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Covid 19 Part XXIII-33,444 in ROI(1,792 deaths) 9,541 in NI(577 deaths)(22/09)Read OP

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  • Registered Users Posts: 21,886 ✭✭✭✭Roger_007


    theballz wrote: »
    Disaster in a creche a friend of mine uses.

    One of the workers got results of test this morning. Tested positive and I believe the children were told not to come in today.

    However, over the weekend with communions some of the families had visits (from 1 house hold) over the course of the day. Therefore all of them need to also self isolate whilst the family of the baby in the creche go for covid test today.

    Cannot for the life of me see how Creches, schools and colleges are going to remain open

    Disaster?

    You mean like a plane crash or something?


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,187 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    theballz wrote: »
    Disaster in a creche a friend of mine uses.

    One of the workers got results of test this morning. Tested positive and I believe the children were told not to come in today.

    However, over the weekend with communions some of the families had visits (from 1 house hold) over the course of the day. Therefore all of them need to also self isolate whilst the family of the baby in the creche go for covid test today.

    Cannot for the life of me see how Creches, schools and colleges are going to remain open

    Yeah. It's crazy indeed.
    I mean kids are going to be kids. They'll play and they won't really get the social distancing thing or washing hands etc. They're kids! :)

    Maybe it's time to re-evaluate schools and creches.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,139 ✭✭✭What Username Guidelines


    Until when, a vaccine arrives, we need a certain amount of herd immunity even with a vaccine. Dragging this out for as long as possible doesn't seem like a correct strategy. There's certain people who need to protect themselves, that is on them. The rest of us should carry on as normal and get that immunity as quick as possible. We've made a mistake by not doing this while we had good weather.

    Can you define who they are?


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,229 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    England looking at 50'000 cases a day by 13th Oct if current trend continues.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,779 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    I no longer know what to think. So surfaces fine, and masks will stop spread. But no spread when there were no masks albeit less people congregating obviously. Masks don't seem to have had much impact over the last 2 months, and I think they have removed the hygiene standards drummed into us back in March. That could be the problem.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,139 ✭✭✭What Username Guidelines


    blade1 wrote: »
    England looking at 50'000 cases a day by 13th Oct if current trend continues.

    And we're looking at 2,000 in Dublin alone apparently. Has any country had such an incident rate? I'm not saying open her up, but what's this projection based on?


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,010 ✭✭✭GooglePlus


    English scientific aid to CMO acknowledging that antibodies fade over time and that roughly 8% of the UK have them but that their fading means they're not a guaranteed protection.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,010 ✭✭✭GooglePlus


    And we're looking at 2,000 in Dublin alone apparently. Has any country had such an incident rate? I'm not saying open her up, but what's this projection based on?

    I think it was a worse case scenario with a doubling every 7 days.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,229 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    And we're looking at 2,000 in Dublin alone apparently. Has any country had such an incident rate? I'm not saying open her up, but what's this projection based on?

    The English one?
    Doubling every 7 days.


  • Registered Users Posts: 28,120 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    Can you define who they are?

    High risk groups
    The list of people in high risk groups includes people who:
    • are over 60 years of age
    • have a learning disability
    • have a lung condition that's not severe (such as asthma, COPD, emphysema or bronchitis)
    • have heart disease (such as heart failure)
    • have high blood pressure (hypertension)
    • have diabetes
    • have chronic kidney disease
    • have liver disease (such as hepatitis)
    • have a medical condition that can affect your breathing
    • have cancer
    • have clinically stable cystic fibrosis
    • have a weak immune system (immunosuppressed)
    • have cerebrovascular disease
    • have a condition affecting your brain or nerves (such as Parkinson's disease, motor neurone disease, multiple sclerosis, or cerebral palsy)
    • have a problem with your spleen or have had your spleen removed
    • have a condition that means you have a high risk of getting infections (such as HIV, lupus or scleroderma)
    • are taking medicine that can affect your immune system (such as low doses of steroids)
    • have obesity
    • are residents of nursing homes and other long-stay settings
    • are in specialist disability care and are over 50 years of age or have an underlying health problem.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 10,170 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    So your advocating that responsibility only lies on those people? Moronic.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,229 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    GooglePlus wrote: »
    I think it was a worse case scenario with a doubling every 7 days.

    A worse case scenario would be spreading more then double.
    Its going by the current scenario.


  • Registered Users Posts: 28,120 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    GooglePlus wrote: »
    English scientific aid to CMO acknowledging that antibodies fade over time and that roughly 8% of the UK have them but that their fading means they're not a guaranteed protection.

