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

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    #9482
    funnydoggy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭funnydoggy


    DubInMeath wrote: »
    Don't go into the restrictions thread on here if you think that group is mad. Also avoid the conspiracy theory forum unless you want to realise that no matter how down you might feel it could always be worse.


    :rolleyes:


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    #9483
    FrogmanBegins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 57 ✭✭FrogmanBegins


    DubInMeath wrote: »
    Don't go into the restrictions thread on here if you think that group is mad. Also avoid the conspiracy theory forum unless you want to realise that no matter how down you might feel it could always be worse.

    Whereas the lads here calling for the army to patrol the streets of every Hamlet in the country is the height of sanity


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    #9484
    Jizique
    Registered Users Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭Jizique


    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    We are f**ked. The Pro-Lockdown mouthpieces in the media and at NPHET have no idea what people have to live like. They have this notion that every works for trendy tech start up or in a financial industry job that they can work from home and the industry will be fine for them when everything is back. They couldn't give a **** about anyone outside of their own social bubbles.

    Retail workers out of work. Cleaners out of work. Bar-Restaurant people out of work, painter/decorators out of work, people who work in Gyms out of work, people in betting shops put of work, make up artists out of work. People with **** all hope of the future at the best of times, who are just trying to get by in a world being constantly taken away from them. Now the future holds absolutely nothing. Their jobs will officially be gone soon with no hope on the horizon for the future. If you lost your job already like myself, don't count on getting one soon. It will be years until you work again. They want us dead. To NPHET and the Smuglords, these are just jobs for college students before they join the establishment class. If you're working those jobs in your 30s, 40s, 50s you're better off dead in their eyes.

    Our country has been stolen from us from smug doctors and media, who control piss weak politicians.

    Great post - the media were ****ed, but now this is a lifeline with everyone tuning in as the misery porn is dialed up to 11, and boy, are these one last ramping it;
    I am so pessimistic about the future, I don’t know how we can survive as a country.
    When do we ever hear about the recoveries from the”lethal virus”? There have been 50k infections uncovered and almost 2k deaths, with a median age of 88, and 90% of these had underlying conditions; I’m not saying it’s nothing, but there is also a positive story to tell


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    #9485
    political analyst
    Registered Users Posts: 4,482 ✭✭✭political analyst


    Let's not forget that there will be a review of this lockdown in four weeks.


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    #9486
    D.Q
    Registered Users Posts: 6,054 ✭✭✭D.Q


    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    We are f**ked. The Pro-Lockdown mouthpieces in the media and at NPHET have no idea what people have to live like. They have this notion that every works for trendy tech start up or in a financial industry job that they can work from home and the industry will be fine for them when everything is back. They couldn't give a **** about anyone outside of their own social bubbles.

    Retail workers out of work. Cleaners out of work. Bar-Restaurant people out of work, painter/decorators out of work, people who work in Gyms out of work, people in betting shops put of work, make up artists out of work. People with **** all hope of the future at the best of times, who are just trying to get by in a world being constantly taken away from them. Now the future holds absolutely nothing. Their jobs will officially be gone soon with no hope on the horizon for the future. If you lost your job already like myself, don't count on getting one soon. It will be years until you work again. They want us dead. To NPHET and the Smuglords, these are just jobs for college students before they join the establishment class. If you're working those jobs in your 30s, 40s, 50s you're better off dead in their eyes.

    Our country has been stolen from us from smug doctors and media, who control piss weak politicians.

    Almost makes me want to get my family into a car and drive into a river.


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    #9487
    Non solum non ambulabit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭Non solum non ambulabit


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    Pretty unrealistic I feel

    https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1318319876218507264?s=19

    Not a hope we are opening up on Dec 1st. Under current restrictions best case scenario is we get to R 0.5 in 3 weeks time then hold that for remaining 3 weeks. That gets us to 400 cases a day. But if we open up we'll hit 1000 a day just in time for Christmas get togethers. Nphet will have to keep us in Level 5 to prevent that.

    Reality bites.

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    #9488
    gmisk
    Registered Users Posts: 32,292 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Parabellum9 wrote: »
    Oh there are some absolute nutcases on that side of things - they know it all and have it all figured out, everyone who wears a mask or follows the rules is a “sheep” or “slave”. The only term I can think of for them is “****ing muppets”
    Facebook is awash with them unfortunately.
    I have unfriended a couple of people the past while on it, couldn't be arsed reading the rubbish on my timeline


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    #9489
    FrogmanBegins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 57 ✭✭FrogmanBegins


    Jizique wrote: »
    Great post - the media were ****ed, but now this is a lifeline with everyone tuning in as the misery porn is dialed up to 11, and boy, are these one last ramping it;
    I am so pessimistic about the future, I don’t know how we can survive as a country.
    When do we ever hear about the recoveries from the”lethal virus”? There have been 50k infections uncovered and almost 2k deaths, with a median age of 88, and 90% of these had underlying conditions; I’m not saying it’s nothing, but there is also a positive story to tell

    That's 50,000 cases that we know of. The WHO reckon over 700 million people have had it but I guess that factors in countries that simply can't do test and trace.


