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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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  • #8912
    Renjit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 949 ✭✭✭Renjit


    174, quite a jump.


  • #8913
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Dpg21 wrote: »
    Makes me wonder if so many of the employees are out sick with covid then how do they even have enough workers to open the factory so fast? I havnt seen any jobs advertised

    Wouldn’t even surprise me if they were fLying them in from some Eastern European country like keelings without doing the 14 day quarantine.

    There may well be areas in the plants with no cases. Some employees will have been on holidays. Also, this dismantled just start in the last couple of days, some people will already have been tested and isolated for 14 days.


  • #8914
    twirlagig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,374 ✭✭✭twirlagig


    statesaver wrote: »
    Ballinasloe / East Galway cluster ?

    What’s this about?


  • #8915
    podgeandrodge
    Site Banned Posts: 5,975 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    road_high wrote: »
    Those masks proving a rip roaring success aren’t they
    Alf Veedersane wrote: »
    Yep. Because community transmission is still very low.

    Even lower before masks became prevalent :)
    I believe masks have their value in very crowded confined spaces, including busy public transport, but not convinced that wearing them in reasonably spaced out shops and supermarkets isn't allowing their misuse to become more dangerous than their absence.
    It's clear as other posters have said, that many are putting on/off/on/off masks and pulling down from the nose and itching noses and eyes, and likely increasing the risk to themselves whatever about protecting others.


  • #8916
    podgeandrodge
    Site Banned Posts: 5,975 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    Funsterdelux wrote: »
    I saw an offaly lot of people travelling through cork today

    :pac:

    Don't know why I thanked that offal joke.


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  • #8917
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    ExMachina1000 wrote: »
    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

    The next time that happens in the same manner as last night it will be a national lockdown.


  • #8918
    podgeandrodge
    Site Banned Posts: 5,975 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


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

    Ehh hold on now, that's a stretch!


  • #8919
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,221 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    The big jump today was signposted yesterday. Expect more of the same for the next few days, it will get worse before it gets better.


  • #8920
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,083 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    The next time that happens in the same manner as last night it will be a national lockdown.

    What's the point of friggin masks, if they were any use there wouldn't be any need for a national lockdown.


  • #8921
    [Deleted User]
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    growleaves wrote: »

    Coalition of far right and anti vac. nutcases holding a rally titled day of freedom taken from a film by nazi propagandist Leni Reifenstahl


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  • #8922
    What Username Guidelines
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,139 ✭✭✭What Username Guidelines


    podgeandrodge wrote: »
    Don't know why I thanked that offal joke.

    Ah lads, keep it Down, yer Offaly Louth.


  • #8923
    Renjit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 949 ✭✭✭Renjit


    growleaves wrote: »

    All gas no brakes attitude :D


  • #8924
    ACitizenErased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,759 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    majcos wrote: »
    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?
    It's wherever the test is conducted as far as i know


  • #8925
    Always_Running
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭Always_Running


    Hard to believe so many still struggle with the difference between community transmission cases v cluster outbreaks cases or close contacts cases from those clusters.


  • #8926
    Micky 32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,626 ✭✭✭Micky 32


    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    The next time that happens in the same manner as last night it will be a national lockdown.

    You’re dying for a national lockdown aren’t you? Loving the drama? Why should the rest of the country be locked down with low cases? On your bike.....


  • #8927
    growleaves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,016 ✭✭✭growleaves


    Brighton: Anti-lockdown protest on seafront

    Victoria Police issue stern warning ahead of Melbourne anti-lockdown march


  • #8928
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    podgeandrodge wrote: »
    Even lower before masks became prevalent :)
    I believe masks have their value in very crowded confined spaces, including busy public transport, but not convinced that wearing them in reasonably spaced out shops and supermarkets isn't allowing their misuse to become more dangerous than their absence.
    It's clear as other posters have said, that many are putting on/off/on/off masks and pulling down from the nose and itching noses and eyes, and likely increasing the risk to themselves whatever about protecting others.

    I saw someone take off their mask, turn it around and put it back on.


  • #8929
    GazzaL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,395 ✭✭✭GazzaL


    podgeandrodge wrote: »
    Even lower before masks became prevalent :)
    I believe masks have their value in very crowded confined spaces, including busy public transport, but not convinced that wearing them in reasonably spaced out shops and supermarkets isn't allowing their misuse to become more dangerous than their absence.
    It's clear as other posters have said, that many are putting on/off/on/off masks and pulling down from the nose and itching noses and eyes, and likely increasing the risk to themselves whatever about protecting others.

