They’d to rummage around in the bins for an old death from June to break our ten day no death streak. It’s an absolute joke.
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Look. You seem like a fairly smart chap. You’re talking to blokes here who think leo has bots reading tfk to decide his strategy
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County boards make their money from here out do they not? 4 Semi Finals - 2 Finals … Some counties are only playing off QFs and there’s relegation … It would be a boost to every county if they got some fans in the door for these games.
I meant his tenure as Taoiseach overall. He was a weak leader and indecisive, now he’s shouting from the sidelines.
Most will be at county final stage by the time restrictions are lifted.
@Julio_Geordio do they ever de-notify a death on days when there are no deaths or do they only wait for days when there are deaths and use that to bury the denotification news?
China does not count symptomless patients as confirmed cases.
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Headline in today’s paper- back under the bed Paddy
If he did at least there would be a strategy
German lockdown was ‘too harsh’, says minister
Surprise and anger over admission shops and hairdressers did not need to close
Derek Scally
Germany should not have closed shops and hairdressers in the coronavirus lockdown, its health minister has admitted, triggering demands for an inquiry into decisions taken early on in the pandemic.
Federal health minister Jens Spahn’s admission that Berlin’s lockdown was too harsh has surprised many and infuriated those hit hardest by the shutdown.
The remarks will be grist to the mill of the 40,000 people who demonstrated in Berlin at the weekend against ongoing Covid-19 restrictions as overblown.
“With the knowledge of today, I can tell you no hairdressers would have to close and no shops,” he said. “That will not happen again. We won’t need visitor bans in care homes, either.”
He said Germany could avoid a second lockdown because people had “learned in the last months how to protect ourselves”, using masks instead of closing shops and services.
Mr Spahn made his remarks on a tour of western Germany where he has been heckled at almost every stop by critics of the Merkel administration’s coronavirus policies, often following him around from town to town. At one stop Mr Spahn, who is married to a man, was spat on and called a “gay pig”.
‘Absolute truth’
The health minister said the pandemic restrictions, which began in mid-March, were never an “absolute truth” and always a “balancing between health protection, security, everyday life and freedom”.
His comments could have far-reaching legal and political consequences. During a video conference last week, chancellor Angela Merkel said there was “no dispute that the thing is tricky”.
Yesterday an 80-year-old woman from Würzburg, northern Bavaria, told the Bild tabloid how lockdown rules meant she was unable to hold her husband’s hand when he died in a care home on April 9th.
“When I hear now that I could have visited, the mourning comes over me again,” she said. “It was so hard because my husband kept demanding to see me.”
Daily infection rate
As the pandemic stretches into the autumn, the daily infection rate in Germany is down from over 6,000 at the peak to some 1,200 today. No district or county has an infection rate above the critical 10 per 100,000 population, above which tighter lockdown measures apply.
Yesterday Dr Merkel met US entrepreneur Elon Musk in Berlin. He is in town for the topping-out ceremony of a new Tesla factory east of the capital. Ahead of that, he discussed with Dr Merkel his plan for a global network of automated labs to produce and distribute Covid-19 vaccines, when available.
Meanwhile, leading German virologist, Dr Christian Drosten, a special adviser on the pandemic to Dr Merkel, has said it should possible to reduce the quarantine period for returning travellers from 14 to five days.
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Minister Spahn on the ball
It’s no wonder that the politicians and NPHET are so reluctant to talk candidly.
FF made a massive misjudgement by C&S from 2016 to 2019 . If they believed it was necessary due to Brexit they were bigger eegits . The Irish government were mere pawns in Brexit . The EU want to punish the brits for leaving and the real EU endgame is showing other countries that there will be a massive price for leaving .
At this point the Irish concerns suit the EU. The notion the Irish government have handled it well is debatable .
They had a documentary on last night “will Ireland survive 2050”. Apocalytpic scenes like The GPO half submerged in water. It was a lovely precursor to a nights sleep. If fear was a currency there would be no funding problem in RTE.
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They never believed that for a second.
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Judgement hasn’t been a strong point there for a long time .
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In the ad breaks they advertised rtes new series airing next Monday. It’s called Pandemic Heartbreak or something like that and tells the stories of victims of the virus through their families. I appreciate these stories probably need to be told but the misery and doom spewing from Montrose is reaching tsunami proportions.
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