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

thomas 123 · 10-10-2020 08:00PM

duffman13 wrote: »

In secondary schools a teacher friend has told me that someone sitting either side of a positive case didn't need to be tested as they were all wearing masks and as such weren't close contacts. Another student in the class tested not sitting near the student became symptomatic a few days later and also tested positive. No others in the class tested. Bizarre

Hearing this from my brothers secondary school also, teacher positive, nobody tested.

jackboy · 10-10-2020 08:00PM

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

What happens at Christmas when we open up ?

We won’t be open for Christmas. The coming lockdown may be far tougher than the last one. Winter and no more free money.

Gael23 · 10-10-2020 08:01PM

ICU numbers down one this evening

Icyseanfitz · 10-10-2020 08:01PM

sterz wrote: »

Well, it was never going to stop it. But looks like it has stabilised things.

All I'll say is i don't think level 3 will do anything, i had to travel from my own town to a neighboring town in the same county today, both where as busy as ive ever seen, plenty not bothering with masks as well, plenty of tourists around as well.

GazzaL · 10-10-2020 08:01PM

thomas 123 wrote: »

Hearing this from my brothers secondary school also, teacher positive, nobody tested.

NPHET's testing and tracing failure is there for all to see. They'd rather lock down the whole country than face up to that though.

Kermit.de.frog · 10-10-2020 08:01PM

The government have put themselves in a lose/lose situation.

Increase measures now and the public will rightly question why they didn't bite the bullet last week.

Do nothing next week and they'll be blamed regardless.

They created a rod for their back.

Even if they agreed to level 4 it would have gotten them off the hook.

On top of that Varadkar made foolish comments on RTE afterward that could come back to haunt them.

tayto lover · 10-10-2020 08:01PM

tastyt wrote: »

I don’t understand how they can let thousands of people train for sport 7 nights a week and think it has no effect , and I say this as a player .

Especially GAA are getting away with it

Aren’t there thousands upon thousands of children from different families mixing in schools every weekday and thousands of workers getting buses, trains etc every workday?
Of course it will get worse before the Government finally get the message that we need to go to Level 5 as Tony Houlihan and Co. suggested last week.

spookwoman · 10-10-2020 08:01PM

GazzaL wrote: »

They're not in control of anything? Grand so, we can **** their restrictions out the window so.

Same person who posted :rolleyes:

GazzaL wrote: »

If they could give us about 2 month's notice and have a lockdown the week before Christmas that would be grand. We could all book our holidays then.

Thierry12 · 10-10-2020 08:01PM

jackboy wrote: »

We won’t be open for Christmas. The coming lockdown may be far tougher than the last one. Winter and no more free money.

They'll surely give us the 25th

RoryMac · 10-10-2020 08:02PM

DellyBelly wrote: »

Well I think we can all agree that Covid is the story of the year so far.

So far yes but I'm a celebrity hasn't started yet

TonyMaloney · 10-10-2020 08:02PM

landofthetree wrote: »

The 3-day average of new cases has hit 710.

But crucially, Dublin's average is still below peak which was hit last week. 241 cases is high, but it follows 123 yesterday and just 90 the day before.

The key point here is that once Level 3 kicks in, it *should* halt the growth.

https://mobile.twitter.com/higginsdavidw/status/1314989887918149636

I'm not saying you're wrong, I genuinely don't know, but there's still the small matter of the large backlog which could change things a bit.

kippy · 10-10-2020 08:02PM

copeyhagen wrote: »

who the **** is actually getting this thing. i still only know of one person i know that caught it, and that was March

I personally knew three in March/April and unfortunately 3 more in the past few days and the way the numbers are going I'd say we will all know of a lot more who get it in the coming months. Let's hope it doesn't get into our elderly population and those that get it recover fully.

jams100 · 10-10-2020 08:02PM

tastyt wrote: »

I don’t understand how they can let thousands of people train for sport 7 nights a week and think it has no effect , and I say this as a player .

Especially GAA are getting away with it

So whats your plan? This virus is going nowhere, playing sport is far less risky than say going to the pub or a house party. Nothing is zero risk.

By some peoples logic on this you may as well die now...surely there has to be some quality of life put into the argument? There's still no guarantee a vaccinee will work or even if there is one will it be in 2021.

10-10-2020 08:03PM

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

All I'll say is i don't think level 3 will do anything, i had to travel from my own town to a neighboring town in the same county today, both where as busy as ive ever seen, plenty not bothering with masks as well, plenty of tourists around as well.

I've been surprised by how busy some places are, far busier than a normal October. I wonder are people doing stuff out of fear they won't be allowed to soon.

xhomelezz · 10-10-2020 08:03PM

GazzaL wrote: »

I see all the NPHET apologists and Dr. Tony worshippers are out in force tonight.

Not really, but u claiming nphet is in power, so u got your answers. After that it's bla bla worshippers, apologists etc.

Loafing Oaf · 10-10-2020 08:03PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Should perhaps announce a 3 week mid term for schools, give people a bit of time to plan.

