Gave it a few days

[Taintedice]

I also agree about Sturgeon and Swinney.
Swinney is known in the Scottish teaching profession as Spinny Swinney.
Nicola on the other hand is currently running scared about an Independent report by two authors on behalf of Public Health Scotland commissioned by the Scottish Government which has just been published which is about people being transferred from hospital to care homes without being tested for coronavirus before leaving hospital.
All we be revealed in a press conference later today.
Judging by the questions being asked by journalists at the Scottish Government press conference on the new BBC Scotland channel after 12.45pm the journalists do not agree with the results in this supposedly ‘independent‘ report.

I guess it'll be a disappointment to you and rros that there is no clear evidence of outbreaks in care homes caused by patients transferred from hospitals. Not to worry, the inquiry is still ongoing, you may get some joy still. As long as the millionaire bosses are protected?

[islaydarkblue]

I guess it'll be a disappointment to you and rros that there is no clear evidence of outbreaks in care homes caused by patients transferred from hospitals. Not to worry, the inquiry is still ongoing, you may get some joy still. As long as the millionaire bosses are protected?

78 people sent to care homes in Scotland from hospital between 1st March 2020 and 21st April 2020 without being tested positive for Covid-19.
Only 650 out 3,599 elderly patients discharged from hospital during this period having been tested for Covid-19
This means that 2,949 elderly people were discharged from hospitals throughout Scotland without being tested for Covid-19.
Eventually the Scottish Government belatedly came to their senses on 21st April 2020 and introduced a new policy that patients had to have two negative Covid-19 tests before they were allowed to leave hospital. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-54719827
Yet another case of ‘shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted’.

[Taintedice]

78 people sent to care homes in Scotland from hospital between 1st March 2020 and 21st April 2020 without being tested positive for Covid-19.
Only 650 out 3,599 elderly patients discharged from hospital during this period having been tested for Covid-19
This means that 2,949 elderly people were discharged from hospitals throughout Scotland without being tested for Covid-19.
Eventually the Scottish Government belatedly came to their senses on 21st April 2020 and introduced a new policy that patients had to have two negative Covid-19 tests before they were allowed to leave hospital. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-54719827
Yet another case of ‘shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted’.

78 people known to have coronavirus were transferred to care homes by the consultant in charge, that's how it works. The independent report showed no evidence of care home outbreaks from any patients transferred, but I guess that's not what you wanted to hear. Interestingly, the Welsh government report concluded the same thing. This was reported as such by the BBC in Wales, different matter in Scotland. No prizes for guessing why. I genuinely don't get why people like you feel you have a right to be aggrieved when you're the ones who voted for tory control over Scotland?

[islaydarkblue]

78 people known to have coronavirus were transferred to care homes by the consultant in charge, that's how it works. The independent report showed no evidence of care home outbreaks from any patients transferred, but I guess that's not what you wanted to hear. Interestingly, the Welsh government report concluded the same thing. This was reported as such by the BBC in Wales, different matter in Scotland. No prizes for guessing why. I genuinely don't get why people like you feel you have a right to be aggrieved when you're the ones who voted for tory control over Scotland?

Hi Taintedice
Now we will get down to the ‘nitty gritty’
First of all the two supposedly independent authors of the report who to my knowledge have never been named never asked people in charge of the care homes or the staff working there how they thought that the Covid-19 virus got into the care homes throughout Scotland including in Ian Blackford’s Skye constituency
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Ian Blackford in recent months has been very quiet about this subject.
Secondly at the beginning of June 2020 when I had my Covid-19 test at Kings Cross Hospital I asked the GP who was examining me if they were busy. She replied that hardly any members of the public were now being tested. It was mostly members of care homes.
When I received my phone call from a doctor from Public Health Scotland NHS Tayside advising that my Covid-19 test was negative I had a discussion with the doctor regarding my thoughts about the Covid-19 pandemic. I said to her that it was ridiculous that the residents of care homes throughout Scotland had been left to die. She replied that we will not get into the politics of that decision.
That was the end of our discussion.