Wings Over Scotland

Just a facade. Like the rest of modern life.

Peek a boo.

It’s a ripper Chris.Love it.

Probably, from a perspective that assumes Dom Cummigs parents and their nearest neighbours are in robust health

Possibly not from a perspective that questions not only why police thought it appropriate to give him a talking to in the first place but also how they were able to collude with media, particularly social media presumably, to cover it up for him..

Was supposed to be doing the West Highland Way this week ,Wed to Sun, 🙁

if it looked like your artwork it would have been amazing,

but nearly 100% chance of rain most days with 25mph winds so a slight blessing that it`s been posponed till next year.

anyhoo,

Latest count of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide at 0130 GMT, May 23
World: 5,209,266
U.S.: 1,600,723
Brazil: 330,890
Russia: 326,448
UK: 255,544
Spain: 234,824
Italy: 228,658
France: 182,015
Germany: 179,710
Turkey: 154,500
Iran: 131,652
India: 124,794
Peru: 111,698

Once this Coronavirus finishes things won’t be the same, the people of Scotland have started to see the difference between the four countries in the Union, and as Scotland is the most ancient country we should and will be the first country to dissolve the Union, it’s definitely coming and england or the two other countries won’t stop happening.

We do live in interesting times.

How to overcome fear and anxiety
link to mentalhealth.org.uk

End this state sanctioned suppression! Get infantilizing ‘authority’ out of your head.
Let the rational individual CHOOSE his and her destiny.
…and enough of the highly questionable official stats too.
SOCIALIZING, THE THING THAT MAKES US TRULY HUMAN.

@ Scot Finlayson.

Considerations on your cancelled trip, likewise we had planned a trip to Barra, camping. Still, something to look forward to.

Recall all that stuff about Islamist terrorists, covered heads and faces, niqab, burqa etc?
People walking about with face masks and scarves and surgical gloves haranguing you for not doing likewise is considerably more scary.
Fear is bringing out the conformist, inner Orwellian in so many.

> Let the rational individual CHOOSE his and her destiny.

Sounds lovely except I don’t want selfish individuals choosing my destiny.

In a perfect world of black and white we would all have all the liberty we wanted. But when dreaming of this it is always forgotten that significant responsibility that comes with that. “Authority” is for all it’s problems a broker in the relationship between freedom of the individual and society in general. We delegate to authority things that would otherwise be awkward to manage at an inter-personal level.

So, you are more than welcome to throw off the chains of authority and enjoy your freedom as long as you accept my freedom to have you punished in a suitable manner for taking away the freedoms of my family members by your reckless behaviour.

Did Cummings stop for petrol before he left London or en route and leave his covid virus along the way. Bad enough to break lock down but to do it while suffering Covid is reprehensible, surely some other arrangement could have been made for the children or parent could have come to them, was he trying to promote his ‘herd’ immunity theory.

Interesting thread about the potato famine in Scotland in 1846 and the Destitution Boards set up to raise money. Gardeners will like the advice on sowing a rood of Beans in February, in Scotland!
link to twitter.com

“Stand guard at the portal of your mind.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

@Stuart Mackay

Which leaves those who seek authority the option to present to you a threat and in seeking security you will hand over the authority they seek.

Fear is the tool of tyrants and it works on the weak every time.

‘You can go and see yer pals next Thursday’ is fast becoming a meme.

“Hello anybody out there” ?

Excellent again Mr Cairns.

That phrase still makes me squirm. I’ve never liked going to the dentist.

@ Scot Finlayson.

Some trip on a bike, but worth the effort no doubt about that, we camped at Port Ban last year, Jura across the water right outside our tent, the mist rolling up and down the sides of the mountains. We went to the march in Campbelltown, we had hoped to fit in a trip back to Kyntyre and check out some of the golf courses.

My mothers friends husband collapsed today and was rushed to hospital – brain haemorrhage.

One of the NHS priorities was to test him for COVID (no doubt for their safety) and guess fucking what – yip, tested positive.

result – no operation and they are leaving him to die.

His wife has been told she can do a quick in and out or wait at home for the phone call.

He will die today.

No doubt his death will go down as ‘with’ COVID

I thought the yankee doctor was just nuts when he said ‘hit with a bus – COVID, blow your own brains out with a gun – COVID’

Maybe Chris should’ve put a hospital in his picture.

There’s no Bakersfield Doctors in our NHS, that’s for sure.

Of course, the world abounds with nefarious characters seeking to gain political advantage during a crises of government.

