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

Tony EH wrote: »

It's only been 9 weeks.

9 WEEKS

In several years time, the vast majority of people will be hard pressed to even remember the Coronvirus outbreak and the mild affect it had on their lives. :rolleyes:

Agree, I feel some are losing perspective on this.

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

Are you serious???
Do you think people who went through the last serous upheaval in their lives, ie the financial crash have forgotten?
The restrictions started in March, if the road map is followed there will still be restrictions up to August. Is that 9 weeks?

Stop acting like an old maid, FFS.

We're not even into a single business quarter with this virus yet, and you come on here every bleeding day banging on with shite.

The restrictions here have been mild and even if it lasts until August in some form or another, it'll have been a relatively short blip on most people's lives.

In a few years time, you'll be hard pressed to recall the Corona virus. It'll be something you'll see on 'Reeling in the Years' and go Oh yeah, I remember that...vaguely.

NegativeCreep wrote: »

Obviously there’s no herd immunity as there’s been lockdown for the last 8 weeks? The herd immunity theory is to get as many young healthy people to get the virus as possible in the hopes that they’ll develop immunity to the virus. That tweet rubbishes nothing and actually highlights how vulnerable lockdown leaves the population.

Herd immunity would mean having 75% of the population infected for it to be effective. It's not known the level of duration of immunity yet. It's already been dismissed as a strategy as WHO. Just need to look at Sweden's experience to show what consequences are.

davedanon wrote: »

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If I'm not mistaken, 'the herd immunity theory' has never been tried with live virus, only as part of vaccination programmes, using dead virus. The last time we (involuntarily) tried it, with 'Spanish' Flu, 50 million people died.

You're right. Here's Dr Michael Ryan of the WHO discussing it recently:

''Humans are not herds, and, as such, the concept of herd immunity is generally reserved for calculating how many people will need to be vaccinated and the population in order to generate that effect.

“This is a serious disease, this is public enemy number one, we have been saying it over and over and over and over again.”

He said “no one is safe until everyone is safe”, adding: “So I do think this idea that ‘maybe countries who had lax measures and haven’t done anything will all of a sudden magically reach some herd immunity, and so what if we lose a few old people along the way?’ – this is a really dangerous, dangerous calculation.''

https://www.breakingnews.ie/world/humans-are-not-herds-whos-dr-mike-ryan-says-herd-immunity-concept-is-dangerous-999016.html

Deleted User wrote: »

Watching the Six One news, you'd swear the party has started already. Scenes of young people congregating in large numbers at beaches and train stations. If this doesn't translate into a steady increase of Covid-19 cases I would be most surprised. Disappointing to say the least, obviously patience has snapped for some.

That was always going to happen if the virus was surprressed (allbeit temporarily) and the weather turned nice.

At some point, collective patience was always going to wear thin - there's no point in denying it. Also, people are, at some point, going to prioritise their own mental health, and that's NOT being selfish.

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

The direct provision centre which has featured on the media in recent days I would imagine is a factor too.

Isn't that in Kerry?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

That was always going to happen if the virus was surprressed (allbeit temporarily) and the weather turned nice.

At some point, collective patience was always going to wear thin - there's no point in denying it. Also, people are, at some point, going to prioritise their own mental health, and that's NOT being selfish.

There is no surprise. They drew attention to and predicted this kind of possibility in the very early days before any measures had been introduced.

Tony EH wrote: »

Stop acting like an old maid, FFS.

We're not even into a single business quarter with this virus yet, and you come on here every bleeding day banging on with shite.

The restrictions here have been mild and even if it lasts until August in some form or another, it'll have been a relatively short blip on most people's lives.

In a few years time, you'll be hard pressed to recall the Corona virus. It'll be something you'll see on 'Reeling in the Years' and go Oh yeah, I remember that...vaguely.

Yes indeed, sure we often close the pubs, schools, most shops and cancel sports for a few months.
Mild? it's positively routine !!

And there's the cancellation of many religious gatherings - more mildness !!

What Username Guidelines wrote: »

Was it herd immunity that ended Spanish Flu? If that was the case would it not be one single wave?

One theory is that the virus may have mutated itself to something far less lethal, not an unusual occurrence and like SARS the more deadly version dies out.

Curious_Case wrote: »

Yes indeed, sure we often close the pubs, schools, most shops and cancel sports for a few months.
Mild? it's positively routine !

I didn't mention anything about "often" or "routine". :rolleyes:

But this has been about 9 weeks since we put restrictions in place just before Paddys day and there are a group of posters on here every day...ALL day...banging on with nonsense like "permanent" and "perpetual" and "forever", just because they want to lift the restrictions and the consequences be damned.

Covid-19 is merely a pain in the arse for the vast majority of people. It means they can't get to the boozer for wee while. Their "routine" has been slightly interrupted.

There's no need for all the hair pulling and talking gibberish about permanent or indefinite lockdowns.

What Username Guidelines wrote: »

I had read a single report from Italy that the cases they were seeing recently seemed a lot milder. As opposed to 80 cases arriving at hospital per day and being admitted, recently it’s been 10 arriving and 8 are fine to recover at home. But it wasn’t widely reported and haven’t heard much since.

I read that too. Appears to be going in the right direction, particularly as Italy had a tough time of it