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Covid19 Part XIX-25,802 in ROI (1,753 deaths) 5,859 in NI (556 deaths) (21/07)Read OP

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  • #1832
    tom1ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,142 ✭✭✭✭tom1ie


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    think they might be referring to the identified clusters in Sligo and Leitrim spring to mind but I could be reading the post wrong

    That’s an in joke with that poster. He has a penchant for PMing you when he doesn’t agree with what you say instead of tackling your opinion on a public forum like a decent person would.


  • #1833
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,178 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    ShineOn7 wrote: »
    I don't think it will unfortunately

    The Vinter's Association have serious pull

    Especially with so many FF'ers having a hand in the trade so to speak ;)


  • #1834
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,461 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    tom1ie wrote: »
    I don’t see how I’ve gone off on a tangent. I never once said there was plenty of tourists mulling around around I said there was potential as we haven’t shut down travel to USA or UK (we can’t with UK)

    So because your mates hotel is quiet there are no tourist from the UK or USA in dcc that could potentially be mixing with the crowd in that twitter video or a crowd like that........fair enough.
    Again our case numbers are grand at the moment I’ve never once disputed that.
    I won’t disagree with the outdoor mixing quote, you are 20 times less likely to catch it outdoors is the advice at the moment, in a 6 month old virus, blm protests in America didn’t help the spread sure...... did they?

    As another poster has said you can't really draw conclusions from the protests in the USA, multiple states were reopening there despite having absolutely no handle on transmission. There seemed to be a lets just plough ahead regardless attitude in the likes of Texas when still reporting massive case numbers. Idiotic really.

    I expected a bit of a rise in cases after the initial dublin protests, there was some mask wearing but no distancing, lots of shouting etc but has never been reflected in the case numbers.


  • #1835
    YellowBucket
    Closed Accounts Posts: 491 ✭✭YellowBucket


    fritzelly wrote: »
    Especially with so many FF'ers having a hand in the trade so to speak ;)

    Always felt Fianna Fail - The Republican Party was a typo, or at least in their modern post 50s incarnation anyway.


  • #1836
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,461 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    tom1ie wrote: »
    That’s an in joke with that poster. He has a penchant for PMing you when he doesn’t agree with what you say instead of tackling your opinion on a public forum like a decent person would.

    oh ok sorry, thought it might have been referring to the local clusters that were recorded recently and how they might put people off a holiday within Ireland.

    My bad.


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  • #1837
    tom1ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,142 ✭✭✭✭tom1ie


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    As another poster has said you can't really draw conclusions from the protests in the USA, multiple states were reopening there despite having absolutely no handle on transmission. There seemed to be a lets just plough ahead regardless attitude in the likes of Texas when still reporting massive case numbers. Idiotic really.

    I expected a bit of a rise in cases after the initial dublin protests, there was some mask wearing but no distancing, lots of shouting etc but has never been reflected in the case numbers.

    This is true and to be fair I think that has to be put down to low community spread levels.
    We essentially have the nasty bastard contained at the minute.
    But allowing tourists in whilst holding these shindigs of 100’s is not gonna end well.
    It changes the situation completely compared to March and blm.


  • #1838
    Fann Linn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,087 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1279105229846450187

    And 7 flights per week from Dallas Fort Worth scheduled from next week. Lovely.


  • #1839
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,178 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Fann Linn wrote: »
    And 7 flights per week from Dallas Fort Worth scheduled from next week. Lovely.

    Kermit chomping at the bit to post right now :D


  • #1840
    tom1ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,142 ✭✭✭✭tom1ie


    Fann Linn wrote: »
    And 7 flights per week from Dallas Fort Worth scheduled from next week. Lovely.

    Well.... maybe it’s just cargo? Ah I can’t even believe that as I type it.


  • #1841
    Charles Babbage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,536 ✭✭✭Charles Babbage


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    As another poster has said you can't really draw conclusions from the protests in the USA, multiple states were reopening there despite having absolutely no handle on transmission. There seemed to be a lets just plough ahead regardless attitude in the likes of Texas when still reporting massive case numbers. Idiotic really.

