CoVid19 Part X - 1,564 cases ROI (9 deaths) 209 in NI (7 deaths) (25 March) *Read OP*

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

I get what you are saying but just don’t subscribe. I’ve been dealing with cancer for five years and I can be an unbelievable moper and go through serious bouts of hopelessness. I have seen so many way more positive people go to their graves over the last five years. I just hate the thought that their mental strength is in any way questioned when I know that some of them put me to shame, attitude-wise.

My father was strong willed and positive up until the end, I believe it definitely gave him more time( they said he would be dead last March- he lasted till February of this year), but unfortunately positivity has its limits as you say.

FVP3 wrote: »

No it hasn't. Deaths are low.

You've been trolling this thread with your insane panic, much of which lacks an understanding of what is going on, and what Ireland is attempting to do.

The only people trolling this thread are those that continuously ignore the warning signs about how it went wrong in other countries and feed it with incorrect, misleading or nonsense.

You are one of the main protagonists. Claiming that we were following the South Korean model.

Its not panic. Its highlighting that we are meant to be controlling the spread, so that our health care system can treat those affadted over the next while, so it doesn't get unmanageable to the extent of Italy and Spain and other countries that have (had) state of the art health systems.

Meanwhile we have abandoned a symptomatic community of 40k when just under half of our transmissions are at community level and caused much confusion and stress.

Deaths rates will only remain low, if our health system does not become overwhelmed to the extent that we are triaging. Of course if we are not testing we cannot contain the spread so we are heading down the wrong road.

Did anyone see Neil Ferguson I think of UCL and one of the people who was worried about this from very early on speaking to a parliament committee in London earlier? He's had corona himself and think he said the peak could be over by Easter (could) and that the NHS should be able to muddle through nationally if not always locally (not his exact words). As someone who outlined the seriously of this when some accused those doing so of scaremongering, I hope to god he's right. Yes it's bad, yes it will get worse, but we all need some light at the end of the tunnel. Anything.

Coyote wrote: »

No Change in number


Slow Change


Big Drop in numbers


again with all of this i'm just trying to show people the 14 day delay in an change in how we deal with this
if you wait till we are overloaded it's too late
everyone has to make up there own mind but at least look at the maths

3 weeks no change 42K
3 weeks slow change 23K
3 weeks big drop 9K

1 month no change 241K
1 month slow change 56K
1 month big drop 11K

you need to decide what you do today to affect 3 weeks from now

Probably one of the more important posts on this thread.

How many ICU places do we currently have?

xabi wrote: »

Varadkar revising the 15,000 down to 6,000

https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1242808758184677378?s=21

It's possible to come in well under 6000 as well : any daily drop in increases could decrease the overall figure significantly by next Tuesday.

kowloon wrote: »

I wonder how coughing on someone purposely would go down with the Gardai, is it a form of assault?

Certainly should be in these times and any response to it classified as self-defence.

xabi wrote: »

Varadkar revising the 15,000 down to 6,000

That's a combination of A. People being good but sadly B. Not testing.

ICU and hospital admissions are the only real reliable figures from now on.

If they cough on someone deliberately and that person ends up dead, is it manslaughter or murder?