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CoVid19 Part XIV - 8,089 in ROI (288 deaths) 1,589 in NI (92 deaths) (10/04) Read OP

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,346 ✭✭✭easypazz


    Ace2007 wrote: »
    They need to have a press conference tomorrow to state that they are extending it until the 5th May i feel, that way people will not start making plans for the May bank holiday.

    I can't see them extending it more than a week at a time.

    They can extend it again if necessary.

    It will come down to the numbers of new cases.


  • Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,458 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Ace2007 wrote: »
    The bit in bold is the key part,
    Actually, it's the quality of the model that matters. The 95% assumes the model accurately "predicts" the way this develops, and makes various assumptions about the behaviour of people, governments, healthcare organisations etc. Any variation from the assumptions made can materially affect that 95% "confidence" level, and indeed makes the reference to a 95% confidence largely meaningless


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭BanditLuke


    rm212 wrote: »
    A lot of people out and about around the estate today. Families heading out with the kids wearing backpacks, looking like they're heading to the park. Neighbours at eachother's doors not observing social distancing when chatting and lots of noise, lots of cars. It has been quiet enough to hear a pin drop for the last couple of weeks, but somewhat yesterday and particularly today, you'd say it's almost 'bustling' in the estate. Looks like people are starting to disregard the measures :(

    Same ones will be moaning about how long the restrictions are going on next week when it fact they will be responsible for a prolonged lockdown by being selfish.


  • Posts: 24,713 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Hooter23 wrote: »
    The fact that Germany has tested around a million people has has such a low death rate proves the the real death rate of the virus is even lower than what is being reported...Fake news

    Germany are not counting deaths that we would though for example.


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


    I actually started a dedicated thread to this a while back, and I too was under the assumption that we should walk on the left of a footpath, but I'm guessing that about 85% suggest the opposite, so I now comply and always walk in the right hand side of paths/footpaths keeping 2Mtrs distance where possible.
    When there is no footpath ie down the country always walk facing oncoming traffic. ie on the right (unless more dangerous). rules of the road.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,029 ✭✭✭✭Ace2007


    easypazz wrote: »
    I can't see them extending it more than a week at a time.

    They can extend it again if necessary.

    It will come down to the numbers of new cases.

    What's happening now, is that we are getting towards the end of 2 weeks, the sun is out and people get ideas, if you extend it for longer periods, people will understand that more and behave. Pushing out a week and folk be like sure it's only a week, if i can do it in a week i can do it now attitude.

    Part of me feels like the parks should have been clsoed


  • Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,458 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Ace2007 wrote: »
    Some private homes have twice/three time temp checks on all staff daily

    Which makes absolute sense. There are simply not enough "tests" available, and the timelag in delivering results is too long, for them to do any kind of "formal" tests. All they can do is ask anyone showing any symptoms to self isolate pending any "formal" test result


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


    Gynoid wrote: »
    On it possibly being here longer - which if true would be really good news! - at Christmas one of my childer who lives in Germany brought us a really odd dose. I rarely get ill but it flew through the house. Fever, followed by chills, but the only difference was a LOT of nose action. I felt crap for a few days, really zonked out.
    Now considering patient zero for Italy is suspected to gave come from a German dose dated to around mid January - this is my proof number one.
    My proof number two - GERM-any. I mean, come on!!!! ;)
    Wasnt a rarer, nastier influenza circulating the country this year. Yamagata B or something. Not sure if it was covered by the vacine?


  • Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,458 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Mass testing is now necessary until we have a vaccine. We may have a time where people will be tested daily.

    Again what's the point of testing daily if it takes a week to turn a test around?

    We simply do not have the resources to do "mass" testing. They were talking about 15,000 a day at one stage, but we are still struggling to do much more than a tenth of that


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,762 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    https://www.thejournal.ie/trump-threatens-world-health-organisation-funding-5069546-Apr2020/

    What a petty, malignant, cancer on the world this piece of shit is.


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  • Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,458 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Ace2007 wrote: »

    How many recoveries in Ireland get published?
    Confirmation of a recovery requires a test. There are not enough tests to deal with suspected cases so I cannot see them ever issuing any "official" recovery figures


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Stupid more like.
    "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self" - Ernest Hemingway


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,098 ✭✭✭Poorside


    There's a decent amount of people out today, hope it's just a kneejerk reaction and people trying to get ready for a long quiet weekend


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,134 ✭✭✭Akabusi


    speckle wrote: »
    wasnt a rarer nastier influensa circulating the country this year. Yamagata B or somthing. Not sure if it was covered by the vax.?

