I wonder where the British empire ordered their custom made globes fromâŚthe ones that exaggerated the size of the British isles. The lidtf crew could do with a custom globe of their own.
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Whats middle aged?
Iâm sick shit of it too⌠But put the violin away for the young folk. Me and plenty lads here went through the exact same experience you did and had to deal with kids, home schooling etc on top of it. Not being able to meet my friends or go to a gaa match was a long way down my list of complaints on a daily basis. Should you care about that? Course not⌠But everyone thinks they are putting it down tougher than the man next door
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Fair point. Iâm zen now again. The next two weeks are vital.
Im far from zen at this stage but what can a fella do only drive on
You clearly have not been following the Lockdown Running thread.
Very selfish post
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Here we go - again.
Holohan is back at the wheel. âThe calculus is changing.â From the Indo.
The country is back on a knife-edge as a sharp increase in Covid infections raised fears of a cautious exit from lockdown.
Chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan, who has returned to his post after the death of his wife, said last night while the battle against the pandemic is going in the right direction, the level of virus here is still high.
He said the increase in cases in recent days and a slight rise in Covid-19 admissions to hospital and intensive care âgive us reason to be cautiousâ.
âWe need to examine if these are to become more permanent or transitory,â he said.
He also warned the public not to get ahead of the easing of restrictions, saying this could put further progress âat riskâ.
Dr Holohan and the National Public Health Emergency Team (Nphet) meet next week to decide the speed of the roadmap out of lockdown.
A further 10 deaths â seven from this month â were reported yesterday while daily case numbers rose to 617 yesterday, the highest in three weeks.
There are concerns about another increase in the coming days, more than a week after the full resumption of school and of house-building construction.
More people have returned to the workplace with one in three now working from home compared to one in two in January.
A jump in cases linked mostly to secondary school pupils and workplace flare-ups, involving up to 70 cases, has been reported with clusters again emerging from social mixing, birthday parties and funerals along with high incidence in Donegal, Offaly, Kildare, Longford and Dublin.
Dr Holohan said the roll out of Covid-19 vaccines and the protection they give already to older people, the medically vulnerable and healthcare workers means that Nphet will have more scope in the advice it gives on easing measures.
âThe calculus is changing,â he said. The âpopulationâs risk overall, in respect of this disease has been reduced". However, he pointed out that we are still not at a point where we have got adequate numbers vaccinated to âhave impact on the whole path of the disease across the broader population.â
âThat will not come until much later.â
He warned: âWe simply have to keep up high level of practice of sensible and necessary evidence based public health measures as we move to vaccinating as many of the population as possible in the prioritised way that we have set out our vaccination programme.â
Even if the most at-risk were vaccinated âwe couldnât then just let the diseases rip through the rest of the populationâ, he added.
âWe simply shouldnât ask the population to accept the burden of that infection, and it will be that old truism that that quantity would have a quality of its own.â
He accepted that there is frustration among the general public but the caveat has to be that people do not âget ahead of themselvesâ relaxing vigilance before public health measures are eased with activities such as âhouse parties.â
NIAC will consider âone dose strategyâ vaccine roll-out as soon as evidence arises.
Asked about foreign travel and proposals for an EU form of vaccination passport he said consideration would be given to this but it will come âmuch laterâ.
Earlier Prof Philip Nolan, who tracks the virus, said he hoped the âsmall spikeâ in cases will be âtransient.â
Progress was steady up to Wednesday. Close contacts on average remain around 2.6, he said.
The R number â which measures how many others an infected person passed on the infection to â is at around 0.9 to 1.1 .It is probably very close to 1 which leaves the country vulnerable to an increase, he added.
The overall situation is âvolatile and vulnerableâ and any rise in social mixing is high risk.
The 14-day incidence was 113 cases per 100,000 population yesterday, which was the lowest for some time. The number of Covid-19 patients in hospital has been less than 200 for the past two weeks with around 13 admissions a day.
And the number of seriously ill in hospital has remained relatively static around 50. However, the number needing mechanical ventilation has risen slightly in recent days.
Niac, the National Immunisation Advisory Committee, will report early next week on how the Johnson & Johnson vaccine be used here after a link with a very low risk of blood clots.
âThe benefits of vaccination in nursing homes and long-term residential care facilities are now very clear with a dramatic drop in the number of residents and staff developing severe disease,â Professor Martin Cormican, the HSEâs lead on infection control, said.
New visitation guidance agreed by Nphet represents another step to support residents in long-term residential care facilities in maintaining relationships with family and friends.
Oh lord above 
Are you going to sit on your hole and let tony, luke and meehawl decide whatâs best for you?
Would you even pluck up the courage to go into a shop without a mask?
Nah Tis âasier whine and bitch on the internet.
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Fuck sake, fellas using anecdotal suicides to point score again, absolutely reprehensible.
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Ditch the mask - show some example to the weak, the brow beaten and the superstitious
Itâs a real strike back at the heart of tyranny to melt the head of your lower-wage shop employee like that. Bravo
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Absolute bollox. The lower wage shop worker has more sense than you give him/her credit for. You forgot to shoehorn in a bit about murdering a pensioner
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I find it amusing/fucked up that you have one lad here believing thereâs a conspiracy because we have the total suicide numbers for 2020 but not for 2021.
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Shoehorning indeed. There was another one of these valiant freedom fighters who was going to tell the young girl working in his local shop to fuck off over the mask issue. 
Itâs marvellously fearless stuff.
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Really. Great story.
But youâre rightâŚit doesnât take much courage not to wear a maskâŚbut then most people donât have much courage.
I suppose when common sense has been sidelined it might be acceptable to make shop workers wear a mask for hours on end⌠in the name of public health.
Youâre simply being obedient. Good for you, this nonsense has been sold to you as virtue and itâs much easier to go along with it. Essentially itâs a sort of religious observance
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Striking how hot and bothered the pro restrictions crew on here get when cancer screening or Suicides rates get mentioned.
Itâs almost like their selfishness is beginning to make them feel guilty.
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Itâs all a cod
What about making kids wear them in school. Is that a cod? I think itâs cruel