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CoVid19 Part XII - 4,604 in ROI (137 deaths) 998 in NI (56 deaths)(04/04) **Read OP**

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 287 ✭✭boardlady


    In Austria, from Monday coming, you will not be allowed out in public unless you are wearing a mask. Every country is making their own regulations, in their own time, so far. It is not unforeseeable that we will be told to wear some sort of nose and mouth cover when we are out in time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 394 ✭✭DisneyLover


    is_that_so wrote: »
    From RTE Feed.

    Our cancer patients where moved last week to our private hospital. This is already happening.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,472 ✭✭✭jobeenfitz


    But as long as that wave is within ICU capacity, then is okay. It is ICU capacity that is the driver for restrictions.....not an attempt to halt the virus

    We all would be more educated in virus spread and our role if there is a 2nd wave.

    Health systems would presumably better stocked and more effective in the fight next wave.

    Some of the most vulnerable already dead so maybe less deaths because of this.

    Masks more available for all?

    Maybe 2nd wave wouldn't cause as much havoc as this time?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 867 ✭✭✭voluntary


    A perspective from the 6 counties. A DUP councillor.

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    Anyone?

    Middle Ages


  • Posts: 6,583 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    A perspective from the 6 counties. A DUP councillor.

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    Anyone?

    Think he posts on the Christianity forums on here and most read like a conspiracy theory. In other words not really worth the bandwidth


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 240 ✭✭1st dalkey dalkey


    topper75 wrote: »
    How does your stat sit alongside 'normal business', if that is even available?

    There doesn't seem be much in the way of distinction in any country between OF covid and WITH covid. If you are in God's waiting room anyway, you are likely in an institution that is riddled with the bastard, one that operates as a straw on a camel back.

    We are all in God's waiting room.

    Some more or less 'riddled' with 'underlying conditions'.

    My mother died of a heart attack. She died with cancer. The cancer strained her heart to the point where it gave out.

    Which 'killed' her?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,149 ✭✭✭✭spookwoman


    Hrududu wrote: »
    So if we did all that with cats and dogs it would be ok to eat them?

    Probably would, I know I wouldn't eat them same way I wouldn't eat pigs feet.


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


    saabsaab wrote: »
    Not true here. May be true in UK or parts.


    'Although it is not a fixed charge offence to cycle on a footpath a cyclist could be fined for doing so if a Garda deemed their cycling to be without 'reasonable consideration'
    In the context of the original post.

    Article 13 of the 1997 Regulations makes it an offence to cycle on a footpath unless you are entering or exiting a property.

    Plus there is the obstruction element which is also and offence.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,621 ✭✭✭tobefrank321


    2u2me wrote: »
    The new Imperial College London report speculates somewhere between 1.88% and 11.43% are already infected in the 11 European countries it has studied. I guess we won't know until we actually do the tests.

    I think the tests are quickly becoming pointless.

    In fact I think the WHO advice was another mistake by them to go with the advice against travel bans and not isolating until you display symptoms. The WHO advice was aspirational like much of the advice coming from them such as advising against travel bans.

    If you test test test, which we did in Ireland for a few weeks, you waste a hell of a lot of tests.

    We should have been testing vital front line workers and those who display symptoms. Those who don't display symptoms are unlikely to go for a test anyways.

    We wasted all our tests on the hypochondriacs and now we have no tests left to check front line workers. More WHO inspired madness.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭munster87


    marno21 wrote: »
    Tony H is back at work

    https://twitter.com/sandra_hurley/status/1245640109711486977

    Fantastic news. Great to see him recovered

    Great to see him recovered but give him a few days off maybe.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 308 ✭✭CitizenFloor


    Was it clarified by a trusted source if ICU capacity is the same as ventilator capacity? And links where it is clarified?

    My understanding was that ICU capacity does not equal ventilator capacity.

    We increased our ICU beds, did we increase ventilators?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,095 ✭✭✭growleaves


    Actually make that 0.02%. 1 million cases out of a world population of 7 billion.

    Although realistically its probably about 7 million cases of covid 19. So 0.1% of the world population.

