This afternoon.
Life savings stolen at knifepoint (GoFundMe)
Elderly siblings held at knifepoint got ‘awful fright’ (RTE)
Ah here.
BrianC writes:
‘Vax good. Tea bad. Screw science.’
Fight!
*slurp*
Yesterday and this afternoon.
Dublin city centre.
More boiled sweets than you could imagine.
Yesterday.
Dublin 9.
Order of Malta volunteers dropping off Christmas presents for the elderly at Grace Park Heights, Drumcondra lead by little helper Jack Fitzroy (above left), whose father is a volunteer.
Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland
This afternoon
Following an often emotional discussion on RTÉ Radio One’s Liveline about Covid hardships – and against the backdrop of the parliamentary golf outing…
SR tweeted:
This (above) is the last time I saw my Da alive. You can just about see his hand in the window. That’s my mom shouting up to him. I remember feeling physically sick at this scene.
Earlier: Resigned
Meanwhile…
2/2 .. a decision and choice those that attended that golf event made cannot be excused.
There was people from every corner of society that really should have know better.
They deserve everything that's coming – and I'm not on a lockdown soap box either myself btw.
Fuck em!!— GᴇɢᴇɴIᴍᴘʀᴇssɪᴠᴇ™ (@GegenImpressive) August 21, 2020
This afternoon.
Mask-wearing elderly in Dublin city centre.
Lockdown Day 148.
Day 54 of Phase Three.
Charlie Bird
Charlie Bird suggests @TodayRadioRTE the Government might use the covid-19 tracker app to record how much fresh air older people are getting under these restrictions… https://t.co/6qIqJQai3C
— Philip Ryan (@Philip_Ryan) August 18, 2020
This morning.
RTÉ Radio One’s Today with Sarah McInerney.
Former RTÉ journalist Charlie Bird – responding to reinforced restrictions on the elderly – said he wears a mask and downloaded the Covid Tracker App…
“…even though a couple of days after I took it, it practically ran my mobile phone down where it nearly burned.
But I’m doing everything they’ve asked me to do…I’m sensible. I’ve got five grandkids, I don’t want anything to happen,
I don’t want anything to happen to my neighbours or to anybody else but that does not mean I should stay inside. I live in a part of Wicklow where I can walk out and see nobody for hours…”
It’s all very well to say we’re going to throw away the key on 70-year-olds again and I hate the word, absolutely hate the word ‘cocooning’...my former colleagues in the media are giving the Government an easy ride on this.”
Mr Bird repeatedly called for people to listen to Professor Jack Lambert’s interview on last night’s Drivetime on RTÉ Radio One.
Earlier….
This morning.
The National Public Health Emergency Team’s (Nphet) will today reccommend a number of measures to ‘curb a resurgence’ of Covid-19.
Via Independent.ie:
Older people will be asked to restrict their movements and avoid congregated settings under new advice from public-health experts.
Nphet has also recommended that only six people should be permitted in a home from three separate houses in a bid to clamp down on house parties and outdoor home gathering should be reduced to 15 people.
People who can work from home will also be asked to do so for the coming weeks. The Cabinet will meet to discuss the recommendations today.
Meanwhile…
‘A Cabinet source said there were concerns at the highest ranks of Cabinet that Nphet had “departed from the European mainstream in the severity of their advice” as they are “under pressure from academic commentators as opposed to solid science“.’
On 21/3/2020 Nursing Home residents were booted off the waiting list for tests. GP’s were instructed NOT to seek tests for them and to assume that if one resident at the Nursing home has Covid, then ‘they all have it’.
They were treated like livestock. pic.twitter.com/GcuxklgzIW
— Dr. Marcus De Brun (@indepdubnrth) May 29, 2020
Anyone?
Meanwhile…
I brought this to the attention of colleagues and the ICGP and I was insulted and ignored.
— Dr. Marcus De Brun (@indepdubnrth) May 29, 2020
Yesterday: ‘Devastating’