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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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    #9392
    Naggdefy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,981 ✭✭✭Naggdefy


    Fair play to RTE, they're doing their best to cheer us up. An hour long episode of Fair City at 7.30 :D


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    #9393
    merikahan
    Registered Users Posts: 46 ✭merikahan


    Teenagers, god bless them: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/district-court/coronavirus-man-who-allegedly-spat-at-garda-brought-to-court-by-garda%C3%AD-in-protective-gear-1.4215008


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    #9394
    crossman47
    Registered Users Posts: 1,499 ✭✭✭crossman47


    Talisman wrote: »
    Correction: "around 5,000 people a day".

    The HSE are very fond of rounding up positive numbers and reducing negative numbers.

    5,000 is a nice headline number but it's meaningless.

    They have tested 33,000 in about 13 days so, allowing for a slow start, they must be at 5000 now.


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    #9395
    Marsden35
    Site Banned Posts: 93 ✭✭Marsden35


    Interested Observer wrote: »
    Spot on, this and your previous post. This thread is a dumpster fire. A load of keyboard warriors who think they could do better. How delusional can you get?

    Everyone is an expert on Corona. It's just one of these topics everyone has a view on and regurgitate half stories they heard on the news or through gossip.

    I told my dad studies had shown that Corona can sit in the air for up to three hours.

    I then heard him on the phone to my uncle telling him that someone could cough in another city and because it can last in the air for 3 hours, a breeze could carry it over and you could get infected just sitting in your garden. :rolleyes:


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    #9396
    Seamai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    Cork Boy 53 wrote: »
    If that is for real they should be immediately closed again by any means necessary. A military strike if needs be.

    Just watching a programme about Asian pangolins being driven to the edge of extinction because of the Chinese demand for them, going forward I think the Chinese are going to have to make a lot of lifestyle changes.


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    #9397
    crossman47
    Registered Users Posts: 1,499 ✭✭✭crossman47


    Roger_007 wrote: »
    I wish those reporters on RTE would stop saying each day that half the the people were over or younger than the average age of death. They seem to think that half the values in a range have to be above the average and half below. It means no such thing.

    A median means exactly that which is why its being used


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    #9398
    pc7
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,008 Mod ✭✭✭✭pc7


    merikahan wrote: »
    Teenagers, god bless them: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/district-court/coronavirus-man-who-allegedly-spat-at-garda-brought-to-court-by-garda%C3%AD-in-protective-gear-1.4215008

    At 19 bit passed a teenager, absolute idiot, should be ashamed of himself wtf like why would you do this


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    #9399
    timmy_mallet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,165 ✭✭✭timmy_mallet


    MadYaker wrote: »
    294 new cases yesterday and 200 today. At least its still showing a downward trend for now. I'm guessing thats going to change in the next few days though.


    Why would you guess that?


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    #9400
    kilkenny31
    Registered Users Posts: 701 ✭✭✭kilkenny31


    cosanostra wrote: »
    They are'nt testing to get people treatment they're testing to isolate them and their contacts. It's actually more important to find asymptomatic people as they are the ones most likely to spread it

    That may be the cases. But my point is during this lockdown where everyone is technically isolated that stratagey isn't as important.


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    #9401
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,678 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Naggdefy wrote: »
    Fair play to RTE, they're doing their best to cheer us up. An hour long episode of Fair City at 7.30 :D
    Bring back Glenroe, that would work.


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    #9402
    Refractions
    Registered Users Posts: 65 ✭✭Refractions


    kilkenny31 wrote: »
    That may be the cases. But my point is during this lockdown where everyone is technically isolated that stratagey isn't as important.

    Loads of people will be working tomorrow.


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    #9403
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,291 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    pc7 wrote: »
    At 19 bit passed a teenager, absolute idiot, should be ashamed of himself wtf like why would you do this

    drink was taken


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    #9404
    BadTurtle
    Registered Users Posts: 1,486 ✭✭✭BadTurtle


    ThomasFlynn wrote: »
    Is it? Its no more of an epicentre than Ireland is right now.

    Deaths per million:
    Ireland - 9
    USA - 7

    The USA obviously has 66 times the population of Ireland. But relatively speaking the USA is doing better than most European countries.

    If you said New York was an epicentre that would be different.
    The country as a whole has 25% of the active cases in the world. They havent locked down fast enough, so you can multiple the 120k by at least 2 now, probably 3 or 4. They hit exponential growth last week.


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    #9405
    Antares35
    Registered Users Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Antares35


    According to a recent RTE report, there has been a 45% reduction in the number of people presenting to A&E compared with the same period last year.

    https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/0329/1127114-hse-briefing-covid/

    What do we draw from this? That there are people avoiding A&E now when they shouldn't, because of Corona virus fears, or that there were numpties presenting to A&E before when they didn't really, really have to :o


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    #9406
    Gods Gift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,713 ✭✭✭Gods Gift


    I think I’m going mad.