If you do that though, is there any way they are going back before Christmas? If the number of new cases comes down people will say opening the schools again will undo all the good work. And if it doesn't there will be a consensus more restrictions are needed on top of the ones already in place.

BringBackMick · 10-10-2020 08:03PM

Do we think any extra restrictions will be made this coming week?

is_that_so · 10-10-2020 08:03PM

DeanAustin wrote: »

I don't buy it. At the end of August, when kids were heading back to school, we were recording about 80-150 cases a day. It's surged upwards. Kids going back to school has been a sacred cow for the government so I suspect that we're getting spin here.

There's no logical way I can see that it hasn't had an impact on numbers. All the things we've been advised not to do are happening in schools.

Data, according to the HSE, say they haven't. Couple away for a weekend, attended a few other social activities, 30 cases, café in Cork, 53 cases, GAA team in Louth, 30 cases. All examples of adult behaviour!

DeanAustin · 10-10-2020 08:03PM

copeyhagen wrote: »

who the **** is actually getting this thing. i still only know of one person i know that caught it, and that was March

I know about 50 people that had it. They all got it last November or December because they were "sick as a dog. Sicker than I've ever been. There's no way that was normal man-flu".

We should have been on level 5 last year with the amount of people claiming they had it.

GazzaL · 10-10-2020 08:04PM

How about the lockdown lunatics stay in their own homes, working from home or drawing the dole, while the rest of society get on with trying to live with COVID and every other illness out there?

kippy · 10-10-2020 08:04PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I've been surprised by how busy some places are, far busier than a normal October. I wonder are people doing stuff out of fear they won't be allowed to soon.

Yes. Ironically that is the thinking that people have....and have had for the past 5 or 6 weeks.

Always_Running · 10-10-2020 08:04PM

Boggles wrote: »

I don't really look at the numbers I look at it as percentage overall and it's been all over the place.

If you only look at percentage then you should agree a little over 200 cases is decent for Dublin from 1012 nationwide cases

JP Liz V1 · 10-10-2020 08:04PM

sterz wrote: »

What are the numbers over the past two weeks in Dublin, JP?

241 today Dublin and it has restrictions level 3 for a few weeks

JacksonHeightsOwn · 10-10-2020 08:05PM

copeyhagen wrote: »

who the **** is actually getting this thing. i still only know of one person i know that caught it, and that was March

I'm the same, I know of 4 people who have been infected, they where all in march, all work in a hospital, and all where asymptomatic.

I've also not seen or heard of one single house party in my estate.

The whole thing is just bizarre and draining.

People are finding it difficult to get through because we seem to be ****ing up on thurles most obvious of things. Track and trace, lack of beds. Allowing people into the country when we had very few cases. All common sense issues........

Surely to **** in these past 6 months we could have built a temporary hospital, even a field hospital like the military use. But no, instead we did ****ing nothing.

Icyseanfitz · 10-10-2020 08:05PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I've been surprised by how busy some places are, far busier than a normal October. I wonder are people doing stuff out of fear they won't be allowed to soon.

Which if the government take their sweet time to do anything will only continue to make the coming problem worse.

Out of interest, the peak we hit last lockdown, how many weeks of lockdown did that take?

martingriff · 10-10-2020 08:05PM

GazzaL wrote: »

You mean people who are blinded by ignorance and misleading headline numbers that would make the editor of the Daily Express blush.

manniot2 wrote: »

Haha good man. Who’s your favourite Fergal bowers or George lee?

So who do ye listen to

Gadgetman496 · 10-10-2020 08:05PM

I wonder if MM & LV's move to level 3 was thought through?

podgeandrodge · 10-10-2020 08:05PM

BringBackMick wrote: »

Non wet pubs are allowed serve alcohol to customers without food, simple.

Walk around Dublin and see the facts rather than posting an article from the IT.

hetuzozaho wrote: »

It's not.

https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/ad569-level-3/?referrer=http://www.gov.ie/level3/#bars-cafes-and-restaurants-including-hotel-restaurants-and-bars

Is there a newer statutory instrument or other legislation more recent than this re. the €9 meal requirement?
These appear to have self destructed in mid-September?

https://assets.gov.ie/86441/6a9850e4-f73e-4318-a88f-d511aaded93d.pdf

Kermit.de.frog · 10-10-2020 08:05PM

TonyMaloney wrote: »

I'm not saying you're wrong, I genuinely don't know, but there's still the small matter of the large backlog which could change things a bit.

If, as according to Holohan, no "historic" cases are included in this batch - and I believe there are mid hundred extra swabs - then, yes, the picture would look a good bit different when they are added in.

niallo27 · 10-10-2020 08:05PM

Listen we all want this thing gone, but its not as easy as saying let's go to level 5. We will have half a million out of work, people are on the edge already. How many will it push over. Locking people in their homes will have a huge impact on people's mental health. There has to be a balance. Will the banks give us breaks again.

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

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