China Coronavirus

[Smurfy123]

Think what you want give
Great news Ross
Need to keep it going
0.4 brilliant. It's actually going down it really doesn't make sense

[Rossfan]

https://www.facebook.com/233111003425317/posts/3029307967138926/

[Smurfy123]

Nothing new
T R more a less saying nothing
Underwhelming to say the least

[Rossfan]

Perhaps there's nothing to say as nothing is happening?

[dublin7]

Perhaps there's nothing to say as nothing is happening?

Exactly. Just keep doing what we are doing.

This bank holiday weekend will be interesting, especially with the fine weather predicted. I see the guards will be focusing on beaches and popular tourist spots over the weekend and with good reason.  Could easily see packed beaches as a growing minority (including some of our politicans) seem to think the lockdown is over now and everything should go back to the way it was.

Alan Kelly for me has been an embarrassment with his demands to end lockdown restrictions since he took over as Labour leader. Pure populism and shows how desperate the party are to try and make themselves relevant again as a political party.

[J70]

US is going to pass 100K deaths today.

[pbat]

Driving along the canal in Dublin this evening at 17.00 it was party time.

[Rossfan]

Alan Kelly seems to be spouting contrarian stuff just to get a media profile and to outshine the SDP joint leaders who are poor speakers and get perceived as real leader of the opposition.
Martin starting to do similar now.
Can't ge wait till he's Taoiseach and raise the issues with NPHET?

[sid waddell]

Emily Maitlis has been removed from presenting tonight's edition of Newsnight by the BBC, simply for stating, correctly, that Dominic Cummings broke the lockdown rules.

This seems to be the way things are inexorably going under this Tory government, alright.

[seafoid]

Very interesting article


https://www.ft.com/content/121c2f30-9f69-11ea-ba68-3d5500196c30

A more informative factor than R is the "dispersion parameter", known as k, which captures how evenly a disease spreads. The higher k is, the more uniform the transmission. The lower k is, the more clustering there is

"The consistent pattern is that the most common number is zero," professor Jamie Lloyd-Smith, from the University of California, Los Angeles, told the journal Science. "Most people do not transmit."

Knowing that Covid-19 cases spread unevenly is a mixed blessing for the many countries, including the UK, which are still finalising their track and trace systems. 

They can focus on catching the relatively few events that spread the pandemic coronavirus explosively.
But it also means surveillance systems need to be comprehensive, quick and watertight

"If the pathogen is to be contained, then the analysis of its spread needs to be more granular than simply measuring R, the reproduction number. R is the average number of people a carrier passes the disease to, but is just that: an average."

Good news for lockdown possibly but bad news for matches

[armaghniac]

Good news for lockdown possibly but bad news for matches

Certainly not good news for spectators, as any sort of shouting or singing projects the virus and causes transmission.

There is now a huge amount of research on modes of transmission and the effectiveness of measures which hopefully will allow the fine tuning of measures.

[RadioGAAGAA]

"If the pathogen is to be contained, then the analysis of its spread needs to be more granular than simply measuring R, the reproduction number. R is the average number of people a carrier passes the disease to, but is just that: an average."

That is why you have track and trace!

Of course, the farseeing UK govt decided to ditch all that and sacrifice older folks to put up a facade of the NHS not failing.

[RadioGAAGAA]

Good news for lockdown possibly but bad news for matches

Certainly not good news for spectators, as any sort of shouting or singing projects the virus and causes transmission.

There is now a huge amount of research on modes of transmission and the effectiveness of measures which hopefully will allow the fine tuning of measures.

That body of research is also probably not good news for jogging around football pitches either.

[seafoid]

Irish economy to contract by 12%, ESRI forecasts

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/financial-services/irish-economy-to-contract-by-12-esri-forecasts-1.4264165

[johnnycool]

Emily Maitlis has been removed from presenting tonight's edition of Newsnight by the BBC, simply for stating, correctly, that Dominic Cummings broke the lockdown rules.

This seems to be the way things are inexorably going under this Tory government, alright.

BBC have been in the pocket of the Torys since Dave Cameron put a load of mates in high ranking positions when he was PM.

Maitlis and a few others, mostly females kinda row against their editorial line and get their wings clipped every once in a while.

Yet another car crash by Boris yesterday in front of a commons select committee, even the Torys on it were cutting holes in him, but he's still the man to "get Brexit done" and that's all that matters it seems.

Hancock is spectacular at the minute asking people to do their civic duty if called upon to isolate for 14 days and in the same breath say that Cummings did nothing wrong.

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