Covid 19 Part XXVII- 62,002 ROI (1,915 deaths) 39,609 NI (724 deaths) (02/11) Read OP

GT89

Away With The Fairies wrote: »

Everybody dies.Ah yeah, what's a couple of decades of someone's life so long as she can go maskless. Such a rotten bitch.

There's basically zero chance catching kung flu is gonna knock decades off anyones life. Virtually 95% of people who died were 80+. People in their 80s do not have decades to live.

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AdamD wrote: »

You can't just abandon a clock change a few days before its supposed to happen...it would knock off every IT system

This isn't the 80's, it would take a minor update to counteract the automatic clock change on IT systems. If there was no update, users would just have to manually reverse the adjustment.

Remember Y2K didn't happen.

lawred2

GT89 wrote: »

There's basically zero chance catching kung flu is gonna knock decades off anyones life. Virtually 95% of people who died were 80+. People in their 80s do not have decades to live.

basically zero

virtually 95%

sonofenoch

Gruffalux wrote: »

Really? A doctor who has a sick spouse cannot practice? Link?

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=114992098&postcount=309

normanoffside

JimToken wrote: »

The French have gone to Level 4

The Eiffel Tower has been sealed off to visitors

The Louvre is closing at 1PM

All Museums in Dublin have been closed already for over a month even when on level 3.

Away With The Fairies

GT89 wrote: »

There's basically zero chance catching kung flu is gonna knock decades off anyones life. Virtually 95% of people who died were 80+. People in their 80s do not have decades to live.

Have you any evidence that this won't affect people in future?

AlphaDelta1

stephenjmcd wrote: »

New list of shops & services allowed to remain open.

Essentially everywhere if you can offer click and collect if your non essential.

https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1318469029204557824?s=19

Absolute farce. You could set up a click and collect in a matter of hours and i can imagine crowds gathering in huge queues to collect purchases.

polesheep

lawred2 wrote: »

Newstalk is pure scutter these days...

It used to be reasonably listenable - you knew that the station had an agenda but the presenters had a certain charisma or quality that made up for that somewhat

But now they are nearly all talentless clones pushing text in lines

It's desperate garbage

It's in good company. There really is a crisis in media and journalism.

Cilldara_2000

GT89 wrote: »

There's basically zero chance catching kung flu is gonna knock decades off anyones life. Virtually 95% of people who died were 80+. People in their 80s do not have decades to live.

lawred2

AlphaDelta1 wrote: »

Absolute farce. You could set up a click and collect in a matter of hours and i can imagine crowds gathering in huge queues to collect purchases.

what?

why would huge queues suddenly gather simply because you now offered click and collect?

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polesheep wrote: »

It's in good company. There really is a crisis in media and journalism.

The crisis doesn't lie with journalism and media, their goal has always been to make money off listeners, viewers and readers. They've only adjusted their approach to suit the dumbed down nation we've become. You can thank social media and the internet for that, it's happening world wide.

eigrod

What was he average number of tests per 7 days that they were doing in April, does anyone know? The’ve done 112k in the last 7 days which is really impressive.

seamus

GooglePlus wrote: »

This isn't the 80's, it would take a minor update to counteract the automatic clock change on IT systems. If there was no update, users would just have to manually reverse the adjustment.

Remember Y2K didn't happen.

With five days until the clocks go back, there's not a chance there'll be enough time to roll out any updates.

Also lots of non-connected systems like house alarms, cars and heating programmers that automatically adjust for daylight savings and won't get updated.

It wouldn't exactly be the end of the world, but there would be hundreds of millions of devices affected in Ireland alone.

polesheep

Away With The Fairies wrote: »

Everybody dies.Ah yeah, what's a couple of decades of someone's life so long as she can go maskless. Such a rotten bitch.

That woman doesn't seem to be in control of herself. Who knows what stress she may be suffering. More and more people will crack under the strain of this.

political analyst

The review of the lockdown after 4 weeks isn't mentioned on RTÉ News today.

https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/1019/1172397-coronavirus-ireland/

CoronaBlocker

lawred2 wrote: »

Newstalk is pure scutter these days...

It used to be reasonably listenable - you knew that the station had an agenda but the presenters had a certain charisma or quality that made up for that somewhat

But now they are nearly all talentless clones pushing text in lines

It's desperate garbage

Sure RTE is no better. Had Drivetime on there yesterday and had to check to see if I was actually on Newstalk. Clare Byrne has more snark in her than David McCullagh.

polesheep

GooglePlus wrote: »

The crisis doesn't lie with journalism and media, their goal has always been to make money off listeners, viewers and readers. They've only adjusted their approach to suit the dumbed down nation we've become. You can thank social media and the internet for that, it's happening world wide.

