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

Deleted User wrote: »

Have a stomach bug at the minute, tried calling my local GP and he is closed. Tried the family GP and also closed. Googled GPs close to me and all closed.

Out of hours number is ringing out.
Christmas holidays I guess.

Only in Ireland.

Can only imagine how many people are desperate to get in contact with their GP for Covid.

Trying those online docs, usually lots of spots available. Laya one is 'careoncall'

Why isn’t the city west nightingale hospital not opening up again? Is it lack of staff?

Trampas wrote: »

Why isn’t the city west nightingale hospital not opening up again? Is it lack of staff?

I'd say lack of staff. They might not even be able to get the UK nightingale hospitals up and running because so many staff are sick. Also worrying are the stories about the amount of children who are now filling up wards over there.

Living with Covid sure here’s my observations.

It’s been raining all week so wasn’t able to get out on the water or beach, but even with a recent outbreak (53 in NSW this week) we are living with covid.

Wednesday: took the kids to movies to see The Croods, Cinemas are limited to 75% so each family unit had 1 or 2 seat spacing between them. I would say it was near full 75%.

Thursday: We (us & in-laws) usually go to watch the fireworks at the Harbour bridge every year but with with the amount of rain and onshore restrictions we thought not worth effort or fuel putting the boat in the water for the poor atmosphere so wife, kids and I ended up going friends house.

Today: went to Theatre in city to watch the musical Frozen. Had Sushi train at a spot in China town.



All seats were spaced 1.5m and since it’s not that big was at full capacity.

On to the Capitol theatre and like Cinemas restricted to 75%, masks are now mandatory although they not that strict when it comes to kids.



btw before entering anywhere that you likely spend more than 10-15 minutes eg Pub, Restaurant, Cinema etc you scan a QR code and this opens the Service App (this is where your digital Driving License’s, Car registration etc) and you “Check in” then when you leave you “check out” and even if you forget to check out you can nominate a time later. This app has all my details pre populated and I can enter kids names too. Helps with the tracing.




You don’t need to have a Zero Covid, you just need to limit how many possible infections you let into your country so you can actually deal with the problem and hopefully keep on top of it at the moment Australia only let in 6500 travellers per week and quarantine them. We are picking up maybe 30 a day, doesn’t seem that many but there was a cluster that started in Avalon on N beaches a few weeks ago probably from a single case and it caused an outbreak of 159 so it can get out of hand very easily.

The other states closed their borders to NSW bit like water tight doors on a submarine some would say a bit of an over reaction but really who wants to deal with covid and majority of population agrees with this approach.

Testing I believe testing ceiling in Australia is 130K per day, 520K if they pooled them all (which wouldn’t be necessary) but the most I have ever seen is 100,000 in a single day and 60,000 of those were from NSW alone.

There’s always the chance things can go pear shaped but Australia has already manufactured 33m doses of Oxford/AZ they just need to be approved by the TGA once the holidays are over so it’s looking like the end of February but I know they bought the Pfizer but not sure wether the will bother with it or palm it off to the SP islands would make more sense to just vaccinate with single type of vaccine for all.

niallo27 wrote: »

Then posters wonder why we have **** all confidence in this inept organisation rolling out a vaccine.

I see Covid is gonna delay the vaccine in nursing homes

https://twitter.com/Independent_ie/status/1345268597938139136

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

Are you qualified to give medical advice particularly with such little information?

A pharmacist will be able to advise from a description of the symptoms if they can treat with meds or whether and when to seek medical attention.

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Have a stomach bug at the minute, tried calling my local GP and he is closed. Tried the family GP and also closed. Googled GPs close to me and all closed.

Out of hours number is ringing out.
Christmas holidays I guess.

Only in Ireland.

Can only imagine how many people are desperate to get in contact with their GP for Covid.

Keep trying the out of hours. I needed it yesterday, took an hour but eventually got through and got sorted with a prescription very quickly.

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

The poster listed two products to treat an upset stomach. Are you comfortable with someone offering medical advice here?

The person said to ask a pharmacist, which is sound, and suggested the meds a pharmacist may advise, the pharmacist may also advise to seek further medical assistance. If the pharmacist says seek further medical advice, I'd be listening.