Quote Originally Posted by islaydarkblue View Post
The management of the NHS are scared stiff that the British public will clamour to demand that they receive a face mask from their GP which will result in a shortage of face masks for hospital staff.
Yesterday it was reported that Honeywell based in Central Scotland had signed a contract with the Government to produce face masks from this July. Why wait until then to produce face masks unless they are stock piling for the second wave of the Covid-19 virus which will hit the UK in Autumn 2020.
I think you are misreading the situation. For me the principle of providing PPE has been lost in the fog surrounding who is responsible for procuring it. We have not had a central procurement process since Devolution. Somehow Scotland has not been getting on with the provision of PPE. We were slow to realise what was happening in the care sector and that seems to me to have been a Scottish failure of policy, just as much as anywhere else. Take credit for the stuff that works and blame others for any failures.
To be fair I think Nicola has been pretty consistent in her briefings and the doctor who does the TV ads seems to be pretty straight talking too. Only trouble is the complete failure to address the economic problems that are heading down the track, as Rross has been pointing out for weeks, possibly even months!