    Ah but realistically its unknown. How many millions of asymptomatic cases are out there right now?

    Any disease when it first appeared - encephalitis lethargica, Hong Kong Flu, Swine Flu - might have gone on to be deadlier than the Black Death before we knew enough about it to say it wasn't.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,992 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Hrududu wrote: »
    So if we did all that with cats and dogs it would be ok to eat them?

    Wtf are you on about? Such meat is **** quality meat. From a feed conversion ratio it makes no sense to farm either of those species.

    And for that reason meat from cats and dogs largely come from backstreet operations in poorer countries. Many of the animals are stolen to provide a supply. There is little or no regulation, trade is often illegal and has been banned on health and safety grounds in many countries as biologically predators as a rule do not consume other carnivores (there are some few exceptions)

    So stop banging the vegan drum with the usual bull**** 'dog thou' crap.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 160 ✭✭Urquell


    A perspective from the 6 counties. A DUP councillor.

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    Anyone?

    Surely our Danny Healy Rae can bate that !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,652 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    I think the tests are quickly becoming pointless.

    In fact I think the WHO advice was another mistake by them to go with the advice against travel bans and not isolating until you display symptoms. The WHO advice was aspirational like much of the advice coming from them such as advising against travel bans.

    If you test test test, which we did in Ireland for a few weeks, you waste a hell of a lot of tests.

    We should have been testing vital front line workers and those who display symptoms. Those who don't display symptoms are unlikely to go for a test anyways.

    We wasted all our tests on the hypochondriacs and now we have no tests left to check front line workers. More WHO inspired madness.


    'We wasted all our tests following govt and hse guidelines.....'
    fyp.


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


    bekker wrote: »
    In the context of the original post.

    Article 13 of the 1997 Regulations makes it an offence to cycle on a footpath unless you are entering or exiting a property.

    Thanks for posting that, tired of getting abuse when I politely point it out, a cyclist clipped me today on a footpath while I was out for a walk, it was followed by a billow of smoke from a vaper that smelt like kids bubblegum. He wasn't a child and the roads are practically deserted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,621 ✭✭✭tobefrank321


    Fann Linn wrote: »
    'We wasted all our tests following govt and hse guidelines.....'
    fyp.

    The govt and hse have followed WHO guidelines from the start, guidelines like not restricting travel from hotspots. They are still by and large following those guidelines.

    The test test test advice from the WHO has led to a worldwide shortage of materials for testing and processing meaning critical front line staff don't know if they are covid 19 positive or not as they can't get results.

    But at least we know all the hypochondriacs are negative thanks to the WHO.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭Rob A. Bank


    I think the tests are quickly becoming pointless.

    In fact I think the WHO advice was another mistake by them to go with the advice against travel bans and not isolating until you display symptoms. The WHO advice was aspirational like much of the advice coming from them such as advising against travel bans.

    If you test test test, which we did in Ireland for a few weeks, you waste a hell of a lot of tests.

    We should have been testing vital front line workers and those who display symptoms. Those who don't display symptoms are unlikely to go for a test anyways.

    We wasted all our tests on the hypochondriacs and now we have no tests left to check front line workers. More WHO inspired madness.

    WHO were making the simple point that it is very difficult to fight a fire if you do not know where it is.

    Thus test, test, test... to find and isolate the Covid-19 cases and their contacts.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,299 ✭✭✭kenmc


    voluntary wrote: »
    Middle Ages

    Hardly that enlightened. I believe he actually chipped that message out of a piece of slate with a flint axe. Stone age neanderthal


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,149 ✭✭✭✭spookwoman




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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,693 ✭✭✭2u2me


    The govt and hse have followed WHO guidelines from the start, guidelines like not restricting travel from hotspots. They are still by and large following those guidelines.

    The test test test advice from the WHO has led to a worldwide shortage of materials for testing meaning critical front line staff don't know if they are covid 19 positive or not.

    But at least we know all the hypochondriacs are negative thanks to the WHO.

