37 thoughts on “Monday’s Papers

  1. SOQ

    According to Euronews- workers will have to sign a statement stating they have not had CoVid-19 symptoms for three days before returning to work in Ireland .

    What absolute horsepoo is this?

    1. Ringsend Incinerator

      God only knows. Flying into Ireland to stay for a week and you have to commit to two weeks here in isolation….

    2. ReproBertie

      It’s true. Part of the agreement drawn up by the government and unions will require staff to sign a declaration, 3 days before returning to work, stating that they are not experiencing symptoms, in isolation or waiting for test results.

  2. Shayna

    I had a telephone conversation during the past week with my cousin, Mary. She’s my age, currently on furlough – volunteers for the NHS delivering prescriptions – she mans a food bank in Coalisland, Tyrone. Her son is a fitter – a mechanic for HGVs – keeping trucks on the road – an essential job. He contracted the virus. Without wishing to be ghoulish, I asked questions. He was diagnosed over the phone by his GP and prescribed anti-biotics and advised to isolate for two weeks along with his mom, Mary. He has since recovered and is back mechanicing at trucks. I thought an ambulance may be involved, rushed to ICU – it seems not? Mary’s sister, Bernie, and her daughter, Caoimhe are both nurses in the same hospital on the Covid-19 ward – they’re both fine? There’s clearly no rhyme nor reason, nor cure to the virus – complacency may be an equal problem. Shame on Boris Johnson!

    1. V

      Dear Shayna

      Can we leave it with you t’ have a word with Sean Kavanagh?

      Ta,
      A 32 County Irelander, V

    2. SOQ

      There probably is rhyme and reason to it except they are not testing the amounts needed to see it. Assuming all got infected- one getting sick and three remaining asymptomatic sounds about right.

      One question you could ask is did they all get the flu jab this year? One of many theories doing the rounds is that the flu jab may leave some more susceptible to Corona viruses. Also, do any of them smoke? It appears that smokers are less likely to contract CoVid-19, but they don’t know why that is yet.

          1. ReproBertie

            It is not because it offers any protection against Covid-19. It is to try and reduce flu cases at the end of the year when they expect a second wave of Covid-19. Reducing flu cases means fewer people with flu symptoms thinking they have Covid-19. It also reduces the impact on the heath service of a flu outbreak which would be a concern if we were in the middle of a second wave.

            Since we’re being anecdotal, I get the flu jab every year and couldn’t tell you when I last had a cold or chest infection.

          2. SOQ

            Yes but the flu season starts in November so why offer it off peak when there is no flu?

            Also anecdotal but I haven’t had a cold or flu since 2009 which was coincidentally the last year I got the flu jab- and was sick as a dog for two weeks afterwards- as was roughly 50% of my then company’s 400 workforce- they never offered it again oddly enough.

          3. ReproBertie

            The expansion refers to the people it will be offered to, not when. I don’t see anything to suggest they are encouraging people to get it now.

    3. dav

      he must have had a chest infection for the Doc to have prescribed anti-biotics as they don’t work against a virus.
      What I take from your tale is a reaffirmation of the danger of this damn thing. Infection for everybody doesn’t end in ICU, most will get over it, but when it does hit somebody badly the resources required to help someone fight it are (in the medical sense) enormous. Glad your Cousin is ok.

      1. guns and drums and drums and guns harooo

        +1
        spoke to medical professional in the family yesterday
        obviously going to last for months if not years.

  3. V

    Johnny v Dickie

    Seriously
    Can things get any more ridiculous

    Please let that be peak
    Whatever tis were calling it now

    1. guns and drums and drums and guns harooo

      ah shure it’s always the silly season now V. Bugger all actual news about anything and the relief of the funnies is palpable.

  4. Shayna

    Norman Tebbit, one of Mrs. Thatcher’s henchmen/crony infamously mentioned in 1981 – “Get on your bike” – to find work. Nearly 40 years later The current Tory PM is exacting the same words – go to work on your bike, or walk? Avoid public transport? An impossible ask. Oh, but be, “Alert”. Shayna is going to witter. I had some friends from my local pub in Surrey, when I lived there, who co-owned a 29Ft racing yaucht – I was persuaded along with a couple of friends to sail on their boat to The Isle of Wight – Cowes. It was terribly pleasant end of May bank holiday – sun shining – no wind – we kinda delicately negotiated The Solent. 3 gallon buckets of Pimms etc. on deck. The following morning, on The Isle of Wight, the weather was shockingly rainy. Us 5 sailors emerged from below deck to witness end of days rain in Cowes.. We all went to the nearest pub, had more than our fair share of drinks. The rain then stopped, the captain of the boat then declared that we should return to the boat and circumnavigate the Isle of Wight – no-one questioned his wisdom, he was the most experienced sailor after all. Left Cowes, the wind started to rise, the captain got excited, he threw commands on deck – Raise the main sail, us non-sailor types did that – it was a racing yaucht after all, he called for the spinnaker to be raised – now that is a different story altogether. The spinnaker rested at the aft of the boat (bear with me) below deck. It took four of us to drag this monster sail into position and raise it. The captain clocked his personal best – 28knots.? The captain became Ahab – speed was his Moby Dick, just like that, the weather turned decidedly ugly. I’ve gotta say the following three hours on that godamned boat were brutal, before we found land again in the dark – we had only travelled 3 miles north of Cowes.. It felt like we were stranded mid-Atlantic. I mentioned about the witter, but this story has a point. The captain is Boris Johnson, he sees a break in the cloud, he yells for all hands on deck – I’ve never been aboard a yaucht since, I could care less about me, but my friends could have died – that was all down to the captain chasing his Moby Dick.

    1. guns and drums and drums and guns harooo

      probably one of your best posts ever in fairness Shayna

      What do you reckon about the GAA season? should it restart?
      I bet Cathal wishes he’d gone for the money in Oz

    2. Rob_G

      What is fundamentally wrong with encouraging people to use one of the most sustainable forms of transport, just because one person you disagree with suggested something similar 40 years’ ago?

  5. GiggidyGoo

    Well shiver me timbers. Parents or students will be ‘reported’ to de Department of Education. Expect the education gardai to arrive then, sirens blaring and surrounding your house with a warrant.
    Oh me oh my.
    Have the Gardai visited Dickie Rock to investigate the threats he has made. Will he appear before a wig?

  6. Fintan Frobisher

    Facts.
    72% of the British workforce get to their place of employment by car, motorbike or bicycle.
    The Conservative Party currently enjoys historic – even record-breaking – levels of support with Boris Johnson’s personal approval ratings sky high.
    Less than a quarter of Britons use Twitter.
    Real life is not the picture painted by Tube-travelling London media commentators or Brexit-hating Irish hacks.
    You’re welcome.

    1. Janet, I ate my avatar

      every English mate I have is deeply embarrassed by the man, evey Scottish and Northern Irish family member beyond embarrassed, and I have many

    2. MaryLou's ArmaLite

      BoJo’s approval has been on the slide since his return. He was exactly the right leader to get some sort Brexit pooshow done, he is exactly the wrong leader for this. The UKs death count being the worst in Europe has done him great harm.

  7. bisted

    …oh no…quack of the day was smokers seemed immune to Covid-19…and there’s Phillip Bocher-Hayes on the radio saying fake science…who to believe…I might have to sacrifice an old bird and examine it’s entails…

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