Covid 19 Part XXVII- 62,002 ROI (1,915 deaths) 39,609 NI (724 deaths) (02/11) Read OP

IrishStuff09 · 21-10-2020 03:22PM

Positive Swabs
1,105

Positivity Rate
6.66%

Swabs Completed
16,583

21-10-2020 03:22PM

Widdensushi wrote: »

Is he ill?

Absolutely Sickened

CIARAN_BOYLE · 21-10-2020 03:22PM

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

I'm not sure I'd be so quick to blame the people when it's the government who decided a 2 day notice period was a good idea.

Damned if they do and damned if they don't. A lot of pubs and restaurants were burned by stock going out of date before so government are trying to help.

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

What’s the story with the Covid App now that track and trace has collapsed anyone know?

Not enough people using it to be very valuable.but it does have some use.

What Username Guidelines · 21-10-2020 03:23PM

1,105 swabs from 16,583 tests.

6.66% positive

Boggles · 21-10-2020 03:23PM

IrishStuff09 wrote: »

Positive Swabs
1,105

Positivity Rate
6.66%

Swabs Completed
16,583

Could that number be any more creepy?

seamus · 21-10-2020 03:24PM

IrishStuff09 wrote: »

Positive Swabs
1,105

Positivity Rate
6.66%

Swabs Completed
16,583

Good numbers.

7-day positivity rate dropped to 7.12%

21-10-2020 03:25PM

Boggles wrote: »

Fifteen 18 year olds can train together, but two 18 year olds can't play golf.

Seems legit.

I would have more faith in two 18 year olds behaving appropriately while playing golf than two 50 year olds

pauldry · 21-10-2020 03:25PM

seamus wrote: »

Good numbers.

7-day positivity rate dropped to 7.12%

Itll be gone by Halloween. Yay

MerlinSouthDub · 21-10-2020 03:26PM

Boggles wrote: »

Could that number be any more creepy?

Is ok. It's 6.663450521%

TonyMaloney · 21-10-2020 03:27PM

IrishStuff09 wrote: »

Positive Swabs
1,105

Positivity Rate
6.66%

Swabs Completed
16,583

I have to concede that it's looking like Seamus was probably right, and we're seeing the effects of level 3 being applied nationally really eat into the growth of the virus.

It remains to be seen if the pattern holds and if it would have been a realistic alternative to going to level 5, but fair play to Seamus for the call.

speckle · 21-10-2020 03:27PM

Boggles wrote: »

Could that number be any more creepy?

is it rounded up or down?

MerlinSouthDub · 21-10-2020 03:29PM

What Username Guidelines wrote: »

1,105 swabs from 16,583 tests.

6.66% positive

Not bad at all. + rate seemed to be spiralling out of control last week, so great to see it below 7% again.

CIARAN_BOYLE · 21-10-2020 03:29PM

TonyMaloney wrote: »

I have to concede that it's looking like Seamus was probably right, and we're seeing the effects of level 3 being applied nationally really eat into the growth of the virus.

It remains to be seen if the pattern holds and if it would have been a realistic alternative to going to level 5, but fair play to Seamus for the call.

Or the breakdown of contact tracing means the people most needing a test weren't tested and cases were missed.

We need more time.

AlphaDelta1 · 21-10-2020 03:30PM

IrishStuff09 wrote: »

Positive Swabs
1,105

Positivity Rate
6.66%

Swabs Completed
16,583

Still very high numbers

eigrod · 21-10-2020 03:33PM

seamus wrote: »

Good numbers.

7-day positivity rate dropped to 7.12%

4 day positivity rate is 6.68%. Hopefully the downward trend will continue.

TonyMaloney · 21-10-2020 03:35PM

CIARAN_BOYLE wrote: »

Or the breakdown of contact tracing means the people most needing a test weren't tested and cases were missed.

We need more time.

Possibly. But it's not that we're doing less tracing, right?

We're just not doing enough. Missing cases. This will have consequences down the line. I'd expect the positivity rate to still be growing now though, simply as there should be more virus in the community if our trajectory hasn't been altered by something.

I could be missing something

AlphaDelta1 · 21-10-2020 03:36PM

RonaVirus wrote: »

Why is the icon for the check in feature in the app a black fella when 98% of the country is white?

Worst app ever.

You are right. We need more white women riding da black lads to even things up. Hung like horses I believe the lucky feckers.

redunited · 21-10-2020 03:38PM

What Username Guidelines wrote: »

1,105 swabs from 16,583 tests.

6.66% positive

Is this after or before Track and Trace broke down?

Paddygreen · 21-10-2020 03:38PM

Clean up the conversation a bit guys please.

21-10-2020 03:38PM

seamus wrote: »

Good numbers.

7-day positivity rate dropped to 7.12%

I wish I had never figured out where the raw data can be accessed. Cant stop making pointless charts

Widdensushi · 21-10-2020 03:39PM

Boggles wrote: »

Could that number be any more creepy?

I knew you would find something negative about the numbers but I wasn't expecting that, fair play

Goldengirl · 21-10-2020 03:40PM

Drumpot wrote: »

We are truly a consumer generation that's very much disconnected from the physical world that we abuse, mine and take for granted.

