Coronavirus - Here come the variants

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Yup. There was mention of adding France a couple of weeks ago by their health bodies…quickly dropped.

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So it’s full then. Hopefully this leads to a court case.

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Robert Watt really earning his coin here.

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Could they not put a few into the Greenhills?

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Statistician Nolan has done a great job here in getting a representative sample.

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Have they even released the names on the “Travel Advisory Expert Group” yet?

These guys get to fuck shit up with impunity and remain anonymous.

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Traffic was back in a big way today. Its all over

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I think it’s a spoof bit it’s hard to tell these days

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Has to be. I hope.

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Vistatec House. 471 employees. Most of whom you’d hope are wfh.

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This is a county whose economy tanked in 2008 because it built too many houses & 7 or so years later had a housing crisis

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I was in a minor traffic jam at about 4.30.

I was seething for about 60 seconds.

How quickly we forget

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I was like an absolute cunt today. Got stuck in Clane this morning during the school run.

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The Dubs are servile lickspittle cowards.

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The multinationals will save us.

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Oirish president Joe obiden will put a stop to that

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Its back but now in scary variant form

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“May be linked”

Of course that also means “may not be linked”

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Interesting thread with Reilly fighting off all comers and implying NPHET don’t run the country

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Psychologists have a term for the collapse in morale that occurs just after the halfway point of a prolonged period of isolation: the ‘third quarter phenomenon’. First coined in a 1991 study, the theory goes that the cumulative effects of boredom, tension with the people you’re locked up with, and distance from the finish line, can become overwhelming. The world you’re stuck in has lost its novelty, and escape feels far away.

What we’re about to experience is referred to by some as ‘fifth quarter syndrome’: a return to normality that, for some, can be an even tougher transition than the time spent in isolation. In a study of Japanese scientists wintering over in Antarctica, the fifth quarter syndrome is seen as a kind of thawing after returning from the cold, one where “dramatic changes in this wholly novel environment appear one after another” and “adaptation is a continuous process”. Subjects reported difficulties re-engaging at work and dips in motivation that lasted as long as a year after re-entering society. Those who’d acclimatised to Arctic conditions most readily found the return home the hardest. As the study’s authors put it: “Human society may be harder to adapt to than the Antarctic.”