Well I never! Nicola Sturgeon reported last night that she had a mild case of Covid. That’s nothing short of incredible, given her fanatical devotion to mask-wearing and the fact that she’s been triple-jabbed. The Guardian has more.
Nicola Sturgeon has tested positive for COVID-19.
The Scottish first minister tweeted she had been experiencing mild symptoms on Friday evening.
She will work from home over the next few days and told followers she would “hopefully” be back out and about later next week.
The first minister met Sinn Féin vice-president and first minister designate of Northern Ireland Michelle O’Neill in Edinburgh earlier on Friday.
She also travelled to the US earlier in the week where she met the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, and addressed the Brookings Institute in Washington DC.
SNP colleagues including Westminster leader Ian Blackford sent get well wishes.
MP for Glasgow North East Anne McLaughlin and minister for women’s health Maree Todd wished her a speedy recovery.
Ms McLaughlin said: “This is just to get out of making me coffee, isn’t it?”
Ms Sturgeon’s positive infection comes as Covid cases in Scotland continue to fall. The Office for National Statistics estimated 122,000 people had Covid in the week ending May 13th.
It is the eighth weekly consecutive drop and the lowest number of cases since before Christmas when cases rose due to the Omicron variant spreading.
If I didn’t know better, I would be tempted to conclude that masks and vaccines don’t actually stop you getting Covid.
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So now she’s got to phone Sinn Fein and the Yanks and tell them she could potentially have passed on covid to them. She could be the ‘Typhoid Mary’ of the next covid wave to sweep the US and Ireland.
When, in the past, did our nitwits in the MSM report that a politician had a cold?
No need to be tempted to conclude, it’s already well known by those of us not in denial.
Sturgeon comes down with the new variant of the common cold – whoop de fsking doo.
You reap what you sow
Is she not at Davos, then?
Maybe she doesn’t have covid at all – maybe all she has is a massive dose of FOMO!
Aw, bless. Hope you stay ill soon.
But Toby! She only has a mild case, if she hadn’t had the vaccine and didn’t wear a mask she would probably be hospitalized! The vaccines work! The masks work! The proof is that she only has mild symptoms…
“If I didn’t know better, I would be tempted to conclude that masks and vaccines don’t actually stop you getting Covid.”
I wear my mask to protect you, otherwise there’s no virtue in it!
Hasn’t Sturgeon had a dose of Covid before this? I’ve no reference, just a dim memory. Anyway it’s unlikely as the “safe & effective ” jab will have protected her/it.
Of course no one ever said masks were worn to stop you getting Covid, They are supposed to stop you spreading it. And while official figures show a decline in the infection rate in Scotland anecdotal evidence suggests that almost everyone in East Lothian has had it recently – ask the rostering office at EasyJet.!
Virus gonna virus. . . and being tripple jabbed and accumulating virus particles by wearing a face nappy is a surefire way of ensuring it does.
It’s not Covid, it’s mad cow disease.
You still don’t have the proper mindset. COVID is a terrible, always terminal disease because everybody who ever tested positive is invariably going to die, be it fifty years from now. Sturgeon is triple-vaxxed and double masked to protect others from this horrible fate. It’s also not supposed to work, just to demonstrate that every exertion one could conceivable have undertaken was undertaken: Unfortunately, all of you are eventually going to die! But it’s not my fault! I did everything I could to prevent that!
I hope Covid gets over this nasty Sturgeon infection. Word is that it can be quite fatal.
‘The Scottish first minister tweeted she had been experiencing mild symptoms on Friday evening.’
Mild!
I shall never forgive that virus.
Covid comes down with Nicola Ceausescu, more like.
Totalitarian hag.
How on earth did this attention-seeking performing monkey ever get elected as leader of Scotland. She is the antithesis of all the fine Scottish people I know and work with!
That’s awful, I feel sorry for the virus.
My schadenfreude has gone off the scale!
I do hope you recover soon – I’m not sure there is any official NHS treatment for that.
If Sue Gray manages to do the right thing and tell the UK what actually DID go on in No10 while all those parties were happening I might have a bad case of schadenfreude too – so bad I might have to self isolate for a while.