If this COVID situation has reinforced what I had already thought, its that as a species we are hopelessly vulnerable to natural disasters. Worse still, many people have no meaningful desire to mitigate any of these risks if it costs money or means they cant do stuff they want to do.

Surely knickers and toys are not essential items ?
Would people not have the common sense to know that if the virus is spreading like it is, crowding into the city to buy stupid sxxx today and yesterday defeats the purpose?
The virus doesn't discriminate between level 3 and level 5 .
Maybe the message needs to be stronger for some thickos to understand .
"If you want to have some level of normality for Christmas , stay away from crowds now and cop on , or you might be missing some family member due to Covid this December !"
Too strong ? I don't think so ..
or Something like the ad for CO alarms, with the canary singing " You might just end up Brown Bread !"

eigrod · 21-10-2020 03:42PM

I calculate that up to yesterday, the previous 7 days swabs total was 8147 and the 7 day cases announced total was 8159, so there shouldn’t be any backlog.

Qiaonasen · 21-10-2020 03:42PM

marno21 wrote: »

Perhaps it might be time for this gentleman to take a walk down to the Treasury and take a look at the planned national accounts for 2020 & 2021.

Ireland is borrowing in excess of €20bn in 2021. 2021 will be the last year of such an endeavour. It cannot continue. Should there be no vaccine for us, we will have to start massive cutbacks including to the advanced healthcare that's keeping much of the population who are vulnerable to Covid-19 alive. There is a very good reason why mortality rates in slums in Asia and in large areas of Africa are so low; there is no quality healthcare to treat their primary underlying conditions and they have low life expectancy. The difference between Ireland and those countries is first world healthcare funded by a strong, advanced economy.

If there is no vaccine in 2021, or the usual academic waffle in that article comes to pass, we will have 2 options:

1. Continue locking ourselves in our houses and borrowing into economic collapse in which healthcare provision goes out the window anyway
2. Find another route out of this mess, whatever you're having yourself that doesn't involve economic shutdowns.

You more or less have proven the point in the article. Option 1 wouldn't be normal. Option 2 will also not be normality. The pandemic does not care about the economy. Do not underestimate it. We are lucky to have never had to deal with something like this until now but historical precedent and current understanding of Corona all say that this is a world changing event on the scale of which those alive today have yet to understand.

21-10-2020 03:43PM

TonyMaloney wrote: »

With regards golf, lads, try to view it through the eyes of someone living in a block of flats with f all accessible amenities for the next six weeks.
What will it do for compliance if there's a common view that the lockdown favours the wealthy not just in terms of economic impacts, but even in terms of what they can avail of during the "lockdown".

Agreed to a point. But I don’t think that that means you bring it down to the lowest common denominator. This is not Spain in April. No-one is getting locked into their apartment. And there is no-one in Ireland that does not live within 5km of wide open spaces or the sea

This is not a lockdown by any stretch

Kimbot · 21-10-2020 03:43PM

Goldengirl wrote: »

Surely knickers and toys are not essential items ?
Would people not have the common sense to know that if the virus is spreading like it is, crowding into the city to buy stupid sxxx today and yesterday defeats the purpose?
The virus doesn't discriminate between level 3 and level 5 .
Maybe the message needs to be stronger for some thickos to understand .
"If you want to have some level of normality for Christmas , stay away from crowds now and cop on , or you might be missing some family member due to Covid this December !"
Too strong ? I don't think so ..
or Something like the ad for CO alarms, with the canary singing " You might just end up Brown Bread !"

Ah you never know, some of these people mass buying knickers might have been wearing the same pear since the first lock down.

And come on, toys at this time of year are kinda essential. Or are we all going to tell the kids that santa isnt coming cos he caught covid or something?

What Username Guidelines · 21-10-2020 03:44PM

Goldengirl wrote: »

Surely knickers and toys are not essential items ?
Would people not have the common sense to know that if the virus is spreading like it is, crowding into the city to buy stupid sxxx today and yesterday defeats the purpose?
The virus doesn't discriminate between level 3 and level 5 .
Maybe the message needs to be stronger for some thickos to understand .
"If you want to have some level of normality for Christmas , stay away from crowds now and cop on , or you might be missing some family member due to Covid this December !"
Too strong ? I don't think so ..
or Something like the ad for CO alarms, with the canary singing " You might just end up Brown Bread !"

I think a lot of people are assuming the 6 weeks may not be 6 weeks, and are lashing in the Christmas shopping just in case. Yes you can buy lots online, but not everyone shops online.

During the last lockdown, we needed to get socks and underwear for our daughter and most online sellers had nothing. Because 90% of people buy these in penny’s, and they were closed, so Next, M&S, etc, all sold out quick.

I’m guessing people are taking the risk on the chance that they extend level 5 again.

froog · 21-10-2020 03:45PM

AlphaDelta1 wrote: »

Still very high numbers

Especially considering contact tracing is a complete mess right now.

MerlinSouthDub · 21-10-2020 03:46PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I wish I had never figured out where the raw data can be accessed. Cant stop making pointless charts

Not looking exponential anymore, is it!

Gael23 · 21-10-2020 03:46PM

1000+ again today then

Covid 19 Part XXVII- 62,002 ROI (1,915 deaths) 39,609 NI (724 deaths) (02/11) Read OP

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