This afternoon.
A drill to check the National Isolation Unit’s ability to needlessly scare the public response to a possible Ebola infection case.
During the excercise streets around the Mater Hospital were cordoned off including Berkley Road, (above).
Good of the RNLI to help out in fairness.
(Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
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Great to see the garda’s taleban division showing up in their pickup. You can fit 15-20 guards in the back of a Hilux along with their flasks of tea and chicken fillet rolls, which makes them ideal for patrolling the disputed border regions of Cavan-Monaghan.
That and the beating of woman and child if they get too uppity.
Why in the name of bejaysus are they cordoning off whole streets? Ebola makes you quite messy towards the end but you don’t explode ffs.
I reckon ebola is the kind of thing that the phrase “better safe than sorry” was invented for.
Yeah, because once infected projectile vomiting/diarrheaing a few dozen feet is not unknown.
The Olympic Committee should look into that. A new sport might make the games relevant again.
Nah, that was the flu, or malaria, or smoking, or drinking, or road accidents, or heart disease or (etc…)
HSE + Ebola = Disaster
Don’t confuse front line heros with the back room bureaucrats.
Worst anagram ever. Are you Moynes?
RNLI?
Yellow overalls, I presume. The RNLI wear bright yellow sailing gear when out on their boat.
Keep up will you.
real RNLI or continuity RNLI?
Off their trolley
Do they really have to pull up on the street corner and head for the nearest dropped kerb? Jaysus like, is there not a proper place to pull in d’ambulance?
….the charity that I have always donated to was Medicins Sans Frontier….they even asked for no more donations in response to the Haiti earthquake since they were oversubscribed for the effort they could make. I can’t turn on the radio now without constant whinning from MSF.ie with the magic word…eBola.
Shame…another worthy cause has been sullied by the ‘fundraisers’.
Charities advertising the radio seems to be a very Irish thing. I give a few shekels to MSF every month. I hope they haven’t lost their soul.
At least MSF and the red cross put actual boots on the ground. Trocaire is a total scam.
no its not.
But presumably they’re advertising because they have to – governments are putting sweet FA into the UN pot to tackle this in West Africa.
Yeah I hear ya, when they start wanting it, it takes all the fun out of it.
I know a good joke about Ebola, but if you aren’t African you wouldn’t get it.
Hang on, let me rephrase that;
There’s something funny I could tell you about Ebola.
If you aren’t African you won’t get it..
Is that better?
If I put on black facepaint will I get it?
(Nah, the joke’s punchline is too long and it scans a little awkwardly, I’m afraid. Good effort though)
No worries.
I’m drunk and I robbed it from Sickapedia.com
It’s one of them nights, y’know…
that Garda pickup is awesome
New slogan for Copperface Jack’s?
If I had Ebola I’d go straight to the Dail
….Bar and lick everyone.
And then those ückers will go to whoever s funeral and shake it all over the shop
Before ya know it its Walking Dead stuff
The road closures are complpetely unnecessary. Ebola is such a weak virus that it can’t survive outside the human body for very long. In a projectile vomit case, the virus is dead before it gets 2 metres out of the mouth. You need to be up close and caring for the sick to stand a chance of catching it.