This is what I canāt understand. Putting these restrictions on Dublin will probably lead to a drop in cases, but when they reopen things then cases will definitely rise. So what is the point of this? Is this the governments plan, just keep closing and opening back and forth until thereās a vaccine. Itās insanity
The full force of this thing hasnāt hit our economy yet, but by god when it does it will be catastrophic. While these are strange times, our government is doing its level best to destroy by not showing a shred of common sense or decency.
Also why is numbers in Dublin being high such a big deal, itās the county with the highest population all living closely together
Also, they announced a tonne of extra funding for Kildare and Offaly when they were locked down. Obviously Dublin would cost a whole lot more. Havenāt heard a whisper of any extra funding.
And they suspended the weekly testing in Nursing homes in Dublin at the moment by the way. Because that was useless really I suppose.
Journalists are happy once they get texts from Ministers they can crow about. Any dissenting voices amongst our journalists? An opinion piece in the IT occasionally. Thatāll do it.
If the ten biggest companies in Ireland were looking for a new CEO to run things how many fellas in the Dail would be in line of a position?
These lads filled potholes, got gaa clubs grants and what not to get elected. They simply arenāt qualified to make the decisions they are expected to.
The unbelievers smell a deadly stench that leads to death, but believers smell the life-giving aroma that leads to abundant life. And who of us can rise to this challenge?
Groundwork for a national lockdown by the end of next week on tv3 news there now. Unironically said the north of England is going back to full lockdown by putting a 10pm curfew on bars and restaurants.
NPHET and the HSE out for a coordinated pitch today. President Nolan of Maynoothās excuse is here;
The key tweets
Couple of points;
Firstly, why donāt they have the resources? Seeing what works and what doesnāt should be the first thing the Government look at. The costs of extra contact tracers and information gathering pales into comparison of closing down an entire industry. If they need more resources, then give it to them.
Nolan should not be let off easily though. He is supposed to be an academic. If he was interested in what worked and what didnāt, at the very least heād be looking at samples of close contacts. Send a couple of PhDs in with contact tracers and do some sampling, ask some positive cases about their movements beyond 48 hours. Let the contact tracers go about their work and let the dorks go and do some further retrospective reviews. This should be fundamental to his āModel and is not resource heavy. It isnāt good enough to point at āinternational evidenceā (which is usually a couple of newspaper clippings) to pick out one specific industry. Ireland has had its own suite of regulations that differ from other countries- they arenāt like for like comparisons.
