Forget the English thing, our islands are very welcoming and some pure and simply rely on visitors to keep them going.
one doctor on Barra has received a couple of requests from vulnerable individuals to see if they could book a ventilator and he had to explain the nearest ventilator is a 5 hour steam away on the mainland.
More likely a 30 minute helicopter ride, it seems their immediate action for anything complicated is get rid of they to either Glasgow or Inverness as quick as possible.