I’m torn between laughing at the enduring absurdity of aspects of Irish life and mortification at this insult to all the people who are working so hard, enduring so much, to keep themselves, their families and all of us together on the path through this nightmare.
'The past year of Covid-19 has taught us that it is the behaviour of governments, more than the behaviour of the virus or individuals, that shapes countries’ experience of the crisis.' theguardian.com/world/commenti…
Minister for Health admitted that many of the new “restrictions” approved by the Cabinet this week have yet to be hammered out and are simply an "outline" of plans.
Prof. McLysaght:
“The discouraging thing is that what they did yesterday is not going to work, and the fear is they think they have done something.”
Quarantining at home
Dr Mai Mannix, DPH: ‘Our baseline of cases is far too high at present for us to drop the guard, and we now have a collective responsibility to suppress the spread of the virus in the community, as our healthcare services continue to treat a irishexaminer.com/news/munster/a…
Political control of what should be a Public Health-led response in a public health emergency carries problems.
In media terms, one is that pre-eminence is given to politicians arguing over the merits of public health measures, to the exclusion of our Public Health Doctors.👇
Fortunately, several of our Public Health Consultants have been given scope in some newspapers and many have availed too of social media to alert the public to their views. @irishexaminer@businessposthq notable here.