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

Cluedo Monopoly wrote: »

What will be ever talk about when Covid is gone?

God forbid Trump loses the election too!!

I remember the collective release of frustration after the snow a few years ago which resulted in people getting absolutely hammered when we could get outside after being stuck indoors for 3 or 4 days.

I’m not a big drinker but if Covid disappeared in the morning, I’d go on the piss for a month. Kids can mind themselves.

hotmail.com wrote: »

Opinion polls show that majority of the public want more restrictions.

I get the impression that most of these people believe the restrictions are for someone else. Traffic levels are getting worse.

These opinion polls are Bull****, most of them ask should we do more to stop the spread of covid, should we stop house parties. Of course we should stop house parties but it doesn't mean I want more restrictions.

Dr. Colm Henry, Chief Clinical Officer for HSE has today stated that 80% of positive Covid cases at present have mild symptoms or are asymptomatic.

This is especially the case with young people.

FFS lads do you think the penny might finally drop that the schools are spreading this???????

Imagine if they actually did random testing in schools like Nursing Homes or Meat Factories what numbers would be like???

But not only are they not doing this they are actually dangerously ignoring genuine close contacts in schools + brushing it under the carpet.

Akesh wrote: »

90% requiring no assistance is a bit misleading. There are plenty of 70+ in Ireland who would be very mobile but have other health complications not impacting their mobility or independence. It's another misleading statistic in an attempt to deflect away from the fact that the vast majority of those people that died from contracting Covid are older than the life expectancy in this country. The remainder have had other health issues.

The issue with ICU is that instead of handing out money to professional service firms who deferred invoicing to meet the criteria, they should have been vastly increasing ICU capacity.

NPHET, HSE and the Government will have a lot of questions to answer when this country is bankrupt from rolling ineffective lockdowns.

I am specifically discussing the group of people who were admitted to ICU, not the overall deaths. I am just pointing out that even though those admitted to ICU in UK were younger and relatively well, almost 40% in UK ICUs died. I am trying to figure out why there is a difference in mortality rates in Irish and UK ICUs.

Agree that independence without requiring assistance for daily activities does not mean you do not have underlying health conditions but it does mean that the people who were admitted to ICUs in the UK were not in nursing homes or at home with home help or family carers. If you are capable of looking after yourself without any help, then you are less likely to expect to die in the immediate future.

I think that statistic points out that it was not people who were in nursing homes who were admitted to ICU in UK but people who were in their own homes. The mean age of people admitted to ICU in the UK was 58.8 with median age of 60. Almost 40% of this relatively younger group died in ICU. This is well below average life expectancy.

15.1% of people admitted to UK ICUs between ages 16 and 39 died, 21.6% between 40-49, 33.3% of those between 50 to 59.

rob316 wrote: »

As a parent I desperately wants the schools open and even more so the special needs schools but it's just not possible. The idiot on the street can see the correlation of schools opening and cases rocketing and it's not exclusive to us, the UK have followed the same path.
If your modelling can't see that I have less than zero faith in nphet.

Instead will hammer the final nail into the coffin of retail when we move to level 4.

As a parent I’ve no issue with schools being open.
As a parent I’ve no issue with the kids getting Covid.

As a child of elderly parents I don’t want my kids to see their grandparents currently.

Czechia which has avoided the pandemic so far are now building field hospitals with the fastest growth rate in Europe. Germany experiencing exponential growth now too. At the beginning of the week in Germany we were at 4k per day I think. Now it's approaching 8. Merkel predicted 20k cases per day by Xmas too weeks ago but that seems like wishful thinking now.

This is a long way from over.

https://www.praguemorning.cz/czech-republic-to-build-field-hospitals-as-covid-19-cases-soar/

lawrencesummers wrote: »

As a parent I’ve no issue with schools being open.
As a parent I’ve no issue with the kids getting Covid.

As a child of elderly parents I don’t want my kids to see their grandparents currently.

What about if your kids give you covid? are you not visiting your parents at the moment either?

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Turned off the news because it’s more bad news.

https://twitter.com/killersundymann/status/1288440419580366848

Thanks for that.

So we hit a record of 160 in ICU due to COVID at the peak in April with positive cases just over 1,000 cases per day.
Today we currently have 29 in ICU (a decrease in the last few days) with numbers now higher than the peak positive rate per day in April.

Am I reading the last operational report correctly?

majcos wrote: »

Yes. It’s available in daily HSE Covid operation reports published online publicly as far back as mid April.

https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/news/newsfeatures/covid19-updates/coronavirus-daily-operations-updates.html

appledrop wrote: »

Dr. Colm Henry, Chief Clinical Officer for HSE has today stated that 80% of positive Covid cases at present have mild symptoms or are asymptomatic.

This is especially the case with young people.

FFS lads do you think the penny might finally drop that the schools are spreading this???????

Imagine if they actually did random testing in schools like Nursing Homes or Meat Factories what numbers would be like???

But not only are they not doing this they are actually dangerously ignoring genuine close contacts in schools + brushing it under the carpet.

Look, everyone knows about schools.

Everything else that could be blamed has been shut down for months now. Strange that the uptick happened not long after schools reopened isn't it?

But I suppose schools are not a problem for anyone. I feel for the teachers and SNAs and support staff, along with parents.

They talk about house parties, they have been ongoing, they talk about pubs, all shut down apart from outdoors, retail... open for months, Public Transport, running for months.

So what is the common denominator here? I think it begins with S.

Stheno wrote: »

Have they not shut bars in the North?

Not until Friday

Deleted User wrote: »

Classy from RTE, focus on an exceptional circumstance and tarnish an entire sector. The propaganda wing of the government is functioning well. Just don't mention Covid clusters in schools, that would be inconvenient.

I don't watch TV at all especially RTE, but was the correspondent resident in Belfast I wonder? We have enough problems down here without becoming obsessed with them up there either. Give us a fkn break please RTE. Concentrate on our own country that pays the license fee FGS.

Stheno wrote: »

Jesus

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