Covid 19 Part XXI-27,908 in ROI (1,777 deaths) 6,647 in NI (559 deaths)(22/08)Read OP

owlbethere wrote: »

This would go a long way into helping us get through this for sure. Like if the community transmissions is occurring near the clusters or if they are cropping up elsewhere around the country.

I can see the need for that and I agree. Conversely the health authorities may feel that it would lead to complacency - if people saw little CT in their area they would get sloppy.

GooglePlus wrote: »

So 200 odd cases today, are we still doing well or what?

I remember a certain positive spinner on this thread telling me I was mad predicting 100+ cases countrywide only less than a month ago.

That busy regurgitating someone else's statistical work that they've forgotten how this virus works and through their own positive blindness, they've misinformed numbers of others on this thread.

We'll be at 400-500 very soon and they'll still be preaching the same ****e.

You're buying into the casedemic hysteria, how many deaths has there been over the last 4 weeks? 12

How many people are in ICUs less than 10.

But, keep spreading panic and fear it's no longer a pandemic it's now a casedemic.

The_Brood wrote: »

Same upper class ilk.

So it's his class, social standing or wealth that offend you, rather than his actions?

I think there should have been a hard hard hard lockdown from day one looking back to last March with a view to achieving zero Covid cases. This is something that everyone could have tangibly bought into with a view to eliminating this f*cling thing once and for all.

Despite what all those libertarian types would have you believe, what we had was actually an incredibly soft lockdown. Although there was 2km restrictions these were only loosely imposed by occasional virtue signalling checkpoints, if we were serious about this we should have had the army on the streets along with the Gardaí, regular patrols of high density housing areas, opening an anonymous phone line to report illegal gatherings.

House parties are actually incredibly easy to patrol if the Gardaí just gave a slight toss. Noise disturbances for some reason are always "a civil issue" whenever they're reported, pretty poor policing in all honesty.

In terms of general public buy in, I think the government have dicked about for too long and have lost a lot of goodwill. We were told to flatten the curve, that was done around the start of May. Apparently it wasn't flattened enough.

Since then, there's been complete ambiguity in what the government's ultimate aim is. The dogs on the street knew that when people started moving around, along with reduced case figures that complacency would kick in and those hellish months from March to May would all be for nothing.

Wishy washy nonsense restrictions like "limit gatherings in houses to six people with social distancing" are realistically not going to be followed by anyone are literally legally and practically unenforceable by anyone.

All the while, institutions that the government has insisted on keeping open (meat factories and direct provision centres) all this time are the main driver of what's setting this back months. Institutions that have been neglected by government after government for years when they know that they are living breathing sh!t holes with awful conditions for some of the most vulnerable members of our society.

We're realistically only weeks away from a hard national lockdown again and my hole Martin will not gain public buy in as he is and always has been a spoofer.

It's going to be a long long winter and you can truly forget about a Christmas of any sort.

Longing wrote: »

Personal responsibility is out the window. Today I had to travel through 4 counties two of which were in the North and two in the south. I stopped in one county north and south in a supermarket. In Co Down everybody was wearing a mask but more to the point the were always trying to abide by the two meter rule.



Called into a supermarket in Co Monaghan. My God! Night and day difference I fcuk you not. My wife is easy going women. But in this supermarket we were the only one's wearing a mask the two meter rule was like 2 inch's. It was like the twilight zone a different dimension like they virus didn't exist. After 5 mins my wife was so angry she walked out.


Unless they people in power in this country start putting money were there mouth is concerning social adherence well we are up sh*te creek.


Community transmissions numbers today should ring alarm bells load and clear in government buildings. Don't take me up wrong not saying we should lockdown the country, But there needs to be a firm action taking for places like I was today.

Sorry but I’m calling bull****e on all of this.

This whole covid zero is fairytale stuff

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Reminder the electoral map has been updated, check your towns for new cases

https://covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com/

No new cases in my area and its neighbouring towns compared to the last version of the map

Well spotted, I’d been checking it here and there but gave up recently assuming it was a one time thing.

I remember thinking you could note each area and compare when the map gets updated, jokingly because I assumed it would be update far more frequently.

