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A thread for good news - we could all use some right now!

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  • 24-03-2020 10:30am
    #1
    hkjohn
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    In the midst of all the horror stories about greedy ****ers barging their way into NHS- and OAP-designated shopping hours at supermarkets, It's heartening to read that there are still some decent people out there...

    From this morning's Guardian


    Irish doctors and nurses struggle to return

    Dozens of young Irish doctors and nurses have quit their jobs in Australia to return home to fight the pandemic but cannot get flights, leaving them in limbo, reports my colleague Rory Carroll in Dublin.

    Several airlines have suspended flights from Australia to Ireland and other routes are closed because of bans on transit through Singapore, Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

    Some business class flights remain available but are very expensive, prompting the medics to ask the Irish government to arrange a flight and if necessary charter a plane.

    “We are all ready and have quit our jobs,” Zoe Lynch, 27, part of a 65-strong group of doctors who have resigned posts in Perth, told the Irish Independent. “Some doctors were in senior positions. The hospitals in Perth have been totally supportive of our decision.”

    The department of foreign affairs said it was advising the medics but did not indicate if it would arrange a flight. It did so earlier this week for 135 citizens, mainly backpackers, stranded in Peru.

    Ireland has recorded 1,125 cases of coronavirus, and six deaths.

    Health officials and government ministers were expected on Tuesday to announce additional restrictions that will tighten a partial lockdown but not go as far as the UK’s.


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    #2
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Hello, tumbleweed! :pac:

    Precious little good news yet. :(


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    ILoveYourVibes
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    Well the fatality rate is very low.

    Even for people who are older 80-90 % of them recover.

    The majority of them recover. Even people as old as 80.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-uk-news-latest-chris-whitty-over-60s-survival-rate-a9377761.html

    Any shutdown here will honestly not be that much different to what we are doing now.

    And we will still be able to go out into nature etc.

    Um ..we can take this time to work on ourselves. Lose that weight ...follow that hobby.

    Commute times will be down.

    Also people are now no longer talking about brexit.


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    #4
    ILoveYourVibes
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    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    Hello, tumbleweed! :pac:

    Precious little good news yet. :(


    No we have to keep it going.

    I will try and post in here once a day. :)


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    gormdubhgorm
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    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

    Also people are now no longer talking about brexit.

    :D

    Or Sinn Fein....

    Seems there was no need of an election after all that. The caretaker government are going grand.

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



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    Dyr
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    gormdubhgorm wrote: »
    :D

    Or Sinn Fein....

    Seems there was no need of an election after all that. The caretaker government are going grand.


    Hopefully a few people will get back out in the sun take a look at themselves and wonder why they're so obsesssed with their little grudge

    Nah, ye won't :D


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