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The Daily Skeptic had a less complimentary take on Sturgeon’s resignation. In an article headlined, “Fall of a Scottish Tyrant,” the Skeptic observed:

Taking another step back, I like to think Sturgeon is going for the same reason Jacinda Ardern went – because she realised no leader can hope to get re-elected after embracing the disastrous zero-Covid policy. It’s clear now that Scotland’s draconian non-pharmaceutical interventions designed to stop the spread of COVID-19 were a catastrophic failure, imposing a massive cost without any benefits. And those costs continue to accumulate, with drug and alcohol addiction soaring, educational attainment plummeting, hospitals bursting at the seams, and the economy in the doldrums. It was ever thus in SNP-run Scotland, but Sturgeon’s hopeless mismanagement of the pandemic, always trying to out-Ceau?escu Boris, has made everything worse. She leaves behind a country in crisis, worse in virtually every respect after her nine years as First Minister.