Since the arrival of the Omicron variant, the Scottish Government has refused to release any data about how many Covid patients have been admitted to hospital because of the virus, as opposed to those who have been hospitalised primarily due to other ailments, with SNP Health Secretary Humza Yousaf unable to provide any accurate information. Nevertheless, Yousaf still implied that the confirmed total number of Covid hospitalisations includes those who have tested positive for the virus but were admitted to hospital due to another ailment and are being treated for that, not Covid. The revelation has led Tory MSP Murdo Fraser, Chairman of the Scottish Covid Recovery Group, to accuse the SNP of bringing in draconian restrictions which aren’t justified by the facts. The Telegraph has more.
Humza Yousaf was unable to say on Thursday how many patients on wards included in official figures were in hospital primarily because they were suffering from Covid, and how many were admitted for other conditions and only tested positive only after routine testing.
He claimed advice from Gregor Smith, Scotland’s Chief Medical Officer, was that the “majority” of people recorded as Covid patients were in hospital “due to Covid”, raising the prospect that hundreds of the 810 people classed as virus patients on Thursday were actually admitted for unrelated ailments.
Murdo Fraser, the Covid recovery spokesman for the Scottish Tories, said he was “not convinced” that new curbs, such as the forced closure of nightclubs, the banning of mass events and restrictions on hospitality businesses, were based on sound data.
Data from hospitals in England suggests that around a third of hospital patients officially counted as Covid cases are so-called “incidental” admissions, meaning they may have been admitted for conditions such as broken bones and then tested positive. In London, data suggests the figure is around 50%.
Studies have also shown that the omicron variant, which now makes up around 80% of cases in Scotland, results in far less serious illness than previous strains.
However, the SNP Government has so far refused to release figures showing the proportion of people classed as Covid hospital patients who were admitted primarily because of the virus, since the Omicron variant emerged.
“South of the border the data would seem to suggest that it’s only a minority who are in hospital because of Covid,” Fraser said.
“What’s really concerning is the [Scottish] Government either don’t have the data, which is really worrying as they’re taking decisions without this information, or are not prepared to share it with the public or with parliament.
“The data would be able to inform the public as to whether the choices currently being made by the Scottish Government, which are restricting people’s liberty and having a major impact on businesses, are justifiable.”
He added: “We need to ensure that the decisions that are being made, which are affecting people’s liberty and having a major impact on business, are being underpinned by evidence, and I’m not convinced that’s the case.”
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Meanwhile, the jabathon continues.
What happens in Scotland is only about one thing, the power-crazed and inept Sturgeon.
A country gets the leadersnit deserves. It’s time Scotland dumped her and her cronies.
Well Nell thank you for your sympathy vote for us peons surviving under the jackboot, but I am sure being in England you are familiar with the ‘frying pan and fire’ thingie.
This guy Frazer is sadly the best us realists have to rely on.
The best one can say about him is he is a wet rag
Meanwhile the Nats thrive on their virulent anti English diet.
Fraser, I note, is correct about Sturgeon’s Branch Covidian Cultism but silent about Kim Jong Johnson’s cultism.
Agreed. Nelson is good on economics but centre left on everything else. I dumped the Speccie years ago when it blanked the election steal, climate emergency myth and kept blowing Johnson’s trumpet.
The basic point that MSP makes is of course one that we’ve been making here from the start – obvious information about the true impact of covid either not collected or not shared. Better late than never I suppose.
I’m afraid that the headline stuff is all that many people see and take on board. The usual cadre of frenzied letter-writers to the local rag here in England can generally provide an insight into what is going on in the minds of those who cleave to the BBC and the rest of the MSM. This morning’s contribution from one of the usual suspects is a diatribe about the “unvaccinated” causing loss of freedoms (sic), holding people to ransom, and how they should be dealt with. This canard is based upon the provably false “90%” claim by Johnson and a bunch of medics with an armoury of axes to grind.
As this is widely seen as a “war on Covid”, the old saying “the first casualty of war is Truth” has never been so appropriate.
As Mark and others pointed out yesterday, the 90% claim was cleverly worded by the PM as to be rather vague and reporting on what he had been told by persons unnamed about SOME hospitals. As pointed out, politicians are professional liars. Of course what people will take away is that 90% of all covid “cases” in hospital are unvaxxed, which is far from true. The PM knows what he is doing, and so do the other liars.
My watchword nowadays is “Believe nothing, trust no-one”.
It’s a pity that we are amidst a crowd of gullible persons who soak up these lies and tosh like sponges. Most are so beguiled that they fail to notice the “90%” has subtly (or not so) shifted from “unvaccinated” to “unboosted”. Critical thought was always at a premium in this country, but it’s now as rare as the proverbial rocking horse s**t.
