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Covid 19 Part XXVIII- 71,942 ROI(2,050 deaths) 51,824 NI (983 deaths) (28/11) Read OP

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  • #6452
    GT89
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭GT89


    Well said, Right Said Fred
    https://news.sky.com/story/right-said-fred-were-not-covid-deniers-but-living-like-hermits-is-killing-the-country-12136769


  • #6453
    Thierry12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 979 ✭✭✭Thierry12


    The HorsesMouth wrote: »
    Christ almighty Bryan Dobson on RTE1 apologising for his behaviour saying it goes in the face of everyone who has sacrificed so much and to the families of people who died.
    Now I'll be the first for condeming RTE for the way they have reported the covid 19 situation but this is a seperate issue....He literally just stood beside someone...Have we gone f**king mad???

    Good

    Live by the sword, die by the sword

    Only sorry they got caught

    Should all be suspended for a while


  • #6454
    KrustyUCC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,077 ✭✭✭KrustyUCC


    That won't happen as Dobbo is back on the radio right now


  • #6455
    Will Yam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 671 ✭✭✭Will Yam


    The HorsesMouth wrote: »
    Christ almighty Bryan Dobson on RTE1 apologising for his behaviour saying it goes in the face of everyone who has sacrificed so much and to the families of people who died.
    Now I'll be the first for condeming RTE for the way they have reported the covid 19 situation but this is a seperate issue....He literally just stood beside someone...Have we gone f**king mad???

    Yes, but can you just imagine the same Dobson barking at some politician who did the same thing?

    He would be demanding his/her head on a plate.

    And as for an “impromptu” party - I don’t buy that for a second. The pics showed a party which had been preplanned, complete with helium balloons.

    And Dobson didn’t apologise for breaking regulations - he apologised for getting caught.


  • #6456
    The HorsesMouth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 512 ✭✭✭The HorsesMouth


    But they are humans...they make mistakes...same as me and you. Plenty of people preaching to their loved ones to wear masks but they might walk into a shop and forget to put one on for a couple of minutes..doesn't mean they are telling everyone what to do but not following rules themselves..it's a simple mistake.
    Honestly we have lost it if we are talking about this as a big issue.


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  • #6457
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,325 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Lesson learned, hopefully


  • #6458
    Martina1991
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,548 ✭✭✭Martina1991


    AltGrp0 wrote: »
    Sound, thanks. That is very worrying but confirms what I thought, the PCR test cycle thresholds are generating huge % false positives. It's this type of thing has me concerned. I watched the oireachteas hearings. No straight answers forthcoming from Glynn et al

    No they are not.

    Different analysers run at various PCR cycles. Some might be 35, 40 or 45. It depends on the lab and the manufacturer, so Colm Henry could not give one answer to that question.

    I work in a hospital lab. Our Microbiology department analyser CAN run up to 45 cycles but any patient sample that flags as positive over 35 cycles will be repeated at per the manufacturer's SOP. We have yet to have a positive patient greater than 31 cycles.

    Just because an analyser can run up to 45 cycles does absolutely not mean that loads, or any, positive swabs are detected and reported at that level.

    People have been misunderstanding and misrepresenting the whole testing process since the beginning. There are a lot of quality controls, extensive documentation that regulat Covid swab analysis.

    There are not huge numbers of false positives. Dr Cillian De Gascun, virologist and head of the NVRL said it himself. He posted a Twitter thread trying to explain the testing process and people still took it up wrong and drew their own wrong conclusions and continue to report them as fact.


  • #6459
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,587 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    I know what plateaued means, cheers. Cases haven't plateaued, look at the chart I sent you.

    I'm giving you official figures, our positivity rate basically hasn't change, well 0.2% in 14 days.

    That's fact, I don't need a chart to see that.

    Here's a positivity rate chart for the last 14 days.

    Day 1_______________________________________________Day 14.


  • #6460
    growleaves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,011 ✭✭✭growleaves


    branie2 wrote: »
    Lesson learned, hopefully

    The lesson is that nobody is or can consistently social distance including the most prominent propagandists in favour of social distancing.


