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Covid 19 Part XX-26,644 in ROI (1,772 deaths) 6,064 in NI (556 deaths) (08/08)Read OP

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  • #842
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,566 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    The reporting is confusing.

    I'd wonder if there needs to be some tightening up of the national procedure about this, covid-19 aside.

    I suppose that this pandemic is a stress test of our reporting procedures.


  • #843
    majcos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 596 ✭✭✭majcos


    fritzelly wrote: »
    So last week they reported double the actual number of cases!

    How the hell can they be having all these historic cases - making it look like the virus is spreading more than it is
    How are you coming to that conclusion? I’m confused.

    The daily published numbers from NPHET add up quite closely to the weekly numbers from CSO. Slight variations from denotifications and differing time frames but the figures are very close. Not doubled numbers as far as I can see.


  • #844
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,266 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    mountgomery burns wrote: »
    0=0

    -=<5

    No more pointless than a daily confirmed cases total that is not accurately reflecting the past 24 hours, yet is headline news everyday!

    You'll need to explain the relevance of that comment to me. Do you think that data is of any use, when every count less than 5 is omitted? The uselessness or usefulness of other figures is irrelevant; I was referring to that particularly useless chart of data.


  • #845
    mountgomery burns
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭mountgomery burns


    Jim_Hodge wrote: »
    You'll need to explain the relevance of that comment to me. Do you think that data is of any use, when every count less than 5 is omitted? The uselessness or usefulness of other figures is irrelevant; I was referring to that particularly useless chart of data.

    Firstly it was to let you know that zero means zero, which is significant in that if it was zero all round we would have no cases on the island.

    If the numbers per day are accurate then it is useful as an indicator over a period of team in assessing the trend of cases. In that context, it doesn't matter a whole pile whether a day has 1-5 cases diagnosed as its negligible.

    I think it's far more useful seeing something like that, then hanging off the announced confirmed cases daily which is what most of the Country is doing.


  • #846
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91,511 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Mel Gibson spent a week in hospital after contracting coronavirus earlier this year, his representatives have told the Daily Telegraph Australia.

    Speaking to the paper, a rep for the actor confirmed: “He tested positive in April and spent a week in the hospital. He was treated with the drug Remdesivir, while in the hospital, and has tested negative numerous times since then as well as positive for the antibodies.”

    https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/mel-gibson-hospitalized-week-coronavirus-105206408.html
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  • #847
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    cnocbui wrote: »
    At least 75%, based on this thread. And if you don't die you will have one or more limbs amputated.

    I heard sometimes you die, then have to have a leg amputated. Forever doomed to hop around heaven for the rest of eternity. Do you reckon people would take a hopping ghost seriously??


  • #848
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    caveat emptor wrote: »
    I got a call off a person out of breath and didn’t know what to tell them as they aren’t registered with GP. Only in the country a couple of months.

    I know you are not supposed to rock up in hospital.
    Ambulance seems like only option at this stage on Friday.

    I was worried for them as with covid and being over weight you might not realise oxygen rate could be depleted and you don’t even know.

    Anyway 999 will deal with it.

    112. We’re Europeans now.


  • #849
    ChelseaRentBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 473 ✭✭ChelseaRentBoy


    Very worrying news about the 3rd building site closed down due to yet another Covid positive case.

    I'm seeing a pattern and it doesn't look good.


  • #850
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,207 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    ChelseaRentBoy wrote: »
    Very worrying news about the 3rd building site closed down due to yet another Covid positive case.

    I'm seeing a pattern and it doesn't look good.

    You're imagining a pattern.


  • #851
    marno21
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 14,682 Mod ✭✭✭✭marno21


    ChelseaRentBoy wrote: »
    Very worrying news about the 3rd building site closed down due to yet another Covid positive case.

    I'm seeing a pattern and it doesn't look good.
    Building sites have been open since May 18th (with some open before that carrying out essential work) with the first clusters emerging this week. This is outdoor work where social distancing is perfectly achievable with adequate precautions taken.

    We also don't know the background story to these clusters or potential clusters. They could have happened at lunch or off site. The accommodation situation of the workers is also not known.

    One of the construction companies involved had a site in the south of the country where workers lived near me. There was 10-12 workers living in a five bedroom house. Such a situation would be ripe for a cluster to break out, nothing to do with the construction site itself.


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  • #852
    ACitizenErased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,767 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    ChelseaRentBoy wrote: »
    Very worrying news about the 3rd building site closed down due to yet another Covid positive case.

    I'm seeing a pattern and it doesn't look good.
    They are all linked, one employee in each was a contractor in the first.


  • #853
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    marno21 wrote: »
    Building sites have been open since May 18th (with some open before that carrying out essential work) with the first clusters emerging this week. This is outdoor work where social distancing is perfectly achievable with adequate precautions taken.

    We also don't know the background story to these clusters or potential clusters. They could have happened at lunch or off site. The accommodation situation of the workers is also not known.

    One of the construction companies involved had a site in the south of the country where workers lived near me. There was 10-12 workers living in a five bedroom house. Such a situation would be ripe for a cluster to break out, nothing to do with the construction site itself.

    When's the builder's holidays?


