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It's a mainly Ulster board. A lot of slabbering with agendas like Lennon being from Tyrone.That’s why the board is gone to shite
Very few from Munster. Not too many from Leinster really.
A lot register and don't even discuss Gaa
The figures on the COVID dashboard showing the ICU bed occupancy from COVID are frightening and the graph is going the wrong way.
https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiZGYxNjYzNmUtOTlmZS00ODAxLWE1YTEtMjA0NjZhMzlmN2JmIiwidCI6IjljOWEzMGRlLWQ4ZDctNGFhNC05NjAwLTRiZTc2MjVmZjZjNSIsImMiOjh9
The 5 day average is still trending upwards, but there does seem to be some hope in the single day figures, which were lower today.
Also, when they talk about percentage occupancy - I assume this is a percentage of current ICU capacity, and not historic capacity?
The CEO of the Northern Trust was on with Carruthers yesterday morning and was saying that they had almost doubled their ICU bed numbers in anticipation of this rise.
If that is the case, they are running at 150-200% of 'normal' ICU capacity.
Im defs going to land at somebodies door and offer them to he tarmac by end of 21, I can feel it in my bones.
Cancelled our 2021 holiday (already rearranged from 2020), now have vouchers for 2022. Was looking at a few spots, it's mad, was even considering staying in the black north, up near the North Coast is as bad as down south.
After today's Zoom we decided to look for a few house down the Whest... Mayo / Galway direction. Sweet christ, we've had 6 of us in Italy for a week cheaper. Gougin' hooers
That bad?
Was looking also to head down, was also looking at Cornwall!
United are pish, and so are we to be fair. We should be beating them handy even with half a team. City have it won now.
International travel for me will be interesting in the future. Case numbers will increase as we ease restrictions, albeit there will be less people dying and needing hospital care as the vaccine works. The more people get covid, the more chance of variants evolving around the world. I don’t think a Vaccine passport will cut it, as travellers although showing no symptoms may still be carrying Covid from country to country. I can see the need for a negative test before travel remaining for quite a while, will these be free or will governments see it as an opportunity to make money? Variants are very much the enemy here, lately we have seen scientists/health officials talking about them a lot more and there is obviously a reason for that. We have missed a huge opportunity at the beginning of this to follow the New Zealand model, will they stay with this model until here immunity is achieved which could be years or will they open up the country again thus allowing the virus back in? Interesting times ahead.
Yeah missed the boat on the New Zealand model because this government is weak as Diarrhea
International travel circulates virus from country to country, why we continue to allow people in will go down as the worst judgement call ever
Getting vaccine next week, can’t wait
. In all seriousness, good man MR2. The roll out is going very well in this part of the world. Over 70s and maybe a rung below by mid-Feb?
I'd love to get a London job in the current environment and live in NI. I don't think anyone in my industry will ever be back in the office full time so I think in theory it should be possible and good for NI wages. My company has got rid of its belfast city centre office completely, we now have an office outside Belfast with only 25% capacity.
Have a friend based in London who works in IT in the City. Management already having discussions about different pay scales for those "living outside the commuter belt".
He's lucky enough to be in a position where he can tell them to get fucked and is going to move to Edinburgh and commute 2/3 days every fortnight on his own dime as required, but that'll not be the standard for sure
Is anyone optimistic about a return to any sort of normality sometime this year e.g. restaurants and pubs reopening, crowds at sporting events, theatres, concerts, reduced social distancing etc?
I was more optimistic in December than I am now given the rate of the vaccine rollout. To me, it should be a 24x7 effort until everyone has it, but supplies seem to be preventing any sort of mass nationwide roll out.
All of 2021 will be similar to 2020. Maybe a couple of weeks here and there for cafes/pubs opening up with distancing/shields etc, only to be closed again.
I think you could be right here, the fact that the vaccine doesn’t stop people carrying or spreading Covid will see restrictions continue I think. Testing, tracing, isolating, masks and social distancing could be here for a while I think, obviously if there are less people in hospitals the restrictions may not have to be as severe but I think they will continue to some degree. We then also have the potential large number of people who will refuse the vaccine getting sick and potentially needing hospital treatment. I’ll be watching with interest to see how countries deal with the new variants from other countries, they seem to be worried about these new variants. It’s all a guessing game at this point, I thought the vaccine would be the end game in all this, I’m not so sure now.
I.think. that by September enough should have been vaccinated for things to.restart
Lár na Páirce, a chara!M’anam ón diabhal, you had me worried afor a while but I had made that clear from the start when I responded to sid and the rest, as the old saying goes, is history.
Do I agree with Sid?! As you correctly state - sin ceist eile! I do not agree that RTÉ should have had to issue an apology. If the sketch had been this weekend, after the Mother-and-Baby-Homes Report, I doubt if Archbishop Martin would have spoken on the matter at all.
We are an Irish-speaking family. If we felt that you are mocking our language by bastardising the spelling of Lár na Páirce, would you feel a need to apologise for the hurt caused?!
The origin of my handle goes back to the day I was stuck in a pub watching a Railway Cup game on TV.
Mar is eol duit, the commentary was as Gaeilge.
The guy sitting beside me was one mean looking individual. Six feet plus and built like a tank, the tight crew cut was a giveaway. An American marine was my neighbour and I felt slightly uneasy in case he objected to my presence in any way. I had sat down before I noticed that there were empty seats on either side of him.
I felt unsettled by his presence as he sat there glued to the box. His expression never changed but I could see from his eye movements that he was following the game closely.
All the time, for the duration of the game, he did not utter a word, just signalled to the barman when he wanted a refill. The drink was neat whiskey and the refills came every ten minutes or so. Not a word all the while from mo dhuine.
I was relieved when the game ended and I went to stand up.
The yank beat me to it.
He stood up, polished off his last drink and turned to me, looking me straight in the eye.
“Friend, I don’t know what that game is about and I sure caan’t follow the lingo but I'll tell you what…”
He put down the glass and then said , “ there sure is one thing I do know and that Lar guy is one hell of a player.”
He could see that I couldn’t understand. I could sense he was a little bit annoyed so I wasn’t going to disagree with him.
“Oh, I see what you mean I said. Which Lar did you have in mind?”
He looked at me as if I was a born fool, which I felt I was and was feeling more so by each passing second.
“Which Lar,?” sez he, “ there was only one standout player in that game and that was Lar Naparka.
Years later when I came across gaaboard, I had no problem cooking up with my handle.
. Brilliant Lar
Do you ever ask yourself who the WHO really are? The fact they have their HQ in Switzerland says a lot. I wouldn’t trust everything they come out with.
