Coronavirus - Remain Calm. Do Not Panic

Lenny82 wrote: Government still advising against non-essential travel regardless of whether or not the country is on a green list. He was only the chairman and would have been picking up a nominal fee, so won't be going hungry!

So government deciding on NPHET's new recommendations today and probably announce them this evening?

50 can go to a wedding but 15 to an outdoor event 

t_rAndy wrote: seanyshuffler wrote: So government deciding on NPHET's new recommendations today and probably announce them this evening? Hopefully whatever is announced it's grounded in actual evidence.  This is my fecking problem. All for adapting approaches to tackle rising cases but there doesn't appear to be logic behind the restrictions they target. For example, sporting events. Where is the evidence that these were breading grounds for increaes in numbers? Or the other easy target, restaurants, gyms, pubs (which haven't even made it to the party yet), where is the evidence that these are driving rising infections?  Actually, the numbers appear to point that the rising numbers are primarily in households and likely by mixing of families. But of course that is going to be the case when you have people restricted to have their social interactions at home because they can't go to the pub,  or go to watch the match and basically we have people mixing in an uncontrolled fashion.  Whereas any restaurant I've went to or the gym have been very careful and hygiene focused. I'm sure sporting events would also be on top of it. We need to make a decision and an announcement as a country of what exactly we are trying to achieve.  Do we want to go to zero cases?  Is the goal to keep the curve flattened? Do we restart the economy fully and learn to live with it? Do we need to shield the vulnerable and let the rest of us go on, people will get it and it will spread around as highly contagious but vast majority will be fine, they might not know they even had it, some will need treatment, very few will die.

Nail on the head. Because the government have not communicated a plan or strategy to the public an assumption could be made that they have no plan other than follow the advice of NPHET. And most of NPHETs recent advice has been reactive, so their recommendations are all short term. I'd like to  see MM be interviewed and asked some simple questions - what does he hope to achieve by following a cautious approach ? How long is the country going to continue in a stop start fashion ? What is his understanding of living with covid ? All I want is some clarity for the weeks and months ahead. 

   The pharma people are now running the show . We will dance to their tune as they hold all the aces . Frightening days ahead if this episode in our history is anything to go by . 

are amateur games Gone if you can’t have more than 15 outside 

The resident Tory very quiet on the Governments handling of issues of late.

couple of feet apart is that not exactly what they are meant to do. 

coyne wrote: Trap junior wrote: No surprise.  I drove through the city in Galway last weekend.  Don't believe ya. You're still in that bunker of yours, probably built another bunker on top with the latest spike.