Virtues, Values, and Moral Bullying
Critical thinking in social media psychology.
link to psychologytoday.com

This might help folk figure out who is trying to help and who isn’t.

What determines the balance between intelligence signaling and virtue signaling?
link to lesswrong.com

@Golfnut,

have cycled on Jura,short trip on tiny ferry from Port Askaig huddled under a grain truck from the cold wind and rain,

got absolutely soaked but what a preternatural place Jura is.

Brilliant Chris. Nothing is 100% safe.

@ Alan Mackintosh – ha ha you’re right – it’s Hamish. I’d go and get my eyes tested but the opticians are on furlough. 🙂

Very elegiac, Chris, very nice indeed. Thank you. A watercolour? Are you breaking out into landscapes? – there’s a fine talent there.

Your essential weekend reading:

‘Churchill in Dundee’: link to wp.me

@ahundrethidiot

What a fake comparison excess deaths to covid deaths, then comparing 20 weeks of data with 53 weeks of data.

So I checked for E & W:
The average per week excess for 2015 is 870, using your 44,000 figures (although I can only see 35,722 but it depends on how you calculate it).

The average excess per week so far in 2020 is 2,250.

Mary Wakefield is the woman Dom Cummings married.
As you should expect, she is the grand daughter of Sir Humphr
Wakefield of Chillingham Castle Northumberland.

She works for the right wing extremist rag the Spectator.

Her brother Jack Wakefield worked for a very dodgy Ukrainian
Business man who it is believed has links to the Russian Mafia.
A group who were involved in stealing Russian assets when the
Soviet Union was broken up.
If you care to look at the money made by those who own the Russian
Oil and Gas Companies.
So much money made the key stake holders can afford Billions for the
Worlds biggest football clubs and the larges luxury yachts afloat.

Could all this be a link to the Billions spent on London property by Russians.
Is Dom enduring that London is a safe haven for laundering mafia money?

When Scotland’s Epidemiologist Specialist was forced to resign for travelling to
A holiday home, I felt she should have been reprimanded and fined significantly
and yes removed from public exposure but we should not lose the most knowledgable
Expert in the field as it was cutting your nose off to spite your face.

However I’m left to confirm that we in Scotland face different morals and laws to the English establishment.
3 x Useless Tory MSP’s travel to go hillwalking together and post it on-line and Nothing?
Tory MP travels to a second home during the same lockdown and Nothing?
Prince Charles travels up to Scotland with the Virus and entourage and Nothing?
Now Cummings, puppet master to Boris, travel with the Virus and family 250 miles during lockdown
Using a petrol station and a Service Stations facilities where innocent members of the public
Who are part of our essential services teams are and Nothing?

Scotland you are 2nd Class citizens in the UK.
You will never be treated as equals
You will be controlled by those controlled by the money of the worlds most corrupt organisations
and you are not fighting to change your own countries destiny?

@ ronnie anderson 10.59 – thx for link. Excruciating. Mary Wakefield gets down on her knees to pray for Boris Johnston. Then drives 230 miles, shedding virus all the way, but fails to record that in her covid diary. Cummings will have to resign but that won’t stop him plotting our downfall on a consultancy basis.

Effigy, Catherine Calderwood wasnt an epidemiological expert, from memory she was a Gynaecologist. She may have been the CMO, but that doesnt make her an expert on epidemiology. As for Jason Leitch the clinical director – from a sibling who is a dentist- no-one has heard of him in Scottish Dentistry so I have no idea where he came from either, and he’s no expert in epidemiology either, he was apparently a dentist

Allan Mackintosh I rarely use such words but a wee glance at wicki will show what you said is.

PISH

Blackford on the telly – bumbling oaf spouting faux outrage as though NS handled the Calderwood carry on with any degree of competence.

I’ll never believe another word that falls from that man’s lips…

“We will not allow Scotland to be dragged…” Blah blah blah.

Donkey!

Peter Hitchens said;

‘Government is throwing people into the sea and then taking credit for rescuing them’

Belter.

@James says:
23 May, 2020 at 10:23 am
covid is bollocks

If they are infected I have only one question.

How did that happen?

haha – gotta love family guy

The brothers who made the Matrix are ladies now!

oh man, that cheered me up, world is fckn nuts…..

Nice ‘toon Chris.

(Campbeltown is lovely, even in the wind and rain. 😀 )

Safe? No not yet and if it was left to some of the lunatics posting on here many of us with partners, friends, sisters etc who have health disibilities would be ok to move among the general population while this pandemic rages.

I sometimes fucking despair.

