RE: No Time to Die... from COVID-19
03-20-2020, 03:09 PM (This post was last modified: 03-20-2020, 03:10 PM by Dartz.)
03-20-2020, 03:09 PM (This post was last modified: 03-20-2020, 03:10 PM by Dartz.)
There is a general sense around Ireland that the government is doing a bangup job.
We have 40,000 volunteers to assist the health-services - most of them retired doctors or those who left the profession for whatever reasons. We have businesses doing their best to keep the lights on - doing kerbside deliveries, or one Chinese takeaway dropping food to customers from an upstairs window with a winch. Most major distilleries have switched to producing sanitary chemicals and the one industry we have in abundance - pharma and medical devices - is doing its thing in a big way.
We've tested 5,000 people for the Virus and caught 600 with it. Within a few days, there'll be capacity enough to test 15,000 a day. A major national stadium has been converted into a drive-through testing centre. There're backlogs, but it's working.
The government is lining up funds to support businesses and those left temporarily unemployed.
Shops are managing queus and maintaining social isolations - the shelves are still well stocked for most critical things .
The government is calmly telling people the next week will be the worst and they'll work out what to do once the effects of current policies start taking hold. If they start taking hold.
We're two weeks behind Italy - but our fatality rate is spuriously low, indicating that our detection rate may be higher.
The Government - which was voted out a week or two before the crisis hit - is doing a bang-up job. Our Taoiseach is a trained Doctor - not a very good Doctor according to some in the profession, but still a white-coat that understands the depth of what's going on. And ministers that spent the last 4 years fucking up are playing a blinder. Even the opposition are doing their part - not blocking emergency legislation over petty things, but tabling sensible and constructive amendments.
So far, the system is working.
My parents self-isolated in a remote part of the country. Which brought them into contact with relatives who're rapidly coming down with 'something'. Oops.
We have 40,000 volunteers to assist the health-services - most of them retired doctors or those who left the profession for whatever reasons. We have businesses doing their best to keep the lights on - doing kerbside deliveries, or one Chinese takeaway dropping food to customers from an upstairs window with a winch. Most major distilleries have switched to producing sanitary chemicals and the one industry we have in abundance - pharma and medical devices - is doing its thing in a big way.
We've tested 5,000 people for the Virus and caught 600 with it. Within a few days, there'll be capacity enough to test 15,000 a day. A major national stadium has been converted into a drive-through testing centre. There're backlogs, but it's working.
The government is lining up funds to support businesses and those left temporarily unemployed.
Shops are managing queus and maintaining social isolations - the shelves are still well stocked for most critical things .
The government is calmly telling people the next week will be the worst and they'll work out what to do once the effects of current policies start taking hold. If they start taking hold.
We're two weeks behind Italy - but our fatality rate is spuriously low, indicating that our detection rate may be higher.
The Government - which was voted out a week or two before the crisis hit - is doing a bang-up job. Our Taoiseach is a trained Doctor - not a very good Doctor according to some in the profession, but still a white-coat that understands the depth of what's going on. And ministers that spent the last 4 years fucking up are playing a blinder. Even the opposition are doing their part - not blocking emergency legislation over petty things, but tabling sensible and constructive amendments.
So far, the system is working.
My parents self-isolated in a remote part of the country. Which brought them into contact with relatives who're rapidly coming down with 'something'. Oops.
I love the smell of rotaries in the morning. You know one time, I got to work early, before the rush hour. I walked through the empty carpark, I didn't see one bloody Prius or Golf. And that smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole carpark, smelled like.... ....speed.
One day they're going to ban them.