Coronavirus - Close the Airports

[Batigol]

I’d say there’ll be a lot of infections passed around if the pubs reopen.

Isolation has been tough

[Julio_Geordio]

They could have a corona festival, where all the young people go in and cough all over each other and live in tents in a field in Laois for a few weeks while it passes through them.
Naturally the coronas would be the headline act

[mikehunt]

So it’s not just the “career dolers” that are screwing the system. That’ll be a surprise to some.

[iron_mike]

“Career dolers” are still on 200 notes a week

[tallback]

@Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy

I don’t think they’ve been disastrous but they’ve made a number of big mistakes and I don’t like the spin and PR bullshit they have wasted a lot of endeavour in.

I’ve heard the “spin” line a lot. Firstly, putting aside the use of the word spin in a pejorative sense - surely a relentless PR campaign was essential for a situation where the trajectory of the virus was dependent on the buy in of the public changing their behaviours.

In order to convince people to shut-down their lives it is surely necessary to convey the importance in doing so and also provide regular updates clarifying and re-motivating. An absence of PR would have a been a disaster for this crisis.

[tallback]

@johnnysachs

I’m not sure why people have such low standards or expectations in terms of elected individuals or organisations. Well thats a lie, I do actually. But can it not be expected that they take a few minutes of meetings or record who said what. Even use a dictaphone or something. Spend on Childrens hospital at €2bn. No record or minutes. Global pandemic, no minutes. School board of management meeting on buying a ride on lawnmower to cut the backfield. They take minutes. County boards meeting. Minutes of meetings are read out from previous meeting and new ones taken.

Are you saying there are no minutes or just that you don’t get automatic access to them?

[mikehunt]

Why aren’t they on the 350?

[iron_mike]

Timing. Any doley who was on the normal rate before the announcement is not entitled to the extra payment.

[Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy]

@tallback

I’ve heard the “spin” line a lot. Firstly, putting aside the use of the word spin in a pejorative sense - surely a relentless PR campaign was essential for a situation where the trajectory of the virus was dependent on the buy in of the public changing their behaviours.

You could have just taken the point but you had to come on and defend the indefensible.

[mikehunt]

So there’s a hierarchy of “career dolers” now, interesting.

[tallback]

@Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy

@tallback

I’ve heard the “spin” line a lot. Firstly, putting aside the use of the word spin in a pejorative sense - surely a relentless PR campaign was essential for a situation where the trajectory of the virus was dependent on the buy in of the public changing their behaviours.

You could have just taken the point but you had to come on and defend the indefensible.

I disagree with your point that Spin/PR is of itself a bad or wasteful thing for this particular crisis. I’m sure that it could be done better, I’m sure there have been missteps in comms but having a continuous high-profile PR effort is the correct approach in my view.

Seeing as I defended it it would seem that I also disagree that its indefensible.

[peddlerscross]

They should nearly just let the under 35s get on with it for a few weeks and see what happens.

Then gradually let the older generations back out into the communities on a phased basis. Obviously anyone with underlying health conditions in these age groups would need to cocoon for longer.

[iron_mike]

@mikehunt

So there’s a hierarchy of “career dolers” now, interesting.

I’d say “apprentice dolers” would be a better term

[StoneCold]

What if you turn 36 in that timeframe?

[johnnysachs]

None for the hospital overspend fiasco. And none accessible for management of current pandemic. Maybe they are retrospectively cobbeling up something after Alan Kelly called them out on it this morning.

[iron_mike]

@peddlerscross

They should nearly just let the under 35s get on with it for a few weeks and see what happens.

Then gradually let the older generations back out into the communities on a phased basis. Obviously anyone with underlying health conditions in these age groups would need to cocoon for longer.

Too messy and hard to control. If theres to be any relaxation, it will be across the board no matter how small it is.

[peddlerscross]

Must be 35 or under on June 1st.

Would have to have been eligible for Harty Cup in 2003.

[mikehunt]

The Financial Regulator was the gold standard for minute taking,. Good to see it’s still going strong in the public sector.

[tallback]

Read these sequence of tweets from the bottom up. Sobering.

[manbehindthewire]

Is that Mick Channons son?

Edit
It’s not.