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CoVid19 Part XI - 2,615 in ROI (46 deaths) 410 in NI (21 deaths)(29/03)*OP upd 28/03*

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,591 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    Risteard81 wrote: »
    No-one's undermining the seriousness of it. You're ignoring the seriousness of Leo's diktats however and their anti-life effects.
    Cant tell if this is a google translate fail or literally just vomiting random words from a generator. Hes doing the exact opposite.


  • Posts: 24,773 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Risteard81 wrote: »
    No-one's undermining the seriousness of it. You're ignoring the seriousness of Leo's diktats however and their anti-life effects.

    The only people who disagree with the lockdown are idiots who wouldn’t listen to what they were told and continued as normal. They caused the full lockdown we have now.

    Everybody I know has been calling for this full lockdown for a week or two. Leo has done the right thing and only a fool would disagree.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,806 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sierra Oscar


    Still an awful lot of cars on the road in Dublin City Centre for a supposed ‘lockdown’.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,591 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    What's the alternative?

    Ivan Drogo life and health policy while working harder than ever to save the Irish Economy (as the world economy shìts itself anyway)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    The only people who disagree with the lockdown are idiots who wouldn’t listen to what they were told and continued as normal. They caused the full lockdown we have now.

    Everybody I know has been calling for this full lockdown for a week or two. Leo has done the right thing and only a fool would disagree.
    Even the guy who usually does absolutely whatever he wants, sees the necessity for these restrictions.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,566 ✭✭✭Risteard81


    And, he spelled his name wrong!

    No he didn't you pillock.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,427 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    Still an awful lot of cars on the road in Dublin City Centre for a supposed ‘lockdown’.

    Are there any Garda checkpoints? Quite a few reports of them around the city


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    is_that_so wrote: »
    Garda checkpoints, 2km exclusion zones and the like do give the impression we are even more restricted and it adds to people's anxieties.

    Well we will just have to put up with it, we're not used to it and are quite relaxed. I was in Naples last September and it seemed there was an armed soldier on every street corner, when I asked locals about this, they just shrugged and said it was normal for them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    pjohnson wrote: »
    Ivan Drogo life and health policy while working harder than ever to save the Irish Economy (as the world economy shìts itself anyway)

    That's the point.

    We are so reliant on the Global economy anyway, what would be left to save of the Irish one if we went on the solo run that people here want us to?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,145 ✭✭✭✭niallo27


    magma69 wrote: »
    Suck it up ffs. The measure are in place to save lives, if that means having a bit of anxiety due to being cooped up then so be it.

    When did we turn into such a pack of pussies? Dozens of millions went out to die in wars not too long ago in emergencies and we're being asked to just stay at home for a few weeks. Put on your big boy/girl pants now and do your bit.

    Not too long ago, it was 80 years ago. Suck it up, you do know people react differently to ever situations. I hate this saying, do you say the same about people with depression, they should man up and suck it up.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 112 ✭✭CaoinDory


    It's funny. So many ppl before were claiming WHO hadn't asked for a lockdown and so it wasnt necessary so eff off.

    Now it's been confirmed by WHO (and multiple health care workers right here on this thread) and they are still managing to come up with excuses as to why it's not necessary.

    A-holes will be a-holes I suppose. I bet these are the same a-holes who decide it's perfectly fine to go swimming I'm the sea during orange and red weather alerts. They dont care about the lives they put at risk... once they get to do what they want to do. Hopefully this virus will wipe them out... like they deserve!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,620 ✭✭✭Tandey


    inatissy wrote: »
    Totally agree. Look at Anne Frank able to deal with so much more and just a teenager.

    Anne Fank did die as a 15 year old teenager from a disease. However it was Completely different time and environment. Not comparable to a whinger on a Irish message board in 2020.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,566 ✭✭✭Risteard81


    Keep going with more of this please. It'll help you get banned from this thread, as you have been banned from others, all the sooner.

    I'm entitled to hold opposing views to yours whether you like that or not.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,322 ✭✭✭The One Doctor


    The lockdown isn't going to work, anyone with access to half a brain and a calculator can see this.

    According to Varadkar we're already nearly at ICU capacity after a couple of thousand confirmed cases and a few weeks in.

    Even if we assume that there's actually 10 times the number of confirmed cases in the country, then we've around 20,000 infected out of 4.8 million and we're at capacity.

    So, if we want to spread this out so ICU's don't get overwhelmed and need 2 weeks for every 20,000 that are infected, that works out at maintaining a lockdown for 480 weeks.

    Even if we ramp up the ICU spaces by 4 times, that's 120 weeks we need to lock down.

    The economy will be fcuked after 4 months of this - and there won't be money to borrow.

    We're doing nothing now other than prolonging the inevitable while fcuking the economy at the same time.

    Ridiculous and illogical, Boris.

    First of all, about 30% of people with covid19 not detected or asymptomatic, not 1000%.

    Secondly, the economy is already fcuked so why worry? We'll get through it as we have before. It can all be fixed.

    I guarantee that when this happens in your 70s you will not be so cavalier.

    Stay at home. Don't be a killer.


  • Posts: 5,121 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Seamai wrote: »
    Well we will just have to put up with it, we're not used to it and are quite relaxed. I was in Naples last September and it seemed there was an armed soldier on every street corner, when I asked locals about this, they just shrugged and said it was normal for them.

    For that to the normal is not a good thing. I don’t ever want to live in a country with a militaristic police force like in Italy or Spain.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭paleoperson


    This is it wrote: »
    Trying to keep people away from each other to slow/avoid the spread of a highly contagious and deadly virus is "anti-life"?

