Again though, as has been pointed out over and over to you.
deaths: please recognise that these are not final. Denmark may have been somewhat fortunate to have more home care and not large institutions like us, that is certainly another layer of complexity but wait until actual mortality is shown.
Denmark have tested less and considerably so as of last week when they started to reopen schools. Not only that, we have added several thousand tests from the backlog to our numbers. Those positives come from the earlier and peak infection periods - Denmark never did that. They are testing more now but do not have the relative coverage we have for that period.
You keep looking at things in isolation.
Even so, let’s suppose things are really far worse here, there is not reason not to have some form of a roadmap.
We’ll open up slowly in May (not pubs, not large sporting events). People need to be conditioned to accept an ongoing change in their lives and increased deaths but it is not sustainable to support over 1m newly unemployed indefinitely with no functioning economy.
Some cunt on RTE this morning saying a pub was safest place to drink. The publicans would be the first to call for prohibition of alcohol if pubs were not allowed open. Absolute cunts.
But people are ready for road harry and people are getting restless. I agree with most things they’ve done so far and extending to May 5th was correct but we have to start opening things up again after that. Slowly and safely but it has to happen. People are going to continue to die from Covid 19, that’s just a fact. There may never be a vaccine for Covid 19, that’s another fact. There’s nearly a million people receiving social welfare payments in Ireland now. Do we keep doing that for another few months? Keep delaying hospital treatment for thousands of people? Keep young people cooped up in houses despite the fact that most of them will be absolutely fine if they get the disease if they haven’t already done so?
Nothings changed. That’s the way forward in my opinion. I’m sure it’s happening in the background, and I’m in agreement with it not being communicated, to manage expectation.
All the health experts here are saying you need a 48 hour test/trace/isolate cycle. We aren’t there. Yet. We will be. When they are confident in that process, I think they’ll communicate a plan.
They have a lot to do in parallel, scale up the process I’ve just mentioned, protect vulnerable people, clear the backlog, keep an eye on the North, guard against complacency.
You’ve ignored the complexity with the north also, we have to align with them. As much as it might seem they’ll cooperate, they’ll measure advice from the UK, against ours, and the UK are in a much worse place than we are.
My point about dangerous narratives is proven exactly. What people in the public eye say has consequences. The likes of Brendan O’Connor and Ivan Yates have been irresponsible in recent weeks in having gobshites like Michael O’Keeffe on. Gobshites being allowed to rant in public are how you get what have in the US at the moment.