film. Think it might still be online somewhere.
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“As always, missing from the reporting”
Indeed ‘the devilment is in the missing detail(s)’ which as a behaviour is one the BBC here always adopts when covering MANY stories connected to Scotland……which is why they should never be, as a news source, an option that is THE sole source of information or news for anyone……as there is THEIR version and then there is OTHER versions which cover the context, details, truth and thus fully explain what’s what………..alas what WE get via the BBC here ,in the supposed but not “news where are”, is mostly opinion based tittle tattle and redacted versions of stories…….as everything here is very much politicised to benefit opposition parties and damage the SNP….simples
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On BBC I see that Carol Vorderman has left her radio show in Wales because the BBC is not happy with her X tweets about the Tories.
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Consequently I have now breached the new guidelines and BBC Wales management has decided I must leave. We each must make our decisions.
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I’m struggling with the ‘Boris’ mentality displayed by the complainers, rules are fine so long as they don’t impact or inconvience me, me me. Walking into a care home, hospital etc with a transmitable deadly virus, which is what she was prepared to risk, is unforgivable. Prepared to risk other patients and staff’s lives and then complaining when she was stopped from doing so.
Golfnut
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Your all too brief “analysis” of a similarly all too brief “report” by BBC Scotland is why we need this lengthy detailed Inquiry, which will examine ALL points of view. Please have respect for the Lived Experience of many of our fellow citizens. Watch ALL of the Impact Hearings! Read The Transcripts! Read the Lengthy Witness Statements! This is a rigorous legal progress.
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The needs of the many out way the needs of the few, really shouldn’t need to remind people of the stark consequences inflicted on the people of England because the needs of the few were deemed far more more important than the lives of ordinary people. A stricter regime saved about 2000 lives in Scotland and cost the English an additional, unnnessary 35,000 deaths for the lack of it. Which regime do you think the relatives of those 35,000 would have prefered, instead they had ‘Eat out to help out’. This may be a good place and time to remind people that the liblabtorys along with the media did there very best to undermine the protocols put in place by the SG.
I have absolutely no sympathy for individuals prepared to risk the lives of others to gratify their own needs and I have even less for those using a public inquiry to greet about it.
Golfnut.
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No impacted individual attending either Covid Inquiry should be criticised for giving honest evidence, it’s part of the ‘lessons learned’ process.
The problem as ever is not Natalie, but HMS James Cook’s selection and framing to suit it’s obvious agenda to a dwindling and increasingly sceptical audience.
The rUK and Scottish governments will learn valuable lessons from this process long after Pacific Quay has seen it’s last propagandist helicoptered out…
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I think what we learned Bob was that the stricture regime put in place by the SG saved lives, hopefully the inquiry will acknowledge that fact.
Golfnut
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Once key SG advisers begin giving evidence on strategy and the importance of messaging in taking the public with you, this will be inevitable as cause-effect is fleshed out.
I do hope the scurrilous media campaign to derail SG’s strategy for purely political reasons is exposed – If there is a key lesson to be learned for any future pandemic
it is “don’t play political games when peoples’ lives are at stake”.
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