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back to care homes should have been allowed. All homes should have refused, but a lot of care homes unfortunately just see pound signs and not the person.
Carol Winton
The majority of care/ nursing homes are private businesses. The onus should be on the owners to ensure the people in their care are safe, and their staff have everything they need to keep themselves safe. Did Ian Murray ask what his party are doing differently in Wales where they are in government and death rates in homes are claimed to be far higher than Scotland, and are failing to be reported?
Paul Clarkson
As private institutions charging an absolute fortune for assisted accommodation, care home owners should really have equipped their staff properly or at least had a stockpile.
Bill Grainger-simpson
Care homes have been failed
– not enough testing. The policy was if a few residents tested positive, the others with symptoms were to be presumed and treated as having coronavirus in some form. Covid-19 residents were not getting sent to hospital. Just had first hand experience of losing my mum, not knowing if she had the virus or not or if it was it a combination of things, ie short staffed (staff scared to work), being isolated in her room for days before she died. She had dementia.
Carole Bathgate
Addressing the coronavirus crisis with a paper on how Scotland might move beyond lockdown, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said “we have to find our way through this”.
I’m not a huge Nicola Sturgeon fan but she needs to be given credit for the way she comes across and telling the public how things are!
Derek Hume
Cant trust a thing she says.
Ian Mackenzie
The paper makes complete sense I just feel sorry that she/the government felt like they had to put it out now, there was clearly no way they would be able to do anything yet and it will be have to be flexible about what and when they do things.
Sarah Clark
Keep up the good work Nicola. Your job is not easy.
Maureen Campbell
Good job Scottish government , not easy when you have that shower in Westminster tae deal with.
Graham Birrell
Strange they have followed the UK government at every turn and done exactly what they have done throughout this
Michael Liam Docherty
No, sometimes Westminster followed Holyrood’s lead.
May Sinclair
Scotland shut down schools before the rest of the
UK, Scotland shut down construction and the rest were/are still operational. Transport minimised in Scotland, London still has crammed Tubes and buses!
Karen Kay
Keep schools off till September and get online education robustly in order, only one strategy for each school year is required.
Martin Allan
There were massive queues as B&Q reopened.
If you’re needing to go to B+Q just now it must be for something essential so it won’t matter how long the queue is. On the other hand there probably wouldn’t be much of a queue if it was people adhering to the rules and only shopping for essential items.
Jen LB
Actually yeah, for many it is essential. Lots of us are competent and clever enough to fix household breakage and/or damage, and for this we need hardware.
Lynden Page
Idiots... better with click and collect or ordering what you need online.
Jamie Craddock