Coronavirus thread - 19/10/2020 - The Day Ireland Died

Current Affairs
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This is the nub of it all and not one journalist or politician seems to be asking it.

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864

We’re at the start of two crucial weeks. No time for questions

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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. Haven’t 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.

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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. That’ll do it.

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Flesh that out a bit there lads.

868

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 aren’t qualified to make the decisions they are expected to.

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2 Corinthians 2:16 TPT

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?

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Golf strikes again

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Lockdown - Cases Fall - Open Up a bit - Cases rise - Lockdown again.

We are going around in circles.

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872

The only solution is accept it, protect the vulnerable and get on with life as @mickee321 says.

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873

The government are quite literally windmilling.

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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.

875

Ban golf. Those deviants cannot be trusted in their slacks.

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We’ll have to hit the pubs early and often next week so :pint:

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Cases are up since masks made compulsory.

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It’s a scandal how different industries are treated differently.

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They probably all have herd immunity in Cork which is why there are so few reported cases.

881

NPHET and the HSE out for a coordinated pitch today. President Nolan of Maynooth’s excuse is here;

The key tweets

Couple of points;

Firstly, why don’t they have the resources? Seeing what works and what doesn’t 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 didn’t, at the very least he’d 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 “Model and is not resource heavy. It isn’t good enough to point at “international evidence” (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 aren’t like for like comparisons.

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The Cork crowd are savage insular. It’s paying off