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I have no idea what sever means
Good to hear our avuncular medical expert Prof Leitch give some non-zoomer professional input to Radio *Scotland’s phone-in today. His was input devoid of the “I’m nae going to get political here” SNP plant from Forfar, who did, of course, give the impression that she was clarted in woad whilst sooking on a refreshing bridie. This after a zoomer was correctly sent packing with a flea in his lug for saying that people in pubs were referring to the FM as Hitler, and some fruitcake subliminally comparing the ailing hospitality industry to INEOS, Halliburton, Exxon Mobil and Vesteys in his assertion that the exploitative nature of G postcode-based small hospitality business people was an unfettered arch-capitalist affront to his sensibilities. Top tin-foil hattery, sir.
The good prof, when asked, admitted that advice might be ambiguous, and when pressed on the guideline to stay within one’s own health board area if one was domiciled in the Central Belt, said that there was no ban, that if someone needed to visit an ageing relative needing care, or a grandchild to support, that was OK, but to think about it in terms of the 16 days after which a review will take place. Quite at odds with the blanket five-mile travel restriction placed on Aberdeen city residents in August, where the virus spike was traced to a single pub initially, and other licensed premises in the city, far easier to track and trace than the initial household-originated (an MP too, like) virus spread in the Greater Glasgow area. Any political element to this variance in treatment is debatable, even if the unfairness seems real to some. Politically though, I would question why none of the two nationalist MSPs representing Aberdeen Central (Kevin Stewart, once runner-up to Brian Twoshortplanks in Brain of Northfield) and Maureen Watt (Doric oath-taking hypocrite given the family’s teeth-grinding affected accent during school) in Aberdeen South, as well as their fellow traveller careless texter ‘independent’ in Abedeen Donside raised not a phoneme nor a syllable questioning the original August measure applied to the city’s residents. Maybe they ‘forgot’ whose interests they were elected to represent. Forgetfulness seems to be new and current acceptable answer to difficult questions, a new Party line, if you will. Some cynics might say (viz New Labour spin-doctoring on 11.09.2001) that this is a good pandemic to bury bad news or political chicanery. Not me, of course.
*my arse