Young lads were meeting up on Saturday nights.
It just so happened to coincide with matches.
They didn’t consider that perhaps these young fellas are going to meet up on a Saturday night match or no match.
Diarmuid Ferriter has an article in the IT today saying that it should be considered that NPHET may be wrong.
Serious shift in public opinion happening over the last few weeks.
Is there any chance the make up of NPHET might change? Would they add a few voices to it to broaden it’s perspective?
They’re getting into difficult territory where the government is now straying from the advice NPHET gives. This is the expert group charged with advising on managing our response to the pandemic, so that would be dangerous territory. If we don’t act on their advice then we don’t trust that it’s good. If we don’t trust that it’s good advice then what is the point of maintaining the group? Either they need to be given instruction on what we are to be working towards, or they get a reshuffle, or maybe they’re told the worst of the crisis is over good luck and thanks we’ll just copy Europe from here on in.
The problem I have with NPHET is that they are only focused on eliminating the virus. And thats great, that’s their remit. But it’s up to the government to take on board their advice and incorporate it into how practical and applicable the advice sits with the overall operation of a country that needs to be operational. to be only going with the advice of a group of people whos only remit is to control a virus but pretty much ignore economical and social issues, is really stupid. There needs to be a balance, and Ireland at the moment are a long way off finding the optimum balance. They’ve scared people shitless so much that they are pretty much stopped living now. And not living in the TFK way of living or existing, but actual real life living where they are not even existing anymore and just hide under their beds because another 200 cases have been announced and the world will end every day that the cases keep being announced.
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I must live in a parallel universe or something because that doesn’t marry up to what I see on a daily basis. Pretty much everyone is getting on with it the best they can and are out and about.
The Irish government, like many other governments, avoided honesty about trade offs from April onwards. They wanted to be seen as great boys and girls following the “experts”. That is what is going to hit them hard now.
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It appears they have been focused on elimination, without ever having said so. That’s not their remit though, the government should be telling them what their remit/goal is.
If it hasn’t already, the government should be sitting the group down and telling them what their aim is. Their approach should adjust accordingly.
Changing the make up of the group is another way that they can improve the effectiveness of their advice.
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Are the minutes of the NPHET meetings published? I remember Alan Kelly going on about this months ago. I’d love to see the process of how these decisions are reached and see are there any dissenting ‘expert’ opinions. Surely theres at least one person in the OIUTF on the committee.
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There was a lot of talk of this. I’d say the minutes had to be hastily drawn up. I recall reading nursing homes didn’t get a mention at an NPHET meeting until the 6th or 7th meeting.
Close the Dubs, open the pubs
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While the Jacks attack
The Muldoons sing tunes
Easter 1916
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Here are the 'minutes" from a few of their meetings. They still seem to be hastily drawn up and they seem to have skipped August.
210 cases today. 121 in Dublin. 17 in Louth. 10 in Limerick.
Does this lad post on here?
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Brilliant 
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IT the journal of record in Leos pocket. Hes feeding them the leaks. Tide is turning lead by our gracious leader. All hail Leo the Lion
Tops off for cans in the park
Sounds like he is still clueless about quantity “surveyance”. He wouldnt be the only one who hasnt a notion what quantity surveyance actually is.
*blank stares, those tripod things out in a field, no?
It was a joke
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