Shite - is that from a media source?
It was circulating as a rumour yesterday.
Well the poster in question does think that China is doing a fantastic job. Scratch a socialist and you find a totalitarian.
This is my favourite update so far from the RTE Disaster tracker
On the decision to close schools from tomorrow until 29 March, INTO General Secretary John Boyle said: "This important and timely decision, in light of a growing public health crisis, is welcome.
"INTO will be attending a briefing with the Department of Education and Skills this afternoon.
âI know our members will all rise to the challenge we face, in the proudest tradition of our profession, as we grapple with this unprecedented public health crisis.â
Have I missed something - are the goverment sending all the teachers into the frontline of our hospitals to mop the brows of the nurses and doctors or something or are they heading home for a couple of weeks âin the proudest tradition of our professionâ 
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Sure look it - yesterday the government should have suspended all travel weeks ago but then Trump went and did something similar and that idea isnât as popular anymore
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In some respects he is - because heâs deliberately dramatic - but in some respects he isnât, because heâs actually calling for measures which probably do need to be taken but which politicians clearly have not wanted to take in proactive (rather than reactive) fashion.
We do not have lockdown. But the public health reality is we almost certainly need to have it.
I guess what needs to be going on here is sort of like the discussions that go on behind dressing room doors with managers and football teams.
Publicly a sort of calm needs to be projected, but of the realistic variety, not of the âeverything is going to be fineâ variety - and behind closed doors, the discussions need to be of the âread the fucking riot actâ variety.
Politicians control the country, not public health experts. If anybody thinks that public health experts have not been playing with one hand tied behind their back because politicians by nature are incredibly reluctant to proactively introduce draconian measures before it becomes appparent they have no choice, theyâre deluded. Thatâs what has no doubt gone on here, and in pretty much every country, not just Ireland.
Like a real life version of Hot or Not?
Have they upped testing?
Youâre making that narrative up rather than it being actually real because youâre more interested in scoring political points on this forum to push a Fine Gael line. Itâs pretty irritating when people do that.
What Trump has done is cobbled together some pointless (because theyâre not compehensive, but piecemeal and influenced by his agenda, not public health) and contradictory rules about travel and specifically framed the problem as a problem brought about foreigners - ie. heâs playing to his domestic fascist agenda, while continuing to make a complete hames of dealing domestically with the actual public health problem.
US company up here is going that.
Do you live near me?
There was a meeting in UHL during the week, all the doctors were brought in to be briefed. Just after it started one of them stood up and said something all the lines of âis it not absolute fucking madness that we are all in the one room together?â Meeting ended shortly afterwards.
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Grrrrr
They are so opportunistic. Theyâll be fucking abroad to Chicago for 2 weeks
For some reason that reminds me of the presumably apocryphal story about the two people who know the secret ingredient in Coca-Cola never being allowed to travel on the same plane.
Ah would you stop. The irony is off the charts here âŚ
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Thatâs exactly what youâre doing though and itâs notable you havenât argued with any of the points.
Iâd imagine itâs very easy to find out the chemical composition of Coca Cola these days. The secret ingredient is cocaine anyway
Raisins?
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I couldnât be arsed getting into an argument with you about it. Itâs beyond pointless at times. You donât want to discuss issues - you want people to listen and nod.
Yes, I know, that means youâve won. Your unbeaten record on TFK continues untouched âŚ
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I am discussing the issues though. You arenât. Youâre trying to spin a made up narrative not to actually argue the issues but to try and âget one overâ on another poster, ie. me.
Dr. Tony Holohan is of good East Limerick stock being a son of Bridget Ryan Luke from Cappamore.
Weâre in safe hands.