The reckless way in which not just the media but some politicians are attempting to crank up the C19 fear factor is disgraceful- I seriously question their motives.
At this point no one knows how this pandemic is going to pan out and picking dates out of their backsides is not helpful- particularly as a lot of people are feeling very vulnerable right now.
Mé Féin
Why is Metro there? I thought it stop publishing in Ireland.
Chris
They’re trialing the first human vaccine on your Ma tomorrow.
GiggidyGoo
‘Deaths from virus continue to decline’ heralds the Examiner.
Continues?
The deaths on Monday was 77. Up, not down.
And this ‘fact’ is still being reported by RTE ‘Generally, you need to be 15 minutes or more in the vicinity of an infected person and within two metres of them, to be considered at-risk, or a close contact.’ https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/0420/1132711-irish-covid-figures/
The 15 minute thing though is getting me. Why are the Gardai hassling individuals on their own in a park in the vicinity (2 meters) of no one for 15 minutes?
scottser
just start doing press ups and they have to leave you alone.
or you could ring gemma, john and the crutch lady who’ll come down and constituitionalise the f out that guard for you.
GiggidyGoo
Have you their numbers?
scottser
they’re always available on the twitter should you ever need them, lad
Niamh
So many reasons to hate the Sun but their use of ‘footie’, a word nobody in Ireland has ever used ever, is a reoccurring tacky lazy bugbear of mine.
dav
I’ll just stick to their treatment of the victims of Hillsborough and their familes
scottser
quite right. ‘association football’ please.
GiggidyGoo
Have China just won WW3 without firing a shot or dropping a bomb or sending military into action?
dav
I think the end of american hegemony was well flagged prior to covid19
Janet, I ate my avatar
are you going with the intentional spread theory then ?
GiggidyGoo
Naw Janet – just a thought that crossed my mind though.
dav
sounds painful
some old queen
This study was casually name dropped before the White House Press Briefing yesterday- probably deliberate but interesting read either way.
USC-LA County Study: Early Results of Antibody Testing Suggest Number of COVID-19 Infections Far Exceeds Number of Confirmed Cases in Los Angeles County
Los Angeles (April 20, 2020) – USC and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public Health) today released preliminary results from a collaborative scientific study that suggests infections from the new coronavirus are far more widespread – and the fatality rate much lower – in L.A. County than previously thought.
…someone of your erudition will have recognised that my avatar is a spoonerism and I readily admit to having a matching cynical and sarcastic nature,both in real life and online…unlike you, I only have one personna…
Janet, I ate my avatar
I always thought Bisted meant baked ( not the cookie kind ) is that the right track ?
…sorry Janet…my twitter avatar…bitter and twisted/twitter and bisted…
Janet, I ate my avatar
ahhhh, I’d never have got that, thanks :)
Clampers Outside
+1
some old queen
Firstly I only have one persona on this site- don’t see the of point shape shifting to be honest. Secondly I only voice an opinion or react to someone else’s opinion but I try never to get personal. You on the other hand, only get personal and never actually have an opinion.
Above all, a few errors made with wine on board but, I genuinely do not wish anyone harm. If I am wrong in my logic then show me where I am wrong- is that too much to ask?
Rob_G
I think that the Corona virus must have been created to stop Dublin winning six-in-a-row by some sort of Kerry/Chinese axis.
class wario
Kerry in cahoots with the People’s Republic? I have my doubts…
Janet, I ate my avatar
Kerry is a distinctively hard language to learn even for the Chinese
GiggidyGoo
Hah :-) – Though Cork is a close second.
Otis Blue
Tra li?
Paulus
“Hello, you’re through to Healy-Rea International Translation Services; how can I help oo?”
The headline is a little bit sensationalist – Coronavirus death toll in UK twice as high as official figure.
The ‘official figure’ is for deaths in hospitals and I’ve yet to see anybody claim otherwise, but maybe this has not been made clear enough to people along the way.
Bravo that the FT are making this coverage free to read.
Quest-Royale
Thank you, Some Old Queen, for spreading more pointless, yet viral, junk information droplets. It really adds to the miasma of pointless, yet viral, junk information droplets already flying around. Your consistently pointless hot takes make you a real hero at this difficult time. Take a bow.
scottser
so where’s your properly sourced and accredited rebuttal then?
Quest-Royale
There is nothing to rebut, I’m saying, just in case you had difficulty reading the big words, that SOQ constantly spews out information, legitimate, or more often than not tinged with some kind of conspiracy gunk, that is completely and utterly irrelevant to our current situation, and tries to mash data from irrelevant sources to make a point about the pandemic here. And in doing so, is simply spreading more irrelevant manure, muddying the waters, possibly because she just likes the sound of her own voice.
Quest-Royale
Yep, I’m Edna Think Tank too, but none of the other handles you muddled together there. And what?
SOQ
Ok I may as well use the handle as everyone is referring to me as.
GiggidyGoo
So, why are you using more than one?
scottser
can you prove his information is ‘tinged with conspiracy gunk’? or would you just like us to take your word for it?
Quest-Royale
I don’t have to, it’s self-evident. Maybe not for the great throngs of malleable online goons, but for anyone with half an ounce of intellectual discernment it is painfully obvious.
Harry Robertson
An available job in RTE and Miriam O’Callaghan is like Meryl Streep at the oscars. Constantly nominated
theo kretschmar schuldorff
Miriam must not get the gig.
Claire Byrne is very good, and very busy.
Sarah McInerny would be perfect. As would Boucher-Hayes, or Jonathan Healy, if they can poach him.