But, I know that we don’t listen to idiots online. Thankfully

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The evidence of BBC bias is no better displayed by how they covered the Scottish CMO case and how they have moved in to defend the UK Gov advisor. No questions just quotes from those ‘close to Dominic Cummings’, tweeting out the excuses with no investigation of the bollocks they are.

looks like hamish on the set of the truman show
hello world
if only

After the BBC has made so much capital about a single person at the Nike confrence being the centre of the Scottish outbreak (the MSM claim, unfounded of course). I fully expect them to be in Durham tracing all those that may have crossed Dominic Cummings path, after all someone must have brought the first case to Durham.

How many died because he wanted to see his mum on her birthday? Of course he claims he never saw her, did he post the kids and all there stuff through the letterbox.

Re Cummings, it’s the “going out” that’s wrong. Not the reason, the with whom, to who, where or why. None of that is a defense.

He broke his own rules. Doesn’t matter though. He’ll be back at work Monday morning.

Maybe Starmer can explain it to Johnston on Wednesday.

Does anyone on Twitter want to tweet Piers Morgan to advise him Ruth Davidson is back on the propaganda circuit and he should invite her on GMB on Monday ….he can get her (skewed) take on this….tell him would be good to get her opinion on current Tory defence position on Cummings as currently she has muted her opinion on her Twitter account…. See no EVEL, Hear no EVEL and Speak no EVEL Davidson….

Softly softly interviews from Lorraine ‘I’m really disappointed Ruth isn’t running for Tory leader’ Kelly do not cut it….

Sturgeon should have sacked CMO Calderwood on the spot for misconduct. She didn’t. Sturgeon’s weakness, lack of leadership and poor decision making was yet again exposed.

(There’s more to leadership than good communication skills and a brass neck).

Boris Johnson should have sacked Special Adviser Dominic Cummings.

The Scottish British Imperials and the imperial BBC were right to highlight Calderwood should have been sacked.

Their silence or lame excuses for Cummings’ disgraceful conduct shows them for the hypocrites they are.

For them it’s not about what’s right or wrong. Not about people with great responsibility and privilege being held accountable. It’s not about trying to save people’s lives:

it’s all about maintaining the Imperial political domination by the British ruling Establishment.

The Cummings debacle just reinforces what we already know about the Westminster government, they do virtually what they want with impunity. Where as in Scotland Sturgeon falls over herself to play by Westminster’s rules on just about everything.

We’ll get absolutely nowhere fast on independence with Sturgeon at the helm, we need someone with courage, determination and a ruthless streak focused on independence and not on complying with Westminster’s rules.

@ Katherine Hamilton

I wouldn’t hold my breath for a positive intervention from Keir Starmer. Isn’t he the guy who denied an inquiry into the killing of Jean Charles De Menezes?

Just another minor irritation for the Westminster Control Centre.

Capella says:

drives 230 miles, shedding virus all the way

Indeed. Bottom line …. did anyone die or was left maimed for life by the Cummings family actions?

Truth is, we’ll never know. However given the high infectious level of Covid19 there is a distinct possibly someone did catch it from them. And, if you do catch it there is a definite chance It will kill you.

That’s the point. Wilfully taking risks with other innocent people’s lives is completely unacceptable. No excuses. No quarter.

Totally OT. However this makes for a laugh (and secretly a shudder). Its an article from October in the US last year. The person who wrote this is a ‘Doctor’.

For me it represents the shockingly twisted and upside down thinking that is being foisted on honest people by talentless, bitter academics. In Scotland its current form is in the trans debate.

link to nytimes.com

This is pure cultural poison.

Please note how this is written very brazenly as ‘the way the incident can be viewed or interpreted’ being more important than the actual facts. This is a corner stone of the kind of thinking coming from academia now and is embraced, although still somewhat tentatively, by many of our political class. This is why I utterly hate them. This is why those who can’t quite put the pieces together yet will hate them too in the fullness of time. Welcome to cultural marxism where you, dear reader, are the oppressor by the original sin of your place of birth and your heritage.

I get really pissed off by anyone playing down the seriousness and threat of this pandemic.

Mortality in a population is 0.7% – 3% depending upon the demographics, general health state, and access to medical, especially intensive, care.

Covid19 is extremely infectious (much much more than flu). Antibody surveys in the UK, France and Spain have found about 5% in each country has had it. 10% in Madrid, 11% in Paris, 17% in London.

UK deaths of positively tested people is 37k, however Covid19 appeared on a lot more death certs who were never tested. Then there are excess deaths over last 5 years average. Some estimates put the real death toll at 60-70k.