  • #6461
    Thierry12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 979 ✭✭✭Thierry12


    The HorsesMouth wrote: »
    But they are humans...they make mistakes...same as me and you. Plenty of people preaching to their loved ones to wear masks but they might walk into a shop and forget to put one on for a couple of minutes..doesn't mean they are telling everyone what to do but not following rules themselves..it's a simple mistake.
    Honestly we have lost it if we are talking about this as a big issue.

    **** off with that mistake ****e

    They had a party

    Balloons, cakes etc

    It was pre planned

    Our kids couldn't go trick or treat in the fresh ****ing air but those millionaire ***** in RTE can have ****ing parties


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  • #6462
    Allinall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,302 ✭✭✭Allinall


    Thierry12 wrote: »
    **** off with that mistake ****e

    They had a party

    Balloons, cakes etc

    It was pre planned

    Our kids couldn't go trick or treat in the fresh ****ing air but those millionaire ***** in RTE can have ****ing parties

    Why couldn't they?

    Loads trick or treating around my area, all perfectly safe.


  • #6463
    Thierry12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 979 ✭✭✭Thierry12


    Allinall wrote: »
    Why couldn't they?

    Loads trick or treating around my area, all perfectly safe.

    You were advised not to

    By RTE

    As you well know

    Not that I took the advice, glad you didn't either


  • #6464
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I heard today, that Letterkenny hospital have been taking in covid19 patients from Northern Ireland as they have run out of room in Altnagelvin hospital in Derry.


  • #6465
    growleaves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,011 ✭✭✭growleaves


    Jurgen Klopp refuses to criticise Salah after attending wedding
    Liverpool manager accepts, ‘a brother’s wedding is a very special moment’


  • #6466
    Pintman Paddy Losty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,913 ✭✭✭Pintman Paddy Losty


    Wow! This thread really is a slimey place! Lifting up the slate to find a load of bug-eyed grubs scurrying about the place.

    People viciously attacker Tony Holohan. A man almost universally held up as an example of someone who has ably guided this country through a terrible crisis. Some of the vile stuff posted was tough to read.

    Then the holier than thou pitchfork gathering at the sight of people who have the audacity of being employed by RTE wishing a colleague well. Men salivating and snarling at the sight of the slightest indiscretion. Jesus.

    The angry undertone of the criticism lumped out here is concerning. Thankfully it's only a dark pocket of the internet and not representative of society as a whole, which is mostly united in pulling together and getting this virus under control.


  • #6467
    The HorsesMouth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 512 ✭✭✭The HorsesMouth


    Thierry12 wrote: »
    **** off with that mistake ****e

    They had a party

    Balloons, cakes etc

    It was pre planned

    Our kids couldn't go trick or treat in the fresh ****ing air but those millionaire ***** in RTE can have ****ing parties

    Would you ever relax...there's absolutely no need to direct that tirade at me.
    Anyways...we will obviously agree to disagree


  • #6468
    Thierry12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 979 ✭✭✭Thierry12


    The HorsesMouth wrote: »
    Would you ever relax...there's absolutely no need to direct that tirade at me.
    Anyways...we will obviously agree to disagree

    Apologies wasn't directed at you, i'm sorry for that

    Sick of excuses being made for millionaires that know right from wrong


  • #6469
    Allinall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,302 ✭✭✭Allinall


    Thierry12 wrote: »
    You were advised not to

    By RTE

    As you well know

    Not that I took the advice, glad you didn't either

    RTE didn't advise anyone.

    You literally said "Our kids couldn't go trick or treat in the fresh ****ing air"

    Yet they did.


  • #6470
    Thierry12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 979 ✭✭✭Thierry12


    Allinall wrote: »
    RTE didn't advise anyone.
    .

    Yes they did


  • #6471
    stargazer 68
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭stargazer 68


    Thierry12 wrote: »
    Yes they did

    It was Government advice and RTE reported it - didn't come from them!


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  • #6472
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Pintman Paddy Losty wrote: »
    Wow! This thread really is a slimey place! Lifting up the slate to find a load of bug-eyed grubs scurrying about the place.

    People viciously attacker Tony Holohan. A man almost universally held up as an example of someone who has ably guided this country through a terrible crisis. Some of the vile stuff posted was tough to read.

    Then the holier than thou pitchfork gathering at the sight of people who have the audacity of being employed by RTE wishing a colleague well. Men salivating and snarling at the sight of the slightest indiscretion. Jesus.

