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

Kermit.de.frog · 12-10-2020 12:28PM

Switzerland reports record 4,068 new cases and 4 new deaths

12-10-2020 12:28PM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

This type of ignorance will kill you early.

No really, it will.

yeah right, you'd bring this back and change the Brand...I mean disease!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iroty5zwOVw

Pitch n Putt · 12-10-2020 12:28PM

AlphaDelta1 wrote: »

I think Covid has shown us just how many self centred "what about me" type people we have here in Ireland.

Along with all those who blindly follow anything they are told without question.

If the majority of people want to follow our elected politicians who couldn’t mind a sweet shop let alone steer a country through a crisis that’s the real shame in all this

Anyone questions anything is shot down immediately whilst the sheep follow the circus.

The longer this goes on the more you realise how harmless and easily led people are. Most living their life from all the fear induced articles from social media.

Sad times indeed.

Kermit.de.frog · 12-10-2020 12:29PM

Polar101 wrote: »

I'm sorry

Apology accepted.

bennyl10 · 12-10-2020 12:29PM

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

My 62 year old neighbour contracted the virus, two weeks off work. Not a bother since.

she is the lucky one then

some people are not so lucky and its our duty as a society to do everything we can to protect them

Jesus how is this difficult for people

Looney1 · 12-10-2020 12:29PM

Government North and South seem to be rowing back on further restrictions in last 24 hours. No signs of improvement in numbers. What's going on??

12-10-2020 12:30PM

Sleety_Rain wrote: »

We could be diagnosed with a brain tumour or terminal cancer next week.

Covid is crazily overblown, it’s sucks but we gotta live with it.

It’ll take a few more months for us to finally understand we can’t run from this

Hopefully hospitalisations and ICU numbers can remain sustainable and we protect the vulnerable

Unfortunately some people will be unlucky, but this is life, it can be beautiful but also suck real bad

Let’s not waste more time

Abundantly clear that hospitalisations and ICU numbers will not remain sustainable beyond a week or two at this rate.

stephenjmcd · 12-10-2020 12:31PM

Border counties could need additional restrictions

https://twitter.com/Jennifer_Bray/status/1315612863004803072?s=19

SeaBreezes · 12-10-2020 12:32PM

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

My 62 year old neighbour contracted the virus, two weeks off work. Not a bother since.

My neighboir died.

ACitizenErased · 12-10-2020 12:32PM

Looney1 wrote: »

Government North and South seem to be rowing back on further restrictions in last 24 hours. No signs of improvement in numbers. What's going on??

We’re 5 days into level 3?

Kermit.de.frog · 12-10-2020 12:32PM

Austria reports 974 new cases and 4 new deaths

PmMeUrDogs · 12-10-2020 12:34PM

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

My 62 year old neighbour contracted the virus, two weeks off work. Not a bother since.

My 45 year old cousin (no underlying conditions) contracted it too, and ended up on a ventilator, taking her life hour by hour, and is still suffering 4 months later. Any of us who know someone who's been infected have anecdotes.

stephenjmcd · 12-10-2020 12:34PM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

There is no excuse for contracting it except fecklessness and stupidity at this point.

Thats complete and utter nonsense, its a highly infectious virus, you can take all the pre cations advised and still not be 100% safe.

So much for all in this together and not playing the blame game.

Ridiculous comment

petes · 12-10-2020 12:34PM

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

My 62 year old neighbour contracted the virus, two weeks off work. Not a bother since.

This is as bad as some people jumping on individual cases were the outcome is not so good.

polesheep · 12-10-2020 12:34PM

AlphaDelta1 wrote: »

I think Covid has shown us just how many self centred "what about me" type people we have here in Ireland.

Yes... on both sides of the debate

440Hertz · 12-10-2020 12:35PM

What’s going on is it’s spreading due to inadequate contact chain breaking and people not taking it seriously.

We won’t take it seriously until it’s a crisis as that’s how humans operate and it’s the same across Europe. We didn’t react until the bodies started piling up in Italy and Spain and then we ended up with a panicked reaction that lead to severe lockdowns instead of having dealt with it appropriately before we got tot that stage anywhere in Europe.

We’ll likely do exactly the same this time around again.

What I’m hearing from friends living in Spain and France is that people are once again not taking it seriously and doing most of the things that will cause rapid spread.

If we all took a bit of appropriate level of precaution we could manage this far better.

We need to make Level 3 work in Ireland and behave like grown ups about it and not just so the bare minimum and expect to just take no responsibility or have to be coerced into following rules.

One area the state could do a lot more is in areas like ensuring sick pay and support for employees & employers where people have to take time out to self isolate etc. There are still issues with that.

drunkmonkey · 12-10-2020 12:35PM

bennyl10 wrote: »

she is the lucky one then

some people are not so lucky and its our duty as a society to do everything we can to protect them

Jesus how is this difficult for people

That thing we should be doing is not on us it's on them. Were telling the new generation to practice virtual sex so they can protect nursing home residents. I'm sorry but that's screwed up on so many levels.
It's up to the staff in those locations to protect them and it's up to health care workers to minimize risk in hospitals, I don't expect them to wipe it out but I expect them to be a lot more diligent in keeping bugs in hospitals under control.

