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Corona virus in waterford

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    #3062
    deise08
    Registered Users Posts: 3,330 ✭✭✭deise08


    Crikey 7 deaths.
    Also 43 cases in Waterford.


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    #3063
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,977 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    deise08 wrote: »
    Crikey 7 deaths.
    Also 43 cases in Waterford.

    fcuk, wtf is going on!


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    #3064
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    We're as volatile as Nitroglycerine at the moment. Up and down like a sex workers undergarments


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    #3065
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    fcuk, wtf is going on!

    50 caught at a houseparty yeaterday


    Know personally of 3 others,that went on last weekend,gaurda checkpoints are withdrawn from what i can see aswell.....havnt seen any active in over a week


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    #3066
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,977 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Deleted User wrote: »
    50 caught at a houseparty yeaterday


    Know personally of 3 others,that went on last weekend,gaurda checkpoints are withdrawn from what i can see aswell.....havnt seen any active in over a week

    didnt see any checkpoints last weekend, couple of cars patrolling around, that was about it


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    #3067
    smellyoldboot
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,075 ✭✭✭smellyoldboot


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    50 caught at a houseparty yeaterday


    Know personally of 3 others,that went on last weekend,gaurda checkpoints are withdrawn from what i can see aswell.....havnt seen any active in over a week
    Saw one today at the side of Ballybeg, between Tesco and the rugby club. Where they were stopping people from going there is puzzling tbh.


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    #3068
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Twitter machine says over 20 cases are from a certain company unnamed of course.


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    #3069
    Captain Red Beard
    Registered Users Posts: 871 ✭✭✭Captain Red Beard


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Twitter machine says over 20 cases are from a certain company unnamed of course.

    Skelton says it's Cartamundi.


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    #3070
    Aquos76
    Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 9,033 Mod ✭✭✭✭Aquos76


    Captain Red Beard wrote: »
    Skelton says it's Cartamundi.

    Are you sure he said that?


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    #3071
    Captain Red Beard
    Registered Users Posts: 871 ✭✭✭Captain Red Beard


    Aquos76 wrote: »
    Are you sure he said that?

    Skelton started a thread knowing the name would appear in the replies.

    I stand corrected.


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    #3072
    Aquos76
    Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 9,033 Mod ✭✭✭✭Aquos76


    Captain Red Beard wrote: »
    Skelton started a thread knowing the name would appear in the replies.

    I stand corrected.

    Well you should be a bit more careful with those accusations.


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    #3073
    Captain Red Beard
    Registered Users Posts: 871 ✭✭✭Captain Red Beard


    You should talk to your brother, advise him to cop on with the sensationalism.


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    #3074
    Aquos76
    Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 9,033 Mod ✭✭✭✭Aquos76


    Captain Red Beard wrote: »
    You should talk to your brother, advise him to cop on with the sensationalism.

    I’m not here to answer for him, he’s well able to do that and you are entitled to your opinion., I just felt to need to correct what you said as it was incorrect.


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    #3075
    Captain Red Beard
    Registered Users Posts: 871 ✭✭✭Captain Red Beard


    Fair enough.

    Hug?


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    #3076
    Deise Vu
    Registered Users Posts: 1,951 ✭✭✭Deise Vu


    43 cases is catastrophic. It is the equivalent of over 500 per 100k in the county when the national figure is around 129. Needless to say we will be given less than zero information about where when or how TF this happened so we will learn the square root of FA from this bombshell.

    I don’t know about the rest of ye but I am totally pizzed of with GDPR bs. It’s actually dangerous to the point that people have died and will die as a result of lack a of information.


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    #3077
    spookwoman
    Registered Users Posts: 9,922 ✭✭✭spookwoman


    43 is the highest every reported for waterford in 1 day that i can see. 33 was the previous back on the 23/10


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    #3078
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Cartamundi was mentioned here last week as a cluster! It's not a secret.


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    #3079
    Deise Vu
    Registered Users Posts: 1,951 ✭✭✭Deise Vu


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Cartamundi was mentioned here last week as a cluster! It's not a secret.

    And we only got the results today?


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    #3080
    spookwoman
    Registered Users Posts: 9,922 ✭✭✭spookwoman


    Deise Vu wrote: »
    And we only got the results today?

    7/11 poster said there was something like 15 waiting on results. Takes time for it to replicate enough to show in tests and that's why 14 day isolation recommended.


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    #3081
    mooseknunkle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,427 ✭✭✭mooseknunkle


    Deise Vu wrote: »
    And we only got the results today?

    Everybody working in Cartamundi was tested by the HSE over the last few days that's where all the cases are coming from probably more over the coming days too,a lot of cases from Bausch & Lomb over the last few weeks too and from talking to people working there it sounds like its going to get worse there.


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    #3082
    Deise Vu
    Registered Users Posts: 1,951 ✭✭✭Deise Vu


    spookwoman wrote: »
    7/11 poster said there was something like 15 waiting on results. Takes time for it to replicate enough to show in tests and that's why 14 day isolation recommended.

