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

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  • #7862
    Logan Roy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 452 ✭✭Logan Roy


    This thread is basically the same 4-5 posts over and over again. Time to unfollow I think.


  • #7863
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,570 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    Logan Roy wrote:
    This thread is basically the same 4-5 posts over and over again. Time to unfollow I think.

    Good riddance to you.


  • #7864
    Corkgirl20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 196 ✭✭Corkgirl20


    Kenley Drab Rattle wrote: »
    I posted last week that my elderly mother was deliberately coughed on by a young girl in the local park. It seemed to be for the laugh in front of a big group of friends. Parents should be arrested. Total scummy parenting failure.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=112858904&postcount=4469

    The deaths figures are so worrying. It took about 3 months to reach 10000 dead (19th March) and it looks like we will reach 20000 in under the week today.


    Horrible to think those brats could take up a bed needed by somebody else! Garda should be allowed to charge and fine people for this!


  • #7865
    Tacitus Kilgore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,128 ✭✭✭Tacitus Kilgore


    Logan Roy wrote: »
    This thread is basically the same 4-5 posts over and over again. Time to unfollow I think.

    God speed

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  • #7866
    Snipp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 175 ✭✭Snipp


    jimwallace197 wrote: »
    Surely though, isnt one of the main reasons why the figure is low is because nearly 40,000 people are still waiting to get tested.

    Just playing Devils advocate. We address this and I think we will see a more accurate figure.

    I think the next 5-10 days are huge and will indicate exactly where we are going with this virus but early indications are positive.

    I tend to agree. With testing facilities already saturated, its impossible to extrapolate the actual number of infected people. It was a less than ideal move by the HSE this morning to alter criteria for referral, but a necessary action to increase the percentage of successfully identified positive cases. Unfortunately, it was the mass "worried well" that forced this into being.


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  • #7867
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,727 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Prince Charles is waiting for the Rolls Royce Ventilator.


  • #7868
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    Padkir wrote: »
    And if it is, would giving them a slap as retaliation be classed as self-defence?

    In the context of the current environment, I am sure any solicitor worth their salt would win that case for you.


  • #7869
    bekker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 912 ✭✭✭bekker


    Deleted User wrote: »
    It ensures that scarce testing resources are focused on those most likely to have COVID19 or who have come in contact with those who have it. As capacity increases it can be revisited, but wasting tests on people with the sniffles, who in all likelyhood will test negative, while others with fever and respiratory symptoms or confirmed close contacts have to wait is madness
    No it does not, GP triaging of request for test ensures that.

    Or would have, if criteria were not to tightly drawn initially because of lab capacity, then relaxed because at-home testing saturated, then relaxed for no discernible reason, then tightened again, presumably for processing deficit and a ridiculous and ever increasing backlog.


  • #7870
    yourdeadwright
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,951 ✭✭✭✭yourdeadwright


    fr336 wrote: »
    If they cough on someone deliberately and that person ends up dead, is it manslaughter or murder?

    Youd have to prove they had the virus and infected the other party


  • #7871
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,598 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Spain’s death toll now exceeds China’s...


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  • #7872
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,727 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    If Prince Charles has it Shirley The Queen must be at huge risk of having it.


  • #7873
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,598 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    yourdeadwright wrote: »
    Youd have to prove they had the virus and infected the other party

    Kind of impossible to prove as well...


  • #7874
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,598 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    If Prince Charles has it Shirley The Queen must be at huge risk of having it.

    The Queen should be firmly locked down and protected...


  • #7875
    Tacitus Kilgore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,128 ✭✭✭Tacitus Kilgore


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    If Prince Charles has it Shirley The Queen must be at huge risk of having it.

    Ah jaysus I thought I was well up on the royals - Who is Shirley The Queen? more feckin names to remember.


  • #7876
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,353 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    Shirley the Queen sounds like someone hosting a drag night


  • #7877
    Blaze420
    Closed Accounts Posts: 904 ✭✭✭Blaze420


    yourdeadwright wrote: »
    Youd have to prove they had the virus and infected the other party

    You don’t have to prove anything, a person on the street isn’t to know who has what - all you know is they deliberately coughed (a primary mechanism of transferring COVID) at you, and you are not sure if you put them headfirst into the nearest wall 10 times or 11 :D


  • #7878
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,727 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    France has 1100 deaths, it's like it's under the radar. France has best health care in the Universe.


