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This anecdotal, observational thread is highly critical of infection control practices at Dublin Airport and highly praising of Doha Airport.
Cool, lets see how that's all working out then, with a bit of discussion to follow:
Cases per million:
Qatar: 35,543
Ireland: 5,169 https://twitter.com/PhilipSBrett/status/1279754649592102912
Cool, lets see how that's all working out then, with a bit of discussion to follow:
Cases per million:
Qatar: 35,543
Ireland: 5,169 https://twitter.com/PhilipSBrett/status/1279754649592102912
Anecdotal tweets aren't worthless but pinch of salt.
Daily I see one person saying "good job staff at [X], 70% wearing masks well done" followed by a tweet from someone else minutes later "FFS nobody wearing masks at [X] except for me".
Truth tends to be towards middle.
Daily I see one person saying "good job staff at [X], 70% wearing masks well done" followed by a tweet from someone else minutes later "FFS nobody wearing masks at [X] except for me".
Truth tends to be towards middle.
Sometimes, both are true.
Thousands of people work in international airports. In the course of passing through one, you're likely to encounter a few dozen.
If you're looking at 60% mask uptake in staff, that can look like 0% or 100% depending on which staff you actually see.
Thousands of people work in international airports. In the course of passing through one, you're likely to encounter a few dozen.
If you're looking at 60% mask uptake in staff, that can look like 0% or 100% depending on which staff you actually see.
I wouldn't be singing the praises of Qatar's infection control practices, that's for sure.
His anecdotal version of what's happening on the ground in Doha Airport doesn't tally extremely well with their rampant infection levels, in their mostly migrant worker population.
His anecdotal version of what's happening on the ground in Doha Airport doesn't tally extremely well with their rampant infection levels, in their mostly migrant worker population.
You can't even simply assume that Qatar's low death toll is accurate. It might be...
Their pneumonia deaths are way up, for one thing, but this is the country where 1,300 Nepali migrants died of heatstroke and they kept that fact to themselves until The Guardian went digging.
Their pneumonia deaths are way up, for one thing, but this is the country where 1,300 Nepali migrants died of heatstroke and they kept that fact to themselves until The Guardian went digging.
Whereas we have stronger evidence that whatever Dublin Airport is doing, is working better than Doha.
Dublin been running flights throughout the pandemic and there's been a ramp-up in the past 6 weeks, yet no noticeable spillover into the community.
Keep it up Dublin Airport.
Dublin been running flights throughout the pandemic and there's been a ramp-up in the past 6 weeks, yet no noticeable spillover into the community.
Keep it up Dublin Airport.
He also mentioned Incheon Airport.
Last 14 days, new cases:
Qatar: 3,711
South Korea: 337
Ireland: 148
Controlled for Ireland's population:
Qatar: 6,642
Ireland: 148
South Korea: 34
Right but South Korea all-but-abandoned mass-testing, so that tells us very little.
Last 14 days, new cases:
Qatar: 3,711
South Korea: 337
Ireland: 148
Controlled for Ireland's population:
Qatar: 6,642
Ireland: 148
South Korea: 34
Right but South Korea all-but-abandoned mass-testing, so that tells us very little.
Tests per million:
Ireland: 91,977
South Korea: 25,976
Part of the reason South Korea abandoned it, is they rely on an authoritarian-style contact tracing system, where they track your every movement via your phone data, CCTV and credit card usage.
Ireland: 91,977
South Korea: 25,976
Part of the reason South Korea abandoned it, is they rely on an authoritarian-style contact tracing system, where they track your every movement via your phone data, CCTV and credit card usage.
Wonderful, except if Leo or Micheál told us they'll be watching us on CCTV in Supervalu & checking what ATM's we visited - there'd be riots.
Ireland rely on mass testing and for society to show common sense - to keep contacts low, preferably to people you can name.
Ireland rely on mass testing and for society to show common sense - to keep contacts low, preferably to people you can name.
It's easy to live abroad and shit all over Ireland, and people these days even make a living from it.
Reality is our incidence of infection in this country is extremely low and I refuse to believe it's so low despite Dublin Airport being incompetent or a sieve for infection.
Reality is our incidence of infection in this country is extremely low and I refuse to believe it's so low despite Dublin Airport being incompetent or a sieve for infection.
What's more likely to my mind is Dublin Airport have done a good job on infection control.
I'm sure they can do better because we all can.
As you saw from Dame Lane, where people were in groups of 10, despite it being very possible to have a good night out with 3 of your pals.
I'm sure they can do better because we all can.
As you saw from Dame Lane, where people were in groups of 10, despite it being very possible to have a good night out with 3 of your pals.
The instinct to crap all over what we do in this country is an interesting one.
For where we live, we responded to covid19 exceptionally and we continue to do so.
Doha was not in the global epicenter of covid19.
Dublin was.
We've 7x fewer infections despite this.
For where we live, we responded to covid19 exceptionally and we continue to do so.
Doha was not in the global epicenter of covid19.
Dublin was.
We've 7x fewer infections despite this.
We can all do better to keep this virus contained and suppressed.
But make no mistake, you're all doing an excellent job as it stands - the numbers for the past 30 days bear that out, with every metric from hospitalisations, ICU, positivity rates showing it.
Keep it up.
But make no mistake, you're all doing an excellent job as it stands - the numbers for the past 30 days bear that out, with every metric from hospitalisations, ICU, positivity rates showing it.
Keep it up.
