I regard Freeman's comments as a follow on to what was already admitted last year in the Scot Parliament to be a failed process and, on reflection, many decisions would've been done differently. How on earth was she drawn into this kinda conversation now, during the lead up to a Scottish election? I notice that little runt, DRoss, trying AGAIN to make political capital out of another pandemic issue - a hypocrite who conveniently ignored and indeed condoned certain highly questionable COVID issues that arose against his Tory chums in London!
Were clinical advisers already "on board" during that early period of the pandemic in 2020 when the first lockdown was already imposed???? I'm assuming experts like Prof Leitch were active alongside the Scot govt but not sure TBH. Also I can vividly recall my alarm and warnings because of what was happening in Spain - the Spanish care sector was decimated and that disaster happened well before the sad events that happened in Scotland's care sector. IMO there seemed to be nobody in high authority who could "read" the warning signals coming in from Spain and also from Italy. That failure to act with an effective plan of action totally bemused me at the time and it still haunts me even now. One must ask the question, "What was the solution to stop this virus doing the same thing"? i.e. getting into the premises and infecting so many care hospitals etc"? Full isolation??? Remember there was no effective test and trace system at that time! Think back to how many months it took to finally impose a reasonably effective regime of protection to stop this virus infecting these kinda premises and other med facilities as well. IMO a lotta decisions were made "in good faith" but they were carried out in an unprecedented situation where a highly infectious coronavirus had finally entered the country and was gonna "run riot" and hospitals had to be prepared and made ready asap for the deluge of cases that were gonna hit them at any moment. Clearly one of the associated measures was moving all vulnerable patients out of hospitals that were gonna be a potential major threat of infection and death to these patients. Not properly thought out and the eventual Public Enquiry promised by the FM will focus on that particular action, the reasons why it was deployed and other factors such as any risk assessment or recommended strategic plan that was possibly compiled before it all "kicked off". Also was it a rushed decision/action where "time was of the essence"????? I suspect that was indeed the case!
Were clinical advisers already "on board" during that early period of the pandemic in 2020 when the first lockdown was already imposed???? I'm assuming experts like Prof Leitch were active alongside the Scot govt but not sure TBH. Also I can vividly recall my alarm and warnings because of what was happening in Spain - the Spanish care sector was decimated and that disaster happened well before the sad events that happened in Scotland's care sector. IMO there seemed to be nobody in high authority who could "read" the warning signals coming in from Spain and also from Italy. That failure to act with an effective plan of action totally bemused me at the time and it still haunts me even now. One must ask the question, "What was the solution to stop this virus doing the same thing"? i.e. getting into the premises and infecting so many care hospitals etc"? Full isolation??? Remember there was no effective test and trace system at that time! Think back to how many months it took to finally impose a reasonably effective regime of protection to stop this virus infecting these kinda premises and other med facilities as well. IMO a lotta decisions were made "in good faith" but they were carried out in an unprecedented situation where a highly infectious coronavirus had finally entered the country and was gonna "run riot" and hospitals had to be prepared and made ready asap for the deluge of cases that were gonna hit them at any moment. Clearly one of the associated measures was moving all vulnerable patients out of hospitals that were gonna be a potential major threat of infection and death to these patients. Not properly thought out and the eventual Public Enquiry promised by the FM will focus on that particular action, the reasons why it was deployed and other factors such as any risk assessment or recommended strategic plan that was possibly compiled before it all "kicked off". Also was it a rushed decision/action where "time was of the essence"????? I suspect that was indeed the case!