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

ACitizenErased · 19-08-2020 03:43PM

https://twitter.com/offtheball/status/1296093311132983299?s=20

ACitizenErased · 19-08-2020 03:46PM

fritzelly wrote: »

On android and never had a notification either, all permissions enabled

Weekly exposure notifications are an iOS feature.

19-08-2020 03:47PM

plodder wrote: »

Great site. Strange that it doesn't seem to be linked (obviously) from the government covid19 page or hpsc.ie

Now everyone can be a mini ACE

Strumms · 19-08-2020 03:49PM

Wearing a mask, my face gets a bit warmer..... so say if I’m looking in a shop window or at the park with nobody around I’ll take it down for 30 secs or a minute, grab a drink... back on again and go... I wash and sterilize the reusable masks every night... put an ice pack on it for 15 before wearing so it’s cold, that means most days it never really gets too hot.... and I have zero opportunity to be snotting onto my keyboard in the evening ... “ ohhh I can’t wear a mask, boo boo, ohh my mental heath, ohh I can’t breathe, ohh I get depressed if somebody has a nicer mask”

landofthetree · 19-08-2020 03:49PM

https://mobile.twitter.com/NewstalkFM/status/1296094959939059717

"The CDC have just said that there's no evidence now that you can get reinfected" - Prof
@laoneill111
gives us the latest Covid news, on tomorrow's
@PatKennyNT
#covid19

Wolf359f · 19-08-2020 03:49PM

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Or there's private testing involved, which is just ludicrous imo

True, but you would expect it to be still a positive test/ case notified to them.
Shame no journalist can ask. Just not George Lee, the pandemic be over by the time someone could explain the numbers to him.

Wolf359f · 19-08-2020 03:52PM

spookwoman wrote: »

https://twitter.com/rtenews/status/1296093463029719041?s=20

Christ, makes ya wonder are they going for herd immunity in the factories?

plodder · 19-08-2020 03:52PM

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Weekly exposure notifications are an iOS feature.

Android gives a weekly notification, but it just says that the service is switched on. No other info, and it's easy to miss as well.

jammiedodgers · 19-08-2020 03:52PM

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Weekly exposure notifications are an iOS feature.

I get them on Android

Wolf359f · 19-08-2020 03:53PM

jammiedodgers wrote: »

I get them on Android

Same. Always spooks me initially!

Hurrache · 19-08-2020 03:54PM

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Weekly exposure notifications are an iOS feature.

It's on Android too.

wadacrack · 19-08-2020 03:56PM

https://twitter.com/RobOHanrahan/status/1296098242321670145

ShyMets · 19-08-2020 03:58PM

Strumms wrote: »

Wearing a mask, my face gets a bit warmer..... so say if I’m looking in a shop window or at the park with nobody around I’ll take it down for 30 secs or a minute, grab a drink... back on again and go... I wash and sterilize the reusable masks every night... put an ice pack on it for 15 before wearing so it’s cold, that means most days it never really gets too hot.... and I have zero opportunity to be snotting onto my keyboard in the evening ... “ ohhh I can’t wear a mask, boo boo, ohh my mental heath, ohh I can’t breathe, ohh I get depressed if somebody has a nicer mask”

You seem like a really swell person. Keep up the smug posts

timmy_mallet · 19-08-2020 04:02PM

caveat emptor wrote: »

It's an interesting point. They are saying they have to balance the economy with public health.

I get that but you don't have an economy when you don't do public health. It turns out people don't want to contract it so the economy grinds to a halt while people who can minimise their risk stay at home.

Only solution is vaccine, effective treatment or go for zero tolerance with quarantine and mandatory testing.

We are told but we are an island and it's actually part of being Irish to travel. Have no idea what that means. Every country in the world travels. Most far more than us.

Zero tolerance quarantine and mandatory testing leaves you isolated forever (0 global covid will never happen), and doesn't stop the potential for it to re-emerge, see New Zealand.

The other solution, of course, is to decide as a society are we prepared to tolerate the illness to return to a more humane way of life.

Strumms · 19-08-2020 04:02PM

ShyMets wrote: »

You seem like a really swell person. Keep up the smug posts

I’ll struggle for time in between admiring your amazing contributions to this thread.

Flow Motion · 19-08-2020 04:05PM

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/varadkar-and-martin-clash-at-cabinet-as-incoherent-new-restrictions-criticised-1.4333516

"Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble" [Macbeth]
The rainbow is gone all cloudy Mommy. Makes interesting reading eh? Not to say the full 11pg NPHET letter!! Who is actually ruling who at this stage. Three ego's do not go into one. Or should that be 2.5 given gormless green Ryan's on board. He's like the black sheep of the family. Always in the photos but never at the party.

So amidst all the rampant upsurge in fear and sensationlist headlines the HSE reported that as of yesterday there were 20 confirmed Covid case in hospitals in Ireland with 7 of those being in ICU. Meanwhile the WHO said 80% of all Covid case globally are "mild" or asymptomatic. Still the Govt. applies the restriction handbrake once more along with the promise of extra Garda powers. However, the food pubs can half an extra half an hour. 11.30pm for the kids. Just to stop them all going to the house parties. Good to know that the average Irish person can sip away at their pint in peace. It would not be like us at all to run to the bar and order a couple of extra pints in those extra 30 minutes.... [Cue: stampede!]