The Daily Star….
two world wars and one world cup they won..
The reckless way in which not just the media but some politicians are attempting to crank up the C19 fear factor is disgraceful- I seriously question their motives.
At this point no one knows how this pandemic is going to pan out and picking dates out of their backsides is not helpful- particularly as a lot of people are feeling very vulnerable right now.
Why is Metro there? I thought it stop publishing in Ireland.
They’re trialing the first human vaccine on your Ma tomorrow.
‘Deaths from virus continue to decline’ heralds the Examiner.
Continues?
The deaths on Monday was 77. Up, not down.
And this ‘fact’ is still being reported by RTE ‘Generally, you need to be 15 minutes or more in the vicinity of an infected person and within two metres of them, to be considered at-risk, or a close contact.’ https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/0420/1132711-irish-covid-figures/
are the HSE saying a close contact is something different…?
https://www2.hse.ie/conditions/coronavirus/self-isolation-and-limited-social-interaction.html#close-contact
The 15 minute thing though is getting me. Why are the Gardai hassling individuals on their own in a park in the vicinity (2 meters) of no one for 15 minutes?
just start doing press ups and they have to leave you alone.
or you could ring gemma, john and the crutch lady who’ll come down and constituitionalise the f out that guard for you.
Have you their numbers?
they’re always available on the twitter should you ever need them, lad
So many reasons to hate the Sun but their use of ‘footie’, a word nobody in Ireland has ever used ever, is a reoccurring tacky lazy bugbear of mine.
I’ll just stick to their treatment of the victims of Hillsborough and their familes
quite right. ‘association football’ please.
Have China just won WW3 without firing a shot or dropping a bomb or sending military into action?
I think the end of american hegemony was well flagged prior to covid19
are you going with the intentional spread theory then ?
Naw Janet – just a thought that crossed my mind though.
sounds painful
This study was casually name dropped before the White House Press Briefing yesterday- probably deliberate but interesting read either way.
USC-LA County Study: Early Results of Antibody Testing Suggest Number of COVID-19 Infections Far Exceeds Number of Confirmed Cases in Los Angeles County
Los Angeles (April 20, 2020) – USC and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public Health) today released preliminary results from a collaborative scientific study that suggests infections from the new coronavirus are far more widespread – and the fatality rate much lower – in L.A. County than previously thought.
http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/phcommon/public/media/mediapubhpdetail.cfm?prid=2328
…she hasn’t gone away you know…
Tell me, do you try to put people down with bitchy snide remarks in real life too- or is it just your online persona?
…someone of your erudition will have recognised that my avatar is a spoonerism and I readily admit to having a matching cynical and sarcastic nature,both in real life and online…unlike you, I only have one personna…
I always thought Bisted meant baked ( not the cookie kind ) is that the right track ?
Me too :)
…sorry Janet…my twitter avatar…bitter and twisted/twitter and bisted…
ahhhh, I’d never have got that, thanks :)
+1
Firstly I only have one persona on this site- don’t see the of point shape shifting to be honest. Secondly I only voice an opinion or react to someone else’s opinion but I try never to get personal. You on the other hand, only get personal and never actually have an opinion.
Above all, a few errors made with wine on board but, I genuinely do not wish anyone harm. If I am wrong in my logic then show me where I am wrong- is that too much to ask?
I think that the Corona virus must have been created to stop Dublin winning six-in-a-row by some sort of Kerry/Chinese axis.
Kerry in cahoots with the People’s Republic? I have my doubts…
Kerry is a distinctively hard language to learn even for the Chinese
Hah :-) – Though Cork is a close second.
Tra li?
“Hello, you’re through to Healy-Rea International Translation Services; how can I help oo?”
40k dead in the UK
https://www.ft.com/content/67e6a4ee-3d05-43bc-ba03-e239799fa6ab
Awful news.
The headline is a little bit sensationalist – Coronavirus death toll in UK twice as high as official figure.
The ‘official figure’ is for deaths in hospitals and I’ve yet to see anybody claim otherwise, but maybe this has not been made clear enough to people along the way.
Bravo that the FT are making this coverage free to read.
Thank you, Some Old Queen, for spreading more pointless, yet viral, junk information droplets. It really adds to the miasma of pointless, yet viral, junk information droplets already flying around. Your consistently pointless hot takes make you a real hero at this difficult time. Take a bow.
so where’s your properly sourced and accredited rebuttal then?
There is nothing to rebut, I’m saying, just in case you had difficulty reading the big words, that SOQ constantly spews out information, legitimate, or more often than not tinged with some kind of conspiracy gunk, that is completely and utterly irrelevant to our current situation, and tries to mash data from irrelevant sources to make a point about the pandemic here. And in doing so, is simply spreading more irrelevant manure, muddying the waters, possibly because she just likes the sound of her own voice.
Yep, I’m Edna Think Tank too, but none of the other handles you muddled together there. And what?
Ok I may as well use the handle as everyone is referring to me as.
So, why are you using more than one?
can you prove his information is ‘tinged with conspiracy gunk’? or would you just like us to take your word for it?
I don’t have to, it’s self-evident. Maybe not for the great throngs of malleable online goons, but for anyone with half an ounce of intellectual discernment it is painfully obvious.
An available job in RTE and Miriam O’Callaghan is like Meryl Streep at the oscars. Constantly nominated
Miriam must not get the gig.
Claire Byrne is very good, and very busy.
Sarah McInerny would be perfect. As would Boucher-Hayes, or Jonathan Healy, if they can poach him.