Yeah. That's going full China. You never want to go full China.
We've a backlog of about 60,000 tests sent to Germany. Those're being chewed through - which suggests the results of the last week or so were being held down by limited testing. As it is, the hospitals and ICU's aren't coming under extreme pressure - they're hoping for a steady 100 and it's at 150 - with some spare capacity in it still to be used.
Deaths have been trucking along between 20 and 36 for the last week or two. The majority of them are over 80 and in nursing homes where it's been running through like a housefire. We've 300 deaths and ICU admissions (total - including those who've recovered and left) are around 250. Most nursing home residents are not even going to hospital - they're just letting most them peacefully pass in comfort in a peaceful place.
Parents have recovered from Corvids. Now they're getting scorpy looks from the culchies for being the ones who brought it down there - despite getting it down there from someone they knew.
The big problem out of this is mental health.
70% of people are reporting severe worries
50% of people are reporting severe worries for their families.
The lockdown will go on until May the 5th.
It's almost impossible to get out of Dublin without being turned back by a police checkpoint.
It's also very quickly morphing into a toxic soup of us-v-them between the rest of Ireland and Dublin - with Dublin being the host of the majority of cases, there're threats being made against holiday-home owners who got out of the density weeks before it kicked off.
Driving most places at well beyond speed limit is the new normal.
The sun is out. People are inside.
500,000 are on the dole.
Another 200,000 are having 2/3rds of their salary paid by the government to keep small businesses ticking along so the economy restarts properly.
We've a backlog of about 60,000 tests sent to Germany. Those're being chewed through - which suggests the results of the last week or so were being held down by limited testing. As it is, the hospitals and ICU's aren't coming under extreme pressure - they're hoping for a steady 100 and it's at 150 - with some spare capacity in it still to be used.
Deaths have been trucking along between 20 and 36 for the last week or two. The majority of them are over 80 and in nursing homes where it's been running through like a housefire. We've 300 deaths and ICU admissions (total - including those who've recovered and left) are around 250. Most nursing home residents are not even going to hospital - they're just letting most them peacefully pass in comfort in a peaceful place.
Parents have recovered from Corvids. Now they're getting scorpy looks from the culchies for being the ones who brought it down there - despite getting it down there from someone they knew.
The big problem out of this is mental health.
70% of people are reporting severe worries
50% of people are reporting severe worries for their families.
The lockdown will go on until May the 5th.
It's almost impossible to get out of Dublin without being turned back by a police checkpoint.
It's also very quickly morphing into a toxic soup of us-v-them between the rest of Ireland and Dublin - with Dublin being the host of the majority of cases, there're threats being made against holiday-home owners who got out of the density weeks before it kicked off.
Driving most places at well beyond speed limit is the new normal.
The sun is out. People are inside.
500,000 are on the dole.
Another 200,000 are having 2/3rds of their salary paid by the government to keep small businesses ticking along so the economy restarts properly.
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.