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I can see building work starting up in Ireland after May 5 . Building providers and gardening centres are allowed deliveries . The problem with building sites is not the actual working there in terms of social distancing, it's getting to work. The usual practice is to park the car at some...

Perhaps the best metric of the progress of this disease is the ratio of people considered recovered to the number of active cases. Even the number of deaths, is not the best measure. By that metric NZ is the winner, China is extremely good at 10:1 , Germany and Austria at 3:1 and even...

Unlike some, I live in a fact infused universe

Perhaps it might help you if you used your brain and read around the subject. I am not medical but can on occasion elicit information from my daughter who was a current Masters in Genetics and Microbiology. .. 1. The viral load that a person gets will determine whether they will even get ill...

With respect BS, I would blame the UK Government fully. The cavalier attitude they presented at the start immediately gets taken up by the public. If you think the UK people don't respect authority, you haven't met the Irish.. The term is minding mice at a crossroads. But in this case the...

Fair play!. ..

Bill Gates has stated there is little difference in the quality of samples taken by a person swapping their own throat or nose and that taken by a professional health care worker. This means that self tests without the requirements of PPE could be done,and the vials posted into centres. The...

According to the US CDC, the first death in the USA was 6th. February from someone who had not been outside the USA. They also have another death on 17th. February. This means that they got it from some unknown person early-ish January, and that person was infected late December. They are...

The normal process is to give one population the active vaccine and an othef similar population a dummy. Then check on the rates of infection on both populations. Medical ethics , except with a Dr Mengles ,means that they cannot deliberately infect both populations .. Although there were...

Its currently the only place in the British Isles or as we prefer Islands of the North Atlantic (IONA) where we can guarantee CV19 free.

.. No way, we are claiming it...

Yes BS. The Irish Gov sent an aer lingus plane all the way to China a fortnight ago. It was a national event in a sense, It was about 2 hrs on the ground there and flew back. First time an aer lingus plane was in Asia..I think. The UK response is frighteningly inept . I of course worry...

You are ignoring the time lag. It takes maybe 10 to 14 days from initial infection for the person to be a risk to others. In previous postings my suggestion was that Health staff be tested weekly or if in extremely vunerable patients , twice weekly. The real cost of the test is pennies , and...

I do think a solution to the lockdown exists. It always did. It is called testing. You continue the lockdown until the number of clusters is small and the rates of new infection dropping rapidly ..and you know that by testing . Then every new case identified gets the full contract tracing...

Putting a staff member without PPE in direct contact is not " a reasonable management instruction ". There is no court which would convict. . In fact the CEO or line manager is in direct contravention of the Health and Safety directives and both professionally and personally responsible. ..Yes...

The Irish figures might be illuminating . Half our fatalities are from non acute hospitals including care homes . 30% of our care homes have CV19 . So if the UK were recording only deaths in acute hospitals, the true figure might be double that.

Come on now.. The simplest explanation is usually correct. BJ goes around shaking hands with all and sundry in a CV19 ward. Two weeks later gets ill, one week later gets shifted to major hospital ..gets treated etc. Now he is still a youngster ..from my perspective , a bit overweight, probably...

Absence of proof is not proof of absence. The concern is that some people who were originally identified as having the virus and recovered were subsequently struck down with a serious dose. Now that presumes a number of things. 1. The first diagnosis was correct and not a malfunction of the...

Tommie, its the population of wits. As you know NI is full of wits and Wales are only half that.

Well it least it wasn't on Hangouts