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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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  • #7532
    polesheep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,950 ✭✭✭polesheep


    KrustyUCC wrote: »
    Crap that's a high enough positive tests figure

    Green list day! What's the betting they cancel it altogether?


  • #7533
    ACitizenErased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,759 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    KrustyUCC wrote: »
    Crap that's a high enough positive tests figure

    Massive amount of tests


  • #7534
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    The whole Theatres/Concerts thing was to appease the Blue tick singers/actors of the Arts industry and their lobby groups. This has created a cluster**** as the Sports Industry are saying what about us?

    This is what happens when you have people in power running government as a PR Company. And a rubbish PR Company at that.


  • #7535
    KrustyUCC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,077 ✭✭✭KrustyUCC


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    Massive amount of tests

    True but all the majority of people will see is the positive test figures


  • #7536
    Fann Linn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,067 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    polesheep wrote: »
    Green list day! What's the betting they cancel it altogether?
    Third highest rate in EU according to RTE news. Perhaps the other countries will put us on the red list and do us a favour.


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  • #7537
    ACitizenErased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,759 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    As far as I know that’s one of our highest if not the highest testing figures ever?


  • #7538
    Oranage2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,129 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    Massive amount of tests

    Yeah but unfortunately it looks to be around 70 cases per 5000 tests the past few weeks. Not a good sign it being so consistent


  • #7539
    Eod100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,197 ✭✭✭✭Eod100


    So basically we've barely had a week with over 50,000 tests? If it's like this with half how was capacity for 100,000 ever anyway realistic? https://twitter.com/RTENewsAtOne/status/1296424546594103298?s=19


  • #7540
    Fann Linn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,067 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    As far as I know that’s one of our highest if not the highest testing figures ever?

    Second highest according to Paul Reid just now. 60k in April was the highest.


  • #7541
    Wolf359f
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,427 ✭✭✭Wolf359f


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    Massive amount of tests

    Positivity rate is staying stable the past 4 days.
    Not good, not great.

    It's annoying, the UK had a 300+ cluster in a sandwich factory, Germany 1000+ in a meat factory and looking at their daily cases you can see a single spike on the day they tested positive and then quickly went down to normal.
    Here the daily cases are all over the place, up and down like a yo-yo. A sure sign the testing is all over the place and the clusters were allowed spill over into the community. But sure restrict gyms and spectators, that will solve the issue.


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  • #7542
    ACitizenErased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,759 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    Fann Linn wrote: »
    Second highest according to Paul Reid just now. 60k in April was the highest.

    I mean the 11,416 done in the last 24hrs


  • #7543
    Eod100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,197 ✭✭✭✭Eod100


    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    The whole Theatres/Concerts thing was to appease the Blue tick singers/actors of the Arts industry and their lobby groups. This has created a cluster**** as the Sports Industry are saying what about us?

    This is what happens when you have people in power running government as a PR Company. And a rubbish PR Company at that.

    I would think economically and socially GAA would have far more influence and that's just one organisation


  • #7544
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,190 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    polesheep wrote: »
    If that's how you see it then you are missing at least one of the joys of parenting.
    Here's this nonsense again. Yes, it's the end of the world if you can't sit and watch your child play matches for a year.

    This is a temporary measure. We just have to suck it up. The primary purpose of a match is practice and exercise. Parents being able to watch is a bonus.


  • #7545
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    We've had a few more restrictions placed upon us this week.

    Have they done anything about meat factories and workplaces which started this increase?

    The staff in the meat factories were crying out for PPE and look at them now.

    I know two large companies and there's no masks in use. These two companies are in the same town and if staff get sick, our hospitals won't be able to take them all.

    What are they waiting for to introduce mandatory masks in all indoor workplaces?


  • #7546
    Fann Linn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,067 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    I mean the 11,416 done in the last 24hrs


    Crossed wires. I was on about the weekly figure.


  • #7547
    What Username Guidelines
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,139 ✭✭✭What Username Guidelines


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    I mean the 11,416 done in the last 24hrs

    It is the second highest, 12,076 on May 2nd. We did 11,337 on Aug 14th.


