Might be a team/work night out, so finishing up early
Chicken wings & 2 pints
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They are the leaked figures, official figures won’t be announced until the usual time.
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'It’s against the law to challenge me as well ’ 
I urge all level headed TFKers to please start using your significant influence to try to get people out from under the bed in real life. This thing is over, we know that now but 6 months of project fear has had a terrible toll on a lot of people and they will need help to realise that it is ok to start living again. Please use actual and relevant data in any conversations you will be having in the coming weeks such as number of people dying with Covid versus number of total deaths. People either are not hearing this or are refusing to hear it but hear it they must.
We’ve won the battle with the virus but the battle for our old normal has only just begun. It will be a difficult battle and you will most likely get quite a bit of personal abuse for it and be accused of all sorts of things but it is up to each and every one of us to do our part.
God bless you all.
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We need to be careful here, in our rush back to normality, that I don’t end up back in the office
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Has your company not done a new normal policy where they made a load of permanent changes based on this temporary situation and come up with a new permanent 3/2 wfh and office split?
No I’m just working from home indefinitely. Boss was onto me the other day alright about making a plan. I just said ah sure there’s no panic, isn’t this working grand (it actually is)
A delicate balance need to be found between the need to go out and have a gallon of beer with the lads without hassle of eating and the danger of entering an office / workplace with social distancing & proper cleaning supplies .
I just want pints AND mid day naps. Is that too much to ask?
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If it works don’t change it.
I’m trying to gradually plant the seed in his head that we don’t need an office at all
100% agree with this, but it is not going to be easy. I had a conversation with a middle aged man (mid 50s) while in the queue for a shop last week. I can’t remember how we got chatting but the conversation turned to Covid.
Man: “oh sure people are still dying from coronavirus”
Me: “there hasn’t been a death from it in 5 days”
Man: “ah people are still dying from it”
Me “the numbers are coming down, sure that’s a good sign anyway.”
Man (getting more agitated and annoyed)
“ah people are still dying from coronavirus.”.
Me (losing the will to live) “ah ya everyone is dying from it.”
The man was happy then.
Even when faced with the facts and figures he didn’t want to know. I decided to leave him be and not disturb him from under the bed, he has a cosy spot enjoying the misery.
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The tide is turning. TFK called this months ago about the scare mongering.
From The Irish Times
A number of doctors have called for an end to the daily Covid-19 figures, describing them as a “self-perpetuating cycle of misery”.
Dr Maitiu O’Tuathail, former president of the National Association of General Practitioners (NAGP), said the daily announcement is “causing huge anxiety” and is “utterly meaningless”.
Dr O‘Tuathail added no European country makes daily announcements anymore about Covid-19 numbers.
He recommended the daily briefing be changed to a comprehensive weekly briefing.
Daily figures are unnecessary because they oscillate up and down, he said, adding the weekly trend is what is important.
Reported cases of of Covid-19 have been swinging in recent days with 51 on Sunday followed by 214 cases on Monday and 89 on Tuesday.
Dr O Tuathail said Covid-19 is likely to be around for two to four years and that releasing daily figures is leading to people becoming “obsessed” with the figures to the detriment of the rest of their lives.
“I have seen as a GP that there is so much information being thrown at people that they don’t know where to go,” he said.
“We are running the risk that we will overwhelm people so much that they just don’t care anymore. We are going to have to live with this so we have to stop letting it take over our lives in its entirety,” he said.
“Moving from a daily to a weekly announcement would help with people’s anxiety. People know that Covid is around. They know that cases are climbing. My phone lights up every single day at 6pm. That causes anxiety.”
Dr O’Tuathail tweeted his support for Ciara Kelly, the presenter of Newstalk’s Breakfast Show, when she said it was time for a fresh look at how Covid-19 figures are presented.
Dr Kelly, who is a medical doctor and has had Covid-19, said the virus has to be viewed in the context there was just four deaths from it in August. More people had died from suicide, in traffic crashes and from various diseases that had gone unreported, she said.
We are getting this wrong. We are frightening people, and the narrative around Covid-19 needs to move on. We need to look at how we are reporting Covid. There isn’t a justification for it [the current reporting].”
Dr [Gabrielle Colleran, the vice-president of the [Irish Hospital Consultants Association] (IHCA), also called for the daily Covid-19 announcement to be dropped.
Speaking in a personal capacity, she said the daily numbers are “anxiety-provoking for people”, especially when some days have a lot more numbers than other days.
“People get this brush of fear. What matters is looking at the matter over time. How is this Monday compared to the Monday before?
“I think it would be much better for us to be getting the data on a weekly basis, and it might just bring some of the anxiety about it down,” Dr Colleran said.
“Personally I think not getting daily numbers would be a good thing. NPHET [the National Public Health Emergency Team] will be making their recommendations about what we should do based on the overall trends and not on one single day.”
She said daily figures are a distraction and the focus should be on keeping community transmission down.
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Maoiri Mike has aged something rotten by the sounds of it
The poor man what a miserable existence.
I’m listening to Jacko “From Now On” from the greatest showman on repeat all afternoon. This thing is licked (pardon the pun). Enjoy your weekend gents. Have a heap of stout and chicken wings. TFK has finally been the winner of this, the voice of reason being vindicated.
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Let the people sing their stories and their songs…
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Things would be different if Leo was in power
He’s going to tell NPHET to fuck off, he’s gasping for a proper pint and doesn’t care how many people he has to kill to get one
We’re on the victory lap now.
ZERO deaths again. Zero for over a fortnight. This DEADLY VIRUS is not as lethal these days