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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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  • #1922
    polesheep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,950 ✭✭✭polesheep


    Deleted User wrote: »
    So give them 2 days of high figures to scare them and 5 days of low so everyone slips back again? Really, it’s a quirk in the way the numbers are compiled in all likelihood. I would imagine test centre results from the weekend are not being reviewed until Monday, therefore don’t appear until Tuesday, rather than than tinfoil hat nonsense

    The question was why 'would' they skew the numbers. I don't have a tinfoil hat, but when FF get in the door trust goes out the window (to paraphrase Groucho).


  • #1923
    niallo27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,139 ✭✭✭✭niallo27


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    How so?

    Chances of someone dying from it is massively reduced.


  • #1924
    redmgar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 680 ✭✭✭redmgar


    polesheep wrote: »
    The question was why 'would' they skew the numbers. I don't have a tinfoil hat, but when FF get in the door trust goes out the window (to paraphrase Groucho).

    So why would they?


  • #1925
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,267 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    Can we recognise that it looks like they're trying to scare people now?

    I highly, highly doubt this is a deliberate and Machiavellian attempt to scare people. I think you are giving them near superhuman powers of manipulation.

    There's equally days when they under report confirmed cases, how can they be explained if it's about scaring people?

    The likelihood of it being some cock up on the administrative side or a weird quirk in how things are reported is much more likely.

    "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. "

    Though there really should be questions asked about what is the story with the whole issue at this stage.


  • #1926
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,238 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    Santy2015 wrote: »
    Nightclubs are a no no. Pubs will have to open. There will be disobedience by ‘wet pub’ owners and to be honest this is happening already. I see it in my own town. One is serving pints from a hatch and doing home deliveries of cocktails and pints the other one is a sports bar that the side door is open and it’s blatant to be fair. Plenty of Gardai around my town.

    Yeah some eejits already tried disobedience and didn't go too well for them.


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  • #1927
    polesheep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,950 ✭✭✭polesheep


    redmgar wrote: »
    So why would they?

    I could equally ask you why would they not explain why the numbers are skewed. Or explain to the public how these numbers are not an accurate representation of the day's figures. They may not be manipulating them but they are making no effort to clarify things.


  • #1928
    Renjit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 949 ✭✭✭Renjit


    niallo27 wrote: »
    At least that is some good news from it

    That also means the virus has more healthy hosts now. And may be results of those covid raves :pac:

    Elders are more cautious in comparison.


  • #1929
    podgeandrodge
    Site Banned Posts: 5,975 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    Would any journalist ask the question for once and for all if a few of us all messaged the same one?


  • #1930
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91,466 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Santy2015 wrote: »
    Nightclubs are a no no. Pubs will have to open. There will be disobedience by ‘wet pub’ owners and to be honest this is happening already. I see it in my own town. One is serving pints from a hatch and doing home deliveries of cocktails and pints the other one is a sports bar that the side door is open and it’s blatant to be fair. Plenty of Gardai around my town.

    What is wet pub?
    https://forumofgames.com/




  • #1931
    podgeandrodge
    Site Banned Posts: 5,975 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    Coyote wrote: »
    a link to a chart that you can pick the country and look at the 7 day average of cases.
    31 days ago Ireland was at about 1.3 per million now were at 3.6
    Spain is at 23 per million Germany at 6.5
    all country seem to be going back up

    https://corona.njoyard.fr/?r=RO-FR-GR-GC-IE-IT-PT-SP-SZ-UI&x=start&ya=true&yc=true&yl=true&yr=true

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    Welcome back coyote.


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  • #1932
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    40 new cases announced today....seems obvious the cases are increasing and anyone who dare suggest that this isnt a good thing is mocked


    Fcuking joke of a msg board for anyone,who dare qs the preveiling taught

    If numbers are increasing, how is the average number decreasing?? Give us your mathematic theory there Pythagorus


  • #1933
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    What is wet pub?
    Alcohol and soft drinks only, no food.


  • #1934
    John O.Groats
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 837 ✭✭✭John O.Groats


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    What is wet pub?

    Pubs that don`t serve any food.


  • #1935
    shinzon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,463 ✭✭✭shinzon


    podgeandrodge wrote: »
    Would any journalist ask the question for once and for all if a few of us all messaged the same one?

    Id vote for messaging Zara King :eek::eek::eek:

    Shin


  • #1936
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    shinzon wrote: »
    Id vote for messaging Zara King :eek::eek::eek:

    Shin
    Just make sure you don't give George Lee any numbers questions!


