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Covid 19 Part XXVI- 50,993 ROI (1,852 deaths) 28,040 NI (621 deaths) (19/10) Read OP

Beasty · 2020-10-13 17:45:05

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Mean = the sum of a series of numbers divided by the number of items in the series
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#2 13-10-2020 7:00pm

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And so onto some facts and figures

In the 25 threads to date we've seen over 232,000 posts

January and February were dominated by single threads in the CA Forum

We saw off 10 threads in March, with the dedicated forum being set up in the second half of March

The last thread lasted just over 8 days

The forum has seen the following numbers of posts across all related topics
March 61,111
April 81,689
May 48,151
June 25,380
July 35,567
August 45,270
September 40,782
October, to date, over 24,500

We've have over 800 threads, but when I add in all those that have been merged into others it's nearer 1,400

So yes, Winter is coming and things are starting to ramp back up.....

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#3 13-10-2020 7:08pm

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New thread time.

Didn't the last one go pretty quickly.

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#4 13-10-2020 7:09pm

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Is a level 3 with secondary schools closed a possibility?

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#5 13-10-2020 7:09pm

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I'll post the numbers here in case people miss em on the old thread if ok.

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#6 13-10-2020 7:12pm

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Widdensushi wrote: »

Is a level 3 with secondary schools closed a possibility?

I suspect not

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#7 13-10-2020 7:15pm

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How is it anyone at all who seems to have a gaa party or the like appears to end up with mass covid. It must be everywhere! That or else the test is a load of bollox

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#8 13-10-2020 7:15pm

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Stheno wrote: »

I suspect not

Aye, they seem hell bent on keeping the schools open, not sure why. Surely closing schools is better than shutting all retail etc. and the associated economic cost at level 4!

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#9 13-10-2020 7:16pm

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At the weekend I saw a friend of mine who was today told he was a close contact of a confirmed case. His last contact with the confirmed case was just before I saw him. He currently has no symptoms. Should he test positive, what are the chances of him having been contagious when I saw him later that day? Would anyone have any insight? Had a look myself online but couldn't find much information.

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#10 13-10-2020 7:16pm

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https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/coronavirus-811-more-cases-as-cavan-emerges-as-new-hotspot-1.4379802?mode=amp

Just under 1800 of 8000 cases in the past fortnight were community transmission

Of the almost 8,000 cases occurring in the past fortnight, half arose from close contact with a case but 1,763 were the result of community transmission,

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#11 13-10-2020 7:19pm

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manniot2 wrote: »

How is it anyone at all who seems to have a gaa party or the like appears to end up with mass covid. It must be everywhere! That or else the test is a load of bollox

It is everywhere.like the doctor said. First case was in Feb I think. But 3 weeks previous someone died in cork hospital from covid.

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#12 13-10-2020 7:19pm

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Just heard of 3 confirmed cases in a retail shop in Dundrum. All staff.

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#13 13-10-2020 7:22pm

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AlphaDelta1 wrote: »

Just heard of 3 confirmed cases in a retail shop in Dundrum. All staff.

Even with masks mandatory more cases now in retail shops

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#14 13-10-2020 7:23pm

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Inquitus wrote: »

Aye, they seem hell bent on keeping the schools open, not sure why. Surely closing schools is better than shutting all retail etc. and the associated economic cost at level 4!

Goes against the narrative that schools are not a problem

You'd wonder why playmates are though

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#15 13-10-2020 7:23pm

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manniot2 wrote: »

How is it anyone at all who seems to have a gaa party or the like appears to end up with mass covid. It must be everywhere! That or else the test is a load of bollox

Take a minute there and think what people are being asked to do, and then think about what goes on at a post match piss up.

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#16 13-10-2020 7:25pm

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Now that 6 or 7 percent of us have had Covid shouldnt these people be allowed back in pubs and restaurants and football matches.

If some of ye out there could invent an on the spot antibody test at the doors of these establishments and we can get some people back to normal and save jobs of families.

I know people get reinforced but not too many (so far).

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#17 13-10-2020 7:25pm

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JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Even with masks mandatory more cases now in retail shops

People going into shops a lot more and a lot of people may as well be wearing their mask on their foreheads.

