Sam McConkey

I loved Sarah Moss’s poetic memoirs- she does for anorexia what A Beautiful Mind does for schizophrenia and A Curious Incident does for ASD

@southrockbuoy 93kt gust

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So far, a good outcome for COVID19 population health in Ireland, just 1 in 4000 excess deaths in 2020-2021 here, compared to 1 in 400 in UK and shocking 1 in 70 of people dead in Bolivia, based on Wang et al. from Seattle in the Lancet #tables" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Spent 2h laughing last night, behind my mask,with @AnneGildea’s … Menopause… @VikingTheatre Clontarf. In 6 words Bill Connolly meets The Vagina Monologue

I stand with The Rev Katherine Meyer and leaders in Christ Church, in Sandymount Dublin at this time

Presbyterian Church causes scandal to Christianity by bitter and unloving bigotry. Solidarity with Katherine Meyer. A brave and honest woman. bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

In the face of the unknown an other way forwards for Ireland: cautiously open ventilated spaced-out in-door hospitality, and agree to more social distancing again if SARS CoV2 7-day average cases here rise over 1000 per day. And vaccinate us ASAP.

Great news, the vaccines work. See how very very few of over 65year in Ireland got SARS CoV2 in last 2 weeks. hpsc.ie/a-z/respirator…

In UK there is a steady increase in SARS CoV2 cases in the last 20 days. Sequencing, vaccination status and variants results are not out yet. Hospitalizations are rising there too. 2-3% of cases are sick enough for hospital care. Quarantine and control of movement is needed.

20 ways the Irish government could do more! 20) Scale up vaccination as much as possible while recognizing supply limitations. #CovidZero #COVID19 #CovidIreland

20 ways the Irish government could do more! 19) Send an outbreak response team to each possible outbreak location to: - offer help - perform pop-up testing - clean and sanitize - investigate causal factors - plan solutions to stop transmission #CovidZero #COVID19 #CovidIreland

20 ways the Irish government could do more! 2) Implement full COVID related sick-pay so people do not go to work sick. #CovidZero #COVID19 #CovidIreland