    That's the problem with the slow draw, vaccine will be pretty much useless without opening up as you'll end up in the same position.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,171 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    High risk groups
    The list of people in high risk groups includes people who:
    • are over 60 years of age
    • have a learning disability
    • have a lung condition that's not severe (such as asthma, COPD, emphysema or bronchitis)
    • have heart disease (such as heart failure)
    • have high blood pressure (hypertension)
    • have diabetes
    • have chronic kidney disease
    • have liver disease (such as hepatitis)
    • have a medical condition that can affect your breathing
    • have cancer
    • have clinically stable cystic fibrosis
    • have a weak immune system (immunosuppressed)
    • have cerebrovascular disease
    • have a condition affecting your brain or nerves (such as Parkinson's disease, motor neurone disease, multiple sclerosis, or cerebral palsy)
    • have a problem with your spleen or have had your spleen removed
    • have a condition that means you have a high risk of getting infections (such as HIV, lupus or scleroderma)
    • are taking medicine that can affect your immune system (such as low doses of steroids)
    • have obesity
    • are residents of nursing homes and other long-stay settings
    • are in specialist disability care and are over 50 years of age or have an underlying health problem.

    Paul Reid from the HSE reckons this adds up to about a third of the population.


  • Registered Users Posts: 28,120 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    Hurrache wrote: »
    So your advocating that responsibility only lies on those people? Moronic.

    It's their lives the ultimate responsibility is with them, it's not Moronic, if I was at risk I wouldn't be depending on you to save me.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,170 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    MadYaker wrote: »
    Paul Reid from the HSE reckons this adds up to about a third of the population.

    This poster doesn't deal with facts, or reality, at all. Attitudes like his is one of the reasons why there's a struggle to control it.

    Exhibit A.
    It's their lives the ultimate responsibility is with them, it's not Moronic, if I was at risk I wouldn't be depending on you to save me.

    They should also avoid going to gigs as there's very likely a risk they'll be pricked by a disease ridden needle.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,307 ✭✭✭landofthetree


    Until when, a vaccine arrives, we need a certain amount of herd immunity even with a vaccine. Dragging this out for as long as possible doesn't seem like a correct strategy. There's certain people who need to protect themselves, that is on them. The rest of us should carry on as normal and get that immunity as quick as possible. We've made a mistake by not doing this while we had good weather.
    What if a vaccine doesnt arrive in 2021 or even 2022?

    What then?

    I've supported the measures/lockdown so far but if our only exit strategy is wait for a vaccine it will eventually lead to major unrest.

    No government in the western world can keep lockdown going for years.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,804 ✭✭✭take everything


    Hurrache wrote: »
    So your advocating that responsibility only lies on those people? Moronic.

    I saw the bould Dan O' Brien advocate something similar in his column yesterday.

    Basically saying vulnerable people need to take responsibility and let others get on with their lives.

    ****head


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,171 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    It's their lives the ultimate responsibility is with them, it's not Moronic, if I was at risk I wouldn't be depending on you to save me.

    You wouldn't have a choice unfortunately


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I no longer know what to think. So surfaces fine, and masks will stop spread. But no spread when there were no masks albeit less people congregating obviously. Masks don't seem to have had much impact over the last 2 months, and I think they have removed the hygiene standards drummed into us back in March. That could be the problem.

    The masks have been removed for social gatherings in restaurants, gastropubs and mothers' coffee shop meetings where, unimpressed by the space required to place full meals, they huddle more closely as they exchange chat. I've been observing it a lot. These (particularly middle-class) mums have just come from leaving the kids at school and catching up on the latest, typically in groups of 3/4. That is just one seemingly innocent way that it could have been spreading.


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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    How long will it take Ireland to make this news official so that we can make better plans like perhaps mandatory masks in all indoor public places. There's still factories operating without face masks and offices aren't included in the government's list of where to wear a mask.

    CDC Guidance per the link
    COVID-19 most commonly spreads
    Between people who are in close contact with one another (within about 6 feet).
    Through respiratory droplets or small particles, such as those in aerosols, produced when an infected person coughs, sneezes, sings, talks, or breathes.
    These particles can be inhaled into the nose, mouth, airways, and lungs and cause infection. This is thought to be the main way the virus spreads.
    Droplets can also land on surfaces and objects and be transferred by touch. A person may get COVID-19 by touching the surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose, or eyes. Spread from touching surfaces is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads.
    It is possible that COVID-19 may spread through the droplets and airborne particles that are formed when a person who has COVID-19 coughs, sneezes, sings, talks, or breathes. There is growing evidence that droplets and airborne particles can remain suspended in the air and be breathed in by others, and travel distances beyond 6 feet (for example, during choir practice, in restaurants, or in fitness classes). In general, indoor environments without good ventilation increase this risk.

