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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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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,772 ✭✭✭Speak Now


    This is crazy, 6 people or 6 visitors?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,203 ✭✭✭✭hmmm


    bb1234567 wrote: »
    It is 0.65% globally, and around 1% in European countries due to elderly populations. So you are incorrect
    I'd guess 0.65% myself will be the final figure for Ireland, we have a relatively young population. But that's still massively more than the death rate from Flu.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,772 ✭✭✭Speak Now


    Hijpo wrote: »
    Is there a number I can call to alert the HSE to a person I know has flown into ireland from two different countries and did not quarantine. I know three individuals that they would have been in contact with.

    Surely those contacts should be tested.

    Contacts? Is this person a confirmed case?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,558 ✭✭✭Leftwaffe


    GooglePlus wrote: »
    Our drinking culture is very different to the rest of Europe.

    Ah come on now. This is the line being banded about by the masses to justify the ruination of thousands of small businesses.

    There p**heads everywhere you go.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,010 ✭✭✭GooglePlus


    Hijpo wrote: »
    Is there a number I can call to alert the HSE to a person I know has flown into ireland from two different countries and did not quarantine. I know three individuals that they would have been in contact with.

    Surely those contacts should be tested.

    You'd be best just getting on with your life, we don't need cold war like KGB calls and every other person keeping a close eye on their neighbour.

    I'd imagine the real reason for you wanting to out this person has nothing to do with Covid-19.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,834 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Donnelly is coming for you. Couldn't make this up.

    He will be a busy man!

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    ixoy wrote: »
    Well we're not sure as it'll depend on how many people actually contracted it. Antibody studies here suggested the number of cases was actually far higher but because the criteria for testing was so stringent initially, we didn't catch a lot of them.

    That is what thousands of scientists agreed upon at the WHO conference, I think we'll give the benefit of the doubt and say they are probably aware of the caveats and limitations you have mentioned and factored them into their estimate, they're not numb skulls


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,834 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    hmmm wrote: »
    I'd guess 0.65% myself will be the final figure for Ireland, we have a relatively young population. But that's still massively more than the death rate from Flu.

    Plus how many other diseases include asymptomatics in their total case count?

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,010 ✭✭✭GooglePlus


    Ah come on now. This is the line being banded about by the masses to justify the ruination of thousands of small businesses.

    There p**heads everywhere you go.

    Of course there are but as a people, especially in our early years, we tend to spend our social time in the pub. You don't see that near as much in other European countries.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,103 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    Ah come on now. This is the line being banded about by the masses to justify the ruination of thousands of small businesses.

    There p**heads everywhere you go.

    Well the house parties arent helping the small businesses by delaying any chance of opening them.


    The "anti" crowd have ensured a self fulfilling prophecy of making sure restrictions remain/increase.


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


    Donnelly is coming for you. Couldn't make this up.

    https://twitter.com/ShaneBeattyNews/status/1299403291936329729?s=19
    It actually sounds like Donnelly pushing this, it's his personality. It's crossing a line TBH threatening people in their own homes. Whatever happened to we're all in this together or encouraging personal responsibility?


  • Posts: 5,917 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Not feeling much better today so rang my doctor, she had a very flippant attitude towards me :o Explained that I'm feeling very fatigued for the last 4 or 5 days and my throat is a bit tingly, but she instantly dismissed the possibility of coronavirus. I said I'm a bit anxious because I'd be working in a primary classroom from next weeks onwards, but she told me to "forgot about it" and just "follow the guidelines". Like I'll admit I know it's unlikely I have it, but I'd have thought maybe she'd be more open to referring me given where I'll be next week.

    She's not in kells by any chance, last time I dealt with mine I was told it was nothing and ended up in hospital for a week with food poisoning.

    Just ask her to confirm her opinion by email in case you need it for work


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,103 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    is_that_so wrote: »
    It actually sounds like Donnelly pushing this, it's his personality. It's crossing a line TBH threatening people in their own homes. Whatever happened to we're all in this together or encouraging personal responsibility?

    This is an absoulte foreign concept for some.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,161 ✭✭✭Hijpo


    Speak Now wrote: »
    Contacts? Is this person a confirmed case?

    Not a confirmed case but flew from one non green list country, to another non green list country before making their way to meet with family here. The person did not quarantine.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,038 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    hmmm wrote: »
    I'd guess 0.65% myself will be the final figure for Ireland, we have a relatively young population. But that's still massively more than the death rate from Flu.
    So you reckon we've had 130k cases so far as opposed to the 28k claimed?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,450 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    is_that_so wrote: »
    It actually sounds like Donnelly pushing this, it's his personality. It's crossing a line TBH threatening people in their own homes. Whatever happened to we're all in this together or encouraging personal responsibility?

