The Wuhan Clan - Tony Holohan's Having a House Party

[Tim_Riggins]

@tallback

…Good to see a maternal health specialist is now a public health specialist.I suspect if she was on Claire Byrne Live and a selection of the Public Health Doctors were explaining to her how best to treat mother’s Day to day she’d be fairly quick to tell them to stay in their lane.

I’m interested to know why RTÉ thought it appropriate to have on if she isn’t qualified to talk about it?

[myboyblue]

Sultans Of Ping (sultans_of_ping)

[mikehunt]

I’m sure there were people like her in Italy who were labelled a scaremonger for predicting the chaos that would ensue. At least the “ah shure it’ll be grand” approach has never let us down before.

[anon60384913]

Ireland’s reaction to this is not too dissimilar to Irish people’s reactions to fire alarms.

[cluaindiuic]

@myboyblue

Let them travel. But send them to the Curragh Camp for 2 weeks when they get back. They’ll be right at home there.

Um…Nay! Surely there’s some shitbox island they can be abandoned on. Rockall or Australia or some such.

[myboyblue]

@cluaindiuic

@myboyblue

Let them travel. But send them to the Curragh Camp for 2 weeks when they get back. They’ll be right at home there.

Um…Nay! Surely there’s some shitbox island they can be abandoned on. Rockall or Australia or some such.

Walsh Island it is.

[balbec]

@tallback

… won’t run out but at some point you mightn’t want to go to 5 shops to get it. I’ll keep the car topped up on fuel and maybe have a couple of hundred euro cash in the house.I don’t know if any of these will be needed but by the time they might be it would be annoying to think they could have been got.

Whiskey?

[cluaindiuic]

@myboyblue

Walsh Island it is.

That’s really more of an archipelago.

[Copper_pipe]

[Raylan]

Tipp hurlers going away this week too are they @carryharry? They might have to be quarantined on return for the first few rounds of munster

[myboyblue]

@cluaindiuic

@myboyblue

Walsh Island it is.

That’s really more of an archipelago.

D’Island it is so.

[anon61878697]

The Italian case was very different tho — high amount of Chinese population, high tourism season …and lax attitude for sure at the start. They simply werent prepared as a society … we’ve been on high alert for a while now and we dont have the same cocktail on ingredients… As TB said, there’s a fine balance to calling a full lock down- it has to be done right or you create a whole pile of other problems that might take years to fix.

we have to all take responsibility here and stay in doors as much as possible. Follow protocols when outdoors and just try our best to slow it down.

[anon61878697]

Lads, are there any old folks near you living on their own? it might be no harm to call in and swap numbers - if the shit hits the fan a lot of these people wont be going outside the door… you might be able to drop a few essentials to their door step when the time comes etc.

[KinvarasPassion]

@tallback

When they do pull the trigger on Italian style shut-down it can only be sustained for a relatively short period of time so there is little benefit in doing it early.

I’d agree but this doesn’t need to be an all at once solution. There seems to be a bit of a cluster area in North Clare / South Galway… in my opinion schools and non essential activities in these areas need to be wound down sooner rather than later. Where do you draw the line I suppose…

[anon61878697]

2 schools closed in Armagh this morning … I think that should be a no brainer really.

[Tim_Riggins]

ALONE is an excellent charity as well.

[anon61878697]

Services like that could be under big pressure, … bit of neigbourly love could make a difference .

[Tim_Riggins]

Yep, but they have a lot of the key info on this available.

[farmerinthecity]

Just knock on the door and say to them that you just want to check that their electricity is working and then gain access.

[myboyblue]

Sounds like he’s going to rob them. They do say people go back to their old ways during times of crisis.