From the Herald’s Entertainment Correspondent, Brian Beacom, the pretty uncontroversial ‘opinion’ which must surely disappoint his clickbait manager. I don’t know whether Beacom goes on to suggest nationalisation but given his earlier pieces defending Rod Stewart’s right to vote for Boris Johnson and his proud defence of the older man’s inalienable right to get a thatch like Andrew Neil’s, it seems unlikely. Anyhow, here are some reasons why nationalisation is needed: From the Daily Record only three weeks ago as covid-19 spread: Care home bosses could face fines or even jail if they don’t comply with new measures to protect staff and … Continue reading Nationalise old folk’s homes now!

Scotland’s achievement in controlling Covid-19 deaths in hospitals, thanks to the heroic efforts of staff and the determined actions of the Scottish Government to make sure the system could cope has been praised by 99 year-old, retired oncologist, Hugh Preeningson: ‘This could have been so much worse and the system unable to cope. The First Minister and her team are to be congratulated for putting the country first and being as that Fraser guy would say ‘Aye Ready!’ Preeningson is confident that NHS Scotland can now catch up with elective surgery and cancer care and lists his reasoning below: There … Continue reading Coronavirus in Scotland: First Minister is praised as Covid-19 deaths in hospitals are suppressed enabling speedy plans for return to full cancer care and elective surgery

The Scottish Government COVID-19 Advisory Group is chaired by Professor Andrew Morris, professor of medicine at the University of Edinburgh and director of Health Data Research UK, and by Professor David Crossman, who is Dean of Medicine at the University of St Andrews and Chief Scientific Advisor for Health at the Scottish Government. Why have they not recruited a man whose last Scottish investigation was into a bacterial infection in Wishaw, not a viral one, in 1997, only a quarter of a century ago? Why have they not recruited a man who has spent most of the last 20 years … Continue reading SHOCK: Scottish Government Covid-19 VIRUS Advisory group does not include back-dated anti-independence ‘expert’ who is not a virologist

From NHS Scotland’s Information Services Division yesterday: Attendances at A&E services in NHS Scotland has seen a large drop since the week ending 22 March 2020, this will be due to the measures put in place to respond to COVID-19. During week ending 19 April 2020: There were 12,900 attendances at A&E services in NHSScotland. 95.2% of attendances at A&E services were seen and resulted in a subsequent admission, transfer or discharge within 4 hours. 25 patients spent more than 8 hours in an A&E department. 2 patients spent more than 12 hours in an A&E department. https://beta.isdscotland.org/find-publications-and-data/health-services/hospital-care/nhs-performs-weekly-update-of-emergency-department-activity-and-waiting-time-statistics/ It will … Continue reading NHS Scotland hits Accident and Emergency target with 95.2% seen in 4 hours

In the Herald today: BRITAIN could be on course to have the highest death rate from coronavirus in Europe. Michael Settle, UK [not Scotland] Political Editor, is not wrong. He might even be understating things. As it stands, counting only hospital death statistics as he has above, the UK is in third place behind Belgium and France: https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/1572472/?utm_source=showcase&utm_campaign=visualisation/1572472 However, if the FT/ONS prediction of 41 000 deaths, once out-of-hospital deaths are added, the UK would soar ahead of them. There is, of course, no good reason to lump Scotland’s death rate in with that of England in a UK figure as we … Continue reading ‘Scottish’ newspaper lumps us in with the worst

From NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, today: Accelerated development of antibody testing for coronavirus: Accurate and reliable testing is a key pillar of the COVID-19 response strategy around the world and a key component of the safe and managed easing of current lockdown restrictions.   NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is collaborating on the development of an accurate and reliable antibody test in the fight against COVID-19. Using a finger prick blood sample, the test will establish if a person has acquired antibodies to the COVID-19 virus. The presence of antibodies as markers of viral immunity is widely used in … Continue reading NHS Glasgow’s antibody testing development and 121 new doctors

Unable to lay a glove on NHS Scotland nor directly on the Scottish Government, BBC Scotland’s feckless Disclosure team wanders the streets and care home offices, morbidly gorging themselves on individual tales of personal tragedies and cliched soundbites that suggest a wider reality they provide no evidence for: ‘THIS is Scotland’s largest city in 2020!’ More accurately of course, it is just one of a thousand stories that night. ‘Tonight 101 people will be fed and clothed. THIS is the pandemic you don’t see! No one would excuse street poverty but 101 out of around 1 million in Greater Glasgow … Continue reading As Panorama lays the blame with evidence firmly at the door of No.10, BBC Scotland’s Disclosure team are hopeless again

In the Herald today: ONE of Scotland’s leading professors of microbiology believes environmental health officers should lead a “a fleet of contact tracers” as he calls on the Scottish Government to “ramp up capacity” for testing coronavirus patients. Professor Hugh Pennington, emeritus professor of bacteriology at Aberdeen University, will appear remotely before the Scottish Parliament’s health and sport committee today, to give his views on the Covid-19 pandemic….His expertise are [sic] currently being used by the Scottish Police Federation, which has called on Prof Pennington as an advisor on risks and safeguards for police staff during the coronavirus pandemic.  https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18409312.coronavirus-hugh-pennington-environmental-health-officers-train-contact-tracers/ Pennington is a bacteriologist. … Continue reading Long-retired BACTERIOLOGY prof infected with rabid Unionism preferred to FOUR top VIROLOGISTS by Committee Convenor, Lewis MacDonald (Labour)!

In the Herald today: ‘NICOLA Sturgeon has suggested the coronavirus lockdown in Scotland could end later than the one in England and that she might seek powers to close the Border.’ She said nothing of the sort. Imagine he said something of that level of fakery to the Donald? “You’re so disgraceful,” he said. “It’s so disgraceful the way you say that.” At the briefing yesterday she mentioned, smiling grimly, how much twisting was required to make it seem like she had said that. Now, I write as someone who would like to see the border closed. It makes a lot of … Continue reading Tom Gordon on Nicola Sturgeon and borders: He just makes it all up as he pleases