  • #7548
    ACitizenErased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,759 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    Latest referral data
    Remain relatively stable - spikes in counties Carlow, Donegal, Limerick, Wexford (the most) and Wicklow after the weekend
    https://tomorrowscare.ie/covid/2020-08-19_COVID_GP_Survey_Results.pdf


  • #7549
    wadacrack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,172 ✭✭✭wadacrack


    Lack of transparency and illogical decision making has put us in a very bad position. The next few weeks are going to be very tough.

    https://twitter.com/TJRyan_77/status/1296424925209780227


  • #7550
    Wolf359f
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,427 ✭✭✭Wolf359f


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    Yeah but unfortunately it looks to be around 70 cases per 5000 tests the past few weeks. Not a good sign it being so consistent

    I'd expect the positivity rate to drop in proportion to the tests. The stable positivity rate over 4 days (1.3%) and the number of tests have been double 1 day, half the next day. Screams that there's massive widespread cases wherever the majority of their testing is focused on.
    Definitely not a good sign.


  • #7551
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,222 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    The reason they brought in the sport must be played behind closed doors restriction is because it's one of the easiest thing they can do.

    The risk of a few people being at an outdoor sporting event isn't high compared to other activities. But some of these other activities are more essential from an economic or social perspective, so that risk is weighed as worth taking, for now.

    So you've got to see where else you can make small gains on hopefully controlling the spread of the virus and lessening the chances of people spreading it, even if certain activities are lower in risk than other ones that are allowed to continue. The question is how essential they are and do they really need to happen if they can be avoided. And like it or not spectator sports are one of these activities. They aren't essential and despite how many people will say different banning spectator sports, as they currently are with only a tiny fraction of normal crowds allowed, is a pretty easy and quick measure.

    It doesn't stop the sports being played, games can still go ahead.


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  • #7552
    virginmediapls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 325 ✭✭virginmediapls


    Deleted User wrote: »
    A vaccine may never work - lets just leave the schools closed forever


    Finally some common sense, no point in opening the schools if its just going to kill more people.

    Leave them closed 'til a better solution is available. Saving lives is the most important thing here.


  • #7553
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    Eod100 wrote: »
    I would think economically and socially GAA would have far more influence and that's just one organisation

    Oh don't worry, they'll get their way.


  • #7554
    An Ciarraioch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,806 ✭✭✭An Ciarraioch


    Another DP outbreak, this time in Bray:

    https://twitter.com/masi_asylum/status/1296423931646181376


  • #7555
    virginmediapls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 325 ✭✭virginmediapls


    Eod100 wrote: »
    Allow time for normal flu season to pass, allow time for cases to decrease, allow time for schools to be better prepared for physical teaching. What does rushing kids back to school for "normality" achieve when they're going back to an alien and unfamiliar environment with all the changes that need to be made?

    Common sense, on boards.ie?

    You must be lost mate. Only OTT, irrational knee-jerk reactions to promote your own personal agenda are allowed here.


  • #7556
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,190 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    Latest referral data
    Remain relatively stable - spikes in counties Carlow, Donegal, Limerick, Wexford (the most) and Wicklow after the weekend
    https://tomorrowscare.ie/covid/2020-08-19_COVID_GP_Survey_Results.pdf
    A lot of swabs taken again yesterday; ~11,000. I'm very glad to see a lot of mass testing now taking place, but it does mean that we can expect new cases to remain in the 75-150 range for the next few days.


  • #7557
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    Does anyone know if they are still limiting the sale of hand sanitizers in shops?

    I like the small bottles that fit into the pocket and need to pick up one but they're so small, that I want to pick up a few.


  • #7558
    KrustyUCC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,077 ✭✭✭KrustyUCC


    An Ciarraioch wrote: »
    Another DP outbreak, this time in Bray:

    https://twitter.com/masi_asylum/status/1296423931646181376

    DP definitely getting hit hard recently


  • #7559
    KrustyUCC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,077 ✭✭✭KrustyUCC


    seamus wrote: »
    A lot of swabs taken again yesterday; ~11,000. I'm very glad to see a lot of mass testing now taking place, but it does mean that we can expect new cases to remain in the 75-150 range for the next few days.

    I'd take that for a few days if that means getting through all the outbreaks in factories across the country


  • #7560
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,394 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    Stephen Donnelly interview being discussed on Liveline now.


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  • #7561
    ACitizenErased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,759 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    An Ciarraioch wrote: »
    Another DP outbreak, this time in Bray:

    https://twitter.com/masi_asylum/status/1296423931646181376

    Ridiculous stuff


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