Wings Over Scotland

J Galt says:
25 May, 2020 at 1:42 pm

Am I the only one that does not give a flying proverbial whether Dominic Cummings stays or goes – if he goes either he’ll work from the shadows until such time as he can come back or they’ll find another “Dominic Cummings”.

Such a lot of hot air and verbiage over a diversion.

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No you’re not I feel exactly the same way and was gonna post something similar,

I couldn’t care less whether he resigns is sacked or stays in post, it will make absolutely no difference to my life or my family, we’ll still be stuck in this godforsaken union, We’ll still be second class citizens in our own country, we’ll still be infested with cringing house jocks like J Carlaw, R Davidson etc.

I think We have enough home grown corruption to be dealing with here in Scotland without worrying about his future

Famous 15, you’re coming across as gullible.

Dr Jim re the media , funnily enough it wasn’t Alex Salmond who just GIFTED THE CORRUPT MSM £3+ million pounds to help denigrate and demonise the independence movement , money GIFTED from Scots tax payers to offshore non dom tax avoiding newspaper owners , and it wasn’t Alex Salmond who employed the VOW creator as head of communications and yet hasn’t written anything challenging the MSM’S lies or misinformation

It wasn’t Alex Salmond who STATED CATEGORICALLY that if Scotland were dragged blah blah referendum

It wasn’t Alex Salmond who introduced the reviled and abhorred GRA bill or the Hate Crime Bill which is being pushed despite alienating and dividing at least 50% of VOTERS

You can support and revere NS all you want and wait patiently for her neverendum , but to attempt to malign and demean a man who IMO has done MORE to further the independence cause than MOST within the SNP hierarchy is low and repugnant , if it wasn’t for SC’s and others exposing the malignancy within the SNP for which MANY REAL FEMALES have been grateful these abhorrent bills would have been pushed through

I know you don’t give a shit but I used to enjoy your posts and your dry wit but your blindness to where NS has led the independence movement ( up a blind alley ) and your unconditional acceptance to believe that NS hasn’t lied to us and conned us defies logic

@jfngw says:
25 May, 2020 at 4:29 pm
“The coaching session will be, manufacturing the story for him to read. Then various people will play the press and throw the expected questions at him, he will then answer these and be coached on the responses, modifying them as necessary. The coaching must be a bit of a disaster as they are so late, lets hope the press throw some unexpected questions.”

I’ve trained people in public speaking and I’ve had training on dealing with the media. You can’t coach someone in a couple of hours.

Anyway why worry about freedom or the economy we all know how well Communism for the masses works for the Politburo. Maybe Nicola Sturgeon can magic up some ‘ green’ jobs to replace the economy she’s helping to destroy.

Dogwhistle he went out in his car for a half hour drive with his family.

His child needing the toilet is not exculpatory.

More smell but ,oh dear

He better stop talking asap… as he’s remembered a couple of little things that he had ‘forgotten’. 🙂

He’s off piste now and again, embellishing his carefully honed story is not a good idea, might still blow it! 🙂

‘twice as long’ as in time….not distance – poor grammar from the idiot, do’h!

Contrite tone, and great sympathy for those who observed lockdown.

How very british.

Robbo12.27
What a load of garbage . It’s people like you who are holding back Indy helping unionists with plodding on to nowhere attitude.
Once again I ask , what has NS done in the past six years to actively further the cause of independence apart from react to events?

Cummings presenting his actions as what a “reasonable person” would do. His actions were what every reasonable person didn’t do.
Remember none of them had the virus so they were only imagining the worst scenario like every other family with kids. Except every other family didn’t do what they did.

@twathater 5.00pm: well said!

Shouting profanities at him or about him will not convert a no voter

Might try saying you can imagine people voting to be governed by the like of these people.

Why are the conservatives not chucking him out.

Poor Carlaw having to justify this mess

At least the Scottish Medical Officer did not have Covid when she moved to Fife

The quickest route from Durham to Barnard Castle is 42 min using google, this is the shortest, if you weren’t feeling to hot I suspect you would be driving cautiously so probably closer to an hour. Why drive to a beauty spot rather than just doing a short journey on the motorway you intend to drive on and is closer to Durham.

McDuff says:
25 May, 2020 at 5:25 pm
Robbo12.27

Aye,ok whatever you say.