    Sweet fcuk all will happen. Its not a criminal matter so there'll be nothing done.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭s1ippy


    Not feeling much better today so rang my doctor, she had a very flippant attitude towards me :o Explained that I'm feeling very fatigued for the last 4 or 5 days and my throat is a bit tingly, but she instantly dismissed the possibility of coronavirus. I said I'm a bit anxious because I'd be working in a primary classroom from next weeks onwards, but she told me to "forgot about it" and just "follow the guidelines". Like I'll admit I know it's unlikely I have it, but I'd have thought maybe she'd be more open to referring me given where I'll be next week.
    "get this woman 5CCs of new GP, stat"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,036 ✭✭✭jackboy


    bb1234567 wrote: »
    It is 0.65% globally, and around 1% in European countries due to elderly populations. So you are incorrect

    The death rate is not known. Could be a long time yet before we have a good estimate of that. With so many asymptomatic cases it is very difficult to assess.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,772 ✭✭✭Speak Now


    Cops wouldn't enter a hotel with 81 noses in the trough but work away lads if the local KGB (busy body) suspect more than 6 in the neighbour's.


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,045 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    Ficheall wrote: »
    So you reckon we've had 130k cases so far as opposed to the 28k claimed?
    59,000 estimated by mid-July - up to 3.5 times more cases in Dublin than initially reported. You can read the report here. It makes a good bit of sense whereas now we're catching a much higher percentage of cases most likely.


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


    Sweet fcuk all will happen. Its not a criminal matter so there'll be nothing done.
    Here's the IT summary on it. It's not exactly a voter friendly approach but will probably be welcomed by the 70% who have such a hardline attitude to anyone who gets COVID.

    The Cabinet also agreed to ask the Attorney General to examine options for further regulating house parties.

    Under the proposals discussed this afternoon, if approved, it will be an offence to organise or attend a gathering in a private house with more than six visitors either indoors or outdoors. This measure was introduced as a guideline last week.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,772 ✭✭✭Speak Now


    Hijpo wrote: »
    Not a confirmed case but flew from one non green list country, to another non green list country before making their way to meet with family here. The person did not quarantine.

    They wont be testing their close contacts unless they're a confirmed case.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,161 ✭✭✭Hijpo


    Speak Now wrote: »
    They wont be testing their close contacts unless they're a confirmed case.

    Lovely, and they only confirm the case after they spread it within a family.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,191 ✭✭✭✭Eod100


    I guess it's safe to say there will be no possibility of any 12 Pubs Of Christmas sessions going this year.

    Never was tbh! Groups of people going from pub to pub probably one of worst things from virus spread pov. 12 substantial meals just doesn't have the same ring to it!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,450 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    is_that_so wrote: »
    Here's the IT summary on it. It's not exactly a voter friendly approach but will probably be welcomed by the 70% who have such a hardline attitude to anyone who gets COVID.
    Yeah not going to happen. Its been said this evening it'll be a civil matter.

    Regardless wont be a Garda issue and Gardai won't be able to take action.

    https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1299402219901591552?s=19

    https://twitter.com/ShaneBeattyNews/status/1299403291936329729?s=19


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    jackboy wrote: »
    The death rate is not known. Could be a long time yet before we have a good estimate of that. With so many asymptomatic cases it is very difficult to assess.

    It's difficult yes but of course by now mountains of research available from across the world that certainly give strong indications of what ballpark it lies within. Anyway as I said this is what 1200 scientisits agreed on,it's the closest there is to a definitive IFR so it's ridicukous to have posters saying 'I think it's 0.2%' every.single.day as if there is any validity or justification for their belief when they're either trolling or too lazy and ignorant to look up any research about the subject


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,500 ✭✭✭lee_baby_simms


    bb1234567 wrote: »
    It's difficult yes but of course by now mountains of research available from across the world that certainly give strong indications of what ballpark it lies within.

    No, it’s not difficult. It’s impossible. The overwhelming number of asymptomatic cases means we’ll never know the true IFR.

    Anyone throwing around numbers is purely speculating to support an argument.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,038 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    ixoy wrote: »
    59,000 estimated by mid-July - up to 3.5 times more cases in Dublin than initially reported. You can read the report here. It makes a good bit of sense whereas now we're catching a much higher percentage of cases most likely.
    I'm not disputing that we under-reported. I'm saying that based on excess deaths of 850 so far, a 0.65% fatality rate would mean we've had 130k cases. Meaning that we missed 100k of them, and about 1 in 35 people in the country have had it. I'm not saying that's impossible - just that that's what a fatality rate of 0.65%, which people seem to be backing, would suggest.


  • Site Banned Posts: 5,975 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    So Leo now saying that he can't be sure wet pubs will open at all this year? WTF. What's the position if we continue to have loads of cases and no deaths, will they still cocoon us from our lives to prevent a sneeze?


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


    GooglePlus wrote: »
    Our drinking culture is very different to the rest of Europe.

    Have you lived elsewhere in Europe?


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