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To take the point that you eloquently made, in Scotland we are not good at dying or talking about dying. Fifty-eight per cent of us will die in hospital—I think that is a horrible statistic—rather than in our homes, with our families.
Running a railway is not like running a community shop. People die on the railway. Bringing in volunteers who see it as a hobby would not necessarily be a good thing for us.
Personally, I find it remarkable that we have a situation in which we can teach people to hold a child on the floor against their will when they are highly distressed, when that can cause physical and psychological harm. People also die from restraints—that happens. It is an incredibly dangerous thing to teach people, but there is no mandatory quality assur...
If that were to be in the management plan, you would be tying the next owner to planting more trees there, just so that they could die. I do not think that those things necessarily tie in.
Satellite tagging has turned out to be one of the main methods that we have of monitoring how birds of prey die. It has revealed, as you know, a lot of interesting results.
That means that we should, I hope, continue to see a significant reduction in the number of people who are hospitalised with and who die from Covid. However, to achieve wider protection, we need the whole adult population to be vaccinated.
Nothing could be further from the truth; I have seen members of my family and my in-laws die as a direct result of smoking. However, I want to vote for measures that are known to be successful and which have an evidence base to prove it.