Professor Philip Nolan, whose 50-strong financial modelling team identify R number movements and have input into lockdown restrictions and pace of easing them, is Maynooth too.
Dunphy had some chap on his podcast yesterday from the LIDTF school of thought. While he welcomed debate and criticism of the lockdown he poured scorn on “upstart scientists” who try to dispute known facts. He swatted away the Nobel prize winner’s belief that a second wave was impossible because he was using stats to forecast/predict the future without using known facts about the virus. He believes that a second wave was probably inevitable if masks weren’t mandatory and testing/tracing wasn’t brought back to 72 hours. He said it’s better to get this lockdown correct because a second lockdown would be disasterous economically. He was from Trinity cc @Fagan_ODowd
They can’t stop you driving 40km’s really. Pick a point 20km from your house that’s a good excuse. Say Woodies
If you are stopped within 20km of home; where are you going? Woodies.
If stopped within 20km of your destination, then just say you are returning to destination from Woodies.
Tis all a cod anyway, half of Limerick is gone to Clare and Kerry the last two weeks