Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

I think it goes beyond mere semantics or syntax. The Gruber's original post (#9720) sought to draw together four different 'facts':

1. The reports of a 'hijacking' of a consignment of 3M masks said to be destined for the Berlin police, the accuracy of which now seems at best uncertain.
   
2. PPE supply within the UK, and the alleged instruction by PHE to suppliers not to sell outside England. Hancock has said there were no such instructions, and told the other three health ministers this. Whether the Gompels website sales restrictions is cock-up or conspiracy I don't think anyone here really knows.
   
3. Gruber's claim that 'Govt also seized testing kits already allocated to Scotland'.
   
4. Gruber's claim that the government also 'said Scot NHS not allowed to bid for its own kits or ventilators.' This is presumably a reference to the Sky News report claiming that the UK government had taken over procurement of testing kits and ventilators, a report which Gruber posted a YouTube video link to, but which has since been flatly denied by all concerned, including the Scottish government.
   
   

In posts #9744 and #9759 Fox called out Gruber's assertion that 'Govt also seized testing kits already allocated to Scotland'. There is of course a very big difference between testing kits (which Gompels doesn't sell) and PPE (which it does). In response to being called out on the testing kits assertion at point (3) above, Gruber's gone Full Trump, combining deflection (by talking at length about PPE, which is a different topic entirely) and division (ad hominem attacks on anyone who dares to disagree with him). After a brief foray into Godwin's Law territory in post #9750.

tl;dr - More than semantics or syntax. Gruber got called out on testing kits. His replies concern PPE.