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Blimey.

This morning.

Dublin city centre

Robbie Coombes tweetz:

The queues outside Penneys is unbelievable, going right around the corner onto Parnell street from Mary Street….

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Cork City.

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Limerick city.

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Parliament Square, Westminster, London, UK.

Workers have boarded up a statue of Sir Winston Churchill and the Cenotaph ahead of weekend protests.

Black Lives Matter: Winston Churchill monument and Cenotaph boarded up as more statues removed (Sky)

Meanwhile…

Dr Tony Holohan, chief medical officer at the Department of Health

This morning.

More than 500 patients were transferred from hospitals to nursing homes at the height of the coronavirus pandemic which left Ireland with  the second highest death rate in care settings in the world with 1,030 victims.

Dr Tony Holohan, chief medical officer at the Department of Health, on RTE Radio One’s Morning Ireland said the high number of deaths could not have been prevented.

Via RTÉ:

Dr Holohan said that it is not realistic to say that the high number of deaths in nursing homes and other care settings could have been prevented as he said that “it is a highly transmissable infection” especially for those aged over 80 and this makes prevention of it challenging.

Dr Holohan said that influenza is transmitted in significant numbers in these settings each year and as Covid-19 is virulent and spreads even more easily than influenza, it makes the absolute prevention of the spread of Covid-19 unrealistic.

He said “we know the measures that are important in slowing down that transmission and we need to continue to offer protection to nursing homes”, although the numbers of infections have fallen.

He said that deaths in nursing homes in Ireland are at the lower end of the mortality experience in European countries and a lot of reporting had focussed over-simply on the proportion of deaths in nursing homes.

Hmm.

Holohan calls for more compliance over facemask use (RTÉ)

Previously: ‘‘I Expect It To Be Ignored, As The Elderly Have Been Ignored’

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Meanwhile…

‘sup?

Last night.

Trinity College Dublin.

Must be cricket bats.

Eh?

Suit yourselves.

Thanks wickedfairysad

Former World Health Organisation (WHO) chief Professor Karol Sikora

This afternoon.

Former World Health Organisation (WHO) chief Professor Karol Sikora has claimed many health practitioners in Britain have been putting Covid-19 down as the cause of death if there has been “any hint” that the virus played a part.

The NHS has reported that over 41,000 people have died in hospitals due to the pandemic and Prof Sikora said this figure could in fact be much less as many are marking it down without proof it was the main cause.

He said the UK’s system of recording deaths caused by Covid-19 was different to places such as Germany. In Germany Covid-19 can only be recorded as the cause of death when the end-of-life care team certifies that this was the case.

“It could end up that more people have died because of lack of medical care directly caused by the unavailability of it, because its facilities have been taken over for Covid.

“If we look at the numbers, how many people have really died from Covid that wouldn’t be dead at the end of the year?

“The numbers vary enormously. The current ONS data suggests 60,000 people have died from Covid. I’m sure that’s not really the case, it’s because of the counting.”

Ireland, anyone?

Coronavirus deaths ‘may be less than half official toll – as docs wrongly mark certificates’, says ex-WHO chief (The Sun)

Prof Karol Sikora: Covid-19 death toll may be less than half of what has been recorded (Telegraph)

Pic: Medscape

 

Nigel Farage in Dublin in 2018

This afternoon.

Earlier: There’s Nothing For You Here

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Green Party Leader Eamon Ryan

This afternoon.

Get him.

Kick his bike.

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Update:

Oh, it’s on.

Earlier: Dan Boyle: Green And Bear It

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Seattle, Washington, USA.

A look inside The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, or CHAZ.

After Police vacated the Seattle East Precinct during rioting on Sunday, activists moved in and set up an ‘autonomous zones’ spanning six city blocks.

Trump warns he will take back Seattle from ‘ugly Anarchists’ if local leaders don’t act (The Hill)

Warlords and… soy shortages? For Antifa anarchists in Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, revolution ain’t easy (RT)

Pics: getty

This afternoon.

Leinster House, Dublin 2.

New mothers joined by TD Brid Smith (top left) and Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald (in pink pic 3) with a petition for the Taoiseach to extend the Maternity Payment ‘by a few weeks’ because of the Covid 19 Crisis .

Above from top: Andrea Simic with Nika (5 months); Tara MacDarby with Calum (4 months) ; Paula Solan with Quinn Leonard (20 weeks), and Amy McGivney with Ki  (14 weeks),

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