Really don’t care anymore.

bye now.

Next time I’m worried about my eyesight I better get my grandson over to take him a 30 mile trip to check it out.

Just going through a week of industry/sector specific news and its all the same – change in work, protocols, layouts, everything. All with the ‘New Normal’ and ‘Social Distancing til we get a vaccine’ backdrop.

Given the logical problem with the numbers of infections in the various countries compared with different government responses we are seeing I can only conclude that this virus is being used as a catalyst for social and economic change that was already planned. 4th industrial revolution.

Trouble is – this does not have your health, welfare and liberties in mind. If you thought you were just a single unit in the herd of expendable tax cattle before just wait til mandatory surveillance, health testing and social credit scores come into play.

But the effects of the virus is receding you say?

Just wait til it comes back, on the news and establishment social media of course, and the measures will be enforced even tighter. The dissidents painted as threats to everyone’s health. So the ratchet moves yet another notch.

The stupid and the cowardly will just fucking love it. ‘Gimme some of that security Daddy. Just look at those cool designer masks.’

There is a coup on. Its a coup against your freedom as a sovereign human being.

Radio shortbread earlier, while waiting on this interview, pondered over what Jackson Carlaw’s position and silence is.

Someone on the Beattie panel suggested without a quibble he probably had been on the hotline to Boris several times to vent his spleen!

I know, I know…..as if! Phfft! 🙂

Well we were never ‘promised a rose garden’ but we got one today
as a backdrop to Cummings’ riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Probably to reduce the smell! 🙁

English Torydum magnified a public health threat into a public health crises, that’s because English Torydum is ideologically opposed to the precautionary principle and the Natural Law, so is unable to respect the principle of equality in law. Simples.

Civil society in global health policymaking: a critical review
link to globalizationandhealth.biomedcentral.com

A flood of your tax pounds are to be spent saving businesses in Tory key marginals.
Praise be to Dom.

Did Tony Blair apologise or resign for carrying out a war crime/holocaust on Iraq?

No, he stood for re-election and the ‘great’ british people revalidated him.

Anyone expecting a public backlash against Cummings/Johnson don’t know the british.

Dearie me that is a large amount I just stated?.

Rechecked that…… Wales… just £23M.

Suffering that eyesight problem that Cummings had….Sorry! 🙁

What’s wrong with going out in your car? What’s wrong with some of you people? In a car you’re in your own space what possible chance has anybody got of catching drive by covid?

Thought Cummings did well.
Always been a big fan but even more so, now.
Just wish we had someone of that calibre in Scotland.

Dogwhistle for Petes sakes wise up.

Sorry.Too good to miss.

Anybody know if Julian Fellowes was seen anywhere around Westminster in the last couple of days, he writes a good tear-jerker.

A lot of curtain twitching going on here. All trying to outshine each other in unctuous outrage at the rule breaker the HERETIC stone him stone him .No not with weed you fools.

Famous 15 One of my neighbours is spending far too much time burying his wife in the back garden.I do believe he may be exceeding his permitted exercise allowance .Should I intervene? Or should I report him to the Gestapo? Yours confused.

I think the sneaky cove is up to no good.My neighbour I mean .He seems to now be spending too much time standing still.I don’t know is he exercising too much or taking the piss by remaining static?

link to cdc.gov

Release from the CDC. Its a bit heavy reading but to summarise:

Scenario 5 = best estimate from data received til end of April. This means:

0.4% fatality rate for those who are symptomatic
1.3% fatality rate for those over 65 who are symptomatic

Scenario 4 – worst case scenario
1% fatality rate for those who are symptomatic
3.2% fatality rate for over 65’s who are symptomatic

Best case scenario (scenario 1) is 0.2% fatality rate for those who show symptoms.

As the report states:

‘The parameters in the scenarios:

– Are estimates intended to support public health preparedness and planning.
– Are not predictions of the expected effects of COVID-19.
– Do not reflect the impact of any behavioral changes, social distancing, or other interventions.’

They are based on current data and results however.

‘Each scenario is based on a set of numerical values for biological and epidemiological characteristics of COVID-19. These values—called parameter values—can be used to estimate the possible effects of COVID-19 in U.S. states and localities.’

I hope folk are remembrance I’ve stated my scientific position and philosophical foundations, which are coherent with global health law. The same can’t be said of others who appear desperate to prove their magical beliefs ‘expertise’.

Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for action for mental health science
link to thelancet.com

The World Health Organization said that a clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine on COVID-19 patients came to “a temporary pause,” while the safety data is reviewed by the Data Safety Monitoring Board.

link to twitter.com

Mike @ 7;31

It’s oxygen thieves like that on your link which make me miss Twitter like toothache.

If the curve was passed on 8th April why are we still under house arrest? And when’s the next stoning and where can I acquire a fake beard? Would a merkin be acceptable?

Dogbiscuit @ 7:08

Get the neighbour to seek the assistance of a Tory.

Being above the Law – there’ll be no problem whatsoever thereafter.

Sorted!

I wasn’t aware Scotland had so many public health experts.

COVID-19 Ethics Resources
link to bioethics.pitt.edu

@Dogbiscuit

Drat, a corporal, she’s already there isn’t she, how did I miss that. I apologise for my lack of interpretation of your coded message.

Ruth Davidson not in our platoon no helmets big enough.

April 8th peak cases it’s the end of May now.

bipod
I might have mentioned science alone is incapable of guiding us through uncertainty. So I’d just like to point out that your selfish arrogance and disregard for public health, suggest your moral compass is broken beyond repair.

Evidence review
Assessment of COVID-19 in primary care: the identification of symptoms, signs, characteristics, comorbidities and clinical signs in adults which may indicate a higher risk of progression to severe disease

1 Introduction
The purpose of this rapid review is to provide NHSScotland with advice on assessment of patients with COVID-19 in primary care.

This guidance is for: general practitioners and primary care teams involved in the assessment of patients presenting with potential COVID-19.

Since the outbreak of coronavirus, there has been an abundance of rapid and systematic reviews published on the diagnosis and management of people with symptoms of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), known as COVID-19, mostly from a secondary care (hospital) perspective. About 80% of people with COVID-19 have symptoms which are mild (no pneumonia manifestations) or asymptomatic.1 Others develop severe disease (defined as requiring admission to an intensive care unit (ICU)).

The challenge for primary care practitioners is to identify and triage patients presenting with potential COVID-19, a disease in which the pattern and duration of symptoms is heterogeneous. This is compounded by the need to conduct consultations via telephone or video. In addition, the evidence-base is not robust and is subject to change as new evidence emerges….

link to sign.ac.uk

@jfngw says:
25 May, 2020 at 6:00 pm
“Near 5 hour journey without a toilet break with a child, non stop, surely that in itself is dangerous with a child in the car. He must have cancelled the take a break warning that most of these expensive cars have.”

London to Durham, 5 hours is about right. Quickest I’ve managed Norwich to Scotch Corner is 4, and that was overnight and erm, going a bit quick. And no speed cameras in ’95.

So 5 hours, with an unwell passenger, and worries that the driver may fall ill, is rather scary. We have all, I’m sure, taken unwell suddenly in the past and know how quickly you can become near-incapacitated. Not a pleasant thought at 70mph in a 3 ton Land Rover.

And looks like in England all shops to open 15 June. Looking at the pictures from the beaches in England they are all set for a second wave. And it won’t be bloody surf city here I come.

Dogbiscuit
“Too much unctuous Leftism”
I think you already know where you can get tae. 😉

Webinar on Demand: Risk Management & Ethics: COVID-19 Rationing
Rationing tests and medical treatment is a worst-case scenario for everyone involved and is the living embodiment of a real “Catch-22” situation. This presentation will explore the types of rationing of healthcare testing and treatment, who should be the decision-maker, frameworks of decision-making used by states, clinical risk considerations, communication strategies, risks of liability, and some important takeaways for risk managers and providers. Ethical and operational support, structure, and consistency are the keys to moving forward in these trying times.

Upon completion, participants should be able to:

Define where healthcare rationing and the role of the risk manager overlap.

Analyze the types and elements of healthcare rationing.

Identify and evaluate key approaches for the healthcare risk manager when faced with the rationing of healthcare.

link to nps.org.au

Dominic, which means “Belonging to God”,

Hubris is a typical flaw in the personality of a character who enjoys a powerful position;

as a result of which, he overestimates his capabilities to such an extent that he loses contact with reality.