    I expected a bit of a rise in cases after the initial dublin protests, there was some mask wearing but no distancing, lots of shouting etc but has never been reflected in the case numbers.

    We don't know. Someone irresponsible enough to go on one of these delinquent marches is also irresponsible enough not to report their symptoms but to just go on infecting people.


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  • #1842
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,461 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    Charles Babbage wrote: »
    We don't know. Someone irresponsible enough to go on one of these delinquent marches is also irresponsible enough not to report their symptoms but to just go on infecting people.

    Quite possible but you'd like to think anyone with a symptom now would have a bit of cop on and contact their GP.
    Now I know cop on can be in limited supply sometimes and its a typical Irish thing to give yourself a day or 2 when your sick to see if it goes away before contacting the doctor


  • #1843
    tom1ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,142 ✭✭✭✭tom1ie


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    Quite possible but you'd like to think anyone with a symptom now would have a bit of cop on and contact their GP.
    Now I know cop on can be in limited supply sometimes and its a typical Irish thing to give yourself a day or 2 when your sick to see if it goes away before contacting the doctor

    Now Stephen. Don’t be naive. People won’t let symptoms get in the way of pints


  • #1844
    LiquidZeb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,254 ✭✭✭LiquidZeb


    fritzelly wrote: »
    Kermit chomping at the bit to post right now :D

    He's loading up his rocket launcher as we speak.


  • #1845
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,461 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    tom1ie wrote: »
    Now Stephen. Don’t be naive. People won’t let symptoms get in the way of pints

    4 pints and a €9 toastie please, I'll be back in 5 minutes just popping to the doctors first


  • #1846
    owlbethere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭owlbethere


    fritzelly wrote: »
    Kermit chomping at the bit to post right now :D

    Why are banned posters being mocked openly on the forum?


  • #1847
    Fann Linn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,087 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    Fann Linn wrote: »
    And 7 flights per week from Dallas Fort Worth scheduled from next week. Lovely.

    Deleted.


  • #1848
    tom1ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,142 ✭✭✭✭tom1ie


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    4 pints and a €9 toastie please, I'll be back in 5 minutes just popping to the doctors first

    Lol enjoy!


  • #1849
    Fann Linn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,087 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    tom1ie wrote: »
    Well.... maybe it’s just cargo? Ah I can’t even believe that as I type it.


    They didn't specify in yesterday's Times.


  • #1850
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    Clicked on it and this was the first thing that came up along with a load of tweets about London and the UK.

    https://twitter.com/___knighty/status/1279485218500608000?s=19


    Crazy scenes in the UK. It'll be complete carnage there



    Hmmm, "Pubs" no longer trending for me on Twitter Ireland, but I could've swore it was before


  • #1851
    Wolf359f
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,463 ✭✭✭Wolf359f


    Fann Linn wrote: »
    And 7 flights per week from Dallas Fort Worth scheduled from next week. Lovely.

    Every plane full I assume?
    Every passenger positive for covid and will ignore government guidelines and be a superspreader?
    I'm still waiting for the pics of Dublin airport being packed. There was a post earlier referencing a friend who worked in Dublin airport who posted on twitter........ ah feic that, I'm not going there.


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  • #1852
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,461 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    ShineOn7 wrote: »
    Crazy scenes in the UK. It'll be complete carnage there



    Hmmm, "Pubs" no longer trending for me on Twitter Ireland, but I could've swore it was before

    Yeah it was there alright. Soho makes Dame Lane look like a picnic


  • #1853
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,038 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    Did we find out why Kermit was banned? I don't see anything offensive in any of his recent posts, but it was hardly just because he wasn't towing the "Everything is grand here, I'm going to the pub" line?


