What is this “performance” in relation to? How we’ve been “keeping Covid-19 in check”?
Apart maybe from Canada, Ireland has the highest proportion of Covid-19 deaths occurring in care homes. For reasons that have yet to be fully explained and will require formal investigation, the disease ripped through these settings before effective action was taken.
It is next to impossible to prevent deaths in care homes because the residents are in the highest risk category, and also because a lockdown does not work.
That situation has now been stabilised
Yes, because the flattening of the curve is due to the most vulnerable (e.g. care home residents) dying first as much as the lockdown.
A previously posted article by Swedish epidemiologist, Prof. Johan Giesecke, pointed out that, “as of April 29, 2020, more than half a million people in Stockholm county, Sweden, which is about 20–25% of the population, have been infected. 98–99% of these people are probably unaware or uncertain of having had the infection; they either had symptoms that were severe, but not severe enough for them to go to a hospital and get tested, or no symptoms at all. Serology testing is now supporting these assumptions.”
Mr. Cullen’s article is one for the woeful journalism thread.
A work colleague worked for Kepak before they joined our workplace.
She says that in one of the plants the boning hall is completely shut. They’d be 160 people working in the boning hall and 145 of them have tested positive for the virus.
I haven’t heard of too many people who’ve recovered from the virus saying they want to crack on with reopening the country. It looks likes it scares the bejayous out of anybody that gets it.
Ha! I wouldn’t be qualified to comment on those things at all but it’s interesting I think. The virus more than likely won’t effect them again but they are still terrified by it.