There is the suggestion that Scotland has shown the rest of the UK how to handle crisis. The Nationalists have implied that Scotland has developed its own unique response to the crisis which differs from England, so our death rate is lower. The idea is supposed to go like this: “Health is fully devolved in Scotland, we are more competent, so we have saved more lives”. There’s just one problem with that narrative: the Scottish response has been virtually identical to the rest of the UK. A much more likely explanation for a very real divergence in outcomes is demographics: put simply our population is much smaller and much more spread out. To say nothing of the fact that Scotland sees orders of magnitude less international travel than London, the original viral hotspot on these islands.
The SNP Ain’t Scotland Part 13
