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2 minutes ago, pandarilla said:

But surely normal levels of supplies will have been used up pretty quickly, and now getting these things is incredibly difficult due to unprecedented high demand?

I'm not blaming either administration too much as there's a lot of simple stuff that simply takes time due to the logistics right now.

You can't expect them to keep stock piles, surely? The stuff goes out of date.

There's criticism about long term funding of the health service which is absolutely legitimate - but I'm not sure the snp administration can take much blame for that.

There's obviously been failures across the system, but keeping constantly prepared for a once in a hundred years pandemic without knowing its form, like the need for huge amounts of ventilators for example, could only be at the expense of ordinary healthcare when you're working with a Westminster controlled budget. It's a bit like all the outrage about the new Forth road bridge having to be closed for a short time due to rare weather patterns. And when the needs became apparent there was a global price war for getting hold of the needed kit. Not excusing the failures to get the available PPE kit directly to those in the front line though.

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24 minutes ago, Granny Danger said:

It’s naive to look at that in isolation (no pun).  The NHS in Scotland is grossly underfunded due to the Tories austerity policy and I imagine there are far more pressing priorities that stockpiling equipment in the ‘unlikely’ event of a serious global pandemic.

I think you've hit the nail on the head here. Say (all) the UK governments had done this. Imagine the SHOCK HORROR headlines about WAREHOUSES FULL OF equipment while BRAVE NURSES go without suitable thermometers and VULNERABLE PATIENTS have no charge point for their mobile  (or similar ludicrous shite).

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Wee line up outside Tesco. Not much delay getting in. A few faffers but a wee cough shifted them out the road.

Plenty of Caramilised Onion hummus. Meat isle a bit desolate but got a yellow sticker chicken roast dinner(2 breasts in bacon, stuffing ballsand chipolatas. Grabbed a sirloin steak too. Plenty of them.

Plenty of paracetamol, baby food and Calpol.

Loads of bread and milk and some eggs.

Iceland was quiet, straight in. A few more ditherers but grabbed a case of dog food and headed out.

Went in to grab some face masks. Gone up to 1.99 each. Supposedly cash and carry prices had gone up...

Didn't bother and managed to get through the queue of c***s waiting to get in the fishmongers.

One person in the butchers and they had plenty of stock. They'd even made some fresh scotch pies.

Across the road was the biggest queue, for Boots. I was gonna grab some vitamin D supplrment/ multivits but f**k that. 

TL;DR Byres Road was fine for shopping. 

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