CoVid19 Part XI - 2,615 in ROI (46 deaths) 410 in NI (21 deaths)(29/03)*OP upd 28/03*

Ninthlife wrote: »

I had an idea, the whole PPE issue and purchasing it.

What if the likes of me wanted to donate towards purchasing ir to the cost of purchasing. In a way of giving.

Would people pay into a National GoFindMe where its used to purchase PPE

Remember Beasty used to do one at Xmas for kids hospitals etc

Would people here do similar....might be better than a round of applause

For everyone's benefit, I'll post here some comments I have made to Ninthlife and will be picking up in the Admin forum

"Just thinking about it, the main issue with PPE at present is availability. If it's available someone will buy it and the Governments are going to have first call (rightly so), and can prioritise appropriately within their own jurisdiction

What I liked about SSF was relatively small amounts can make a big difference.

Just did a quick search and there are about 100,000 HSE employees in Ireland. Trying to do something across the board is unrealistic. Equally I don't think anything we do should benefit one region over another

The Government will continue to throw money at this, and anything we can do will be a drop in the ocean

So putting my thinking cap on

Is there a discrete part of the HSE we can help?

Is there a discrete way in which we can help?

Manual help is one idea, but with contact restrictions may be impractical

Maybe there is some small thing we can do, somewhere, that can make a few people smile. As I type I'm thinking, so far with no bright lights coming on.

These people are going to be incredibly stressed over a long time. Can we help relieve that in any way? I'm not sure/ We've had nearly 3,000 people viewing the forum when the updated figures are released. Could we mobilise 500 of them? The HSE already has some volunteers, I think (the NHS in the UK has many volunteering)

Can we act as drivers, taking things from one place to another? Can we build up a fund to do something special for the HSE at the end of all this? (whenever that may be)

We have plenty of people reading and contributing to the forum. Maybe we can start a thread. What can we, as a Boards community, think of that may help. That may be at a local or national level; it may be help in logistics, or monetary help. It might just be buying HSE employees a coffee. It may be somewhere for people to make suggestions, or even ask for a little help while this is going on

I know I'm rambling, but it's a great topic in itself and I'm trying to get my points down as I think of them. I think there probably are quite a few things we can do by engaging with users, those who may be directly affected by this, and some of those on the front line

I'm going to start a discussion at Admin level, using this reply as a starting point. We've already got Dev onboard and between us all I'm sure there is some way in which we can make a difference to some, so than you very much for getting my brain ticking over on this"

castletownman wrote: »

It's good to see 22 of our elected TD's crammed into the Dail chamber for a special meeting during a public health emergency.

They have reduced numbers because of social distancing requirements. Same as the UK Parliament - they are doing it to set an example!!