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Covid 19 Part XXIII-33,444 in ROI(1,792 deaths) 9,541 in NI(577 deaths)(22/09)Read OP

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  • #4352
    niallo27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,138 ✭✭✭✭niallo27


    wadacrack wrote: »
    Please stop posting stuff like this. Illogical comparison and you look beyond stupid tbh

    Its not illogical, people have seem to have forgotten that people died before covid, covid is like a new religion to some people.


  • #4353
    Polar101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,039 ✭✭✭Polar101


    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    Are people 'advised' not to leave Dublin, or not allowed to leave Dublin? The official answer if there is one, not opinion. Thanks in advance.

    “I’ve made it clear to people that they should not travel outside Dublin if possible,”

    That's a quote from the Taoiseach. So it would be "advised" rather than "not allowed".

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/taoiseach-asked-to-clarify-if-people-in-dublin-can-go-to-weddings-or-on-trips-outside-capital-1.4356320


  • #4354
    gral6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 730 ✭✭✭gral6


    As usual, this press conference has confirmed once more that Npet is totally useless. Let 'em go and teach their students again. They are not belong to the real world.


  • #4355
    Roger_007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,886 ✭✭✭✭Roger_007


    I’m just watching the presser. Why aren’t the panel wearing masks. I know they are sitting apart but if the virus is in the air in an enclosed space, one person could give it to everyone in the room, or so we are told.


  • #4356
    screamer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,193 ✭✭✭screamer


    yourdeadwright wrote: »
    Didn't they know there'd be a spike from school reopening
    Plus every single time the place is lockdown and reopens numbers will rise,

    So do we just keep locking down and reopening and rince and repeat?

    No, now we keep going, the economy trumps all else. Those who die, die. That’s about it really. It’s very simple to see the plan for what it is.


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  • #4357
    Wolf359f
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,412 ✭✭✭Wolf359f


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    Have they actually even said what needs to be done? Everything is tut tut tut and not: “people are catching it in x,y,z by doing a,b,c, can everyone be careful about 1,2,3”

    From the government, I don't believe they have stood up and given clear advice to the public.
    Ronan Glynn had to make a Twitter video last Thursday/Friday to basically plead with people to limit their social contacts.
    Government response: ah sure we'll wait for Tuesday with this 5.5 stage plan, which is looking more like it will be a 6 point plan soon enough lol.


  • #4358
    shinzon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,463 ✭✭✭shinzon


    US2 wrote: »
    It's the truth though. You can't argue facts

    Hope no one talks about you like that when you reach that age to be honest

    Shin


  • #4359
    Santy2015
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,065 ✭✭✭Santy2015


    Na we need to shut down everything! Wreck every business!! As the WHO said were nowhere near the end!
    I think I’ll watch titanic later, as we’re all on a sinking ship! Poor ole cork with a population of 540,000 had 7 cases today!
    NPHET are trying not to just blame Dublin but f**k it, it’s the big problem.. yeah about a couple of other counties, don’t say the rate of infection is the same all around the country. Cork would need 50/70 a day to start getting concerned. Nowhere near that!
    Anyway I must get my lifejacket


  • #4360
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    yourdeadwright wrote: »
    Aren't we stíl lthe most restricted country in Europe?
    And lots of the capitals are currently worse than Dublin
    Is it an Irish thing for such much doom and gloom

    Yes it is, have family in other European countries where the situation is pretty similar to here in terms of case numbers going up but they say there's not half as much panic as there is when they watch the Irish news.

    They have their restrictions but getting on much better daily than we are.

    My point is that its purely down to our shambles of a healthcare system, feel sorry for those who work in it


  • #4361
    Allinall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,299 ✭✭✭Allinall


    niallo27 wrote: »
    Its not illogical, people have seem to have forgotten that people died before covid, covid is like a new religion to some people.

    What makes you think people have forgotten that people died before Covid?


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  • #4362
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    The country will be locked down in a matter of weeks. R rate in reality has been over one since July. Stakes too high at this stage. Will be pubs be able to open in this environment?

    Covid currently is making fools of politicians "living with covid plan".


  • #4363
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Rationing our interactions. If I meet x person tomorrow then I shouldn't meet y person the day after. Jesus. What a life :(
    It's not the "x" and "y" that are causing it, it's the A-Z that some people are doing. One can certainly do single meetings with the right level of caution.


  • #4364
    niallo27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,138 ✭✭✭✭niallo27


    landofthetree wrote: »
    Our health system cant cope. Others can.

    I have asked this before and its never answered, no other country has had their health system overwhelmed since opening, what makes you think ours will and if it does its a failure of our government who had ample time to ramp it up.


  • #4365
    ACitizenErased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,751 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    The fact is this communication strategy has been a complete and utter failure.
    We’re being told: reduce your contacts. That’s it?
    Why?
    Where are people catching this? Why is Dublin’s numbers higher than everywhere else? Why did Donegal have high numbers today? Why did Waterford have high numbers yesterday? What’s going on with the low numbers in Sligo?
    Is a bit of information too much to ask for?