  • #1854
    Fann Linn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,087 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    Wolf359f wrote: »
    Every plane full I assume?
    Every passenger positive for covid and will ignore government guidelines and be a superspreader?
    I'm still waiting for the pics of Dublin airport being packed. There was a post earlier referencing a friend who worked in Dublin airport who posted on twitter........ ah feic that, I'm not going there.

    I don't know. It's happening next week.


  • #1855
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    Fann Linn wrote: »
    And 7 flights per week from Dallas Fort Worth scheduled from next week. Lovely.


    Be grand!*


    usa-whitehouse-beer-1.jpg?quality=80&strip=all






    (*No it won't actually. Close the airports to Americans)


  • #1856
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,178 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    owlbethere wrote: »
    Why are banned posters being mocked openly on the forum?

    Nothing to do with being banned - he is anti bar/alcohol, scenes like that just feed in to his rhetoric


  • #1857
    bb1234567
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    https://khn.org/news/lost-on-the-frontline-health-care-worker-death-toll-covid19-coronavirus/

    America has lost 729 healthcare workers to covid , look through their pictures, it is shocking how young many of them look.

    Unbelievable that you've posters saying covids no big deal or harmless when healthcare workers are dying in such large numbers across the world ,so insulting to the danger they are facing daily in active covid areas

    In addition, 5% of all infected healthcare workers in the USA were put in ICU after contracting covid, the average age of the infected healthcare worker was just 42 years old. I'm sure the average of the workers who were put in ICU was quite a bit higher though however. But still that figure is huge, COVID certainly is a very valid danger even to the relatively young in their late 40's and 50's.
    https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/04/15/834920016/at-least-9-000-u-s-health-care-workers-sickened-with-covid-19-cdc-data-shows?t=1593910474958


  • #1858
    LiquidZeb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,254 ✭✭✭LiquidZeb


    bb1234567 wrote: »
    https://khn.org/news/lost-on-the-frontline-health-care-worker-death-toll-covid19-coronavirus/

    America has lost 729 healthcare workers to covid , unbelievable that you've posters saying covids no big deal or harmless when healthcare workers are dying in such large numbers across the world ,so insulting to the danger they are facing daily in active covid areas

    In addition, 5% of all infected healthcare workers in the USA were put in ICU after contracting covid, the average age of the infected healthcare worker was just 42 years old. I'm sure the average of the workers who were put in ICU was quite a bit higher though however. But still that figure is huge, COVID certainly is a very valid danger even to the relatively young in their late 40's and 50's.
    https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/04/15/834920016/at-least-9-000-u-s-health-care-workers-sickened-with-covid-19-cdc-data-shows?t=1593910474958

    All I'll say is that people should do their civic duty when a vaccine is released and get it when they're summoned. It's looking like the Oxford vaccine will be the first one and it's safety is guaranteed from when it was a MERS vaccine.

    You can't on one hand ramble on endlessly about how awful covid is and what everyone should be doing and then not do what has to be done to exterminate the virus yourself.


  • #1859
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,178 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    LiquidZeb wrote: »
    All I'll say is that people should do their civic duty when a vaccine is released and get it when they're summoned. It's looking like the Oxford vaccine will be the first one and it's safety is guaranteed from when it was a MERS vaccine.

    You can't on one hand ramble on endlessly about how awful covid is and what everyone should be doing and then not do what has to be done to exterminate the virus yourself.

    It is not the same vaccine and the MERS vaccine never existed - the virus died out before anything was ever done with it ergo no money to be made in even progressing it any further
    The only similarity is the method for creating the vaccine based on the MERS research


  • #1860
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    Wolf359f wrote: »
    That they do, however the pubic sentiment does have weight during this pandemic.


    It does in it's balls

    If it did the airports would be closed to Americans


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  • #1861
    Wolf359f
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,463 ✭✭✭Wolf359f


    ShineOn7 wrote: »
    It does in it's balls

    If it did the airports would be closed to Americans

    Public sentiment closed the schools/collages and to the most part pubs.
    I'm still waiting for the pics of full planes landing in Ireland from America.
    In this day and age with smart phones and social media, the photo's prove elusive.


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