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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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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Thierry12 wrote: »
    Its like a scene out of Contagion they way he's going on

    A killer virus on the loose and we will all be lined up one by one getting vaccinated soon

    What are the government going to do when the majority dont want to get that 1st generation vaccine in the New Year and cases are still rising with the vaccine out there?

    Most of the people I know under 35 wont be getting that vaccine unless forced to

    They won't be in a position to get in early 2021 unless they're frontline workers, so don't worry.


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


    Dead in the brain is accepting without question or evidence, everything this government is doing.
    There's a sizable portion of the medical and legal profession who have the same feeling about what's going on.
    The Government are running rough shot over us and you can't see it or else you think it's perfectly acceptable.

    Don't try and lump someone who looks for evidence, facts and
    expects measurable outcomes from government policy into the 5G, anti vaxx brigade I'm far from that, I won't be first in line for this vaxx though, I'll leave that up to braves like your good self.

    There's plenty of evidence for what is being decided upon. It's you spreading all sorts with no backing.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    "cross roads"
    "turnin point"
    "worrying trend"
    "still only the beginning..."


    All buzzwords used by the media to cause fear and panic, media are loving this , they are making a fortune on the clicks.

    This has been a boon for media.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    niallo27 wrote: »
    No we didn't, we let it rip through nursing homes, our deaths would be a third of what they are now if we had locked them down. We ****ed up back then and we are ****ing up right now.

    This is it exactly. We fcuked up back then and are fcuking up now as well. So I am worried that we might see what happened in Italy while living with covid and the flu.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 842 ✭✭✭Hego Damask


    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54227057

    Fair play to them, people won't tolerate a 2nd lockdown ... especially now with the evidence that they don't work.
    We need to look to Sweden for inspiration ..


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


    I’ll be getting the vaccine as soon as I can. When faced with serious illness or death, whatever the vaccine might do is better than those options.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 979 ✭✭✭Thierry12


    They won't be in a position to get in early 2021 unless they're frontline workers, so don't worry.

    Tell that to Tubridy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,032 ✭✭✭jackboy


    They won't be in a position to get in early 2021 unless they're frontline workers, so don't worry.

    That will be interesting trying to get all the nurses to take the vaccine judging by their previous aversion to the annual flu jabs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/opinion/coronavirus-fall-winter.amp.html

    Interesting op-ed about dealing with this coronavirus going into Autumn/ Winter from a US perspective. Also talks about difference between NY and Madrid. NY has very little cases and has been cautious to wind back restrictions unlike Madrid. They also have strict travel ban and a robust contact tracing and testing of reigme. Positivity rate is lower than 1% there.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 979 ✭✭✭Thierry12


    jackboy wrote: »
    That will be interesting trying to get all the nurses to take the vaccine judging by their previous aversion to the annual flu jabs.

    They'll have to make it mandatory like hepa b etc

    Most hospital staff will refuse its voluntary


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,150 ✭✭✭TonyMaloney



    Look at deaths as a metric ....

    I just did.

    It's not going well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,139 ✭✭✭✭niallo27


    This is it exactly. We fcuked up back then and are fcuking up now as well. So I am worried that we might see what happened in Italy while living with covid and the flu.

    The thing about Italy was it happened in a region of Italy not the whole country, a region which had one of the oldest populations in Europe, with no warning. It won't happen here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,049 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    GooglePlus wrote: »
    There's plenty of evidence for what is being decided upon. It's you spreading all sorts with no backing.

    Right you've just said there's plenty of evidence, What evidence...show me the evidence used to justify the current lockdown in Dublin. What's the expected outcome based on the data.
    There is no evidence.


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


    Right you've just said there's plenty of evidence, What evidence...show me the evidence used to justify the current lockdown in Dublin. What's the expected outcome based on the data.
    There is no evidence.

    Expected outcome, unless Dublin get their sh:t together will be level 4 lockdown.......


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,049 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    jackboy wrote: »
    That will be interesting trying to get all the nurses to take the vaccine judging by their previous aversion to the annual flu jabs.

    Not a hope, it'll be the Borris, Putin, Trump or Xi vaccine. Nurses will be striking with the teachers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭Wolf359f


    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54227057

    Fair play to them, people won't tolerate a 2nd lockdown ... especially now with the evidence that they don't work.
    We need to look to Sweden for inspiration ..

    What evidence is there that they don't work?
    Look to Sweden? You do realize, despite the fact Sweden is behind most of Europe as they had a flatter curve, they still have been taking precautions.
    Just because the government there was unable to legally force a lockdown, the people did actually follow government guidelines.