    Nothing new


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,293 ✭✭✭billybonkers


    What if a vaccine doesnt arrive in 2021 or even 2022?

    What then?

    No chance we see a vaccine here before end of 2021 at the absolute earliest


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,010 ✭✭✭GooglePlus


    That's the problem with the slow draw, vaccine will be pretty much useless without opening up as you'll end up in the same position.

    Also noted that vaccines are generating an immune response that will provide protection unlike antibody protection provided by infection.


  • Registered Users Posts: 28,120 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    Hurrache wrote: »
    This poster doesn't deal with facts, or reality, at all. Attitudes like his is one of the reasons why there's a struggle to control it.

    Your not even a funny Troll give it a rest and go back under your bridge.
    Attack the post not the poster, that's how it works around here. I'm pretty sure who your other username is now.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,810 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    He is not UN staff - he is the representative of an NGO to the UN.

    ah sorry, he's only a representative to the UN that pretends his 6 year old daughter dies to spread fear and panic.

    Point negated so.


  • Registered Users Posts: 28,120 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    GooglePlus wrote: »
    Also noted that vaccines are generating an immune response that will provide protection unlike antibody protection provided by infection.

    Have we any idea for how long that protection might last?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    High risk groups
    The list of people in high risk groups includes people who:
    • are over 60 years of age
    • have a learning disability
    • have a lung condition that's not severe (such as asthma, COPD, emphysema or bronchitis)
    • have heart disease (such as heart failure)
    • have high blood pressure (hypertension)
    • have diabetes
    • have chronic kidney disease
    • have liver disease (such as hepatitis)
    • have a medical condition that can affect your breathing
    • have cancer
    • have clinically stable cystic fibrosis
    • have a weak immune system (immunosuppressed)
    • have cerebrovascular disease
    • have a condition affecting your brain or nerves (such as Parkinson's disease, motor neurone disease, multiple sclerosis, or cerebral palsy)
    • have a problem with your spleen or have had your spleen removed
    • have a condition that means you have a high risk of getting infections (such as HIV, lupus or scleroderma)
    • are taking medicine that can affect your immune system (such as low doses of steroids)
    • have obesity
    • are residents of nursing homes and other long-stay settings
    • are in specialist disability care and are over 50 years of age or have an underlying health problem.

    What about 20 year olds who are healthy? Look what happened to this 20 something year old who was healthy before being hospitalised with covid.

    https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/coronavirus-woman-double-lung-transplant-chicago/


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    Until when, a vaccine arrives, we need a certain amount of herd immunity even with a vaccine. Dragging this out for as long as possible doesn't seem like a correct strategy. There's certain people who need to protect themselves, that is on them. The rest of us should carry on as normal and get that immunity as quick as possible. We've made a mistake by not doing this while we had good weather.

    If you want it to spread faster then the good weather or summer is not the time.

    Recent studies done show it lasts 7 times longer in spring/Autumn on surfaces, cant remember what the winter rate was but you can guess it would be many times more again.

    Theres just too many variables to let it run rampant.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,170 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    Your not even a funny Troll give it a rest and go back under your bridge.
    Attack the post not the poster, that's how it works around here. I'm pretty sure who your other username is now.

    I am attacking the post, you said it, not me. I said previously, incorrectly call me a troll all you want, it's what you said, repeatedly.

    It fits in with your posting style on this subject, repeatedly post bull****, over and over, and don't have the balls to stand behind what you say, about anything.

    Then you run and cry troll about your own posts. Bizarre.

    I'd love you to post who my other username is, at least man up and stand behind that, or will you run away with a whinge again? It might help me diagnose a split personality mental disorder I have that I'm unaware of and help me face the other me.


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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    theballz wrote: »
    Disaster in a creche a friend of mine uses.

    One of the workers got results of test this morning. Tested positive and I believe the children were told not to come in today.

    However, over the weekend with communions some of the families had visits (from 1 house hold) over the course of the day. Therefore all of them need to also self isolate whilst the family of the baby in the creche go for covid test today.

    Cannot for the life of me see how Creches, schools and colleges are going to remain open

    They are secondary contacts. They don't have to isolate.


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