Covid 19 Part XXX-113,332 ROI(2,282 deaths) 81,251 NI (1,384 deaths) (05/01) Read OP

caveat emptor · 31-12-2020 05:38PM

cjyid wrote: »

This was always expected unfortunately, no surprise, especially over Christmas.

Gotta ride it out for the next few weeks and hopefully numbers go down.

I don’t think that’s quite right until yesterday evening nobody expected them to keep the schools closed.

No one expected 4000+ swabs

No one expected a new variant.

Who are these insightful people I’d like to know them.

fits · 31-12-2020 05:38PM

Gael23 wrote: »

Seems to me they are massaging the figures so as not to hit the trigger for closing g schools

I can’t roll my eyes enough at this ****e.

ElJeffe · 31-12-2020 05:38PM

alentejo wrote: »

https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/1231/1187136-nphet-letter-covid/

what next!

It's going to take them a while to realise they need at least a month of total lockdown to get us back on track and not this half arsed rubbish they came out with yesterday or a couple of weeks ago. The schools, air and ferry ports bar freight and essential workers, construction, hardware etc... the whole thing.

Also do their upmost to restrict traffic at the border bar essential. If i can't go 5klms from my house then you most certainly shouldn't be able to cross a border from a country that has completely refused to take this seriously.

Sierra Oscar · 31-12-2020 05:39PM

stephenjmcd wrote: »

Talk of if they had to they'd be sending 50k close contacts forward for testing and its not possible.

Yeah it seems pretty clear that the system cannot cope with demand. People can't get tests as it is.

alentejo · 31-12-2020 05:39PM

Hopefully by mid January, we will have hit a peak of this wave! This will pass!

Away With The Fairies · 31-12-2020 05:40PM

Tandey wrote: »

Level 6?

Level 6 with schools open.

Stheno · 31-12-2020 05:40PM

Gael23 wrote: »

Seems to me they are massaging the figures so as not to hit the trigger for closing g schools

Ffs they've explained the issue

blowitupref · 31-12-2020 05:40PM

Stheno wrote: »

Wtf? The backlog grows further

https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1344677773894410240?s=19

The recent high volume of positive swabs could be a big number of re tests?

YFlyer · 31-12-2020 05:40PM

is_that_so wrote: »

Anyway that's me for 2020 on this so I wish all my fellow travellers a safe and very hopeful 2021!

Huge numbers in Limerick today.

WoollyRedHat · 31-12-2020 05:41PM

appledrop wrote: »

Irish Independent reporting that two thirds of deaths in December linked to outbreaks in Care Homes + Hospitials.

Ffs I'm sick of this. NPHET + government have learned sweet fa from 1st wave.

Lecture, lecture, lecture all time and blame blame blame all of general population and all along nothing has changed still sh%tshow in hospitials and care homes.

When you get out of control widespread community spread, it's impossible to keep it out of care homes and hospitals.

Queried · 31-12-2020 05:41PM

Sierra Oscar wrote: »

Close contacts no longer being tested. System has collapsed it seems.

https://twitter.com/rtenews/status/1344683937487065090

What a disaster. Imagine the number of close contacts that may have tested positive were they given a test, and the people they could potentially have infected (who won't be contacted because there's no actual positive result to deem them close contacts). Not good.

UrbanFret · 31-12-2020 05:41PM

shoppergal wrote: »

Anyone know if they'll test close contacts currently in the system? My family and I are due to be tested 2nd or 3rd, haven't got appointment yet. My mother was scheduled for testing(close contact) yesterday but didn't see the text until this morning so was re-referred by GP today. Is she not likely to be tested now?

No she wont be tested. A mates wife and 3 kids are positive,He requested a test and was told to assume he has it and isolate fore 14 days. They are only testing those with symptoms now.

Atlantic Dawn · 31-12-2020 05:42PM

Citywest Hotel would be handy now.

GreeBo · 31-12-2020 05:43PM

caveat emptor wrote: »

I don’t think that’s quite right until yesterday evening nobody expected them to keep the schools closed.

