Monty

‘sup?

This afternoon.

Colum Cronin writes:

“A bacon cheeseburger with a can of coke please.”

Your pet in lockdown to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘My Pet In Isolation’.

Meanwhile…

Arf.

“We have had reports of employers receiving results in respect of individual patients, that’s a breach of confidentiality. Full stop,” Dr Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Health told the special Covid-19 response committee today

This afternoon.

RTÉ News has learned that in cases of ‘mass screening’, where an entire workforce in a facility is tested, the practice has been that the HSE issues the results to the managers of such facilities, in some cases before the staff are informed.

The Data Protection Commission has said: “From this remove, the DPC cannot see how it can be legitimised that medical test results of this nature would not be communicated in the first instance directly to each individual staff member whether by sms text or phone call.”

In a statement, Deputy Commissioner Graham Doyle said: “It appears to be the case that, at a minimum, communication has been unclear to the affected staff members in terms of how the process is being managed.

“Given that public health authorities clearly want to maintain the trust of the public in the testing and tracing system and keep people engaging with that system, it is important these issues are clarified and rectified.”

Data protection complaints over Covid-19 disclosures (RTÉ)

Previously: Finding Out In The Worst Way

Earlier: The Acute Phase

Behold: nebular cloud NGC 2014 in the Large Magellanic Cloud – like a great glowing ocean reef in the sky. To wit:

 A detailed image of this distant nebula was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope to help commemorate 30 years of investigating the cosmos. Data and images of this cosmic reef have been combined into the three-dimensional model flown through in the featured video. The computer animated sequence first takes you past a star cluster highlighted by bright blue stars, below pillars of gas and dust slowly being destroyed by the energetic light and winds emitted by these massive stars. Filaments of gas and dust are everywhere, glowing in the red light of hydrogen and nitrogen. The animation next takes you to the blue-coloured nebula NGC 2020, glowing in light emitted by oxygen and surrounding a Wolf-Rayet star about 200,000 times brighter than our Sun — a nebula thought to be the ejected outer atmosphere of this stellar monster. As the animation concludes, the virtual camera pivots to show that NGC 2020 has a familiar hourglass shape when viewed from the side.

(Video: NASA, ESA, and Viz3D Team (STScIi))

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Cormac O Caoimh – Swim Crawl Walk Run Ride Drive Fly

Bright and breezy is the title track from Cork singer/songwriter Cormac O Caiomh’s new album, with echoes of Simon & Garfunkel and Nick Drake.

Here’s a talent that deserves much wider exposure.

Nick says: Going swimmingly.

Cormac O Caoimh

This morning.

A timely intervention?

Or overly cautious?

Only YOU can decide.

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