N95 masks are effective in Health Care settings. In reality we should be wearing them for day to day interactions but demand would surely outstrip supply needs.
Reality is that to have any security to it you need to live in strict circles which is fucking real hard in the modern world.
Iâm here thinking to myself about CrĂšche opening again Monday knowing there is a chance the younger members of their staff could be carrying something back to work with them. Or possibly other kids could bring it in etc.
Weâve basically kept it low key over Xmas.
Things have changed this week, itâs stories everyday of more & more people we know being confirmed with it. Theyâre all okay thankfully but will they all isolate for 2 weeks and keep the virus in their own home?
If numbers are as bad as reported I canât see CrĂšche or Primary schools back until February and tbh I canât but agree with such a stance.
It has become apparent that people think by wearing masks that social distancing is not necessary to the same extent as previous. The 2m rule of thumb has become an afterthought. It was fairly well observed in earlier lockdowns before summer but people are a bit willy nilly now when it comes to social distancing. Iâm not sure they are that effective unless you change the mask after every interaction. Most people use 1 over a substantial period of time.
Some are less blood thirsty but were still willing to bet this would not happen in Ireland despite it happening in other parts of the world. They shouted âSweden, Swedenâ and ridiculed New Zealand for at least attempting something to protect everyone.
There are 2 âcasesâ in our house first case age 23 very mild symptoms a bit of tiredness and a cough kept boozing over the last week more or less fine now second case age 50 absolutely flattened to the bed since Tuesday morning not much of a cough but aches and pains all over.
The response so far in this country and Europe in general has been an abject failure. Guilty of group think. Say what you want about Sweden or New Zealand but at least they have a plan or are trying something different. Some people are glad that 2020 is fading in the wing mirror but 2021 could be just as bleak and darkest days look like they lie ahead. We are on the precipis of returning to restrictions not seen since early April when childcare and schools were closed. We have achieved the square root of fuck all and we are solely reliant on a HSE which is the most dysfunctional shit bag of an organisation in the history of the state. Iâd take a complete and total lockdown now until April if it meant that we could achieve something like Aus/NZ have done but I donât believe it is achievable or that the competence/joined up thinking is there to do that. So in short our only hope is a HSE metamorphosis that can role out vaccine in massive numbers.
We are doing the towels, sanitising everywhere etc and have 2 bathrooms so the pair are using one and weâre using the other. We didnât at all on Christmas Day just went fook it well all probably get it missus wears a mask when she gets up briefly and I have been on the couch the last few nights. Still canât believe 2 of us have escaped but weâre not out of the woods yet.
There were people predicting this would likely happen when the first lockdown ended. They were ridiculed. The north was always the problem, not an insurmountable one but the hunger/bravery was never there.
The two of you need to knock that shit on the head. Thereâs a reasonable argument to be made that lockdowns will cost many times more lives than covid, if we even knew from the stats how many of the covid deaths were caused by covid. Iâll not lay the lockdown deaths at your door though
Any idea on the breakdown of cycle iterations on the PCR tests across countries? It seems that some do up to 35-40 cycles and the fear is that itâs just finding fragments of covid at that stage and sending the likes of nurses home for 2 weeks over it is crazy. No doubt we do 40 or 50.
Iâm just not sure the competence is there to execute such a strategy successfully. All we have been doing is stalling. Besides all that DUP are a major impediment too and any alignment to a Dublin strategy would be perceived as a trojan horse manoeuvre to a United Ireland. You know what theyâre like.
I suspect thereâs very little difference and that the numbers discrepancy is down to testing, attribution, misdiagnosis etc. StatisticaÄșly I donât think there are any excess deaths in either jurisdiction
In addition to that it would go without saying that schools would have to close to achieve zero covid. At least until after Easter. It is simply not feasible to suppress a virus with schools open. Anything else is half arsed.
pair are using one and weâre using the other. We didnât at all on Christmas Day just went fook it well all probably get it missus wears a mask when she gets up briefly and I have been on the couch the last few nights. Still canât believe 2 of us have escaped but weâre not out of the woods yet.