Kermit.de.frog · 12-10-2020 12:36PM

United Arab Emirates reports 1,064 new cases and 1 new death hittting record case counts.

spookwoman · 12-10-2020 12:36PM

https://twitter.com/ciaranmullooly/status/1315616470076882944?s=20

Miike · 12-10-2020 12:36PM

rusty cole wrote: »

yeah right, you'd bring this back and change the Brand...I mean disease!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iroty5zwOVw

You've got to be trolling, right? I mean - You cannot possibly be that disconnected from reality to forget the global impact of HIV/AIDS? It's still ravaging countries.

12-10-2020 12:37PM

Miike wrote: »

Meanwhile in other anecdotal evidence, my 32 year old friend caught the virus at work (a doctor) and hasn't work a day since April after catching the virus and spending 9 weeks in ICU. We're hoping he will be released from hospital this Friday - He may never work again, or live his life anything like he used to.

So sorry to hear this. Very unfortunately it is only when it befalls someone close to you that full reality hits. Met a man at the weekend who lost his Mum, Aunt and brother-in-law to it since end of March and he is a front line worker himself.

440Hertz · 12-10-2020 12:39PM

The care home issue needs a lot more analysis. It would seem to me that the common denominator is bad pay and conditions. How many nurses / carers are working in multiple locations or are sharing accommodation etc

We treat carers abysmally.

Kermit.de.frog · 12-10-2020 12:39PM

stephenjmcd wrote: »

Thats complete and utter nonsense, its a highly infectious virus, you can take all the pre cations advised and still not be 100% safe.

So much for all in this together and not playing the blame game.

Ridiculous comment

No, you are part of the problem.

If you wear your mask, keep your distance and scrub your hands you will likely not get infected.

Stop being part of the problem, start being part of the solution.

frank8211 · 12-10-2020 12:39PM

https://www.thejournal.ie/covid-allegations-roscommon-gaa-5230577-Oct2020/

Roscommon...…..

Plumbthedepths · 12-10-2020 12:39PM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

This type of ignorance will kill you early.

No really, it will.

Ignorance?
Your comment is baffling, care to explain ?

JDD · 12-10-2020 12:40PM

Does anyone know how many hospital beds we have available?

I know we have 32 - or thereabouts - ICU beds currently available. I presume there is a small amount of surge capacity for ICU beds if we cancel elective procedures as we did in March. That will mean that ICU-trained nurses, who currently work in other areas, will be freed up to man additional ICU beds.

But how many hospital beds do we have available? I know we have 221 confirmed cases in hospital, which is 191 when you take away the ICU patients. And I presume we have multiples of the 191 number in hospital for other reasons. Do we know what our availability is? And do we know what our surge capacity is for plain hospital beds?

spookwoman · 12-10-2020 12:41PM

JDD wrote: »

Does anyone know how many hospital beds we have available?

I know we have 32 - or thereabouts - ICU beds currently available. I presume there is a small amount of surge capacity for ICU beds if we cancel elective procedures as we did in March. That will mean that ICU-trained nurses, who currently work in other areas, will be freed up to man additional ICU beds.

But how many hospital beds do we have available? I know we have 221 confirmed cases in hospital, which is 191 when you take away the ICU patients. And I presume we have multiples of the 191 number in hospital for other reasons. Do we know what our availability is? And do we know what our surge capacity is for plain hospital beds?

Bed details as of yesterday at 8pm

https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/news/newsfeatures/covid19-updates/covid19-daily-operations-update-2000-11-october-2020.pdf

12-10-2020 12:42PM

drunkmonkey wrote: »

That thing we should be doing is not on us it's on them. Were telling the new generation to practice virtual sex so they can protect nursing home residents. I'm sorry but that's screwed up on so many levels.
It's up to the staff in those locations to protect them and it's up to health care workers to minimize risk in hospitals, I don't expect them to wipe it out but I expect them to be a lot more diligent in keeping bugs in hospitals under control.

We have had a huge problem with MRSA for years and you think they can keep something super AIRBORNE now if you believe the UK, from spreading in care homes?? It seems to me that every time the Govt slip up we end up on lockdown.
Whether it's tracing, PPE supply issues, cross contamination in the homes through staff turnover across multiple sites or evening the schools.. It's a sure we'll just lock them don til we get our act together!

Eod100 · 12-10-2020 12:42PM

Looks like there may be better coordination between here and North with levels. Makes sense. https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1315617845997375488?s=19

Plumbthedepths · 12-10-2020 12:43PM

petes wrote: »

This is as bad as some people jumping on individual cases were the outcome is not so good.

You're right, absolutely noone should post a comment about a positive outcome. Please forgive me.
Unfortunately she is the only person I know that contracted the virus and happily she made a full recovery.

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

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