Tag: covid
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How dangerous do people think covid actually is??
This morning I found myself in a coffee shop. Including myself, there were two middle-aged ladies behind the counter, a family two adults and a child in another corner, what can best be described as an ‘aul lad’ in the doorway, and three cyclists-mamils outside We got talking, as you do, and covid came up,…
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Vaccine Certs – not just for pubs
So the latest cunning plan for our reopening of society is to have a vaccine cert to access “indoor hospitality” This, lets call it a plan but in reality if you listen to the Minister for CarCrash Interviews and Health, Stephen Donnelly, its more a vague set of aspirations and fudges, is being discussed online…
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How did that prediction pan out, Gerry?
The old joke, and maybe not so funny, is that economic forecasting is there to make astrology seem accurate. To economic forecasting we might consider adding the dire premonitions of ISAG Gerry Killeen, who is a world class expert in malaria (bacterial, insect borne) not covid (viral, aerosol) . https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40255088.html was a prediction on 31-March,…
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Covid and National Culture
Does national culture explain how countries have reacted to Covid? If so, what elements?
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Covid Second Wave – this time is different…mostly
So below we see the 7 day moving averages of daily new cases, deaths, hospitalisations and admissions to ICU. These are expressed as a % of the first wave peak. Clearly this time is very differnet, thankfully. But, at a national level the response to a clearly very different situation is exactly the same. Why…
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Where are the excess deaths from COVID-19?
Ireland has seen LESS deaths than normal since May…. #covid #lockdown2
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Further clarification re NPHET restrictions
So there has been some confusion on the applications of these. Ronan Glynn gave a video outline of some of the rationale. Minister Donnelly, a less succesful one. There’s a new, excellent video just released which provides clarity on the recent restrictions. Worth viewing!
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NPHET propose to ban kids birthday parties….
So, with the worrying surge in cases NPHET, they to whom the government have ceded decision making, have decided that kids parties are the problem. Yep. Holymudderagod…. The surge in cases is down to direct provision center/poor paid workers in gross overcrowding and THIS is their latest hamfisted cackhanded (can you be both? I guess)…
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“this cannot go on”
so says the acting CMO, he and a lot of other online commentators post the 200 case spike reported Saturday. But , what can’t go on?