The one thing we know about this virus is that we canāt predict a thing - good or bad.
Take each day as it comes.
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Unreal, get even more people together in confined places because of restricted opening hours, fucking genius!
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Leo saying ye all partied too much
āThe shebeens, the funerals, the wakes, most of those kind of super-spreader type events that weāre hearing about were not in compliance with regulationā
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All scutter asideā¦ It will be the end of March before we might even consider leaving level 5.
Rumoured that many businesses have already been told that it may be the end of March until they will be allowed to reopen.
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as an aside
has anyone actually gotten sick from this thing?
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I had a tiny cough for a few days. Its a total farce
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Thatās what Leo said last night.
Not a rumour, Leo said it live on TV
Shur he said that the other night
What show was he on?
Lads would do well to limit the noise on TV/mediaā¦ it takes from your zen.
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@Fagan_ODowd is possibly one of the elder statesmen who contracted it. Would be interested to hear from him how he felt, how it compared to any previous respiratory illness etc
I would not be drawing too many conclusions from a sample size of 1 (all due respect @Fagan_ODowd)
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The wan person I know who has it hasnāt had so much as a sneeze . Thatās enough evidence for me.
I know a fella in his 40s in an awful way with it, itās going on over a month. Not ventilator bad but man flu bad.
Who said anything about drawing conclusions? Mickey asked did anyone actually feel sick from getting and I just mentioned itād be interesting to hear how fagan felt, given his age and the virus effect on older people. Referring to sample size is not some sort of āgotchaā here. Thereās anecdotal posts about the virus all the time.
They moved to twice weekly press conferences at the back end of summer. This was then things were quieter and the HSE collectively decided their COVID responsibilities had ended, and things like adding capacity for a potential winter surge or implementation of a proper tracing regime were unnecessary.
So you have a Monday general update one and a Thursday one that focuses on the modelling with Professor Philly Nolan. She religiously tunes into the Thursday one. She might have it on RTE News Now (channel #508 I think) and sheāll also have it going on her phone or iPad too in case she needs to move between rooms or feed a child or something. Sheāll have the telly paused then. So she might be 15 minutes ahead on her phone but she wonāt let me change the channel in case she has to leave her phone and needs to fast forward the telly up to the point where she stopped watching on her phone.
Itās madness.
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Fair enough, but @Fagan_ODowd seems to have recovered fine which would draw the usual āitās a codā.