The above three things – mortality, infections, and deaths – are entirely consistent. They present a picture far worse than the official UK numbers suggest, of course. The UK is probably the worst hit (by population size) on the planet.

Here’s the crunch though – if there had been no lockdown the number of infections could have been ten times greater, however the deaths could have been worse than ten times because most sick people couldn’t have accessed any healthcare.

We’ve had a close shave! And it ain’t over yet.

@ahundrethidiot.

What you mean is that figures were wrong, I wouldn’t argue the toss either way. Whether one or both presentations were dishonest is surely a subjective opinion and part of the decision making process each listener/ reader would decide on considering the merits of each presentation. Neither we’re bad presentations, both were believable and that is what causes the dilemma for the reader/listener.

And here’s a source some might find useful.

Psychology of Liberation
link to link.springer.com

Dear Joe, try this.
link to euromomo.eu
Just go to graphs then scroll down to the UK.
These are graphs of actual excess deaths per head of population in Scotland England etc.
Note that England has the highest rating in the whole of Europe.
I know not whether it is the highest in the world.

For those who recently signed up for Gab as a potential alternative to an increasingly toxic Twitter, @Ceannairc has been busy posting links, so please pop along and check your follower numbers now that it’s back up and running after lengthy ‘maintenance’.

link to gab.com

Anyone else believe Cummings never had the virus but just wanted to visit his mother on her birthday, did he get tested, was it positive.

Scot Finlayson,
That is incorrect.
The death rate is not 6%, it is nowhere near.
You are excluding all the people who don’t know they’ve had it or don’t need to seek treatment.

As an example;
Sweden, believed to be extreme in it’s slack lockdown, according to reports 20% to 30% of the population have or have had the virus.
We’ll take the lower percentage of 20% which is 2,000,000.
People that have died in Sweden from the virus is about 4000.

So according to the information to hand the mortality rate in Sweden is therefore 0.2%.

My apologies if that figure isn’t scary enough for some people.

Using the same information the mortality rate in Sweden for under 50s is less than 0.005%

Breastplate
Swedish cultural psychology is different to ours, so you’re likely to be adding to your risk by read too much into statistical comparisons.

Covid-19: Prioritise people over profit!
link to liberationorg.co.uk

CBB,
I’m not making any comparisons, I’m merely doing the maths with the information we have,
When that information changes, so too will the maths.

Just received a WhatsApp showing 2 Sets of front
Pages for the Sun and the telegraph.

The first 2 front page headlines were all about England’s Prof Lockdown
Have to resign as he travelled during curfew to meet his lady on the side.

The same 2 papers have front page headlines without any trace of a Dom
Cummings breaking curfew and showing contempt for the lives of others.

UK newspapers don’t deserve to exist!

@Alex Lomac,

Just Bals!!

@Bill Hume

I’ll refer you to a previous post of mine:

link to wingsoverscotland.com

Here we go again another Saturday evening and another old English football match on Scottish TV, this time Arsenal v Liverpool.

STV are a fucking disgrace they have been for years now, pumping out English content relentlessly in Scotland. Their latest bullshit trick is advertising old Take the High Road episodes on its shitty player instead of broadcasting Scottish made programmes.

Even Catalonia has its own channels with content from the region. But Scots meekly, bar the odd few who rail against it, sit back and take it, and have done so for decades.

@CameronB Brodie

A concerned citizen. Which is all I need to be.

There you go! A reply. Don’t get used to it.

@CameronB Brodie

That’s the 2nd shot at the man and not his argument.

There you go, that’s your monthly quota of replies from me. Don’t get greedy. Go on, you’ll have critical theory to study regarding the ethical competence of post waffle enfranchisement in a realist dialectic semi-carbuncle.

@Republicofscotland

Scotland V USSR 1983 on BBC Scotland after 7:15pm tonight.

Sportscene!

For those interested.

OR
link to hesgoal.com free streaming.

about 6 live matches on now. German and Hungarians league.

A bit of perspective when comparing the Spanish Flu with COVID-19, remember that the health services worldwide were puny in relation to today. Doctors then did not have the same level of scientific knowledge either. And ventilators were not exactly commonplace.

This is aimed at the politicians of all parties everywhere when, after things calm down a bit, they try and take credit for not having a similar death toll to the Spanish Flu.

And I tell you another thing whilst I’m having my wee rant, that snivelling wee runt, and false accuser, on Twitter (remember that?) Susan Calman is never off the bloody unionist telly with her BoS adverts, in which she has the bloody cheek to tell she knows about Scots.

