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Barry McGee

Software Engineer

Thoughts

RT @Saraita101: People be like "big pharma are controlled by lizards to gain power" when they're just ordinary people screwing over the glo…

I've long wondered if people's apathetic/rebellious attitudes to common-sense measures in a pandemic would change if their children were more at risk - we might be about to find out. https://t.co/JJExvRys9U

RT @DanielCollins85: To suggest "we have to make NI work" is an implicit admission that, in all its one hundred years, it has never worked.…

@mhemmings Nice! I’ve a BGE myself.. usually do the ham in it but might do the turkey this year!

@brianoneill @kylegawley Nobody is checking them because we're one week into the two week grace period. In theory, after next week they'll be legally obliged to check them.

@mistereatgalway Maybe a mask would suffice? I don't know enough there to comment. On wider point, powers that be have really failed to educate populations that these polices at this scale are inevitably riddled with illogic and imperfection - watertight solutions are impossible.

@mistereatgalway People who are fully vaccinated against covid-19 are far less likely to infect others. Booster makes it less likely again. There's no silver bullet, no one measure will eradicate the risk but a myriad of measures will vastly reduce it.

RT @Shopify: ok so what's better than knowing you crushed it on black friday? *knowing* you crushed it on black friday. available today i…

@EmmaBostian Kept me away from my team and associated codebases for the first two weeks while I learned about the company mission, values, processes and most importantly, customers.