Corona virus in waterford

Oscar Madison

If you were walking on your own or with a family member I assume that it

would be ok to walk there but it's when it gets to high levels of walkers that's

when the s' could hit the fan. I'm as anxious as anyone to venture out beyond

what is recommended but I'm reluctant to do so! I would love to sit somewhere

and have a pint with some food and just sit and watch people as they go by.

I don't want to end my days in WRH either, well not yet anyway!

Harry Palmr

Agree about the 5km limit, if this is maintained until the summer it will surely end up being observed in the b(r)each, I do not envy the Guards trying to police it.

The Continental Op

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Agree about the 5km limit, if this is maintained until the summer it will surely end up being observed in the b(r)each, I do not envy the Guards trying to police it.

I'd like to know what the Guards are doing? First few days of this lockdown and they were out driving around all the areas that people drove out to go for walks on previous lockdowns. Now they aren't to be seen but the people driving out of town to go for a walk certainly are.

Its hardly a difficult job. They don't have to do much to put the fear of god into most people. Just a sorry you shouldn't be here will move most families on. Mess them around and pick up a fine.

Harry Palmr

As I do not sneak out to Woodstown I really couldn't tell you!

But I do see them on the ring road, Dunmore road Williamstown road etc.

The Continental Op

Harry Palmr wrote: »

As I do not sneak out to Woodstown I really couldn't tell you!

But I do see them on the ring road, Dunmore road Williamstown road etc.

I'm down the end of the lane near an out of the way coastal spot.

When people are taking some notice of the lockdown they sneak down here so the neighbors don't see them out (its always about what the neighbors think).

Now people have given up they don't even bother to do that and you see far more cars parked in the council car parks for the main beaches. The greenway carparks are also much fuller.

Harry Palmr

Agree about Greenway, was working at Carriganore last week in appalling weather and there must have been 20-30 cars in there, and it didn't look like a dogging meet.

The Continental Op

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Agree about Greenway, was working at Carriganore last week in appalling weather and there must have been 20-30 cars in there, and it didn't look like a dogging meet.

You know that just begs the question "how do you know what a dogging meet looks like"

mooseknunkle

Aquos76 wrote: »

Give it a rest will you, not that it’s any of your business but I work 18km from my home, I do my shopping on my way home from work. I never mentioned anything about anyone going outside their 5km for shopping or for any other essential reason. I don’t claim to be perfect but I haven’t gotten in to my car and headed out for the sake of it. I merely commented to another user that I was doing my best to adhere to the current guidelines, and like many others are starting to find it hard. You are trying to turn this is to something that it’s not. I’m done now with this back and forth.

I wanted to apologise to you Aquos i didn't mean to go off on one on you yesterday this lockdown the past few weeks has been hard on me and everyone one,very stupid of me to single you out when we are all finding it tough,no hard feeling i hope.

mooseknunkle

killbillvol2 wrote: »

I'm going to have to make the assumption that you're genuinely too stupid to get the irony.

I wonder would you call a stranger in person stupid?,i very much doubt it as its very easy to be a big man behind a username on the internet.

Aquos76

mooseknunkle wrote: »

I wanted to apologise to you Aquos i didn't mean to go off on one on you yesterday this lockdown the past few weeks has been hard on me and everyone one,very stupid of me to single you out when we are all finding it tough,no hard feeling i hope.

Apology accepted, thanks for that, you are right, everyone is finding things difficult and unfortunately the longer this goes on the harder it will be and the bigger impact it will leave behind.

smellyoldboot

Beautiful day out today. Woodstown Strand car park was fairly full but absolutely acres of space to walk freely on the beach. Checkpoint on the way out of town but if you go across Ballygunner you could avoid it. I do actually have a letter of exemption for our little one to be allowed out to the beach etc to exercise but the 5km is absolute nonsense. Attempted to go to the park beforehand and that was much more crowded and less safe tbh. Our countryside is a lot safer of a place to be than our urban areas. This doesn't make an ounce of sense.

spaceCreated

smellyoldboot wrote: »

Beautiful day out today. Woodstown Strand car park was fairly full but absolutely acres of space to walk freely on the beach. Checkpoint on the way out of town but if you go across Ballygunner you could avoid it. I do actually have a letter of exemption for our little one to be allowed out to the beach etc to exercise but the 5km is absolute nonsense. Attempted to go to the park beforehand and that was much more crowded and less safe tbh. Our countryside is a lot safer of a place to be than our urban areas. This doesn't make an ounce of sense.

