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Covid19 Part XVI- 21,983 in ROI (1,339 deaths) 3,881 in NI (404 deaths)(05/05)Read OP

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  • #4142
    Dr. Bre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,848 ✭✭✭Dr. Bre


    celt262 wrote: »
    you cannot prevent Irish citizens from entering the country.

    Also food has to get into the country !


  • #4143
    ziggyman17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭ziggyman17


    Jim_Hodge wrote: »
    I fully agree but the OP couldn't be bothered.[/QUOTE

    why should I be bothered ??? If the powers that be are not giving out fines and the like then why should a normal Joe soap like me be offended.. I have not power to shut down people having parties///


  • #4144
    Dr. Bre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,848 ✭✭✭Dr. Bre


    retro:electro wrote: »
    My boyfriend just came back from a run and said there’s about twenty teenagers up the road all gathered on the green drinking and smoking joints. Im after calling the guards on the lot of them.

    Did he stop for a smoke?


  • #4145
    Boggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,536 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Dr. Bre wrote: »
    Also food has to get into the country !

    Put the food in an army base, shoot it if it looks like it has the virus.


  • #4146
    joe_99
    Closed Accounts Posts: 763 ✭✭✭joe_99


    Dr. Bre wrote: »
    Also food has to get into the country !

    Good point. NZ doesn't have roll on roll off freight like we do.


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  • #4147
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    Dr. Bre wrote: »
    Did he stop for a smoke?

    The first thing I said when he told me was “yeah, likely story” :pac:


  • #4148
    Gynoid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭Gynoid


    Let us just accept we can never ever again compare numbers on global issues between any places in the whole wide world. Especially global pandemics!
    Take Ireland for example.
    We could only compare statistics in any way if
    1 the testing amounts are exactly the same
    2 the deaths are tallied exactly the same
    3 the population density is exactly the same
    4 the body shapes are exactly the same
    5 the attitude to masks is exactly the same
    6 the types of houses is exactly the same
    7 the socialising habits are exactly the same
    8 the personality types are exactly the same
    9 the political systems are exactly the same
    And preferably
    10 the shape and size of the other countries is exactly the same.

    Covid 19 spells the bitter end of international statistical comparison. Never again will they browbeat us with the beauty of the Scandinavians, the longevity of the Japanese, the smartness of the Koreans. I for one am grateful to see the end of this unfair juxtapositioning where we are always found out to be potatoes.


  • #4149
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,458 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Jim_Hodge wrote: »
    I fully agree but the OP couldn't be bothered.
    Don't bring me into this:eek:


    :pac:


  • #4150
    AlekSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,004 ✭✭✭✭AlekSmart


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    Bitter experience timmy

    Gards + Border = " In Aid of The Civil Power" perhaps ?


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



  • #4151
    owlbethere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭owlbethere


    Mary lou will be on the late late show to tell us what her experience is with the coronavirus. Ryan described her experience as horrendous. She will tell the nation the truth. A mild case to be treated at home can still be bad.


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  • #4152
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,046 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Boggles wrote: »
    Jesus Titty Christ we do not have an "army base" to cater for 1000s of people.

    Also housing 1000s of people in one place during a pandemic is one of the dumbest things I think I have ever heard.

    It's up there with drinking toilet duck.


    So hospitals - “housing” ppl in one place are dumb are they?????

    Get your head out of your phone and realise this is a damn emergency.

    We need to have closed borders if we want to get this thing under control otherwise joe and Josephine soap can be as good as they like while the damn virus strolls through dublin airport arrivals.


  • #4153
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,246 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Beasty wrote: »
    Don't bring me into this:eek:


    :pac:

    This is very disappointing


  • #4154
    Iamabeliever
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 464 ✭✭Iamabeliever


    Boggles wrote: »
    Of course gloves provide protection if used correctly.

    Why would you think they wouldn't?

    I struggle to see anyone use gloves 'correctly'.


  • #4155
    FishOnABike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,861 ✭✭✭FishOnABike


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    I am confident the Irish army could do it and I am confident up to date operational plans could be deployed.

    It wasn't successfully closed for decades, despite significant effort and infrastructure being put in place.


  • #4156
    Boggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,536 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Iamabeliever wrote: »
    I struggle to see anyone use gloves 'correctly'.

    Do you mean you see people use gloves incorrectly?

    That doesn't mean everyone uses gloves incorrectly.

    When I'm out shopping, etc. I wouldn't really be looking at anyone except to keep away from them.

    I'd be focused on myself and in fact using my gloves correctly.

    Forget about the virus, gloves have 100s of purposes.

