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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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  • #8612
    sterz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 528 ✭✭✭sterz


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    1,471 deaths recorded so far today across the states, 67,224 total. Over 70,000 on Monday at this rate.

    Were you right last week? Any guess for all the Monday's going forward, maybe get them out of the way in one post?
    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    The US just flew past 53,000 deaths, 1001 so far today. Will probably pass 54k before the end of the day.

    Trump's great 60k projection will be lucky to last out Monday.


  • #8613
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,108 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    sterz wrote: »
    Were you right last week? Any guess for all the Monday's going forward, maybe get them out of the way in one post?

    It didn't take a genius to project their figures last week. They topped 60000 by Tuesday. They'll have to be 70000 by Monday/Tuesday next.


  • #8614
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,122 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    Italy haven't loosened any restrictions until next week.

    Incorrect, they already have lifted some. For instance, people can now travel 5km from their house (as opposed to the 200mts beforehand) and, if I'm not mistaken, they can also visit family members. Some open air markets have reopened, too. IIRC, they've also reopened slot machine places (I'll look for the link later).
    GM228 wrote: »
    There's an issue with the Boards servers the last number of days, there was an announcement from the Boards team saying they are aware of it and working to fix, but they don't know when it will be fixed, it's a server issue due to "nodes under strain" and only seems to affect touch version.

    Not only the touch version, believe you me. The desktop version is also crawling (actually, crawling would indicate some sort of movement...).


  • #8615
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    New Home wrote: »
    Incorrect, they already have lifted some. For instance, people can now travel 5km from their house (as opposed to the 200mts beforehand) and, if I'm not mistaken, they can also visit family members. Some open air markets have reopened, too. IIRC, they've also reopened slot machine places (I'll look for the link later).



    Not only the touch version, believe you me. The desktop version is also crawling (actually, crawling would indicate some sort of movement...).

    Sorry your right some regions have, the nation is due to move to 'phase 2' on Monday I think it is, more industry reopening


  • #8616
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,786 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Wibbs wrote: »
    I don't blame the Gardai in many cases like that P. I mean it was what, a fortnight or more after the lockdown came in where they were given any extra powers to enforce it. Plus if they do come out all guns blazing they're damned. They're damned if the do, or if they don't.

    One patrol car with two to three Gardai vs fifty pissed up scrote clowns... I’d be waving at them too myself, no way would I be risking my own wellbeing and safety when my own bosses (the state) don’t have the resources to support me in the job I’m trying to do FOR the state. Wives, husbands, boyfriends, girlfriends, kids and other loved ones at home ? Struggling and worrying under the pressure of everything that’s happening and you are supposed to wade in and disperse 50 pissed up angry twats, you two mates and a Ford Focus.


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  • #8617
    timsey tiger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,768 ✭✭✭timsey tiger


    I don't know, it's like anything the gardai could do would seem an over reaction.


  • #8618
    Miike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭Miike


    Strumms wrote: »
    One patrol car with two to three Gardai vs fifty pissed up scrote clowns... I’d be waving at them too myself, no way would I be risking my own wellbeing and safety when my own bosses (the state) don’t have the resources to support me in the job I’m trying to do FOR the state. Wives, husbands, boyfriends, girlfriends, kids and other loved ones at home ? Struggling and worrying under the pressure of everything that’s happening and you are supposed to wade in and disperse 50 pissed up angry twats, you two mates and a Ford Focus.

    So what are they currently being paid for?


  • #8619
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,917 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    splinter65 wrote: »
    You’d have to wonder what is the harm if I wander around my neighbours side entrance and sit in a deck chair socially distanced from the next person drinking my own beer and enjoying her fire pit and her spotify list before wandering home.

    As long as your not huddled together by the river I suppose

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=112915479&postcount=418


  • #8620
    fullstop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,801 ✭✭✭✭fullstop


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Ecuador reports 308 new deaths and a gross underestimate according to reports from the country which is being hit very badly.

    India reports 100 new deaths which is the highest for them so far, again most observers believe that to be a serious underestimate.

    You could likely multiply each of those by 10.


  • #8621
    MipMap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 435 ✭✭MipMap


    Strumms wrote: »
    One patrol car with two to three Gardai vs fifty pissed up scrote clowns... I’d be waving at them too myself, no way would I be risking my own wellbeing and safety when my own bosses (the state) don’t have the resources to support me in the job I’m trying to do FOR the state. Wives, husbands, boyfriends, girlfriends, kids and other loved ones at home ? Struggling and worrying under the pressure of everything that’s happening and you are supposed to wade in and disperse 50 pissed up angry twats, you two mates and a Ford Focus.
    And Rules, Laws, Guidelines, Recommendations etc., all changing on a weekly basis they must be struggling to keep clear with what they can and can't do.


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  • #8622
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,117 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Fewer than 1 in 5 Brits think the lock down there should be lifted

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/02/fearful-britons-oppose-lifting-lockdown-schools-pubs-restaurants-opinium-poll


  • #8623
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,917 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Strumms wrote: »
    One patrol car with two to three Gardai vs fifty pissed up scrote clowns... I’d be waving at them too myself, no way would I be risking my own wellbeing and safety when my own bosses (the state) don’t have the resources to support me in the job I’m trying to do FOR the state. Wives, husbands, boyfriends, girlfriends, kids and other loved ones at home ? Struggling and worrying under the pressure of everything that’s happening and you are supposed to wade in and disperse 50 pissed up angry twats, you two mates and a Ford Focus.

