There’s a prize for naming that song, that singer but it’s just my undying admiration, Young man! The Herald today: A further 76 people have died from Covid-19 in Scotland. Daily figures released by the Scottish Government revealed the death toll has been pushed to 5,704. Pushed to 5 704, eh? Sounds bad. It is bad but do you think we’ll ever recover from that? What’s the trend? The Herald treating you like a Bairnwean again. News for adults below: The infection rate falls for the 16th day in a row and by nearly 1 000. The mortality rate is higher than … Continue reading Numbers add up to nothing son!

From TuS regular feeder Nana Broffers Douglas Ross to complain about BBC Scotland’s pro-SNP bias. Continue reading Not to be repeated: World Health Organisation praises Scotland’s vaccination strategy on BBc Scotland

According to the experts, we can be ‘confident’ that more that 70% of people (across the UK) are not staying at home for the full period after displaying symptoms of Covid. The experts don’t seem to have noticed that the infection rate in Scotland is currently well below half that in England and only around two thirds of that in Wales and Northern Ireland, suggesting that maybe the compliance is better here. I’ve asked the researchers for a 4 nations breakdown of the their data but expect to hear that it’s somehow not available or ‘useful.’ Anyhow, this focus on … Continue reading Scapegoating the people: failing to self-isolate comes second to UK Government failures

There are more than 5 000 consultants in NHS Scotland. One, just one, has allegedly, but anonymously, told the Herald this: The pandemic has reinforced a belief amongst NHS staff that they should be willing to “sacrifice their own health for a salary”, a consultant working on the front line of Covid care has said. The doctor said the decision to delay the second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine coupled with insubstantial testing and PPE meant that a lot of NHS staff had “lost confidence” in public health strategy around the virus. Remember this is: How can we trust the words of … Continue reading 0.018% of consultants complaining means ‘patchy supply’ of sources for journalists

At around 07:20am, BBC UK had a special report on the anxiety in English and Welsh care homes that they were being left behind in the vaccine rollout. They had the above graphic and the percentages showed Scotland to be well ahead on the curve, so to speak. By 07:27am, BBC Scotland’s wee insert ignored that story altogether and spent some time with an English professor who had found that more than 70% of people showing symptoms of coronavirus aren’t following the rules in self-isolation. That the data are UK-wide was admitted but not commented on. Might the infection level … Continue reading BBC UK reveals Scotland’s care home vaccination success but BBC Scotland have some English stuff for you

You won’t find Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland mentioned in the above reports, often featuring the thoughts of highly educated professors, though England will appear at times. In some ways that’s strange given that the UK doesn’t hold the record death rate, England does: I wonder why they don’t use the data for England and headline those? I’m sure they know heath is a devolved matter. Don’t the corporate press chief execs and editors want their old Eton and Oxbridge chums to be embarrassed at their failures? Anyhow, don’t get cocky Jocks. BBC Scotland will keep you in your ‘box’: Continue reading Devolved nations help UK not be worst in world

Every MSM journalist’s favourite graph, showing Scotland behind the other nations, on vaccinating its population because it followed the JCVI guidance on preventing another ‘tsunami of death’ in its care homes. The graph you won’t see: The percentage vaccinated of those most at risk in the population, in care homes, based on statements to media by both health secretaries, in week beginning 18th January 2021. Continue reading You take the high road and you’ll be in the cemetery before us?

Analysis by the Herald above. The news for an adult population that can be trusted with the truth and not go daft with house parties, below: The number of new cases has fallen now, every day for 14 day from 2 323 on Jan 7th to 1 591 yesterday. Slow but steady. It’s working. Hospital admissions have begun to level, with only 1 more yesterday, at around two thirds of capacity (3 000+). ICU admissions too are beginning to stabilise at 25% of capacity (700+). As day follows even the darkest night, the death rate will fall too. Don’t go … Continue reading 7-day average infection level falls for 14th day in succession

By brobb I find myself feeling umpteen contradictory thoughts on this issue. I was a strong supporter of Wings until the main focus of posts turned to trans issues and then an all out attack on NS/SNP despite the Westminster mess and opps for dissecting what was going on there. I feel his relationship with AS has pushed him into taking sides regardless of circumstances and now wonder if this tendency to see black or white was always there I always thought AS was a good politician well able to argue his points and moved us a long way in … Continue reading Further thoughts on the SNP leadership

in the Daily Mail yesterday: Thousands of ‘probable’ cases of Covid caught in hospitals in NHS England have been excluded from official figures.  Health officials calculating the rate of cases in hospital settings omitted instances where patients contracted coronavirus between seven and 14 days after admission – despite the fact the virus has an incubation period of up to six days in 95 per cent of cases. This practice goes directly against official advice to staff to categorised these cases as ‘hospital onset’ infections, and allowed NHS England to claim that its ‘nosocomial rates – referring to Covid patients infected in hospital – are down to … Continue reading NHS England fiddles hospital-onset Covid infection rate but still reports it at three times the rate in Scotland