The very pleasing embroidered aerial landscapes of Devon-based Victoria Rose Richards: textured French knot forests, satin fields ’tilled’ with seed stitch, sudden multicoloured flights of fancy and minuscule added detail including teeny sheep, farm gates and wheeling birds.
Previously: Aerial Embroidery
Did early modern Dublin have a crime problem?
Cut Purse Row
Cutt Throat Lane
Murdering Lane pic.twitter.com/R9E3G6C1Vc— Dr Coleman A Dennehy (@ColemanDennehy) September 23, 2020
Yikes.
Anyone?
Maps via John Rocque’s Dublin: a guide to the Georgian city (Irish Historic Towns Atlas)
Sons Of Southern Ulster – Polaris
The stars of the County Cavan.
David Meagher and Justin Kelly aka Sons Of Southern Ulster have put the border county on the map with their “punky space-folk”.
This video by Nicky Fennell is for a song from their second album Sinners And Lost Souls (top).
Nick says: Stars in their eyes.
What’s wrong with them?
Have they stopped listening to Tubs?
We may never know.
This afternoon.
Non-cowardly but reckless and infuriatingly panic-free ‘young people’ in Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2 and Dublin city centre.
Earlier, at the Oireachtas Special Covid-19 Committee meeting,..
…Professor Kirtsin Schaffer of the Irish Society For Clinical Microbiology, warned…
…that society is starting to verge into two directions and we have to try to bring society together again.
She said for young people the virus is an abstract term and they feel deprived of their social interactions.
We must change our approach and become more open and transparent because, she said, the younger generations have had enough.
On the other hand the elderly and the vulnerable are terrified, she said.
Don’t know they’re born.
Phwaoar!
Vintage, filthy, 8mm CIÉ porn
Ciarán Cooney, of Irish Railway Archives, writes:
Some archive clips I’ve edited together of the CIÉ summer excursion trains to Youghal during the 1970’s, filmed by the late Joe St Leger, featuring Carrigtwohill, Killeagh and Mogeely…
Wildflower fireworks in the grounds of St Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin, earlier.
(Thanks Colum Cronin)
Dublin, 1985.
Photo Syd Shelton pic.twitter.com/XTE0oJFbfS— YourWullie (@YourWullie) September 22, 2020
1985.
In the shadow of the Gasworks, Dublin 4.
Name those jammers (with exact year), anyone?
Also: Up the Dubs.
From top: Dr Johan Giesecke; Michael McNamara TD
This morning/afternoon.
Oireachtas Special Covid-19 Response Committee meeting.
Further to testimony from Dr Johan Giesecke, former chief epidemiologist in Sweden…
….Dr Giesecke was asked what a “soft lockdown” would entail compared to a hard lockdown.
He said:
“There’s no law telling people to stay at home and the police will not pick you up on the street when you shouldn’t be on the street. It is telling people what they should do with distancing, with handwashing, with staying home and so on, self-isolation if you feel sick.
“And you can actually estimate that the number of, in March, mid-March, when the Government introduced these measures, you could calculate that the number of potentially infectious contacts between people in Sweden dropped by 70%, just voluntary, no law.
People did what they were asked to do and they have continued, one thing that’s good with the Swedish strategy is that we haven’t changed anything for the six months whereas other countries are going in and out of lockdowns and restrictions, and which countries you can fly to and which countries you can not fly to.”
Asked how would Covid-19 be allowed to circulate among under-60s yet prevent its transmission to people over-60 and in care homes, Dr Giesecke said:
“Like Professor [Kirsten] Schafer [President of the Irish Society of Clinical Microbiology] said, there is no 100 per cent way to do that but there is a lot you can do to minimise the risk of introduction of the virus in care homes. Over.”
Later…
….Chair of the committee and Independent TD Michael McNamara asked Dr Giesecke if he agreed with the assertion that immunity levels in Sweden are currently no greater than other European states – despite Sweden allowing the virus to circulate more than those states.
Dr Giesecke replied:
“No, I think immunity levels are higher in countries where you had circulation.”
Asked about the efficacy of mask-wearing in all public settings, Dr Giesecke said that he agreed with Dr Tomás Ryan of the School of Biochemistry and Immunology at Trinity College Dublin that social distancing is more important than masks (Dr Ryan also said Ireland should have greater levels of mask wearing, and that mask wearing in all indoor environments should be promoted).
Dr Giesecke then had this exchange with Mr McNamara.
Michael McNamara: “Are masks compulsory in Sweden?”
Dr Giesecke: “No.”
McNamara: “Are they worn generally in schools?”
Dr Giesecke: “No.”
McNamara: “But do you think it would be beneficial if they were worn more?”
Dr Giesecke: “I think the scientific evidence to support mask wearing are very thin.”
Finally, each speaker was offered the chance to give their final thoughts to the committee about responding to Covid-19. Dr Giesecke said:
“Two things. Watch out for undemocratic decisions that are using emergency legislation in the case where it may not be needed. That’s number one. Number two is this will be with us for a long time. We will have to learn to live with this virus. Unless a very good vaccine comes out before Easter which I doubt. Thanks for inviting me.”
Earlier: Herdy Gurdy
