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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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  • #3512
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,252 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Great to see case numbers down from yesterday.


  • #3513
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    caveat emptor wrote: »
    Emirates are a nice airline.
    They are offering to pay for your funeral if you get covid on one of their flights.
    Ryanair should take a leaf out of their book instead of suing the people of Ireland.

    https://twitter.com/QuickTake/status/1289244498544021505?s=20


    I've looked into this and it's a complete PR stunt by them

    If you get it "on board one of their flights" they'll just claim you picked it up at the airport. Or it was some loophole along those lines

    You mentioned Ryanair, but they're actually just pulling a Ryanair style publicity stunt here


  • #3514
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    ShineOn7 wrote: »
    I've looked into this and it's a complete PR stunt by them

    If you get it "on board one of their flights" they'll just claim you picked it up at the airport. Or it was some loophole along those lines

    You mentioned Ryanair, but they're actually just pulling a Ryanair style publicity stunt here

    At least they are implicitly acknowledging you might die if you get a flight.

    All airlines catch you out on the terms and conditions. Everyone knows that. :D


  • #3515
    Ce he sin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 215 ✭✭Ce he sin


    Onesea wrote: »
    Its not the catching it but the effects it has. How many of the 15 were ill in any way.. Most likely none of them at all.


    It's not the catching it but the spreading of it. Most likely none of them have the disease. Less likely they didn't bring it to parents or grandparents.


  • #3516
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    caveat emptor wrote: »
    At least they are implicitly acknowledging you might die if you get a flight.

    All airlines catch you out on the terms and conditions. Everyone knows that. :D


    Point being they've no intention to pay for any of this and they got loads of free PR out of it this week

    I'm not sure why companies do this considering we have this thing called Google and Social Media now. Chancer companies are caught quickly these days


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  • #3517
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,252 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Did I just imagine the government saying that they were going to make mask wearing in indoor settings compulsory by law?

    I see the Dáil has just broken up for the summer holidays...


  • #3518
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    Reddit Ireland
    A survey of GP’s has indicated that the vast majority of patients who had contacted them with COVID-like symptoms in the past week had not been self-isolating since the onset of their symptoms.

    WTF is wrong with people? :confused:


  • #3519
    polesheep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,950 ✭✭✭polesheep


    Local restrictions will never work in our small country. They may try it, but it won't work. Provinces don't really exist anymore other than for GAA. There are people living in Cavan who work and socialise in Dublin.


  • #3520
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,038 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    Ce he sin wrote: »
    Most likely none of them have the disease. Less likely they didn't bring it to parents or grandparents.
    Eh? You mean most likely none of them will suffer symptoms of the disease?


  • #3521
    polesheep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,950 ✭✭✭polesheep


    None of the cases we've seen recently will matter a jot if there is no increase in hospitalisation.


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  • #3522
    Professor Moriarty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,394 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    ShineOn7 wrote: »
    Reddit Ireland



    WTF is wrong with people? :confused:

    That's the main headline on RTE site.


  • #3523
    polesheep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,950 ✭✭✭polesheep


    ShineOn7 wrote: »
    Reddit Ireland



    WTF is wrong with people? :confused:

    At least they had attended the GP and were now in the loop.


  • #3524
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91,408 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    ShineOn7 wrote: »
    Reddit Ireland

    WTF is wrong with people? :confused:

    Covididiots

    It's not like test resulting is long now
    https://forumofgames.com/




  • #3525
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    Professor Moriarty wrote: »
    That's the main headline on RTE site.


    I refuse to give them clicks

    I've really changed my opinion of them since March


  • #3526
    Professor Moriarty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,394 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    ShineOn7 wrote: »
    I refuse to give them clicks

    I've really changed my opinion of them since March

    I'd trust RTE before Reddit.


  • #3527
    ACitizenErased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,767 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    Professor Moriarty wrote: »
    I'd trust RTE before Reddit.
    Yeah r/Ireland is a cesspit. Awful place altogether.


  • #3528
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    Professor Moriarty wrote: »
    I'd trust RTE before Reddit.

    Depends on the Reddit poster

    The one I quoited above is Laura who does the daily analysis and transcribes the briefings. She's probably the most respected poster on all the Covid threads

    RTE, on the other hand, is just a mouthpiece for the State


  • #3529
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    Yeah r/Ireland is a cesspit. Awful place altogether.


