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‘sup?

Via 7 News in Australia:

While COVID cases continue to surge across the country, our pets could be suffering in silence. Globally, heart conditions among cats and dogs have increased during the pandemic. Now there is a push to import a vaccine, specially formulated for pets, before cases explode…

Aren’t they chipped already?

Pause.

FIGHT!

This afternoon.

Blummin’ kids.

Get a move on.

Via Vaccine Ireland Progress

Meanwhile…

Anyone?

Meanwhile…

FIGHT!

This morning.

In fairness.

Dublin Neighborhoods Mapped (GisForThought)

Interactive Map here

The Independent Science Advisory Group (ISAG) said Ireland must be prepared to do what New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has done and introduce ‘more aggressive suppression measures’

This morning.

Via ‘Zero Covid’ enthusiast The Independent Scientific Advocacy Group (ISAG) in the Irish Times:

‘…as many argue that the end of this pandemic is in sight, we must stay vigilant and our fellow citizens should be warned that there may be scenarios where we have to introduce more aggressive suppression.

We must be prepared to do what New Zealand did and is still doing, if and when needed.

Vaccines and drugs, even new ones, may not be always able to match the speed of change in Covid-19, or other novel pathogenic viruses.

We need plans for this, and the capability, and resources to deliver them.

This is not misplaced zeal, it is scientific common sense.

When faced with a catastrophic pandemic we need to accept that the Darwinian evolution we have all witnessed these past two years does not know about, much less care about, our optimism and we need to be ready and willing to err on the side of keeping society safe, and by doing so, keeping it open.

Yours,

Prof. Anthony Staines; Dr. Tomás Ryan; Prof. Patricia Kearney; Prof. Helen Dolk; Prof. Gerry Killeen; Prof. Ivan Perry; Dr. Philipp Hoevel; Dr. Julien Mercille, of The Independent Scientific Advocacy Group

Irish Times Letters

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This morning.

Via RTÉ News:

Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney (above) has ordered an investigation into a gathering of officials in his department in June 2020, in the aftermath of Ireland winning a UN Security Council seat.

The investigation will be undertaken by the new Secretary General in the department, Joe Hackett.

An image (top) which was shared on social media at the time shows a number of officials from the Department’s UN Security Council campaign team gathered together posing for a photograph indoors.

Ireland was in Phase Two of its reopening plan at that stage, and Covid-19 regulations stipulated that people could only meet up to six others from outside their household in both indoor and outdoor settings.

A departmental spokesperson told RTÉ News that the report should be completed by the end of the month. The spokesperson added Mr Coveney ordered the investigation last Thursday.

Coveney orders investigation into Dept lockdown gathering (RTE)

Friday: They Keep Their Möet Et Chandon In A pretty Cabinet

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