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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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  • #3002
    Benimar
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    112 positive swabs on 9,837 tests - 1.14% positivity


  • #3003
    bb1234567
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    niallo27 wrote: »
    Why the hospitals are empty and very little deaths, maybe just maybe they will stick with the restrictions they have and not **** up their economy even more

    Empty? It's not out of control in France yet but theres 4500 people in France currently hospitalised with COVID.- 240 additional within the last 24 hours - equivalent to 17 new hospital admissions here in a day.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/29/france-records-exponential-increase-in-covid-19-cases

    Hardly tiny!

    Restrictions currently aren't working in France, hence the new face mask covering law! They are doing what they can to avoid lockdown, but you can't just wish the problem away which is what you seem to be suggesting


  • #3004
    jackboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,031 ✭✭✭jackboy


    hmmm wrote: »
    Most people are very happy that we are not simply letting this virus run rampant, and we'll be in this half-way house until we get to a vaccine.

    People are happy with that because they have been given vast amounts of ‘free’ money. The free money can only last so long until economic disaster hits. People’s opinions will change pretty quickly when that happens.

    A vaccine may come along to save the day but that is just a hope at the moment, rather than a plan.


  • #3005
    hmmm
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    jackboy wrote: »
    People are happy with that because they have been given vast amounts of ‘free’ money. The free money can only last so long until economic disaster hits. People’s opinions will change pretty quickly when that happens.
    I'm pretty sure that letting the virus out of control will be the quickest route to an economic disaster. In that situation people will stop going outside their homes, or the government will be stepping in with new lockdowns. We can try and minimise the financial impact on people while we work towards a solution.
    A vaccine may come along to save the day but that is just a hope at the moment, rather than a plan.
    It's not a "hope", it's the plan. And so far things are going well, we should know more about the progress of vaccines in the next few months.


  • #3006
    fits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,057 ✭✭✭✭fits


    jackboy wrote: »
    People are happy with that because they have been given vast amounts of ‘free’ money. The free money can only last so long until economic disaster hits. People’s opinions will change pretty quickly when that happens.

    A vaccine may come along to save the day but that is just a hope at the moment, rather than a plan.

    Do you want to catch Covid?


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  • #3007
    jackboy
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    fits wrote: »
    Do you want to catch Covid?

    No, why would someone want to catch Covid.

    However, if people had a choice between catching Covid and economic ruin I’m pretty sure more than 90% would take the Covid.


  • #3008
    manofwisdom
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    Benimar wrote: »
    112 positive swabs on 9,837 tests - 1.14% positivity
    Looks like another high number of cases on a Saturday but maybe under 100 for the first time in 4 Saturdays?


    Must be close to the most amount of tests in a week?


  • #3009
    bb1234567
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    Solid decline in COVID deaths in a lot of major countries now, USA, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Iran , India all showing definite decline in deaths or at least stabilisation in the case of India.

    Only large countries worldwide showing increases in deaths seem to be Argentina , Colombia and Phillipinnes.


  • #3010
    political analyst
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    Boggles wrote: »
    Just a flu bro, let it rip?

    :rolleyes:

    Given the resolution of the PPE issue, the chances of the virus getting into nursing homes a second time are slim.


  • #3011
    political analyst
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,957 ✭✭✭political analyst


    fits wrote: »
    Do you want to catch Covid?

    Sure, nobody wants to get a stomach bug, but it still happens!


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  • #3012
    hmmm
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    manofwisdom wrote: »
    Looks like another high number of cases on a Saturday but maybe under 100 for the first time in 4 Saturdays?
    I was listening to a podcast by Osterholm, and he suggested that 1 case per 100,000 is about the level where something like this is controllable by local measures e.g. test & trace. In our case that's a target of no more than 50 per day.


  • #3013
    DebDynamite
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    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    Sweden’s infection rate is now lower than ours. They are raising outdoor limits to 500 people.

    How embarrassing


  • #3014
    s1ippy
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    political analyst wrote: »
    Given the resolution of the PPE issue, the chances of the virus getting into nursing homes a second time are slim.
    Got into my grandmother's two weeks ago.


  • #3015
    Boggles
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    political analyst wrote: »
    Given the resolution of the PPE issue, the chances of the virus getting into nursing homes a second time are slim.

    It got into a care home this week.


  • #3016
    political analyst
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,957 ✭✭✭political analyst


    s1ippy wrote: »
    Got into my grandmother's two weeks ago.

    How?