I think it's a bit more complex than that; mainstream media also contributed to the dumbing down. But that's another discussion.

JimToken

To the people complaining about shifting levels

Realistically the measures have to be changeable, if they don't change the government aren't doing they're job

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seamus wrote: »

With five days until the clocks go back, there's not a chance there'll be enough time to roll out any updates.

Also lots of non-connected systems like house alarms, cars and heating programmers that automatically adjust for daylight savings and won't get updated.

It wouldn't exactly be the end of the world, but there would be hundreds of millions of devices affected in Ireland alone.

How will these non-connected systems fair out if a decision is made to scrap daylight savings next year? They'll all just have to be manually adjusted back, as would be the case now.

A script update to remove automatic daylight savings from OS providers like Microsoft and Apple would take minutes to compile, they're not changing much at all, simply turning a function off.

I know it's not going to be done but it wouldn't cause much issues at all. We've come a long way and system updates are often rolled out in a flash to meet security threats, so this would be a walk in the park.

spookwoman

niallo27 wrote: »

Icu is down to 32.

34 now

awec

GooglePlus wrote: »

How will these non-connected systems fair out if a decision is made to scrap daylight savings next year? They'll all just have to be manually adjusted back, as would be the case now.

A script update to remove automatic daylight savings from OS providers like Microsoft and Apple would take minutes to compile, they're not changing much at all, simply turning a function off.

I know it's not going to be done but it wouldn't cause much issues at all. We've come a long way and system updates are often rolled out in a flash to meet security threats, so this would be a walk in the park.

This post is very wrong.

Fiery mutant

niallo27 wrote: »

Icu is down to 32.

According to the tracker app, icu admissions went up in the last 24 hours.

odyssey06

GT89 wrote: »

There's basically zero chance catching kung flu is gonna knock decades off anyones life. Virtually 95% of people who died were 80+. People in their 80s do not have decades to live.

Your figures aren't remotely accurate.

40% of US covid deaths were under 75.
4% of US covid deaths were under 65 without other co-morbidity.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6928e1.htm

8% of UK covid deaths were under 75 without other co-morbidity.

The demographic in Ireland with the highest ICU admission was 55-64.
90% of ICU admissions during the Spring were under 75.

Whether you agree with the Level 5 move or not, this is a disease that can put a lot of people into hospital and quickly overwhelm our capacity to treat it (and other medical issues).

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awec wrote: »

This post is very wrong.

At least elaborate?

TonyMaloney

spookwoman wrote: »

34 now

despite 2 ICU deaths in the last 24 hours

Funsterdelux

Mantis Toboggan wrote: »

Any word on if they're abandoning the clock change this weekend?

I think its going from 00.00 at midnight to 24.00

Away With The Fairies

polesheep wrote: »

That woman doesn't seem to be in control of herself. Who knows what stress she may be suffering. More and more people will crack under the strain of this.

The stress of putting on a face mask. She had no bother dressing herself and not too stressed to fly.

ACitizenErased

TonyMaloney wrote: »

despite 2 ICU deaths in the last 24 hours

5 admissions, 2 discharges. Death =/= discharge.

Richard Hillman

Christy42 wrote: »

Agree or disagree with it but pointless hyperbole makes the argument look stupid. This is not North Korea or USSR stuff. Not by a long way.

People in the USSR were not stupid. They made their state broadcasts believable. Subjecting us isn't going to be obvious, it's subtle but growing. Note that I mentioned the government advertising. Lockdowns are great for media. All the government advertising whilst businesses have ceased advertising.

You had the likes of the Journal begging us for money a few months ago. They haven't had a drive for donations since. That government advertising is keeping them afloat

political analyst

https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/1019/1172397-coronavirus-ireland/

In a letter to the Minister for Health following their last meeting on Thursday, the National Public Health Emergency Team warned the Government that a six-week period was the minimum needed to bring the number of new cases every day to an acceptable level.

Its modelling suggested that a three-week lockdown, reducing the R rate to 0.5, would reduce daily new cases to 250-300. Releasing the lockdown would "very likely lead to rapid re-escalation in disease trajectory, such that, approx 1,000 cases a day expected by mid-December".

However, the letter said that reducing the R rate to 0.5 for six weeks would reduce the daily case numbers to 50-100 a day, meaning that once restrictions were lifted, cases would not be going above 300 a day until early January.