“I’m not good at making things. I’m good at mending – I can do a mend that you can’t even see – but I’m not good at making things. “
Testing Times
‘“At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful.”
Pathogens before Politics
“At the end of the day if you are leading a country you make choices. You don’t follow the science , you make decisions based upon it .”
The Amazing Disappearing Border
“One day this will be over and the border will still be there. The possibilities for us beyond it, however, are infinite.”
Scotland’s Death Total Due to #Covid19 Rises to Over 2,000
“Orkney, and the Western Isles are places where we could do something different from the rest of the country, because they have had very few cases and they have very good public health systems.”
Rapid Research Projects into Covid19 Funded
The projects cover a range of research from new methods of testing to exploring wellbeing and the impact of social distancing.
Poetry Corner We Wear The Mask
We Wear The Mask a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
International Workers Memorial Day #NeverForgotten #IWMD20
International Workers Memorial Day (IWMD) takes place every year on 28th of April.
Emergency Eye Care Centres Established
The new centres have been fully equipped with PPE (Personal Protection Equipment).
Turning Point
“We need to be drafting post-Covid Scotland now, and making the case that the society we want to live in requires complete self-governance and nothing less.”