    And yet you post on it every single day in the Covid thread Citizen


  • #3530
    ACitizenErased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,767 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    ShineOn7 wrote: »
    You post on it every single day in the Covid thread Citizen!
    And deal with the plethora of awful uneducated replies and narkiness.


  • #3531
    Professor Moriarty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,394 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    ShineOn7 wrote: »
    Depends on the Reddit poster

    The one I quoited above is Laura who does the daily analysis and transcribes the briefings. She's probably the most respected poster on all the Covid threads

    RTE, on the other hand, is just a mouthpiece for the State

    You may consider Laura to be a respected poster on reddit. Unfortunately, it seems she quoted RTE verbatim.

    Laura's post:

    "A survey of GP’s has indicated that the vast majority of patients who had contacted them with COVID-like symptoms in the past week had not been self-isolating since the onset of their symptoms."

    From the RTE article:

    "A survey of GPs has indicated that the vast majority of patients who had contacted them with Covid-like symptoms in the past week had not been self-isolating since the onset of their symptoms."


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  • #3532
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,236 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    Professor Moriarty wrote: »
    You may consider Laura to be a respected poster on reddit. Unfortunately, it seems she quoted RTE verbatim.

    Laura's post:

    "A survey of GP’s has indicated that the vast majority of patients who had contacted them with COVID-like symptoms in the past week had not been self-isolating since the onset of their symptoms."

    From the RTE article:

    "A survey of GPs has indicated that the vast majority of patients who had contacted them with Covid-like symptoms in the past week had not been self-isolating since the onset of their symptoms."

    Thay was my immediate reaction too. It's a cut and paste from RTE.


  • #3533
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    Professor Moriarty wrote: »
    You may consider Laura to be a respected poster on reddit. Unfortunately, it seems she quoted RTE verbatim.

    Laura's post:

    "A survey of GP’s has indicated that the vast majority of patients who had contacted them with COVID-like symptoms in the past week had not been self-isolating since the onset of their symptoms."

    From the RTE article:

    "A survey of GPs has indicated that the vast majority of patients who had contacted them with Covid-like symptoms in the past week had not been self-isolating since the onset of their symptoms."


    I never said she didn't

    I said RTE were never getting my clicks again

    And do we know where RTE got the story or if they were the only one who had it?


  • #3534
    ACitizenErased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,767 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    ShineOn7 wrote: »
    I never said she didn't

    I said RTE were never getting my clicks again

    And do we know where RTE got the story or if they were the only one who had it?
    It says it in the press release today


  • #3535
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,236 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    ShineOn7 wrote: »
    I never said she didn't

    I said RTE were never getting my clicks again

    And do we know where RTE got the story or if they were the only one who had it?

    As it turns out the exact same wording appears on at least eight news sites right now. Probably a press release of some sort.


  • #3536
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    Jim_Hodge wrote: »
    As it turns out the exact same wording appears on at least eight news sites right now. Probably a press release of some sort.


    There we have it then

    A complete fuss about nothing :pac:


  • #3537
    Professor Moriarty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,394 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    ShineOn7 wrote: »
    There we have it then

    A complete fuss about nothing :pac:

    Well, no. I'd always take RTE's reportage before Laura's on Reddit. Or Karen's on Facebook.


  • #3538
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,175 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    ShineOn7 wrote: »
    There we have it then

    A complete fuss about nothing :pac:

    It's a quoted post, whats all the hullaballoo


  • #3539
    owlbethere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭owlbethere


    ShineOn7 wrote: »
    Reddit Ireland



    WTF is wrong with people? :confused:

    Our government is to blame for this 100%. There were trusting the population to do the right thing and that's never going to happen from some people. Greed and selfishness will take them people over. There should have been isolation centres set up for covid positive people.


  • #3540
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    Professor Moriarty wrote: »
    Well, no. I'd always take RTE's reportage before Laura's on Reddit. Or Karen's on Facebook.


    Great stuff ;)

    Here's her post https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/i1bcwd/coronavirus_no_deaths_and_38_new_cases_confirmed/fzvz9n1/

    She's actually using quoting text in the post. She just doesn't say it's from RTE

    Because we now know it wasn't from RTE, it was on 8 different websites


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  • #3541
    Charles Babbage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,531 ✭✭✭Charles Babbage


    ShineOn7 wrote: »

    RTE, on the other hand, is just a mouthpiece for the State


    Yes, but the State are the people collecting the statistics, most of the rest are only giving their opinion on someone on which they have no expertise.


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