  • #1937
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,267 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    shinzon wrote: »
    Id vote for messaging Zara King :eek::eek::eek:

    Shin

    Zara's chance to redeem her journalistic credentials - or prove that she has them in the first place.

    Better have the subject line on the e-mail read HAIRDRESSERS STILL CLOSED!!!


  • #1938
    redmgar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 680 ✭✭✭redmgar


    polesheep wrote: »
    I could equally ask you why would they not explain why the numbers are skewed. Or explain to the public how these numbers are not an accurate representation of the day's figures. They may not be manipulating them but they are making no effort to clarify things.
    The numbers are skewed due to the way the are being reported, obviously an administrational occurrence. They are not clarifying them because no one (other than a couple of people on a message board) find an issue.

    The original question of why other than "control" they would deliberately skew the numbers still stands


  • #1939
    polesheep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,950 ✭✭✭polesheep


    redmgar wrote: »
    The numbers are skewed due to the way the are being reported, obviously an administrational occurrence. They are not clarifying them because no one (other than a couple of people on a message board) find an issue.

    The original question of why other than "control" they would deliberately skew the numbers still stands

    I was asked why would they skew the numbers and I answered. How many different answers would you like?


  • #1940
    polesheep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,950 ✭✭✭polesheep


    redmgar wrote: »
    The numbers are skewed due to the way the are being reported, obviously an administrational occurrence. They are not clarifying them because no one (other than a couple of people on a message board) find an issue.

    The original question of why other than "control" they would deliberately skew the numbers still stands

    Source?


  • #1941
    blade1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,811 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    What is wet pub?

    That's what non Irish people call Irish beer gardens :D


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  • #1942
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    The two most upvoted posts on the Reddit Ireland daily thread are bang on the money
    Positivity rate of 0.3% from over 45,000 tests performed in last 7 days.

    That's pretty damn good considering people are out and about in shops/restaurants/public transport etc a lot more frequently these days. Schools reopening is going to be the next big test.

    and
    Well I’ll take this backlog over the day they reported over 1,000 cases. That was a fun day /s


  • #1943
    froog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,784 ✭✭✭froog


    do some posters here not read the news outside ireland at all? genuinely curious as they seem to either not know this thing is accelerating globally or they know but think ireland is a special case impervious to a second wave.

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  • #1944
    CalamariFritti
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    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    The test looks uncomfortable and I know if I ever have to go for a test, I will gag but it's about contact tracing and preventing further spread.

    Its not even that. Its the one up your nose right to your eye balls that freaks me out. To be honest if I had symptoms I think I'd just stay at home for 2 weeks. I wouldnt trust any person to shove a stick up my nose this far. I know that's irrational but I just wouldnt.


  • #1945
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    Scotland pushing for zero tolerance approach to covid.
    Won't be popular in airline land.

    https://twitter.com/IndependentSage/status/1288179211996475393?s=20


  • #1946
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 10,049 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    froog wrote: »
    do some posters here not read the news outside ireland at all? genuinely curious as they seem to either not know this thing is accelerating globally or they know but think ireland is a special case impervious to a second wave.

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    None of that is a second wave, just the virus spreading around the planet


  • #1947
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,904 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    It would be nice if the government could just declare the virus illegal and ban it, wouldn't it. :):)

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



  • #1948
    froog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,784 ✭✭✭froog


    Deleted User wrote: »
    None of that is a second wave, just the virus spreading around the planet

    i didn't say it was a second wave.


  • #1949
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    CalamariFritti wrote: »
    Its not even that. Its the one up your nose right to your eye balls that freaks me out. To be honest if I had symptoms I think I'd just stay at home for 2 weeks. I wouldnt trust any person to shove a stick up my nose this far. I know that's irrational but I just wouldnt.

    Do you not understand how this spreads? The people you've been in contact with before showing symptoms is at risk of contracting the virus. It's so important to get tested and get you and your contacts isolated. You can't just stay at home for two weeks and hope it goes away, it's not about yourself.


  • #1950
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Anyone see this in the independant?

    The Nphet meeting was also told the study of people in Dublin and Sligo chosen to test for antibodies – showing they had the virus previously – showed almost all had the antibodies 94 days post –infection.

    https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/news/major-coronavirus-outbreaks-could-lead-to-regional-or-local-restrictions-nphet-warns-as-40-new-cases-confirmed-39405026.html

    What does that mean? Did they only test people with a previous positive test?


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  • #1951
    Speak Now
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,782 ✭✭✭Speak Now


    froog wrote: »
    do some posters here not read the news outside ireland at all? genuinely curious as they seem to either not know this thing is accelerating globally or they know but think ireland is a special case impervious to a second wave.

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    Clearly still in first wave.


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