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Ireland has leaned too far toward a culture of blame for breaches of coronavirus rules, the medical director warned.
At a press conference, Dr. Tony Holohan declined to criticize GAA players who violated social distancing guidelines by celebrating provincial title victories over the weekend.
Dr. Holohan said that too many people seemed to be looking for the nearest light pole to hang up those who had “let the guard slip” regarding adhering to the restrictions.
“Teams that win titles and big games tend to celebrate, that’s not a surprise.
“We have rightly sought to maintain and preserve elite sporting activity. I think the weekend for anyone who enjoys sport, and I know and recognize that it is not for everyone, it was a very pleasant weekend for people and part of what has helped, I think, people to overcome the challenge of staying-at-home measures. they are in place, “added Dr. Holohan.
“The sports organizations in question have done a great job of trying to carry out that relatively modest number of sports activities as safely as possible. I think they have done a great job in relation to that. “
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No new deaths have been reported to @hpscireland today.
There have been a total of 2,022 # COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland. The validation resulted in the denotification of 1 death. The 2,022 figure reflects this.
– Department of Health (@roinnslainte) November 23, 2020
The CMO said he would prefer to be offered encouragement and support.
“I think we have to be careful to the extent that we all start to blame each other for this,” he said.
“I’ve talked before about the importance of responsibility and for people to take and exercise as much personal responsibility for their own behaviors as possible and not become guilty.
“And there have been examples of people where things have happened and there has been a strong guilt-oriented kind of response and I don’t think that’s necessarily always appropriate.
“We have to try to support each other, encourage each other to do what we can, behave in the most responsible way possible, and accept that we are not all going to be perfect all the time.
“But if each of us strives to do our best, and when the guard slips we encourage each other to try a little bit more to get the most out of this, I think that’s a much better culture for us. that we try to promote, ”Dr. Holohan said.
When asked whether the National Public Health Emergency Team (Nphet) will recommend exiting Level 5 restrictions as scheduled in early December, Dr. Holohan declined to speculate.
He said that efforts to suppress the virus in the coming days will influence the shape of the restrictions next month.
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The CMO said the more progress was made, the more potential relaxations Nphet could contemplate, adding that his deliberations “were never easy.”
Dr. Holohan said: “It is never easy to give advice on the basis that you know that if you accept that advice, it has implications for people, not just their daily lives, and how they live their lives and their interactions and things that are important to them, but obviously in the functioning of the economy and people who have businesses and, in particular, people who have had jobs and been out of work for long periods of time.
“So we make those decisions and offer that advice in full knowledge of it.”
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