Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[summerisle]

 

[Neiler]

Really surprised to see the schools here staying open over Easter Bank holidays so that kids of key workers can still go in.

Fair play to those teachers.

I'm sure a certain poster still thinks they are all sunbathing though.

Right here, was talking about Paddy land though, don’t know what the situation is in the UK.

They redeployed SNAs from schools into nursing homes here, teachers all at home working remotely. My issue is teachers are better paid, get better holidays and are paid during the summer and SNAs aren’t and they’ve stepped up to the front line.Definitely no one has asked me or any of my colleagues are we alright for childcare this side of the water.

Teachers are very unionised over here theyve brought the country to a halt a few times over the last few years, striking and they are a decently paid profession.

No where to be seen now, when bodies are needed. They should be redeployed into contract tracing centres, Heath care admin or have the kind of childcare initiative like they seem to have with the U.K & NHS.

 

[Armaghtoffee]

....Dalglish and Norman Hunter both testing positive today.

Peter Beardsley’s wife must be concerned surely.

 

[Armaghtoffee]

One for the Paddies:
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I have devoted my life to removing that border and your graphic suggests that it Buckin’ works.

lol

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Anyone get the feeling the government have completely f***** this?

I said it the other day, the government have looked all over the gaff from the start and what they do now looks off the hoof.

 

[thirdmantackle]

I was looking at the GAA accounts last night a chara they have a 45 mill rainy day fund, but they actually do have significant outgoings and distribution across the game from county to grass roots really would be the low hanging fruit in my opinion.

Rumbling abound that they are going to try and run of a championship in knock out format in October. Struck me as an odd time right at the start of the winter flu season, but im sure any plans are very provisional given the fluidity of the situation.

Im heavily involved in a club in Dublin, we got an April fools email about the club championship being cancelled and within an hour the DCB,, were in touch to say the club championship was going to be played as planned, hard to see but maybe an insight of where the GAA mindset is.

We dont have the infrastructure and weren't prepared prepared for the level of testing for this, in that context i think we have done ok on the human side of testing and putting that infrastructure to test in place particularly in the community, other countries have struggled with that, its the turnaround in processing testing we have struggled with. They need to really improve this during this lock down for the next surge and lock down once restrictions are lifted.

We definitely have more cases then our total figures show, your total figures are only as good as your level of testing really. Informally you can see areas across the country that are hit hard with clusters in the health service from specific areas, but the figures dont reflect this, the virus is moving faster in areas then the test results.

Cannot see the GAA championships going ahead, unless behind closed doors

 

[summerisle]

* pinches salt.

 

[Joey66]

Think the lockdown must have stopped, as the 4 hour bike rides on my Strava have become six hour bike rides oday.

Oday? @COYBL25 please Mr interpreter ...
Also get your cycling into proportion Brucie....

 

[tsubaki]

Yes, but, its not an easy thing, we all have different ways we could have handled it, but the fact is that it has pulled down the pants of 99% of countries in the world.

It has utterly mugged off the smartest people all over the place, so of course the stupid never stood a chance.

it has, but our place in the grim league table that emerges after this will be a testament to how our government has handled this

 

[Goat]

it has, but our place in the grim league table that emerges after this will be a testament to how our government has handled this

Still cant believe China thinks anybody is having their numbers at all, but wish I could take solace in how they "seem" to have things sort of under control at this point.

 

[marnie]

Oday? @COYBL25 please Mr interpreter ...
Also get your cycling into proportion Brucie....

Hark at you lol

 

[Joey66]

Hark at you lol

I can't cycle, job to walk .....

 

[marnie]

I can't cycle, job to walk .....

@COYBL25 HELP lol

 

[summerisle]

Mad dash for Easter eggs.

 

[summerisle]