"Oooh won't someone think of the children!". Its all for the schools they say. Its the priority. We have decided that indoor gathering number be slashed and restricted but it is perfectly safe to throw almost 1 million ppl [pupils + staff] of differing households into small rooms for 7 hours a day, 5 days a week. Sure what could go wrong........????

timsey tiger · 19-08-2020 04:05PM

timmy_mallet wrote: »

Zero tolerance quarantine and mandatory testing leaves you isolated forever (0 global covid will never happen), and doesn't stop the potential for it to re-emerge, see New Zealand.

The other solution, of course, is to decide as a society are we prepared to tolerate the illness to return to a more humane way of life.

I'm not sure the word humane, means I'll have my fun and f*ck the weak.

feelings · 19-08-2020 04:05PM

Yep in and about that figure. I am expecting about 45-55 today.

blowitupref wrote: »

Works out as no more than 58 cases should be reported today.

ShyMets · 19-08-2020 04:06PM

Strumms wrote: »

I’ll struggle for time in between admiring your amazing contributions to this thread.

Just trying to add a little levity. No offense meant

Atlantic Dawn · 19-08-2020 04:08PM

landofthetree wrote: »

https://mobile.twitter.com/NewstalkFM/status/1296094959939059717

"The CDC have just said that there's no evidence now that you can get reinfected" - Prof
@laoneill111
gives us the latest Covid news, on tomorrow's
@PatKennyNT
#covid19

Then they should offer deliberate infection to healthy people who want it, I'd gladly take my 99% plus chances with it then going around in this current state of fear. 2+ weeks safely isolated and then enjoy myself.

Ger Roe · 19-08-2020 04:12PM

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Then they should offer deliberate infection to healthy people who want it, I'd gladly take my 99% plus chances with it then going around in this current state of fear. 2+ weeks safely isolated and then enjoy myself.

I wouldn't rely on that yet.... a quick check on recent CDC releases on the issue results in confusion, with various announcements contradicting each other. Just google for CDC reinfection and see what comes up.

timmy_mallet · 19-08-2020 04:20PM

timsey tiger wrote: »

I'm not sure the word humane, means I'll have my fun and f*ck the weak.

The alternative view could be that the entire globe is restricted forever, no sense of what it means to be human, to accommodate protecting a very small minority. It's not empathetic, but neither is restricting everyone either.

brendanwalsh · 19-08-2020 04:22PM

Mammy Martin is driving the bus right over the cliff edge.

Won’t be long till we have school children on ventilators and another lock down because of this gross negligence.

owlbethere · 19-08-2020 04:25PM

wadacrack wrote: »

https://twitter.com/RobOHanrahan/status/1296098242321670145

God, that's not good at all. These players would have been tested because of team sports and perhaps someone close to them being a positive. These players would have been asymptomatic and now some of them are displaying lesions on their lungs. That really isn't good.

Are other people who were positive and asymptomatic getting xrays done to establish if there's anything on their lungs?

spookwoman · 19-08-2020 04:26PM

Not look good for spain again
https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1296106055609602048?s=20

timmy_mallet · 19-08-2020 04:29PM

owlbethere wrote: »

God, that's not good at all. These players would have been tested because of team sports and perhaps someone close to them being a positive. These players would have been asymptomatic and now some of them are displaying lesions on their lungs. That really isn't good.

Are other people who were positive and asymptomatic getting xrays done to establish if there's anything on their lungs?

And would be interesting to know if those players had the lesions before COVID too.

John O.Groats · 19-08-2020 04:32PM

brendanwalsh wrote: »

Mammy Martin is driving the bus right over the cliff edge.

Won’t be long till we have school children on ventilators and another lock down because of this gross negligence.

Besides hyperbole and an anti MM jibe what is this supposed to mean?

Gruffalux · 19-08-2020 04:33PM

Strumms wrote: »

ohh I get depressed if somebody has a nicer mask”

I don't get depressed, but I sometimes do get an occasional twinge of mask envy! One of my pals has a superb and ridiculously stylish selection. I am a mere pleb in the blue medical things - but I find them lighter.

MickeyLeari · 19-08-2020 04:35PM

timmy_mallet wrote: »

And would be interesting to know if those players had the lesions before COVID too.

Indeed it is a cause for concern.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/lung-cancer/expert-answers/lung-nodules/faq-20058445

More questions and analysis needed before a conclusive position but worrying.

timmy_mallet · 19-08-2020 04:39PM

brendanwalsh wrote: »

Mammy Martin is driving the bus right over the cliff edge.

Won’t be long till we have school children on ventilators and another lock down because of this gross negligence.

You should be more worried about the flu for kids.

Overall low COVID-19 burden in kids
"We can be cautiously encouraged by the hospital outcomes for patients in this series, with an overall ICU mortality at the end of our follow-up period of less than 5% compared with published mortalities of 50% to 62% in adults admitted to the ICU," the authors wrote.

They also said that the COVID-19 burden in children is low compared with that of seasonal flu, with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reporting 8 deaths in children 14 years or younger from COVID-19 and 169 flu-related deaths in that age-group during the 2019-20 season.

"Thus, up to this time of the pandemic in North America, children continue to face a far greater risk of critical illness from influenza than from COVID-19, pointing to the imperative for ongoing preventive pediatric health maintenance during this time," the authors said.

They noted that, given increasing transmission of the virus across North America, extending sampling going forward will likely identify a higher prevalence of hospitalization in children with COVID-19.

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

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