A character suffering from hubris tries to cross normal human limits, and violates moral codes.

I doubt those calling for a relaxation of lock-down have given much consideration to the risks involved. Unfortunately, such an outlook is not compatible with public health ethics.

Given Brexit represents a legal rejection of the precautionary principle, this suggests the prospects for public health ethics and health equity in Brexitania, is tenuous at best. As is the potential for a sustainable society.

Coronavirus (COVID-19), HR Management & Compliance
Mitigating Compliance Risk in the Midst of COVID-19
link to hrdailyadvisor.blr.com

Jackson Carlaw has emerged from the bunker to paint a picture of failure by the ScotGov,….oops sorry, looks like the picture has mysteriously disappeared, that just keeps on happening to him.

@jfngw

Is the disappearing colourful and messy picture you describe by Carlaw a Jackson Pockle or a Jackson Pillock…

Cummings as of 12th March wanted to acquire “herd immunity”. He denied wanting to let the old die, but did not deny the first part

What might be doing Cummings more damage than what we think of him, because Johnson doesn’t give a shit what we think, but the fact he has made Prince Andrew be a twitter trend (off and on) for two days now. The palace will not be happy if it continues, Johnson will be summoned if it doesn’t stop.

Dreading going back to work now.

I’ve promised about a dozen clients the first appointment when we’re given the green light to open.

Going to be found out as a bigger liar than Dominic Cummings and Prince Drew put together.

Is it safe? No Dominic Cummings is driving for 45 minutes to see if his eyesight is OK. Are the PM and DC the only ones in world to believe their eyesight was affected by corona-virus or is this just another bit of spin – expecting we will believe them.

If Cummings hangs around, then we must use him in our own Independence propoganda.

Should have gone ro Specsavers!

winifred McCartney 11.04
‘– expecting we will believe them.’

They don’t need to care whether we believe them.

No election due for 4 years, and only 17 dissenters on Cummings in the Conservative ranks.

@ Pete at 9.05

He has written quite a few papers over the years warning government to prepare for such a virus.

Just in case you didn’t see jfngw’s post at 11.03, here’s a link for you:
link to twitter.com

I had the misfortune to witness an STV advert showing little children mouthing propaganda on behalf of our Dear Leader Nicola Sturgeon sheer child abuse and a laughing stock all over Europe. It was the most mawkishly fawning aggrandisement of the First Minister.She should be ashamed of such cheap propaganda and using children with no power of consent to sell outright propaganda to the imprisoned public.We are being worked folks.Don’t listen to the SNP Sirens on here leading us into this open air Concentration Camp. The advert screams Dictatorship.

Nicola Sturgeon or one of your flunkies by the time this caper of yours is over you will be finished politically.You Sturgeon are soon to become a byword for Tyranny.How fucking dare you? You Ms Sturgeon are directly participating in a crime against humanity and it is the duty of all good citizens to oppose you and the propaganda pisswater you pour down our backs.Fuck you Sturgeon and your insane power grab.I will never seek your permission for anything. I don’t recognise you as leader of Scotland and I’m sure I’m not alone with these sentiments.

@Dog biscuit

Agreed

@CameronB Brodie

In all seriousness – are you lusting after my arse?

Watch as the shills try to fix your attention on essentially Hello Magazine style news reports on Dominic Cummings. Still nothing to say about fascist coup in London and Edinburgh?Do you really think it could never happen here?

“In all seriousness – are you lusting after my arse?”

What a strange question!

If that Doctor on Good Morning Britain is going to quit, Jeanne Freeman should be on the phone to him and his wife right away

And this might highlight how the woke outlook has undermined the SNP as a force for Scottish independence. It is not possible to be a feminist and support the introduction of gender ideology in law at the same time. It is also impossible to combine the rejection of the Natural Law that is demanded by trans-activism, with the liberation of Scotland from authoritarian, cultural paternalism.

How Significant is Feminism’s Contribution to IR?
link to e-ir.info

I thought the English media were rather good today.

Pretending to ask the hard questions to Rasputin I mean.

As well as SIU and the green ink brigade who are all represented.

I’ve still kept most of my powder dry, which is nice. Not through planning, tbh, I’ve been winging it. 😉

Transgressing Boundaries: Theories of Knowledgem Gender and International Relations
link to journals.sagepub.com

So this shouldn’t take too long to provide an ethically informed, scientific evidence base, for those who are interested and have the opportunity to investigate the human condition.

