Earlier on this blog there was a post called a short essay on overspin. in this post I tried to show how a good news story could be made from the most mundane event, ( a habit of the government of that time) In the post I argued that ( amongst other things), the appearance of a potted palm on the Western Way in 2012 was a sign of economic recovery. I was shocked over the last year or so to see more and more of these plants around the town the next in worse state then the last. It now appears the pots have been gathered up and deposited in one site and this as a direct result of a global pandemic.
The scientific community look to the trafficking of the pangolin as the host of a bat virus that jumped to a human strain now known as covid 19 or corona virus.
It was internationally spread from Wuhan in China by human travel.
Its route to Ireland was manifold and it may have traveled from China, Italy, and Singapore initially as well as some other well documented routes. From my reading of the situation International travel will be the cause of this viral infections longevity.
The effects of this virus have been far reaching and wide, not least it has so far taken the lives of 1,777 people who got in its way in the Rep. of Ireland and 848,000 people word wide.
Needless to say it has to be halted and to date the majority of the population have followed the recommendations of the Irish Government in this regard, who follow the advice of local health experts and the World Health Organisation. My post here has no wish to deflect from the gravity of this situation. But I could not help but notice the shabby and crass nature of one manifestation of my local councils response to covid 19. In fact I feel that it could be argued that the particular visuals facilitated by these council actions shows a lack of respect to those who have suffered the effects of this virus.
The measures developed in response to these objectives are being introduced to respond to a new and unprecedented emergency caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. They are being implemented on a temporary basis to respond to the urgent and immediate needs of the city. They will be reviewed periodically to assess their effectiveness and, because of their nature and type of implementation, can be modified as needed to respond to changing needs and requirements.
In Grangegorman Dublin 7 they have erected a road block described as Filtered permeability, in their words,
Filtered permeability is effectively a ‘cycle gate’-cyclists are able to travel through the ‘cycle gate’but other vehicles cannot. Implementation of filtered permeability will not result in any changes to existing footpath facilities. The filtered permeability trial on Grangegorman Lower is due to commence on 6 July 2020. The measure will use bollards to prevent motorised through traffic in order to create a pedestrian and cycle friendly zone and a safer space for local residents and for thousands of pedestrians and cyclists arriving at TUD from September 2020.
In their description in documentation there is no reference to the means of negating the existing parking bays on the very wide concourse outside the HSE Building which was at one time the centre piece of the Grangegorman complex. (It is only these particular measures I am referring to here).
