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

froog wrote: »

The "yerra only clusters" crowd are in for a rude awakening next week i reckon.

So the public health team are then is it ?

60 cases to come in from Kildare, Laois and Offaly tommorrow. Being contact traced.

stephenjmcd wrote: »

60 cases to come from Kildare, Laois and Offaly tomorrow

is that 60 each?
That would be at least 180 cases

fritzelly wrote: »

Well that doesn't sound as bad as he was making out

Yeah, I was expecting 200-300.

MD1990 wrote: »

is that 60 each?
That would be at least 180 cases

No 60 as a whole. Probably be close to 100 tomorrow overall

is_that_so wrote: »

60 cases to come in from Kildare, Laois and Offaly tommorrow. Being contact traced.

Do they know how it firstly got into the meat factory, dog food factory or direct provision centre?

stephenjmcd wrote: »

You might want to have a chat with the CMO & Prof Nolan so

Ah would you look, is it that Kermit fellow from earlier back with a new name.

is_that_so wrote: »

Well, Glynn is saying clusters, not community spread.

Only two from community transmission I think.

This might be a stupid question but why is it OK that its mainly clusters?

Surely a cluster just means it can be traced back to a likely source so for example Person A picks it up in a meat plant and goes to visit his mate (person . Person B then goes home to his girlfriend (person C) and she catches it. Person C goes to her work and gives it to Person D. Is that not all a cluster?

Person D might never have been near a meat processing plant and think "ah sure its grand its just the meat processing plants" I'm jot sure that is a whole lot better for person D than had they got it through "community transmission"

stephenjmcd wrote: »

You might want to have a chat with the CMO & Prof Nolan so

They are worried about it aswell if you are watching the press conference.

caveat emptor wrote: »

150 cases from the 3 meat factory clusters so far.

Mostly workers who are housed in those ****holes against humanity called direct provision centres.

Sofa King Great wrote: »

This might be a stupid question but why is it OK that its mainly clusters?

Surely a cluster just means it can be traced back to a likely source so for example Person A picks it up in a meat plant and goes to visit his mate (person . Person B then goes home to his girlfriend (person C) and she catches it. Person C goes to her work and gives it to Person D. Is that not all a cluster?

Person D might never have been near a meat processing plant and think "ah sure its grand its just the meat processing plants" I'm jot sure that is a whole lot better for person D than had they got it through "community transmission"

It's not. Its just the latest thing the "its grand, open everything up" crowd have latched on to so they can get back to pinting.

Sofa King Great wrote: »

This might be a stupid question but why is it OK that its mainly clusters?

Surely a cluster just means it can be traced back to a likely source so for example Person A picks it up in a meat plant and goes to visit his mate (person . Person B then goes home to his girlfriend (person C) and she catches it. Person C goes to her work and gives it to Person D. Is that not all a cluster?

Person D might never have been near a meat processing plant and think "ah sure its grand its just the meat processing plants" I'm jot sure that is a whole lot better for person D than had they got it through "community transmission"

The word "cluster" seems to be the vaccine we have been looking for all along.

Doctor Glynn said they will not allow this continue and will take action.

Couple of weeks of national restrictions before the schools open?

Or shutting down meat factories?

Steak will be the new toilet paper.

Either way I'm off to the butcher.