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LAST UPDATE | 30 May 2020
IT IS 13 weeks since Ireland had its first confirmed case of Covid-19.
The country has now recorded 24,929 confirmed cases and has sadly seen 1,651 deaths.
The global pandemic has now killed at 362,028 people, with most countries now grappling with how to reopen their societies after unprecedented measures to control the spread of the virus.
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With 5 km travel restrictions and plenty og sunshine this weekend, you will find half Dundalk at Blackrock beach.
If you have only access to one beach or popular place within the allowed radius try to bite on the sour apple and don’t go their. Being their would just more stress than fun.
@8-Bit-Relic: they should stay in there homes instead of going their.
@Tom Fitzgibbons: Should
@Tom Fitzgibbons: if you use the colloquial that would be grammatically correct
@8-Bit-Relic: surprised you didn’t pick up on the there and their
@John Doyle: Tired and over read what auto-correct accepted there…
@8-Bit-Relic: yes, the 5km restriction needs to be fully removed at this stage. We’re the last country to have anything like it in place.
@John Murphy: I agree. The restrictions can’t be monitored effectively and doesn’t reflect the needs of a region. If you want to prevent the spread from a certain region THAT region could be isolated. That would need much less guards as the system we have now.
@8-Bit-Relic: Any chance you could run that by us in a recognised language.
@8-Bit-Relic: I agree with the stress of “going out”. We went to DIY/garden centre yesterday and it was stress city. One worker asked us “can I help you?” while backing up and almost running away because we must have been “too close”. Yet she initiated the conversation and made it incredibly awkward and stressful. I personally think she was too scared to be at work and her supervisor should have had her in a different part of the store where her actions could be in a more controlled space. Makes me think I might stick with online shopping for awhile longer.
Why have we not closed the border with the UK like Canada did with US.
Cavan and Monaghan have very high rate of virus.
@DeWitt: Cavan’s cases are nursing home related. Not so sure about Monaghan, but it was the last county to have a case. Can’t see either county being a hotspot for northern day trippers. Don’t forget that the border works both ways. Supermarket car parks in Enniskillen, letterkenny and Newry are full of southern regs stocking up on cheap booze for the bank holiday
@Anne Marie Devlin: Has Letterkenny moved to Northern Ireland? A trial United Ireland?
@Anne Marie Devlin: Your Letterkenny remark shows how little you must actually know about the border area and how things work.
@DeWitt: welcome to the club.
@Anne Marie Devlin: Do you know where Letterkenny is?
It was noted in the Times today that we are in the top 10 for COVID-related deaths in the EU. However, we are only 13th for deaths in hospitals. No prizes for guessing where the gap is. Nursing homes have been utterly massacred by the decisions forced upon them. So, as temperatures soar and people hope for a little release of normality, we are told to step back in line by government, even though the virus is no longer in the community. All the while, Simon Harris and his colleagues remain completely silent in public regarding nursing homes, where the majority of our deaths have occurred.
Covid-10?.. Someone better tell Simple Simon that Covid-10 is still out there
@a politicians promise is as good as a lie: that insult is so last month …….
Harris is not fit to boil a kettle anymore.
Is that the same Michael D who evicted his student tenants so he wouldn’t have to pay tax on the sale of one of his houses?
@Marg FitzGerald: but he’s a socialist?
The INMO is 100% right to call for an independent inquiry into the high infection rates among healthcare workers. The WHO issued warnings about the need for improved infection prevention control every day since COVID19 was discovered in early January, WHO released technical guidance in January and launched an online COVID19 course for healthcare workers on 26 January that has been taken by over 210k people.
One surprise from NPHET minutes is their acceptance of the medium risk of infection by the ECDC when WHO said the risk was high. Nevertheless, as soon as it was known that this was a coronavirus IFP became the only defence for HCWs. Did someone miss that?
An inquiry need only compare
alerts and advice from WHO and ECDC
with
DoH, HSE and NPHET actions.
Could be done in a week.
@Mick Flynn: agree 100% – unfortunately there is nothing in the the track record of HSE and administrators in this country that would lead me to have confidence that they would do that in a week – i agree it should only take a week but there are the same bunch that are laying out a 15 week reopening and it would take me a week to list all the missed deadlines and things that were suppose to take a week !
Can’t believe no comment on Gardai closing down all outside seating areas in Cafes and garages doing takeout coffees etc
We’re a joke
Politicians are a disgrace to our country
Brits out was never more relevant than now. Greece won’t allow tourists from here. Maybe because they are afraid british people will simply travel there via here?
Local les flics checking vehicles on Straffan Road Maynooth. No mouth protection and patking squad car on bicycle lane on one side and pulling over odd vehicle on other cycle lane! Total keystone cops stuff
Check points are useless when Guards time are being taken up on roads when large social gathering are happening.
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