2 things come to mind when I think about where we are at the moment.
1. Way back when we had the foot and mouth/mad cow disease in the cows, the Govt of the day scrambled the army and shut the border. They were crawling all over the Cooley mountains looking for random cows. Currently, most of the virus spread is in households and not businesses. With industry shut, why not retrain the food inspectors and the building inspectors and send them to the big housing estates around the country and go door to door trying to re-educate people to stay the fuk away from other people? The inspectors could be trained in an afternoon. There's probably other inspectors out there who'd be used to dealing with aggressive/shouty people. Any probs, call the Guards and start lashing out the €500 fines. Start with the big estates and work your way down.
2. When this pandemic started, we got a delivey of PPE from China. Some guy who knew a guy who knew a guy in China organised it, Aer Lingus pulled out all the stops to get it here, the delivery got an Army escort from the airport, RTE filmed the convoy coming down the M50. Even Saint Bono got involved! With all the Irish diaspora duckin' and diving around the world, you'd think we could 'negotiate' a couple of million doses from our cousins in America or a few million from UK? Money talks in both those countries. The Kinahans or the 'RA would probably know a good route to get it into Ireland without anyone noticing. Nobody would be really surprised if the HSE came out and said, 'haha lads, guess what we found in a random warehouse down the country'!
