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

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  • #4712
    quartz1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 396 ✭✭quartz1


    This demands a response from Government . They are accountable to at least justify their decision to decline NPHETs advice asking not to open Hospitality and Homes. Track and Trace has collapsed by Jan 01. Nobody can be surprised the situation has worsened because we open too early for Christmas.


  • #4713
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,601 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    FintanMcluskey wrote: »
    What’s a correct lockdown?


    March was


    Now every business bends the rules to stay open. Okay pubs close, and restaurants, but retailers stay open, all non essential but they stay open by bending the rules.


  • #4714
    normanoffside
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,229 ✭✭✭✭normanoffside


    Ace2007 wrote: »
    1. They came out a few days ago and said a significant % of people where not answering calls from contract tracer, or are ignoring the advice.

    Don't believe everything you hear from Paul Reid.
    They were making one single call from an unknown number, often late at night, leaving no voice message or a text with a number to call back.

    Of course some people were missing calls or not answering from an unknown number.


  • #4715
    Happydays2020
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭Happydays2020


    AutoTuning wrote: »
    Can they just get the mobile companies to programme

    COVID TRACING as the caller ID on those calls. I guarantee you it’s mostly people who don’t answer calls from unknown or unfamiliar numbers who aren’t answering.

    It’s high time the mobile networks got on board with the effort and offered some practical solutions. They have things like text alerts, emergency broadcast message capabilities for lockdown information and so on and none of this is being used.

    That’s a very good idea. I don’t answer from unknown numbers.


  • #4716
    Cork2021
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,420 ✭✭✭Cork2021


    This is nonsense! Announce the numbers denote them later! They’ll create a monster number and this will frighten the living daylights out of some people. Don’t mind drive them mad


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  • #4717
    Ohmeha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,176 ✭✭✭Ohmeha


    bb1234567 wrote: »
    9,000 is this real
    Everything was fine a little over a week ago this is insane
    Thanksgiving in Canada and the US gave us sneak peak of what was going to happen here on December 25th and our elected "leaders" proceded to yet again ignore our scientists advice against reopening on 1st December when our cases were still too high.

    This shiitshow cannot be of any surprise to anybody who understands this virus


  • #4718
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    Prof Nolan comments
    https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1345079576381284352?s=19


  • #4719
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,781 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    niallo27 wrote: »
    I was up in cratloe woods today, it was a lovely day for it. The place was packed, everyone out in the fresh air. Hard to believe the world is going end in a few weeks according to the reactions on here.

    The world is going to end for a certain percentage of people who get infected with covid. As has been the case for 10 months...


  • #4720
    Ace2007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,029 ✭✭✭✭Ace2007


    quartz1 wrote: »
    This demands a response from Government . They are accountable to at least justify their decision to decline NPHETs advice asking not to open Hospitality and Homes. Track and Trace has collapsed by Jan 01. Nobody can be surprised the situation has worsened because we open too early for Christmas.

    What do you want the government to say?

    They asked people to limit contacts - large % of the public ignore this and now we are in this mess.


  • #4721
    JeffKenna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,635 ✭✭✭JeffKenna


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Gullible Paddy is expected to eat it up with a long spoon. By the way, did you know that the HSE embraces modern technology, recently upgraded from paper and pencil to Atari 7000. Bridie and Teresa who do their knitting in administration while watching the afternoon show eventually accepted this change after 17 years of stubborn resistance, 1989 2021 holds abundant promise.

    Once the positive swab comes in does anyone know the process to bring it to a positive case?


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  • #4722
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,601 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    SimonTemplar wrote: »
    Inconsiderate selfish idiots who don't give a damn about the restrictions are also costing a lot of lives.


    Not enforced.So down to government. they are like



    '' 5km rule, if you feel like it, no mixing in other household, unless you real want like, non essential businesses to close, if you want like.''


  • #4723
    sonofenoch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,502 ✭✭✭sonofenoch


    SimonTemplar wrote: »
    I'm shopping at quite times too but to be fair there is very high mask compliance amongst the regular customers in my local SuperValu.

    The staff are a different story though. I've seen them not wearing one at all, and they often don't cover their nose. A few days ago the manager took off his mask to shout across to a staff member down the aisle with a few customers very close to him.

    What happened to you Simon Templar? ....you used be a proper bloke


  • #4724
    Jim Gazebo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,363 ✭✭✭Jim Gazebo


    Joke shop. Imagine releasing numbers and then saying they're not the real numbers. Ffs. Angriest I've been over these restrictions. Everybody is doing their part except our government and the HSE. I am going to have to go for a walk and calm down, it's a farce.