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    #9407
    893bet
    Registered Users Posts: 8,810 ✭✭✭893bet


    Antares35 wrote: »
    According to a recent RTE report, there has been a 45% reduction in the number of people presenting to A&E compared with the same period last year.

    https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/0329/1127114-hse-briefing-covid/

    What do we draw from this? That there are people avoiding A&E now when they shouldn't, because of Corona virus fears, or that there were numpties presenting to A&E before when they didn't really, really have to :o

    Less sports accidents
    Less traffic accidents
    Less work accidents
    Less drink related accidents
    Less referrals from Gps

    And less numpties.


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    #9408
    breadmonster
    Registered Users Posts: 220 ✭✭breadmonster


    Gods Gift wrote: »
    I think I’m going mad.

    go cut the lawn again with scissors this time


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    #9409
    threeball
    Registered Users Posts: 7,982 ✭✭✭threeball


    pc7 wrote: »
    At 19 bit passed a teenager, absolute idiot, should be ashamed of himself wtf like why would you do this

    Why give the prick bail?


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    #9410
    schmoo2k
    Registered Users Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭schmoo2k


    crossman47 wrote: »
    A median means exactly that which is why its being used

    I think his point was RTE were calling it the average (i.e. the mean) which would not mean that be accurate?


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    #9411
    froog
    Registered Users Posts: 3,784 ✭✭✭froog


    3ujl6g.jpg


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    #9412
    Amirani
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,521 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    Antares35 wrote: »
    According to a recent RTE report, there has been a 45% reduction in the number of people presenting to A&E compared with the same period last year.

    https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/0329/1127114-hse-briefing-covid/

    What do we draw from this? That there are people avoiding A&E now when they shouldn't, because of Corona virus fears, or that there were numpties presenting to A&E before when they didn't really, really have to :o

    It's mostly due to the former. GPs aren't referring and patients themselves aren't presenting unless they feel it's completely essential. Less activities taking place that night cause injuries too. There has been a bit of a drop in heart attacks and strokes presenting which is somewhat concerning.

    There will be some of the latter cohort too. But often there's just nowhere else to send patients who need some sort of treatment.

    It is a bit like the traffic effect, whereby a 10% difference in volumes can often be the difference between gridlock and the roads feeling almost empty.


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    #9413
    0gac3yjefb5sv7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,948 ✭✭✭0gac3yjefb5sv7


    Is 10 the largest number of deaths in one day so far?


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    #9414
    Jinglejangle69
    Registered Users Posts: 7,260 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    Antares35 wrote: »
    According to a recent RTE report, there has been a 45% reduction in the number of people presenting to A&E compared with the same period last year.

    https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/0329/1127114-hse-briefing-covid/

    What do we draw from this? That there are people avoiding A&E now when they shouldn't, because of Corona virus fears, or that there were numpties presenting to A&E before when they didn't really, really have to :o

    Eh the second one.

    Trolley crisis showing to be just Wasters turning up with a cold or pissed.

    Arse holes.


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    #9415
    trashcan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,930 ✭✭✭trashcan


    Antares35 wrote: »
    According to a recent RTE report, there has been a 45% reduction in the number of people presenting to A&E compared with the same period last year.

    https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/0329/1127114-hse-briefing-covid/

    What do we draw from this? That there are people avoiding A&E now when they shouldn't, because of Corona virus fears, or that there were numpties presenting to A&E before when they didn't really, really have to :o

    Probably a combination of both. Plus, as 893 points out above, maybe less accidents with less people out and about.


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    #9416
    Strazdas
    Registered Users Posts: 18,165 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    Pheonix10 wrote: »
    Is 10 the largest number of deaths in one day so far?

    No, it was yesterday in fact (14)


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    #9417
    crossman47
    Registered Users Posts: 1,499 ✭✭✭crossman47


    schmoo2k wrote: »
    I think his point was RTE were calling it the average (i.e. the mean) which would not mean that be inaccurate?

    No, RTe are saying median. To be pedantic, mean, median and mode are all averages.


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    #9418
    auspicious
    Registered Users Posts: 4,497 ✭✭✭auspicious


    Antares35 wrote: »
    According to a recent RTE report, there has been a 45% reduction in the number of people presenting to A&E compared with the same period last year.

    https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/0329/1127114-hse-briefing-covid/

    What do we draw from this? That there are people avoiding A&E now when they shouldn't, because of Corona virus fears, or that there were numpties presenting to A&E before when they didn't really, really have to :o

    Could tie in with unusual video reports of empty hospitals in NYC; less than expected activity for a pandemic hotspot, seemingly.


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    #9419
    marilynrr
    Registered Users Posts: 586 ✭✭✭marilynrr


    Pheonix10 wrote: »
    Is 10 the largest number of deaths in one day so far?

    No, yesterday was 14.


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    #9420
    Cork Boy 53
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    Jinglejangle69 wrote: »
    Eh the second one.

    Trolley crisis showing to be just Wasters turning up with a cold or pissed.

    Arse holes.

    This is just not the case. Grasping at anything to further your agenda.


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    #9421
    kilkenny31
    Registered Users Posts: 701 ✭✭✭kilkenny31


    Jinglejangle69 wrote: »
    Eh the second one.

    Trolley crisis showing to be just Wasters turning up with a cold or pissed.

    Arse holes.


    That's completely not true. People waiting on trolleys are awaiting a bed in hospital so they have been found to be in need of hospital treatment. Such a negative view to have of people.


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