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27 Jan, 5 tweets, 2 min read
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.

Coronavirus loves vague.

irishexaminer.com/news/arid-4021…
Vague and vaguer
https://t.co/x4kGP50Tf0
“Throwing out promises like prizes at the Toy Show.”
@Elaine_Loughlin https://t.co/nWyzMcNnPl
'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…
That might be a difficult idea for our government to accept.

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Joe Noonan Profile picture
28 Jan
'Key learnings'
A a layman, I seem to recall our Public Health doctors saying these things to anyone who would listen close on a year ago.
https://t.co/jqgHNeXorX
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Joe Noonan Profile picture
28 Jan
'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…
Related bmj.com/content/371/bm…
Governments may prefer to suggest otherwise.
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27 Jan
Garda: Are you at home?

Person not at home: I am Guard.

Garda: That’s great thanks.

This is genuinely the intended enforcement method of home self-isolation announced by government, according to RTÉ @RTENewsPaulC

#CallMe #Covid19Ireland #DetailedPlanning
@FlannOBrienSoc this one’s for you! 🚲📞⚖️🦠
“Operationalise that!”
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27 Jan
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

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where family or flatmates are exposed to the virus is not quarantine at all.

Her biggest concern is that there doesn’t appear to be a public health strategy beyond March 5th, when the current Level 5 lockdown is due to end.

“Even if they were to say our target is to get
to Level 1 until the vaccine is completed. That is a defensible position.”
Report by @ellenoriordan
#Covid19Ireland @ISAGCOVID19
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Joe Noonan Profile picture
27 Jan
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…
significant of very ill patients with Covid-19.’

#Covid19Ireland #RespectPHD
'The current trend of decreasing infection levels is a welcome one, and helps our team manage complex clusters and outbreaks when they do arise.

However, previous experience has shown that where is there is a noticeable drop in cases, there can be a shift in behaviours
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27 Jan
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.

Not heard so on RTÉ, with one or two exceptions.
Locally @Corks96FM @pjcoogan have served the public superbly with regular interviews of high quality including for example @NICU_doc_salone and @TJRyan_77
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