  • #854
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    caveat emptor wrote: »
    Thanks to those who genuinely responded

    Person got to see a doc at 8pm.
    Got referred to and in hospital for CT scan and further checks.

    Just a follow up on this.
    Hospital did CT etc and bloods. They said it's probably viral but not dangerous. You can go home.

    Her brand new GP had arranged a covid test.
    I find it strange that the GP arranged covid test but hospital dismissed as being viral and no test carried out.

    Hopefully all ok.


  • #855
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91,511 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    They are all linked, one employee in each was a contractor in the first.

    Could more sites be infected?
    https://forumofgames.com/




  • #856
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,904 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    marno21 wrote: »
    Building sites have been open since May 18th (with some open before that carrying out essential work) with the first clusters emerging this week. This is outdoor work where social distancing is perfectly achievable with adequate precautions taken.

    We also don't know the background story to these clusters or potential clusters. They could have happened at lunch or off site. The accommodation situation of the workers is also not known.

    One of the construction companies involved had a site in the south of the country where workers lived near me. There was 10-12 workers living in a five bedroom house. Such a situation would be ripe for a cluster to break out, nothing to do with the construction site itself.

    Not the site in Bandon County Cork by any chance where they are laying down pipes underground.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #857
    Wolf359f
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,480 ✭✭✭Wolf359f


    One thing to note on the construction site clusters and also the increase in cases related to workplaces, it won't take long for employers to see how quickly they can be shut down for 2 weeks if they lapse on any safety measure.
    It maybe a wake up call to businesses to not let their guard down.


  • #858
    podgeandrodge
    Site Banned Posts: 5,975 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    When factual good news comes out, very few 'risk adverse' or 'more nervous' people on here 'thank' the post. What's with that?

    Sure, there are 'positive' people on here that don't regularly 'thank' factual bad news, but I'm hopeful that it isn't human nature in general to welcome negativity, even if fact.

    I have some sympathy for the view that there are people out there that thrive on worry. Everyone should welcome good news.


  • #859
    marno21
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 14,682 Mod ✭✭✭✭marno21


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    Not the site in Bandon County Cork by any chance where they are laying down pipes underground.
    I should mention this was 3/4 years ago and the project in question is now complete.


  • #860
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91,511 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    Not the site in Bandon County Cork by any chance where they are laying down pipes underground.

    Isn't there always work being done in Bandon, the kip :P
    https://forumofgames.com/




  • #861
    Pulsating Star
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 702 ✭✭✭Pulsating Star


    It may be difficult in a construction setting to pin down contact links. I worked as a contractor in a previous life and could on occasion be on a few sites in a week.
    Once did five sites in one day in a “show your face” exercise 😗.


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  • #862
    Non solum non ambulabit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭Non solum non ambulabit


    ShineOn7 wrote: »
    Thanks for working that out

    Hmmm, we're doing good but not great once you see it laid out like that

    Our weekly average is 10 cases higher than it was 6 weeks ago, and we haven't fully re-opened up yet

    That is a superb result based on restrictions and changes in behaviour


  • #863
    s1ippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭s1ippy


    Whitters22 wrote: »
    I believe Ingrid Miley said on the news yesterday that the threat of a second wave is dangling over us like the 'Sword of Damocles'.
    If you actually knew the story of Damocles, it's an incredibly appropriate analogy.

    Them eating the €9 meals thinking they'll earn a rake of carefree pints with the lads or the girls are only codding themselves. To quote the Statesman who penned the Tusculan Disputations in the first place, "Peace in liberty is tranquility" and there's nothing peaceful or tranquil about social interactions these days (if you want to protect your loved ones).

    What a time to be alive!


  • #864
    Renjit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 949 ✭✭✭Renjit


    Covid rave going on in the neighborhood for past few hours.


  • #865
    spookwoman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,059 ✭✭✭✭spookwoman


    Renjit wrote: »
    Covid rave going on in the neighborhood for past few hours.

    Late last night was at the filling station and boy racers arrived with with loads of passengers... and they wonder how it's spreading.


  • #866
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,178 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    spookwoman wrote:
    Late last night was at the filling station and boy racers arrived with with loads of passengers... and they wonder how it's spreading.


    Sadly many people are not realising the dangers, they ll know about it if they end up in ICU, this is knocking the bejasus outta young people to


  • #867
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,258 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    Sadly many people are not realising the dangers, they ll know about it if they end up in ICU, this is knocking the bejasus outta young people to

    It was clear from the start that it will need to start killing off some of the dumb fùcks in order for them to maybe realise that theres a virus. Unfortunately lack of intelligence isn't a underlying condition to kill off the dangerous idiots.


  • #868
    Widdensushi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,595 ✭✭✭Widdensushi


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    Sadly many people are not realising the dangers, they ll know about it if they end up in ICU, this is knocking the bejasus outta young people to

    5 people in the country currently in icu with covid


  • #869
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,178 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Widdensushi wrote: »
    5 people in the country currently in icu with covid

    jesus thats really good, but that ll probably shoot up at some stage, sounds like india is in serious trouble with it


  • #870
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    jesus thats really good, but that ll probably shoot up at some stage,

    You sound hopeful.


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  • #871
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,178 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    You sound hopeful.

    yea top form, but second waves are inevitable in pandemics unfortunately


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