    They think the general public are ****ing idiots.


  • #4366
    Polar101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,039 ✭✭✭Polar101


    UsBus wrote: »
    No she's just burning the hands off the sign language lady

    I'd hate to have to interpret the 2-minute 10-step questions, or answer them.


  • #4367
    Eod100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,174 ✭✭✭✭Eod100


    Roger_007 wrote: »
    I’m just watching the presser. Why aren’t the panel wearing masks. I know they are sitting apart but if the virus is in the air in an enclosed space, one person could give it to everyone in the room, or so we are told.

    Would be no harm but might be sound issues. Could at least wear it walking into room to send message that people should be wearing them.

    Woman doing sign language took hers off to sign so people could lip read so could do same before speaking.


  • #4368
    smellyoldboot
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,075 ✭✭✭smellyoldboot


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    19 people died on our roads last September, time to shut them down too.
    https://www.rsa.ie/RSA/Road-Safety/RSA-Statistics/Deaths-injuries-on-Irish-roads/

    To be fair we do normally run extensive campaigns when road deaths reach excessive levels. So it's not like that avenue is completely ignored either.


  • #4369
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    niallo27 wrote: »
    I have asked this before and its never answered, no other country has had their health system overwhelmed since opening, what makes you think ours will and if it does its a failure of our government who had ample time to ramp it up.

    Because its September and hosptial A&Es are already overcrowded


  • #4370
    Icantthinkof1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 410 ✭✭Icantthinkof1


    Roger_007 wrote: »
    I’m just watching the presser. Why aren’t the panel wearing masks. I know they are sitting apart but if the virus is in the air in an enclosed space, one person could give it to everyone in the room, or so we are told.

    No apparently can’t get the virus unless within 2 metres of someone infected for period of 15 mins or more


  • #4371
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Roger_007 wrote: »
    I’m just watching the presser. Why aren’t the panel wearing masks. I know they are sitting apart but if the virus is in the air in an enclosed space, one person could give it to everyone in the room, or so we are told.
    They are at least 5m from everyone else and it only lasts an hour. Masks are advisory where you can't distance or in the mandatory locations.


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  • #4372
    Allinall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,299 ✭✭✭Allinall


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    The fact is this communication strategy has been a complete and utter failure.
    We’re being told: reduce your contacts. That’s it?
    Why?
    Where are people catching this? Why is Dublin’s numbers higher than everywhere else? Why did Donegal have high numbers today? Why did Waterford have high numbers yesterday? What’s going on with the low numbers in Sligo?
    Is a bit of information too much to ask for?

    They think the general public are ****ing idiots.

    You really need to be told why we should reduce contacts?

    You’ve been around long enough to know the answer.


  • #4373
    landofthetree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,462 ✭✭✭landofthetree


    niallo27 wrote: »
    I have asked this before and its never answered, no other country has had their health system overwhelmed since opening, what makes you think ours will and if it does its a failure of our government who had ample time to ramp it up.

    They haven't even added 1 ICU bed.


  • #4374
    polesheep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,950 ✭✭✭polesheep


    Deleted User wrote: »
    The country will be locked down in a matter of weeks. R rate in reality has been over one since July. Stakes too high at this stage. Will be pubs be able to open in this environment?

    Covid currently is making fools of politicians "living with covid plan".

    They won't lockdown the country again, but even if they did they won't be able to lockdown the people. And they know it, which is why we are not going to see another lockdown. The time has come to self-lockdown if you feel vulnerable.


  • #4375
    ACitizenErased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,751 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    Allinall wrote: »
    You really need to be told why we should reduce contacts?

    You’ve been around long enough to know the answer.

    I can’t think of a single reason why me, my friends or my family should reduce our already low number of contacts tbh


  • #4376
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,270 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    If our ICU's become overloaded could we not move patients to countries with low levels of infection, somewhere like say Sweden with 188 cases yesterday but with a population over twice the size of this country?


  • #4377
    Happydays2020
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭Happydays2020


    George Lee wants a full lockdown. Stick him on the PUP.


  • #4378
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    landofthetree wrote: »
    They haven't even added 1 ICU bed.
    There are contingency plans for that. I think i saw a potential 250 extra ICU that can be added but open to correction on that number.


  • #4379
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,248 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    Have they actually even said what needs to be done? Everything is tut tut tut and not: “people are catching it in x,y,z by doing a,b,c, can everyone be careful about 1,2,3”

    We said the exact same watching the News here



    All we get is “ we are worried , very concerned , its worrying and concerning and numbers increasing “


    We both screamed “ Then bloody do something “


  • #4380
    Allinall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,299 ✭✭✭Allinall


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    I can’t think of a single reason why me, my friends or my family should reduce our already low number of contacts tbh

    Then we’ve no chance.


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  • #4381
    Patrick2010
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,806 ✭✭✭Patrick2010


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    Because its September and hosptial A&Es are already overcrowded


    They really aren't!!. I work in Dublin hospitals and can guarantee numbers are low. Why did you post that? Covid patients don't go into general ED anyway, everyone is tested before that.


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