Regulars here will remember the above Glasgow anaesthetist (right) prophesying infection doom after noticing wrongly placed hand-sanitisers, in her opinion as one who is not an infection control specialist in the QEUH. Her comments then went viral and she was interviewed or quoted on every BBC Scotland outlet. Needless to say, there is no breakdown in Nick Triggle’s report (left) for BBC Health today. He does claim that the research report from King’s College indicates that overall the infection rate in hospitals was low but we don’t hear of any differences between hospitals in the 4 nations or in Italy. … Continue reading Updated: Have Scotland’s hospitals infected far fewer with Covid-19 than most?

Using a report which seems to be more about the lack of transparency of the UK Government and SAGE, the Herald‘s Caroline Wilson uses it as an excuse to re-run fake news on the Scottish Government’s handling of the pandemic: That the re-opening of schools has resulted in a steady growth of cases is a lie. Other than in one school, the small increases (20 or so out of 800 000 pupils and staff returning) have been due to community transmission of people who also happen to be teachers or pupils at a school. Professor Sridhar has summed up the … Continue reading More of the same lies!

In the Herald today from Neil Mackay: Until recently, I’ve only needed the NHS for short, sharp interventions – a tonsillectomy, an appendectomy, x-rays and stitches for injuries and accidents. I’ve never – until this summer – needed the NHS long-term. I’m now, though, into my fifth week of living and breathing the NHS, and much to my sadness my view of our health service has changed. Mackay seems to have had a tough time. I don’t question his suffering. I genuinely hope he is recovered. It sounds like the staff were a bit tough on him as he struggled … Continue reading Why should we be interested in one man’s ‘bad’ NHS experience?

Former (?) Tory Youth chairman, accused of anti-Semitism in 2018, but of course ‘a proud Scot’, James Bundy appears again on BBC Scotland to push the latest strategy to counter the surge in support for independence, apparent in repeated polls recently. Though the move is led by and thus somewhat undermined right at the start by the sickly comedy twins, Galloway and Gove, a more dangerous covert element as in Bundy, is appearing across Scottish media to pretend a more grassroots support for the idea. The franchise for a Scottish independence referendum was established and in 2013 and passed by … Continue reading BBC Scotland pushes back against surge in support for Independence with racism

For BBC Scotland, allowing political extremists airtime with their affiliations undisclosed is becoming the New Normal. On Question Time we’ve had a Brexit candidate and a Tory treasurer suspended after joking about Nicola Sturgeon’s miscarriage, appear repeatedly and allowed to shout abuse at the SNP panellists. On Good Morning Scotland and Call Kaye, we hear councillors, activists and other members of the opposition parties and even representatives of the anti-democratic covert media group based in Scotland in Union, appear to attack the SNP or the FM personally, but presented as ordinary members of the public. Now, on The Nine we … Continue reading BBC Scotland’s The Nine allows Young Conservative accused of anti-Semitism to promote racist ideas

The BBC has a royal charter requiring it to inform the people. Judging by the above, the people of England can relax about Coronavirus. The PM’s optimism has wiped it out. In sharp contrast below, BBC Scotland is keeping the people of Scotland on the alert with TEN reports on the pandemic. I have relatives in England. Time for a holiday with an overnight stop in Birmingham? Wait, what’s this? 938 new cases in England alone on a Monday? No way. There must be something wrong. Look a the BBC reporting. We can trust the Beeb! 4 deaths (63 in … Continue reading Boris triumphant as England eliminates Coronavirus ahead of Scotland

On the BBC News at one, but not in the Reporting Scotland episode just after it, Tim! Tim who? I dunno? They didn’t say. He said: With no hard evidence from the Government what we’ve found or what we are facing is simply a political decision and not a scientific one. and promptly disappeared. What? Eh? Who is Tim? Why is he up a Munro? Is he some kind of social distancing extremist? Did Brian Taylor have to get up there? What group is he affiliated to? What is his point? He can take his mask off while Munro-bagging, I … Continue reading Coronavirus Update:Who is Tim and who is he to us?

Across Scotland, as around 700 000 pupils return to school along with tens of thousands of staff, the number of teachers and students, infected IN schools, across the country has soared to a comparative handful – 30? There are 5.4 million people in Scotland and less than 10 schools, to my knowledge, have reported cases in, or more often just linked to, them. There are 3.5 million people in Berlin and 41 schools have reported cases. Now that’s what I call ‘huge.’ Continue reading Huge? Seventeen? You call that huge?

A ‘factory outbreak‘ does not mean a virus is spreading. ‘Community spread‘, as the name indicates means the virus is spreading. Several times over the course of this pandemic, Professor Leitch has made the distinction clear, and today, the First Minister reinforced the view that although more than 2 000 workers in three connected factories in Coupar Angus have now been tested, there is ‘no evidence of community transmission‘ ie it has not ‘spread.’ Continue reading No community spread in Tayside but Herald spreading panic just to get more advertising revenue

By BBC London’s Transport correspondent Tom Edwards: The crucial point to remember with these “opening dates” is no one actually knows when Crossrail will start operating. These dates are now an educated estimate but so many dates have come and gone that no one will trust the latest one. The minister responsible makes this little appearance and escapes unharmed: Transport Secretary Grant Shapps revealed that a team of specialists will join the DfT to tackle delays to infrastructure projects caused by the pandemic. The PM? Dunno…holiday? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-53847738 Continue reading Not the faces of delay: Where are Grant Shapps and the PM?