Scotland’s Supreme Leader Nic Sturge-on sparked fury today as she U-turned on plans to remove Scotland’s last remaining Covid laws by keeping mask rules in place for weeks more at least. MailOnline has more.
The First Minister told Holyrood the face covering restrictions would be kept for at least two more weeks amid a spike in cases.
She had been under pressure to bring Scotland into line with England by scrapping all remaining social restrictions, including laws demanding masks be worn indoors in public places.
Opponents had urged the First Minister not to backtrack but Chief Medical Officer Sir Gregor Smith had advised a cautious approach amid concern over a recent rise in case numbers.
And Ms. Sturgeon told MSPs in Edinburgh today that keeping the mask mandate was “prudent” and expected to lift the law before the Easter school holidays, with a decision in 14 days.
But Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross slammed the decision, saying: “It’s true that cases rates are higher at the moment than any of us would like. But Covid cases were always going to rise as restrictions were eased.
“We can’t get complacent with Covid but we have to move forward, we cannot stay stuck with Covid rules forever. That’s why it will be a blow for households and businesses that the First Minister has decided to keep the face mask rules in place…
“Why won’t the First Minister trust the Scottish public to take the steps they think are right to protect themselves and their families? And why are we back to this ‘wait-and-see’ approach again with no firm date to allow businesses and the public to plan ahead?”
Other measures still in place, like forcing businesses to collect customer contact details, will cease on Monday as planned.
The First Minister also confirmed plans to stop widespread Covid testing by the end of April.
The absurdity of continuing the restrictions is shown by a quick comparison of the infection rates in Scotland and England. Scotland has seen infections rise much sooner and faster than England, despite keeping various restrictions in place.
Ah, but think how much worse it would have been if the Supreme Leader had not continued her wise interventions…
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The absurdity of keeping the mask mandate is shown by the complete lack of evidence whatsoever of any effectiveness. How, or why does Sturge-on not know this? Or likely she does, in which case it’s as we know, this is all about her clinging on to power and nothing at all to do with science, or just basic caring for people.
“Think how much worse it would have been if the Beloved Leader had not intervened”
As with all such unsupported statements and assertions- prove it(but don’t mention Sweden)!!
I think the comment was sarcastic.
Possibly a reference to those who catch Covid19 even though fully vaxxed and who say – ‘think how much it would have been if unvaccinated”
I did see that comment when reporting on a post mortem of a death. Seriously, it was said that it would have been worse if unvaccinated!
I have just finished reading Unmasked by Ian Miller proving masks to be ineffective. It’s quite US oriented but he does cover other countries around the world. In every case when mask mandates are put in place sooner or later “cases” hospitalisation and death increase. When taken away all three continue to decline.
Sturgeon; well named! How on earth do such people get elected?
Masks have not worked……..so we must keep masks.
I don’t like saying that I ‘hate’ anyone; but Nicola… I really don’t like you very much at all.
She makes decisions just be contrary to westminster. Simple as that.
Infuriating. If you looked at the graphs you might come to the conclusion that masks increased infections
What counts as fury in sad compliant Scotland, locked into Stockholm syndrome with its demented Leaderine?
Big mistake by Sturgeon. The evidence is clearly showing the lockup and masks were pointless and now she’s given the UK government a very good reason to back that evidence as it shows how stupid the SNP are.
“ The evidence is clearly showing the lockup and masks were pointless and now she’s given the UK government a very good reason to back that evidence as it shows how stupid the SNP are”
And illuminate how wrong they were from the get go? Politicianistas displaying honesty ? – did not Handoncock write recently ” We got all the big calls on Covid right”?
I dont think so.
Politicians have three choices when it comes to any policy:
Re facemasks Scotland is sticking with 2. England has progressed to 3. I doubt any of them will ever get to 1.
Well more fool the idiots who continue to comply.
So she didn’t read the latest Spanish study then, which like many others, concluded that mask made no difference. Of course not. Having been humiliated by the innane comments about the no-fly zone over Ukraine, which shone light on her naivety and immaturity, she sticks to what she knows best and keeps her relevant!
A couple of recent links from the Duran – Mercouris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA8F39n6-38&ab_channel=TheDuran
Lavrov in Turkey, no ceasefire. West runs out of options as desperation sets in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dK6iDnhGiA&ab_channel=TheDuran
Jake Sullivan fails to split China & Russia. China warns US on Taiwan
The US fails to get backing from China for its stance in Ukraine.
Chinese accuse US of spreading false information on Ukraine
Chinese still back Russia, unmoved by sanctions threats.
In other news:
In two weeks, China, Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan will reveal a new, independent, international monetary and financial system.
It will be based on a new international currency, calculated from an index of national currencies of the participating countries and international commodity prices. [Mar. 14, 2022, Sputnik News].
That explains a lot – I remember reading a few years ago that Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi both had had plans for leaving the the petrodollar. They were dead within 2 years.
Anything that threatens the US economy appears to involve a destabilising conflict shortly thereafter – this time, a proxy-war using Ukraine to provoke a response.
Sputnik – news, jabs, and space travel.
A truly diverse brand.
As ever Bob nails it.
Excellent.
Thank you, ‘Bob’.
I was in a desperate need of a good laugh after the physically and emotionally draining efforts of avoiding the MSM’s conveyor belt of lies.
Bloody priceless BM
“You get what you paid for” or voted for in this case! But as somebody said elsewhere, “That doesn’t help the people in Scotland that didn’t vote for the rancid ginger megalomaniac does it…
That leads us into the more fundamental question of our “First past the post” voting system, and it’s inherent totally unrepresentative nature.
