Ginger n Lemon wrote: » More good news, for us this time " A COVID-19 antibody test, said to be 99.8% accurate, could soon be available in Ireland. The test has been developed by Swiss giant Roche Diagnostics and has already been approved for use in the US. The company, which has a base in Dublin, said its Elecsys test has a specificity greater than 99.8% and sensitivity of 100% - meaning it gives no false negative results and only one in 500 false positives. The antibody test indicates whether a patient has been exposed to the virus and recovered."Boy i'd love this. I got to fly to Spain end of August, would be pretty handy to get such test, hopefully I've had covid and off I go enjoying beer in south of Spain without any fears of being stopped at checkpoints for mask inspection whatnot.
Cork Boy 53 wrote: » You have a vivid imagination if you believe that will happen.
stephenjmcd wrote: » https://twitter.com/AP_Europe/status/1258068581260103680?s=19
Ginger n Lemon wrote: Boy i'd love this. I got to fly to Spain end of August, would be pretty handy to get such test, hopefully I've had covid and off I go enjoying beer in south of Spain without any fears of being stopped at checkpoints for mask inspection whatnot.
alwald wrote: » Your motivation to open up everything ASAP is clearer now!!
hopalongcass wrote: » Well i am assuming you to be reasonably intelligent,and now i noticed your profile is since 2008 so if you are of a certain age and have reasonable intelligence,how can you not have seen what this government and all previous governments in your lifetime have done?It could be simply cognitive dissonance but the absolute contempt these politicians have shown toward its own people is on a level rarely seen in the world. I personally think losing our language leaves us with little in common patriotically speaking and half of us have secret desires to be British.While a lot of other countries have their own common language it makes them a bit more patriotic towards their brethren and don't inflict the kind of misery on their own people if they can possibly avoid it,whereas its the first option for our leaders. While spending their way out a recession will work for Britain and America since they have plenty of their own production so while they are borrowing and spending they are buying a lot of their PPE and ventilators from companies in their respective countries thus stimulating their economies,this won't work for us we cannot even pick strawberries or manufacture face masks let alone ventilators. We have to send hundreds and hundreds of millions to China for simple masks,i wouldn't even like to hazard a guess on how much we are paying the British and Americans for ventilators,sad fact is we are unable to produce anything at this point ,we rely on being a tax haven and manufacture practically nothing indigenously,so spending isn't helping our economy in any way.We are just building other economies on the backs of our children its shameful and anyone endorsing this as an Irish person should be ashamed. As for printing money just i don't know if you are serious or not but you cannot just print money ad infinitum without consequences,money is just a representation of value,you can only print so much money.And even if that were true and worked Germany holds all the power in that area and they ain't coming to anyone's rescue.
jmayo wrote: » As with all your posts so far you are talking a lot out of your ass. In fact we do produce ventilators, primarily for export and we do purchase ventilators from US based companies. Medtronic, formerly Covidien Healthcare, in Galway was aiming to knock out 1000 ventilators a week. Now both of these are in theory Irish based companies since HQed here, but really they are US founded and US run. But that doesn't negate from fact we do build ventilators and a fooking lot of them. Hell isn't trump bellowing that medical production needs to be brought back to US from China and Ireland. Now due to way world works the ones we build are going somewhere else and the ones we use are coming from somewhere else. That is modern trade. And as for your patriotic cr** and seeing language as some sort of binding agent for a nation. Maybe just stay off the sauce.
LiquidZeb wrote: » Well the banks seemed to do alright after the last crisis they seem to weather every storm. If you don't want to question your betters that's up to you to tug your forelock.
Deleted User wrote: » “We will have to, in some way, pay for this in the future”. Pascal I wonder how far into the future he means. Maybe next month?
easypazz wrote: » Open the fcuking country. Improve testing. Shield the vulnerable groups Social distance as much as is practical. Temporary hospital capacity available at a realistic price, and available at short notice, as in have access to parts of state owned facilities Army to store sufficient medical equipment so that additional hospital capacity can be made available at short notice. Do it all by the end of June, this July 20th to travel 20kM and August 10th to partial opening of bars etc. is not a realistic plan at all.
[Deleted User] wrote: » “We will have to, in some way, pay for this in the future”. Pascal I wonder how far into the future he means. Maybe next month?
Quantum Erasure wrote: » It'll never be paid off, the ECB should give unconditional loans to cover it
road_high wrote: » Why “should” they? If other countries can get their economy back running I don’t see why we are some kind of special (basket) case
road_high wrote: » Softening the waters before the big cuts are brought in. PS pay and welfare will be first in line because without hefty cuts there the savings won’t amount to very much.
tobefrank321 wrote: » Instead of journalists asking questions at the daily briefings about hairdressers maybe they could ask intelligent questions about antibody tests and the availability of remdesivir?
olestoepoke wrote: » At what stage can we let the kids back out to play with their friends. This has been the most challenging aspect for us as a family. Children are going crazy, frustrated, not good for their mental health.
is_that_so wrote: » It looks like Phase 3 or 4 so June/July.https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/e5e599-government-publishes-roadmap-to-ease-covid-19-restrictions-and-reope/
Galwayguy35 wrote: » how can anyone expect kids to stay locked in all summer, its pure lunacy.
snowcat wrote: » Bonkers. There is evidence that kids are not vectors in this. We really need to start learning from this, shield the vulnerable and try and get life returning to normal for the vast majority of people.
Assetbacked wrote: » https://www.irishtimes.com/business/retail-and-services/bewley-s-on-grafton-street-to-close-permanently-with-loss-of-110-jobs-1.4246773?mode=amp Bewley's throwing in the towel with the loss of 110 jobs. Not the first and not the last big hospitality name I'm sure.
road_high wrote: » Schools have started back weeks ago now in many European neighbours. We have this really lax attitude to school attendance here as demonstrated by our very long school holidays. Two month hole at the peak of the school calendar is already mental, not to mention bringing it out to September. They should go back 18th May and go right to end June - secondary and national schools.
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