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Covid19 Part XV - 15,251 in ROI (610 deaths) 2,645 in NI (194 deaths) (19/04) Read OP

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  • #8432
    BanditLuke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭BanditLuke


    JanuarySnowstor wrote: »
    The new cases are still quite high. With the lockdown 3 weeks in place I would have thought numbers would now be dropping

    That's because it's a very soft lockdown. Going by these numbers I can easily see it being made more draconian and extended for another 2 weeks beyond the 5th of May.


  • #8433
    Reckless Abandonment
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,555 ✭✭✭Reckless Abandonment


    Any idea how many tests they are doing a day now ?


  • #8434
    bettyoleary
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 400 ✭✭bettyoleary


    Hobgoblin11 wrote: »
    they are all already isolating arent they?

    But after isolation if they contract the virus whilst working I mean. These people are just as scared as we are of the virus. To be here in a country that is heavily infected with Covid, living in close conditions. Probably don't have much English. They are very poor and need the money or they wouldn't be here.

    I'd say they just want to get the fruit picked, get their pay and get home to their families with their wages safely and with no fuss.


  • #8435
    ACitizenErased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,865 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    Cases/deaths have been stable for the last few days now. I'm fairly confident we are plateauing and this is our peak.


  • #8436
    Curious_Case
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭Curious_Case


    BanditLuke wrote: »
    That's because it's a very soft lockdown. Going by these numbers I can easily see it being made more draconian and extended for another 2 weeks beyond the 5th of May.

    Don't worry, there doesn't seem to be any indication that it will be made more draconian but the CURRENT SITUATION may be extended for several more weeks with the authorities, perhaps, granting a little more latitude ?


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  • #8437
    BanditLuke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭BanditLuke


    Curious_Case wrote: »
    Don't worry, there doesn't seem to be any indication that it will be made more draconian but the CURRENT SITUATION may be extended for several more weeks with the authorities, perhaps, granting a little more latitude ?

    I'd like to see masks whilst outside the residence made compulsory at a minimum right now never mind waiting until May to do it.


  • #8438
    Be right back
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,479 ✭✭✭Be right back


    Iamabeliever wrote: »
    More Draconian? Don't make me laugh. I never seen the streets so busy! Unfortunately, I hate to say it, Ireland are sleepwalking into a nightmare

    Where do you see busy streets?


  • #8439
    brickster69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,977 ✭✭✭brickster69


    Ireland #9 in the world for deaths / million

    #1 for a country with a population between 1 & 5 million

    RIP

    “Wars begin when you want them to, but they don’t end when you ask them to.”- Niccolò Machiavelli



  • #8440
    Curious_Case
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭Curious_Case


    BanditLuke wrote: »
    I'd like to see masks whilst outside the residence made compulsory at a minimum right now never mind waiting until May to do it.

    Yep, I'm with you on that, I'm sure we both see the value they have in reducing transmission either to a person or from a person.

    I don't think movement will be further restricted though, it seems we've done "enough", no more, no less to stop community spread. Having said that, the nursing home situation is another matter altogether.


  • #8441
    Michael Dwyer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 78 ✭✭Michael Dwyer


    brickster69 wrote: »
    Ireland #9 in the world for deaths / million

    #1 for a country with a population between 1 & 5 million

    RIP

    No. 1 nation for clapping ourselves on the back also.


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  • #8442
    Deeper Blue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,822 ✭✭✭Deeper Blue


    brickster69 wrote: »
    Ireland #9 in the world for deaths / million

    #1 for a country with a population between 1 & 5 million

    RIP

    You can't compare these stats between countries due to the different ways they report their deaths

    How are people not getting this? It's been said a million times at this stage


  • #8443
    Deeper Blue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,822 ✭✭✭Deeper Blue


    Iamabeliever wrote: »
    More Draconian? Don't make me laugh. I never seen the streets so busy! Unfortunately, I hate to say it, Ireland are sleepwalking into a nightmare

    Anything to back up that claim?


  • #8444
    Curious_Case
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭Curious_Case


    Iamabeliever wrote: »
    More Draconian? Don't make me laugh. I never seen the streets so busy! Unfortunately, I hate to say it, Ireland are sleepwalking into a nightmare

    I was merely replying to a poster who used the word "Draconian"


  • #8445
    Discodog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,094 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    hotmail.com wrote: »
    Hardware shops are allowed to open according to an Irish Times article!

    They always have been. But the big ones chose not to & the government advised not to.


  • #8446
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,651 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    Iamabeliever wrote: »
    I never seen the streets so busy!
    When you exaggerate to this level your point loses all credibility,


  • #8447
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,651 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    brickster69 wrote: »
    Ireland #9 in the world for deaths / million

    #1 for a country with a population between 1 & 5 million

    RIP

    How many times must the anomaly of reporting variations by country be explained?


  • #8448
    ceegee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,242 ✭✭✭ceegee


    brickster69 wrote: »
    Ireland #9 in the world for deaths / million

    #1 for a country with a population between 1 & 5 million

    RIP

    We're also #1 in population for countries between 1 and 5 million. Choosing an arbitrary cutoff just above our population will obviously skew the data


  • #8449
    Danzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,242 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    Michael Dwyer wrote: »
    No. 1 nation for clapping ourselves on the back also.

