Covid 19 Part XXIV-37,063 ROI (1,801 deaths) 12,886 NI (582 deaths) (02/10) Read OP

mcburns07 · 27-09-2020 08:31PM

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

https://twitter.com/benquigley00/status/1310292378427838473?s=20

Young person has an adverse reaction to a virus? What's your point?

People surely realise it's possible to have a hard time with all sorts of common illnesses every now and then? I'm a very fit 32 year old, about 4 years ago I had some sort of virus that resulted in two weeks of occasional throat spasms that left me gasping for air. I hope I never have to experience whatever that was again.

My girlfriend (in her 20s) had shingles a while back and wasn't fully right for about a year.

Viruses can and do take their toll on people of all ages all the time.

The absolute fearmongering that this is some sort of super virus is rather strange and depressing.

Jinglejangle69 · 27-09-2020 08:32PM

From speaking to people this weekend it seems a lot of people are ignoring the restrictions.

Totally different from March and April.

Seems they have had enough.

normanoffside · 27-09-2020 08:33PM

Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »

Rubbish, a few million more wouldn't make any major difference.

I said Millions and Billions.
Our Covid Tab is up well over 30 BN Now.

How Much did we spend on commandeering Private Hospital beds that were never used?
How much on buying and fitting out City West as a step down centre for 6 months that was never used?

Why couldn't we have built a few new hospitals and beds and employed more nurses and doctors from those that came back to Ireland to help out?
That would have been a much better long term investment.

We've spend Billions on protecting a shoddy health system from getting overwhelmed instead of actually spending those billions improving it.

rovers_runner · 27-09-2020 08:35PM

Jinglejangle69 wrote: »

From speaking to people this weekend it seems a lot of people are ignoring the restrictions.

Totally different from March and April.

Seems they have had enough.

People are wearing masks in the main but other than that all bets are off.
A lot of people with questionable hygiene have reverted to type.
Sleepwalking into 1000 cases a day and over running the health system, it won't be the virus itself that kills, but the knock on effects of the lack of capacity in the HSE.

Happydays2020 · 27-09-2020 08:35PM

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

https://twitter.com/benquigley00/status/1310292378427838473?s=20

And yet has time to tweet.

growleaves · 27-09-2020 08:36PM

normanoffside wrote: »

How Much did we spend on commandeering Private Hospital beds

FG delighted no doubt to transfer public money to billionaire owners of private hospitals.

callaway92 · 27-09-2020 08:37PM

Happydays2020 wrote: »

And yet has time to tweet.

It probably took him about 30 seconds to type and tweet that

normanoffside · 27-09-2020 08:40PM

Happydays2020 wrote: »

And yet has time to tweet.

Looking at his tweets, he is an FG bot

Away With The Fairies · 27-09-2020 08:40PM

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

https://twitter.com/benquigley00/status/1310292378427838473?s=20

And he's Irish. Thought this doesn't happen to 20 year old Irish people?

mcburns07 · 27-09-2020 08:41PM

Away With The Fairies wrote: »

And he's Irish. Thought this doesn't happen to 20 year old Irish people?

Panic attacks are pretty common

27-09-2020 08:41PM

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

https://twitter.com/benquigley00/status/1310292378427838473?s=20

Guillain-Barré syndrome perhaps? Can happen at any age as an immune reaction, and especially a novel viral illness like Covid can trigger these things, at any age.

JP Liz V1 · 27-09-2020 08:41PM

mcburns07 wrote: »

Young person has an adverse reaction to a virus? What's your point?
People surely realise it's possible to have a hard time with all sorts of common illnesses every now and then? I'm a very fit 32 year old, about 4 years ago I had some sort of virus that resulted in two weeks of occasional throat spasms that left me gasping for air. I hope I never have to experience whatever that was again.
My girlfriend (in her 20s) had shingles a while back and wasn't fully right for about a year.
Viruses can and do take their toll on people of all ages all the time.
The absolute fearmongering that this is some sort of super virus is rather strange and depressing.

I am flabbergasted by some opinions that covid is just another "casual" virus, look at the death toll worldwide from it, it is affecting all age groups even healthy young people

There is nothing wrong with posting negatively, fearmongering or scaremongering might wake some folk up to start coping on, we need to stop the spread, flatten the curve again

Goldrickssan · 27-09-2020 08:44PM

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

I am flabbergasted by some opinions that covid is just another "casual" virus, look at the death toll worldwide from it, it is affecting all age groups even healthy young people

There is nothing wrong with posting negatively, fearmongering or scaremongering might wake some folk up to start coping on, we need to stop the spread, flatten the curve again

Compare the current curve to the original curve across all metrics - cases, hospitalisations, deaths. How flat do we have to get to 'flatten the curve'?

Looks like we're doing alot better this time and it's still not enough - so what is enough?

hynesie08 · 27-09-2020 08:45PM

callaway92 wrote: »

It probably took him about 30 seconds to type and tweet that

Still impressive considering he was rushed to hospital paralysed from the neck down today.....

Renjit · 27-09-2020 08:45PM

flanna01 wrote: »

Death rates nowhere near the same as the first wave...

The aged and medically impaired are more aware of personal protective measures now.

Much of ado about nothing me thinks..

Too many doom and gloom merchants forecasting (hoping for) end of days scenario's... Sorry kiddo's .. This isn't it.

Irreversible global warming is the one to get yer britches up in a bunch about.. Not this!

