The death rate in England was twice as high as in Scotland, only three weeks ago. The lockdown there is working. and lessons have not been learned again: This time we really have to close the land border. Continue reading Death rate in England now only 50% higher than in Scotland

NHS Scotland has now vaccinated 22.4% of the population. NHS England has done, maybe, 22.5%. NHS Scotland has also, done, really, 99% of those in care homes, 99% of those over 80, 99% of those 75-79, 94% of all of those in care homes and 78% of those over 75. https://www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-daily-data-for-scotland/ The Army has done, maybe, 0.5% of the above. NHS England has done quite a lot, allegedly, but has definitely done offered 100%. Continue reading Gotcha!

They have taken your personal experiences and they have exploited them for their own self-serving political influences. The words this morning of one of the women who had accused Alex Salmond, dug up again and relished by Glenn Campbell in a long sequence of such reports in the months after he was found not guilty. They will not let it lie. Would that they had been so determined to pursue their own criminal offenders in previous years. Anyhow, when I saw that line, above, I immediately thought she must be talking about the group of civil servants who initially enticed … Continue reading Just what I thought two years ago

This morning on the improved, Brewerless, BBC Scotland’s The Sunday Show, Martin Geissler introduced some good news including the massive fall in infection rates in care homes, and wondered: It’s too early to say for certain, but this could be a vindication of the Scottish Government’s decision to give vaccinations in care homes priority over everything else. That was it but it was something I didn’t expect. He could, of course, have used the death rate, also in dramatic decline, and compared the data with those for England, where a terrible price for their strategy is still being paid. Too … Continue reading Has BBC Scotland vindicated the Scottish Government’s vaccine strategy??

The claims of the Defence Secretary seem exaggerated. A poll by Talking-up Scotland found that only 0.5% of them had been vaccinated by a soldier and only 2.7% had even seen soldiers at the centre they attended. There were 557 respondents to the the poll. 29 of them made comments. One nurse wrote: I worked with the British Army for a week. They didn’t want to be there and to be honest weren’t much use anyway. Others wrote: As far as I’m aware there’s been no army assistance in the Scottish Borders area at all. Saw 6 of them hanging … Continue reading Army vaccinating less than 1%

Fed by Jackie ‘Trident’ Baillie, the SOS fails to inform us accurately on hospital-onset cases of Covid. It’s true, the number of definite and probable cases of hospital-onset cases was on the week ending 17th January at the highest it has been. BUT, at that time, hospitalisations had been increasing for nearly a month, to twice the level they had been a month before. So, there were more cases because there were more patients. When we see the data for hospital onset infections after the current fall in admissions, what do we think might happen? Duh? BUT, more important, what … Continue reading PREMIUM: You are FAR FAR LESS likely to catch Covid iN a Scottish hospital

In an incisive piece of writing by Sam Merriman, formerly of the Middle Earth Messenger, goes for the jugular in the ‘farcical’ Union. The SNP Government have, it seems, got their act together and required ALL arrivals in Scottish airports to quarantine in hotels. The Tory Government in London, under pressure from their corporate backers, has not matched Scotland’s strategy and thus some Scots arriving from airports in England cannot be required to quarantine in hospitals but will only be expected to self-isolate in their own homes. It’s a farce. We agree with Merriman. Johnson has once more betrayed the … Continue reading SHOCK: Sun calls for UDI for Scotland

This not-so-fine piece of investigative journalism is based on a ‘source’ at Edinburgh Airport. We know who that is. He’s in the media, serially, to find fault with the SNP Government because they don’t do just what he wants when he wants it, treat him with the respect he feels entitled too or because they haven’t done something well before they said they’d do it. Where, Sunday Post snapper, is the zombie-horde of potentially infected travellers surging through the arrival gate to super-spread among us? Did you speak to that one guy there? Wait, that’s not the reporter posing for … Continue reading SHOCK: Sunday Post finds ONE!

The current death rate from Covid-19 remains horribly high but it has been falling slowly yet un-remarked upon. On the 26th January the 7 day average peaked at 60. By the 4th of February it had fallen to 50 and in the last 24 hours it was 40. Still disturbing figures, I know, but these are signs that lagging behind the case and hospitalisation rates, deaths will fall. We can look forward to further falls until we get back to where we were in July when there were days with none. With vaccination rates for the over 80s and the … Continue reading Death rate now 50% down from peak

With 99.9% of care home residents vaccinated and the death rate there in steep decline, NHS Scotland has accelerated mass vaccinations. After just 7 days and, in the last 4, vaccinating nearly twice the number pro rata, NHS Scotland has done 21.48% of the population, just a smidgin behind NHS England, at 21.76%. The sacrifice of around 2 000 care home residents was always a price too high just to get ahead of the EU countries but even that is now lost to the Eton schoolboys running England. NHS Scotland’s 7 day average, last week was 60% higher. Many lives … Continue reading Only one week after making the care homes safe, NHS Scotland catch up with mass vaccinations