    A vet for instance wouldn't go clean into a cow without one, unless he was into that sort of thing.


  • #4157
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    People reading worldometers today probably think Irelands ****ed with 220 in a day , wonder why they didn't stagger the release


  • #4158
    blade1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,776 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    retro:electro wrote: »
    My boyfriend just came back from a run and said there’s about twenty teenagers up the road all gathered on the green drinking and smoking joints. Im after calling the guards on the lot of them.

    A few of them getting tasered would give them a different outlook on things.


  • #4159
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,246 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    wakka12 wrote: »
    People reading worldometers today probably think Irelands ****ed with 220 in a day , wonder why they didn't stagger the release

    Optics Tony, optics :pac:


  • #4160
    GM228
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,919 ✭✭✭GM228


    wakka12 wrote: »
    People reading worldometers today probably think Irelands ****ed with 220 in a day , wonder why they didn't stagger the release

    They didn't stagger the release because the reporting criteria requires all probable cases be reported as COVID-19 deaths.


  • #4161
    Boggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,536 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    So hospitals - “housing” ppl in one place are dumb are they?????

    Get your head out of your phone and realise this is a damn emergency.

    We need to have closed borders if we want to get this thing under control otherwise joe and Josephine soap can be as good as they like while the damn virus strolls through dublin airport arrivals.

    You don't house 1000s of people the vast vast vast majority of which don't have the virus in hospitals, a mystery army base or some pop up field hospital during a pandemic.

    As for closing the borders, the horse has bolted.

    Right now, my understanding is passenger traffic is pretty much non existent.

    An idea based on reality, anyone that chooses to travel onto the island be made self isolate in a hotel room for 14 days. That was not feasible back in March with 1000s of returning citizens.

    Simple, No need for the army fetish to be involved.


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  • #4162
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,246 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Saudi Arabia reports 1,172 new cases and 6 new deaths.

    Interesting to note temps across the kingdom at the moment are generally in the mid to high 30's.


  • #4163
    zinfandel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 234 ✭✭zinfandel


    GM228 wrote: »
    They didn't stagger the release because the reporting criteria requires all probable cases be reported as COVID-19 deaths.

    But why are other countries not doing the same?


  • #4164
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    Do rte really need to be sending corespondents London to in order to produce a brief report? Your man Sean Whelan in the middle of an empty Piccadilly Circus to explain to us there’s nowt going on over there. There’s no reason they can’t link with reporters over there and get a bit of footage in order to make their point


  • #4165
    Boggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,536 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    retro:electro wrote: »
    Do rte really need to be sending corespondents London to in order to produce a brief report? Your man Sean Whelan in the middle of an empty Piccadilly Circus to explain to us there’s nowt going on over there. There’s no reason they can’t link with reporters over there and get a bit of footage in order to make their point

    He lives in London.


  • #4166
    podgeandrodge
    Site Banned Posts: 5,975 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    retro:electro wrote: »
    Do rte really need to be sending corespondents London to in order to produce a brief report? Your man Sean Whelan in the middle of an empty Piccadilly Circus to explain to us there’s nowt going on over there. There’s no reason they can’t link with reporters over there and get a bit of footage in order to make their point

    I think he is based there.


  • #4167
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    Ah right! Didn’t know that :o

    Outrage redacted :pac:


  • #4168
    GM228
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,919 ✭✭✭GM228


    zinfandel wrote: »
    But why are other countries not doing the same?

    It was only introduced last night, the US and Canada have already been doing it this way.


  • #4169
    polesheep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,950 ✭✭✭polesheep


    owlbethere wrote: »
    Mary lou will be on the late late show to tell us what her experience is with the coronavirus. Ryan described her experience as horrendous. She will tell the nation the truth. A mild case to be treated at home can still be bad.

    Mary Lou is obese, she's lucky it didn't go worse for her.


  • #4170
    GM228
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,919 ✭✭✭GM228


    Something which just crossed my mind which the CDC, WHO, ECDC, Governments etc seem to have forgot to clarify is what the impact of probable deaths has on the cumulative case numbers.

    If there are officially recognised non diagnosed COVID-19 deaths then the official cases number must rise accordingly, but it hasn't.

    In the US for example there are 2,937 probable cases and total deaths includes 5,365 probable deaths, but surely the probable cases should be equal or greater, unless they are already totalled into the cases with an additional 2,937 who are still alive?


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  • #4171
    zinfandel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 234 ✭✭zinfandel


    GM228 wrote: »
    It was only introduced last night, the US and Canada have already been doing it this way.

    Fair enough , so we should be seeing huge spikes across Europe, especially those who have not been including nursing home and deaths at home .


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