Talk about it when we reach 10k per day because that would be equivalent of what we had in summer. Think about it.

mcburns07 · 27-09-2020 08:45PM

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

I am flabbergasted by some opinions that covid is just another "casual" virus, look at the death toll worldwide from it, it is affecting all age groups even healthy young people

There is nothing wrong with posting negatively, fearmongering or scaremongering might wake some folk up to start coping on, we need to stop the spread, flatten the curve again

Jumping to conclusions just a little bit there..... My point was that viruses in circulation cause adverse effects in young people ALL THE TIME. It's not unique to Covid.

spookwoman · 27-09-2020 08:46PM

Happydays2020 wrote: »

And yet has time to tweet.

Have you ever been in hospital? It does involve a lot of lying about in bed with plenty of time even when you are in pain etc.

owlbethere · 27-09-2020 08:48PM

Happydays2020 wrote: »

And yet has time to tweet.

Maybe all he needed was some oxygen support in hospital. That's all relatively straight forward. All that is, is a tube linked to oxygen with a breathing mask. Not everyone who goes to hospital with covid will need ICU. He's probably sitting up doing reasonable OK with oxygen and feels well enough to be poking into his phone.

normanoffside · 27-09-2020 08:49PM

spookwoman wrote: »

Have you ever been in hospital? It does involve a lot of lying about in bed with plenty of time even when you are in pain etc.

But He's paralysed from the neck down

spookwoman · 27-09-2020 08:51PM

normanoffside wrote: »

But He's paralysed from the neck down

Whos to say, it was probably temp and been resolved. It can happen. He may or not be telling porkies, I don't have the proof do you?

Stormyteacup · 27-09-2020 08:51PM

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

I am flabbergasted by some opinions that covid is just another "casual" virus, look at the death toll worldwide from it, it is affecting all age groups even healthy young people

There is nothing wrong with posting negatively, fearmongering or scaremongering might wake some folk up to start coping on, we need to stop the spread, flatten the curve again

Covid is not just another casual virus. Influenza is not casual - it can be quite lethal for some, impacts the very young far more than Covid (1200 admissions to paediatrics with influenza in flu season 17/18, iirc).

Folk need to wake up and use their critical thinking and stop the emotional overreaction to very biased and selective media reporting, that is stuck in April of this year.

We need to start copping on to the scaremongering.

owlbethere · 27-09-2020 08:51PM

normanoffside wrote: »

But He's paralysed from the neck down

Paralysed was probably an over exaggerated word to use there. Maybe his body was too sore too move.

podgeandrodge · 27-09-2020 08:52PM

normanoffside wrote: »

But He's paralysed from the neck down

Paralysis cured by narcissism.

coastwatch · 27-09-2020 08:52PM

Champagne Sally wrote: »

I see a few posts referring to more reduced capacity in our ICUs compared to Mar/Apr, why is that?

Back in March/ April nearly all ICU beds (about 240) were freed up and made available for covid, by cancelling all planned / elective surgery. About 145 were in use for covid at peak

HSE currently reporting now 271 adult ICU beds in total, with 227 currently occupied, including 18 covid positive and 10 suspected.

Speak Now · 27-09-2020 08:54PM

podgeandrodge wrote: »

Paralysis cured by narcissism.

Got to keep the social media likes rolling, exaggerating a story also helps!

Stormyteacup · 27-09-2020 09:01PM

coastwatch wrote: »

Back in March/ April nearly all ICU beds (about 240) were freed up and made available for covid, by cancelling all planned / elective surgery. About 145 were in use for covid at peak

HSE currently reporting now 271 adult ICU beds in total, with 227 currently occupied, including 18 covid positive and 10 suspected.

So in six months we have about 30 more beds in ICU?

HSE administration should hang their head in shame. Seems they’re good to send the frontliners into battle again this winter. Sure why not - their salaries and pensions remain unaffected and they won’t have the moral dilemma of threatening a strike while faced with seriously ill people in need of medical attention.

System rotten for a long time - opportunity now for someone with some humanity to overhaul the whole thing. Am not optimistic.

GooglePlus · 27-09-2020 09:04PM

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

https://twitter.com/benquigley00/status/1310292378427838473?s=20

What a crock of ****e.

To go from being unable to breath to up and tweeting in a few hours.

Either the HSE have gone space age or it wasn't Covid that caused this chaps shortness of breath at all. A panic attack is a good shout, he was probably winding himself up after the positive result.

JP Liz V1 · 27-09-2020 09:06PM

mcburns07 wrote: »

Panic attacks are pretty common

Would you be sent to hospital by ambulance for a panic attack?

ZX7R · 27-09-2020 09:09PM

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Would you be sent to hospital by ambulance for a panic attack?

Yes you can be, some people experience them so bad they can pass out.
Long term panic attacks can lead to other medical illness.

If the person didn't know they were having one and you were an on looker definitely possible

Scuid Mhór · 27-09-2020 09:10PM

flanna01 wrote: »

Too extreme.... Not extreme enough...??

Who are you - Goldilocks??

Some of us are dealing with the evidence presented today. Not bothered about twenty years from now, I'd be more concerned about the climate by then...

A lot of copy & pasting of other contributors posts, then you add nothing but basic fear mongering nonsense..

Im sorry to hear you are tired of this, that and the other..

Have you been tested..??

??? Looking at only the evidence today and not taking a holistic, long term view to it is just reactionary and hysterical. I don’t need to copy and paste others’ posts, I possess the ability to think for myself. You should try it sometime.

Covid 19 Part XXIV-37,063 ROI (1,801 deaths) 12,886 NI (582 deaths) (02/10) Read OP

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