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

JP Liz V1 · 29-09-2020 06:10PM

DebDynamite wrote: »

Just saw a clip online of last night’s Claire Byrne Live, where she was sat with a doctor in a fake living room set and he was talking her through how to safely serve tea to any visitors to your house. Ridiculous stuff...

I follow Mrs. Doyle rules on tea

Gruffalux · 29-09-2020 06:10PM

Santy2015 wrote: »

And that’s what’s happening, I’m in no doubt now. I won’t be listening to people saying ah sure they had to confirm them crap! We know the positive swabs daily as posted. Just over 200 today but yet a nice juicy 363 to keep the numbers at that level! It’s bugging me! Not one f**king journalist has questioned them not one!

Not to say one way or another on covid but a backlog like this is a rolling phenomenon. Don't get how people don't understand such things. Backlogs added last week from the week before. Backlogs added this week from last week, backlogs added next week from this week. It is like successive waves. The general build in the tide is what is important if a tide is rising, not saying oh looks like that wave borrowed a bit too much from the wave in front of it, the selfish bastard! It doesn't matter because a backlog that has not appeared today will be added to next week and so on..

Actually this reminds me of a great line I read recently. Supposedly a Russian saying, though maybe that's a lie. It is appropriate maybe for the times...

“On average, we live pretty well: worse than last year, but definitely better than next year.”

Harry Palmr · 29-09-2020 06:11PM

normanoffside wrote: »

Why do RTE report that one additional person has died FROM Covid-19 when the Department of health has reported that 1 additional person has died WITH Covid-19?

https://twitter.com/roinnslainte/status/1310987729291882496

The @hpscireland has today been informed that 1 person with #COVID19 has died.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/0929/1168148-covid19-coronavirus-ireland/

One more person has died from Covid-19, bringing the overall death toll to 1,803.

It's not a conspiracy merely an example of slack reporting, I'm sure plenty in the media no more understand the difference between from and with than people in the wider population.

Goldrickssan · 29-09-2020 06:11PM

normanoffside wrote: »

Why do RTE report that one additional person has died FROM Covid-19 when the Department of health has reported that 1 additional person has died WITH Covid-19?

https://twitter.com/roinnslainte/status/1310987729291882496

The @hpscireland has today been informed that 1 person with #COVID19 has died.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/0929/1168148-covid19-coronavirus-ireland/

One more person has died from Covid-19, bringing the overall death toll to 1,803.

Because a headline saying someone died from covid is spookier

eagle eye · 29-09-2020 06:12PM

Goldrickssan wrote:

Apparently thousands of job losses don't matter because it might save someone's granny.

Interesting comment, which is more important to you?

normanoffside · 29-09-2020 06:12PM

Harry Palmr wrote: »

It's not a conspiracy merely an example of slack reporting, I'm sure plenty in the media no more understand the difference between from and with than people in the wider population.

They've been doing it from day 1 and it's been explained a million times.

JP Liz V1 · 29-09-2020 06:12PM

stockshares wrote: »

https://twitter.com/NaomiOhReally/status/1310951018021171202?s=19

Can we not also join up with NI and UK or again just stop non essential travel?

EDit · 29-09-2020 06:14PM

normanoffside wrote: »

Why do RTE report that one additional person has died FROM Covid-19 when the Department of health has reported that 1 additional person has died WITH Covid-19?

https://twitter.com/roinnslainte/status/1310987729291882496

The @hpscireland has today been informed that 1 person with #COVID19 has died.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/0929/1168148-covid19-coronavirus-ireland/

One more person has died from Covid-19, bringing the overall death toll to 1,803.

Wouldn’t worry about that. State of writing on RTE website is shockingly poor. I wouldn’t be surprised if it said One more people have died in Covid-19

Roots 2020 · 29-09-2020 06:15PM

Santy2015 wrote: »

And that’s what’s happening, I’m in no doubt now. I won’t be listening to people saying ah sure they had to confirm them crap! We know the positive swabs daily as posted. Just over 200 today but yet a nice juicy 363 to keep the numbers at that level! It’s bugging me! Not one f**king journalist has questioned them not one!

At the end of the day it doesn't make that much difference if there's a week's backlog.

This time it's kept the daily cases for the past few days averaged at around 380.

Otherwise last week we would have had a few 500+ case days and could you imagine the panic thst would have caused? This time round the backlog is helping to create a bit of balance.

The numbers eventually all come out in a week or so anyway.

2ndcoming · 29-09-2020 06:16PM

Oranage2 wrote: »

I think closer to 100 I believe

Seamai wrote: »

It would be equivalent to about 100 in Dublin.

Very hard to compare Dublin + suburbs to anywhere else in Ireland as they are a continuous sprawl of high population residential areas.

All of County Cork (540,000) - Greater Dublin Area (1.9m) would be about
40 - 156.

Cork City and surrounds compared to Dublin City and surrounds would look many times worse.

normanoffside · 29-09-2020 06:16PM

EDit wrote: »

Wouldn’t worry about that. State of writing on RTE website is shockingly poor. I wouldn’t be surprised if it said One more people have died in Covid-19

All of the media do the same.

Benimar · 29-09-2020 06:18PM

Gael23 wrote: »

Is that the backlog cleared now?

Potentially up to another 175 to come.

