Deputy First Minister says Dumfries and Galloway s coronavirus situation highlights the âchallenges that the national health service facesâ
John Swinney says the scenario in the region shows the importance of the restrictions that we have put in place
Deputy First Minister John Swinney (Image: PA)
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The further tightening of Scotland’s lockdown restrictions this week by our saturnine and ultra-cautious FM Nicola Sturgeon was hardly a surprise. Hints and warnings that this would be the case have been getting dropped at the Daily Doomcast for weeks now, certainly since the new variant of Covid -19 raised its more virulent head and rates of infection started rising rapidly. An inevitable consequence of not cancelling Christmas, and terrible Joe Public not adhering to the rules? Possibly, but let us not forget that our plethora of senior medical advisers and epidemiologists have been warning of a dangerous second winter wave since last March, so we shouldn’t be too surprised that their auguries of calamity have been realised nor the all too predictable and depressing response from government.
The further tightening of Scotland’s lockdown restrictions this week by our saturnine and ultra-cautious FM Nicola Sturgeon was hardly a surprise. Hints and warnings that this would be the case have been getting dropped at the Daily Doomcast for weeks now, certainly since the new variant of Covid -19 raised its more virulent head and rates of infection started rising rapidly. An inevitable consequence of not cancelling Christmas, and terrible Joe Public not adhering to the rules? Possibly, but let us not forget that our plethora of senior medical advisers and epidemiologists have been warning of a dangerous second winter wave since last March, so we shouldn’t be too surprised that their auguries of calamity have been realised nor the all too predictable and depressing response from government.