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Barry McGee

Software Engineer

Thoughts

RT @MatthewOToole2: This is too important to personalise but Boris Johnson is very bad at delivering a straight message. His journalistic a…

By refusing to mandate that anything closes, they’re giving implicit approval to keep them open... and by extension, giving a signal to millions to “keep calm and carry on”. Meanwhile, Italy are struggling to store their dead, never mind bury them. WTF??

UK Chief Scientific Advisor Patrick Vallance - “the mixing of young people in pubs and clubs really needs to stop” WHY THE FUCK AREN’T THEY CLOSED?

RT @nijay: @IanDunt He just said ‘I’m very confident we’ll get this thing done’. About a virus. I want to cry.

RT @BrewDogJames: The UK Government are fast asleep. They have hung the UK hospitality industry out to dry. Millions of people are losing t…

RT @BobandBerts: Some children only have one warm meal a day and that’s in our schools. If you normally get free school meals then as long…

@deeharvey GPs and medics should not be tied up with testing... will take a small lead time to train others in non-essential roles to do it instead but at least HSE has started. Here, we could have it with mild symptoms and recover easily but never know for sure. We could provide vital help

Fast forward two weeks... through widespread testing, RoI can confidently state they have a handle on this and their suppression measures are working. Meanwhile, in NI, we have no idea of numbers because we're not testing but hospital admissions are climbing rapidly... https://t.co/UETR42gGqf

Remembering that just over 3 months ago, our nurses were forced to strike in the pissing rain and forced to beg a Tory Secretary of State to pay them the same as their GB colleagues. Now, as we all scramble to run away from a killer virus, they are scrambling to run towards it. https://t.co/lbF4bLoUFG

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RT @BBCMarkSimpson: Bumped into a unionist today. Not a fan of the Irish Government. Never has been. But said, through gritted teeth: “I w…

RT @fehler: Government support needs to extend beyond big business. Urgently. “The Danish government will pay workers 75% of their salaries…

RT @fehler: Steve Barclay – Chief Secretary to the Treasury – on Channel 4 news, holding the line on the transition to Brexit. Businesses a…