    The WHO have said the same as yourself, but try telling that to the pro-mask lunatics on here...


  • #8930
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,221 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Always_Running wrote: »
    Hard to believe so many still struggle with the difference between community transmission cases v cluster outbreaks cases or close contacts cases from those clusters.

    It's reassuring that the vast majority of cases can be traced back to known clusters, but the bigger and bigger the clusters get the less reassured I feel.


  • #8931
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    Always_Running wrote: »
    Hard to believe so many still struggle with the difference between community transmission cases v cluster outbreaks cases or close contacts cases from those clusters.

    Hard to believe that so many people don’t realise that the numbers are a product of ...

    The mechanics of transmission
    The politics of the day
    The managing of public perception


    = bingo


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  • #8932
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    GazzaL wrote: »
    The WHO have said the same as yourself, but try telling that to the pro-mask lunatics on here...

    There needs to be an education campaign on how to use masks but there still hasn't been anything. Make masks mandatory in retail and on public transport as if the problem will just go away. They need to educate people and make them mandatory in all settings.


  • #8933
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,221 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    caveat emptor wrote: »
    Hard to believe that so many people don’t realise that the numbers are a product of ...

    The mechanics of transmission
    The politics of the day
    The managing of public perception


    = bingo

    Care to elaborate?


  • #8934
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    Arghus wrote: »
    It's reassuring that the vast majority of cases can be traced back to known clusters, but the bigger and bigger the clusters get the less reassured I feel.

    It will eventually get around to every workplace. Isn't it reassuring that it can all be traced?


  • #8935
    growleaves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,016 ✭✭✭growleaves


    Screenshot-2020-08-08-at-00.05.23-1024x185.png

    Front page of the Telegraph


  • #8936
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,083 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    There needs to be an education campaign on how to use masks but there still hasn't been anything. Make masks mandatory in retail and on public transport as if the problem will just go away. They need to educate people and make them mandatory in all settings.

    There's a big difference between grabbing a pint of milk in centra than wandering around Tesco for a hour.
    They shouldn't be mandatory in all settings as they are a danger to everyone if being used incorrectly which they are. People are going into shops and putting them on inside after pulling them out of their pocket, that's redicilous carry on.


  • #8937
    ExMachina1000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭ExMachina1000


    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    The next time that happens in the same manner as last night it will be a national lockdown.

    The movie is still on. Not sure what they are playing at.
    Taoiseach due to speak


  • #8938
    growleaves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,016 ✭✭✭growleaves


    Extra 10,000 dementia deaths in England and Wales in April
    There were almost 10,000 unexplained extra deaths among people with dementia in England and Wales in April, according to official figures that have prompted alarm about the severe impact of social isolation on people with the condition.

    The data, from the Office for National Statistics, reveals that, beyond deaths directly linked to Covid-19, there were 83% more deaths from dementia than usual in April, with charities warning that a reduction in essential medical care and family visits were taking a devastating toll.


  • #8939
    owlbethere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭owlbethere


    spookwoman wrote: »
    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.

    If they were taking paracetamol we're they truly asymptomatic.

    Theres so many people here clinging onto large asymptomatic spread within the population, that's there's people walking around with this virus and they are all doing great and it's just a little cold. If these workers were taking paracetamol to hide some high temperature readings, were they truly asymptomatic? It doesn't bode too well for self isolation, doing the right thing for the greater good and for community transmissions.


  • #8940
    spookwoman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,059 ✭✭✭✭spookwoman


    Arghus wrote: »
    It's reassuring that the vast majority of cases can be traced back to known clusters, but the bigger and bigger the clusters get the less reassured I feel.

    The clusters getting bigger means the virus is spreading and people are still getting infected. The only difference is they know where it's spreading from and even then they will never be able to trace everywhere those known infected have been


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  • #8941
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    Micky 32 wrote: »
    You’re dying for a national lockdown aren’t you? Loving the drama? Why should the rest of the country be locked down with low cases? On your bike.....

    Absolutely not however I am pissed off that people still can not comprehend why these restrictions were imposed.

    It is a serious situation and always has been.


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