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

spookwoman · 12-10-2020 07:20PM

Poorside · 12-10-2020 07:21PM

eagle eye wrote: »

Agreed, a strong man too. You need to have a very strong character for that job in these times.

He's very spiky tonight, the Thursday meeting will be a fiery one I imagine.

Atlantic Dawn · 12-10-2020 07:21PM

He needs to hit halloween on the head now and put a 7pm curfew on the country that night.

lukas8888 · 12-10-2020 07:21PM

Out of a total of 25 new cases in Leitrim over the last three days 20 are from the travelling community who went to Northen Ireland to attend a funeral.

DrSpongeBobz · 12-10-2020 07:21PM

Are people really expecting an amazing Halloween and Christmas experience?

Funsterdelux · 12-10-2020 07:21PM

Poorside wrote: »

He's very spiky tonight, the Thursday meeting will be a fiery one I imagine.

Glynn better not forget the pringles

Turtwig · 12-10-2020 07:21PM

ACitizenErased wrote: »

If only the HSE had a period of time where they could build up resources

For a several months you praised the track and trace. Insisting the majority of cases were being detected. Everything has a breaking point. Could the HSE have given it more capacity? Yes. But how much specifically do you want? At what daily case number should the system collapse?

normanoffside · 12-10-2020 07:21PM

Halloween should be ok, all the kids will be wearing masks.

Russman · 12-10-2020 07:21PM

He’s definitely flying a not too subtle kite for level 4 or 5 in the near future

AlphaDelta1 · 12-10-2020 07:22PM

landofthetree wrote: »

From the UK:

Do we have any similar stats for here?

Our educational system has a magic out of this universe forcefield placed around it that defeats the virus on pure sight alone.

Nothing to see here. Back to your workstations.

Jack1985 · 12-10-2020 07:22PM

amadangomor wrote: »

Yes but a TD isn't going to employ you as one. Silly original post.

Yeah because I think the TD has the authority to do it, do you think I came down in the last shower? the point is to get the HSE to increase recruitment for it. They have no excuse for limited resources.

Keep adding posts anyway about sorting single women. Very benefical to the thread.

bb1234567 · 12-10-2020 07:22PM

Deusexmachina wrote: »

I wish our politicians and media spokespeople, epidemiologists, commentators et al would stop saying everything Covid is 'deeply worrying', 'very worrying', 'very concerning' etc.

Worrying is pointless. It might make the politicians look all serious and grave but it does sweet feck all for anyone.

To quote 'Psychology Today:
Worry is the excess emotion that remains after all reasonable measures are taken to safeguard your family and personal interests. Worry may actually drive you to make bad decisions, such as in the case of adopting any new health fad that comes along irrespective of evidence supporting its effectiveness or potential for harm. Worrisome thinking increases anxiety but does not help you focus on finding effective solutions.

Enough of the 'worry'. We need proper calm short and medium term planning, honest and open communication and a balance between our health needs and our economic needs.

Continuous and unbroken periods of anxiety is also very bad for the immune system. People with chronic anxiety and most other mental illnesses that trigger and ongoing flight or fight respons generally are at greater risk of developing many diseases throughout their lifetime. Usually this effect is only observed in people with very severe issues in their life, soldiers after war, people going throigh divorce or loss of a loved one etc, don't know if being anxious about death counts on the tv would have as large an impact, but either way as you say worry does no good anyway so avoid it because it's **** but also potential side effects

owlbethere · 12-10-2020 07:23PM

xhomelezz wrote: »

Nope, cuz as we all know, schools are safe.

We need to hammer virus down in the community and within homes. The sooner virus reduces the better. The less virus in communities and homes, the less will be in schools. I don't think schools are the driving force of transmissions with pupils

Always_Running · 12-10-2020 07:23PM

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

He needs to hit halloween on the head now and put a 7pm curfew on the country that night.

Going around this Halloween without masks is sure to scare plenty of people..

Atlantic Dawn · 12-10-2020 07:23PM

lukas8888 wrote: »

Out of a total of 25 new cases in Leitrim over the last three days 20 are from the travelling community who went to Northen Ireland to attend a funeral.

Perhaps they need to add the warnings in the Cant language to cover all basis.

amadangomor · 12-10-2020 07:23PM

normanoffside wrote: »

Halloween should be ok, all the kids will be wearing masks.

BringBackMick · 12-10-2020 07:23PM

Bryan Dobson asking questions!!!!!!!

