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Welcome To the Blog’s Covid-19 Special! Wooooooo! (I Might be dead by next week) Woo!
A little context before we begin, as it’s easter week, and in the guidelines it says we don’t have to write one for this week, i’m going completly off book, not mentioning what i’ve done and use this post as a scarttering of my general thoughts and feelings surrounding COVID-19 and some peoples impending doom, this post visually will be like as a Paintball Shotgun shot to a white wall.
Now to provide a bit of structure, here’s morpheous
So now, with you taking the Red Pill, lets talk about the bad, and oh boy, there’s lots to discuss. At time of writing(here in Ireland) we’ve been under lockdown for almost a month now, on the one hand the month has gone by pretty quickly, on the other, it’s been a month. A month where i have tried to soak in as much information about this as possible, one of my first thoughts being,”oh seán, you were so very wrong about this” that being my mistake in judging the scale of this, initially back in January, when it was just Sars’ Faster but weaker younger brother. The initial response from a collection of the biggest nations in the west, was…..how shall i put it…. Fucked. The initial couple weeks with Boris and Donald dragging their heals to doing the right thing, this speech from Larry Kramer, a Aids activist in the 1980s kept getting recycled in my head, he ends his plea for greater activism and awareness with the brutality pessimistic line “If we don’t get our act together,We are as good. as. dead.
Now i know the scale of both disease aren’t similar but the generational impact is the same, this is something that defines a lifetime, ” I was there, when i happened” “When i was young i lived through a pandemic”, Covid-19 creates this reaction because for the first time in mine and in many others lives, not ever have we seen something of this scale that the world grinds to a halt, a biblical event. People dying by the thousands everyday, it truly is a dark time, a time where our world is shown how fickle it is and how one action can trigger the stagnation of 7.7 billion people.
One positive in this section and (get your pitchforks and torches ready) has been here,us,Ireland. It’s this sort of response that make me glad that i voted Fine Gael, i believe and i know this isn’t the time to get political but i believe that if he handles the rest of this pandemic as well as he’s handled it so far, i’d put money on Simon Harris becoming Taoiseach some day.
Now i’m paranoid at the best of times but oh boy, this month has been emotional,on top of me believing i have the disease every time i sneeze and my mother coming down with a chest infection, while out at work it’s certainly been emotional
Okay, now with my paranoria out of the way, lets get down to facts,current projections and other minor stuff
So let’s jump back out of the rabbit whole and take the other pill
So, on the other hand, or in the other pill. Let’s try and inject a bit of reason into this, that usually helps. So with all i can gather the best estimate that i can make is that my the end of the month of April, we should see (if the measures put in place have worked) the number of active cases in Ireland peak and start to decline.
Based on the numbers and graphs on –https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ (Which has been the only thing keeping my sane for the last month)
The hardest hit areas like Italy and Spain are right now hitting their peak. Germany,Austria,Austrailia and New Zealand and South Korea at the moment are seeing a steady/but slow decline.
While the States,Belgium,France,the UK and us are weeks away from potentially hitting their peak.
There is still no conformation, if a second wave it going to hit. I’ve seen a lot of theories but until they’re concrete i don’t think about them. The theory i’m most worried about,(it’s a theory,so i could be bull,we’re not sure yet) is that of china(that man has provided me with so much laughter and paranoia over the last month) and whether or not the numbers they’re realising are correct, now all numbers aren’t correct,there are cases that aren’t and will never be counted to the data isn’t air tight but the numbers coming out of china about how quickly the outbreak has decreased are, well…..
And that’s just about it i suppose,still working,still reading, still breathing.
To end here’s my weekly recommendations.
For those my age that have seen “The Lighhouse”, you’re welcome.
For a Movie recommendation, about good journalism,here’s a scene from “Spotlight”
Aaaaand for the theme tune for this whole Pandemic and my sign off for this week. Ladies, Gentelman and all the rest….R.E.M.
I hope you are doing well, i hope you are healthy and i hope you’ll come back next week to read more about me. CaUsE i’M SpEcIaL……..
Mind Yourself
Seán
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