    There was a very nasty cold going around, I got it in early Feb, the main symptoms were a head cold and a severe sore throat. My throat was so bad none of the normal medication such as gargling disprin had any effect. The only relief I got was when i took some strong pain killers I had left over from a slipped disc last year.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 234 ✭✭zinfandel


    voluntary wrote: »
    I think first we should start by lifting restrictions on religious gatherings. Open them up for 2-3 weeks and see what happens.
    religious gatherings! you cant be serious, that would be the worst possible thing..... besides are there not plenty of online services if people really need this..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 Switch Profile


    Affected areas orders
    31B (1) Subject to subsection (2), the Minister may, having regard to the matters specified in section 31A(2), by order declare an area or region in the State to be an area where there is known or thought to be sustained human transmission of Covid-19 or from which there is a high risk of importation of infection or contamination with Covid-19 by travel from that area (in this Act referred to as an “affected areas order”).

    What areas or regions have been declared “affected areas”?

    If all areas and regions have been declared “affected areas”, where might I find a copy of that order?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,393 ✭✭✭MonkieSocks


    flynnlives wrote: »
    Nurseing homes seem to be a ****show.
    Doubling of clusters since the weekend.

    When you pay staff **** wages this is what you get. Agency staff being moved around various nursing homes.
    Its clear no proper staffing measures were put in place.

    In many of the hospitals medics etc are gone to single 24hr on calls in any one week. This reduces the possibility for spreading the virus.
    Medic only has one shift so only one chance to infect others. This is happening in the major hospitals. They can do this because they have the staff.

    Nursing homes are run for profit so are not adequately staffed. You've workers doing shifts in various homes spreading the virus around.

    Where is HIQA or the Surveilance agency or dept coming down hard on these providers?

    Why hasnt a mass casualty event/process been put in place to seperate healthy residents from ill? like move them to other building?


    I know someone who is in a nursing home for People with disabilities and they are being quarantined in their rooms

    =(:-) Me? I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude (-:)=



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,545 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    Tony EH wrote:
    What a petty, malignant, cancer on the world this piece of **** is.
    Didn't he immediately say he didn't say that?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,947 ✭✭✭0gac3yjefb5sv7


    Big day today. If the new cases fall again, we must have peaked. If we drop 20 cases a day, we will have <10 new cases in 17 days.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 280 ✭✭wellwhynot


    Germany are not counting deaths that we would though for example.

    This myth has been debunked countless times. Germany has tested far more people hence the low mortality rate.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Big day today. If the new cases fall again, we must have peaked. If we drop 20 cases a day, we will have <10 new cases in 17 days.
    Big week really, one day really doesn't say too much.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,762 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    eagle eye wrote: »
    Didn't he immediately say he didn't say that?

    He backtracked to "strongly consider".

    The sentiment is still the same. Petty and ridiculous.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,098 ✭✭✭Poorside


    Big day today. If the new cases fall again, we must have peaked. If we drop 20 cases a day, we will have <10 new cases in 17 days.

    If peoples attitude today is anything to go by we'll have a jump in 2 weeks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,814 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    mandrake04 wrote: »
    I can’t see restrictions on pubs or clubs being lifted, hardly an essential service although some might argue they are but the reality is very very difficult to maintain social distance and the risk of people getting drunk and forgetting the social etiquette, handling glasses etc, touching stuff etc it would be madness to undo the work that has already been done.

    Large gatherings for concerts, sports etc hardly going happen.

    Overseas holiday to anywhere is definitely not going happen this year, how could government justify letting people travel and risk bringing back more infection is the government going pay to isolate you in a hotel on your return... hardly

    Summer is basically cancelled, this thing is going continue to roll into next winter and then maybe 2021 things can progress from there.

    Summer is a write off in terms of social activities and events. Yep pubs and clubs are a no no, zero possibility of social distancing, by their nature they bring everyone closer, in every respect. Alcohol loosens inhibitions and impedes social decisions. They will be the very last amenities to reopen. Concerts too and sports and foreign travel like you say...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,394 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    eagle eye wrote: »
    Didn't he immediately say he didn't say that?