    Apparently South Korea had a system whereby you could order and pay for the test yourself, but if you came back positive the government paid it for you. I think this is a good compromise.

    To your part in bold; have you got some source? I've read chemical companies are queuing up to make this stuff.


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


    Seamai wrote: »
    Thanks for posting that, tired of getting abuse when I politely point it out, a cyclist clipped me today on a footpath while I was out for a walk, it was followed by a billow of smoke from a vaper that smelt like kids bubblegum. He wasn't a child and the roads are practically deserted.
    Ah, but he was 'entitled' ^and emboldened^ by the previous incarnation of the present caretaker government. Law and order ??????


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,621 ✭✭✭tobefrank321


    WHO were making the simple point that it is very difficult to fight a fire if you do not know where it is.

    Thus test, test, test... to find and isolate the Covid-19 cases and their contacts.

    Its possible our government misinterpreted what they meant and took it to heart.

    We can't test everyone. We are struggling to test 1% of the population. We need to prioritise going forward. Front line medics first. Those in vulnerable categories next who report symptoms. Then maybe other essential workers.

    Everyone else should assume they have it and stay at home for the next few weeks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,052 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    bekker wrote: »
    In the context of the original post.

    Article 13 of the 1997 Regulations makes it an offence to cycle on a footpath unless you are entering or exiting a property.

    Plus there is the obstruction element which is also and offence.


    The full statement from Citizens advice is



    '
    Since 2015 the laws governing cycling have been regulated into specific fixed charge offences. Gardaí have the power to stop and fine a cyclist if they commit a fixed charge offence. Cycling on a footpath is not a fixed charge offence. However other laws do include it as an offence.
    Although it is not a fixed charge offence to cycle on a footpath a cyclist could be fined for doing so if a Garda deemed their cycling to be without ’reasonable consideration‘.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 63 ✭✭moany fuc


    Isn't testing a little useless anyway. By the time you get the result which could be negative what's not to say you havent picked it up in the meantime.

    If you get the virus and are sick enough to go to hospital you will go or be sent anyway.

    I would prefer to see an antibody test to see if that sore throat I had a few weeks ago was covid 19


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,621 ✭✭✭tobefrank321


    spookwoman wrote: »

    Sad. An awful lot of celebrities are dying from this all over the world.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,501 ✭✭✭✭josip


    Was it clarified by a trusted source if ICU capacity is the same as ventilator capacity? And links where it is clarified?
    My understanding was that ICU capacity does not equal ventilator capacity.
    We increased our ICU beds, did we increase ventilators?

    Correct, I've seen at least one report where they differentiated between ICU beds and beds with just a ventilator.
    Does that mean that,
    • all ICU beds have a ventilator but that not all beds with a ventilator are ICU beds or,
    • that not all ICU beds have a ventilator but all beds with a ventilator are ICU beds or
    • not all ICU beds have a ventilator and not all beds with a ventilator are ICU beds?
    Someone here posted a few thousand posts ago why an ICU nurse is needed to operate the ventilators for Covid-19 patients.
    The pressures required are quite high and the level of sedation then needs to be high.
    Which leads to all sorts of knock on effects which need to be managed by a properly trained nurse.

    So in my head our Covid 19 ICU capacity is MIN {#Beds, #Ventilators, #ICU Nurses}


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,097 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    New York has just reported 8,470 new cases and 153 deaths so far today.

    Cuomo just tweeted

    https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo/status/1245738389908918272


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 63 ✭✭moany fuc


    Sad. An awful lot of celebrities are dying from this all over the world.

    Sad..... an awful lot of "people" are dying all over the world from this.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,621 ✭✭✭tobefrank321


    moany fuc wrote: »
    Isn't testing a little useless anyway. By the time you get the result which could be negative what's not to say you havent picked it up in the meantime.

    If you get the virus and are sick enough to go to hospital you will go or be sent anyway.

    I would prefer to see an antibody test to see if that sore throat I had a few weeks ago was covid 19

    Very good point. And yes the anti body test is probably just as important.

    Those who can't get tested should at least have the option of the antibody test.


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