Covid 19 Part XXIX-85,394 ROI(2,200 deaths) 62,723 NI (1,240 deaths) (26/12) Read OP

TonyMaloney · 15-12-2020 05:45PM

seamus wrote: »

We need a few more days now to see if it plateaus a little bit at this point, or just keeps growing. The trend for the last week has been poor, and if extrapolated out to 6th January is grim. But it's too small a dataset to run decent projections on.

The next 3-4 days will tell us more.

It might be worth the Government signalling this as an issue now and pleading with people to plan their Xmas socialising properly; If you're planning on mixing households over Xmas, don't go to restaurants. And vice-versa.

Absolutely. It's just that as Eod100 alluded to a minute ago, we were expecting a bit of an uptick around now and appear to have one.
There's no point extrapolating anything from the little we have to go on. Just something to keep a close eye on.

Here's the positivity rate over the last few months

Hector Savage · 15-12-2020 05:45PM

https://twitter.com/Anaridis/status/1338621856044244992?s=20

Good to see these guys keeping busy, fair play to them for having the time to do this ..., being so slammed in the ICU wards etc...

ElTel · 15-12-2020 05:50PM

yourdeadwright wrote: »

Im waiting for a test as we speak, so are two of my kids and my parents, The missus tested positive on Monday as a close contact but had no symptoms and still doesnt and seen the person for about 30 minutes a week previous,

Got to say sitting it about my parents, although currently they feel great,

Another family member who was around all weekend woth us got her result and was negative,

Best of luck to you and yours. Hopefully the stats on asymptomatic spread hold for you all.

Polar101 · 15-12-2020 05:50PM

Hector Savage wrote: »

Good to see these guys keeping busy, fair play to them for having the time to do this ..., being so slammed in the ICU wards etc...

Great news, and that's the kind of comment you make? If I worked there, I wouldn't mind a quick song & dance myself.

hynesie08 · 15-12-2020 05:56PM

Hector Savage wrote: »

https://twitter.com/Anaridis/status/1338621856044244992?s=20

Good to see these guys keeping busy, fair play to them for having the time to do this ..., being so slammed in the ICU wards etc...

Were you born bitter or did it take a while to develop.......

Eod100 · 15-12-2020 05:59PM

Hector Savage wrote: »

https://twitter.com/Anaridis/status/1338621856044244992?s=20

Good to see these guys keeping busy, fair play to them for having the time to do this ..., being so slammed in the ICU wards etc...

Ah yes a 29 second video negates how busy they've been since March. Did you consider these specific heathcare workers don't work in the ICU?

CalamariFritti · 15-12-2020 06:03PM

Tork wrote: »

I also would like to know how many ordinary people are actually getting "hysterical" over this. If people were cowering in terror, there wouldn't be the amount of traffic on the roads the there is. Nor would the shops be so busy. I'm seeing hysterics alright but most of them are coming from one side of the argument.

I dont think when someone says the repose and the discourse has been hysterical they actually mean screaming losing your sh1t hysterical. And I think most people aren't actually afraid of the virus for themselves. They're more afraid of giving it to someone.

'Ah its not the zombie virus, but I'd never forgive myself...'. That thought process has surely happened in millions of households. Most people have relatives that are either old or not too well after all.

Whatever the true CFR or IFR is. Whatever true excess deaths and this and that is. Whether these numbers are at the high end of what can be reasonable said or on the low end - either way its a risk people aren't prepared to take.

And thats where its been quite hysterical, a bit shrill even. By tweaking all the numbers to the absolute highest, by making every piece of news on covid as scary and bleak and as high impact as possible. Never ending bombardment of doom and misery and dont do this and dont do that and scary scary scary. And people happily joining in. It gets tiresome and I dont think it helps with a smart and rational response to this crisis either.

Neamhshuntasach · 15-12-2020 06:17PM

Hector Savage wrote: »

https://twitter.com/Anaridis/status/1338621856044244992?s=20

Good to see these guys keeping busy, fair play to them for having the time to do this ..., being so slammed in the ICU wards etc...

My wife will be clocking out of her Covid ICU ward soon. Will I tell her to stay in work because she's so slammed? Some lad on the Internet expects it so I'm sure she'll understand. She's gonna feel hella guilty about going for a meal after work last night too.

hynesie08 · 15-12-2020 06:21PM

Neamhshuntasach wrote: »

My wife will be clocking out of her Covid ICU ward soon. Will I tell her to stay in work because she's so slammed? Some lad on the Internet expects it so I'm sure she'll understand. She's gonna feel hella guilty about going for a meal after work last night too.

Do you have kids, cause she better not be dancing to mickey mouse or singing them a lullaby. When she walks in the door, give her an mre and lock her in the room and don't let her out till tomorrow, 2 weetabix and a banana and out the door......

bb1234567 · 15-12-2020 06:25PM

Hector Savage wrote: »

https://twitter.com/Anaridis/status/1338621856044244992?s=20

Good to see these guys keeping busy, fair play to them for having the time to do this ..., being so slammed in the ICU wards etc...

Fair play finding a negative slant on them taking a few moments out of their day to show their relief

bb1234567 · 15-12-2020 06:28PM

Neamhshuntasach wrote: »

My wife will be clocking out of her Covid ICU ward soon. Will I tell her to stay in work because she's so slammed? Some lad on the Internet expects it so I'm sure she'll understand. She's gonna feel hella guilty about going for a meal after work last night too.

