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This is very encouraging: https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status...86845797044224
That's not to say it's not going to get very grim, but we are responding well to date. Also I saw information yesterday that our testing rate per head of population is up there with Germany and South Korea. We may not be perfect, but we are doing well.
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Jaysus but this is grim.
We never got for a drive on Saturday. The eldest kid wasn't fussed and it hardly seemed worth dragging her out against her will. The wall in the back garden did get painted though. Move on to the downstairs toilet now. There is little else to do.
We get out on Thursday and it can't come soon enough, but it seems like we'll be emerging back into a very different world. You get cut off form the world very quickly when you're isolating. It's easy to keep up with the big events in Dublin and London, but you have no idea what's going on at the end of the road.
I hear there's a shortage of booze though. Joy.
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I think we're doing ok, but the question remains as to what the end point of all this is.Originally Posted by osarusan
We can't keep pootering along at 2/300 cases a day - it'll take decades to get everyone infected.
If we reduce it to nil here, it'll just come back because (a) how can you be sure you've caught even the asymptomatic carriers and (b) what happens to foreign travel?
Are we stuck in isolation until a vaccine is found?
And what happens to wet markets and bush meat when all this is over? Cos if China keeps its wet markets or if African bush meat continues to be ate, then something similar is going to appear before the end of the decade and we'll be back at square one.
I'm just glad to see you post again to be honest, iffy time to drop off radar there ...
I can understand it is bit of a poisoned chalice to take on, keep you head down and let the others take the blame, then with hindsight explain how you would have down better.
I think like in here in the UK they are only really testing folk who are already reporting to be pretty ill, it is a bit
late then of course as far as the spread of the virus goes, they have likely already done their spreading.
The testing needs to be on those who appear healthy as you are gonna avoid anyone coughing anyway.
However that would mean daily testing of everyone, which whilst impractical would be a good solution.
Ahh. Sorry about that. Can see how that might have had people wondering.
All up and about again this morning with no issues.
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Only seen this wikipedia article this afternoon: 2020 Corona virus pandemic in Ireland
There's one for every country affected, e.g. Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, etc
Just found the info I referred to above on testing levels in Ireland: https://twitter.com/Care2much18/stat...91023729340421
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All good here so far, and agree with the ramped-up procedures. My only concern is that the idiots will make it worse for the rest of us, resulting in closures of woods and beaches, or silly queueing procedures being needed at supermarkets because people simply can't keep out of other people's space.
Went to a woods the other day and they were all parked on top of each other, despite there being other entrances. The woods itself was grand, and everyone passed at opposite side of the tracks as if we'd always been doing it. But similarly, in Lidl yesterday, they were all parked on top of each other, despite vast empty tracts of spaces. I will never understand the Irish obsession with parking close to the door, even if the sun is cracking the stones.
Tweeted at Leo earlierasking him to suspend NCT testing, like the Brits, crazy that they expect people to visit twice when we're supposed to be distancing, just because they didn't set up procedures for handling problems like this.
When the numbers start going down, you crack the door and allow people out a bit more, some categories back to work, etc, and you watch the numbers. If they go up, you close it a little again. Gradually, it should result in most of us getting back to normal, but of course the at-risk categories will have it tough. It's a slow process, but we'll get there.
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An acquaintance of mine is a researcher in QUB. His project has been put on the back burner and he's working from home, but according to him his colleagues in virology are working harder and quicker than ever before. Everyone who can work in this this is on it, and those who can't offer anything have been sent home. It's effectively the scientific version of wartime production. He believes something will be found well ahead of the suggested time frame, perhaps getting effective vaccines and/or treatments into the field by the autumn.
If this thins is seasonal as everyone hopes, we might get away with this only being bad (as opposed to catastrophic).
But we have to get through to that. In the meantime social distancing etc is what we have. A week of unseasonably warm weather over Europe wouldn't do any harm at all. I'd guess the Italians and Spanish will give us an answer before anyone else on that score.
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This would also help in terms of getting a more accurate idea of the death rate. At the moment a lot of countries are only testing when a patient is in a critical (or serious) condition. Essentially only testing patients who are at death's door is likely to inflate the perceived death rate.
So Boris has it - got initial symptoms on Wednesday.
How much of Westminster has he potentially taken out?
Best of luck contact tracing him anyway.
"I shook hands with everybody"
Further restrictions as of tonight. Only essesntial travel - to and from work which can not be done from home, and to get essentials like food and medicine. Exercise limited to 'brief' periods no farther than 2km from home.
Varadkar did extremely well again last night. He's holding up really well.
I think what this crisis is proving is that the country is lucky enough to have 2 potential leaders, offering the people contrasting visions of the future.
I can understand why the left have coalesced around Sinn Féin. How the right haven't done the same around Fine Gael is beyond me. Neither Me-Hole Martin nor anyone else they have in Fianna Fail is within a million miles of Leo.
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What did he do well? Read a script and is doing what the hse tell him to do - its hardly rocket science to be fair.
Simon Harris - a liability during the general election and had to be hid from general view is now heralded as modern day Saint. I don't get it at all.
Varadkar is clearing the extremely low bar set by Johnson and Trump*, and is staying in the background until he needs to address the country.
The best thing he's done is put Dr Holohan front and centre and let him speak to the nation about what we're doing, its successes, and failures, and what we're going to do next.
*Only mentioning those two because they're the two leaders we see on TV more than any other. From what I understand, Germany and South Korea have had the best response to the pandemic
The German trademark organisation and efficiency can put to use for anything when they put their minds to it , world domination, defeating the Coronavirus they are a multitalented bunch.
Sometimes just communicating clearly and calmly is enough. That is all we need from them now.
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