Brendan Burgess
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The mind boggles . . . but in the UK banning other countries (no matter how well that country handled the virus situation) deflects public attention from the doings of the Prime Minister and his underlings. [just my opinion].I am trying to understand why countries have 14 days quarantine on visitors from abroad.
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But why is Britain with a high incidence of the virus banning visitors from countries with a much lower level?
If we had quarantined everywhere back in October, it would have worked.
And if Ireland becomes virus-free, it might be necessary to keep the virus out.
But if we allow travel within Ireland at some stage, why would we not allow travel from outside Ireland?
Brendan
I suspect it's just designed to discourage travel and keep numbers of tourists low. Just a very blunt sledgehammer approach as there is no workable scalpel option to target just those who might be carrying the virus.
I would be also interested in finding out about such a facility, if anyone is aware of it. I think it would make great sense to have everyone tested on arrival at the airport, send them to self-isolate and give them their results once they come in. It wouldn't catch every infection but it would catch a lot more than they are catching at the moment.A|re there any private testing facilities available? If someone arrives in Dublin airport can they get a test done and isolate until the results are in?
I think that may be the medium term solution. We need to plan for living with Covid19 for the next few years and construct the infrastructure we need accordingly. Fast reliable testing is paramount if we are to reopen the country.The tests don't detect the virus early in the incubation period, so you'd need to test again a week or more later.
I haven't heard of any private swabbing service, there are some FDA approved self-check kits in the states costing around $120, but the challenge here is the majority of people won't go deep enough with the swab to get a proper sample. A lot of the false negative results are being attributed to poor swab technique. Saliva tests are being developed that will greatly simplify that though.
I believe most of the private labs with the capability were taken over / are contracted to support state testing. Earlier this month the HSE said they had 46 different public and private labs around the country giving them a capacity of 15,000 tests a day at a cost of €450M this year. In the first few days of July, Dublin airport was seeing 9,500 passengers a day, (2019 average was over 90k a day) so we'd need to be building more labs and training a lot more testers to offer significant levels of testing there.
Fast reliable testing is paramount if we are to reopen the country.
Yea, we need a hard border with the UK. Build a Wall and make the Brits pay for it!Government still faffing about in this and can't make a decision on the green list, they only using Michael Martin being in Brussels as an excuse. Can fly back through Belfast anyways and drive back down
I heard a discussion on the wireless and the gist of it was that they should be bussed/transported to a hotel which the State rents and kept there for 14 days. There's plenty of hotels near the airport.Has anyone seen suggestions from those calling for a full quarantine of visitors arriving from abroad on how it might actually work?
I heard a discussion on the wireless and the gist of it was that they should be bussed/transported to a hotel which the State rents and kept there for 14 days. There's plenty of hotels near the airport.
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