    Gentle reminder not to feed the trolls.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,807 ✭✭✭degsie


    https://www.mapdevelopers.com/draw-circle-tool.php

    Enter your address and a range of 2km to find the limits of your restricted area.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭Gynoid


    Was thinking how to deal with people not doing the restrictions. Most who would have time / opportunity to mess around that way would be on pandemic payment, or already on SW, or their parents would be on such now due to closures. Not all but a good amount.
    So. Out larking, taking the proverbial, then PPSN taken on the spot and deduction of 100 from payment. Could all be done digitally.

    Hmmm, maybe I have the black heart of a technocratic dictator. Oh well... :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 82 ✭✭ihdxwz4a3pem9j


    The lockdown isn't going to work, anyone with access to half a brain and a calculator can see this.

    According to Varadkar we're already nearly at ICU capacity after a couple of thousand confirmed cases and a few weeks in.

    Even if we assume that there's actually 10 times the number of confirmed cases in the country, then we've around 20,000 infected out of 4.8 million and we're at capacity.

    So, if we want to spread this out so ICU's don't get overwhelmed and need 2 weeks for every 20,000 that are infected, that works out at maintaining a lockdown for 480 weeks.

    Even if we ramp up the ICU spaces by 4 times, that's 120 weeks we need to lock down.

    The economy will be fcuked after 4 months of this - and there won't be money to borrow.

    We're doing nothing now other than prolonging the inevitable while fcuking the economy at the same time.

    We are not prolonging the inevitable. The more that we clog up the health services, and deplete our resources, the less effective they are. We have ways and means of expanding the current critical care beds numbers to accommodate in a controlled fashion. However, this number is not infinite. If we just let everybody catch the virus, then the number of needy will far outweigh the number. And we will end up with far more outraged people on boards, not understanding why their loved ones are dying, due to lack of resources. Furthermore, there will be indirect morbidity and mortality from people who die because they do not have their heart-attack treated within 90 minutes (as per current practice) or a stroke treated within 4.5 hours (as per current practice) because of an overwhelmed service

    I think that we have to look at all our loved-ones. Are we willing to gamble with their lives, to save an economy that is already doomed? Ireland is a compassionate society. And we are resilient. We got through so much hardship. One rocky economic patch will not define our history. Turning our backs on the sick and needy will!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,575 ✭✭✭WhiteMemento9


    Risteard81 wrote: »
    I blame the education system for producing people who can't understand that a lockdown is pointless and futile. When it ends cases will surge. You can't continuously lock people down for a couple of years hoping to develop a vaccine.

    Vaccine is not the end game at least in the medium term. You get the outbreak under control. So when you reopen you then have some immunity in the population, the infrastructure in place to test, you can isolate people very quickly and you have an educated population on the subject. This all gives you the ability in the aftermath to operate in some normaility with the ability to control clusters and care for people who do get sick without a rampant population wide outbreak that overwhelms the system.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,430 ✭✭✭paul71


    Risteard81 wrote: »
    No he didn't you pillock.


    Have you educated yourself yet on what a law is, or are you going to continue to dribble nonsense onto your keyboard?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 112 ✭✭CaoinDory


    Gynoid wrote: »
    Was thinking how to deal with people not doing the restrictions.

    Tempted to buy a shotgun... or a sniper. Take those gob****es out from the comfort of my home. ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,348 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    I honestly think people like him don't believe the crap they spout. They know they can make money off it, just like Alex Jones. And there's plenty of idiots who lap it up. Isn't Dave a born again Christian?

    From what I've seen of him, he's always just come across as a sneering wanker of the lowest kind.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,145 ✭✭✭✭niallo27


    CaoinDory wrote: »
    It's funny. So many ppl before were claiming WHO hadn't asked for a lockdown and so it wasnt necessary so eff off.

    Now it's been confirmed by WHO (and multiple health care workers right here on this thread) and they are still managing to come up with excuses as to why it's not necessary.

    A-holes will be a-holes I suppose. I bet these are the same a-holes who decide it's perfectly fine to go swimming I'm the sea during orange and red weather alerts. They dont care about the lives they put at risk... once they get to do what they want to do. Hopefully this virus will wipe them out... like they deserve!

    It's not people disagree with the lockdown, it's the idiots that think we can do this for months with no social and mental issues after it.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,806 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sierra Oscar


    Strazdas wrote: »
    Are there any Garda checkpoints? Quite a few reports of them around the city

    I’ve passed a few. They’re only offering advice to people, they don’t seem to have any enforcement powers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,620 ✭✭✭Tandey


    statesaver wrote: »

    Hmm surely it should be cabin virus🀔


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,096 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    260 new deaths in last 24 hours in UK.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 18,748 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    tom1ie wrote: »
    Genuine question.
    Family of 4, we want to go on a walk within 2km of the house for some brief exercise together. Are we allowed?

    Then 2 families see you doing it so think fine they'll do it
    Then each of those 2 families are seen by 2 families so think fine they'll do it
    Then each...

    Where am I going with this...


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 13,340 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,566 ✭✭✭Risteard81


    The lockdown isn't going to work, anyone with access to half a brain and a calculator can see this.

    According to Varadkar we're already nearly at ICU capacity after a couple of thousand confirmed cases and a few weeks in.

    Even if we assume that there's actually 10 times the number of confirmed cases in the country, then we've around 20,000 infected out of 4.8 million and we're at capacity.

    So, if we want to spread this out so ICU's don't get overwhelmed and need 2 weeks for every 20,000 that are infected, that works out at maintaining a lockdown for 480 weeks.

    Even if we ramp up the ICU spaces by 4 times, that's 120 weeks we need to lock down.

    The economy will be fcuked after 4 months of this - and there won't be money to borrow.

    We're doing nothing now other than prolonging the inevitable while fcuking the economy at the same time.

    Only the incredibly stupid cannot see and understand this.


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