Science is basically a trillion dollar pin the donkey industry, innit?
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Yes especially when you consider life expectancy in Ireland is 82.
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Why do men die before women?
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No mate, because they want to …
The other trick they have employed is constant use of the total recorded numbers of cases rather than what is the real important figure of active cases.
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I’d like to see the dispersion of this stat over time. Apparently women who dont get married live longer than ones who do but maybe the married women have children and it takes a lot out of them over the years.
Bitterness is an energy and it can sustain people for years and years … Look at Galway GAA fans.
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There is something in that alright as nuns seem to live forever.
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That was an odd coincidence. I felt they focused on it at the outset because it was so high. Then when it was established that turning their backs on nursing homes was one of the main reasons the median age was so high, they abruptly stopped reporting it.
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That’s how dictatorships work, bro.
That Dáil Committe thing is a bit of a farce.
Everyone protecting their own ground, being strategic in their comments and as a result frightening the life out of a lot of people. Of course the media then jumps all over it.
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Dail committees are a total sham in that respect - it’s all about political grandstanding ideally with a news friendly soundbite or “gotcha” moment
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The tennis club is busier than ever guys
Whole thing very well run
I’d question the wisdom of this carry on.
Would a tennis club not have a similar age profile to a nursing home?
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If you are asking me if tennis accommodates all ages - yes it does
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WHO sees a second major wave of COVID-19 increasingly unlikely
The director of Public Health of the World Health Organization (WHO) , María Neira , said on Monday that the models they work with are “increasingly” ruling out a second wave of the coronavirus.
However, Neira has called for “great caution” and “common sense” in this “very critical” phase of the pandemic ( de-escalation) , and, in statements to RAC-1, has requested that the population should not be paranoid nor should they relax too much, but they should "learn to live with infectious diseases ".
“There are many models that predict many probabilities such as a punctual regrowth or a major wave , but this last possibility is increasingly being ruled out. We are much better prepared in all areas’’, said the Spanish doctor.
According to Neira, “ we have lowered the transmission rate so much that the virus will have difficulty surviving . We must be very careful to say whether this is the end of the wave, but the data at least shows us that the transmission and explosion of the first weeks have been avoided’’.
However, she pointed out that “it is worth not making many forecasts because the next few weeks are a very critical phase.”
«With reopening you have to see how the virus behaves. We hope there will be no other outbreaks, but it will be a day-to-day battle. In two or three weeks we will see what has happened and if it is necessary to correct it surgically ”, she said about the de-escalation in phase 1 that all of Spain has entered.
Neira has acknowledged that the WHO still has “certain doubts about the relationship of the virus with the weather” , although they are seeing that “it is doing the geographical route expected of a virus that wants to survive”.
It was a good experiment …