Michel Barnier tests positive
Asking where is our mobile fever testing is not āpolitickingā. This is a measure that has been proven to be effective elsewhere and itās right to ask why we donāt have it.
Itās no different to you asking why the schools had not been shut down eight days ago.
Asking questions and starting debates which are designed to lead to a more aggressive response is essential. Itās how public opinion is changed, and how politicians are forced to act.
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I was in part responding to the tweet in the post you replied to which was holding varadkar responsible and was hyper critical for not implementing extreme measures that were taken elsewhere
Ask the questions, by all means, but to lay blame, now, is reckless, crass and politicking.
Ask the questions, start the conversation, but donāt judge, there are a million things going on right now, we donāt need to put the politicians on the back foot
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Heās a socialist.
If being a sanctimonious cunt is a symptom, Pat is riddled.
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I havenāt done that though. I havenāt vilified Fine Gael over this. I have sympathy for them and unlike governments in some other countries I believe they are genunely well intentioned on this issue. They havenāt called it a hoax, they donāt reject science, they have been prepared to be reasonably pro-active on a lot of things. What I donāt believe in doing is deifying them and saying they should not be opening to questioning about measures they havenāt yet taken.
There is a huge difference between asking questions and imploring politicians to move more swiftly than they are doing for the sake of public health, and vilifying them for cynical purposes.
Donnelly of SF definitely engaged in the latter, but at the same time itās fair to say that a speech, no matter how good or inspirational, is only a speech. What we have to be looking for is more action to protect public health.
I donāt know how feasible it is to implement mobile fever testing - itās electronic scanning - like they have in say, Singapore. Iād like to see it become aprt of the public debate though, and now. Can we do this, and if we canāt, why not?
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Heās a Marxist.
I suspect they are looking at multiple actions. However, there is a big difference between suggesting an action and executing it in a systematic and effective way. At the moment they are trying to do a hundred new things at a big scale from a standing start.
I have never seen the state respond so rapidly across so many dimensions. I mean from Gov all the way through the various public bodies.
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Thereās been a bit of that doing the rounds - yet there seemed very little pressure being put on Arlene from Unionists ā¦ is it more a case of not being seeing to support the other stance outwardly while inwardly agreeing with it?
I didnāt say you have, i was responding in general.
I agree, have the discussions and explore the possibilities.
there isnāt much deification happening. if they are doing a good job, reinforce it, if not ask questions.
the speech needed to happen, probably sooner. The messaging has been very clear and consistent since they started implementing measures.
the trend of politicking and criticizing everything they are and arenāt doing is very much prescient and at best is unhelpful and at worst is damaging. If the politicians go on the back foot and become indecisive because of it, that is the last thing we need
Probably. Iād say they feel the pressure behind closed doors
Weāre doing better so far than them all pal. Stop undermining the national effort
I didnt post those comments - I just thought youād like to know what the enemy are tweeting.
Iāve two green jerseys on.
I agree with you, itās time to unite the Island.
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In-laws arrive in from Spain today ā be interesting to see what they are met with at the airport.
Worrying thing here was that 60 out of the 74 from yesterday were community infections.