Carolyn Goodman, mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada, USA has said she wants the city’s casinos, hotels and stadiums to quickly reopen

In the home of the gambling jet set
The mayor wants to place a big bet
And reopen the Strip
But would you take a trip
To Las Vegas? Let’s face it, not yet.

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“Remember this is coronavirus Covid-19, that means there’s been eighteen other coronaviruses and I don’t think they’ve successfully found a vaccine for any.”

Minister for Health Simon Harris on RTÉ Radio 2FM earlier.

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), COVID 19 stands for, Corona (CO) Virus (VI) Disease (D) and 19(2019).

Good times.

Coronavirus in Ireland – Simon Harris criticised for ‘eighteen other coronaviruses’ gaffe during RTE radio interview (The Irish Sun)

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Thanks Piece of Pi55

Meanwhile…

Update:

Maybe a little, but that’s not what’s happening here. To wit:

The featured 27-frame mosaic was taken last July from Ojas de Salar in the Atacama Desert of Chile. The eye is actually a small lagoon captured reflecting the dark night sky as the Milky Way Galaxy arched overhead. The seemingly smooth band of the Milky Way is really composed of billions of stars, but decorated with filaments of light-absorbing dust and red-glowing nebulas. Additionally, both Jupiter (slightly left the galactic arch) and Saturn (slightly to the right) are visible. The lights of small towns dot the unusual vertical horizon. The rocky terrain around the lagoon appears to some more like the surface of Mars than our Earth.

(Image: Miguel Claro (TWAN, Dark Sky Alqueva))

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Why buy new?

Ian Collins writes:

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Irish-made gifts in isolation to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie.

Irish stuff.

To your door.

Simon writes:

I used my downtime to make a website with the missus last weekend to promote small, independent Irish online stores who deliver. Maybe some of your readers would be interested.

Just Buy Irish

This afternoon.

Grangegorman, Dublin 7.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar (right) and  Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Eoghan Murphy (second left) visit the HSE Dublin Covid 19 ‘response hub’, equipped with the latest Dell laptop.

The hub is coordinating the response to Covid-19 for the ‘homeless population’ across the of Dublin Regional Homeless Executive Area.

Casual Wednesday obviously.

Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland

Update:

Outside the hub.

The ‘circle of trust’.

Photocall Ireland

Meanwhile…

Ah here.

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