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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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  • #7082
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,384 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    Miriam back presenting the Late Late tomorrow.

    Tubridy must be raging.


  • #7083
    CitizenFloor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 321 ✭✭CitizenFloor


    My slightly modified question still stands. It's a question worth asking.

    Sorry to hear about your Dad by the way. Hope all is well


  • #7084
    owlbethere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭owlbethere


    gabeeg wrote: »
    If you fractured a finger right now, would you go to hospital?
    A fractured finger wouldn't be too bad. You could get someone to split it for you, take ibuprofen and wait it out for a few weeks.

    I would probably need a limb have hanging of me before I would go anywhere near a hospital.


  • #7085
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,456 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    macmahon wrote: »
    capital.....YES!

    Agreed, but they (WHO) where late in naming it. The sloppy name stuck, unfortunately.


  • #7086
    frillyleaf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 801 ✭✭✭frillyleaf


    Strazdas wrote: »
    The "two metre rule" wasn't being discussed in the first week in February. If I remember correctly, it only began to emerge towards the end of the month.

    The 15 minute rule was being spoken about - don’t think many took their chances somehow :D


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  • #7087
    Roger_007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,886 ✭✭✭✭Roger_007


    New Home wrote: »
    Words I'm now hating due to these threads:

    1. "Scaremongering"
    2. "Triage"
    3. "Cocooning"
    4. "Social distancing" (ok, fair enough, that's two words)
    5. "Doomsayers"

    I'm sure I had more to add to the list, but I'll do that as soon as I remember them.

    Please, bring back "Moist".
    We could also resurrect Charlie Haughey’s GUBU phrase to describe the present situation:-
    Grotesque
    Unbelievable
    Bizarre
    Unprecedented.


  • #7088
    citysights
    Closed Accounts Posts: 288 ✭✭citysights


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    I regularly lose my sense of smell and taste with winter colds...

    Lots of elderly people have an impaired sense of smell and taste and yes my mam ( who is elderly- but not saying you are) would say with a bad cold taste buds were gone and sense of smell too.


  • #7089
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,456 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Roger_007 wrote: »
    We could also resurrect Charlie Haughey’s GUBU phrase to describe the present situation:-
    Grotesque
    Unbelievable
    Bizarre
    Unprecedented.

    Showing your age there Roger ;)


  • #7090
    macmahon
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 83 ✭✭macmahon


    Naos wrote: »
    It isn't (overrunning our health system currently) because of the measures we've put in place and the majority of people are adhering too.

    Thats exactly what I thought too and led to believe!


  • #7091
    owlbethere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭owlbethere


    Spook_ie wrote: »
    So interesting report on Breaking News, wonder if there's a practical way of proving/disproving it?

    https://www.breakingnews.ie/world/smell-test-campaign-could-help-experts-track-coronavirus-spread-991853.html

    Lol at wake up and smell the coffee


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  • #7092
    bekker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 912 ✭✭✭bekker


    Curious_Case wrote: »
    My thinking is that much of the testing & treatment infrastructure would still be in place so a similar spend/investment would not be required.

    Also, we would have a better knowledge of how much to do, when to do it, and how long to do it for.

    I would hope that a 2nd wave would be more manageable than the current wave due to case numbers being smaller.

    Then again, a mutated form of the virus could turn all that upside down.

    I'm really just trying to dampen the idea that a second wave would necessarily be worse, when it couldn't possibly take us as much by surprise as the current crisis.
    Couple of things you haven't factored in.

    The incredibly short time scale of human nature remembrance and belief that this time it'll be different, allied to the equally incredible ability of bureaucracies to turn crises into disasters by refusing to acknowledge the blindingly obvious because it does not fit into their framework.


  • #7093
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,185 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Spain looks likely to report over 1,000 deaths in a 24 hour period tomorrow morning.

    It will be the first country in the world to report over 1,000 deaths in 24 hours. (France today does not count, they are added cumulative deaths)

    961 deaths in this period by 8 pm.


  • #7094
    podgeandrodge
    Site Banned Posts: 5,975 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    amadangomor wrote: »
    If we had done nothing and had no restrictions you would have seen exponential growth. Our ICU's would be overwhelmed by now and we would have many excess deaths.

    Being realistic there is still a good chance even with the restrictions we have in place that we will get to a stage where our health service will be overwhelmed in a few weeks. Then we will see those excess deaths.

    It's that serious!

    But if we are all following the advice and social distancing, at least where possible for most people, why would we get more overwhelmed in a few weeks, surely growth should slow down. Otherwise, for what you are saying would happen, people would have to be ignoring the advice we now all know to follow?
    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    Its not possible to conclude growth is exponential even with restrictions. Cases being announced were picked up at least 2 weeks ago before any tough measures came in. We wont see the reflection of current measures for at least another week to 2 weeks which the CMO has been pretty clear about.

    We've cut the average close contacts from 20 to 5 to 3 which would suggest growth will slow.

    This seems more logical. Time will tell.


