Coronavirus - Dig In, It's going to be a while yet

[TreatyStones]

@ciarancareyshurlingarmy

The background pictures from cork are not good. Assume they are from another time. Poor management of PR by RTE

I noticed that last night as well. Roads really busy and there was a big gang of people heading over the bridge together at one stage.

[the_man_himself]

I haven’t been reading here. Wtf is the “Imperial College”?

[Thomas_Brady]

Where @ChairmanDan and @Tim_Riggins went to school

[RaymondCrotty]

@johnnysachs

Paddy Agnew is on Newstalk giving an account of the situation on Coronavirus in Italy and he is absolutely hammered drunk.

I’ve heard him with slurred speech also but think it is a result of brain injury he suffered rather than alcohol.

[anon7035031]

I don’t believe the Imperial College ever advised herd immunity, maybe individual scientists did. There are plenty epidemiologists who believe herd immunity is the best approach, even today. It seems a field that has as much variation in opinion as economics.

[The_Most_Infamous]

Their models don’t make sense.

[anon7035031]

A university in Kensington.

[anon7035031]

Which ones?

[Raylan]

@Dziekanowski

You clearly think he agrees with Trump when Trump says it’s a hoax and that the virus will go away like a miracle.

Oh you’re doing that classic Sidney thing of associating Trump with the opposing point of view in an entirely different discussion so as to validate your argument. Never change.

[Thomas_Brady]

Herd immunity works fine.

[anon78624367]

If I’m wrong I retract my previous criticism of the imperial college.

[The_Most_Infamous]

Covered here mate

Mathematics of life and death: How disease models shape national shutdowns...

[Julio_Geordio]

Coronavirus death rate is lower than previously reported, study says, but...

I’m not reading this thread anymore so not sure if this has been posted? A bit of good news to help ye go to sleep and I still think the fatality numbers will fall further once the antibodies testing comes in

[Gman]

@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy

What’s the reason they need to do that

It all goes into the app, so if someone gets covid 19, anywhere they have been will show up. Then they will also be able to find anyone else who may have been in contact with them or same places. Just a good technology based contact tracing method brought in.

[anon60384913]

I’d be very wary about how that could be used in the future.

[Tim_Riggins]

@Dziekanowski

… will always be behind the curve because the public are not experts.It reinforces the need for journalism to function as a public service and to genuinely inform the public. Ireland has been better at doing this than probably most other countries, but in this sort of a situation, even that’s too slow.

I believe the experts in public health also get some economics training as part of their studies. They need to understand it in terms of the financing of healthcare systems (including most importantly in 3rd world countries), advocacy and to run cost benefits/budgets of their programmes.

The CDC have a big section on it. https://www.cdc.gov/publichealthgateway/pheconomics/index.html

[The_Most_Infamous]

I’ve been banging that drum for awhile @Julio_Geordio as an amateur scientist pal.

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

Very Orwellian but makes sense

[anon7035031]

You may not be wrong, it may have been individuals from the Imperial College who initially advised Vallance before the full model was done.

[Dziekanowski]

@Raylan

Oh you’re doing that classic Sidney thing of associating Trump with the opposing point of view in an entirely different discussion so as to validate your argument. Never change.

I didn;t have to do anything - you walked yourself straight into it because you decided to pick an argument when you didn’t even know what you were arguing about - you just decided to argue about something because my existence annoys you immensely, which is quite gratifying actuallly.