    The angry undertone of the criticism lumped out here is concerning. Thankfully it's only a dark pocket of the internet and not representative of society as a whole, which is mostly united in pulling together and getting this virus under control.

    It is the same idea as a crowd at a football match shouting at the referee because they thought he had made a bad decision. Some people need to vent their anger, and people who come on to boards to do so end up saying things in the heat of the moment.

    Maybe some of the angry remarks directed at Tony Holohan have been made by people who stayed up drinking until 4am and are not long out of bed.


  • #6473
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,587 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    growleaves wrote: »
    Jurgen Klopp refuses to criticise Salah after attending wedding

    I think you mixed up your threads.


  • #6474
    lawrencesummers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,862 ✭✭✭lawrencesummers


    Deleted User wrote: »
    It is the same idea as a crowd at a football match shouting at the referee because they thought he had made a bad decision. Some people need to vent their anger, and people who come hi on to boards to do so end up saying things in the heat of the moment.

    Maybe some of the angry remarks directed at Tony Holohan have been made by people who stayed up drinking until 4am and are not long out of bed.



    If you want to use a football analogy then try this one.

    There is only one team being referred here. There is only one illness in town.

    Only one team in one league in the entirety of the world of soccer is being refereed. Forget every other team playing in every other league we are only going to concentrate all our efforts in one place, and a team that isn’t any worse for its red cards than all the other teams.


  • #6475
    Goldengirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,016 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    Thierry12 wrote: »
    You're almost stalking me at this stage lol

    How am I to know someone posted that link months ago?

    Can you do something useful? Perhaps post a modern link to see how our healthcare professionals like yourself are doing now?

    Doing a lot more useful than you, on your keyboard all day abusing hospital staff.
    You post sxxx expect people to respond!
    Look up the data yourself, I don't have the time or interest to be posting links for you.


  • #6476
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    lawrencesummers wrote: »
    If you want to use a football analogy then try this one.

    There is only one team being referred here. There is only one illness in town.

    Only one team in one league in the entirety of the world of soccer is being refereed. Forget every other team playing in every other league we are only going to concentrate all our efforts in one place, and a team that isn’t any worse for its red cards than all the other teams.

    Maybe it was a bad analogy.

    Ireland is doing pretty ok compared to other parts of Europe and the rest of the world. Our three big problems are Northern Ireland, the flow of people in to the country without self isolating, and no social distancing at certain events such as funerals, wakes


  • #6477
    lawrencesummers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,862 ✭✭✭lawrencesummers


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Maybe it was a bad analogy.

    Ireland is doing pretty ok compared to other parts of Europe and the rest of the world. Our three big problems are Northern Ireland, the flow of people in to the country without self isolating, and no social distancing at certain events such as funerals, wakes


    You missed the point.

    The only healthcare problem that our health system is currently treating (badly) is COVID. Good luck and light a candle if anything else is wrong, and if you do have something else wrong don’t go to a hospital, because it’s the place most
    Likely you will get COVID.


  • #6478
    CIARAN_BOYLE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,599 ✭✭✭✭CIARAN_BOYLE


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I heard today, that Letterkenny hospital have been taking in covid19 patients from Northern Ireland as they have run out of room in Altnagelvin hospital in Derry.

    Well after hearing yesterday that agency staff was double jobbing between letterkennt and altnagelvin I wouldn't be surprised.


  • #6479
    growleaves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,011 ✭✭✭growleaves


    eagle eye wrote: »
    I think you mixed up your threads.

    No I didn't. This thread is about Covid 19 and Jurgen Klopp refused to criticise M. Salah after he contracted covid 19 after he attended a wedding. Feel free to report my posts.


  • #6480
    funnydoggy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,065 ✭✭✭funnydoggy


    Just back from a short walk and I met an acquaintance who got COVID in March and was in a bad way. Wasn't even 30 and needed a ventilator apparently.

    He looked great, thankfully. Great to see.


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  • #6481
    Thierry12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 979 ✭✭✭Thierry12


    Goldengirl wrote: »
    Doing a lot more useful than you, on your keyboard all day abusing hospital staff.
    You post sxxx expect people to respond!
    Look up the data yourself, I don't have the time or interest to be posting links for the likes of you.

    Thought so

    No data as usual


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