I was reading earlier that the roadmap will be published after Tuesday’s cabinet meeting and it will incorporate the recording of different counties/regions based on severity and impact of outbreaks. It will take a 1-5 or colour coded type format and the number/colour for a specific area will be based on several things. It will obviously include number of active cases, but it will also take on board ICU capacity, clusters etc. So you could have an area with lower cases given a worse ranking based on the other factors.
Anyway, long story short, there was a throwaway line in the report stating that NPHET will still meet and make recommendations but they won’t issue them directly to government. A new committee of suits/civil servants will be formed to analyse and interpret NPHET’s advice and then make the recommendations to government.
Paddy, meanwhile, has to wait a day or two to be tested and the same again to get the result. Hiding under the bed for 3 or 4 days with the missus and children every time one of them comes home with a sniffle this winter (cc @Tassotti).
My missus father has only been into a shop or a bank twice since March. Once he was driving and ran out of petrol and had to walk back to garage to fill a drum with petrol. The 2nd time was the other day to sign something in the credit union and solicitors office.
Yeah, had a partial lung removal about 40 years ago. Had a series of chest infections due to a leaky lung and removal seemed to be a common fix for that kind of issue. He had some respite last weekend when he and his family including my wife had a week down in Caherdaniel in an Airbnb. In order for it to happen though his sons had to take holidays before they ever went on holiday to limit contacts for a week or so. I was cordially uninvited as I had training and matches. They couldn’t go to a restaurant and all food was preordered from Supervalu and cooked back at the house. Its a tough way to live especially when you don’t know for how long. It will only get tougher as Winter draws in.
I was chatting to someone earlier about Covid and we were discussing the situation with Covid deaths and how utterly horrible the situation is.
If loved ones get to be there when the person passes, they are suited and masked up and may not be able to touch their loved ones in their final moments. Then, once passed their bodies are taken away and given back in a sealed coffin. Back at the height there were no wakes and the family barely able to attend the funeral.
There is something fucking wrong about that. I could understand if it was a killer disease but it’s not.
I’ve been told of multiple people in Wicklow who are being sent for testing in Clonskeagh with their numbers recorded as Dublin numbers. And they’re not in Bray or Blessington, more like Tinahely and Aughrim. Seems bizarre to me. Could it be happening in some of the other satellite counties and inflating Dublin numbers as a result?