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    #9490
    CruelSummer
    Registered Users Posts: 2,239 ✭✭✭CruelSummer


    DubInMeath wrote: »
    Don't go into the restrictions thread on here if you think that group is mad. Also avoid the conspiracy theory forum unless you want to realise that no matter how down you might feel it could always be worse.

    And here was I thinking this thread was a mad house with people fixated on a few elite GAA Championship games taking place. Completely lost the plot blaming some inter county matches as a reason level 5 may not work.


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    #9491
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,917 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    FrogmanBegins wrote: »
    Whereas the lads here calling for the army to patrol the streets of every Hamlet in the country is the height of sanity

    Never said that they were, but apart from the odd flying visit from the resident restrictions thread posters, this one is relatively saner


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    #9492
    FrogmanBegins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 57 ✭✭FrogmanBegins


    DubInMeath wrote: »
    Never said that they were, but apart from the odd flying visit from the resident restrictions thread posters, this one is relatively saner

    What's wrong with the restrictions thread?


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    #9493
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users Posts: 15,208 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    Non solum non ambulabit wrote: »
    Not a hope we are opening up on Dec 1st. Under current restrictions best case scenario is R 0.5 in 3 weeks time then hold that for remaining 3 weeks. That gets us to 400 cases a day. But if we open up we'll hit 1000 a day just in time for Christmas get togethers. Nphet will have to keep us in Level 5 to prevent that.

    Reality bites.

    Quite honestly after what they said tonight and the will to jump back to phase 3 I can see the 1st of December being a deadline for them regardless, the opening of retail etc for Christmas. I don't like getting political but it'll come down to that


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    #9494
    Rob A. Bank
    Registered Users Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭Rob A. Bank


    alias no.9 wrote: »
    No chance, the spike in respiratory infections won't ease off until March/April.

    MMmmmm ... not so sure about that.

    What the world has done so far is succeeding in suppressing a virus...

    Unfortunately it's the flu viruses, not Covid-19 :(

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    #9495
    KrustyUCC
    Registered Users Posts: 6,034 ✭✭✭KrustyUCC


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    Pretty unrealistic I feel

    https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1318319876218507264?s=19

    Thats unattainable in six weeks

    Prob means more weeks after 1st December which was always likely


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    #9496
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,917 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    CruelSummer wrote: »
    And here was I thinking this thread was a mad house with people fixated on a few elite GAA Championship games taking place. Completely lost the plot blaming some inter county matches as a reason level 5 may not work.

    Well you were saying earlier that anyone living in the sticks like myself couldn't go running after dark due to no street lights, so not sure where you get that idea from.


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    #9497
    Non solum non ambulabit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭Non solum non ambulabit


    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    We are f**ked. The Pro-Lockdown mouthpieces in the media and at NPHET have no idea what people have to live like. They have this notion that every works for trendy tech start up or in a financial industry job that they can work from home and the industry will be fine for them when everything is back. They couldn't give a **** about anyone outside of their own social bubbles.

    Retail workers out of work. Cleaners out of work. Bar-Restaurant people out of work, painter/decorators out of work, people who work in Gyms out of work, people in betting shops put of work, make up artists out of work. People with **** all hope of the future at the best of times, who are just trying to get by in a world being constantly taken away from them. Now the future holds absolutely nothing. Their jobs will officially be gone soon with no hope on the horizon for the future. If you lost your job already like myself, don't count on getting one soon. It will be years until you work again. They want us dead. To NPHET and the Smuglords, these are just jobs for college students before they join the establishment class. If you're working those jobs in your 30s, 40s, 50s you're better off dead in their eyes.

    Our country has been stolen from us from smug doctors and media, who control piss weak politicians.

    This a class based event, the exposed poor and the shielded wealthy.


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    #9498
    maebee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,686 ✭✭✭maebee


    gmisk wrote: »
    Facebook is awash with them unfortunately.
    I have unfriended a couple of people the past while on it, couldn't be arsed reading the rubbish on my timeline

    Facebook? Ditched it about 8 years ago. Rubbish. Why would you give your private life away?


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    #9499
    Roger_007
    Registered Users Posts: 21,886 ✭✭✭✭Roger_007


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    It looks like this thread will be finished tonight, its back to its former glory of ten pages of posts being ahead me and I have it set at 40 posts per page. Maybe people can stop posting until I catch up. :)

    I think at this stage it would be better to entitle the threads by season and episode like they do on TV series, ( i.e. Covid 19 Season 3 Episode 5).


