Covid 19 Part XXV-44,159 ROI (1,830 deaths) 21,898 NI (598 deaths) (13/10) Read OP

CBear1993 · 08-10-2020 02:54PM

CIARAN_BOYLE wrote: »

Give it time.

Me and you will have a wee coffee in 6 weeks time ciaran. You inside your space suit telling me about the big wave that’s still to come. Good man

Icyseanfitz · 08-10-2020 02:54PM

KerryConnor wrote: »

No masks in secondary schools in NI I don't think

Not much better down here really unfortunately.

US2 · 08-10-2020 02:55PM

Mwengwe wrote: »

Can we not just ban this kind of stupidity?

Ban the truth? All the facts and data show this. Flu is a lot worse than covid for the overwhelming majority.

rovers_runner · 08-10-2020 02:55PM

CIARAN_BOYLE wrote: »

Minimal restrictions and low compliance.

It's only recently that they have moved to something akin to our level 3 despite higher cases.

The leaders have said they want to bring in more restrictions but they don't have the money.

CBear1993 · 08-10-2020 02:55PM

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normanoffside wrote: »

Remarkably low death rates up North all the same.

Do they count deaths differently to us?

They’re telling the truth about what people are actually dying from, that’s the difference.

Well known that a lot of elderly people who fall ill from a cancer, organ complications etc, a “virus” or flu will eventually be the thing that kills them off. But they’ll put it down to the cancer as that’s what they were already dying from.

Covid era Ireland? Nope. Everyone dies from Covid

landofthetree · 08-10-2020 02:56PM

normanoffside wrote: »

Remarkably low death rates up North all the same.

Do they count deaths differently to us?

Same all over Europe.

Look at Spain. The second wave is bigger than the first yet the death rate is a lot smaller this time round.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/spain/

stephenjmcd · 08-10-2020 02:57PM

https://twitter.com/FergalBowers/status/1314197839887568897?s=19

Gruffalux · 08-10-2020 02:58PM

seamus wrote: »

Data in. 754 positives on 15,880 swabs. 4.75% positivity.

I think that's a new daily record for tests completed.

Heh. I think it breaks recent records on other fronts too.

Benimar · 08-10-2020 02:59PM

754 positive swabs on 15,880 tests - 4.75% positivity

CBear1993 · 08-10-2020 02:59PM

Queue someone blaming the pubs and restaurants being open up there.

3.... 2.... 1.....

Jim_Hodge · 08-10-2020 03:00PM

CBear1993 wrote: »

Show me the people dropping like flies in the north or in donegal vs anywhere else.

Northern Ireland Doctors today

Now we are starting to see the increase of people needing to go into hospital and then it is another week or two before those patients start to deteriorate and need intensive care.

A big fear among the medical profession is the availability of intensive care beds if cases continue to rise at the current rate.

We are in a lot of bother and we are going to have to work very hard to get out of this.

Hospitals in the North West are already under severe pressure.

Boggles · 08-10-2020 03:00PM

stephenjmcd wrote: »

https://twitter.com/FergalBowers/status/1314197839887568897?s=19

The total number of outbreaks in pubs is now 10, up 1 on previous week, latest HPSC data shows. School outbreaks total 48, up 12 on past week. HPSC says transmission of the virus within the school has not necessarily been established in these outbreaks.

Translates as we have no sort of surveillance in either so we don't have a Scooby.

But Prof Nolan will be on twitter in 3 weeks explaining to us all why we have to close schools.

Widdensushi · 08-10-2020 03:00PM

I see Iceland has 95 cases today for 340,000 population, it should be one of the easier places to control the virus but they are still struggling, there is a bit of inevitability about the situation

odyssey06 · 08-10-2020 03:01PM

US2 wrote: »

Ban the truth? All the facts and data show this. Flu is a lot worse than covid for the overwhelming majority.

Rather selective cherry picking there.
In fact so selective as to be dishonest.
"Covid isn't as bad if we ignore all the people for whom it is fatal."

growleaves · 08-10-2020 03:01PM

normanoffside wrote: »

Remarkably low death rates up North all the same.

Do they count deaths differently to us?

There are many assumptions around what people *think they know* about covid that they could be questioning in light of high cases and low deaths in Northern Ireland. Time to go back over the whole jigsaw puzzle. (How do we know what we think we know? Is x assumption incorrect?)

Now what are people on this thread doing? They are sulking ("Give it time") and spamming with statistical noise. Your brain is there if you deign to use it.

Boggles · 08-10-2020 03:02PM

US2 wrote: »

Ban the truth? All the facts and data show this. Flu is a lot worse than covid for the overwhelming majority.

5G is worse than both.

Benimar · 08-10-2020 03:04PM

Total positive swabs:
week to 10th Sept - 1,112
week to 17th Sept - 1,783 (+60.3%)
week to 24th Sept - 2,142 (+20.1%)
week to 1st Oct - 2,731 (+27.5%)
week to 8th Oct - 3,890 (+42.4%)

250% increase in 4 weeks.

Icantthinkof1 · 08-10-2020 03:05PM

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

Not much better down here really unfortunately.

How is your nephew? Hope he’s doing well and will be out of hospital soon

grinder23 · 08-10-2020 03:05PM

Secondary school scoil mhuire just closed in longford Town all students and teachers sent home

Gael23 · 08-10-2020 03:06PM

I’ve seen a few people mention 10 days, what’s the significance of that?

Icyseanfitz · 08-10-2020 03:06PM

Icantthinkof1 wrote: »

How is your nephew? Hope he’s doing well and will be out of hospital soon

Thanks for asking, he is doing well, been diagnosed with infections, still waiting on covid results

Icyseanfitz · 08-10-2020 03:07PM

grinder23 wrote: »

Secondary school scoil mhuire just closed in longford Town all students and teachers sent home

Fake news

is_that_so · 08-10-2020 03:08PM

Widdensushi wrote: »

I see Iceland has 95 cases today for 340,000 population, it should be one of the easier places to control the virus but they are still struggling, there is a bit of inevitability about the situation

Two French tourists who broke quarantine rules is what they are blaming!

Eod100 · 08-10-2020 03:08PM

Downside to those checkpoints https://twitter.com/AislingNiCTV/status/1314205888912080901?s=19

odyssey06 · 08-10-2020 03:08PM

Gael23 wrote: »

I’ve seen a few people mention 10 days, what’s the significance of that?

10 days for Level 3 to work... or somesuch.

is_that_so · 08-10-2020 03:09PM

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

Thanks for asking, he is doing well, been diagnosed with infections, still waiting on covid results

I thought you said he had COVID!

Gael23 · 08-10-2020 03:09PM

odyssey06 wrote: »

10 days for Level 3 to work... or somesuch.

That’s not going to happen even on the best case scenario

Icyseanfitz · 08-10-2020 03:11PM

is_that_so wrote: »

I thought you said he had COVID!

I said he was rushed to hospital as a suspected covid case....... Thanks for your concern for his well-being though ffs :mad:

lee_baby_simms · 08-10-2020 03:11PM

CIARAN_BOYLE wrote: »

Give it time.

The next two weeks are critical. The numbers are very concerning.

hmmm · 08-10-2020 03:11PM

normanoffside wrote: »

Remarkably low death rates up North all the same.

Do they count deaths differently to us?

The big numbers have only started appearing in the past week/two-weeks, and we know the deaths will start appearing as those numbers drift into older and more vulnerable populations. I'd say this is what February last year looked like, except we didn't have the ability to test as much back then.

Covid 19 Part XXV-44,159 ROI (1,830 deaths) 21,898 NI (598 deaths) (13/10) Read OP

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