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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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  • #8882
    The Unbearables
    Closed Accounts Posts: 359 ✭✭The Unbearables


    road_high wrote: »
    I presume the same staff will be equally reticent to accept the wages into their bank accounts then?

    You ever heard of unions?


  • #8883
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91,265 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    PmMeUrDogs wrote: »
    There's no way of sugar coating 174 new cases.

    :eek::(
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  • #8884
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    I don't know how people are so optimistic, the testers seem to be two weeks behind,expect this number to double in the next 2 weeks. The only positive I see is that is looks to be only factories at the moment but what's going to happen when we have 1000s of students all packed together? It's mayhem

    To put it simply, people still don't understand the virus and the spread timelines, at this point probably through ignorance.


  • #8885
    feelings
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 609 ✭✭✭feelings


    Wasn't far off at 174...
    feelings wrote: »
    So at a guess...150-200 new cases today?


  • #8886
    Oranage2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,129 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    1641 wrote: »
    Incidence seems to be the main indicator at the moment:


    “As outlined by the Acting Chief Medical Officer at the press conference last night, the 14-day incidence per 100,000 population in Kildare, Laois and Offaly is worryingly high.

    “While the national incidence stands at 16.3 per 100,000, in Kildare it stands at 130.3, in Laois it is 69.7 and in Offaly it is 89.8."

    https://www.thejournal.ie/coronavirus-new-cases-5-5170971-Aug2020/

    Am I reading that right? So potentially we're going to see approximately 400 cases coming from these 3 counties?


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  • #8887
    brookers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 408 ✭✭brookers


    I dont work in a meat factory but what i see is really gross, I work for a government agency and meet the public. They come in all chuffed with themselves because they wear a mask, then they start fiddling with it, mainly older people, pullint at it with their fingers, up and down over their mouth and nose, then they take it off and throw it on the counter, on top of my paper work. I actually think masks will spread covid, some people are just plain dirty, gross and stupid.


  • #8888
    What Username Guidelines
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,139 ✭✭✭What Username Guidelines


    PmMeUrDogs wrote: »
    There's no way of sugar coating 174 new cases.

    If you discount the clusters, and the community transmission, and the healthcare workers and travel, you’ve only got the under investigation left, so discount those too, then we’re grand.


  • #8889
    SimonTemplar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭SimonTemplar


    PmMeUrDogs wrote: »
    There's no way of sugar coating 174 new cases.

    Sugar coating is probably not the right phrase but there is a big difference between a majority of 174 new cases coming from a few known outbreaks in 3 counties, and 174 new cases dotted randomly throughout the country.

    The whole situation is too complex to look at just an individual figure. Context is key.

    I'm not saying we aren't in a precarious situation though.


  • #8890
    Cameron326
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59 ✭✭Cameron326


    The Unbearables wrote: »
    Eating food is essential, drinking booze isnt.

    But we’re not talking about food in general, we’re talking about meat. Eating meat isn’t essential. A lot of it isn’t even good for you. A month of less national meat consumption is a small price to pay for stopping all these meat factory clusters, in turn risking furthering community spread, in turn risk tightening lockdown including schools not opening properly in September.


  • #8891
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    I don't know what to say but this made me laugh.
    Don't click if you don't like bad words don't click on it.

    Nicknames for covid: jamie redknapp

    https://twitter.com/ladbible/status/1291408242283876353?s=20


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  • #8892
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91,265 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Limerick high, cluster?
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  • #8893
    The Unbearables
    Closed Accounts Posts: 359 ✭✭The Unbearables


    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    To put it simply, people still don't understand the virus and the spread timelines, at this point probably through ignorance.

    I don't think it's ignorance tbh. We have a generation who just don't give a hoot about others and will form a narrative to fit that perspective.

    "It's not that dangerous"
    "It only kills old people"
    "Open the pubs ffs" etc...

    These same people are now suggesting the "gubbbbbermint" are massaging figures to fit agendas like it's some sort of grand master plan conspiracy to stop us all enjoying our lives.

    It's more immaturity than anything else tbh.


  • #8894
    statesaver
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,084 ✭✭✭statesaver


    Ballinasloe / East Galway cluster ?


  • #8895
    The Unbearables
    Closed Accounts Posts: 359 ✭✭The Unbearables


    Cameron326 wrote: »
    But we’re not talking about food in general, we’re talking about meat. Eating meat isn’t essential. A lot of it isn’t even good for you. A month of less national meat consumption is a small price to pay for stopping all these meat factory clusters, in turn risking furthering community spread, in turn risk tightening lockdown including schools not opening properly in September.

    Oh im not agreeing with what they've done obviously they should have been shut down im just saying food is essential booze isn't.

    I love meat btw and nothing will ever change that.


