Covid19 Part XVII-24,841 in ROI (1,639 deaths) 4,679 in NI (518 deaths)(28/05)Read OP

What Username Guidelines wrote: »

I came to the realisation the other day that there probably won’t be a watershed “it’s safe!” moment for this, who knows how it will go, it will probably be a very long process with lots of variables and we won’t even know we’re back to “normal” until well after we are. Even if miraculously it does peter out seasonally, there’ll be a level of paranoia about the place.

But can you imagine waking up one day to it just being instantly over? It’d be like the whole world just won the World Cup. The country would grind to an even bigger halt than right now as everyone goes on an almighty session.

At some point in the next few months/years it's very likely that it will be announced that there is a vaccine ready for mass vaccination. If it happens in China first, many people will probably be extremely wary about it and that one won't be celebrated in here so much. If it's American, Israeli, Korean, European, etc people will be ecstatic.* No major celebration there and then obviously as we'll still be social distancing at whatever phase of it we're at by then. But we'll be glued to the tv and internet, cheering the announcement, probably tearing up at the sight of people on the news getting inoculated. Then it will roll out here and our grannies and grandads and other vulnerable people will be vaccinated first and everything can truly restart. Whatever is the nearest bank holiday/celebration after that will be the massive national party.

*Except for the belligerent anti-vaxxers, who will be absolutely livid.

Just received am email from the HR and Commerical Manager tonight, well all the staff did, congratulating us and the Irish people for beating Covid 19 and that they look forward to another busy season.


Lol..... FML.... Only one thing to do now - going to watch Archer on dvd.

Onesea wrote: »

Has anyone heard what professor Dolores Cahill has said regarding covid 19?
The country has had the wool pulled over its eyes.

After 10 days you can be clear of the virus, and imune for life. Her credentials make her opinion concrete and she is willing to take full responsibility for her advice to the Irish government.

Weren't you banned for spouting crap

Onesea wrote: »

Has anyone heard what professor Dolores Cahill has said regarding covid 19?
The country has had the wool pulled over its eyes.

After 10 days you can be clear of the virus, and imune for life. Her credentials make her opinion concrete and she is willing to take full responsibility for her advice to the Irish government.

It’s too early days for anyone to possibly know if we would be immuned for life.

anplaya27 wrote: »

I got tested 2nd of May. Still no results and was supposed to be fast tracked as I work within hse. Bull****

My wife tested three times, my son and myself also tested. Swabbed same day as reported and results 1-2 days later. My wife is in healthcare. I think yours must have gone missing. Something's not right at all there.

ACitizenErased wrote: »

R0 in Germany now reported to be 1.21. Serious increase.

So they are now hitting an exponential increase in cases if it continues - they never really locked down fully everywhere either due to the regional leaders

Be interesting to see what happens in Italy and Spain over the coming weeks tho one would expect they have enough herd immunity at this point (assuming 10x asymptomatic)

threeball wrote: »

Didn't they close the plant in Clare. Wheres their other plant?

Their main plant for this stuff is in Mannheim which is near Frankfurt.

timmy_mallet wrote: »

Number of people who have contracted COVID19 twice: 0.

Number of people who have died from the CoronaVirus twice: 0
Number of people who have contracted the Corona Virus twice - currently unknown.

bekker wrote: »

KdG on TonightVMTV - hope to be in position to start community antibody prevalence testing in June.

June 2021?

Stheno wrote: »

I know Martina, but if Cillian de Gascun has said that he expects antibody testing to start in June it would be nice to get more of an update than " we're looking at them" June is three weeks away

As to the analyses some ok ne posted what you said the other day r day about capacity which is why I was wondering if the HSE were looking to talk to Roche about both tests and analyses

But seeing as they are STILL saying it will take a couple more weeks to have the current testing system at the required levels I guess they are focussing ok on that

The HSE have done a lot of good work in fairness to date but it appears to be on a very reactionary basis which is understandable, but surely they could be doing some proactive planning also?

In case you are wondering what you need to run this test this is a line of 4 modules




most hospitals would be lucky to have 1, they do about 300 (9min tests) per hour so roughly 150-160 (18 min tests) more common would be the one below which will do about half that I think.




Pre-pandemic these things are run at near capacity anyway, its not the sort of stuff you moth ball in case of an impending world pandemic as they need to be run daily. Every country around the world will be scambling to install these things to be able to successfully run antibody tests, if they hadnt already thought of it then its now to late. These antibody tests are easier to manufacture than the molecular tests, so there will be up to 100million tests per month but you still need the equipment to run them and ramping that up is more challenging I would imagine.

Professor Moriarty wrote: »

No they won't. Life during this pandemic will have been nirvana compared to what life will be like in 20 year's time. But don't worry about it, we've passed tipping point so just enjoy what's left of the journey.

Why do you think that? Genuine question btw.

Onesea wrote: »

Has anyone heard what professor Dolores Cahill has said regarding covid 19?
The country has had the wool pulled over its eyes.

After 10 days you can be clear of the virus, and imune for life. Her credentials make her opinion concrete and she is willing to take full responsibility for her advice to the Irish government.

Never heard of the woman before. Does she really have all the credentials she claims?

She's promoting the Swedish model, should have been no restrictions... virus not all it's cracked up to be ... yah, will kill some old people but otherwise no big deal ... and you can cure it anyway with hydroxychloroquine. And had it herself in Jan AND Feb so it's no big deal. [Does this mean she was patient zero in Ireland?]

She's dangerous as she sounds so convincing and talks up her experience so making it easy to pull the wool over YOUR eyes.