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CoVid-19 Part IX - 785 cases ROI (3 deaths) 108 in NI (1 death) (20 March) *Read OP*

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  • #7922
    tobefrank321
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,527 ✭✭✭tobefrank321


    threeball wrote: »
    Time to introduce mandatory quarantine for visitors from the UK. So far we are doing well but the powder keg next door is about to blow and our most common point of travel.

    What I noticed with the Italian flights and visitors fiasco is that people like Harris and Varadkar are completely oblivious to the issue of flights. They really are incompetent when it comes to controlling entry to this country at this time.

    They are uber-liberal politicians who think free movement is always good even if someone is carrying a lethal disease.

    So don't expect these guys to bring in quarantine measures. Useless in that regard.


  • #7923
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    Rickytumtum wrote: »
    My brother is waiting since last Saturday for a test, he’s finally getting one on Monday...we are at least a week behind (on average) with these figures

    If you're bad, do you have to wait for a positive to be brought to hospital? A week is too long.


  • #7924
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    lak wrote: »
    Are the low numbers not just down to running out of swabs a few days ago and the results yesterday and today are the last of those results to come through.

    They never ran out. They said they could run out if the new batch didnt arrive. It arrived during the week and was sent out today to test centres.


  • #7925
    cj maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,582 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    munster87 wrote: »
    Two days in a row we have a lower number of new cases. Brilliant. Fair play to everyone making sacrifices and a tremendous effort to flatten the curve. Hopefully this continues now and complacency doesn't start to kick in. Keep up the fight!

    How are confirmed numbers going to change. We need to test more for Accurate numbers and that and only that will show how we are


  • #7926
    scamalert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,739 ✭✭✭scamalert


    while i get the hype some get here with all the apocalypse, why isnt there any recovered cases mentioned, the data is flawed in so many ways reporting cases, as one can either be newnly acuired or someone who tests and they would be in midst of recovery etc, as updating numbers are useless if someone has little to no side effects they basically have it but thats about it, since only revelant number ouf ot entire cases is the one that ends up in critical or dead, to figure out how bad it is, not each person who has it as it just gives skewed info regarding if its bad or just passing by, asmost interpert rise in numbers as if person just got infected which is very skewed, towards any further adding up.


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  • #7927
    cj maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,582 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    munster87 wrote: »
    Two days in a row we have a lower number of new cases. Brilliant. Fair play to everyone making sacrifices and a tremendous effort to flatten the curve. Hopefully this continues now and complacency doesn't start to kick in. Keep up the fight!

    How are confirmed numbers going to change. We need to test more for Accurate numbers and that and only that will show how we are


  • #7928
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,727 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Some of you have a fetish for pandemics. 2 days in a row with a drop is a major positive. Doesn’t matter when the tests are from. We get 1 snapshot every 24 hours. And the numbers have dropped considerably 2 days in a row.

    If we can keep the numbers even at this level we’ll be doing well.


  • #7929
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,038 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    GM228 - your two bottom rows are the wrong way around.


  • #7930
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,449 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Are they releasing test figures per day?


  • #7931
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    Is getting a takeaway safe? Could be my last one for a while.


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  • #7932
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91,035 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Is there any new ICU cases, still 12?
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  • #7933
    Mervyn Skidmore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,209 ✭✭✭Mervyn Skidmore


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    Is getting a takeaway safe? Could be my last one for a while.

    I was thinking the same, want to get one tomorrow.


  • #7934
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,445 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    Is there any new ICU cases, still 12?

    13


  • #7935
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Bob24 wrote: »
    Exactly. Italy which has had much stricter containment measures for longer is still struggling control the number of news cases.

    To me there is no doubt we are still in an exponential growth phase, and the numbers are likely doe to statistical anomaly or the testing policy.
    Italy was too slow and over 50K Italians have been fined for flouting these stricter restrictions, the kind of attitude that allowed it to spread in the first place. Let's not forget the countless idiots who did a runner from Lombardy the day they locked it down.


  • #7936
    thebaz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,842 ✭✭✭✭thebaz


    figures are good for Ireland - the Government and HSE are doing a good job , never thought I'd say that - still should have stopped all flights from Italy 2 weeks ago, but apart from that they have done a good job - Well done to all medics too, who are playing a blinder - Stay safe.


  • #7937
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    lak wrote: »
    Are the low numbers not just down to running out of swabs a few days ago and the results yesterday and today are the last of those results to come through.

    Yes totally the numbers out of Italy today are shocking I think it is clear now China was lying.


  • #7938
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Some of you have a fetish for pandemics. 2 days in a row with a drop is a major positive. Doesn’t matter when the tests are from. We get 1 snapshot every 24 hours. And the numbers have dropped considerably 2 days in a row.