Again, I don't expect it to be that high due to retests etc.

29-09-2020 06:19PM

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Can we not also join up with NI and UK or again just stop non essential travel?

Irish app already links with the NI one. UK one sounds like a bit of a disaster so far.

Roots 2020 · 29-09-2020 06:19PM

All this talk of grannies reminds me of Johnny Giles story about a football scout in the 1960s looked for in a footballer. He wanted lads with an edge to them and would ask about a player 'would he kill his granny?'!

I think we have lads who would kil their granny to win a ball here:D

Goldrickssan · 29-09-2020 06:19PM

eagle eye wrote: »

Interesting comment, which is more important to you?

I say cook the elderly to feed the poor so you don't want to know my thoughts

Always_Running · 29-09-2020 06:20PM

Widdensushi wrote: »

Over 100 cases from last week added in again today

At least 86 as the positive swab count in the last 24 hours was 277.

JP Liz V1 · 29-09-2020 06:23PM

Downlinz wrote: »

The restrictions obviously affect young people more than most but we've become so accustomed to throwing the youth under the bus at the first sign of a crisis and expecting them to bear the brunt of sacrifice that this isn't really registering with people.

The claim is often that young people either don't understand or don't care while the reality is they both understand and care but the ask is so great they choose to accept the risks.
Getting to know your peers and socialising when starting college is hugely important, it can be life defining in fact as so many relationships formed in college last throughout your life.
If anything it's us who aren't "doing our part" by expecting them to give that up while offering no safe alternative whatsoever.

In this glorious age of technology, could freshers week go virtual

virtual speed dating get to know yous, virtual on the sess

spookwoman · 29-09-2020 06:24PM

niallo27 · 29-09-2020 06:25PM

eagle eye wrote: »

Interesting comment, which is more important to you?

Thousands of jobs obviously. Any other answer then your a fool.

KrustyUCC · 29-09-2020 06:25PM

2ndcoming wrote: »

Very hard to compare Dublin + suburbs to anywhere else in Ireland as they are a continuous sprawl of high population residential areas.

All of County Cork (540,000) - Greater Dublin Area (1.9m) would be about
40 - 156.

Cork City and surrounds compared to Dublin City and surrounds would look many times worse.

What are you calling the greater Dublin area?

JP Liz V1 · 29-09-2020 06:27PM

s1ippy wrote: »

https://twitter.com/MichealMartinTD/status/1310870312746209280?s=20

NB:TNTWIC

PS what a gigantic waste of money.

If only An Post delivered efficiently

Jim_Hodge · 29-09-2020 06:27PM

2ndcoming wrote: »

Very hard to compare Dublin + suburbs to anywhere else in Ireland as they are a continuous sprawl of high population residential areas.

All of County Cork (540,000) - Greater Dublin Area (1.9m) would be about
40 - 156.

Cork City and surrounds compared to Dublin City and surrounds would look many times worse.

That matters not. The numbers are straight county numbers. Greater Dublin doesn't come in to the equation .

2ndcoming · 29-09-2020 06:28PM

KrustyUCC wrote: »

What are you calling the greater Dublin area?

The Greater Dublin Area. The pop. figures are from the census.

It's a thing like the Greater Manchester Area or Greater London Area and not really comparable to anywhere else in Ireland.

ACitizenErased · 29-09-2020 06:29PM

“The Dublin Transport Authority Act 2008 has defined the Greater Dublin Area as including the counties of Dublin, Meath, Kildare, and Wicklow”

eagle eye · 29-09-2020 06:29PM

ACitizenErased wrote:

"When we get 900" You are, and continue to be, a glimmer of hope.

See you are trying to suggest I'm a doom monger but I'm not, I'm just a realist. You claimed you are good at math a week ago, if you can't see where we are heading then you really haven't a clue about math.
I notice you didn't say how you'll take it when we do reach 900 per day which is about two weeks away.

Jim_Hodge · 29-09-2020 06:31PM

2ndcoming wrote: »

The Greater Dublin Area. The pop. figures are from the census.

It's a thing like the Greater Manchester Area or Greater London Area and not really comparable to anywhere else in Ireland.

It includes Meath Kildare and Wicklow. It has no relevance to case numbers or comparisons between counties.

lukas8888 · 29-09-2020 06:33PM

eagle eye wrote: »

See you are trying to suggest I'm a doom monger but I'm not, I'm just a realist. You claimed you are good at math a week ago, if you can't see where we are heading then you really haven't a clue about math.
I notice you didn't say how you'll take it when we do reach 900 per day which is about two weeks away.

I miss the good old days when we all called it maths.

eagle eye · 29-09-2020 06:34PM

niallo27 wrote:

Thousands of jobs obviously. Any other answer then your a fool.

Well that answer puts you in the socio/psychopath spectrum imo.

2ndcoming · 29-09-2020 06:34PM

Jim_Hodge wrote: »

It includes Meath Kildare and Wicklow. It has no relevance to case numbers or comparisons between counties.

It has huge relevance because the vast majority of the populations of those three counties live within 10 miles of the border with Dublin. Hence suburban.

Cork county takes up roughly the same geographic space as those 4 counties but the demographics would look very different.

Widdensushi · 29-09-2020 06:34PM

Would anyone have the swab results from last Tuesday?

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

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