  • #7095
    Roger_007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,886 ✭✭✭✭Roger_007


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    Showing your age there Roger ;)

    Me daddy told me about it.:rolleyes:


  • #7096
    redarmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,858 ✭✭✭redarmy


    Podge201 wrote: »
    Fingering

    source


  • #7097
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,242 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Roger_007 wrote: »
    We could also resurrect Charlie Haughey’s GUBU phrase to describe the present situation:-
    Grotesque
    Unbelievable
    Bizarre
    Unprecedented.


    And, Trump-related:

    - Terrific
    - Tremendous.


  • #7098
    woohoo!!!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 803 ✭✭✭woohoo!!!


    At current rates, our health system will be overwhelmed in 2-3 weeks. The chief cause being lack of sufficiently trained health workers. It's alarming the numbers that are being infected. Got to ensure at minimum that everyone working in a cluster currently and likely near future clusters are all wearing proper PPE all the time. And consider separating those workers with covid patients completely, with industrial level PPE also


  • #7099
    Woodsie1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 949 ✭✭✭Woodsie1


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    I regularly lose my sense of smell and taste with winter colds...

    for me its normally one of the first signs I know Im coming down with something


  • #7100
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Spain looks likely to report over 1,000 deaths in a 24 hour period tomorrow morning.

    It will be the first country in the world to report over 1,000 deaths in 24 hours. (France today does not count, they are added cumulative deaths)

    961 deaths in this period by 8 pm.
    Didn't the US report 1057 deaths yesterday?


  • #7101
    owlbethere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭owlbethere


    hotmail.com wrote: »
    Miriam back presenting the Late Late tomorrow.

    Tubridy must be raging.

    I hope Ryan is ok. If he feels up to it, it would be great if she could Skype him from the studio for a chat.


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  • #7102
    spookwoman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,059 ✭✭✭✭spookwoman


    Stheno wrote: »
    Didn't the US report 1057 deaths yesterday?

    1049


  • #7103
    Curious_Case
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭Curious_Case


    New Home wrote: »
    Words I'm now hating due to these threads:

    1. "Scaremongering"
    2. "Triage"
    3. "Cocooning"
    4. "Social distancing" (ok, fair enough, that's two words)
    5. "Doomsayers"

    I'm sure I had more to add to the list, but I'll do that as soon as I remember them.

    Please, bring back "Moist".

    I've always hated "proactive" - you'd think that no one ever anticipated anything until that phrase was coined

    "Upcycling" too - pure pretensiousness


  • #7104
    kingshankly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭kingshankly


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Spain looks likely to report over 1,000 deaths in a 24 hour period tomorrow morning.

    It will be the first country in the world to report over 1,000 deaths in 24 hours. (France today does not count, they are added cumulative deaths)

    961 deaths in this period by 8 pm.

    But is that not from 8pm yesterday and tomorrow morning total will be from 8 this morning to 8 tomorrow morning


  • #7105
    froog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,784 ✭✭✭froog


    5,740 deaths today alone. frightening.


  • #7106
    speckle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭speckle


    Bit nervous, going for an emergency dental apointment in the midst of a pandemic. Never thought I would see the day!


  • #7107
    Mike3549
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,124 ✭✭✭Mike3549


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Spain looks likely to report over 1,000 deaths in a 24 hour period tomorrow morning.

    It will be the first country in the world to report over 1,000 deaths in 24 hours. (France today does not count, they are added cumulative deaths)

    961 deaths in this period by 8 pm.

    Not the first. Usa was 1049 yesterday.


  • #7108
    Curious_Case
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭Curious_Case


    bekker wrote: »
    Couple of things you haven't factored in.

    The incredibly short time scale of human nature remembrance and belief that this time it'll be different, allied to the equally incredible ability of bureaucracies to turn crises into disasters by refusing to acknowledge the blindingly obvious because it does not fit into their framework.

    It's a fair cop! you've highlighted the weak chink of hope in my armour of human behaviour.


  • #7109
    Woodsie1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 949 ✭✭✭Woodsie1


    froog wrote: »
    5,740 deaths today alone. frightening.

    where?


  • #7110
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,129 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Spain looks likely to report over 1,000 deaths in a 24 hour period tomorrow morning.

    It will be the first country in the world to report over 1,000 deaths in 24 hours. (France today does not count, they are added cumulative deaths)

    961 deaths in this period by 8 pm.

    Their lockdown is far more stringent than ours is at present.

    I don't keep up with the stats, but is that a rising figure of deaths or is it stabilising. I suppose stats on new cases is the one to watch, but it's all becoming far too depressing and negative. And confusing.

    It's a weird and eerie time for sure though for many. And it is less than a month since the first death (RIP) from Covid here too, that was the 11th March.


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  • #7111
    macmahon
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 83 ✭✭macmahon


    igCorcaigh wrote: »

    I beg you to read the whole of that page again and see it! Covid19 is there on the page but look at the full stops!!! Full stops dont apply to the next sentence! Thats what Im seeing!


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