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#18 13-10-2020 7:26pm

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Seeing that covid loves to party and loves a county final can you just imagine how much it would have loved to be at that Ballyragget party last year

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#19 13-10-2020 7:27pm

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Poorside wrote: »

People going into shops a lot more and a lot of people may as well be wearing their mask on their foreheads.

I've seen the tiny visors among staff I shops too.

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manniot2 wrote: »

How is it anyone at all who seems to have a gaa party or the like appears to end up with mass covid. It must be everywhere! That or else the test is a load of bollox

When you think about it at the moment there has been about 10,000 cases confirmed in the last few weeks, those 10,000 cases have caused around 14,000 cases that have yet to be confirmed.

Add in all the case that never get confirmed and there could easily be 25,000 active infections at the moment.

So a 1 in 200 chance across the entire population. If 10 GAA clubs have celebrations with an average of only 50 people at each of them, it is likely there would be at least one actively infectious case amongst them. It's why large gatherings are unlikely for quite some time.

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#21 13-10-2020 7:27pm

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7 deaths up North today, bit of a jump. 150 in hospital and 23 in ICU there, I thought their hospital figures would be a lot worse than us considering their cases per capita are a lot higher but they're not doing roughly as well as us in terms of hospital numbers. What are we about 250 in hospital now?

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#22 13-10-2020 7:28pm

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Poorside wrote: »

People going into shops a lot more and a lot of people may as well be wearing their mask on their foreheads.

The visors do nothing.

"To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)

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#23 13-10-2020 7:30pm

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odyssey06 wrote: »

The visors do nothing.

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#24 13-10-2020 7:31pm

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While In Ireland we have players playing GAA finals with Covid.

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1316082940468756481

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#25 13-10-2020 7:31pm

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If we weren't all running around wearing masks, would it be much worse?

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#26 13-10-2020 7:32pm

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odyssey06 wrote: »

The visors do nothing.

At the start people thought they were effective, the fact that's been proven wrong has yet to get into the general publics mindset.

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#27 13-10-2020 7:33pm

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JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Even with masks mandatory more cases now in retail shops

I see a lot of those visor things on staff rather than face masks, they are completely useless.

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Dr Li Meng fled to the US where she presumably had no money. Trump took her in so presumably that's why she's with Bannon.

If you expect a PhD virologist from Hong Kong to understand the difference between two politiical parties who are virtually the same but disagree over abortion.....

My point is it's awful that she ended up with Bannon, that no media of note would work with her. Her mother has been arrested and her work reads well to a non expert like me. Others like Dr Gupta have been similarly sidelined.

We're meant to be a democracy..... How is it democracy if Dr Li Meng is not given a voice?

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#29 13-10-2020 7:35pm

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podgeandrodge wrote: »

If we weren't all running around wearing masks, would it be much worse?

Its not when they are running around that worries me... but sat on a busy bus for 30 mins.

"To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)

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#30 13-10-2020 7:35pm

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mcsean2163 wrote: »

Dr Li Meng fled to the US where she presumably had no money. Trump took her in so presumably that's why she's with Bannon.

If you expect a PhD virologist from Hong Kong to understand the difference between two politiical parties who are virtually the same but disagree over abortion.....

My point is it's awful that she ended up with Bannon, that no media of note would work with her. Her mother has been arrested and her work reads well to a non expert like me. Others like Dr Gupta have been similarly sidelined.

We're meant to be a democracy..... How is it democracy if Dr Li Meng is not given a voice?

Seriously, what is it with you and Li Meng?

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#31 13-10-2020 7:37pm

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mcsean2163 wrote: »

Dr Li Meng fled to the US where she presumably had no money. Trump took her in so presumably that's why she's with Bannon.

If you expect a PhD virologist from Hong Kong to understand the difference between two politiical parties who are virtually the same but disagree over abortion.....

My point is it's awful that she ended up with Bannon, that no media of note would work with her. Her mother has been arrested and her work reads well to a non expert like me. Others like Dr Gupta have been similarly sidelined.

We're meant to be a democracy..... How is it democracy if Dr Li Meng is not given a voice?

We don't subscribe to the 5G causes Covid conspiracy theory either, this is on a par with that. Trump wants to blame China and Bannon finds a patsy to write the requisite paper, which is then torn to shreds by all reputable virologists.

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