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

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Yes I know about the Green lists, but they need to hammer home that it is not a way to have a holiday abroad either, just essential travel.

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I’m guessing you didn’t read the second part of my post? If you have i will presume you want to hammer home travelling around Ireland should be essential only. 2 new cases in the far reaches of Donegal today.

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Indian actress, L'oreal model



I mention her as she is another quite high profile positive case like Tom Hanks was

Tom Hanks ok
But still never heard of them or recall seeing her before

stephenjmcd wrote: »

God forbid I'd get a source of a tweet wrong. A retweet of said tweet by Richard Chambers which came up on my timeline earlier. We can't all be perfect and I did correct i yet you seem outraged that the source was wrong.

Nice of you to have another little pop with the data analyst comment, yes i have a degree with the specialist subject being data analysis so again whats your point here?? If you want to make personal comments feel free to PM me.

1 GP says I see an increase others counteract his view and say I see no increase, others say they see increases. All contain equal weight if you take them at face value, doesn't mean these referals test postive.

Not sure what your outrage is about here

You're delighted with your degree, I can see.

But are you wearing a mask on the bus to your work?

rubbledoubledo wrote: »

Just back from Killarney after visiting my sister. Lots of Tourists there. No one wearing masks. I see one minibus taxi, 7 guys got out in front of the Plaza hotel, no one wearing a mask including the driver. Drove up the Main Street, fair share of Americans there, lots of English Regs in the carparks, fairly shocked now , no one with masks, to be honest just 2 people with a mask on. Wait for it guys

The nationality of people is largely irrelevant.

Of far more interest is whether people in general are following social distancing (especially indoors) or wearing a face mask.

DevilsHaircut wrote: »

You're delighted with your degree, I can see.

But are you wearing a mask on the bus to your work?

What on earth has that got to do with anything ? you got personal and come back with that

Yes I've been in the office once this week using transport and wore one.

Not sure what that has to do with the topic though

Just checked worldometers for the first time in weeks, what the f*** is happening in Iran? Looks like their wave just never ended, its a constant 2.4k or so a day bar a month or so drop. South Africa also looks to be gaining momentum unfortunately, as one of the most developed African countries it leaves you wondering how the others are really doing.

Anyone have any idea on the turnaround times for test results in Dublin? Got tested on Wednesday and still waiting. Medic said we'd probably head in 24 hours.....

Some posters on this thread have inexplicably gained 'expert' status.

Bizarrely, one poster said they had assumed that a relentless poster was in fact a doctor in their 40s!

The extent of most of the 'data analysts' work on this thread is to subtract one figure published by the HPSC (today's) from another (yesterday's).

That's quite easy.

DevilsHaircut wrote: »

I take it that you're not wearing a mask when you get the bus to work every day?

BTW no faux outrage here - it's all real

Well seeing as I've been working from home all week with the exception of 1 day, why would I need to wear a mask at home. Already answered that earlier the 1 day I went into the office which was Wednesday if you need to know that, using public transport I wore one yes.

Would you like to know what bus I took as well ?

caveat emptor wrote: »

Fair play, we need more people data literate.

I haven't had much faith in the "data" early on. The continual changes in testing criteria etc massively undercut the actual numbers early on.
The 48 hour lag which allowed leaders to look as though they were preemptive when in fact there was a lag to the general public etc.

Situation much better now. I'm concerned about asymptotic spread and the incubation period. This thing can get out of control fast. Hopefully won't be the case.

Yeah I'd fully agree in terms of having faith in the data at the start, there was no set reporting time, one day we might be told we've x amount of cases from 11am yesterday until 9am this morning and then the next day get a different timeline completely. Its improved since it moved to a 24hr period to be reported on the next day. Then as you mention testing criteria changed practically once a week. Still seems to be issues on how reporting moves through between HSE, HPSC & Dept of Health but I suppose that's to be expected when none of their internal systems are linked in any way.

But overall they release much more data now than back in March and to be fair if theres ever a query raised at the press conferences they do come back with it within a few days.

Yeah asymptomatic didn't get much attention back in March, but you'd have to assume the majority of the population would be more aware now and change behaviour as a result. Even in terms of symptomatic I know myself previously if I had a sniffle or just a cough I'd have gone about my day as normal, gone to work, the gym, out to football at the weekend and a few pints. Won't be doing anything like that, when winter comes any sign of a head cold or any symptom similar I'll be self isolating and contacting my GP as a precaution.

At this stage alot rests of personal responsibility

fritzelly wrote: »

I think the more important question is what did you have for dinner?

Some spam.