It's overblown unless every single healthcare staff on every corner of planet earth is visibly distressed/shaken/upset at every possible camera moment for us on our fat ignorant arses at home. Then we'll judge how 'hard' these people are working. Your wife needs to pick up the slack

The HorsesMouth · 15-12-2020 06:36PM

At the end of the day we are only 9 days away from Christmas and still in the 200/300 cases a day bracket. Even with 1000 a day, ICU or hospitals weren't overwhelmed by a long shot. We still have plenty of wiggle room. And like it or not that is living with covid, allowing cases to go up until hospitals are beginning to look under pressure. This future gazing just because our cases have slightly gone up is exhausting to listen to. Can we not just enjoy what semblance of Christmas we have compared to Europe and when the cases go up we act accordingly?.

bodhrandude · 15-12-2020 06:39PM

Eagle Eye, the drug treatment you have been going out about, just seen this video today from a US doctor, might of be interest to you.

TonyMaloney · 15-12-2020 06:46PM

The HorsesMouth wrote: »

At the end of the day we are only 9 days away from Christmas and still in the 200/300 cases a day bracket. Even with 1000 a day, ICU or hospitals weren't overwhelmed by a long shot. We still have plenty of wiggle room. And like it or not that is living with covid, allowing cases to go up until hospitals are beginning to look under pressure. This future gazing just because our cases have slightly gone up is exhausting to listen to. Can we not just enjoy what semblance of Christmas we have compared to Europe and when the cases go up we act accordingly?.

Yeah, log off and go enjoy your Christmas.

Some of us might hang on and discuss covid in the covid forum though. I hope you don't mind.

vafankillar · 15-12-2020 06:46PM

The HorsesMouth wrote: »

Can we not just enjoy what semblance of Christmas we have compared to Europe and when the cases go up we act accordingly?.

i mean as an essential worker who was overworked for a 5 week lockdown, and will have to work through most of christmas, only to go go back into overworked lockdown in january, eh no i can't really enjoy it

marno21 · 15-12-2020 06:50PM

I can’t be the only one here who had resigned to the fact that there will be a post Xmas lockdown in early November. You can’t start at a 300 per day average, open up restaurants and household mixing, and keep the R0 below 1. It’s not possible with that level of contact.

On the brighter side, I would hope for a 4 week lockdown in January while at the same time every single box from Pfizer is deployed into the population at speed. Sell the January lockdown as a short sharp, and hopefully FINAL, lockdown. The vaccine will be useful to provide hope for this reason, and hopefully as more people become vaccinated it will eliminate the necessity for further lockdowns.

Anniepowaa · 15-12-2020 06:50PM

vafankillar wrote: »

i mean as an essential worker who was overworked for a 5 week lockdown, and will have to work through most of christmas, only to go go back into overworked lockdown in january, eh no i can't really enjoy it

You're no more overworked

jill_valentine · 15-12-2020 06:51PM

Out of interest, anyone know the turnaround on at-home tests at this stage?

wadacrack · 15-12-2020 06:53PM

https://twitter.com/ZaraKing/status/1338904656580382723

The HorsesMouth · 15-12-2020 06:55PM

vafankillar wrote: »

i mean as an essential worker who was overworked for a 5 week lockdown, and will have to work through most of christmas, only to go go back into overworked lockdown in january, eh no i can't really enjoy it

Ok..that's your perogative though. What do you want to see happen then?

manofwisdom · 15-12-2020 06:57PM

7 day average 303 cases per day.

SortingYouOut · 15-12-2020 06:58PM

TonyMaloney wrote: »

Yeah, log off and go enjoy your Christmas.

Some of us might hang on and discuss covid in the covid forum though. I hope you don't mind.

I'm pretty sure they're still discussing Covid? Just not with the pessimistic undertones one would come to expect and maybe that doesn't sit well with you but they have a point. We've every right to enjoy Christmas, the cases aren't bad at all and nowhere near where we were in March/April. What happened to focusing on hospitalisations/deaths instead of case numbers?

Things aren't near as bad as some make out, people have every right to enjoy their Christmas after the restrictions we put in place early. Don't equate the news across the sea to that of here, we're not on the same boat.

The HorsesMouth · 15-12-2020 07:00PM

TonyMaloney wrote: »

Yeah, log off and go enjoy your Christmas.

Some of us might hang on and discuss covid in the covid forum though. I hope you don't mind.

Maybe you should log off yourself if you got out of my post that I said we should stop talking about covid. Have another read of it there
I said we have wiggle room and that 200/300 cases (at the minute) is nothing to be worried about yet. How is that saying stop talking about it?

manofwisdom · 15-12-2020 07:01PM

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prunudo · 15-12-2020 07:03PM

Can anyone remember how many cases a day we roughly had when the cmo returned to work and the infamous Sunday evening level 5 leaking?

Rugbymad2020 · 15-12-2020 07:04PM

Benimar wrote: »

Those changes are already confirmed - travel outside county, 3 families meet indoors etc.

There wont be any further loosening of that.

Can people travel from the north to the south to visit family from the 18th?

ACitizenErased · 15-12-2020 07:04PM

The border counties struggling (based on per capita figures). No surprise there with the ****show up north.

Jim_Hodge · 15-12-2020 07:05PM

Hector Savage wrote: »

https://twitter.com/Anaridis/status/1338621856044244992?s=20

Good to see these guys keeping busy, fair play to them for having the time to do this ..., being so slammed in the ICU wards etc...

Do you look for things to be offended or bitter about? This comment just shows a complete remove from the reality many have had to face.

Van.Bosch · 15-12-2020 07:06PM

ACitizenErased wrote: »

The border counties struggling (based on per capita figures). No surprise there with the ****show up north.

Dublin actually doing well

ACitizenErased · 15-12-2020 07:06PM

Van.Bosch wrote: »

Dublin actually doing well

Everywhere outside of Louth & Donegal actually seems to be doing about the same just on first glance

Covid 19 Part XXIX-85,394 ROI(2,200 deaths) 62,723 NI (1,240 deaths) (26/12) Read OP

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