    So your solution is to follow Sweden by following the very same guidelines which the government here have been asking us to do all along?
    The very fact people are not adhering to the guidelines is the very reason for the majority of new cases we're seeing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 325 ✭✭BobbyMalone


    niallo27 wrote: »
    Very low numbers for a population of 10 million for a deadly virus.


    580/million according to Worldometers. That's just behind Italy at 591. Obviously those figures don't take into account what they are taking as Coronavirus deaths, but being just a bit behind Italy would be a good place to be, imo. Ireland is 362.



    niallo27 wrote: »
    I'm certainly all for vaccines but I won't be rushing to get it.


    It'll be frontline workers, those with underlying conditions, the elderly, before the rest of us have the opportunity to take the vaccine, so you won't have to worry about that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,049 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    screamer wrote: »
    Expected outcome, unless Dublin get their sh:t together will be level 4 lockdown.......

    There kind of in trouble, Government want more testing, more testing equals more cases. More cases Dublin is going into deep freeze.
    Can't see how Dubs can get out of this one in a hurry.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭Wolf359f


    jackboy wrote: »
    That will be interesting trying to get all the nurses to take the vaccine judging by their previous aversion to the annual flu jabs.

    Every year more and more HCW's get the flu jab. It used to be a very low take up, but their aiming for 75% uptake this year.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Thierry12 wrote: »
    Tell that to Tubridy

    Tubridy's an idiot.


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


    Cork numbers today related to a large cluster apparently


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 529 ✭✭✭lukas8888


    Jim_Hodge wrote: »
    And it only took 5865 deaths to get them there. They're also about five weeks behind the rest of Europe in reaching a first trough, so cases may well hit a surge yet.
    As you well know the best available way to look at deaths is per 100K population,and on that basis Sweden is doing a lot better than many developed countries.I have read post after post here over the last few months condemning Sweden with over the top language,one poster a few days ago calling the authorities murderers.Who knows how it will pan out for Sweden in the coming months, but it remains a strong possibility that their approach may end up as good if not better than most other countries.


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


    Wolf359f wrote: »
    What evidence is there that they don't work?
    Look to Sweden? You do realize, despite the fact Sweden is behind most of Europe as they had a flatter curve, they still have been taking precautions.
    Just because the government there was unable to legally force a lockdown, the people did actually follow government guidelines.

    So your solution is to follow Sweden by following the very same guidelines which the government here have been asking us to do all along?
    The very fact people are not adhering to the guidelines is the very reason for the majority of new cases we're seeing.

    The Swedes are all trusting in their public health/ government decisions. They follow what they’re told to do and that’s it. I was watching a documentary on it before and it was amazing that they put their faith in the decision makers as they do. However, it seems to have worked unlike in Ireland where we have a cohort who just do whatever the hell they like. We can’t compare ourselves to Sweden, our cultures are vastly different.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭Wolf359f


    screamer wrote: »
    The Swedes are all trusting in their public health/ government decisions. They follow what they’re told to do and that’s it. I was watching a documentary on it before and it was amazing that they put their faith in the decision makers as they do. However, it seems to have worked unlike in Ireland where we have a cohort who just do whatever the hell they like. We can’t compare ourselves to Sweden, our cultures are vastly different.

    The poster saying we should follow Sweden is just ironic based on the fact that the trouble we're facing now is mainly down to people not following the guidelines etc... So it's impossible to follow Sweden for that reason.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,049 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    Cork numbers today related to a large cluster apparently

    Do you know where, anything to do with Ballincollig?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,032 ✭✭✭jackboy


    Wolf359f wrote: »
    Every year more and more HCW's get the flu jab. It used to be a very low take up, but their aiming for 75% uptake this year.

    For years now the nurses have been mostly against the flu jab. Only very recently have the numbers increased to a significant total. If the Covid vaccine comes out, it will be a new vaccine and the nurses will be expected to take it first. Let’s get real, there will be lots of objections.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,042 ✭✭✭Polar101


    Watching Dublin media and people implode while us rednecks are having creamy pints tomorrow will be priceless.

    A lot of people can manage without pints on a Monday, too.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    Cork numbers today related to a large cluster apparently

    Where's the cluster or do you know more?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,139 ✭✭✭✭niallo27


    Wolf359f wrote: »
    The poster saying we should follow Sweden is just ironic based on the fact that the trouble we're facing now is mainly down to people not following the guidelines etc... So it's impossible to follow Sweden for that reason.

    So what's the plan, people can't follow restrictions and have house parties. Let's shut down restaurants and put 50k out of work. No other country has followed this approach in Europe but the crowd we have in charge decide they know better.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,139 ✭✭✭What Username Guidelines


    It feels like we've been "at a cross roads" for ages now. We're still at a crossroads.

    It’s like 2009 all over again, except we were being told repeatedly by the finance minister that we’ve turned a corner.


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