    There are only a couple of hundred people working in Cartamundi and it was the source of one of our very early outbreaks. If 43 cases can we traced to it, when there are several much larger facilities which have had little or no outbreaks then surely there is something we can learn? But no, let’s pretend 43 cases in one day is just one of those things.


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    #3083
    Hijpo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,798 ✭✭✭Hijpo


    mooseknunkle wrote: »
    Everybody working in Cartamundi was tested by the HSE over the last few days that's where all the cases are coming from probably more over the coming days too,a lot of cases from Bausch & Lomb over the last few weeks too and from talking to people working there it sounds like its going to get worse there.

    B&L have plenty of facilities to sanitize and wash. They have provided every employee with hand sanitizer and face masks.
    If things get worse in there it will be due to individual employees choosing to car pool and not take the necessary precautions outside of the plant.


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    #3084
    spookwoman
    Registered Users Posts: 9,922 ✭✭✭spookwoman


    Deise Vu wrote: »
    There are only a couple of hundred people working in Cartamundi and it was the source of one of our very early outbreaks. If 43 cases can we traced to it, when there are several much larger facilities which have had little or no outbreaks then surely there is something we can learn? But no, let’s pretend 43 cases in one day is just one of those things.
    I remember Cartamundi was one of the first. Unfortunately it just takes 1 person to get infected and cause a sh*t storm


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    #3085
    [Deleted User]
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    Deise Vu wrote: »
    There are only a couple of hundred people working in Cartamundi and it was the source of one of our very early outbreaks. If 43 cases can we traced to it, when there are several much larger facilities which have had little or no outbreaks then surely there is something we can learn? But no, let’s pretend 43 cases in one day is just one of those things.

    Cartamundi would be one of worse paying factories,i always see em walking home/out in evenings after the 4.30 finish

    A huge amount walk home everyday after work,im.guessing recent bad weather etc has people getting lifts/carpooling etc


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    #3086
    mooseknunkle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,427 ✭✭✭mooseknunkle


    Hijpo wrote: »
    B&L have plenty of facilities to sanitize and wash. They have provided every employee with hand sanitizer and face masks.
    If things get worse in there it will be due to individual employees choosing to car pool and not take the necessary precautions outside of the plant.

    Still a lot of cases from there over the last few weeks though,no?


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    #3087
    Deise Vu
    Registered Users Posts: 1,951 ✭✭✭Deise Vu


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Cartamundi would be one of worse paying factories,i always see em walking home/out in evenings after the 4.30 finish

    A huge amount walk home everyday after work,im.guessing recent bad weather etc has people getting lifts/carpooling etc

    I’m not getting onto Cartamundi. I don’t believe there could be 43 cases ( or a substantial part of 43) from one factory. If it is the case, then there should be a Garda investigation. Ridiculously, we will never know because apparently we will turn up outside peoples houses with pitchforks and burning torched if we knew they were unfortunate enough to get a virus. Or something. But hey, let’s respect people’s privacy and keep spreading a deadly disease.


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    #3088
    Hijpo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,798 ✭✭✭Hijpo


    mooseknunkle wrote: »
    Still a lot of cases from there over the last few weeks though,no?

    About 5 in the last few weeks, maybe? In a plant employing over one thousand running 24\7. I think maybe 1 of those had been in the plant 3 days before getting a positive test. So internally I don't think there has been any transmission or risk of transmission.


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    #3089
    mooseknunkle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,427 ✭✭✭mooseknunkle


    Hijpo wrote: »
    About 5 in the last few weeks, maybe? In a plant employing over one thousand running 24\7. I think maybe 1 of those had been in the plant 3 days before getting a positive test. So internally I don't think there has been any transmission or risk of transmission.

    I don't know how many,just heard from friends who work there about it,you sound like you know a lot about it so maybe you work there.


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    #3090
    Wanderer2010
    Registered Users Posts: 6,698 ✭✭✭Wanderer2010


    Does that mean that the people who first contracted the virus in Cartamundi (i believe it started there) still havent returned to work? Bad enough recovering from ICU and having to watch for reinfections without going back into an environment where you may potentially compromise your recovering immune system.


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    #3091
    Hijpo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,798 ✭✭✭Hijpo


    mooseknunkle wrote: »
    I don't know how many,just heard from friends who work there about it,you sound like you know a lot about it so maybe you work there.

    I have friends who work there also. But you can be sure any employee that tests positive would have to give close contacts, and if a close contact happened to be someone they worked with then they would need to be tested, and if they tested negative then the measures in place within the plant must be effective. There seems to be very few cases in there so the time gap between cases must be fairly big which to me would mean either there are no close contacts or the close contacts come back negative.

    But that's just my thinking on it.

    It would be interesting to hear why the employees think it will get worse.


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