    If they did and it escalated, it'd be on Facebook and you'd have the usual crew on there, here and elsewhere complaining about police brutality.


  • #8624
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,118 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    DubInMeath wrote: »
    If they did and it escalated, it'd be on Facebook and you'd have the usual crew on there, here and elsewhere complaining about police brutality.

    And Gemma, John and crew saying look, look, look whats happening
    What happened to their court case by the way - hope its costing them thousands and thousands


  • #8625
    MipMap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 435 ✭✭MipMap


    fritzelly wrote: »
    And Gemma, John and crew saying look, look, look whats happening
    What happened to their court case by the way - hope its costing them thousands and thousands
    18 minutes since the last post.


    Have we flattened the curve?


  • #8626
    ACitizenErased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,750 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    I'm far from a conspiracy theorist, but I'm leaning towards the Wuhan lab theory tbh. It seems far too much of a coincidence that this major virus just 'happened' to come from the city with China's largest virus laboratory. Their refusal to accept WHO investigating teams also feeds this theory. It's completely plausible.


  • #8627
    Non solum non ambulabit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭Non solum non ambulabit


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    I'm far from a conspiracy theorist, but I'm leaning towards the Wuhan lab theory tbh. It seems far too much of a coincidence that this major virus just 'happened' to come from the city with China's largest virus laboratory. Their refusal to accept WHO investigating teams also feeds this theory. It's completely plausible.

    I've come round to this thinking as well. Mistake rather than malicious.


  • #8628
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,786 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Miike wrote: »
    So what are they currently being paid for?

    To do a job, which in the instance shown they didn’t have the required resources to do.

    Like sending Roger Federer into Wimbledon without a racket.


  • #8629
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,786 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    DubInMeath wrote: »
    If they did and it escalated, it'd be on Facebook and you'd have the usual crew on there, here and elsewhere complaining about police brutality.

    I’d have zero issue with that. ;)


  • #8630
    ACitizenErased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,750 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    Non solum non ambulabit wrote: »
    I've come round to this thinking as well. Mistake rather than malicious.
    Oh absolutely yeah I've no doubt that it could've been a mistake. A lot seem to instantly deny this rumour but there's no reason to suggest it couldn't be true.


  • #8631
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,612 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    https://streamable.com/ik8ugh

    I don't get this Ad.

    '' keep your head up, keep your arse home.
    ... ..keep your arse home''


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  • #8632
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,118 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    https://streamable.com/ik8ugh

    I don't get this Ad.

    '' keep your head up, keep your arse home.
    ... ..keep your arse home''

    Lol it does sound like that but it is heart strong


  • #8633
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,917 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    fritzelly wrote: »
    And Gemma, John and crew saying look, look, look whats happening
    What happened to their court case by the way - hope its costing them thousands and thousands

    Don't know about the case, but they decided to have a bit of a party today in the Phoenix park. Mate's brother who was duty dealing with them heard such classics as, "natural law outweighs your law" (something that I've seen posted on here) and "I'm a man of god, and as such I know only computers get viruses".

    Apparently it took most of his will power not to piss himself laughing right in your man's face at the last one.


  • #8634
    MipMap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 435 ✭✭MipMap


    fritzelly wrote: »
    Lol it does sound like that but it is heart strong
    No
    He say's "Keep your Arse Whole":)


  • #8635
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    17 deaths in Nigeria today, tiny number for the size of the country, but it is by far the most deaths any sub saharan African country has reported in a single day so far


  • #8636
    GM228
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,922 ✭✭✭GM228


    fritzelly wrote: »
    And Gemma, John and crew saying look, look, look whats happening
    What happened to their court case by the way - hope its costing them thousands and thousands

    Case due to be heard on Tuesday.


    DubInMeath wrote: »
    Don't know about the case, but they decided to have a bit of a party today in the Phoenix park. Mate's brother who was duty dealing with them heard such classics as, "natural law outweighs your law" (something that I've seen posted on here) and "I'm a man of god, and as such I know only computers get viruses".

    Apparently it took most of his will power not to piss himself laughing right in your man's face at the last one.

    Classic freeman BS.


  • #8637
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,039 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    RIP to all the Irish men and women who passed away in nursing homes in the last few weeks

    After all your life's struggles you deserved so much better in the end



  • #8638
    Onesea
    Closed Accounts Posts: 475 ✭✭Onesea


    I seen a comment on yt, a person mentioned nobody was taking this seriously in South Africa.
    Hope the world doesn't fall apart before lockdown is lifted


  • #8639
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    RIP to all the Irish men and women who passed away in nursing homes in the last few weeks

    After all your life's struggles you deserved so much better in the end

    If only the government and health service had some advance warning of whom were the most vulnerable.....


  • #8640
    MipMap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 435 ✭✭MipMap


    Onesea wrote: »
    I seen a comment on yt, a person mentioned nobody was taking this seriously in South Africa.
    Hope the world doesn't fall apart before lockdown is lifted
    As always they will be sadly left at the end of the queue.


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  • #8641
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    wakka12 wrote: »
    17 deaths in Nigeria today, tiny number for the size of the country, but it is by far the most deaths any sub saharan African country has reported in a single day so far


    There's something very, very off about the African numbers. I'm presuming they're barely testing anyone


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