CoVid19 Part XIV - 8,089 in ROI (288 deaths) 1,589 in NI (92 deaths) (10/04) Read OP

Not at all relevant to Ireland but Vietnam is still doing extremely well. Probably the best of any normal non-Pacific island sort of country. The ability to take measures entirely unpalatable to most countries seems to be paying off. I'd say normal inward flights are mostly done for a long time and any that will be allowed will have forced two-week quarantine.

There is a ticking timebomb though because of an outbreak at a hospital last week or the week before. The response to that was extremely controversial with prominent people in government publicly criticising it. Huge uproar on social media as well. From reading about it, it feels like there was a breakdown in the power structure and local authorities acted outside of what the government wanted and before they could be stopped. They moved five thousand patients to other hospitals, and if it goes wrong, it was an enormous mistake and heads will roll. "Releasing chickens and chasing after them" is how one politician worded it.

Happy enough to be riding it out here. Brother lives in the same apartment building so not lonely. Lots of cooking. Lots of coding. Lots of beers. Shops fully stocked and getting half pay for sitting at home. A private tracker I'm on has pretty much all of the Great Courses content so I'm spending some time every day watching lectures. At the moment, I'm making my way through The Rise of Rome. My brother has started learning Javascript so I'm helping him with that, and another friend wants to learn Python and SQL for a possible future in data analysis so I'll do that with him.

This is a very good time to be learning something and I'd recommend https://www.freecodecamp.org to anyone interested in coding. There are also great Excel courses that can legitimately help your career. People think it's like magic when you're good at it.