Listening to @EamonRyan on @SaturdayRTE deflect and evade questions of travel quarantine. A year into the pandemic. On an island.
How can anyone expect the @greenparty_ie to lead on difficult climate change policies when they won't take science seriously even in a pandemic?
Tomás Ryan
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Neuroscientist at @tcddublin| P.I. of @RyanLabTCD| @CIFAR_News Fellow
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- Today is the worst death toll of the pandemic and @DonnellyStephen is offering no serious strategy to prevent introduction of new variants. The proposed quarantine measures are a charade that can't succeed, and everyone knows it. #TonightVMTV #WeCanBeZero
- An evasive interview from @MichealMartinTD on @RTE_PrimeTime. . When a surge of infections happens for a 3rd time, it stops being 'unprecedented', and we start being simply 'unprepared'. A strategy that relies solely on vaccines is not a strategy. March 5th, what then? #rtept
- If @LeoVaradkar wants to discuss Perth, let's compare: Perth: 2021: 1 case, 0 deaths, 5 days of lockdown - & mostly normal life around it. Ireland 2021: >100,000 cases, >1,000 deaths, 2 - 3 months of lockdown, then hoping for Level 3 restrictions 🤔 #WeCanBeZero
- Alternative perspective: we are severely restricting 4.9 million people within a 5 km radius, partly because government is unwilling to enact adequate quarantine restrictions on a few thousand travellers.Pre Covid 560K people would have traveled during same period. We continue to demonise small number of people 7K who have negative tests before they travel and on return and will isolate anyway. If we continue this demonisation we won’t have an airline industry left post covid
- Please publicly recognise that COVID is airborne. Recommend FFP2/KN95 mask wearing in public. Ask all employers & state organisations to review air hygiene in their buildings. Encourage greater use of antigen testing (& provide guidelines). Anything less is ignoring the science.Replying to @DrTonyHolohan🔵washing hands regularly, 🔵keeping a safe distance from others, 🔵avoiding crowded places 🔵reducing social contacts as much as possible.
- That was close......Has the government been too slow to introduce mandatory hotel quarantining for people arriving in Ireland? We asked one thousand adults on our @AmarachResearch Smartphone Panel, and here's what they said: #cblive
- It has been 8 weeks since December 26th, and we have 9 more weeks of tight restrictions according to @MichealMartinTD. Since we are clearly in a 4+ month lockdown anyway, is there any reason not to aim for #ZeroCovid?State's tight restrictions to remain until May with a phased return of schools to begin next month, sources say, as case numbers plateau irishtimes.com/news/health/co…
- In 2023 - 141,600 people came to Ireland: - 29,600 returning Irish emigrants - 26,100 EU citizens - 4,800 from UK - 40,000 from Ukraine - 30,981 with work permits - 13,277 protection applicants While 64,000 emigrated. Housing is the problem. The solution is to build houses.Mick Clifford: Taoiseach's migration comments are a new low in Ireland's political vernacular irishexaminer.com/opinion/commen…
- Sending over PPE supplies from @tcddublin biology labs to @stjamesdublin. Many thanks to all the labs and staff that contributed. PCR machines next? #irishscientistsoncall #COVID19 #COVID19ireland
- We are literally weeks away from vaccinating children in Ireland, yet the policy is to allow them to be infected with Omicron. We need FFP2 masks, HEPA filters in all classrooms, testing in all schools, and staggered school reopening until child vaccination complete in February.Replying to @DrTonyHolohanHowever, given the very high and rising incidence of COVID-19 across all age groups in the community, it is inevitable that children will pick up this infection from household contacts in the days and weeks ahead.
- Ireland now has 2 week mandatory hotel quarantine in place for travelers originating from a list of 33 countries. But, there are exemptions for 8 different classes of traveler - including politicians. Or, you can just change planes in London.... 🤷♂️ gov.ie/en/publication…
- We don't owe our kids a thank you, we owe them an apology. We have ignored the science at almost every turn. Now we're heading into our 4th bout of restrictions due to lack of preventive planning & action. We have everything we need to do better. #COVIDisAirborne #VaccinesPlusTaoiseach Micheál Martin gives thanks to the children of Ireland, "you are a very special generation. Thank you for what you have done and for what you continue to do". | Read more: bit.ly/3G38e2S
00:00 - Friends & colleagues in the USA are vaccinating their children. In continental Europe, they're protecting their children in schools - with masks, air hygiene, and serial testing. In Ireland & the UK, we're just letting them get infected & ignoring the science of risk to kids.










