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

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  • #5582
    owlbethere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭owlbethere


    Hector Savage wrote: »
    It's good news for us, but bad news for the doom merchants... they'll be hoping it fails ...

    Spot on for sure. They love the doom and gloom and would love to prolong it as much as possible.


  • #5583
    Loafing Oaf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,175 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    Chicke wrote: »
    Just wondering how many of posters here have minimum/no exposure ie work from home and shop online and have no kids in school???

    My situation
    Kids in school
    Husband works on site as essential
    I required to work on site as essential worker although could be done from home
    And I tend to go to shops to get food few times a week
    No discretionary social contacts and havent seen extended family in months as in different counties.

    The only thing that can be stopped in going into shops to buy food(essential) but perhaps should be done on line.my understanding is little /low risk in short visits to shop but could be wrong!

    I'm in a similar situation. I was doing click & collect during the first lockdown but the supermarket is 30 miles away and you have to book a fortnight in advance so I don't think it's worth the effort for the minimal reduction in risk.


  • #5584
    Thierry12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 917 ✭✭✭Thierry12


    KrustyUCC wrote: »
    That's the aim but I couldn't see Tony Holohan & NPHET allowing level 2

    Correct

    All dogs think they are Alphas until they meet a Wolf


  • #5585
    Blondini
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,480 ✭✭✭Blondini


    owlbethere wrote: »
    Spot on for sure. They love the doom and gloom and would love to prolong it as much as possible.

    Who are these mystery covid-loving people that you and others obsess about?

    I don't know a single person, online or real life, who want this prolonged.

    I think you strange lot are projecting, and definitely the lady doth protest too much.


  • #5586
    Necro
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 57,804 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    prunudo wrote:
    In a follow up survey 66% of people are deemed to be 'I'm alright Jacks' with an inability to see things from other people's perspective.

    No what that survey says is outside the screaming on social media most people understand why these decisions are being made.

    This is a fact some seem to fail to grasp that social media does not reflect normal life in any way shape or form - most people don't give a damn about the circular arguments or wailing of the few.

    But yeah, let's insult a sizeable majority of citizens in the country, that's the way to make them consider your opinion as valid :rolleyes:

    Moderator: Current Affairs/IMHO, Soccer, Pro Wrestling, State Benefits



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  • #5587
    petes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,382 ✭✭✭petes


    owlbethere wrote: »
    Spot on for sure. They love the doom and gloom and would love to prolong it as much as possible.

    No, they wouldn't. If there are any that would they have obviously something wrong in their thinking and probably need some help.


  • #5588
    Charles Babbage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,710 ✭✭✭Charles Babbage


    owlbethere wrote: »
    Spot on for sure. They love the doom and gloom and would love to prolong it as much as possible.

    Stop posting nonsense. These vaccines are on the way, and even if there are not there will be improvements in testing and treatment will sort this thing. The " doom merchants" are merely responsible people with a bit of patience who are willing to have a bit less for a few months to preserve people's health.
    Let's hope the callous and mé féiners are remembered when this is all over.


  • #5589
    SleetAndSnow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,752 ✭✭✭SleetAndSnow


    https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1320669744962424833?s=19

    39 in icu as of yesterday evening


  • #5590
    Loafing Oaf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,175 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    owlbethere wrote: »
    Spot on for sure. They love the doom and gloom and would love to prolong it as much as possible.
    :rolleyes:
    What an original observation
    Widdensushi wrote: »
    You can smell the disappointment in the air on here of people disappointed with a good number.
    mloc123 wrote: »
    "Maybe I enjoy the misery..."

    I get that vibe a lot on here :)


  • #5591
    leanin2019
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 168 ✭✭leanin2019


    Hector Savage wrote: »
    It's good news for us, but bad news for the doom merchants... they'll be hoping it fails ...
    owlbethere wrote: »
    Spot on for sure. They love the doom and gloom and would love to prolong it as much as possible.

    Some people just want to see the world burn


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  • #5592
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,411 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    owlbethere wrote: »
    Spot on for sure. They love the doom and gloom and would love to prolong it as much as possible.

    Do you even realise how infantile that sounds?


  • #5593
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    Hector Savage wrote: »
    It's good news for us, but bad news for the doom merchants... they'll be hoping it fails ...

