Coronavirus: Better Call Sol - CORONAMANIA (6 Viewers)

[pete]

COVID Tracker Ireland app one of Linux Foundation Public Health's first open source projects - HSE.ie

The HSE is delighted to announce today, (Monday 20th July 2020) that the COVID Tracker Ireland app has been taken on as one of the first two open source projects by the newly established Linux Foundation Public Health initiative in a global effort to help suppress the COVID-19 pandemic.

www.hse.ie

 

[dudley]

Fintan O'Toole article today on schools reopening and the utter ineptitude of the Department is very sobering. I don't think there's a chance schools will reopen this September...

 

[dunderhead]

Fintan O'Toole article today on schools reopening and the utter ineptitude of the Department is very sobering. I don't think there's a chance schools will reopen this September...

don't have a sub for that

gist?

 

[dudley]

Gist: we're fucked. Basically that nothing has been done at all, no funding allocated etc.

We saw what happened in March and April in an analogous situation – privately-owned nursing homes were left to their own devices with lethal results. Are we about to do this again with schools?

Scariest of all is this simple sentence from Foley last week: “I am absolutely committed to the goal of reopening our primary and post-primary schools as normal at the end of the summer.” As normal – can there be two more dangerously deluded words? It is, literally, old-school thinking. We can’t send our children back into a world that has vanished. The Government seems to be leading us into a great national test without having done its homework. The results cannot be good.

I think putting a first time TD in charge of currently the most important portfolio is a shaming indictment of how much Ireland has neglected the education system.

 

[ann post]

It is so short sighted. We've constructed the whole place around 'smart economy' - what this means over the next 48 months is that tech companies will look at the financial horror that is unfolding and want to lay off a load of people to rehire new cheaper ones - i.e. cheap graduates. Either that or the fuck off somewhere that will supply them with cheap graduates. If I was big tech decision man i'd be looking at what the schools in ireland are going to turn out over the next decade, because that will be the steering of wether its worth staying here or upping sticks.

 

[nooleen]

I liked the "I doing a 20 mile walk here!" guy best, what a hero

"I live here" was my favourite

 

[magicbastarder]

the new education minister looks like a character from the league of gentlemen. plus, i believe, she is interesting in tightening the rules around access to abortion. really just the sort of female politician who can make it in FF.

 

[Cormcolash]

the new education minister looks like a character from the league of gentlemen. plus, i believe, she is interesting in tightening the rules around access to abortion. really just the sort of female politician who can make it in FF.

She's an anti-choicer and campaigned against the referendum. aka She's a cunt.

 

[magicbastarder]

Sing into the funnel please: inside the Covid-19 lab hoping to declare singing safe

Britain’s 40,000 choirs have all been silenced, brass and woodwind players too. We meet the scientists racing to find out exactly how dangerous blowing instruments and singing are

www.theguardian.com

 

[rettucs]

anyone off to Greenland?

 

[Lili Marlene]

anyone off to Greenland?

Only if they've changed their mind about putting it up for sale.

 

[Cormcolash]

anyone off to Greenland?

No but I was in Iceland earlier and hardly anyone was wearing a mask

 

[therealjohnny]

I went to my local Tesco Express last night and everyone was wearing a mask. That's the first time I've seen that happen there. Seems the message has gotten through.

 

[Cormcolash]

I did only write that Iceland thing for the pun

 

[therealjohnny]

I did only write that Iceland thing for the pun

Oh I got that. Well done.

 

[Cormcolash]

Because I am very LOL

 

[therealjohnny]

The LOlest

 

[dudley]

In a busy Lidl in Nutgrove earlier, everyone wearing masks except the store manager, which was a pity

 

[seanc]

Why? Was he really minging?

 

[dudley]

need a chortle emoji