Top from left: HSE CEO Paul Reid; Anne O’Connor, Chief Operations Officer, HSE; Dr Colm Henry, Chief Clinical Officer, HSE; and Clare O’Leary, Senior Physiotherapist, Integrated Care Team for Older Persons, Tallaght, HSE
This afternoon.
Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin 2.
HSE CEO Paul Reid (above) leads the weekly HSE operational update on the response to the rona.
Meanwhile…
The minister [Stephen Donnelly] said the Government’s plan is to “open back up in the first week of December”, adding that various methods of doing so will be considered closer to this time.
“It could be Level 3. There is a possibility that it might be Level 2, or maybe a regional approach would be taken.”
He said it is “very much our intention that retail is open for what is their most important time of the year“.
Govt plan is to ‘open back up first week in December’ (RTÉ)
Jumping from Level 3 to 5, and potentially from 5 down to 2 is not a measured public health response. To hell with retail.
Measured health response? There hasn’t been a measured health response the whole way through this. There was surely no impact assessment carried out to determine what collateral damage would be to society by persisting for 9+ moinths with this same short-sighted, single-minded public health approach of getting the Covid numbers supposedly ‘under control’ – livelihoods ruined, grim job prospects for many, rising poverty, the isolation, the toll on people’s mental health,, steep rises in depression and suicide rates, the ticking time bomb of missed cancer diagnoses, etc, etc.
the nation needs a blow out Christmas week. open EVERYTHING
+ V
and shur’ with a two week festering period
it’ll be the New Year
and we can worry about it all then