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Covid in Limerick - Mod Warning in Post #1

Clareman

Right,

Lets try this the third time, as RivetRoger said in the previous thread this is a massive issues in Limerick so there needs to be a place to discuss it.

As there has been 2 previous attempts to start a thread that descended into blaming or rules not being followed or mods being questioned on thread this is a new thread to just discuss Covid in Limerick.

Any breaking of the rules or any attempts to bring up stuff that the previous 2 threads will lead to bans, not warnings or thread bans or anything else, bans for at least 2 weeks, if you think this isn't fair that's your opinion but we tried leaving the other 2 threads open and that was a nightmare both times so take this as notice of a Zero Tolerance approach to moderating.

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YFlyer

MarkR wrote: »

I'm back! Numbers look awful for Limerick, and that's probably going to continue for a couple of weeks.

My wife was in Aldi in castletroy last week, and won't be going back for a while. Mostly fine, but ruined by a pair of old ladies with no masks on, one of which was having a hell of a chat with someone on the phone, saying how all the fools were wearing masks, and how the virus was a con. Not a peep from the guy on the door.

Did a Tesco click and collect shop instead.

They don't bother controlling the numbers going into Aldi anymore. Lidl has the traffic light system.

Bicyclette

Cookiemunster wrote: »

I'd keep an eye on that number. They seem to get regularly get changed the next day. The Covid app was showing 240 for Limerick on either Christmas Eve or Christmas Day (can't remember which), but now both those days are showing around 80 cases.
Now I don't expect such a huge change this time but the number may be different when uploaded to the app tomorrow.

That was 240 over the 24th, 25th, and 26th. An average of 80 each day. There were no individual figures produced on those days.

kilburn

Hi MOD's,

Can you clarify if the users banned in this thread were given a thread ban or forum ban?

Also wondering as its New Years Eve can you remove the bans and let everyone start with a clean slate for 2021.

I see some users who were banned have had their bans lifted but not all which doesnt seem fair.

Happy New Year all and stay safe.

Kilburn

Cookiemunster

Bicyclette wrote: »

That was 240 over the 24th, 25th, and 26th. An average of 80 each day. There were no individual figures produced on those days.

That's makes sense, but that's not what the app showed at the time and it now shows individual numbers for each of those days. It may well have been a glitch, but I have seen the numbers change the day after they're announced more than once.

And the average over those three days is closer to 200 as there were only around 45 on the 26th.

YFlyer

Is there location breakdown of the numbers today?

Cookiemunster

YFlyer wrote: »

Is there location breakdown of the numbers today?

That's usually released on a Monday.

YFlyer

Cookiemunster wrote: »

That's usually released on a Monday.

Thanks. Hopefully the numbers in the city and Castletroy are low.

Bicyclette

Is this what you are looking for? It goes to the 28th December. The New Ross figure is 998.6 per 100,000. (Not Limerick, I know, but possibly the highest in the country)

https://covid-19.geohive.ie/

YFlyer

Bicyclette wrote: »

Is this what you are looking for? It goes to the 28th December. The New Ross figure is 998.6 per 100,000. (Not Limerick, I know, but possibly the highest in the country)

https://covid-19.geohive.ie/

Thanks. Interesting data.

Awkward to navigate through the site using the phone.

Looking at the number of positive cases for the county. Even without showing months along the x-axis. The rate of infection is increasing significantly.

yop

kilburn wrote: »

Hi MOD's,

Can you clarify if the users banned in this thread were given a thread ban or forum ban?

Also wondering as its New Years Eve can you remove the bans and let everyone start with a clean slate for 2021.

I see some users who were banned have had their bans lifted but not all which doesnt seem fair.

Happy New Year all and stay safe.

Kilburn

Bans stand as they were not the first warnings etc etc. People can start with their slate crystal clean then in 2021.
If you want to discuss this further you can PM the mods

Happy new year

NewClareman

MarkR wrote: »

I'm back! Numbers look awful for Limerick, and that's probably going to continue for a couple of weeks.

My wife was in Aldi in castletroy last week, and won't be going back for a while. Mostly fine, but ruined by a pair of old ladies with no masks on, one of which was having a hell of a chat with someone on the phone, saying how all the fools were wearing masks, and how the virus was a con. Not a peep from the guy on the door.

Did a Tesco click and collect shop instead.

Welcome back! I visited that shop, early on,and never went back. It wasn't just the customers who were behaving badly.

Bicyclette wrote: »

We were in Dunnes, Jetland, last night. We shop late to avoid people. Someone we recognised was in there not wearing a mask, talking to staff and eating grapes or whatever with his mouth open as he went around. Bold as brass. Didn't give a fiddlers. Nor did the staff.

Same guy was in at the same time two weeks previously. That time we gave him the benefit of the doubt and thought he might have forgotten his mask.

There are eejits everywhere....

I do all my shopping there, now. Best of the bunch.

YFlyer wrote: »

They don't bother controlling the numbers going into Aldi anymore. Lidl has the traffic light system.

I used to go to Lidl in Childers Road, for that reason. However, there is one member of staff and one contractor who refuse to wear a mask over their nose. I don't go there any more.

Bicyclette

YFlyer wrote: »

Thanks. Interesting data.

Awkward to navigate through the site using the phone.

Looking at the number of positive cases for the county. Even without showing months along the x-axis. The rate of infection is increasing significantly.

Do a search for @higginsdavidw on Twitter - this link might work https://twitter.com/higginsdavidw?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

He has a lot of analysis done and presented it in graphs. Its much easier to read.

mgbgt1978

MarkR wrote: »

I'm back! Numbers look awful for Limerick, and that's probably going to continue for a couple of weeks.

