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Covid 19 Part XXII-30,360 in ROI(1,781 deaths) 8,035 in NI (568 deaths)(10/09)Read OP

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  • #2012
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,190 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    I wonder are people claiming to have symptoms so they don't have to go to work/school?

    Seems to be so high. Good thing is the positive to test ratio is lowering though.
    It's mass testing. The number of GP referrals are pretty static, averaging around 4,000/day, but as we see from yesterday, some days we're taking 12,000 swabs. Which is targetted mass testing


  • #2013
    Always_Running
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    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    Massive amount of tests last 24hrs

    2nd highest figure for a 24hr period i believe.


  • #2014
    gipi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,301 ✭✭✭gipi


    Eod100 wrote: »
    Is it tomorrow due to find out if normal pubs can open ahead of 31st? I can't see them opening with current cases plus schools just opening. Will push it out another few weeks I'd say.

    The limits of 6 max indoors which are in place till 13th September will probably put paid to pubs opening before that date.


  • #2015
    Eod100
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    gipi wrote: »
    The limits of 6 max indoors which are in place till 13th September will probably put paid to pubs opening before that date.

    I can't see wet pubs open before then or even that soon after but pubs and restaurants open now can have up to 6 per table. I think 6 is really for private homes and some other settings.


  • #2016
    Deeper Blue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,427 ✭✭✭Deeper Blue


    Looks like we actually have the capacity to do 100,000 tests per week now?


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  • #2017
    Happydays2020
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    This country is nuts....

    After days of Golfgate, Liveline was covering weddings and specifically the 11:30 cut off for drinking. They were managing to blame the politicians for it even though the decision pre-dated the Clifden hotel shindig and extended the bar hours by 30 mins.


  • #2018
    theballz
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    i would like a beer.


  • #2019
    JDD
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    seamus wrote: »
    It's mass testing. The number of GP referrals are pretty static, averaging around 4,000/day, but as we see from yesterday, some days we're taking 12,000 swabs. Which is targetted mass testing

    Where are you getting your figures for GP referrals?


  • #2020
    [Deleted User]
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    theballz wrote: »
    i would like a beer.

    Or sleep for the next year while this blasted yoke does its thing. Jesus I hate it.

    I do be glued to this thread some nights looking for all the "it's weakening" style posts because it gives me hope and thinking that anyone with a different opinion doesn't know what they are talking about :D

    It's gas the mental acrobatics we do to keep sane.


  • #2021
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,190 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    JDD wrote: »
    Where are you getting your figures for GP referrals?
    The HSE publish some data on weekdays; https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/news/newsfeatures/covid19-updates/

    This is today's for example:
    https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/news/newsfeatures/covid19-updates/integrated-information-service-testing-and-contact-tracing-dashboard-27-august.pdf

    You can see # of community referrals -v- # of community swabs.


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  • #2022
    hmmm
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    gipi wrote: »
    The limits of 6 max indoors which are in place till 13th September will probably put paid to pubs opening before that date.
    I think the 6 limit was just private homes.

    But I agree unfortunately, pubs won't be reopening soon. It's all about schools now and trying to keep numbers low to reduce the number of outbreaks in schools.

    If in two months time the schools are open and our numbers are steady or decreasing, that's when I imagine the government would consider relaxing restrictions.


  • #2023
    lukas8888
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    Happydays2020 wrote: »
    This country is nuts....

    After days of Golfgate, Liveline was covering weddings and specifically the 11:30 cut off for drinking. They were managing to blame the politicians for it even though the decision pre-dated the Clifden hotel shindig and extended the bar hours by 30 mins.

    Think that's nuts, Wedding held near me daughter of a well known local business man,marquee,caterers, band, drink flowing all night,120 guests.


  • #2024
    [Deleted User]
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Or sleep for the next year while this blasted yoke does its thing. Jesus I hate it.

    I do be glued to this thread some nights looking for all the "it's weakening" style posts because it gives me hope and thinking that anyone with a different opinion doesn't know what they are talking about :D

    It's gas the mental acrobatics we do to keep sane.


    What are you talking about?

    Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing, it can drive a man insane.


  • #2025
    nannerbenahs
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    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    This is gone completely out of hand, time to tell them shove their masks where the sun don't shine.
    When you've members of NPHET lying on public record it's time to call an end to the bull****.
    A study on masks from the CDC a few weeks ago.
    Some studies are for masks, but many too are against, but the ´´authorities´´ behave as though it is a settled medical matter, when it´s not and many people are suffering greatly especially in hot countries like Spain where it has been made mandatory everywhere outdoors, even on the beach!!

    https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article?fbclid=IwAR3ASxBUrRE5LHeZsZF-iHrpTuX2PprS8FnkKGUpEUDEIAnH6s5wQOpkOJI


  • #2026
    Sam Russell
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    political analyst wrote: »
    That's beside the point. The point is that the right to bodily integrity exists. Stop splitting hairs.

    If it is not in the constitution, then it is not unconstitutional.

