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PROGRESS HAS BEEN made on sourcing an alternative supplier of CO2 monitors for schools after it emerged a defect in 10,000 carbon dioxide monitors has delayed the government in delivering on its promise that all classrooms will be equipped with one by mid-September.
The full delivery of 35,000 carbon dioxide monitors to all primary and secondary schools was due to be completed next week, according to a report in The Irish Times.
Addressing the matter in the Dáil today, Taoiseach Micheál Martin said the government has “moved heaven and earth in terms of trying to provide resources”.
He said 25,000 CO2 monitors were ordered and will be provided to schools by the end of this week.
“This enables all schools to have some CO2 monitors, with the full allocation of monitors in 96% of primary schools and at least ten monitors being provided to the other 4% of medium to large primary schools and also in each post-primary school,” he added.
“The manufacturing delay the Deputy speaks of with the last batch of 10,000 monitors is outside the control of the Department of Education. However, progress has been made on sourcing alternative supplier options to minimise the delay as much as possible,” said the Taoiseach.
He said Lennox Laboratory Supplies Limited is managing the detailed arrangements and logistics for the supply and distribution of CO2 monitors to schools.
The roll-out of CO2 monitors to schools should be done by Friday 17 September, he told the Dáil.
“At primary level, 96% of schools, including all special schools, will have received their full allocation of CO2 monitors,” he concluded.
And a superspreader is???
@The Thinker: Someone who is sick, fails to seek medical attention and highlight their sickness to authorities but yet continues to integrate in the community until they are too ill to do so.
Basically that ‘hero’ at work who doesn’t take sick days but probably should as they keep infecting the whole office.
Part of this was accelerated by witch doctors saying the experimental and supportive treatments , the WHO teams etc were a conspiracy by western govts to give them Ebola that made many afraid to ask for help
Idiot keyboard warriors from the west helped spread this too, saying things like the CDC held the patent on Ebola so must have created it in the lab. Others spewed uninformed nonsense like “it’s highly contagious ” and “what if a refugee from Africa sneezes on me in the A&E” Those who actually knew what we were talking about were ignored at first but thankfully once people had the facts laid out it turned around
@The Thinker: Someone with oversized testicles.
Remember, stay at home with the flu and don’t be opening the door to any super-spreaders.
A flu mutation and pandemic would kill way more than Ebola (and we’re overdue for one) and unlike a dozen Ebola cases which we could easily have handled with the usually empty isolation ward in the Mater our health service would totally collapse in its present form during a flu pandemic
We don’t have enough bed capacity for normal operations (we’re at least 5-6000 short minimum some would argue double that) let alone something where anything up to a third of the population could either be infected or convince themselves their cold is the mutated flu strain. We’re oddly better equipped to deal with the far less likely smallpox or Ebola or bubonic plague than the near certain flu mutation
Great piece of machinery on the farm, the old superspreader.
Just make sure it’s shots are up to date.
Also works in the pub.
Journal, thank you for my 2017 GF pet name on Valentines day! “Ebola Superspreader”
I was talking to my mother on the bus a few months ago and this yoke on the back seats was saying he got Ebola from his bird. I told him it wasn’t likely. He said he got a Ebola soup off his bird. I didn’t find it funny but he taught it was hilarious until he was getting off the bus and fell down the stairs. I had a good giggle.
Super spreader? Like the country girl at the disco……
@Shane Russell: Is that drink or bladder?
With global warming there will be more spread of diseases and a few new ones.
My aunt in the U.K. has a friend who has a viral disease as I found out a few days ago, the doctors do not know what the disease is as they never saw it before.
Is there a chance that the doctors are not trained well enought as that is possible but it is a thought, could we be living in a time where the advent of new diseases from global travel and global warming will spread and create diseases? Can you imagine super spreaders spreading superbugs, and the only defense we have might be in old herbal books on age old remedies?
WE WILL NEVER KNOW WHAT TOMORROW WILL BRING?
Like dung or lime spreaders?
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