    If we can keep the numbers even at this level we’ll be doing well.

    The reported number in any one day are not any reliable indication to how many actual people are infected - that is the point.

    The reported daily figures varies according to many variables.


  • #7939
    lbj666
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,027 ✭✭✭lbj666


    Duke of Url wrote: »
    I don’t believe so. The people with brains understand what’s happening.

    What percentage of the electorate is that?


  • #7940
    skellig_rocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 130 ✭✭skellig_rocks


    frillyleaf wrote: »
    I think this attitude is extremely ignorant. A small minority of Chinese consume these types of food , less than 1%.

    The way we some intensive pig farms in Ireland is not far off in terms of animal welfare to what you see in some of these markets. It is just well hidden from the public, out of sight and packaged in a nice wrapper and put on a shelf. Intensive chicken farming is equally as bad - have you ever seen the state of the battery caged chickens?

    I believe that if this wasn’t caused by a wet market in China something similar would have happened at some point from the way we farm animals now.
    Most countries treat animals like products when in fact they are living things similar to ourselves. They feel fear, they feel pain, they feel despair when we take their young and they carry disease

    I would like the world to focus on how Chinese Government initial coverups, silence doctors who alerted the mystery virus. And shifting blame using their propaganda machine to spread fake news about US and Italy.

    If they are not hold accountable more health crisis will happen again.


  • #7941
    limnam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,342 ✭✭✭limnam


    China's use of mobile contact tracing and big data was fairly impressive.


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  • #7942
    humberklog
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,820 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    I think a lot of posters on here are too harsh on the people living here- calling them/us stupid and expecting us to do the worst if given half the opportunity.

    My own experience is quite different. My own shops have been closed a week now. I still need and want to get out and about the Dublin/East region with minimal interaction. But in the last week+ I see the general public being careful, obeying the soc. distance. No panicking or messing in q's, shops etc. Good hygiene on show where you expect to see. A great awareness of the issue (my own parents, mid 80's and their friends family and contacts) are very on message.

    Sure I'd question the wisdom of some continued practices (passengers in/out for eg.).
    The slowness of shutting pubs was a little late however most bars had already started to take precautions or shut completely ahead of the Gov. advice which I think is a good measure that the population was keeping up on international info and taking some self responsibility. Far moreso than some countries.

    We shouldn't be so hard on ourselves. We are awful messers but we can put the toys away and act properly too.

    One figure that does jump out at me is the 25% of infected are working in the health system. Is that high in comparison to other countries?


  • #7943
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Some of you have a fetish for pandemics. 2 days in a row with a drop is a major positive. Doesn’t matter when the tests are from. We get 1 snapshot every 24 hours. And the numbers have dropped considerably 2 days in a row.

    If we can keep the numbers even at this level we’ll be doing well.

    Yes it matters when the tests were done. People tested last week, got infected two weeks before that. So spreading in that two week period.


  • #7944
    iwillyeah1234
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭iwillyeah1234


    ( from that C4 interview) : first case indentified was Feb 26th by that Doctor. The nurse with Corona.

    The medical staff didn’t stand a chance - there was no lockdown and travel bans at that stage. That’s the fault of the Italian government AND the EU. Despite what was happening in China.


  • #7945
    Bob24
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,905 ✭✭✭✭Bob24


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    Is getting a takeaway safe? Could be my last one for a while.



    Definitely safer than a busy restaurant. But if the person who's preparing/packing your food is infected or if you are queuing for a while waiting for the food with people in close proximity, of course there is a risk.

    So it is probably fine, but of course you have higher chances to get it vs peeping your own food at home.


  • #7946
    expectationlost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,475 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/f0c391-statement-from-the-national-public-health-emergency-team-saturday-21/


  • #7947
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    Paddy cosgrove to put it mildly is nothing but a loud mouth who threw the toys out of the pram when the irish government wouldn't bow to his request to spend millions on his events in the country. The man is an attention seeking gob****e

    He’s an embarrassment. Constantly tooting his own horn on Twitter.


  • #7948
    Cork Boy 53
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    Is there any new ICU cases, still 12?

    Up by one to 13.


  • #7949
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    walshb wrote: »
    Are they releasing test figures per day?
    Weekly on Monday but Colm Henry made a comment about the 10000 tests.


  • #7950
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    Yes it matters when the tests were done. People tested last week, got infected two weeks before that. So spreading in that two week period.

    Theres nothing to say they would have been spreading.

    Anyone waiting for a test is told to self isolate. So regardless of any backlog the spread should be minimal


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  • #7951
    smelly sock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭smelly sock


    Hopefully the numbers keep dropping.


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