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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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  • #7292
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    autumnbelle wrote: »
    If Germany are looking at going back into lockdown as numbers start to rise again I don’t think we have any chance of restrictions lifted in the near future. It’s going to be no surprise to anyone the restrictions being lifted. Scary I miss normality

    No one is saying that other than a journalist in a clickbait piece that was posted here earlier. The German R0 has dropped since that article. They are no different to any other country.....if cases (or rather the R0) rise too much, they will increase restrictions but they are not at that point


  • #7293
    DevilsHaircut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 524 ✭✭✭DevilsHaircut


    'The most significant health risk factor was obesity, increasing risk of death by 37% – a greater amount than heart disease (31%), lung disease (19%) or kidney disease (25%)'


    https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1255579707107614720


  • #7294
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,038 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    Swedish city to dump chicken manure in park to deter visitors :pac:

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/29/swedish-city-lund-dump-tonne-chicken-manure-park-deter-visitors-coronavirus-lockdown?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=edit_2221&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1588184219


  • #7295
    Spencer Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 268 ✭✭Spencer Brown


    Gynoid wrote: »
    For those (few) who say Yada Yada we gotta die sometime..
    Sure, we have all the usual suspects. Cancer, accident, a coronary. As mortal beings we have made a fairly uneasy peace with that. Whole philosophies and empires have been built out of that truce-making exercise.
    But a couple of months ago an invisible space ship started haunting the sky out of nowhere and it started shooting out lightning bolts. It looks like the bolts hit those not able to run fast the worst. Over 1000 have died. That's just here. Parts of Italy got crucified. Spain too. France. New York. Bolts zapping 10s of 1000s stone dead.
    A lot get hit from the invisible ship and don't even feel it but now they can shoot out invisible bolts from their finger tips that might zap someone else pretty bad.
    A lot get hit and fall down but not too bad and they get up and are relieved. Phew. There are a lot of bolts it seems, pyung pyung pying. Easy enough to get hit. Thank goodness most zaps are okay.
    Some are getting hit, getting up but feeling really lousy afterwards, even weeks and weeks later. Those ones are saying Fcuk man, I got a mild zap they said but you really do not want to get zapped by those invisible bolts.
    We know hardly anything about this space ship and the mysterious invisible bolts. It is kind of simple to say Yada yada it's been 2 months already people, just get on with it.

    As if dealing with Covid-19 wasn't bad enough.


  • #7296
    Gynoid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭Gynoid


    Spencer Brown wrote: »
    As if dealing with Covid-19 wasn't bad enough.

    :)


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  • #7297
    tobefrank321
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,527 ✭✭✭tobefrank321


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Zero....the only countries to.have emerged from this properly,have managed this

    We are long past that stage I'm afraid. Its far too endemic here for that to happen any time soon.

    The only countries to get it to 0 are those who implented very strict lockdowns very early including before their first death and also had very tight border controls.


  • #7298
    bettyoleary
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 400 ✭✭bettyoleary


    wakka12 wrote: »
    I dont necessarily believe the stories but its ridiculous to promise a vaccine to 100 million people when it is does not exist and nothing not a single thing is known about how it affects certain demographics, what it will cost the government, how it will be distributed, where it will be produced etc a massive number of completely unknown(and impossible to know at this stage) factors
    I think it was USA someone said promising that and if its Trump and co they have to be doing everything bigger and better. Just ignore that. I think the Op is referring to the Oxford vaccine and they have never suggested any figure. They said it could be ready as early as Sept for small part of the pop and expanded by next yr. They have plans for production. I'm sure this wont be a problem if it works it will be produced no bother and its not expensive to produce these vaccines.


  • #7299
    growleaves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,980 ✭✭✭growleaves


    I see there is no point in discussing breaching of restrictions with you!

    Lol.

    There's a bookshop open near me that hand out books via social distancing.

    I don't think that Ballybrack Book Centre are an outlaw book distribution network. To be 'legit' they only have to allow in one person at a time, and you haven't demonstrated that they don't.

    Please don't waste Gardai time. That's what the microbes want.


  • #7300
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,518 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Are they not publishing the numbers of tests now?


  • #7301
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,623 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Only 5600 active cases in Ireland. The 20k plus cases not the number to look at, the recovery is now 13,338, and gaining massive ground on new cases every day./


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  • #7302
    growleaves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,980 ✭✭✭growleaves


    For those (few) who say Yada Yada we gotta die sometime..
    Sure, we have all the usual suspects. Cancer, accident, a coronary. As mortal beings we have made a fairly uneasy peace with that. Whole philosophies and empires have been built out of that truce-making exercise.

    UTRIs are up there with cardiovascular-related illnesses as one of the most common causes of death in the world.

    Posters on the early megathreads refused to believe that elderly patients are often refused ventilators and ICU treatment as a matter of course. Even though its just a banal fact people exploded with anger when they were told this.

    That indicates to me more than an 'uneasy peace' with death.


  • #7303
    RocketRaccoon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,645 ✭✭✭RocketRaccoon


    risteard7 wrote: »
    Yes you should be going back to work in the next few weeks. May is Summer time

    Well unfortunately it's not my decision when I get to go back to work. I don't work until flights are back in the air. That won't be May. If I'm back to work before Halloween I'll be happy.


