Coronavirus

[blessed1]

♥️Big Donnie♥️

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10221168752119913&id=1578426990&sfnsn=scwshwa

😆

I love that man.

[Pedrito]

Jesus I love him too. God bless his cotton socks 

[astfgyl]

Are we having a sort of coming-out party? I might be in

[Abandon All Hope]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb_QFImg9yI

[astfgyl]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb_QFImg9yI

That was supposed to be a private conversation between myself and my wife..

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Well there's someone who's mad as hell and isn't going to take it anymore if ever I saw one!

[astfgyl]

I wonder how he is getting on up there this morning

[Kurt Cocaine]

Absolutely agree with everything he says. Passionate to the core.
Pity about the swearing though...

[astfgyl]

I think he is not alone this morning. Well he might be marching up the road by himself but plenty of people feeling that frustration about.

[Caomhaoin]

Poor auld CNN. Tucker Carlson vs Don Lemon is like The Thing vs a vegan lesbian. Yet they persist with him and that other empty head Cuomo.

Trump. Ah Jaysus he's brilliant

[Kurt Cocaine]

I remember in 2016 it was my morbid curiosity that wanted to get Trump voted in.
By Jaysus we haven't been disappointed... 

[Ollkiller]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb_QFImg9yI

Fucking nonsense.

[astfgyl]

Having a read through the list of what can stay open for level 5, and it appears to me that everything is open except for anything people enjoy.

Pubs, restaurants, gyms, bookshops, barbers, record stores, swimming pools, libraries, toy shops, snooker halls, most sports all closed. Strict 5km limit with as many holes in it as Rab C. Nesbitt's vest. Allowed to travel over 5k for shopping, for example. So howya Garda, I'm just heading 35km because the hardware shop there has what I need... I'm not even talking about me being the one doing it but surely that will be what the Gardai hear all day long as they ask people what they are at.

How exactly is this to work? Also if I'm from the north, I can come over the border and go where I like. Or fly from anywhere I like and have the freedom of the country. Feels a lot like we have gotten nowhere in the last few months. The only thing I can see is that it gives contact tracing a chance to catch up. Personally I would get rid of contact tracing altogether. My own kids were contact traced 12 days after they were identified as contacts and 7 days after they had gotten their test results so that's a pointless thing to be doing.

I did post the HPSC document back a bit there which should calm things down a lot, so I live in hope while I watch the madness continue for now.

Edit: Meanwhile, in Sweden: Specific recommendations for persons 70-years old and above have now been removed. Elderly people and people at higher risk now follow the same recommendations as others. Reasons given for this are
(i) isolation also causes health problems.
(ii) in regions with minor spread and no pressure on health care it makes no sense to have specific recommendations for elderly persons and persons at risk.

I'm so fucking jealous

[mickO)))]

I think the anti lockdown sentiment here in the country will increase once people realize Christmas is gone. I can't see them lifting this Level 5 on December 1st and if they do the best you can hope for by Christmas is Level 3. It's going to piss a lot of people off if they can't get out for a drink or visit relatives over Christmas. Here were I am now the guards are making people get out of the cars at the checkpoints and are searching them which is not going down well.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Positive cases in Sweden are following the same significant sweep up trend for the last month (i.e. a little less time than Ireland), so we'll start to see soon if that translates into anything in terms of increased hospitalizations and mortality, since supposedly there's about a 2 to 3-week delay between infection and things getting serious. Unlike Ireland, though, they weren't sweeping up from zero, yet through the summer months, despite a couple hundred positive cases per day, their mortality rate never went significantly above Ireland's, not in any measurable sense anyway.

Surely Sweden is a pretty damn good argument for saying that there's nothing wrong with using PCR tests as a means for monitoring viral spread; what matters is what significance you give to the information it provides you with.