I speak from experience. My mum at 90 has just had her jag. I at 69, get mine this coming Friday, three hours after my wife who is only 65. My mum, shielding, and seen only by my sister, has multiple medications and her GP wanted to be careful about risking a home visit to give her the Covid vaccine after the flu vaccination. She was safe at home and happy to wait until it was safe. The Herald has ‘found’ four old folk whose relatives prefer to go to the press rather than the Health Secretary, for whatever reason. … Continue reading Because they’re safer there?

Researchers at the University of Union Studies in Kilwinning have revealed that 17% of Scottish over 70 year-olds have been vaccinated after someone they know who is between one day and up to one year younger than them. This shocking study, allegedly funded by the Scotland in Union think tank, is expected to lead to calls for the resignation of Jeanne Freeman. Labour spokesperson Monica Lennon has said: ‘Eh, wait, 17%, is that like more than half?‘ Scottish Cons leader Douglas Ross shrieked: ‘Another failed SNP algorithm!’ BBC Scotland’s Donna Summers was heard to mutter: ‘I was right behind them. … Continue reading BBC ‘accuses’ STV of risking lives of vulnerable to get story before they can do the same!

After doing so well at first with their ‘never-mind-the-hindmost‘ strategy, NHS England’s ‘world-beating‘ vaccination programme has fallen to last place in the UK. English Labour have described the situation as a ‘postcode lottery‘. No, they haven’t actually. I made that up based on a Scottish Conservatives line. English Labour have agreed the Government is doing its best. They probably know they wouldn’t have done any better. Continue reading LATEST: Calls for Scottish soldier vaccinators to be redeployed to england!

The question BBC Scotland is not asking, above. The question they and only they ARE asking: Why are care home residents still dying with Covid? BBC UK, England, Wales and Northern Ireland have not asked this question. Might this explain BBC UK/England’s looking away? Might the answer be something to do with the Tory world-beating vaccination strategy? At the end of 2020 and until the 10th of January, the reported number of confirmed and suspected Covid-related deaths was actually slightly higher in Scottish care homes but then things began to change. In the week ending the 17th January, the level … Continue reading The question they should be asking

As I await a response to one of my complaints on the Andrew Marr show, 70 days ago, it’s clear the BBC Complaints department is struggling. After their supposed Education Correspondent’s difficulty with percentages yesterday, we should keep the pressure on: Join me please. Here’s the evidence they ignored too: Date England Scotland 31.1.21 5167 1782 1.2.21 5009 6459 2.2.21 5360 7126 3.2.21 6764 8349 4.2.21 6936 8919 5.2.21 7172 8132 6.2.21 7170 8185 7.2.21 8153 9718 Continue reading Keep the pressure on

Having saved the lives of thousands in care homes, NHS Scotland gets on with the next most vulnerable and immediately performs better than NHS England. Date England Scotland 31.1.21 5167 1782 1.2.21 5009 6459 2.2.21 5360 7126 3.2.21 6764 8349 4.2.21 6936 8919 5.2.21 7172 8132 6.2.21 7170 8185 7.2.21 8153 9718 20% better every day for a whole week now but BBC Scotland harp back to a supposed slow start that was really a life-saving start and feeds us the Tory nonsense about a ‘postcode lottery’. They know what they’re doing here. Sleep at night? God knows how they … Continue reading Ahead for a whole week: When will Reporting Scotland tell Scotland honestly?

On Reporting Scotland tonight: More than 50 000 people got their jab (sic) on Saturday. This is broadly in line with yesterday’s UK-wide number. Then from Jamie McIvor, the nearly 53 000 was: Roughly in line with a UK wide number. Scotland vaccinated 9 718 per 1 million population compared to England’s 8 153 and the UK collective figure of 8 238 per 1 million. By no stretch of the imagination is Scotland’s performance broadly or roughly in line. It’s 20% higher, and for the seventh day in a row. And, both said ‘jab’. Continue reading LIES: Scotland vaccinates 20% more but BBC say it’s ‘broadly’ the same

From the Scottish Government for last 24 hours: 584 new cases of COVID-19 reported Falling for a whole month now and down from 2 649 on January 7th 9,479 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results – 6.9% of these were positive Back above the WHO 5% for pandemic under control. 108 people are in intensive care with recently confirmed COVID-19 Lowest since January 8th and down for 16th day since peak of 161 on January 22nd. 1,710 people are in hospital with recently confirmed COVID-19 Lowest since January 11th and down for 16th day since peak of 2053 on 22nd January. https://www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-daily-data-for-scotland/ Continue reading Lowest infection rate since December 19th

From only BBC Scotland in the last hour or two: It’s more than seven weeks since the first care home resident in Scotland received her first dose of the coronavirus vaccine. Annie Innes said she hoped it meant life could “get back to normal very soon”. Since then almost every elderly person living in a Scottish care home has been given the jab. Yet care homes are still reporting Covid outbreaks and residents are still dying with the virus. Why? The article does eventually clear up some of the misunderstandings their headline poses, such as the three-week gap before immunity … Continue reading The stupid question only BBC Scotland asks

From the Herald’s Iain Macwhirter today: Every so often political parties become so divided that they can barely function. It happened to Labour over Militant entryism in the 1980s, to the Tories over Europe in the 1990s. Now it is happening in the Scottish National Party. Only this is not about socialism, the EU or even independence, but over an obscure issue as toxic as it is undefinable: transphobia. From him a year ago: I feel sure I could dig back further and find more such claims from Macwhirter or, for that matter, the likes of Brian Wilson at the … Continue reading Iain and the Wolf