This is good. I can feel the anger. Every government fuck up will wake another batch of people and this is surely the worst government in our history already. When Esteban wakes we will know it is time to march.
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St Conleth’s Park not big enough.
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Post of the year
From this guardian article it appears that it was known as far back as may that there were over 500 infections in meat plants
Yet Michael O’Regan is only tweeting about house parties
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Take a stroll through St Catherine’s Park and your there. Done the opposite on my cycle this morning.
It’s the new Gaza Strip
FFG are in the pocket of Larry Goodman for nearly four decades now. Are they going to do anything which would have a detrimental affect on his margins, like imposing strict testing at meat plants or legislating for mandatory sick pay indefinitely at meat plants while Covid is an ongoing issue?
No, they’d rather tell a couple of hundred thousand people to stay at home and close down a couple of hundred shopes, pubs, restaurants and hotels. It’s a farce.
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Cui Bono?
Well said that man.
You are what you own in this town
I think FF just died. The final nail has gone in the coffin. I’m serious.
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174 new cases!!
174 new confirmed cases
1 further death
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been informed that 1 patient diagnosed with COVID-19 in Ireland has died.
There has now been a total of 1,772 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland*.
As of midnight Friday 7th August, the HPSC has been notified of 174 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 26,644 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today;
- 124 are men and 48 are women
- 69% are under 45 years of age
- 112 are confirmed to be associated with outbreaks or are close contacts of a confirmed case
- 5 cases have been identified as community transmission
- 110 cases are located in Kildare, 27 in Dublin, 7 in Cork, 7 in Offaly, 6 in Meath and 17 are spread across thirteen other counties (Carlow, Cavan, Clare, Donegal, Galway, Kilkenny, Laois, Limerick, Mayo, Roscommon, Tipperary, Wexford and Wicklow).
The HSE is working to identify any contacts the patients may have had to provide them with information and advice to prevent further spread.
Dr Ronan Glynn, Acting Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health, said; “While today’s numbers of confirmed cases are high, they are not unexpected. As I said last night, we are expecting significant numbers of cases to be reported over the coming days.
“Throughout this week, we have been testing all workers in facilities where outbreaks of COVID-19 have been identified as well as close contacts of those people who have received COVID positive results. Tonight’s figures are a reflection of these measures with 118 of these cases linked to the counties of Kildare, Laois and Offaly.
“Our priority now and our reason for recommending the proactive measures announced last night, is to avoid these cases and clusters leading to widespread community transmission of the disease.
“50 of tonight’s cases are located outside of these three counties and around the rest of the country. I once again ask everyone regardless of where you live in the country to take every precaution possible to help us control the spread of this disease and protect our most vulnerable. This means continuing to wash our hands, keeping 2 metres apart from one another, avoiding crowds, wearing face coverings where appropriate, covering our coughs and sneezes and downloading the COVID Tracker app.”
Professor Philip Nolan, Chair of the NPHET Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group, said; “As outlined by the Acting Chief Medical Officer at the press conference last night, the 14-day incidence per 100,000 population in Kildare, Laois and Offaly is worryingly high. While the national incidence stands at 16.3 per 100,000, in Kildare it stands at 130.3, in Laois it is 69.7 and in Offaly it is 89.8.
“Should these cases result in widespread transmission, it could undo a lot of the good work that we have done as a country so far to control the spread of this virus. The measures introduced by NPHET last night represent a proactive and proportionate response to the current situation in these counties”
*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 1 death. The figure of 1,772 reflects this.
Kildare is riddled.
Kildare needs to be nuked.
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Where’s Laois?
They were right to shut down Kildare, hopefully it will stay that way. Laois is shut down and it has less than 6 cases.