My wife was in Aldi in castletroy last week, and won't be going back for a while. Mostly fine, but ruined by a pair of old ladies with no masks on, one of which was having a hell of a chat with someone on the phone, saying how all the fools were wearing masks, and how the virus was a con. Not a peep from the guy on the door.

Did a Tesco click and collect shop instead.

Open your/her mouth and tell then as loudly as you like that they are a problem and need to cop on. What are security going to do ? Try to throw you out for doing their job ? Head office, here we come :pac:.

I'm only a 5'8" 11 stone male and have no problem telling anybody* in an indoors setting that they are not following the rules, which are in place for everyone's protection.

*obviously (with regard to the 'R' word in this thread

) I sometimes just don't think it's worth it.

yop

mgbgt1978 wrote: »

Open your/her mouth and tell then as loudly as you like that they are a problem and need to cop on. What are security going to do ? Try to throw you out for doing their job ? Head office, here we come :pac:.

I'm only a 5'8" 11 stone male and have no problem telling anybody* in an indoors setting that they are not following the rules, which are in place for everyone's protection.

*obviously (with regard to the 'R' word in this thread ) I sometimes just don't think it's worth it.

I commented to a man at a funeral he should probably put his mask on just to keep everyone happy and he told me to fup off.
After that I dont bother. Everyone need to have some respect for others and responsibility but sometimes people feel they are above every one else and know better.

Marty1983

Was in Tesco in the Crescent earlier, seems people were shopping for the end of the world!

Worrying thing in this evenings press conference, 4000 extra positive cases over the last few days that have not been reported yet.

When Dr Tony says the current level 5 may not be enough, i assume he means no classrooms and a return to the 2km limit? Got an email today from my childs creche, they are due to open monday but said the staff are worried about the cases and asked if we were planning on sending our child to daycare, we have decided to keep him home next week.

mgbgt1978

yop wrote: »

I commented to a man at a funeral he should probably put his mask on just to keep everyone happy and he told me to fup off.
After that I dont bother. Everyone need to have some respect for others and responsibility but sometimes people feel they are above every one else and know better.

You made the comment. Many wouldn't.
My comments are usually heard by everybody within 20 metres

.
Although the funeral setting might turn the volume down a bit.......

YFlyer

Bicyclette wrote: »

Do a search for @higginsdavidw on Twitter - this link might work https://twitter.com/higginsdavidw?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

He has a lot of analysis done and presented it in graphs. Its much easier to read.

Thanks.

Yes he got clear organize tables. Per head of population we are currently 4th. Looks like we jumped up the rankings in the past 2 weeks.

Can see Cork going badly soon.

Red Silurian

breezy1985 wrote: »

Don't forget the 22nd was the day of the contact not the day they realised you were a contact so they are not twiddling their thumbs for a week with the info at hand.

Also did they say it was from the school. Isn't that against GDPR?
Most people are never told who is their contact

Schools are informing parents, probably in case they hear about school cases from elsewhere to put their minds at ease

gozunda

colmtheperson wrote: »

I won't go into who's buddies with who in politics because it has little to do with covid and even less to do with Limerick, I will say if you Google the 2 parties it's the 4th or 5th result down

Now back to Limerick and COVID eh?

Newspaper article on Rathkeale, Limerick and nye restrictions etc

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-40199442.html

Lobsterlady

gozunda wrote: »

Newspaper article on Rathkeale, Limerick and nye restrictions etc

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-40199442.html

Wouldn't fancy being on that shift tonight:eek:

YFlyer

gozunda wrote: »

Newspaper article on Rathkeale, Limerick and nye restrictions etc

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-40199442.html

May tip off the Brits to block them from travelling.

Marty1983

Tests read yesterday 26,866, positive 5,573 with a positivity rate of 20.7%

Via Gavan Reilly on Twitter

Red Silurian

Marty1983 wrote: »

Tests read yesterday 26,866, positive 5,573 with a positivity rate of 20.7%

Via Gavan Reilly on Twitter

Strange that RTE news are reporting 1,754 new cases...

kilburn

colmtheperson wrote:

Strange that RTE news are reporting 1,754 new cases...

Some are retests in that figure

banie01

There is an IT issue affecting the reporting of numbers aswell.

It should also be noted that the number of positive swabs includes retests on already confirmed cases.

There are @9k cases yet to be reported, up from @4k yesterday.

https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1345078647070355458?s=19

breezy1985

banie01 wrote: »

There is an IT issue affecting the reporting of numbers aswell.

It should also be noted that the number of positive swabs includes retests on already confirmed cases.

There are @9k cases yet to be reported, up from @4k yesterday.

https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1345078647070355458?s=19

Outside of this lads twitter I'm not seeing this 9000 number anywhere

kilburn

In that same tweet thread shared by Banie01 it shows Limerick now 4th at 506.4 cases per 100k

banie01

breezy1985 wrote: »

Outside of this lads twitter I'm not seeing this 9000 number anywhere

That lad is reporting verbatim from the presser.

But here you go

the 9k number is addressed here too.
Coronavirus: 1,754 new cases and 11 more deaths reported as hospital numbers pass 500 (via @IrishTimes)

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/coronavirus-1-754-new-cases-and-11-more-deaths-reported-as-hospital-numbers-pass-500-1.4448184

breezy1985

Thanks. The first IT article today didn't have the 9000 or the county breakdown

adaminho

https://twitter.com/VirginMediaNews/status/1345349152272736256?s=19