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Itâs like the risk of Mayo beating Dublin. Itâs practically zero but itâs not zero.
Bondholders are paying us to mind their money. The risk of default isnât zero if youâre lending to latin American countries, or Greece for that matter.
Not an ounce of mince in dunnes or Lidl last night.
Was some simpleton defending the pcr pandemic last night?
Youâd want your head examined to be buying mince in either of those.
Great piece.
Iâd compare it to our efforts at testing. The State showed huge ambition early and went to the limit of what they could do, I donât fault the Government or HSE for that. Early on thatâs what we were told was critical. We treated it like an emergency. The tardy start to the vaccination programme at the very least looked terrible, the excuses were miserable.
In fairness a lot of that is down to the politics. Martin canât lead and doesnât inspire. Donnelly is an utter clown and itâs borderline criminal that he was let anywhere near as sensitive an area as this. Varadkar and Harris had very good first waves and did actually lead but now they are pulling in the opposite direction instead of helping.
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Guidelines for testing to control a pandemic were well established and agreed upon before this farce. Testing with the purpose of tracing and isolating only serves a purpose in the very early stages. Now itâs either incompetence or corruption relying on a gullible public
The optics of it were terrible.
It seemed like they were looking for excuses not to do it, as opposed to trying to find excuses to tear into it. They should have done some token vaccinations the day after it landed and it would have headed off all the early criticism.
By the talks of Martin in recent days it does seem we will be using our stocks pretty much as they arrive, so hopefully supply will be only thing that dictates pace from here on.
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I wouldnât be one to give the government too much credit but is it possible a slowish start to vaccination is just optics, that the time will be mad up as the program gathers pace.
As all through this pandemic the media and commentators are looking to the UK the USA and even Israel rather than comparing us with Europe. The EU is organising our supply and itâs a bit slower coming but will speed up, thatâs a major difference to the UK and Israel at the outset.
I am not gonna get into the testing and tracing overall strategy, I am talking about the reaction to the crisis. Whether you agree or disagree with the strategy, the noises were to test test test. The Government shot for that, they set the goal of being South Korea and went for it hell for leather early on. It was a proper reaction to an emergency.
When you know that the most acute issues you have are healthcare workers & deaths in nursing homes, and that the first shot of the vaccine gives decent protection, sitting around with thousands in the fridge waiting for consent forms (that should have been sorted well in advance) looks terrible.
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Agree with that.
The wan on the telly last night thatâs now on NPHEt was saying that the reason there was a delay was due to a concern with side effects. Mad stuff.
I will say that in fairness they do finally seem to have gotten to grips with the testing capacity. The number of tests they are processing is exceptional.
I know of a share of people now who have been through the system in recent days and itâs been very efficient. Latest person I know of contacted the GP at 9:30 this morning and has an appointment for 4pm. Results seem to be turning around within 24 hours as well.
Thanks
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My testing process was unreal.
My swab was taken by a dentist whoâd been redeployed.
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Was that after your despicable post county final celebrations or have you been for more tests?
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I think people overreacted on this really. A bit of calm and patience was called for, but you donât get that on Irish Twitter
I was talking about Celtic Tiger Eire specifically and how we paid non sovereign-debt interest rates on what turned out to be sovereign debt.