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    #9500
    KrustyUCC
    Registered Users Posts: 6,034 ✭✭✭KrustyUCC


    Non solum non ambulabit wrote: »
    Not a hope we are opening up on Dec 1st. Under current restrictions best case scenario is we get to R 0.5 in 3 weeks time then hold that for remaining 3 weeks. That gets us to 400 cases a day. But if we open up we'll hit 1000 a day just in time for Christmas get togethers. Nphet will have to keep us in Level 5 to prevent that.

    Reality bites.

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    100%

    NPHET never likely to release the country for Christmas

    Very unrealistic


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    #9501
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    Jizique wrote: »
    Great post - the media were ****ed, but now this is a lifeline with everyone tuning in as the misery porn is dialed up to 11, and boy, are these one last ramping it;
    I am so pessimistic about the future, I don’t know how we can survive as a country.
    When do we ever hear about the recoveries from the”lethal virus”? There have been 50k infections uncovered and almost 2k deaths, with a median age of 88, and 90% of these had underlying conditions; I’m not saying it’s nothing, but there is also a positive story to tell

    "I don't know how we will survive as a country"

    Pull yourself together. Many greater disasters have befallen the world throughout history. Each time we rebuild. The tools and resources are even moreso in place these days for a swift recovery.

    The hysteria is something else.


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    #9502
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,913 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    It looks like this thread will be finished tonight, its back to its former glory of ten pages of posts being ahead me and I have it set at 40 posts per page. Maybe people can stop posting until I catch up. :)

    Ah I wouldn't care. Most posts including my own are forgotten in an instant :P


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    #9503
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    Only catching up now. Heard bits of the news, more restrictions brought in. Are they still keeping schools open?


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    #9504
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    There hasn't been any news reports about terrorist attacks around the world for a while, could do with a change of news perhaps.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    #9505
    Kh1993
    Closed Accounts Posts: 443 ✭✭Kh1993


    NIMAN wrote: »
    My prediction.

    Lockdown now til 1st December.

    We open, the country goes buck mental again, with shopping in a panic for Xmas, there will be no room in shops to socially distance, pubs will be packed, house parties galore.

    And another lockdown in January to start the year off as we mean to continue .

    Sure even NPHET have more or less guaranteed this will happen. Their models have us back at 300 cases per day by early January. Pointless.


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    #9506
    Non solum non ambulabit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭Non solum non ambulabit


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    Quite honestly after what they said tonight and the will to jump back to phase 3 I can see the 1st of December being a deadline for them regardless, the opening of retail etc for Christmas. I don't like getting political but it'll come down to that

    Hopefully they do open up


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    #9507
    FrogmanBegins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 57 ✭✭FrogmanBegins


    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    "I don't know how we will survive as a country"

    Pull yourself together. Many greater disasters have befallen the world throughout history. Each time we rebuild. The tools and resources are even moreso in place these days for a swift recovery.

    The hysteria is something else.

    Ignoring the years of misery and suffering in between all the rebuilding. This isn't a film there isn't going to be some tidy happy ending to all this. Thousands of people are going to slip into poverty from this. Is it really worth it ?


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    #9508
    GazzaL
    Registered Users Posts: 1,395 ✭✭✭GazzaL


    We'll save Christmas you guys. I mean, Johnny may have lost his business, Mary may have lost her job, Paddy may have decided to go for a walk in a river, and Eileen may have decided to burn the house down with herself locked inside, but it'll be Christmas.


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    #9509
    FrogmanBegins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 57 ✭✭FrogmanBegins


    Kh1993 wrote: »
    Sure even NPHET have more or less guaranteed this will happen. Their models have us back at 300 cases per day by early January. Pointless.

    And then people will be calling for yet one more lockdown. The last one this time, cross our hearts. That'll be the private sector well and truly put to the sword


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    #9510
    CruelSummer
    Registered Users Posts: 2,239 ✭✭✭CruelSummer


    DubInMeath wrote: »
    Well you were saying earlier that anyone living in the sticks like myself couldn't go running after dark due to no street lights, so not sure where you get that idea from.

    I don’t think it’s safe at all to run in the dark with no street lights in the countryside in the Winter.


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    #9511
    FrogmanBegins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 57 ✭✭FrogmanBegins


    GazzaL wrote: »
    We'll save Christmas you guys. I mean, Johnny may have lost his business, Mary may have lost her job, Paddy may have decided to go for a walk in a river, and Eileen may have decided to burn the house down with herself locked inside, but it'll be Christmas.

    Don't worry we can all tune in on Christmas morning for Tony to laugh in our faces while he has his gold plated pension for the rest of his life while thousands of vulnerable and working poor families scrape and get told how lucky they are to get the pup payment


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