  • #8896
    Gael23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,151 ✭✭✭✭Gael23


    I can see how social distancing is difficult in meat factories. A cow much weigh a few hundred kg so the killing process needs a few people


  • #8897
    growleaves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,016 ✭✭✭growleaves




  • #8898
    ElTel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,672 ✭✭✭ElTel


    Polar101 wrote: »
    They know who got tested positive and who got hospitalised, but most people recover at home - there's no way of gathering statistics on what kind of symptoms those people had, if any.

    Surely contract tracers asks questions about symptoms?
    Is info recorded or a questionnaire filled out at swab taking time?


  • #8899
    snotboogie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,798 ✭✭✭snotboogie


    The Unbearables wrote: »
    I don't think it's ignorance tbh. We have a generation who just don't give a hoot about others and will form a narrative to fit that perspective.

    "It's not that dangerous"
    "It only kills old people"
    "Open the pubs ffs" etc...

    These same people are now suggesting the "gubbbbbermint" are massaging figures to fit agendas like it's some sort of grand master plan conspiracy to stop us all enjoying our lives.

    It's more immaturity than anything else tbh.

    Two threads in particular on this forum are echo chambers of misinformation


  • #8900
    Gruffalux
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭Gruffalux


    brookers wrote: »
    I dont work in a meat factory but what i see is really gross, I work for a government agency and meet the public. They come in all chuffed with themselves because they wear a mask, then they start fiddling with it, mainly older people, pullint at it with their fingers, up and down over their mouth and nose, then they take it off and throw it on the counter, on top of my paper work. I actually think masks will spread covid, some people are just plain dirty, gross and stupid.

    Ew. That is horrible. I do think masks are useful but people should deal with them like a used hankie. Who would throw their snotrag on someones desk.


  • #8901
    The Unbearables
    Closed Accounts Posts: 359 ✭✭The Unbearables


    growleaves wrote: »

    God that is depressing. :(


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  • #8902
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,156 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Polar101 wrote: »
    Helsinki airport (in Finland) tries out "voluntary" Covid-19 testing for incoming passengers. They asked all passengers on a flight from Bucharest, Romania to take a Covid test at the airport, free of charge.

    There were over 100 passengers on the flight. 60 of them agreed to take the test, the rest of them declined.

    https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/passengers_from_bucharest_tested_on_arrival_at_helsinki_airport/11484992

    How many tested positive would have been kinda relevant


  • #8903
    Sierra Oscar
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,681 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sierra Oscar


    Gael23 wrote: »
    I can see how social distancing is difficult in meat factories. A cow much weigh a few hundred kg so the killing process needs a few people

    The factories also use a lot of refrigeration and air conditioning which they suspect played a big role in spreading the virus within the factories.


  • #8904
    Drumpot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭Drumpot


    growleaves wrote: »

    It’s easy to forget that not all the stupid people of the world live in the USA.


  • #8905
    ExMachina1000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭ExMachina1000


    Is MM due to make a speech?

    Rte one live on YouTube the past hour under the title "Statement by taoiseach Micheal Martin on covid 19" . But its actually the Saturday evening movie they are showing. It's not a great movie either


  • #8906
    majcos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 596 ✭✭✭majcos


    Are all cases in workers working in Kildare assigned to Kildare or if you work in Kildare and live elsewhere, is that case assigned to your county of residence?


  • #8907
    YellowBucket
    Closed Accounts Posts: 491 ✭✭YellowBucket


    Sierra Oscar wrote: »
    The factories also use a lot of refrigeration and air conditioning which they suspect played a big role in spreading the virus within the factories.

    I'd assume they're very high recirculation of air places as effectively they're working in a giant fridge. To maintain those low temperatures requires recirculation. I would assume you're going to need filtration and probably uv treatment of recirculation to deal with it


  • #8908
    spookwoman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,059 ✭✭✭✭spookwoman


    What's worrying is that workers were taking paracetamol and whatever to suppress their symptoms, this was being discussed back in July by the oireachtas and in the papers back in May. If they are doing that do you think they care if they spread it in the community.


  • #8909
    Polar101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,043 ✭✭✭Polar101


    fritzelly wrote: »
    How many tested positive would have been kinda relevant

    Yeah, but Finland isn't very good with that sort of stuff - results will come in a few days. Not the most well organised test there.


  • #8910
    maebee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,759 ✭✭✭maebee


    growleaves wrote: »

    I'm sure every one of them would refuse hospital treatment if they ever contract covid. Idiots.


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  • #8911
    podgeandrodge
    Site Banned Posts: 5,975 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    rodders999 wrote: »
    Boycott Brady Family Ham, absolute disgrace. The business community of Kildare should sue them for every cent lost in the next 2 weeks. What a **** show.
    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    Won't be buying it anymore. Same goes for Carroll's.

    We don't know yet if this was caused by negligence though do we? Air con, temperatures in those factories? Or maybe it spread in the staff accomodations, which you can't blame the companies for? But absence of a sick pay scheme could be a factor.


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