    Who wants a vaccine to fail? Something seriously wrong with someone if they want a vaccine to fail and have this shít continue.


  • #5594
    owlbethere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭owlbethere


    After this lockdown and whenever they lift level 5, they will probably move us into a level 3 for December. It means many restaurants and cafes won't be allowed to have people and customers eating on their premises. No body will be allowed an indoor sit down meal in December. It will all be outside dining. Right in the middle of December and it will probably be applied right across the board, up and down the country all around. That's absolutely scandalous.


  • #5595
    JP100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 498 ✭✭JP100


    Expect to see the schools being closed for the mid-term to feed in to the case numbers over the course of the next week or so.


  • #5596
    niallo27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,138 ✭✭✭✭niallo27


    Necro wrote: »
    No what that survey says is outside the screaming on social media most people understand why these decisions are being made.

    This is a fact some seem to fail to grasp that social media does not reflect normal life in any way shape or form - most people don't give a damn about the circular arguments or wailing of the few.

    But yeah, let's insult a sizeable majority of citizens in the country, that's the way to make them consider your opinion as valid :rolleyes:

    It might go to prove that the media are doing their job and making us all terrified, as for social media, I feel the majority on there are screaming for a harsher lockdown and people are just getting on with things outside of it. You talk about the 66% and I think it would be fair to say most of them are not affected by the lockdown financially, does that mean because a majority are not affected we should ignore the rest of people who have been hit the hardest. Surveys like this proof people are selfish and only care about themselves.


  • #5597
    Paddygreen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 716 ✭✭✭Paddygreen


    owlbethere wrote: »
    Spot on for sure. They love the doom and gloom and would love to prolong it as much as possible.

    Sorry, but the situation is hopeless. What I am concentrating on now is the fact that the end is near for humanity if we don’t do everything the experts say. Watching RTE and all it’s warm and familiar faces, Ryan, Jedward, Uncle George, Twink, Dermot Bannon, yer wan on the news and all the rest is like one big long boring funeral, I feel like I have been standing in the back of a church since March, it’s like Brexit but more somber, pervasive and terrifying. Things are so bad nobody is even talking about the weather anymore.The rainbows take the edge off the catastrophe for me.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRKJiM9Njr8


  • #5598
    leanin2019
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 168 ✭✭leanin2019


    JP100 wrote: »
    Expect to see the schools being closed for the mid-term to feed in to the case numbers over the course of the next week or so.

    Would take at least a week for that to show any benefits.

    What about the mad rush at non essential retail in the few days leading up to Level 5 closures last week? Will this have an effect?

    Read somewhere that some labs wouldn't be able to process tests this weekend. Might have an impact on daily case numbers.

    Would it better to release numbers weekly rather than daily?


  • #5599
    Dr. Bre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,879 ✭✭✭Dr. Bre


    Paddygreen wrote: »
    Sorry, but the situation is hopeless. What I am concentrating on now is the fact that the end is near for humanity if we don’t do everything the experts say. Watching RTE and all it’s warm and familiar faces, Ryan, Jedward, Uncle George, Twink, Dermot Bannon, yer wan on the news and all the rest is like one big long boring funeral, I feel like I have been standing in the back of a church since March, it’s like Brexit but more somber, pervasive and terrifying. Things are so bad nobody is even talking about the weather anymore.The rainbows take the edge off the catastrophe for me.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRKJiM9Njr8

    Stay safe Paddy!


  • #5600
    I Am The Law
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 657 ✭✭✭I Am The Law


    owlbethere wrote: »
    Spot on for sure. They love the doom and gloom and would love to prolong it as much as possible.

    It's just that we don't want our chickens to hatch in one basket.


  • #5601
    bb1234567
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    Field hospital has opened in Prague for overflow according to BBC news. Will be interesting to see if it's used or not


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  • #5602
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    leanin2019 wrote: »
    Would take at least a week for that to show any benefits.

    What about the mad rush at non essential retail in the few days leading up to Level 5 closures last week? Will this have an effect?

    Read somewhere that some labs wouldn't be able to process tests this weekend. Might have an impact on daily case numbers.

    Would it better to release numbers weekly rather than daily?