  • #7879
    neris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,109 ✭✭✭✭neris


    Heard of groups of young fellas on bikes around parts of North Dublin doing this. Blocking paths and entrances and coughing at people though they seem to be only Billy Little Bolicks because they are doing it to women & the elderly and not guys


  • #7880
    iwillyeah1234
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭iwillyeah1234


    jonnny68 wrote: »
    big time, anyone who tried that with me id absolutely hammer them.

    Anyone who does this should serve 2 months in jail without remorse, that'll teach them a lesson.

    it's a felony in many U.S. states , with sentences as high as 18 months.

    https://www.scpr.org/news/2018/06/22/84215/laws-that-criminalize-spread-of-infectious-disease/

    "An Ohio man who has the hepatitis C virus was sentenced to 18 months in prison on June 14 for spitting at Cleveland police and medics, according to a news report."


  • #7881
    Wombatman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,349 ✭✭✭Wombatman


    So far 14,692 samples have been tested at UCD's National Virus Reference Laboratory, of which 94% returned negative results

    Hold on a sec.

    We have 1329 positive cases.

    If that's 4% then the overall number of tests should be 33,000 not 14,692.

    Also, many test are repeat tests on the same person to see if they are clear.

    What am I missing here?


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  • #7882
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,353 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    France has 1100 deaths, it's like it's under the radar. France has best health care in the Universe.

    I heard there are some good ones in Alpha Centauri


  • #7883
    ACitizenErased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,757 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    Not sure if this has been posted already. Shows the effect of making private hospitals public. Made by u/IrishDataViz on the r/Ireland subreddit.

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    ICU Capacity Data: https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/0320/1124290-covid-19-coronavirus-health/


  • #7884
    Lollipops23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,420 ✭✭✭Lollipops23


    I'm quite ok with them falling down a flight of stairs a few times.


  • #7885
    Steve F
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,858 ✭✭✭Steve F


    walshb wrote: »
    High probability restrictions extended past April 19?

    Workplaces mid May...beginning of June

    Schools September

    Schools were the first to be shut and last to reopen

    My gut feeling only

    I do believe A LOT depends on the next 2 -3 weeks.I'd love to be able to hop ahead and see where this country is come April 15th I do so hope it's good news


  • #7886
    Tacitus Kilgore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,128 ✭✭✭Tacitus Kilgore


    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    I heard there are some good ones in Alpha Centauri


    The people there don't have arses though so it's not a fair comparison


  • #7887
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    Where is Facekicker when you need him?


  • #7888
    ACitizenErased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,757 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    Wombatman wrote: »
    Hold on a sec.

    We have 1329 positive cases.

    If that's 4% then the overall number of tests should be 33,000 not 14,692.

    Also, many test are repeat tests on the same person to see if they are clear.

    What am I missing here?
    That's UCDs lab. There's other labs too.


  • #7889
    bekker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 912 ✭✭✭bekker


    Akrasia wrote: »
    We have 7000 ish serving members of the defence forces. They can't lock down a single city never mind the entire country. We require that the good will of the population is maintained and that people observe the restrictions through social pressure rather than strict enforcement by the security services

    The Defence forces and reserves and Civil defence would be much more useful in a supporting role, transporting essential equipment and personel, distributing food and medical supplies to people who cannot leave their homes, and to places like nursing homes and high dependency units
    Even with reserves called-up, we'd be doing very well to deploy over 3,000, e.g. manning checkpoints and patrolling, for any period of time exceeding 7-10 days.


  • #7890
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,353 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    Yeah it really sucks, we just had the worst 6 months or so weather I can remember, and now we're going to miss spring and summer, and we can't even jet abroad for a sunny break. Oh the humanity!


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  • #7891
    frillyleaf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 801 ✭✭✭frillyleaf


    Boggles wrote: »
    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.

    Yes this is what I think the important information is but unfortunately there is a lag by a few weeks so it’s not an accurate reflection on how we behave now.

    The testing is important as it means people can be contact traced and self isolate. This seems to be scaling back now too so this won’t happen as much. Is that a fair assumption?

    Many people don’t have symptoms which is more dangerous than having symptoms in my opinion as they’ve no reason to self isolate, they are walking to food shops etc obvious and some even going to places of work dealing with public.

    I think the above is why everyone should really have a mask, to protect spreading it as opposed to themselves but we don’t have the resources to do that.

    I hope we have the resources to help staff in hospitals fighting this but also to protect them.


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