Did he not tell his missus to close her business and hide under the bed in March. IIRC.
Another School closed, a primary school in Co Clare.
Appears a number of staff were close contacts of a positive COVID-19 result.
Because of its virulence, wide spread and the many asymptomatic cases it causes, Covid-19 cannot be contained in the long run, and so all countries will eventually reach herd immunity. To think otherwise is naive and dangerous. General lockdown strategies can reduce transmission and death counts in the short term. But this strategy cannot be considered successful until lockdowns are removed without the disease resurging.
The choice we face is stark. One option is to maintain a general lockdown for an unknown amount of time until herd immunity is reached through a future vaccine or until there is a safe and effective treatment. This must be weighed against the detrimental effects that lockdowns have on other health outcomes. The second option is to minimise the number of deaths until herd immunity is achieved through natural infection. Most places are neither preparing for the former nor considering the latter.
Martin Kulldorff, PhD, is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a biostatistician in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His current research centers on developing new statistical methods for post-market drug and vaccine safety surveillance.
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Not that I remember. I think she decides when to wax fannies by herself.
I’m all for Herd Immunity if the scientific world could tell me there are no long term effects to infection whether severe or mild.
Posting those articles while giving balance to the ultra scary articles are by & large misleading as facts are not there to back it all up.
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Leo is reading the tfk. OIUTF.
The long term effects of living are dying.
Point of article is suppression as a strategy and indefinite lockdown won’t work and is likely to be more harmful. We need to mitigate risks as best we can but to seek to eliminate all risk is not really an option.
I don’t argue the point of it, my issue is it’s based on predictions as opposed to facts that no one can obtain for many many years.
I think it’s unfair to say suppression didn’t or doesn’t work.
The virus needs to spread to survive. Kill the spread & you kill off the virus.
I think the only route to a semblance of normality is a proper testing method which can tell a person they’re negative & hope they then do the responsible thing.
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A great man Sean
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Ryan’s will be off the hook 19th December.
The G, The G, The G A A
Ireland’s loss is Europe’s gain when it comes to the great Sean Kelly
The next two weeks lads
TÁNAISTE LEO VARADKAR has told his parliamentary party meeting that the next two weeks will be “critical” in terms of deciding what Ireland’s Covid-19 strategy will be for the final few months of 2020.
When an EU man says “I expect” you sense it’s a command to the Micks rather than speculation.
Sean jumping on the back of everyone else’s work. No surprises there.
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Great men instruct minions
The FG lads are mugging off FF again 
They’ve taken the lead on opening things up and are going to milk all the credit for it.
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There is a growing sense that while the measures to date have saved thousands of lives and been a huge success the next phase of the roadmap is the most critical and we are at a tipping point where personal responsibility is key. While the virus does not discriminate people who are at most risk of the virus must be protected if we are to get back to a semblance of normality and enjoy Christmas with Covid.
Santa Claus is fucked this year lads. No trip to Rathwood or the likes.
So thank fuck for that.
Sounds like a Ben Stiler film
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