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DOCTOR Tony Holohan laughed and glanced cheekily after being asked a question about “partitioning the wedding speech.”
The medical director struggled to suppress a chuckle after being questioned whether a wedding could see 25 guests in one room and 25 in another with a partition for speeches.
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Reporters at the latest Covid-19 Health Department briefing also enjoyed a laugh at the query and its similarities to the Golfgate controversy.
Some 81 people attended the dinner hosted by the Oireachtas Golf Society at the Station House Hotel in Clifden, Co Galway on August 19, just one day after the Government announced new rules limiting indoor gatherings to six people and outdoor meetings 15 people.
A partition was erected in the middle of the hotel’s function room to divide the event into two separate dinners in an attempt to comply with previous Covid-19 social gathering guidelines that allowed 50 people to attend events.
WEDDING LEVEL
All of Ireland now remains at Level 3 restrictions, where there is a limit of 25 guests for both the ceremony and the reception, regardless of location.
It is not possible to attend a wedding in another county, but couples planning nuptials outside of their own county can travel to get married.
The country’s top doctor smiled after being asked “Would it be possible to celebrate a wedding with 25 people in one room, 25 in another, perhaps separated by a screen that was opened for speeches?”
But he cautioned that current coronavirus guidelines are not a “set of rules to bypass.”
VITAL MESSAGE
Dr. Holohan said: “I think that, and you are giving me the opportunity to convey an important message, there are measures in place and in many cases it represents a guide on people’s behavior and decision making.
“And we need people to accept responsibility for what that means.
“It is not a set of rules that must be circumvented, people must comply, not only with what they say, but with the spirit of what they say, if they see what I am saying.
“And the scenario that describes me there doesn’t seem like something that would be in keeping with the spirit of what we’re trying to say.”
NO UNNECESSARY ACTIVITIES
With 825 more Covid-19 cases and one more death confirmed, Dr. Holohan said that “now is not the time” for activities that could be considered discretionary.
He added: “We are really trying to minimize the amount of discretionary activity that we all undertake as individuals, and in our everyday lives there are things we like to do, things we enjoy, things we spend time doing – now is not the time for some of the things that we would consider discretionary.
“And while there are still opportunities for people to do things that would bring them into social settings, we think now is not the time.
“You as an individual reflect what you can do. The greater the degree to which you can reduce your social contacts, the greater the degree to which you can minimize the amount of socializing and nondiscretionary activity you do, the greater the degree that you will you protect and we all protect ourselves. ”
VIRUS SPREAD
The CMO warned that the entire country is experiencing “widespread community transmission.”
He said: “If transmission patterns in the community continue to increase, we will see more infected nursing home residents and more mortality.”
Regarding the cases in Irish hospitals, Dr. Holohan highlighted how the number of people hospitalized with the virus on August 1 was 8; on September 1 it had risen to 36; On October 1 this was up to 122.
And he said this year will not be a “normal Halloween” as families “cannot move from house to house.”
Tips related to Halloween celebrations will be discussed at the National Public Health Emergency Team meeting this Thursday, but it appears that trick or treating will not be available this year.
Dr. Holohan said: “As the year progresses, different social events, sporting events or whatever become prominent in our consideration and we have to give them specific consideration.
“That will be one of the things that we will analyze a little more closely.
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“Our general advice is that you can absolutely anticipate that this will be based on the fact that we are trying to keep people away.
“It won’t be a normal Halloween. It can’t be.
“We cannot allow children and families to move from house to house in the way that normally happens on Halloween.”
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