There’s not much critical thought required to understand that had a doctor injected someone with an experimental drug that has no adverse reaction data, without their informed consent, pre covid, they would have been struck off and probably locked up.
Harold Shipman went down for less.
Just following orders
A number of years ago I heard what you might call rumours from respectable sources that the medical authorities knew for years beforehand what Harold Shipman was at. And they purposefully overlooked it.
Less old people needing medical attention, less drain on the NHS’s precious funding, went the argument.
I didn’t believe these rumours back then, but today I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss them. Especially, in light of the Midazolam reports that have done the rounds of the alternative media.
People are thinking that this is coming to a head and that sanity will return soon. But I believe these people are wrong, dead wrong, this is going to get much worse.
Based on attempts by a leading North West England hospital to euthanise my mother in 2014, I’ve thought right from the first reports about the Gosport hospital scandal that Dr Jane Barton was a scapegoat used to distract from an institutional euthanasia policy.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/20/gosport-war-memorial-hospital-opioid-drugs-policy-inquiry
Yeah, the authorities most likely knew beforehand what was happening in Gosport. As we’ve seen with the “Asian” grooming gangs, it’s obviously very easy to get middle-management like the police to turn a blind when it’s needed.
Think of the economy as a giant pyramid scheme, and the larger the domestic product, the bigger the percentage for the Cabal at the top. Inbred sociopaths would find no immorality in euthanizing what they’d term as “useless eaters” – people whose medical care is eating into their percentage.
Yes , statistical sleight of hand aka lying , how many jabs does it take to be fully , totally , thoroughly , entirely , wholly , through and through , etc , etc vaxxed and no longer be a mortal threat to granny .Tobias Ellwood MP who remains a serving 77th Brigade Lieutenant Colonel ( source Pseudo Pandemic by Iain Davis ) was insisting on preparations for 5 or 6 jabs while on Talk Radio yesterday morning , even the presenter James Max seemed to bulk at that but he didn’t question it other than to exclaim “really”!.
Well, well, well, who would have thought that Sturgeon and her cronies might be playing power games with people’s lives and businesses just because she can, and someone gave her a fat pot of cash to play with? And I’m no fan of the sociopathic, narcissist, sycophant that is Dr Gregor Smith but how much lower can Yousaf go than to blatantly throw him under the bus, self preservation runs deep in that one. And as for Murdo Fraser, finally taking a leaf out of his English colleagues book and showing a backbone, sadly only 21 months too late!
Scottish politics is a freak show.
I needn’t bother posting as that is an excellent summation.
So Tam pops down his local boozer for a wee dram or two of maidens water, gets blathered, falls down and breaks his arm. Arrives at hospital, although he’s in good health he still gets an ever-so-iffy test rammed up his arse that then gets magnified, and magnified, and magnified some more to eventually show at some time in his life he’s had a cold……and bingo, all of a sudden Tam miraculously becomes a WhuFlu patient. Have I got that right??
Almost, it wis Rab…..
And all this time I’ve been shoving the test swab up my nose. I wish they’d make the instructions clearer!
If the evidence was irrefutable in the SNP favour, ie their objectives, they would be ‘releasing figures’ with impunity.. There doesnt seem any reason to shut communities down at all.
As the bare naked truth finally begins to emerge exposing just how much governments have been deliberately manipulating and misleading the public since day one of this covid debacle – I still don’t understand why people are not a lot angrier than they are … perhaps its a delayed reaction and the shock of all what has been going on for the last 20 months still hasn’t quite sunk in yet – but I must confess that I’m quite bewildered that people are not absolutely furious with their governments who appear to have been orchestrating this largely manufactured crisis since day one – in fact I’m surprised the public are not rising up right now and slaughtering the b*stards.
I’m with you here VG, I think Toby himself has said that one day there could be a blood letting when people finally realise what they have been subjected too. For me, if I ever encounter Sturgeon or another of her cronies in the street, I hope I have sufficient self restraint not to do anything stupid.
I for one can’t wit until parliaments around the nation are stormed and certain miscreants dragged into the streets.
But, but, it would be Trumps fault
As one who has annoyed a lot of people drawing the inconvenient facts and stats to people I am finding it follows the traditional pattern. At first they were irritated by me. Most are now at the stage that there is some truth in what I had been saying. One is currently on the verge of having known it all along. Unfortunately that only relates to covid. The apparent mendacity of officials in the UK and elswhere and asking/answering the question why is still seen as irritating and unimportant. To be fair MMS incompetence is taken as a given rather thsn pondering incompetence or, again, asking why.
People HATE realising they’re the rube at the gambling table.
It wouldn’t be stupid. Just make sure you can make a clean get away.
Dante – something stupid?
What you (we) are thinking about would be a service to humanity.