Do we need reform of the system? You fekin betcha, this country hasn’t been a democracy in decades, if ever!
Point of order, the Scotch toon cooncil is partly elected by regional PR.
The idea was precisely to avoid a majority government and tyranny. In practice, we’ve had over decade of disastrous SNP majority rule, and now an SNP-Green coalition where they simply vie over who is most in favour of more despotism.
Italy has hardly been a beacon of democratic and rational behaviour. PR results in a cosy consensus, unfortunately.
FPTP can work – but only in a society with a free Press, which we haven’t got; it actively takes steps to supress any burgeoning political party in order to maintain the status quo.
You destroy yourselves and for what? You will see inceasing poverty, delinquency, utter despair. Can’t you see that this is the road ahead. Life isn’t looking very pleasant for any of us moving into the future but you seem to be willing on a hell for your young.
Anyone know what Nicola Sturgeon’s salary is? Let’s face it, she’s a winner – not like she’s down a mine digging coal for the country, is it?
And a nice pension to look forwards to, and many thousands of Pounds to collect from some ‘consultancy’ or other for doing a couple of days’ ‘work’ per month.
Meanwhile, the folk of Scotland can starve and die of the cold, and be fined for not wearing face masks.
I have just returned from a week in a bustling, vibrant and busy Belfast; the contrast today in the miserable near deserted town centre in Stirling was dramatic and is very much down to the appallingly destructive policies being followed by the SNP. On a more positive note there were more non mask wearers than when I was last there, but still too few.
Why don’t Scots rise up against the SNP and get rid of them? Unless you are “a warrior like Sitting Bull” and you think that meditation is the answer.
As a Scot still (currently) living here, I can testify to the madness of all of this and the compliance of many. We were at a wedding at the weekend, where if you had a glass in your hand or were dancing, you didn’t need a facemask. But, if you were heading to the toilet or bar (without a glass in your hand) you had to put your mask on – afraid to say there were plenty of numpties following this rule. The worst I have seen in recent months was a choir who when standing singing had their masks off, but as soon as they sat down popped their masks on. We are doomed as a nation. I used to be a proud Scot, now I’m just embarrassed.
The real issue is the scientifically crafted western propaganda model that has developed itself over a century and has become significantly more powerful in the last eight years. Coincident with the rise of despair, teenage suicide etc.If you are a real warrior you will weight all of these things and like Sitting Bull, when he was asked why he was spending time alone in meditation, said he was trying to think of the good of his people.
Maybe this way people won’t notice that petrol is already 1.69.
I live and work in S Korea. Probably the most masked up country there is. Also the world leader in ‘infection’ rate at the moment. Is any more proof needed of the absolute futility of these face nappies? Oh, and no cloth here, N94 at the very least!
I hold Korea partly to blame for contributing to the covid hysteria and theatrics of early 2020. I knew even in spring of 2020 it was all bollocks, now get to see it proven in the data. I finally left the country last summer after living there for over a decade, was glad to see the back of it. The original sheeple.
A nation of people living in far of ‘the authorities’.
Just what SAGE has tried to have in the UK (and mostly succeeded in!)
Her mask mandate failed to stop a spike in “cases” so her solution is more masking. What result does she expect this time.
They need to mask harder.
The same result as last time – those living in Scotland showing their total cowardice and subservience.
That’s about it, really.
If people living in Scotland don’t like Sturgeon, they’d have got rid of her (and her bodyguards) long ago.
Scotland the Cowardly!
That’s the classic example of the definition of insanity.
Of course she does, she hates the thought of not being able to micromanage the population and she wants permanent lockdown.
So the masks don’t reduce the spread (compared to England), therefore they must continue to wear masks?
You do something that clearly doesn’t work just for the sake of someone like her? How much further can you sink into gimpdom? These days when I think about Scotland I get the same creepy feeling that I get when someone tells me that they get turned on by being punched in the face.
Off topic, but anybody (ATL or BTL) fancy fisking this thread on Hong Kong?
https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1503420660869214213
I’ll start:
CFR vs IFR? Figures use CFR so automatically scarier than IFR, although it depends.
South Korea chart isn’t exactly confidence inspiring as vaxx percentages there are high, I assume also among the elderly.
Have to say I was surprised that elderly vaccination rates were so low in Hong Kong.
There’s not a lot to go in the tweet itself. You can compare using either CR or IFR as long as you’re consistent.
A quick glance at worldometer does show something odd about HK though. 250-300 people have died of/with/because/unless Covid each day for the last week, but there are only ~100 serious/critical cases. Which would suggest average survival in ICU of ~10 hours. Either that or lots of people terminally ill with other conditions are being tested and boosting the figures when they obligingly shuffle off their mortal coil. I don’t have the figures for NZ.
For any given country, I often mentally divide “serious cases” by “deaths each day” to get a handle on how many incidental deaths might be being included. Given the typical course of terminal covid, I’d look to see a ratio around 10-20% (ie 5-10 days in critical condition before death). Much more than that and I get suspicious. The ratio for HK looks to be ~275% at the moment.
My 2p.
I get the impression that many Scots living in Scotland
Have the Scots not yet cottoned on that masks don’t work? Admittedly, Wee Krankie looks better with a bourka on, so maybe that’s why she can’t give into it yet.
Anyone with the gift of sight has worked that out but Nanny Ceausescu boils with rage at the prospect of not being able to micromanage.
“Have the Scots not yet cottoned on that masks don’t work?”
I believe that most of the evil liars pushing this crap have known from close to the start that NONE of their nonsense works. Everything since, or before, the initial panic, has been done in bad faith with one or more ulterior motives.