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

Loafing Oaf · 27-10-2020 05:15PM

OwenM wrote: »

Irish hospitals are quieter than ever:

https://twitter.com/LeoVaradkar/status/1320379523637104641

The ICUs are the problem

eigrod · 27-10-2020 05:15PM

Downward trajectory very evident now

https://covid19.shanehastings.eu/api/swabs/

OwenM · 27-10-2020 05:18PM

Loafing Oaf wrote: »

The ICUs are the problem

The ICU's are always a problem and are frequently 'over-run' during the winter. That problem is just compounded by covid. How Harris and Donnelly haven't been shown the door over this because they sat on their hands over the summer is something I'll never understand.

stephenjmcd · 27-10-2020 05:18PM

Non solum non ambulabit wrote: »

Probably need a laptop as the tables are hard to navigate.

Thats it alright cheers

is_that_so · 27-10-2020 05:20PM

OwenM wrote: »

The ICU's are always a problem and are frequently 'over-run' during the winter. That problem is just compounded by covid. How Harris and Donnelly haven't been shown the door over this because they sat on their hands over the summer is something I'll never understand.

Eh, Harris couldn't be fired, Constitution says no!

screamer · 27-10-2020 05:20PM

To be fair, unless we see some downward trajectory in the cases, it’s very disheartening and not going to help with compliance. That said, I think this might be a blip, and I can see higher numbers being reported later this week. I think the contact tracing mess has artificially lowered the numbers, and I’d not be too sure people are telling the truth about their close contacts now that we are in level 5 with fines being put in place. I hope I’m very wrong, cause I’m gone stir crazy with Groundhog Day that is covid.

froog · 27-10-2020 05:24PM

Does it not seem awfully coincidental that tracing completely collapsed last weekend and now we have a massive drop in cases? Bear in mind this the effect of a half assed level 3 we are seeing, not level 5.

rob316 · 27-10-2020 05:24PM

Downlinz wrote: »

Level 3 didn't achieve a reduction in Dublin or Donegal after 3 weeks and with hospitals approaching breaking point it would have been stupidly reckless to persist. It's much better they took extra actions than risk us facing into what Belgium and France are enduring now.

Breaking point? Not even close.

The ban on household mixing was only introduced on the 15th October, low and behold 2 weeks later we are starting to see the effect. Like I said NPHET gave absolutely no time, they seemed to think numbers would fall overnight. Bizarre really.
I was starting to think our government had a pair of bollox but took the easy route instead siding with "science"

Amirani · 27-10-2020 05:25PM

US2 wrote: »

No source so

I'm not sure that you know what the word 'source' means.

OwenM · 27-10-2020 05:26PM

The negativity in the press is relentless too, the Indo today:

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/concern-over-rise-in-covid-hospital-admissions-as-344-treated-in-one-day-39672055.html

"Yesterday saw the highest number of Covid-19 patients in hospital since May, with 344 patients being treated in total at one point. That figure fell during the day to 341."

Yesterday also had the lowest number of admissions in two weeks.

Icyseanfitz · 27-10-2020 05:28PM

This all seems far too sudden to be correct in my opinion

zinfandel · 27-10-2020 05:30PM

Sweden going up again....

https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/1027/1174065-covid-world/?fbclid=IwAR26Y7txGRoddpb5-HhYLMKUvHMB8tkA7T_lzXQ0M4oL1yrYvupfKsQ16_I

is_that_so · 27-10-2020 05:30PM

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

This all seems far too sudden to be correct in my opinion

You couldn't even get "Good news but" into that sentence!

MerlinSouthDub · 27-10-2020 05:31PM

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

This all seems far too sudden to be correct in my opinion

The + rate is falling gradually, not suddenly. The no of swabs today looks like a big drop, but that is because of a lower number of tests.

27-10-2020 05:31PM

ACitizenErased · 27-10-2020 05:33PM

Very positive swab numbers today. Clear progress being made. Happy Tuesday!

harr · 27-10-2020 05:35PM

A lot of negativity still around even with cases starting to even off , all about hospital numbers since the cases have steady a bit. Currently we are doing a lot better than most other European countries ..
I honestly think some news outlets do be terribly disappointed when no rise in numbers.
Hopefully now this is a genuine levelling off of cases and not a glitch due to the contact tracing .