  • #4725
    anais
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 123 ✭✭anais


    I don't think even my "magic mask" will protect me in my classroom on the 11th. #feelingverynervous


  • #4726
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    Prof Nolan comments
    https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1345079576381284352?s=19

    "Statistical lag" my hind quarters, shorthand for "the systems we have in place are woefully outmoded and not fit for purpose".


  • #4727
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    JeffKenna wrote: »
    Once the positive swab comes in does anyone know the process to bring it to a positive case?

    I think essentially there is a check to confirm a test is not a duplicates

    Once the duplicates are identified they are subtracted


  • #4728
    Ace2007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,029 ✭✭✭✭Ace2007


    AutoTuning wrote: »
    Can they just get the mobile companies to programme

    COVID TRACING as the caller ID on those calls. I guarantee you it’s mostly people who don’t answer calls from unknown or unfamiliar numbers who aren’t answering.

    It’s high time the mobile networks got on board with the effort and offered some practical solutions. They have things like text alerts, emergency broadcast message capabilities for lockdown information and so on and none of this is being used.

    And what do you do for the following cohort of people?

    - dont look for a test with symptoms
    - dont restrict their movements waiting for a test
    - dont turn up for their test
    - dont restrict their movements waiting for a result
    - ignore any contact message from their phone company
    - do not want/give permission for phone companies to contact them on said issue.


  • #4729
    Tucker tunsel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33 ✭Tucker tunsel


    It's hard to have trust in the HSE delivering out these vaccines to the public in a competent manner.

    The backlog in cases is a really poor and I'd say were in for a ****fest when they starting rolling out the vacs on full scale.

    Just be one mess after the next by over paid civil servants. I'd love to see a lad like Michael o Leary in charge of getting them out to the public.


  • #4730
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,398 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    Prof Nolan comments
    https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1345079576381284352?s=19

    What does that even mean, "a statistical lag"?


  • #4731
    Happydays2020
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭Happydays2020


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    Prof Nolan comments
    https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1345079576381284352?s=19

    Surely they can give provisional numbers.


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  • #4732
    titan18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,052 ✭✭✭✭titan18


    Stheno wrote: »
    I think essentially there is a check to confirm a test is not a duplicates

    Once the duplicates are identified they are subtracted

    There has to be more they're doing unless someone is actually going through paper copies individually. I could do a duplicate check in 10 seconds in excel so no idea what they're doing


  • #4733
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    What does that even mean, "a statistical lag"?

    Nolan speak for " it takes a while to enter them on the system"


  • #4734
    Mervyn Skidmore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,210 ✭✭✭Mervyn Skidmore


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    What does that even mean, "a statistical lag"?

    A delay. Not that hard to figure out.


  • #4735
    JeffKenna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,635 ✭✭✭JeffKenna


    Stheno wrote: »
    I think essentially there is a check to confirm a test is not a duplicates

    Once the duplicates are identified they are subtracted

    So it's completely a clerical thing? My lord.


  • #4736
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91,074 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    1,754 new cases
    11 additional deaths - RIP
    https://forumofgames.com/




  • #4737
    FintanMcluskey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,622 ✭✭✭FintanMcluskey


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    March was


    Now every business bends the rules to stay open. Okay pubs close, and restaurants, but retailers stay open, all non essential but they stay open by bending the rules.

    How many cases have been attributed to gyms and other non essential retail?

    Let’s not keep using March as an example

    The understanding of the virus has improved since then

    The weather is cold, people can’t meet outdoors, so they congregate in the home.


  • #4738
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,781 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Solar2021 wrote: »
    No offence but if your that scared why are you even in the shopping center?

    Seriously why are you there? Go home

    Do your shopping online ffs

    Your situation reminds me of that story of the 17 year old girl in the US, she died because the pussies around her wouldn't give her CPR without PPE over Covid

    It's not bloody Ebola

    Scared ? No just infuriated by the behavior of absolute tossbag idiots who wouldn’t wait for the next lift.

    I’m there because I need and want to be.

    My situation has nothing to do with the incident you refer to in the US...

    No, it’s not Ebola, thanks for checking.


  • #4739
    boardise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,530 ✭✭✭boardise


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    What does that even mean, "a statistical lag"?


    A lagarithm ?


  • #4740
    techdiver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,541 ✭✭✭techdiver


    So it's certain that all this test data is still being tabulated manually. How after 9 months is this not automated. Parsing a spreadsheet and processing the data is not that complicated. It would be done within seconds daily with a simple tool.

    I'm assuming this can't be done as they need to form a committee to investigate it and then pay Accenture or someone similar 10 times over the odds to develop a broken tool.


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  • #4741
    CIARAN_BOYLE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,599 ✭✭✭✭CIARAN_BOYLE


    Happydays2020 wrote: »
    Surely they can give provisional numbers.

    That's what the swabs are aren't they?

    If you want provisional numbers look at the swab data.


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