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

TonyMaloney wrote: »

The Czech rep are declaring a state of emergency so that they can implement strict new restrictions quickly.
One of them is to close all secondary schools from Monday.

I wonder did they have the same "the schools must remain open at all costs" mantra that we currently live under.

https://in.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-czech/czech-government-plans-state-of-emergency-to-impose-stricter-covid-19-curbs-idUKKBN26L0PP

I can understand primary students going back, parents working etc.

But there's hardly a need for secondary to go back, they could have easily done it online for at least a month until covid stabilized and they're big enough to mind themselves.

Yes I know someone somewhere doesn't have a good internet connection but that's hardly a reason to put nearly a million kids and their teachers in danger.

Blondini wrote: »

Hospital numbers steadily creeping up. Could be a rough winter for the HSE.

122 in hospital
20 in ICU

Just to highlight the change in a month it is worth showing these numbers from 01st September

36 in hospital
6 in ICU

My original post was

spookwoman wrote: »

Todays Epidemiology report lists 2 deaths in the 45-54 age group, 1 in the 75-84 and 2 in the 85+ group. The other day someone in the 25-34 age group died. I would not regard 45-54 as old.

You posted

"I don't think anyone beyond their youth would, but what are the details? A lot of people die too young for myriad reasons."

I basically said on epidemiology then covid related.

Your reply was and this is where you try to downplay the deaths.
C'mon, you know what I meant. If some unfortunate with severe underlying conditions catches Covid, regardless of how 'young' they are, it's a lot different from an otherwise healthy person catching it2

I disagreed. I said does not matter if they had an underlying condition they still died. I also said some races are more prone to the affects of the virus and were you going to use the same excuse.

I did not twists your words even with you using "very unlikely to live to a ripe old age". I never hid the numbers either I said up to the the age 64. Even with the 77 people from the 55-64 age group removed people still died under that age. Can't change that.

polesheep wrote: »

You can never be honest or straight, can you? I said 'unlikely' to live to a ripe old age. And you now remove the 77 from your figure that you slyly slipped in earlier. All children are vulnerable.

The only person twisting things or should I say squirming is you and that is out of getting caught out on saying.

polesheep wrote: »

You try to make out that young people are snatched in their prime by Covid, but the truth is if you are so vulnerable in youth that you can be carried off by Covid then you were very unlikely to make it to a ripe old age

What a vile and callus thing to say, would you say "Ah sure they probably would have died anyways even if they didn't get covid. " to the face of a parent who has lost their offspring. Keep scraping that barrel for your excuses.

seamus wrote: »

Bad numbers today.

Will be Interesting to see the county breakdown. If we see Dublin come in with a smaller share of the cases, then we know level 3 is effective and can look at pushing it to other hotspots.

If Dublin is high we know it doesnt work

MerlinSouthDub wrote: »

Dashboard has updated - 442 positive swabs, 13247 tests. Positivity rate= 3.3%

Oh that's not good

MerlinSouthDub wrote: »

Dashboard has updated - 442 positive swabs, 13247 tests. Positivity rate= 3.3%

How accurate have the positive swabs vs announced cases been the last 7/14 days? Are the occasional backlogs still happening or are they relatively close day-to-day?

Oranage2 wrote: »

I can understand primary students going back, parents working etc.

But there's hardly a need for secondary to go back, they could have easily done it online for at least a month until covid stabilized and they're big enough to mind themselves.

Yes I know someone somewhere doesn't have a good internet connection but that's hardly a reason to put nearly a million kids and their teachers in danger.

I wouldn't trust anyone aged between 13 and 18 to look after themselves on there own not now a day's maybe 30 years ago.
At least at school there is some control of there movements

Oranage2 wrote: »

I posted a few day ago that we'd have 20+ in icu and a positivity rate over 3%. I honestly didn't expect it for a least a few months. This is truely scary

3% is where we started out , back in March. While you'd like to see a lower or dropping level it's a sign of them picking up more infections to be isolated. 20% would be scary.

Oranage2 wrote: »

I posted a few day ago that we'd have 20+ in icu and a positivity rate over 3%. I honestly didn't expect it for a least a few months. This is truely scary

You also posted that you wanted the army out shooting people!!! Now that is something scary that anyone sane would be thinking that

TonyMaloney wrote: »

I don't think share matters much. I mean say for instance we see a massive jump in, I dunno, Cork - what bearing would that have on how things are going in Dublin?

If we're seeing a countrywide increase, then you'd expect Dublin figures to sit around 40% of the daily figure, because that's the "normal".

If Dublin is less than 40% then you've an indicator that the rest of country is growing compared to Dublin. More than 40% and Dublin is growing faster.

Today's number comes from a phenomenon that we've seen now at least two weeks in a row - a large surge of GP referrals on Mondays, resulting in a large jump in swabs of probable cases.

I wonder are more and more GPs cutting back on any weekend services and putting referrals through on Mondays?