The Government response seems a bit made up as they go along (although maybe what else can they do). But if the Rugby should be cancelled then cancel it, don't just invite the IRFU to cancel it. I guess they are more worried about compensation claims than the Coronavirus. Offer future flight vouchers or some such to those who were due to travel from Italy for the match.If the match doesn't go ahead there's nothing , at the moment, to stop those Italians with flights and accommodation already booked coming over here for the weekend.
The Government response seems a bit made up as they go along (although maybe what else can they do). But if the Rugby should be cancelled then cancel it, don't just invite the IRFU to cancel it. I guess they are more worried about compensation claims than the Coronavirus. Offer future flight vouchers or some such to those who were due to travel from Italy for the match.
. What do you you want them to do? Close down the country?
One has to ask who has a better handle on the situation, the IRFU or the National Public Health Emergency Team. If it's the latter and they say the match should be cancelled then they should insist on same rather than invite the IRFU, who have a vested interest, to decide.They advised the appropriate organisation on what they SHOULD do. What do you you want them to do? Close down the country?
That they can't do everything is not a reason to do nothing. But woolly non-decisions and hand-wringing is no good to anyone. I'm not overly confident in the politicians involved either.But if they are going to cancel the rugby on the 7th March, I presume Patricks Day on the 17th March is also cancelled. I also presume . .
Aircraft are not being properly cleaned.
One has to ask who has a better handle on the situation, the IRFU or the National Public Health Emergency Team. If it's the latter and they say the match should be cancelled then they should insist on same rather than invite the IRFU, who have a vested interest, to decide.
That they can't do everything is not a reason to do nothing. But woolly non-decisions and hand-wringing is no good to anyone. I'm not overly confident in the politicians involved either.
I was on a train this morning with a load of Italian students. Why are they allowed come but rugby supporters can't?
They advised the appropriate organisation on what they SHOULD do. What do you you want them to do? Close down the country?
As usually happens when events like this are cancelled, the vast majority of those rugby supporters will travel to Ireland that weekend. Why wouldn't they?
But that's the point. Why cancel the match unless you are putting in a travel ban. Are you more at risk going to Aviva stadium than 20 Italian supporters deciding to come over and do a pub crawl in Temple bar that weekend. Calling off the match makes no sense.
Thankfully.Thankfully you didn't run for election so didn't have to make decisions for the rest of the country.
Indeed. Maybe if the IRFU issue a statement that "sure it'll be grand" it will put my mind at ease.Simply a matter of not getting carried away with all the hysteria at the moment.
Why cancel the match unless you are putting in a travel ban.
If you infect 5 random people on a flight of 200 that's a bad problem, if you infect 5 random people out of 50,000 that's a terrible problem. In terms of containment it is 250 times worse.
In the first instance the health authorities have some chance of back tracking over contacts and containing the spread, in the second even if you know it's due to the match you've much less chance of containing the subsequent spread.
A pointless match against Italy (they exist in the competition solely to create 3 matches a weekend) versus still unlikely but possible community spread of this virus. It's not really a choice - cancel the match.
The decision just smacks of people desperate to make a statement of intent to show they are taking it seriously.
Any possibility it's the genuine considered opinion of the National Public Health Emergency Team?Exactly, it's a nonsense move to placate scaremongers.
It's the National Public Health Emergency Team calling for the rugby to be cancelled. I guess (hope) they have more pertinent information than the general public. The current European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control advice on what constitutes close contact is interesting. Reading it I'd expect more chance of contagion in the Aviva than in Aldi.Has anyone calling for the rugby to be cancelled started quarantining themselves and their families yet?
Reading it I'd expect more chance of contagion in the Aviva than in Aldi.
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