This wee pile o shite has been well rewarded by the union on tv shows, radio, and adverts for selling her country out, she knows SFA about Scots that one.

louder with crowder has done a william wallace sketch on youtube about the state we are in here in Scotland

quite funny…..and so it should be, our SNP govt is a laughing stock around the world now.

Callmedave @6.55pm Sorry Dave, I try not to watch that token tv channel, oh and after the footy we have Mrs Brown the Movie, Queen Vicky and her wee pet Scot played by Billy Connolly, who if I recall, correctly wasnt too keen on independence in 2014.

Dominic Cummings caught breaking lockdown second time to visit his parents according to the Sunday Mirror.

This after Transport secretary at briefing stated he had gone to Durham and isolated. But he was later seen after returning to London back in Durham at a later date.

As an addition to the above Mirror story, I’m now awaiting the official Kuenssberg press release with the government position.

@Dakk

Well thank god for the BBC eh? Its always good to have a solid honest institution to rely on.

Off thread guys… but happy for thought!… If the whole of the UK switched off TV for a fortnight… especially boycotting MSM being Sky and BBC news in particular, would the virus just disappear and life return to normality (and not the new normal whar ever that will be!!) ?

@Dakk

‘It’s on Sky, cnn, guardian, the lot I’m afraid.’

Yes. I agree. It is.

@Breastplate,

5,000,000 people have tested positive for the virus,

300,000 have died,

that means 6% of those known to have the virus have died.

The National:

FRESH witness reports put Dominic Cummings in Durham for a second trip during lockdown, days after being filmed in London having recovered from coronavirus.

Pressure had already been mounting on Boris Johnson to sack his chief aide after it emerged he had travelled 260 miles to his parents’ home during lockdown while displaying coronavirus symptoms.

link to archive.is

Scott Finlayson
In terms of total population the death rate is minuscule.What is the death rate of those who get cancer?
Quite high, I would guess.
What’s your point?

Scot Finlayson,
Yes, that is now correct.

Although Scot Finlayson,

Probably better to replace known with confirmed

Who exactlyy are all these unqualified voices urging a relaxation of lock-down?

Full text.

Human needs in COVID-19 isolation

Abstract

To reduce the spread of COVID-19, the World Health Organization and the majority of governments have recommended that the entire human population should ‘stay-at-home’. A significant proportion of the population live alone or are vulnerable to mental health problems yet, in the vast majority of cases, individuals in social isolation have no access to mental healthcare.

The only resource is people themselves using self-help, self-medication and self-care. During prolonged COVID-19 isolation, an in-built system of homeostasis can help rebalance activity, thought and feeling. Increased physical activity enables a reset of physical and mental well-being. During periods of lockdown, it is recommended that exercise should be as vigorously promoted as social distancing itself.

Keywords
communicable diseases, COVID-19 pandemic, exercise, mental health, needs, psychological homeostasis, self-esteem

link to journals.sagepub.com

@Breastplate

I wasn’t sure what you were talking about in your first reply because you hadn’t flagged who you were responding to, there are a lot of numbers flying around here.

But I did work out the death share of under 50’s in Sweden, which according to statistia data (22nd May) is 0.18% of confirmed cases. This is not the Infection Mortality Rate as there is nowhere I can find how many under 50’s have been infected, just the total of infected. It doesn’t look like anyone is gathering the infection rate by age (I can’t find them anyway), it could be higher or lower than the 0.18% depending on the spread of the infection across age groups. I could make a guess by the demographics of the country but then that’s me just making up numbers.

@ MaggieC @ 9.15pm

Many Thanks…I hope you are well.

Hope you enjoyed it….I did…..need some respite…desperately.

Have a good evening (what’s left of it)…have a chilled and good day tomorrow.

@Breastplate

I made the last reply before I read your latest so it is not an answer to that comment.

Yes I agree without knowing the actual infection totals the number will be higher, I don’t know how you get round that though. The worldometer site has good bit of research in New York where they reckon the infection rate is 10 times the confirmed detected rate. That seems reasonable as it would give Scotland a fatality rate of about 1.4% which is what they worked out in NY.

link to worldometers.info

I wonder if the Conservative party are wanting out, it’s funny how the cummings story has just come out after a fair length of time, whatever party is in power in england it’s going to be hard going to keep things going down there, the Conservative party would maybe prefer the Labour Party in for a few years until things settle down, perfect opportunity for Scotland to go its own way, rules for some not for others, hard to see if things will ever change.

jfngw says:
23 May, 2020 at 8:48 pm
Pete

Cancer is not a virus, you don’t catch it, it’s not contagious

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link to mdanderson.org