No one expected 4000+ swabs

No one expected a new variant.

Who are these insightful people I’d like to know them.

There was one guy, Tony something I think his name was.
But boards.ie posters decided that he was just scaremongering because he hates alcohol or something.

Plumbthedepths · 31-12-2020 05:43PM

Hooter23 wrote: »

The pope said its ok for catholics to get the vaccine even though it contains tissue from aborted feteuses...what would we do without those wonderful scientists creating vaccines from human life...now thats a real miracle

You can always refuse the vaccine if and when it is offered to you. Clearly you have no issue using technology which contains parts most likely mined by children in Africa. I do love the double standards of some.

AlmightyCushion · 31-12-2020 05:44PM

Stheno wrote: »

Ffs they've explained the issue

NPHET are both holding back cases so that they can add them in later on and have a whopper amount of cases when they are announcing restrictions or just to scare people and also holding back cases so they aren't too high so they can justify keeping the schools open. Some logic that.

the corpo · 31-12-2020 05:44PM

Glad journalists are challenging the Governments angle that this surge is all down the new variant, and not their defiance of the NPHET December advice

https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1344684222649405441?s=20

Atlantic Dawn · 31-12-2020 05:44PM

A reporter asked how many people had been vaccinated so far, they don't know, what a system, unbelievable.

Plumbthedepths · 31-12-2020 05:45PM

GreeBo wrote: »

There was one guy, Tony something I think his name was.
But boards.ie posters decided that he was just scaremongering because he hates alcohol or something.

Is that the guy who launched his own inquisition yesterday badgering other posters but it was ok because he had a bad day? Is that the Tony you are referring too?

WoollyRedHat · 31-12-2020 05:45PM

the corpo wrote: »

Glad journalists are pursuing the Governments angle that this surge is all down the new variant, and not their defiance of the NPHET December advice

https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1344684222649405441?s=20

MM telling fibs.. well I never.

cjyid · 31-12-2020 05:46PM

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

A reporter asked how many people had been vaccinated so far, they don't know, what a system, unbelievable.

Wow.

Duke of Url · 31-12-2020 05:46PM

They don’t need schools open.

They need care services open for the children of people who work in essential service.

School is providing this.

The issue is that many others want to send their kids to school so they can have a break.

WoollyRedHat · 31-12-2020 05:47PM

Moderna due next, could be authorised next week.

Pinch Flat · 31-12-2020 05:47PM

alentejo wrote: »

https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/1231/1187136-nphet-letter-covid/

what next!

I'd say construction and schools next. 2km limit as well situation is dire.

spookwoman · 31-12-2020 05:48PM

Plumbthedepths · 31-12-2020 05:48PM

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

A reporter asked how many people had been vaccinated so far, they don't know, what a system, unbelievable.

How in fecks name do they not know. Even a basic stocktaking programme can advise you of stock in stock out. HSE doing their best to destroy what ever remaining confidence the public have in them.

ninebeanrows · 31-12-2020 05:48PM

And as we speak, shopping malls are packed

Sierra Oscar · 31-12-2020 05:48PM

blowitupref wrote: »

The recent high volume of positive swabs could be a big number of re tests?

People are only tested once now, no retests for testing negative. I don't anyone gets tested twice anymore?

Duke of Url · 31-12-2020 05:49PM

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Not true, one of members on panel didn't know, Colm Henry did

So how many have been given doses of the vaccine?

MerlinSouthDub · 31-12-2020 05:49PM

Duke of Url wrote: »

They don’t need schools open.

They need care services open for the children of people who work in essential service.

School is providing this.

The issue is that many others want to send their kids to school so they can have a break.

That's it yeah. Just out of curiosity, have you tried working from home while simultaneously caring for and educating multiple children?

Covid 19 Part XXX-113,332 ROI(2,282 deaths) 81,251 NI (1,384 deaths) (05/01) Read OP

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