You may as well punch her effing lights out. Sure you’ll get arrested, but a guy got arrested on Wednesday for posting on Facebook about a spoof NYE party a her house.
“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
(Attributed to…) Mark Twain
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
No attribution……
Like most, I was fooled at the beginning of all this. But only once.
Ever so apt.
No surprise, the hospitalization and death figures have always been manipulated in such a way to suit whichever narrative they require. The FOI requests submitted to SNHS boards back in the summer already revealed that there was serious scullduggery afoot in Scotland.
How many of these Scottish ‘covid patients’ were in fact admitted with bagpipes rectally inserted by spouses and/or neighbours? Don’t tell me the system doesn’t record such events.
I do believe that Moira Anderson once produced an album of her twenty favourite rectal bagpipe tunes. I’m sure my copy is in the house somewhere I’ll see if I can dig it out
“The Numbers Killed by these Vaccines is Much Worse than What We Thought”. Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, Dr. Mike Yeadon
“We knew of blood clots from expressing spike protein.
We were aware of autoimmune attacks on ones own tissues expressing spike protein to which our killer lymphocytes were primed, such as myocarditis.
But what’s new is the revelation that lymph node cells are also being invaded by the gene-based agents and marking THEM for auto destruction.
When you destroy that part of the immune system, which we loosely call “immune surveillance”, every manner of nasty, latent infections, by viruses & also bacteria, explode, uncontrolled.
Hundreds of millions of people are going to die of unrestrained tuberculosis, Epstein Barr virus, toxoplasmosis etc etc etc
AND on top of this, the daily accidental production of cancer cells, normally deleted swiftly by immune surveillance, before they can divide, ceases.
Guess what happens next?”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-numbers-killed-by-these-vaccines-is-much-worse-than-what-we-thought-dr-sucharit-bhakdi-mike-yeadon/5765883
I was interested to see a thread on a local community Facebook page about ‘booster’ jabs and side effects. It came as no surprise to me that everyone was proudly citing their side effects and agreeing that the worse they were the better the indication that the jabs were effective! I have no doubt that none of these side effects was being reported to the yellow card system. Well, why would you report something that was beneficial? But what was particularly disturbing in all this was the number of people who described significant swelling of the lymph glands in their armpits.
I have just come back from seeing a friend who had exactly this side effect (swelling of lymph nodes in armpit). It was so large she joked she needed another cup to her bra. But, hey, fine, it went after a week and also other people reassured her they’d had the same effect.
This is the nightmare I have been dreading.
Message for the Mods:
Please place a link – with a short piece by way of explanation – ATL.
We must make sure this is shared as much as possible.
Thank you.
All the rationalist case is being confirmed, stage by stage.
Off topic, but there is a research station in the Antartica and the researchers have gone down with Omicron (scary I know, how many will survive). As viruses travel from continent to continent on the winds and in the upper atmosphere, I couldn’t guess how viruses spread around the world.
Rab get down the corner shop and buy up the last of the remaining Bucky and Mars Bars
Lick the tatty and neep stains from your vest
Mary Hen fire up the deep fat fryer
It’s party time at the Nesbitts
Aga do do push pineapple, shake the tree
Yeeeeeaah Baby!!!
Just listening to The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra and ‘Evil Woman’ made me instantly think of Nicola Sturgeon. Why do you think that is?
I wonder how many might have been hospitalised due to the rat-faced sociopath Sturgeon causing them so much stress that they became physically ill?
How can they possibly justify locking down if they don’t have data or refuse to give it. I’m getting absolutely fucked off, not just at the governments but at the fuckwits who unquestioningly lap up this shit. Morons are ruining my life!
I had the misfortune to be admitted to a Scottish city hospital for a DVT earlier last month (I’m unvaxxed, but suspect I’ve been thoroughly shed upon by the bejabbed!!). The care I received was excellent overall. After it had been decided that yes, there was a DVT, and that I would also need a blood transfusion as well as an increase in daily blood thinners (I did ask … is it from unvaccinated stock, and was told ‘I think so’ – I’m not convinced!), and a room in a short stay ward had been allocated, a young nurse told me that if I moved to a different longer-stay ward I’d need to take a covid test. I asked why, since they had already admitted me, could see I had zero covid symptoms. She replied – well, it’s just what we do. So I said I wouldn’t take a test, as it was unnecessary. She looked flummoxed, and as it turned out I just stayed the one night so it didn’t arise again. But if they test everyone who arrives, no matter what the reason, they are guaranteed to produce useless positive results since the tests aren’t worth the plastic they’re printed on. And there’s your BOOM in covid numbers in hospital. If you’re unlucky, they might then stuff you in a covid ward, give you rubbish care, and lo and behold you deteriorate … I’ve heard anecdotal stories about this … so I was totally prepared to crawl out of that hospital on my hands and knees rather than take their test if it was mandated!