Is it the same sort of "Lockdown" that still expects builders and that to carry on working?Ireland has been placed under similar lockdown measures to the ones imposed in the UK following three more coronavirus-related deaths.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said residents should stay home until at least 12 April unless they were buying groceries, getting brief exercise or making essential family visits.
Almost all shops will be told to close and all gathering outside of families will be banned.
Public transport will be available only to essential workers and nobody should travel beyond 2km (1.2 miles) from their homes for any reason, he added
Those over the age of 70 or with chronic diseases will be told to stay in their homes without exception over the period, which begins at midnight
Mr Varadkar said: "I'm appealing to every man, woman and child to make these sacrifices for the love of each other.
"Show that you care for your family and friends: Stay home
He added that there was little more the government could do in terms of restrictions.
The restrictions come after three more deaths thought to be as a result of COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by coronavirus. One of the victims was a healthcare worker.
According to data compiled by US university Johns Hopkins, there are 2,121 coronavirus cases in Ireland, with 22 deaths recorded
All non essential i.e. health care, food production and distribution workers to remain at home until Easter here in Ireland. No outdoor gatherings of any number of people. Exercise within a 2km of your home once a day observing the 2m rule.that’s what I thought? So can only go out once to get food or exercise and can’t see anyone and need to stay two metres from everyone, been doing that fine, but apparently there is another level?
I take no joy in this but I think we may be starting to see the Atlethico effect. Liverpool cases jumped from 72 to 100 yesterday. A week ago they were way behind Manchester's figures. Now almost 50% more and appear to be accelerating quickly.
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/new...side-coronavirus-breakdown-liverpool-17991413
I’d laugh but it’s not funny.Is that to be sure, to be sure?
Tesco is my local shop, just 10 minutes walk from my front door. I've been in since Saturday, and I had to pop into work (7 mile drive) to pick up some kit. I dropped in on the way back.shop local mate. Local shops and butchers
I asked if you ever post anything positive and that’s your response?What are you playing at? Are you in favour of nasty and exploitative employers endangering the lives of their employees?
How would that fit with ‘patient 1’ in northern Italy, you know, the marathon runner who was an amateur footballer who was in ICU for five weeks?If second hand will do, my nursing lecturer friend (who's going to back on wards or perhaps teaching how to intubate patients) thinks it's more to do with general fitness. So despite several "underlying conditions", I can still run short sprints with no problem. They are underlying conditions (some probably typical for a man of my age) but not usually an issue, but I'm obviously more vulnerable than some.
He reckons there are 70 ICU beds in Manchester and they estimate they will need 500.
Why isn't the UK govt imposing stricter lockdown measures?
All across Europe epidemics are beginning to peak and the only significant measure that's driving that is isolation.
So why wouldn't you just tighten the lockdown?
What happens if you flatten the curve too much? It's tail gets larger and you end with disruption dragging on and on.
Does this sound valid? I don't know how much of the working population is doing BAU but a significant proportion is and according to the models I have seen this seriously undermines their effectiveness.
See this for example