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

Irish Steve wrote: »

Your point? I think I just mentioned that from contact to becoming apparent is 2 to 14 days, so if you're in the pub this evening, and pick up Covid from someone that's asymptomatic, it could be Sept 5th before it becomes apparent to you that you have Covid, assuming that you do display symptoms, which may not be the case.

If it then takes up to 2 weeks for you to become sufficiently ill to require hospitalisation, that's somewhere around Sept 19th, so effectively about a month behind the infection date, which I think is the period of time I used.

So, the people in hospital today were possibly infected somwhere around July 23rd, maybe earlier, depending on how long they've been in hospital, and if we look at the number of cases per day a month ago, they were a lot lower than they are now.

As someone commented a few pages back, given the massive increase in numbers recently, the die is already cast, and all we can do now is work as hard as possible to prevent the numbers going even higher than they are today, which is going to be achieved by doing the things we already know about, separation, masks, hand hygiene and isolation of people with symptoms.

Along with the things we can all do, we need Government to step up to the plate and get their act together on testing and tracing, and if that means testing everyone in a specific area because they don't know where it's coming from, then that is what HAS to be done to stop it, not wring their collective hands together and say " we don't know".

The fact that we have a significant percentage of people across the spectrum of Irish society that seem to unable to get their heads around these fundamental issues is not helping us at all, the difference between Wuhan and Dublin is that when the Chinese did lock down, they did it across the board, and did mandatory mass testing, because the penalties for not doing so were real, and enforced, whereas the attitude here is very evidently "shore, it'll be grand".

Reminds me of a Ballymun resident who said to Joe Duffy when Charlie's tax issues came into the public domain, "shore, wasn't he a cute hoor to get away with it for as long as he did". Seems like not a lot has changed in some areas of Irish Life.

Laissez faire attitudes is what's allowing Covid to come back at us, probably assisted by the absence of testing of people coming in or back into Ireland after trips abroad.

Irish Steve wrote: »

Your point? I think I just mentioned that from contact to becoming apparent is 2 to 14 days, so if you're in the pub this evening, and pick up Covid from someone that's asymptomatic, it could be Sept 5th before it becomes apparent to you that you have Covid, assuming that you do display symptoms, which may not be the case.

If it then takes up to 2 weeks for you to become sufficiently ill to require hospitalisation, that's somewhere around Sept 19th, so effectively about a month behind the infection date, which I think is the period of time I used.

So, the people in hospital today were possibly infected somwhere around July 23rd, maybe earlier, depending on how long they've been in hospital, and if we look at the number of cases per day a month ago, they were a lot lower than they are now.

As someone commented a few pages back, given the massive increase in numbers recently, the die is already cast, and all we can do now is work as hard as possible to prevent the numbers going even higher than they are today, which is going to be achieved by doing the things we already know about, separation, masks, hand hygiene and isolation of people with symptoms.

Along with the things we can all do, we need Government to step up to the plate and get their act together on testing and tracing, and if that means testing everyone in a specific area because they don't know where it's coming from, then that is what HAS to be done to stop it, not wring their collective hands together and say " we don't know".

The fact that we have a significant percentage of people across the spectrum of Irish society that seem to unable to get their heads around these fundamental issues is not helping us at all, the difference between Wuhan and Dublin is that when the Chinese did lock down, they did it across the board, and did mandatory mass testing, because the penalties for not doing so were real, and enforced, whereas the attitude here is very evidently "shore, it'll be grand".

Reminds me of a Ballymun resident who said to Joe Duffy when Charlie's tax issues came into the public domain, "shore, wasn't he a cute hoor to get away with it for as long as he did". Seems like not a lot has changed in some areas of Irish Life.

Laissez faire attitudes is what's allowing Covid to come back at us, probably assisted by the absence of testing of people coming in or back into Ireland after trips abroad.