    Once a week! How can the likes of Niallo be terrified everyday then?


  • #5603
    prunudo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,298 ✭✭✭prunudo


    Paddygreen wrote: »
    Sorry, but the situation is hopeless. What I am concentrating on now is the fact that the end is near for humanity if we don’t do everything the experts say. Watching RTE and all it’s warm and familiar faces, Ryan, Jedward, Uncle George, Twink, Dermot Bannon, yer wan on the news and all the rest is like one big long boring funeral, I feel like I have been standing in the back of a church since March, it’s like Brexit but more somber, pervasive and terrifying. Things are so bad nobody is even talking about the weather anymore.The rainbows take the edge off the catastrophe for me.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRKJiM9Njr8

    Great song


  • #5604
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,522 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    owlbethere wrote: »
    After this lockdown and whenever they lift level 5, they will probably move us into a level 3 for December. It means many restaurants and cafes won't be allowed to have people and customers eating on their premises. No body will be allowed an indoor sit down meal in December. It will all be outside dining. Right in the middle of December and it will probably be applied right across the board, up and down the country all around. That's absolutely scandalous.

    Level 2 according to "government sources" this morning.

    Looks like it'll be solely a government decsion


  • #5605
    brookers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 414 ✭✭brookers


    Wonder what way the ski resorts will operate. Be hard with the sharing of equipment, lifts, cable cars, gondolas etc, wonder will people from other european countries still go, will they be allowed go across borders driving etc, it is a huge thing in schools also. Saunas, swimming pools are other relaxing elements of skiing too will be affected. I just cant imagine it all.....It wont worry us anyway as we dont have the money to go but just thinking how covid will have a huge impact on it. Cant see restaurants opening at christmas either, personally would love a good old night out with a few friends dining in a buzzy spot but cant see that happening either. If anybody had told me this a year ago i would have said they were nuts.


  • #5606
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,809 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    Blondini wrote: »
    Who are these mystery covid-loving people that you and others obsess about?

    I don't know a single person, online or real life, who want this prolonged.

    I think you strange lot are projecting, and definitely the lady doth protest too much.

    The people who spout soundbites about "covid lovers" "misery merchants" "doom/scare mongers" etc. are often the very ones who want to keep doing the very behaviour that causes it to be prolonged.


  • #5607
    Benimar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,794 ✭✭✭Benimar


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    Level 2 according to "government sources" this morning.

    Looks like it'll be solely a government decsion

    Micheal said in the press conference announcing Level 5 that the move would be back to Level 3.

    Wonder who is the ‘Government source’. Probably doesn’t take much figuring out tbh.


  • #5608
    prunudo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,298 ✭✭✭prunudo


    brookers wrote: »
    Wonder what way the ski resorts will operate. Be hard with the sharing of equipment, lifts, cable cars, gondolas etc, wonder will people from other european countries still go, will they be allowed go across borders driving etc, it is a huge thing in schools also. Saunas, swimming pools are other relaxing elements of skiing too will be affected. I just cant imagine it all.....It wont worry us anyway as we dont have the money to go but just thinking how covid will have a huge impact on it. Cant see restaurants opening at christmas either, personally would love a good old night out with a few friends dining in a buzzy spot but cant see that happening either. If anybody had told me this a year ago i would have said they were nuts.

    Can't imagine social distanced apres ski will be much fun either.


  • #5609
    mandrake04
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,435 ✭✭✭mandrake04


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    Level 2 according to "government sources" this morning.

    Looks like it'll be solely a government decsion

    do I detect some cynicism in your post? how likely do you reckon jumping to L2 when we seen what happened with pubs through July and August?


  • #5610
    Non solum non ambulabit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭Non solum non ambulabit


    Jim_Hodge wrote: »
    Do you even realise how infantile that sounds?

    Kermit was certainly giddy with excitement when he saw the US numbers and hospitalisations rise. "Strap yourselves in".


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  • #5611
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 518 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    bb1234567 wrote: »
    Field hospital has opened in Prague for overflow according to BBC news. Will be interesting to see if it's used or not

    They have also opened a field hospital in Wisconsin following a large spike in cases.

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-wisconsin-idUSKBN26S33U


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