Is there this kind of negative narrative around government/restrictions/nphet/vaccine roll out in Poland? Did I hear they are tightening restrictions rather than loosening?
Edit I see you mentioning the restrictions later. What is the public mood?
One of the main things the gobshites on Twitter have spun is a public health vs economy narrative. Outdoor activities should have been reopened by now, if they didnāt want alcohol then fine but get outdoors open. You take the sting out of that silly narrative by reopening outdoor visits and sports for mental health reasons.
Things like NPHETās mobility index have to be put into context for the public. Itās an indicator but the most important thing is how the public behave when they move. When they arenāt being treated like morons with lines about full car parks, the middle ground follows the advice.
If you are the Government, that has to be your April 5th message. That and schools having to remain open due to their societal importance. Even if we pursue a reopening that basically does nothing to reopen the economy, but just safe allowable interaction, Iād be more contented. Bin off the nonsense that cases will drop much more due to restrictions, worry indexes and mobility indexes, itāll be seasonality and vaccines that drive them lower. That will take some power away from NPHET as what we have currently is them mentioning things daily at press conferences that have little connection to the science of the spread of the virus but Big Brother monitoring. This keeps them relevant and allows the scare to continue over every little negative datapoint or anecdote.
The Government should be in a good position by the end of April IMO. 25%+ will have had their first dose at least with many more fully vaccinated. We will be coming into summer and the cases will drop regardless. But they need to take some control back from NPHET and the public health weirdos ASAP. Weāll be running into Dame Lane July 2020 again with meltdowns over 4 cases and continued scare anecdotes over sisters getting Covid for going to a funeral otherwise. Thereās a way to do that whilst not giving into the clowns online who think that reopening means giving into ābig businessā.
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People are bored with lockdown and a lot are ignoring it. There isnāt the same mass hysteria in the media here. The news channels give it blanket coverage but a lot of people avoid it. The powers that be arenāt into scare mongering like at home. Or the experts. Much more factual. Itās a long auld winter here and weāre not out of it yet so people are a bit fed up.
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Good luck
Would you say the experience out there with the restrictions, the going in and out of lockdowns and the number of deaths etc would justify anything about the approach being taken by our authorities? Or would it do the opposite?
We are always thinking what we do here is a complete joke youāre the only fella whoās actually on the ground in another EU country I think
Inspiring stuff
How much pressure are ICUs and hospitals under. Thatās the only justification for lockdowns
Yeah becuase travel is non existent
Tifco is owned by a US fundā¦ It used to be owned by a fella called Aidan Crowe but was taken over in the Anglo wind down Iād say
Time will tell mate.
It sure willā¦ The UK is banjaxed. Long term they will blame it on Covid maybe but Brexit has fucked them up royallyā¦
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Covid will have an even greater impact though I reckon. Weāll see.
Interesting to see whoās involved and what their connections are. Iām very cynical whenever I hear of any goverment contract
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They started with the Clontarf Castle and built up a nice portfolio of hotels. The Crowne Plazas were a grand standard and the Travelodges were dumps but you get what you pay for.
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I spent a productive hour once listening to some yank professor talking about data lakes on a webinar. Glad to see the HSE are on board.
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3.7m on teaching Bridie in finance how to turn on the camera on Teams.
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The waters of a HSE data lake could get murky indeed.
Iām going to start utilising ādata ingestionā effective immediately. I canāt believe Iāve been just referring to ādata importā all this time like some sort of pleb.
Iād say the money being thrown around is unreal
If data import is data ingestion then data output must beā¦scutter
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