Icyseanfitz · 27-10-2020 05:35PM

is_that_so wrote: »

You couldn't even get "Good news but" into that sentence!

Hard to be positive at the moment to be honest, just find it hard to believe weve gone from 1500 swabs a day to 500 in a week or so when every other EU country is still on the rise. Maybe we are the best prepared country in the EU

screamer · 27-10-2020 05:35PM

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Very positive swab numbers today. Clear progress being made. Happy Tuesday!

I’d love to share your optimism I really would, but I’ll hang tough for a few more days.

Plumbthedepths · 27-10-2020 05:36PM

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Very positive swab numbers today. Clear progress being made. Happy Tuesday!

Just 5 weeks (of many viable businesses being destroyed) to go so.

Stheno · 27-10-2020 05:36PM

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

Hard to be positive at the moment to be honest, just find it hard to believe weve gone from 1500 swabs a day to 500 in a week or so when every other EU country is still on the rise. Maybe we are the best prepared country in the EU

We've had restriction in place before other European countries

GT89 · 27-10-2020 05:37PM

Strumms wrote: »

Don’t know, you’d need to ask em. Perhaps it’s to give people outside of hospitals an insight into the work they do, to share some more fun aspects of the job ? I’m not of the mind to care. Good luck to em. Must be extremely difficult and stressful working in and being in hospital during covid times... if they want to do something fun, record it, publish it.... fine by me, it’s not North Korea.

Not a good look if they are making tik tok videos whilst the hospitals are supposedly overwhelmed. It gives the insight into the job that they spend most of the day doing f all and are bored at work. Also most employers have a social media at work policy which means posting stuff of your workplace in uniform is prohibited.

Treepole · 27-10-2020 05:37PM

2nd wave is over. Level 3 was working, but NPHET panicked when their tracing system collapsed and bounced the government into a further lockdown. They should be held to account for destroying large sections of the economy at a critical time of year. Hopefully things will be dropped back to Level 3 in a couple of weeks.

Icyseanfitz · 27-10-2020 05:38PM

Stheno wrote: »

We've had restriction in place before other European countries

Maybe that is it, just strikes me of news that's too good to be true

Wolf359f · 27-10-2020 05:38PM

zinfandel wrote: »

Sweden going up again....

https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/1027/1174065-covid-world/?fbclid=IwAR26Y7txGRoddpb5-HhYLMKUvHMB8tkA7T_lzXQ0M4oL1yrYvupfKsQ16_I

That's no surprise though.
Over on the Sweden thread they were discussing having community immunity as a reason cases were not increasing. There's plenty of countries with much higher cases per capital and they don't have any resemblance of community immunity!

Boggles · 27-10-2020 05:39PM

Treepole wrote: »

2nd wave is over. Level 3 was working, but NPHET panicked when their tracing system collapsed and bounced the government into a further lockdown.

So which is it or was it both?

Wolf359f · 27-10-2020 05:41PM

Treepole wrote: »

2nd wave is over. Level 3 was working, but NPHET panicked when their tracing system collapsed and bounced the government into a further lockdown. They should be held to account for destroying large sections of the economy at a critical time of year. Hopefully things will be dropped back to Level 3 in a couple of weeks.

We don't actually know what restrictions are causing the bigger decreases in infection rate. I'm sure if we stayed at level 3 and cases increased at a faster pace you would be holding the government to account for not following NPHET's advice. And it's advice in the end, blame falls solely on the government either way.

27-10-2020 05:43PM

I wasn't in favour of level 5, but looking at the rest of Europe it seems to be inevitable, so we've probably done well to get in started earlier.

Its all lose lose for the government

MerlinSouthDub · 27-10-2020 05:44PM

Boggles wrote: »

I never said I thought anything.

The Chair of NPHET said it.

You seem to be constantly confused by that fact.

Well, I'm sure we can all agree that the reproductive rate is now below 1. Happy days indeed

. I look forward to Dr Nolan's modelling on Thursday.

Goldrickssan · 27-10-2020 05:44PM

Seems like some people aren't happy that their beautifully designed exponential curves aren't correct anymore

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

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