Relaxation of Restrictions, Part III - **Read OP for Mod Warnings**

SusieBlue wrote: »

Apparently 10 different counties in Ireland had 0 new cases the day before yesterday.
Hard to justify such restrictive conditions when that many counties are experiencing 0/extremely low numbers of new cases.

Its why it high time there was not a 'one size fits all' lockdown.

Large urban centres surely should have different restrictions to the many people who live rurally in Ireland?

Deleted User wrote: »

The way we report the figures is very suspicious to me. If you removed the nursing home figures and recorded those separately, we’d probably have very low daily cases and a tiny amount of deaths. Maybe even 0 deaths a lot of days.

Let's be honest, if they removed the nursing home deaths, end of life deaths, i.e. those people in their late 80 and 90's or those with multiple chronic illnesses, there would be fcuk all death attributable to the virus.

We've used a sledgehammer to crack a nut and destroyed the economy for hundreds of thousands in the process.

NIMAN wrote: »

But sure it'll be someone else's fault, it always is.

Perhaps its a form of natural selection then?

No one likes saying that.

There seems to be a very gregarious couple in their forties, in good health and who regularly exercised, who were hospitalised with Covid 19. Why gregarious? Because half of the posters here seem to know them.

Stheno wrote: »

Meat plants

Almost six hundred cases there

Another couple of hundred in direct provision centres

I wonder will we ever see a complete breakdown of numbers like that when all this is over, to see just how badly each part of society was affected by the virus?

Mike3287 wrote: »

Yep

Were screwed

Nursing homes, hospitals, travellers

No one can fix that mess

I know this post will prompt a vigorous response but should we not just accept covid will be with us for years to come and stand up and face the music?

I dont think that most of Europe that is opening up now are waiting or relying on vaccine. Especially when you consider that vaccines work 80% of the time anyways (from that logic we do our magic numbers and multiply our elderly numbers by 20% and can still continue lockdowns even with vaccine)

tobefrank321 wrote: »

Here's two critical health services that are most definitely paused.

Cervical Screening - https://www2.hse.ie/screening-and-vaccinations/cervical-screening/cervical-screening-coronavirus.html

Breast Screening - https://www2.hse.ie/services/breast-screening/breast-screening-and-coronavirus.html

I wonder does Tony H ever get the feeling of deja vu ?

tobefrank321 wrote: »

Here's two critical health services that are most definitely paused.

Cervical Screening - https://www2.hse.ie/screening-and-vaccinations/cervical-screening/cervical-screening-coronavirus.html

Breast Screening - https://www2.hse.ie/services/breast-screening/breast-screening-and-coronavirus.html

On a separate issue, why don't we have testicle and prostate check?

fleet_admiral wrote: »

On a separate issue, why don't we have testicle and prostate check?

Easy to do testicle self check and GPs do prostate checks.

Deleted User wrote: »

These are in no way emergency or essential services. Nobody is going to die because their scan/screen was delayed a couple of weeks.

I actually read this twice, couldnt believe you wrote this rubbish.

"It is estimated that 42,690 deaths (42,170 women and 520 men) from breast cancer will occur this year 2020.

Breast cancer is the second most common cause of death from cancer in women in the United States, after lung cancer. However, the number of women who have died of breast cancer has decreased by 40% from 1989 to 2007 thanks to early detection and treatment improvements."


You need to change your post. ASAP. The rubbish you posted is the sort of thing Tony H believed back in the day.

Stark wrote: »

I'd love to believe what he says is true (must as I would have loved to believe that speculation around BCG vaccine protection was true). I don't want to set my hopes up for disappointment again though. Any third party reliable sources that can back-up/refute his claims? Went searching over the weekend but couldn't find any commentary on it.

good to be a bit sceptical. Antibody tests are key here. New York and Stockholm seem to indicate that they have over 20% of the population there had the disease . There are samples being taken in Munich and i'm sure other countries as we speak. i'm sure we'll have a much better view in a couple of weeks. It seems that imperial college paper scared a lot of people. read it myself and it scared the crap out of me.

It made some what seems to be false assumptions like the rate of increase and i think the death rate (open to correction). Time will tell but from what i can see on the worldofmeters his country predictions are following the same general patter from country to country