Covid in summer? My God, this is serious! My thoughts and prayers go out to her and her family at this tragic time.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10836461/Spain-allow-unvaccinated-Brits-enter-days-require-negative-Covid-test.html
So anyone triple jabbed like Sturgeon will be allowed in without a test but a pure blood like me will have to pay for a test before I’m allowed in plus risk losing the holiday if I “test positive”. No thanks!
Exactly…I don’t trust the tests and I don’t trust them to scam me in a quarantine Hotel, that i would have to pay for.
Money talks. They’ll soon see sense when the cash is not forthcoming.
Yep – off my list – I won’t be visiting.
Not to mention the harm the totally unnecessary just jumping through hoops test can cause.
Why in the name of God would anyone want to put a swab up their nasal passage and then take same swab and rub it around the back of your throat???
That’s what I thought when I first heard of these tests. I thought they used a different swab for each area, and was horrified to find that they don’t. Doesn’t that risk spreading something, not necessarily the coof, from nose to throat and vice versa?
Sounds very unhygienic to me.
Yes we live in Clown World now. Prepare to be amazed at the stupidity of governments everywhere.
Funny how as soon as the government ends free tests I get a text allegedly from the NHS telling me I have been in contact with a person with the Omicron variant so please order a PCR test kit & with a link to get one. I forwarded it to 7726 the Free Scam Text Reporting site given by Which magazine emails on current scams.
I might be 10 months older than the supposed Leader of the Free World but unlike him I’m not gaga.
I have just read through all the comments posted on this thread so far – 85 – and I have to state that I am astounded at the level of vitriol poured on Krankie.
Absolutely astounded.
Great work Sceptics. Keep it up.
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I’ve been referring to her as Nicola Ceausescu.
We note that the cases of myocarditis/pericarditis/blood clots/seizures etc. following ‘vaccination’ only happens to the little people.
One might almost imagine the elite lie about getting jabbed.
If someone famous pops it she shouldn’t attend.
“Be tempted,” Toby?
Go for it. Say it out loud. They don’t work.
Steady on old chap , one can’t risk being excluded from polite society.
Of course they never did work! But you could have made a pile of money with say Pfizer stocks if you’d known in advance how unbelievably gullible and stupid our leaders are.
For those who fear a return to masking and wish to arm themselves with very clear reasons why they don’t work, I would recommend Hector Drummond’s book The Face Mask Cult.
He comprehensively demolishes the case for these things, for which there is not a shred of support in the literature. Quite the opposite; they do nothing to prevent viral infection or halt the spread.
They are useful as a symbol of solidarity among those for whom signalling is important, like Nicola Sturgeon. But as Drummond explains they have a very definite downside which few discuss, especially for young children.
In Scotland they are still mandatory in some public buildings. So we need to be ready for autumn when they bring it all back.
It’s all sick and twisted, the vaccine cult , the face mask cult and the Ukraine cult. Mark Steyn’s been doing a great job of exposing all this in recent weeks, he’s currently under investigation by offcom.
He practically invited them to investigate him – which made me ROFOL when I heard him!!!
Good luck with the investigation Mark. I’m crossing my fingers that you get a fair shake. The UK needs you and others like you!
If they harm health, it’s consistent I’m sorry to say with Dr Mike Yeadon’s hypothesis which horrified some people in 2020. He’s since been joined by Dr Robert Malone, Prof Sucharit Bkakdi, Dr Shankara Chetty, Dr David Martin and other docs. in saying that it almost certainly isn’t being done just for $$$$$$ … it’s worse.
“If I didn’t know better, I would be tempted to conclude that masks and vaccines don’t actually stop you getting Covid.”
But, fortunately, you do know better and so understand just how much worse it might have been…
Wonder if there’s something happening in the next 7-10 days that she doesn’t want to be in the office for…
Odd how while it meant she could increase her control over the population Covid was an awful frightening killer disease, but now she’s got it it’s less than a sniffle and no cause for concern whatsoever.
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I remember someone on here called that “an unfalsifiable hypothesis” :0)