  • #3017
    [Deleted User]
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    Gentleman Off The Pitch wrote: »
    People can be entitled to have concerns about the contradiction of being restricted in what they can do for months in order to prevent the spread of infection while visitors from other countries with higher infection rates were being allowed into the country.

    This is completely rational, whether the figures involved are significant or not is another thing, but it doesn't mean said people with concerns are anti immigrant or "NP shills", whatever they are, or foreigner haters. I know people these days just love lumping people they don't agree with into categories so that they can assign labels to them and tut tut at them, but not everything is black and white.

    For example, I initially couldn't see the sense in visitors from some countries making leisure trips here while we still making such sacrifices, but I saw little wrong with seasonal workers from Bulgaria etc. coming here as they did every year since they were needed for skilled work. What derogatory label should I be assigned as a result?

    A label is for your clothes.
    The national party were protesting outside keelings and their shills on here were posting supportive messages, so what else would you call them?

    Same shower of sh1te off marching in Dublin city last weekend with a few other mentality challenged speakers, and the same heads on here going on about people talking out against it as supporting a police state.


  • #3018
    road_high
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    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    Sweden’s infection rate is now lower than ours. They are raising outdoor limits to 500 people.

    That is utterly pathetic. You certainly won’t see that as an rte headline. So despite all (some people’s) the smugness about those wreckless granny killing swedes virtue signalling Ireland with all our amazing lockdowns, masks etc and “all in it together” tripe now has higher infection rates! You really couldn’t make it up could you


  • #3019
    Boggles
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    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    Sweden’s infection rate is now lower than ours. They are raising outdoor limits to 500 people.

    What are their testing Stats compared to ours?


  • #3020
    Jim_Hodge
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    Boggles wrote: »
    What are their testing Stats compared to ours?

    Per capita it's 60% of ours.


  • #3021
    xhomelezz
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    road_high wrote: »
    That is utterly pathetic. You certainly won’t see that as an rte headline. So despite all (some people’s) the smugness about those wreckless granny killing swedes virtue signalling Ireland with all our amazing lockdowns, masks etc and “all in it together” tripe now has higher infection rates! You really couldn’t make it up could you

    God man, don't waste your time here, take all these ideas out to the streets.


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  • #3022
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,144 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    road_high wrote: »
    That is utterly pathetic. You certainly won’t see that as an rte headline. So despite all (some people’s) the smugness about those wreckless granny killing swedes virtue signalling Ireland with all our amazing lockdowns, masks etc and “all in it together” tripe now has higher infection rates! You really couldn’t make it up could you

    Sweden's deaths are 62% per capita higher than ours though.


  • #3023
    bodhrandude
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    How many beers today puredeadwright. :)

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #3024
    Boggles
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    Jim_Hodge wrote: »
    Per capita it's 60% of ours.

    Oh right, I'd trust Sweden as much as I would trust China.

    They have nearly 6,000 "front loaded deaths" yet to justify.

    5 more yesterday.


  • #3025
    DebDynamite
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    Haven’t had a meal out in two weeks, but has there been a rule change since that you must wear your mask upon entering the restaurant and going to the toilets, etc? Going out tonight and just wondering


  • #3026
    zinfandel
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    Boggles wrote: »
    Oh right, I'd trust Sweden as much as I would trust China.

    They have nearly 6,000 "front loaded deaths" yet to justify.

    5 more yesterday.
    They are barely reporting cases these days and reporting exactly
    5 deaths every day for the last couple of weeks, I would not trust them either.


  • #3027
    Oranage2
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    Boggles wrote: »
    Oh right, I'd trust Sweden as much as I would trust China.

    They have nearly 6,000 "front loaded deaths" yet to justify.

    5 more yesterday.

    We get 5 in icu, they get 5 deaths a day.

    And people really want to follow their strategy, pure selfishness, 'I don't want to wear a Mask so Who cares if aunt May dies'


  • #3028
    FintanMcluskey
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    zinfandel wrote: »
    They are barely reporting cases these days and reporting exactly
    5 deaths every day for the last couple of weeks, I would not trust them either.

    So the latest conspiracy is that Sweden are falsifing death certificates?


  • #3029
    ACitizenErased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,751 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    “Dont trust the swedes” but when Ikea have a sale people rush out there :D


  • #3030
    ExMachina1000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭ExMachina1000


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Impressive, managed to transform that into some racist speculation.... Thing is they're not viewed as the reason.
    https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/Why-France-s-coronavirus-cases-are-increasing

    Everything is racist. Yawn


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  • #3031
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    Swede is just a fancy name for a turnip.


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