    Quote the Supreme Court Judgement that specifies how wearing a mask has any bearing on any matter whatsoever.

    It is nonsense. Clearly you must have an alternative constitution to the rest of the nation.


  • #2027
    Oranage2
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Or sleep for the next year while this blasted yoke does its thing. Jesus I hate it.

    I do be glued to this thread some nights looking for all the "it's weakening" style posts because it gives me hope and thinking that anyone with a different opinion doesn't know what they are talking about :D

    It's gas the mental acrobatics we do to keep sane.

    I get the same anxiety about it but I'm hoping for a lockdown. That dead right poster is a God sent, once I see the numbers I can relax for the day whether high or low, the waiting all day was a killer for me.


  • #2028
    Derek Zoolander
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    Oranage2 wrote: »
    I get the same anxiety about it but I'm hoping for a lockdown. That dead right poster is a God sent, once I see the numbers I can relax for the day whether high or low, the waiting all day was a killer for me.

    How come you were waiting - would your model not have you sufficiently informed


  • #2029
    Jim_Hodge
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    Oranage2 wrote: »
    I get the same anxiety about it but I'm hoping for a lockdown. That dead right poster is a God sent, once I see the numbers I can relax for the day whether high or low, the waiting all day was a killer for me.

    You're hoping for a lockdown? Seriously? No matter what your feelings are regarding the direction of case numbers, why would anybody hope for a lockdown? At best it would be viewed an an unfortunate but understandable necessity in a worse case scenario that you hope could be avoided.


  • #2030
    Wolf359f
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    RTE leading with the headline "Rise in 14-day incidence of Covid-19 in Ireland - ECDC" this is 24hr old news, the ECDC uses previous day's figures. Ya think a journalist could add today's figures to the previous 13 and then know a day before the ECDC that it's rising. Really lazy journalism.

    They get the daily stats and kinda wait until someone processes them before they report on it.
    Maybe when they get the daily county totals they could draw up a colour coded county map to show where the county incidence rate is. I mean for elections the amount of detail they show in informative maps and charts is alot. For covid.... They just don't seem to bother.


  • #2031
    Oranage2
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    Jim_Hodge wrote: »
    You're hoping for a lockdown? Seriously? No matter what your feelings are regarding the direction of case numbers, why would anybody hope for a lockdown? At best it would be viewed an an unfortunate but understandable necessity in a worse case scenario that you hope could be avoided.

    I believe a zero covid policy is the best way to keep people safe and I don't believe that's possible without a lockdown or of course a vaccine


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  • #2032
    Funsterdelux
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    owlbethere wrote: »
    So what will happen if teachers or snas will be identified as a close contact of a confirmed case and they need to isolate? Will school principals have a selection of back up people to step in and help?

    My kids school plan is if 2 or more staff are out then the class stays home, something to that affect. So any resource/SET teachers would prob fill in. Not sure about subs etc.


  • #2033
    ACitizenErased
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    Oranage2 wrote: »
    I believe a zero covid policy is the best way to keep people safe and I don't believe that's possible without a lockdown or of course a vaccine
    Zero covid is fairytale stuff


  • #2034
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,153 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    I believe a zero covid policy is the best way to keep people safe and I don't believe that's possible without a lockdown or of course a vaccine

    Never going to happen. How long would such a lockdown take and would you ban all travel to and from the country as well?

    And you'd still HOPE this happens? Dream on.


  • #2035
    Oranage2
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    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    Zero covid is fairytale stuff

    Probably at this stage since we didn't make the right decisions the first time. That includes government, factories and people's own responsibility.


  • #2036
    Glenbhoy
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    antodeco wrote: »
    Colleague if mine was waiting 7 days to get tested (Dublin City Centre based) and results 3 days later

    Dublin as well, family member called gp on sunday last, tested Monday morning, results on Tuesday before lunch.


  • #2037
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,153 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    Glenbhoy wrote: »
    Dublin as well, family member called gp on sunday last, tested Monday morning, results on Tuesday before lunch.

    That's the experience around here too. Their scenario does match what seems to be the norm.


  • #2038
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Steve F wrote: »
    Anyone on here give me a quick resume of where we are with a vaccine....so many conflicting stories going around my head's starting to spin
    This thread might be a better read.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058062347
    A handful are in or moving into the mass testing Phase 3 of clinical trials but it will very likely be next year before we see anything concrete.


  • #2039
    ACitizenErased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,751 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    Probably at this stage since we didn't make the right decisions the first time. That includes government, factories and people's own responsibility.
    New Zealand proved that it isn't possible, period. Gets in one way or another.


  • #2040
    Longing
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    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    Zero covid is fairytale stuff


    Why is it a fairytale.


    It can be eradicated just like Smallpox. But I agree lockdown is not the way.


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  • #2041
    Always_Running
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    HSE CEO Paul Reid says serial testing in Direct Provision centres will begin this weekend. Why wasn't that done weeks ago?


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