Scotland has now given first doses to 7.4% more and 6.5% more second doses than England, confirming its position as the part of the UK with the highest vaccination level. For some time now only Scotland has fully vaccinated all of the over 60s and seems likely to be first to do the over 50s too. Scotland ‘s MSM are of course too busy over the alleged u-turn on drop-in vaccine centres to mention this. Continue reading Scotland surges 7% ahead with vaccinations

No, of course, it’s not the news for our MSM in the way that it would be if we were the Covid capital again, but Scotland today has the lowest rate of Covid infection in the UK. BBC Scotland, the Herald and the Scotsman are far too busy exposing the SNP’s ‘minority’ support, with a majority in Holyrood and the polls but a fatal minority of strip club owners, for vaccine passports and a supposed u-turn on drop in clinics. The latter is clearly crucial, with us leading the charge on vaccinations (next post). Anyhow, from the UK Government: Scotland … Continue reading Scotland has lowest infection level in UK

The information for my headline is there but well down the page. Not anywhere, of course, is the wider context about school exclusions across Scotland and in comparison with anywhere else. Not for the first time, I’m going to be lazy and repeat some research I did a few years ago. Apologies but I feel sure some of the A students who visit here will dig up something more recent . From TuS in August 2019: Permanent school exclusions from Scottish schools have been falling in the period of SNP government. In 2006/7, 248 pupils were permanently excluded, and the … Continue reading 88% reduction in school exclusions!

In a ridiculous assertion, Reporting Scotland’s Andrew Kerr suggests that the SNP Government is somehow in a minority with, ‘of course’ as he put it, the Scottish Greens. So, is he saying that the Scottish Tories, Labour and Lib Dems along with the nightclub owners constitute some majority of opinion? Remember most of their MSPs were rejected by constituencies and sneaked in on the list. Remember the SNP and Greens have an overall majority in Holyrood. Remember, all the opinion polls show popular support for vaccine passports. Only? Only misrepresenting the facts. Continue reading ‘Only’ the majority in parliament and the people support vaccine passports

A shortage eh? The BBC Scotland Health Correspondent will have the facts, the numbers, eh? Nope, no numbers just this: On Thursday, Nicola Sturgeon was challenged to publish Scotland-wide figures on the extent of staffing shortages. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58755256 So a full time health correspondent with a team of researchers can’t find this out themselves? They want the FM to get the data from a mainly private sector service for them? Surely they could have phoned up some care homes? You know the ones where a cousin of Anas Sarwar is the owner or where the manager lives next door to John … Continue reading No facts, no analysis, not really a ‘correspondent’

Though 44 502 Covid-19 cases were admitted to Scotland’s hospitals in the week ending 5th September 2021, 99.4% of those infections were picked up in the community and only 0.1% (31) were picked up in a hospital. https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/publications/hospital-onset-covid-19-cases-in-scotland/hospital-onset-covid-19-cases-in-scotland-week-ending-1-march-2020-to-week-ending-5-september-2021/ This is an astounding achievement and testimony to the incredible level of hygiene maintained in our hospitals. Remember Scotland has 279 hospitals and around 20 000 patients in them in a typical week. Is this, however, no different from hospitals elsewhere in the UK? NHS England is careful not to publish the data on hospital-onset infections weekly. In January 2021, the Daily … Continue reading Incredible achievement of Scotland’s hospitals

From BBC Scotland today: In the early days of the pandemic more than half of elderly hospital patients discharged to nearly 200 Scottish care homes had not been tested for Covid. Data obtained by the BBC from Public Health Scotland (PHS) provides the clearest picture yet on which homes took in untested and positive patients. A lawyer acting for bereaved families at an upcoming inquiry called the data “explosive evidence”. Aamer Anwar claimed it was proof that people’s lives had been put at risk. The figures, which were released 11 months after BBC Scotland had asked for them, focus on … Continue reading Wasting licence-payers money to dig up rumour long discharged by science

The judgement of Chris Stark, Chief Exec of the Climate Change Committee, on BBC Scotland climate change special tonight. Why was there no representation at all from the SNP/Greens Scottish Government at all throughout this hour long show? There was plenty time for tangential reports from Germany and South Africa unrelated to the above stated intention for the programme. We did get evidence from Orkney and a trip to Montrose Bay to hear that there was no plan to save the golf course – I won’t sleep. Stark mentions in passing renewable energy production but only in passing. It’s not … Continue reading ‘You’re not on track Scotland’

In the last 24 hours, the 7 day rolling average for new confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Scotland and in England have become statistically indistinguishable. TuS staff are now predicting that Scotland will have clearly the lowest infection level in the next day or two, throwing the SNPbad strategy into crisis mode. There have been talks of appointing a new health correspondent, preferably with stronger connections to the Scottish Conservatives. A dire lack of talent in the MSP group has led to suggestions that Michelle Mone might be appointed from the Lords. Continue reading Tension unbearable in Reporting Scotland office

The last time there were less than 1 000 in hospitals was September 11th. ICU’s have been consistently at below 100 cases since September 19th. New admissions at 78, on the 25th September (the latest) were the lowest since August 23rd when the figure was 75. It is also 9 days since BBC Scotland headlined: Covid in Scotland: NHS needs 1,000 more hospital beds say A&E doctors Continue reading Hospital cases fall below 1 000 for first time in nearly three weeks