ACitizenErased · 12-10-2020 07:23PM

Turtwig wrote: »

For a several months you praised the track and trace. Insisting the majority of cases were being detected. Everything has a breaking point. Could the HSE have given it more capacity? Yes. But how much specifically do you want? At what daily case number should the system collapse?

The track and trace seemed to work perfectly when case numbers were below 100.
Am I wrong?
It's quite clear they took their eye off the ball.

There's universities lying empty across the country, plenty of room for tracing like in March they used the universities as a base. Ask for volunteers. Not rocket science, c'mon like.

Necro · 12-10-2020 07:24PM

Jack1985 wrote: »

Such bulls*it. I'm sitting at home since March essentially, I have badgered my local TD in Gov to be recruited to contact tracing, NOTHING. There's thousands like me.

This is what I cannot understand. Hundreds of thousands on PUP and loads of them ready and willing to help out like yourself.

Why not offer the test and trace jobs to people on PUP first and foremost, kill two birds with one stone.

But that requires forward thinking which the HSE and this current government have a serious lack of.

Non solum non ambulabit · 12-10-2020 07:24PM

xhomelezz wrote: »

Nope, cuz as we all know, schools are safe.

Well done. Great point. Nobody has ever said that, anywhere, ever, but fair play to you.

Plumbthedepths · 12-10-2020 07:24PM

Wombatman wrote: »

Tony is a gentleman and a scholar. Don't believe we could have a better man at the head of this.

Aren't we lucky he refused to resign when called upon to do so.https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-20470821.html

Jenna James · 12-10-2020 07:25PM

bb1234567 wrote: »

Continuous and unbroken periods of anxiety is also very bad for the immune system. People with chronic anxiety and most other mental illnesses that trigger and ongoing flight or fight respons generally are at greater risk of developing many diseases throughout their lifetime

I think most of us are worried to some degree and feel these comments from officials only drive those worry levels upward.

Aren’t they being paid well to worry and perhaps tone it down a little for the greater public consumption?

Poorside · 12-10-2020 07:25PM

Necro wrote: »

This is what I cannot understand. Hundreds of thousands on PUP and loads of them ready and willing to help out like yourself.

Why not offer the test and trace jobs to people on PUP first and foremost, kill two birds with one stone.

But that requires forward thinking which the HSE and this current government have a serious lack of.

Because you're opening up people's personal data, not every Joe soap can be allowed do it because they want to

12-10-2020 07:27PM

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Perhaps they need to add the warnings in the Cant language to cover all basis.

One can't do that. It would be racist. Numerous outbreaks in my county have been attributed to nomadic folk conglomerating in large groups and refusing to wear masks. Naturally I shouldn't point this out as I could be hauled in for racism.

Atlantic Dawn · 12-10-2020 07:27PM

Wonder what blood type he has?

xhomelezz · 12-10-2020 07:27PM

owlbethere wrote: »

We need to hammer virus down in the community and within homes. The sooner virus reduces the better. The less virus in communities and homes, the less will be in schools. I don't think schools are the driving force of transmissions with pupils

Well out of all we know about the spread, doesn't school look like a greenhouse for it? I'm not saying schools are major driver for infections, but come on, the way the schools opened....

amadangomor · 12-10-2020 07:27PM

Jack1985 wrote: »

Yeah because I think the TD has the authority to do it, do you think I came down in the last shower? the point is to get the HSE to increase recruitment for it. They have no excuse for limited resources.

Keep adding posts anyway about sorting single women. Very benefical to the thread.

Sorry, it was a joke.

Hopefully lessons will be learned and they set up a volunteer corp of people who are available to contact trace and also people trained in sample taking, lab analysis etc.

Sweet.Science · 12-10-2020 07:27PM

Sister (teacher) got confirmed positive for covid this evening . None of her students or other teachers will be deemed close contacts . Her students have been away for weekends and gone back into class on the Monday . A farce they are still open

BringBackMick · 12-10-2020 07:28PM

Head in hands moment, the young chap had Pneumonia when he was 18. Obviously vulnerable to respiratory infections

Martina1991 · 12-10-2020 07:28PM

stephenjmcd wrote: »

No surprise if im honest. If tracing is collapsing as has been reported then there's going to be more community transmission.

Testing seems fine, public health just aren't resourced to the levels they were a few months ago

Consultant in Public Health Dr. Marie Casey posted a good thread about the contact tracing process.

There has been chronic understaffing in Public health departments for years. Like with laboratory testing, people only find out about these long standing problems when there's a crisis.

https://twitter.com/marietcasey/status/1313896089376956416?s=19

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

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