Always felt like an idea thought up in Dublin and Cork by TDs who can go where they want, stops rakes of people getting on the luas up in Dublin and the buses down in Cork and sure who cares about the rest of the country.

spookwoman

HSE Op Report for Last night

In Hospital Total 717 +14
In ICU 147 -4
Deaths 2

In WRH

44 +4
4 new Cases
ICU 4 +1

2 ICU beds available

2 ICU beds available in CUH. 1 ICU bed available in South Tipp and Wexford. 0 ICU beds available in Kilkenny and Mercy.

spookwoman

In Hospital Total 737 +20
In ICU 149 +2
Deaths 2

In WRH

44 No Change
5 new Cases
ICU 4 No Change

2 ICU beds available

3 ICU beds available in CUH. 1 ICU bed available in Wexford. 0 ICU beds available in South Tipp, Kilkenny and Mercy.

smellyoldboot

10, 4 & 5 cases. But Level 5 until April at least. Mickey Martin clinging like grim death to the remaining grey vote , which is all Fianna Failure will ever have is all this is now. I guess another handy trick is you can't collapse a government and hold an election with the cloak of CoVid protecting you.

Cabaal

smellyoldboot wrote: »

10, 4 & 5 cases. But Level 5 until April at least. Mickey Martin clinging like grim death to the remaining grey vote , which is all Fianna Failure will ever have is all this is now. I guess another handy trick is you can't collapse a government and hold an election with the cloak of CoVid protecting you.

If you think the grey vote is the only reason FF are where they are then you don't understand the people of Ireland. Plenty of younger people vote for them and will continue to vote for them after all of this.

As for collapsing a government, it would be fairly irresponsible to do so right now and would likely result in needless deaths occurring due to idiots trying to go door to door to canvas etc

Wanderer78

smellyoldboot wrote:

10, 4 & 5 cases. But Level 5 until April at least. Mickey Martin clinging like grim death to the remaining grey vote , which is all Fianna Failure will ever have is all this is now. I guess another handy trick is you can't collapse a government and hold an election with the cloak of CoVid protecting you.

Ffs, just look at the figures posted in this tread alone, it's clearly obvious even from those, why the government is doing what it's doing, it's got nothing to do with political points scoring. It's clearly obvious we need a major overhaul of our health system, particularly when this passes, but the disturbing truth is, I really can't actually see that happening.

Harry Palmr

spookwoman

spaceCreated

Anyone else get driven mad with the people who have the masks down under the nose, especially the ones working stacking shelves in the shops and that

Wanderer78

spaceCreated wrote:

Anyone else get driven mad with the people who have the masks down under the nose, especially the ones working stacking shelves in the shops and that

Can understand it to be honest, must be horrible wearing them all day, they drive me nuts for the short time I wear them, maybe the shields should be used more often

jmdsk

spookwoman wrote: »

Where do you get the data sheets from?

Dilbert75

Wanderer78 wrote: »

Can understand it to be honest, must be horrible wearing them all day, they drive me nuts for the short time I wear them, maybe the shields should be used more often

Face shields are useful for keeping droplets out of eyes. They've been shown to have very little benefit in reducing transmission when used without masks.

spookwoman

jmdsk wrote: »

Where do you get the data sheets from?

Get the hse op reports from. Those updated after 10pm or next day.
https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/news/newsfeatures/covid19-updates/covid19-updates.html#daily-updates

The case numbers, declassification's, deaths and their breakdown, briefing, 8am hospitalisations from. Those updated at about 6pm or later
https://www.gov.ie/en/news/7e0924-latest-updates-on-covid-19-coronavirus/#march-1

Confirmed numbers and others from. Updated not long after the 5.30 / pm daily news reports.

https://covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com/

jmdsk

@spookwoman Thank You

spookwoman

jmdsk wrote: »

@spookwoman Thank You

No problem. Pain in the bum having the data in different places, it's why I put it into 1 so people can see it all in the one place.

Harry Palmr

You're doing great work!

21 new cases, 574 nationally. So overall picture improving but still sticky here.

spookwoman

91wx763

Lovely. Someone can bring it home to wifey and when they have their school gate huddle and chinwag here comes the next wave......

https://twitter.com/FanchetAldo/status/1364301562315747334

StringerBell

Yeah, you'd never seen men stand around having the chats..............................