  • #7304
    wadacrack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,172 ✭✭✭wadacrack


    Over 20,000 in the UK and over 60,000 in the US have died. Ahead of what some experts even predicted for yearly deaths. This is with restrictions. Life has probably changed now forever and we may have to live with social distancing to some extent for lifetime. Thats not inconceivable . Science seem to be struggling to find any answers


  • #7305
    Spencer Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 268 ✭✭Spencer Brown


    wadacrack wrote: »
    Over 20,000 in the UK and over 60,000 in the US have died. Ahead of what some experts even predicted for yearly deaths. This is with restrictions. Life has probably changed now forever and we may have to live with social distancing to some extent for lifetime. Thats not inconceivable . Science seem to be struggling to find any answers

    Dear god


  • #7306
    Jinglejangle69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,124 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    Is Ivan Yates on some personal crusade?


  • #7307
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    Jinglejangle69 wrote: »
    Is Ivan Yates on some personal crusade?

    No he's capturing the public mood to be fair and asking the questions that most people would want answering


  • #7308
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    No he's capturing the public mood to be fair and asking the questions that most people would want answering

    He's not, he's a contrarian, no matter what the topic is. He doesn't believe his own arguments, he's simply argumentative for the sake of winding people up.


  • #7309
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    DevilsHaircut wrote: »
    'The most significant health risk factor was obesity, increasing risk of death by 37% – a greater amount than heart disease (31%), lung disease (19%) or kidney disease (25%)'


    https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1255579707107614720

    Thats crazy, youd think it was the illnesses associated with obesity such as heart disease which would be the risk factor rather than obesity itself


  • #7310
    Jinglejangle69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,124 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    No he's capturing the public mood to be fair and asking the questions that most people would want answering

    He's asking questions then not letting MM answer.

    Asking ridiculous populist questions that he knows MM can't have an answer to.


  • #7311
    toneygecko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18 ✭toneygecko


    Wait and ye hear this, spotted a pile of suitcases in the back of a couriers van so I asked what the story was, the driver said dubs are couriering their luggage down the country to their holiday homes so if they're stopped the guards won't find luggage in the car. Scum bags. Excuse the pun.


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  • #7312
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    wadacrack wrote: »
    Over 20,000 in the UK and over 60,000 in the US have died. Ahead of what some experts even predicted for yearly deaths. This is with restrictions. Life has probably changed now forever and we may have to live with social distancing to some extent for lifetime. Thats not inconceivable . Science seem to be struggling to find any answers

    20k for UK and 60k for USA is what was predicted for the best case scenario for the first wave, not the whole year I don't think. Both countries will massively exceed those predicutions though, probably by at least 50% in the UK and 25-35% in the USA


  • #7313
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    Gynoid wrote: »
    For those (few) who say Yada Yada we gotta die sometime..
    Sure, we have all the usual suspects. Cancer, accident, a coronary. As mortal beings we have made a fairly uneasy peace with that. Whole philosophies and empires have been built out of that truce-making exercise.
    But a couple of months ago an invisible space ship started haunting the sky out of nowhere and it started shooting out lightning bolts. It looks like the bolts hit those not able to run fast the worst. Over 1000 have died. That's just here. Parts of Italy got crucified. Spain too. France. New York. Bolts zapping 10s of 1000s stone dead.
    A lot get hit from the invisible ship and don't even feel it but now they can shoot out invisible bolts from their finger tips that might zap someone else pretty bad.
    A lot get hit and fall down but not too bad and they get up and are relieved. Phew. There are a lot of bolts it seems, pyung pyung pying. Easy enough to get hit. Thank goodness most zaps are okay.
    Some are getting hit, getting up but feeling really lousy afterwards, even weeks and weeks later. Those ones are saying Fcuk man, I got a mild zap they said but you really do not want to get zapped by those invisible bolts.
    We know hardly anything about this space ship and the mysterious invisible bolts. It is kind of simple to say Yada yada it's been 2 months already people, just get on with it.
    giphy.gif


  • #7314
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    toneygecko wrote: »
    Wait and ye hear this, spotted a pile of suitcases in the back of a couriers van so I asked what the story was, the driver said dubs are couriering their luggage down the country to their holiday homes so if they're stopped the guards won't find luggage in the car. Scum bags. Excuse the pun.

    I'm still loving the mad thought that all, and only, Dubs have holidays home outside of the city. Pauper culchies and boggers with their single properties. I'm scarla for them.


  • #7315
    growleaves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,980 ✭✭✭growleaves


    Spencer Brown wrote: »
    Dear god


    Don't mind him.

    The spoofers on these threads will say anything.


  • #7316
    DevilsHaircut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 524 ✭✭✭DevilsHaircut


    wakka12 wrote: »
    Thats crazy, youd think it was the illnesses associated with obesity such as heart disease which would be the risk factor rather than obesity itself

    The article says 'the link to obesity could be due to the condition typically causing related problems in the lungs and kidneys and because fat cells increase the body’s inflammatory state'.


  • #7317
    Gynoid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭Gynoid


    Funsterdelux wrote: »
    giphy.gif

    You got it, Funster


  • #7318
    toneygecko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18 ✭toneygecko


    Hurrache wrote: »
    I'm still loving the mad thought that all, and only, Dubs have holidays home outside of the city. Pauper culchies and boggers with their single properties. I'm scarla for them.

    Funny if it wasn't so serious


  • #7319
    growleaves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,980 ✭✭✭growleaves


    wakka12 wrote: »
    Thats crazy, youd think it was the illnesses associated with obesity such as heart disease which would be the risk factor rather than obesity itself

    Why would you think that?


  • #7320
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    growleaves wrote: »
    Why would you think that?

    Because I didnt think obesity in itself was dangerous I thought it was just the diseases that it increases the chance of you contracting which was, such as hypertension and diabetes


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  • #7321
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,161 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Ivan Yates is a pain in the arse.


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