Neuroimaging Personality, Social Cognition, and Character
The Neuroscience of Social Vision
link to rystoli.github.io

By the way Ayeright before I came online there I was just in the mood for a bamhunt and you showed up .Yaaay.

I thought I was on Wings here. Is this now the Cameron B Brodie blog?

Cammy

…. still not feeling the mood of the room?

Hey! Dogwhistle i cannot hear you but i definately (sic) see you and where you are coming from and I know where you are going.???

Just read my last episode of Wings – dogbiscuit’s railing is too extreme for my liking. Almost like the Nazis he goes on about. I don’t beleive though that it is as simple as that!
Go on keep falling for it!! Bye

Analysts have long talked about the end of the United States-led establishment and the arrival of an Asian century.

This is now happening in front of our eyes.

The pandemic may well be remembered as the turning point of this process”.

WHO suspends hydroxychloroquine trials as a possible treatment for coronavirus after a study found it increased the risk of death.

And regarding this “R” Number they all seem to focus on, did you know that there is a two week lag with the figures they show you on a daily basis.

We keep getting told that the figures are sitting between 0.7 and 1.0.

But those figures are from two weeks ago.

If you want to know what the “R” figures are for today, then you will need to wait for two weeks.

With england starting to open up, I would think the “R” Number will probably start creeping up .

Which will keep us in this lockdown even longer.

Dug chasing Tail springs to mind.

I wondered why the Nike “scandal” failed to take wings,so to speak,until someone,perhaps myself, noted that Nike was over two weeks before the jampacked Cheltenham Gold Cup.150,000 or more jampacked!

Oh dear,never mind Ian Murray.

Ian Brotherhood says:
26 May, 2020 at 9:10 am
What is ‘The Fusion Doctrine’?

UK Column,Im always surprised they have so few subscribers.
Thanks for the link.

Has anyone heard from the new Brutish Labour boss regarding the Cummings fiasco,

or are they still sitting on the fence waiting to see which way the wind blows,

new boss same old Brutish Labour,

jeezo.

Craig Murray has a new thread up on Cummings a why he might travel hundreds of miles to get his “eyesight” tested.

link to craigmurray.org.uk

Is it safe..

Since Cummings is clearly no longer scared for himself, his family, or his job it would be logical to conclude he is immune, vaccinated, or it was all bollocks from the get go – and whilst each of these conclusions screams its own particular danger they also imply that, not only might simple ones be more so than first feared, complex solutions, such as renovation and repair of Hadrian’s wall before England catches its second wave, have become sensible priorities to make it so.

Human capital stock?

Jesus !

link to twitter.com

The National aside, not that I give a toss about the “Scottish” press I don’t, however Johnson barred them from Cummings car crash of a press conference yesterday.

The notion of the Greater Good has been turned on its head.
Supposedly democratic states have take upon themselves the ‘right’ to restrict, suppress and isolate citizens who until recently considered themselves to be free.
Such measures were set in train not by the warlike posturing of an enemy but by a perceived ‘threat’ from a biological mutation of a virus related to the common cold.
If/when the planet emerges from this with sanity unimpaired, the conditions for unleashing such draconian global repression of individual rights in the pursuit of some Greater Good must not be the preserve of a self-selecting, influential few whether politicians, self-styled humanitarians, the UN or NGOs
Something more deadly than any virus has been released amongst us, the mindless peace of societal conformity whose slogan might be Stay Safe, Stay Home, Stay Compliant….or else.
The struggle for Scotland’s right to independence must take cognisance of that ‘new order’.

So Carlaw did pipe up with a quick comment on his London masters trip to Barnard castle.

Carlaw said that his chief advisor (Johnson’s) acted with responsibility, legally and with integrity.

What other countries politicians act so vociferously for the benefit of another country, only in Scotland.

The “Scottish” Tory’s are definitely a Fifth Column.

Susan @ 10.14

It is a distraction ,Johnson has no control over events now.I think we can assume it’s a U.S. intervention.I’m going with Brexit and trade deals.

Don’t know if this is up yet but a certain dodgy Scottish football referee who moonlights as a Tory MP has resign supposedly over the Cummings fiasco.

link to craigmurray.org.uk