    Ahh poor diddums.


  • #8450
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,651 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    BanditLuke wrote: »
    I'd like to see masks whilst outside the residence made compulsory at a minimum right now never mind waiting until May to do it.

    Same here.

    Any idea's where they can be bought at a reasonable price?


  • #8451
    Michael Dwyer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 78 ✭✭Michael Dwyer


    NDWC wrote: »
    You can't compare these stats between countries due to the different ways they report their deaths

    How are people not getting this? It's been said a million times at this stage

    No there's always some excuse. We're doing more tests. We're strategically testing. We include nursing homes. Others tell lies but we're squeaky clean. It would remind you of the time our athletes never doped..then along came Michelle Smith, Cian O'Connor's horse etc.

    The death rates and infection rates are high for an island nation. We have people coming on here delighted with the curve flattening. They proclaim it as if all was well. An average death rate of 30-40 people a day for the next 3 weeks may be a flattened curve but it's still very poor performance in curtailing Covid.

    630 new cases is the second highest 'fresh' total recorded after 657 one day last week.

    Tony Holohan etc are lovely mild mannered civil servants who engage in platitudes and niceties so that the masses remain relatively calm. They state we're below R1, their beloved models say so. That can only be a guess given percentages tested and guess work at how contagious Covid is.

    These are the people who told us for a fortnight in late February and early March that we were low risk, when the dogs on the street could see otherwise. And we're supposed to trust their judgement and the veracity of their pronouncements now?

    Those on here who say 'oh Tony said this, Tony said that'. Tony said we were low risk too.


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  • #8452
    Danzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,242 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    Iamabeliever wrote: »
    More Draconian? Don't make me laugh. I never seen the streets so busy!

    I know you see busy streets but those people can't spread it they seem real to you but they aren't.


  • #8453
    joe_99
    Closed Accounts Posts: 763 ✭✭✭joe_99


    Iamabeliever wrote: »
    I never seen the streets so busy!

    What a statement


  • #8454
    Michael Dwyer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 78 ✭✭Michael Dwyer


    Danzy wrote: »
    Ahh poor diddums.

    Ah poor diiddums!


  • #8455
    Michael Dwyer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 78 ✭✭Michael Dwyer


    Danzy wrote: »
    Ahh poor diddums.

    You just need reassurance and someone to put your dodi back in when it drops. Mammy tell me I'm good. I lack confidence. Post colonial inferiority complex.

    Tell me we top the Eurovision song contest winners list again mammy! I'm soft!

    Diiddums indeed.


  • #8456
    joe_99
    Closed Accounts Posts: 763 ✭✭✭joe_99


    Michael Dwyer wrote: »
    No. 1 nation for clapping ourselves on the back also.

    You obviously haven't read this thread. It's all doom and finger pointing. We are by far the worst country based on comments here. Most people don't want to hear the positives.


  • #8457
    no.8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 868 ✭✭✭no.8


    Sadly noted in the figures that the age range of those who've passed away in Ireland due to complications caused BYU COVID-19 has now gone from 25-105 (yesterday) to 23-105 in today's figures. Desperately sad, terribly young. RIP to all souls


  • #8458
    Danzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,242 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    Michael Dwyer wrote: »
    No there's always some excuse. We're doing more tests. We're strategically testing. We include nursing homes. Others tell lies but we're squeaky clean. It would remind you of the time our athletes never doped..then along came Michelle Smith, Cian O'Connor's horse etc.

    The death rates and infection rates are high for an island nation. We have people coming on here delighted with the curve flattening. They proclaim it as if all was well. An average death rate of 30-40 people a day for the next 3 weeks may be a flattened curve but it's still very poor performance in curtailing Covid.

    630 new cases is the second highest 'fresh' total recorded after 657 one day last week.

    Tony Holohan etc are lovely mild mannered civil servants who engage in platitudes and niceties so that the masses remain relatively calm. They state we're below R1, their beloved models say so. That can only be a guess given percentages tested and guess work at how contagious Covid is.

    These are the people who told us for a fortnight in late February and early March that we were low risk, when the dogs on the street could see otherwise. And we're supposed to trust their judgement and the veracity of their pronouncements now?

    Those on here who say 'oh Tony said this, Tony said that'. Tony said we were low risk too.

    Ahh lad come on, the poor Aul us routine is well over done.

    If the original Michael Dwyer thought like you, he would have stayed in Bed.


  • #8459
    joe_99
    Closed Accounts Posts: 763 ✭✭✭joe_99


    Jim_Hodge wrote: »
    Same here.

    Any idea's where they can be bought at a reasonable price?

    I got some on Amazon. Shipped from UK so only took a few days.


  • #8460
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,651 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    joe_99 wrote: »
    I got some on Amazon. Shipped from UK so only took a few days.

    Would you have a link please? Any I looked at on Amazon either came from China or didn't deliver to Ireland.
    Many thanks.


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  • #8461
    Michael Dwyer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 78 ✭✭Michael Dwyer


    Danzy wrote: »
    Ahh lad come on, the poor Aul us routine is well over done.

    If the original Michael Dwyer thought like you, he would have stayed in Bed.

    You didn't really get the post if you thought it was poor us..

    Michael Dwyer would see BS for what it was. His ilk dealt in realities. Not fluffy media conferences.


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