    Here's a verbatim quote:

    “They’ve been wrong about a lot of things, And they had a lot of information early and they didn’t want to – they seemed to be very China centric. They called it wrong, they called it wrong. They missed the call. They could have called it months earlier. They would have known and they should have known and they probably did know. So we’ll be looking into that very carefully and we’re going to put a hold on money spent to the WHO. We’re going to put a very powerful hold on it and we’re going to see. It’s a great thing if it works but when they call every shot wrong, it’s not good.”

    He then immediately denied having said the above while again saying he would cut funding:

    “No, I didn’t, I said we’re going to look at it. We’re going to investigate it, we’re going to look at it. But we will look at ending funding, yeah, because you know what, they called it wrong, and if you look back over the years even, everything seems to be very biased toward China. That’s not right.”


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,379 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    mandrake04 wrote: »
    I can’t see restrictions on pubs or clubs being lifted, hardly an essential service although some might argue they are but the reality is very very difficult to maintain social distance and the risk of people getting drunk and forgetting the social etiquette, handling glasses etc, touching stuff etc it would be madness to undo the work that has already been done.

    Large gatherings for concerts, sports etc hardly going happen.

    Overseas holiday to anywhere is definitely not going happen this year, how could government justify letting people travel and risk bringing back more infection is the government going pay to isolate you in a hotel on your return... hardly

    Summer is basically cancelled, this thing is going continue to roll into next winter and then maybe 2021 things can progress from there.

    I was reading yesterday that Denmark intend opening many places within the next couple of weeks and to resume major outdoor sporting events by August.

    Delaying all sports until 2021 would be absolutely crippling economically. If football leagues etc cannot start by August / September, it would mean they cannot go ahead at all. The prospect of schools and universities not being able to reopen in early autumn seems unthinkable......there must be close to 1m people (children and adults) in Ireland involved in fulltime education.


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


    froog wrote: »
    https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/0408/1129265-covid-clusters-ireland/

    "The number of clusters of coronavirus in nursing homes has more than doubled since the weekend.

    Figures released today show there are now 86 nursing home outbreaks, while on Saturday the figure was 40.
    "

    what the actual ****??
    We really need an infectious disease and control expert czar. Whose only job is to get the nursing home infections of staff and patients under control.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,134 ✭✭✭Akabusi


    Here's a verbatim quote:

    “They’ve been wrong about a lot of things, And they had a lot of information early and they didn’t want to – they seemed to be very China centric. They called it wrong, they called it wrong. They missed the call. They could have called it months earlier. They would have known and they should have known and they probably did know. So we’ll be looking into that very carefully and we’re going to put a hold on money spent to the WHO. We’re going to put a very powerful hold on it and we’re going to see. It’s a great thing if it works but when they call every shot wrong, it’s not good.”

    He then immediately denied having said the above while again saying he would cut funding:

    “No, I didn’t, I said we’re going to look at it. We’re going to investigate it, we’re going to look at it. But we will look at ending funding, yeah, because you know what, they called it wrong, and if you look back over the years even, everything seems to be very biased toward China. That’s not right.”

    Does everyone else read it in Trump's voice?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,814 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    ^^^ again, one of the very last people on the fücking planet you’d have wanted in such a position of critical responsibility and leadership during a planet wide crisis like we are enduring. Him and his supporters are really being shown up for what they are.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,762 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Here's a verbatim quote:

    “They’ve been wrong about a lot of things, And they had a lot of information early and they didn’t want to – they seemed to be very China centric. They called it wrong, they called it wrong. They missed the call. They could have called it months earlier. They would have known and they should have known and they probably did know. So we’ll be looking into that very carefully and we’re going to put a hold on money spent to the WHO. We’re going to put a very powerful hold on it and we’re going to see. It’s a great thing if it works but when they call every shot wrong, it’s not good.”

    He then immediately denied having said the above while again saying he would cut funding:

    “No, I didn’t, I said we’re going to look at it. We’re going to investigate it, we’re going to look at it. But we will look at ending funding, yeah, because you know what, they called it wrong, and if you look back over the years even, everything seems to be very biased toward China. That’s not right.”

    In a situation where the world should be trying to come together for each others benefit, this arse is trying to seek some sort of political gain.

    There is something very, very, wrong with him and the party he currently leads.


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