Coronavirus - Here for life (In high population density areas)

KinvarasPassion · February 11, 2021, 2:38pm

I bought Rajesh a subscription to RTE player to drive the fear of god/vishnu into him. It worked and he’s under his bed in Bangalore with the laptop… so I delegate all queries to him.

Biff_Egan · February 11, 2021, 2:38pm

If the Liverpool fans can force out Hicks and Gillett by writing letters to RBS it should be a doddle to remove George Lee.

Thomas_Brady · February 11, 2021, 2:42pm

Is Eamonn Ryan the TD here? RTE falls under communications does it not?

mickee321 · February 11, 2021, 2:43pm

Bandage:

She’s done her morning run and yoga class. She has dinner on in the slow cooker. She’s tidied up after lunch. I’ll be tasked with collecting the older fella from crèche and she’ll fire the younger lad in the jumparoo when the briefing starts. All the ducks are metaphorically in a row. She’ll have RTÉ News Now on TV and the press conference playing on her phone.

She’s particularly interested to see what Professor Nolan has to say about infection numbers plateauing around 800-1,000 per day and whether the English variant will likely keep us at this level for the rest of Level 5. She’s also been monitoring the weekly release of information on location of outbreaks and has expressed concern about the relatively high number in crèches - 27 three weeks ago at the height of this outbreak, down to 14 two weeks ago but frustratingly persistent at 13 last week.

This links into the English variant query. If crèches operating at limited capacity are still having the same amount of weekly outbreaks as nursing homes then it’s surely safe to assume that schools reopening will cause another spike. What will NPHET have to say about that? Are teacher unions really comfortable about returning at the start of March?

Overall, she’ll want to know if NPHET/the government will have the bottle to resist calls to open up the country when to do so will likely send us into a 4th wave.

OUTSTANDING!!!
THANK YOU

alf_stewart · February 11, 2021, 2:49pm

I’m impressed with the prompt response from Kate and I’m happy enough to have my concerns on record. Even if her tone was a bit self entitled. I really don’t think it’s appropriate for guests on shitty light entertainment shows on TV to be exempt from restrictions under the guise of being essential. We are all in this together etc etc.

Tank · February 11, 2021, 2:50pm

How / Why did you marry that woman?

Biff_Egan · February 11, 2021, 2:50pm

Yourself and the life partner are like Kelly Anne and George Conway.

TreatyStones · February 11, 2021, 2:51pm

FFS, will you tell her the cases have not plateaued. They are continuing to fall by around 20 - 25% per week, but the actual real number decrease on cases per day will fall as the numbers decrease, so will be less noticeable.

glasagusban · February 11, 2021, 2:57pm

What kind of a fucking eejit doesn’t see that.

Thomas_Brady · February 11, 2021, 2:58pm

A dog with a mallet up his hole can even see that.

Batigol · February 11, 2021, 2:58pm

Lads I’ve been slowly having a meltdown about all of this.

We are running about 1/10 the number of cases now as we were a month ago (actual fraction is probably lower as we are testing close contacts again). This is continuing to fall. We have three vaccines, all of which are suitable to give to any adult as per the WHO. And people seem to be accepting that we will be LUCKY to be open* by autumn. What the hell is going on? The HSE should be getting hounded by he media every day to ramp up the vaccine roll-out. The Government should be doing everything to secure more. The CMO who decided on a whim to upend the vaccine roll-out plan should be told his services are no longer required.

*people have lately seemed to suggest something like “well some restrictions will probably be in place for a few years” Why in the name of fuck would that be the case? An illness that mainly kills older people (more than half the deaths have been to nursing home residents) that we can vaccinate against shouldn’t cause any restrictions to normal life whatsoever

glasagusban · February 11, 2021, 2:59pm

We know.

Tank · February 11, 2021, 2:59pm

I can’t write to RTE because I don’t pay my licence fee.

TreatyStones · February 11, 2021, 2:59pm

She’s obviously not great with numbers and statistics.

Batigol · February 11, 2021, 3:00pm

Anyone who has a shred of common sense should be having a meltdown over it.

Thomas_Brady · February 11, 2021, 3:01pm

Yeah, we know.

Bandage · February 11, 2021, 3:02pm

Okay guys, be kind.

johnnysachs · February 11, 2021, 3:04pm

From todays Examiner

Ambrose_McNulty · February 11, 2021, 3:08pm

That’s one of the bad doctors that should be ignored. Tony has a blacklist somewhere.

mickee321 · February 11, 2021, 3:12pm

Hoolahan will have that fucker struck off the register
He’ll be shamed like that Paki fella in Port Unckile hospital or some dump like that who was operating on people’s elbows when they had a stomach ailment