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Sad to lose country singer Charlie Pride to Covid.

whelan2 wrote: »

My Aunts brother died today down the country. They thought he was improving. It's not going away.

What age would he being Whelan

Water John wrote: »

Sad to lose country singer Charlie Pride to Covid.

I agree entirely.
I had the pleasure of attending one of his concerts a couple of years ago.

dzer2 wrote: »

That who I thought it was

My condolences to your family

I didn't know him. His eldest sister is married to my uncle. Big family in it.

_Brian wrote: »

National school close to Cavan town.

Teacher for 1st and 2nd class tested positive. She sent her own kid into the class the day she was being tested.
She tested positive, class was tested and her own child and two others positive.
Parent I know really annoyed that she sent her kid into the classroom when she was going for a test. Classes off now and whole families restricted movements until the 23rd.

If people could just follow the guidelines.

The sh1te show in claremorris is going to come to haunt them a sh1teload of kids have/had ut and the principal closed but the powers that be are demanding it be open tomorrow.
Word is that its coming from a local plant where none are irish and no masks or testing going on and it spread to the school

I was in Tescos's earlier in Limerick. Came out the door to be met by a group of about 20 young lads. They looked like they had just bought beer and were celebrating the Limerick win. All in a tight group and not one wearing a mask.:mad:

_Brian wrote: »

National school close to Cavan town.

Teacher for 1st and 2nd class tested positive. She sent her own kid into the class the day she was being tested.
She tested positive, class was tested and her own child and two others positive.
Parent I know really annoyed that she sent her kid into the classroom when she was going for a test. Classes off now and whole families restricted movements until the 23rd.

If people could just follow the guidelines.

If you're being tested as a close contact and do not have symptoms the rest of your family don't have to restrict their movements.

Water John wrote: »

That's the main problem of spread.
The Claremorris school Principal can't go on a solo run. The school system has to operate to a common set of guidelines.

The Claremorris school attempted to close on health and safety grounds as they are entitled to do or at least used to be because they have 3 out of 5 teachers out and can't get subs. However DES overruled and have forced them to reopen. Where subs have been found I don't know and it'll be very interesting to see how many kids are there tomorrow.

Over 10% of the school positive and the local area running at near 3 times the national cases per 100k. Absolute madness keeping it open and could well end up completely ruining Christmas for some of the kids something which definitely isn't conducive to their wellbeing.

_Brian wrote: »

National school close to Cavan town.

Teacher for 1st and 2nd class tested positive. She sent her own kid into the class the day she was being tested.
She tested positive, class was tested and her own child and two others positive.
Parent I know really annoyed that she sent her kid into the classroom when she was going for a test. Classes off now and whole families restricted movements until the 23rd.

If people could just follow the guidelines.

This is a cluster of 25 now with a few whole families tested positive.

Jesus when it gets on it spreads easily.

_Brian wrote: »

This is a cluster of 25 now with a few whole families tested positive.

Jesus when it gets on it spreads easily.

What area is this?

_Brian wrote: »

This is a cluster of 25 now with a few whole families tested positive.

Jesus when it gets on it spreads easily.

Sounds highly likely that the teacher caught it in the school so.

There's so little in place to prevent spread it's definitely not surprising to see. Windows being open policy is definitely helping to somewhat keep a lid on things though.

Is there any word on the school being closed? Clearly it should be considered especially this close to Christmas but DES are extremely reluctant to take such action but thankfully parents are seeing the wood from the trees, only 7 attending the claremorris school yesterday highlighted as much.

https://www.rte.ie/news/ulster/2020/1215/1184594-coronavirus-ni/

Treating patients in carparks

It’s a shame on NI government that petty politics stopped a cohesive response to covid, too much points scoring.

You only need look to Northern Ireland now to see why we should adhere to the restrictions. People in the north who act the brat now might as well be putting a gun to the heads of their hospital workers

endainoz wrote: »

Something like this could have easily happened in the republic if the restrictions hadn't been put in place. It's no secret our health system often has to treat patients in hallways on trolleys, it's not much of a further step to have to treat them in the carparks.

That would be our health service and worse every year if the precautions delaying those people being admitted were in place for flu or any other common respiratory disease.
Getting a faster and more efficient system in place is the obvious answer but it's not something that the health service has any history of actually implementing...

Water John wrote: »

the hospital problem both north and south isn't about A & E not being able to cope, it's having a bed for the patient after admittance.

Put them on a trolley, as we've done for the last however many years before covid ever came along. If there's not room for trolleys due to covid precautions, throw in a prefab into the carpark and create that space...

wrangler wrote: »

I often thought that when we're lambing and there isn't enough individual pens for the ewes, we make damn sure that we've enough the next year.
Yet HSE plunge from one flu season to the next with, if anything, less facilities and staff the following year. What did they expect, there isn't room now for Covid

Those high earner consultants need to be paid aswell. Every single year the money allocated in the budget to the hse increases, yet nothing seems to be done. In fairness this is not news to anybody, and I doubt many of us would have the know-how to solve it either!

Time to move topic maybe, seen as we'll have this vaccine here in the very near future, would anyone here have any issue with taking it? And if you do have an issue, please explain. I do believe that the argument about "needing more info" is a bit redundant myself. No matter how many reports and studies and reviews there are, there will still be people saying they don't trust it.

Personally, I won't have any issue with taking it, I do like to attend many concerts, festivals and events myself throughout the year, as well as the odd match. Point is that I'm used to being in big crowds where a vaccine will be absolutely necessary.

I do think, that when it comes down to it, most people will get it for the sake of getting back to normality. The irony is of course that the ones who refuse it will be responsible for keeping the virus in the community and make it for difficult to eradicate it.