Did anyone take note of anything in particular?

I know Lucan north was one of the bigger ones in Dublin with about 9% in June, it’s pretty much the exact same.

My own area in Dublin has gone up 3 cases in 2 months, and that’s in Dublin 24 which apparently has high enough numbers overall. Total is 0.6% infected.

Some stats I didn't notice posted here (but I didn't read today's posts very carefully, so apologies if I'm repeating stuff), thought it was pretty interesting.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/coronavirus-200-new-cases-reported-in-largest-daily-total-since-may-1.4331414

There are currently 308 vacant general beds, excluding critical care beds, across the hospital system. Some 33 adult critical care beds are available, in addition to six paediatric beds and 15 critical care beds in the private system.

A total of 284 critical care beds are occupied, including eight occupied by Covid-19 patients. A further nine patients with suspected cases of Covid-19 are in critical care beds. Five confirmed cases are ventilated, as well as three suspected cases.

So very few Covid-19 patients in hospitals, as we know, but ICUs seem to be pretty full with other patients. I guess they can still increase the number of beds should it become an issue.

The latest data on contact tracing shows the average time taken from referral for a test to obtaining a lab result is two days. This is a slight increase on the same day last week, when the process was being completed in 1.8 days.

The average time to complete contact tracing calls is 1.8 days, an increase on last week’s figure of 1.2 days.

Contact tracing slowing down as there's more pressure on the system, but it doesn't sound too bad yet.

LessOutragePlz wrote: »

You're buying into the casedemic hysteria, how many deaths has there been over the last 4 weeks? 12

How many people are in ICUs less than 10.

But, keep spreading panic and fear it's no longer a pandemic it's now a casedemic.

It’s not all about deaths as in stats, it’s about preventing the spread and it’s still a pandemic, casedemic is just a made up term used by the covid deniers on social media. No such thing, never has been.

Santy2015 wrote: »

Sorry but I’m calling bull****e on all of this.

Bullsh*t in what way. I'm 47 years on this planet so I don't really care if you believe me or not. The only way i can make you see what it was like PM me I will tell you what store and town to see it for yourself.

thelad95 wrote: »

I think there should have been a hard hard hard lockdown from day one looking back to last March with a view to achieving zero Covid cases. This is something that everyone could have tangibly bought into with a view to eliminating this f*cling thing once and for all.

Despite what all those libertarian types would have you believe, what we had was actually an incredibly soft lockdown. Although there was 2km restrictions these were only loosely imposed by occasional virtue signalling checkpoints, if we were serious about this we should have had the army on the streets along with the Gardaí, regular patrols of high density housing areas, opening an anonymous phone line to report illegal gatherings.

House parties are actually incredibly easy to patrol if the Gardaí just gave a slight toss. Noise disturbances for some reason are always "a civil issue" whenever they're reported, pretty poor policing in all honesty.

In terms of general public buy in, I think the government have dicked about for too long and have lost a lot of goodwill. We were told to flatten the curve, that was done around the start of May. Apparently it wasn't flattened enough.

Since then, there's been complete ambiguity in what the government's ultimate aim is. The dogs on the street knew that when people started moving around, along with reduced case figures that complacency would kick in and those hellish months from March to May would all be for nothing.

Wishy washy nonsense restrictions like "limit gatherings in houses to six people with social distancing" are realistically not going to be followed by anyone are literally legally and practically unenforceable by anyone.

All the while, institutions that the government has insisted on keeping open (meat factories and direct provision centres) all this time are the main driver of what's setting this back months. Institutions that have been neglected by government after government for years when they know that they are living breathing sh!t holes with awful conditions for some of the most vulnerable members of our society.

We're realistically only weeks away from a hard national lockdown again and my hole Martin will not gain public buy in as he is and always has been a spoofer.

It's going to be a long long winter and you can truly forget about a Christmas of any sort.

Looks like someone needs a hug.

ACitizenErased wrote: »

This whole covid zero is fairytale stuff

We need Tony Stark and Bruce Banner to work on a vaccine or someone to huff and puff, blow it out of
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