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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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  • #6302
    branie2
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    Extremely high number!


  • #6303
    MOR316
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    Antares35 wrote: »
    :D brilliant

    I remember logging on Christmas day, in the afternoon and reading that.

    Will live long in the memory that will :D


  • #6304
    Arduach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 618 ✭✭✭Arduach


    Some very hard day's ahead, no doubt, and unfortunately deaths. But everyday is a day nearer to the end of the pandemic.


  • #6305
    speckle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭speckle


    night all.. I go to bed a happy camper.. been buzy over last while from trying to organise a mobile home test for a 80+ relative post surgery who lives alone on xmas day to finding out my oldest aged friend who is in a nursing home where many staff tested positive over the new year. Thankfully all bar one/patient zero in the community hospital and none of the residents in the nursing home tested positive so far including my friend and relative.

    My thoughts with the one who tested positive and their familys/friends and the staff of the nursing home for their recoverys.

    Oíche maith agus coladh samh


  • #6306
    Psychedelic Hedgehog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 486 ✭✭Psychedelic Hedgehog


    Arduach wrote: »
    Some very hard day's ahead, no doubt, and unfortunately deaths. But everyday is a day nearer to the end of the pandemic.

    Can't argue with that. Someday this will all be a distant memory.


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  • #6307
    Snugglebunnies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 382 ✭✭Snugglebunnies


    After being so so careful since this all kicked off I'm now isolating while I wait to hear if a colleague is positive. A family member of hers was contacted traced after meeting friends for drinks on Christmas Eve.
    Now all I can do is hope that the measures in my workplace were enough to protect me.


  • #6308
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    TheValeyard wrote: »
    These threads will be great reading for historians researching the pandemic in 30-⁴0 years or so.

    They ll all be redacted when Dinny O Bigballs tightens his media grip


  • #6309
    Infini
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,651 ✭✭✭Infini


    TheValeyard wrote: »
    These threads will be great reading for historians researching the pandemic in 30-⁴0 years or so.

    Looks for thread in 2061: Error 404 Page not found.


  • #6310
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91,060 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    607 COVID19 patients in hospitals with 56 in ICU
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  • #6311
    vafankillar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 589 ✭✭✭vafankillar


    working in a supermarkett one of the things that's baffled me since march is how not once has the lotto machine been turned off. with the lotto on twice a week, euromillions twice, telly bingo 3 times, daily millions everyday and scratch cards beside it it's incentivised probably hundreds of thousands of unncessary journeys to the shops around ireland since the pandemic began. and yes people are coming in multiple times a week for just to do the lotto and / or get scratch cards, it's not doing a weekly shop and buying a ticket.


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  • #6312
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91,060 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Prof Philip Nolan says cases could peak at 6,000 cases per day in the coming week to ten days.
    He says days of cases in the thousands are ahead of us.

    :(
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  • #6313
    CIARAN_BOYLE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,599 ✭✭✭✭CIARAN_BOYLE


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    Prof Philip Nolan says cases could peak at 6,000 cases per day in the coming week to ten days.
    He says days of cases in the thousands are ahead of us.

    :(

    Just look at the swabs. We were 5.5k yesterday. Add in some backlog and suddenly you are above 6k.


  • #6314
    bb1234567
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    https://twitter.com/hazechu/status/1345484856239779847
    https://twitter.com/hazechu/status/1345491473312198656

    Our Lord Mayor of our capital has seemingly refused to expressly condemn the idea of mass gatherings at this time . She needs to grow a pair, apart from the awful timing the fact the protests are about a case where so far there is no evidence of any wrongdoing just further makes a mockery of the whole affair.


  • #6315
    Louis Friend
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 590 ✭✭✭Louis Friend


    vafankillar wrote: »
    working in a supermarkett one of the things that's baffled me since march is how not once has the lotto machine been turned off. with the lotto on twice a week, euromillions twice, telly bingo 3 times, daily millions everyday and scratch cards beside it it's incentivised probably hundreds of thousands of unncessary journeys to the shops around ireland since the pandemic began. and yes people are coming in multiple times a week for just to do the lotto and / or get scratch cards, it's not doing a weekly shop and buying a ticket.

    An excellent point I’d never thought of


  • #6316
    Wolf359f
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,399 ✭✭✭Wolf359f


    bb1234567 wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/hazechu/status/1345484856239779847
    https://twitter.com/hazechu/status/1345491473312198656

    Our Lord Mayor of our capital has seemingly refused to expressly condemn the idea of mass gatherings at this time . She needs to grow a pair, apart from the awful timing the fact the protests are about a case where so far there is no evidence of any wrongdoing just further makes a mockery of the whole affair.

    Problem is, if she condemns protests, it just drives more to protest.
    If people want to protest, and cause friction, but the establishment or powers to be don't condemn it, the protest would lack the spark the protesters seek.


  • #6317
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    vafankillar wrote: »
    working in a supermarkett one of the things that's baffled me since march is how not once has the lotto machine been turned off. with the lotto on twice a week, euromillions twice, telly bingo 3 times, daily millions everyday and scratch cards beside it it's incentivised probably hundreds of thousands of unncessary journeys to the shops around ireland since the pandemic began. and yes people are coming in multiple times a week for just to do the lotto and / or get scratch cards, it's not doing a weekly shop and buying a ticket.

    And you can play online now. Why haven't the lottery machines been turned off? Any unnecessary trips like this needs to be stopped.


  • #6318
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,038 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    bb1234567 wrote: »
    Our Lord Mayor of our capital has seemingly refused to expressly condemn the idea of mass gatherings at this time . She needs to grow a pair, apart from the awful timing the fact the protests are about a case where so far there is no evidence of any wrongdoing just further makes a mockery of the whole affair.
    Not the thread for it I know, but she also had a (since-deleted) tweet which intimated the police were in the wrong. I think she may be more scarecrow than lion.


  • #6319
    FintanMcluskey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,621 ✭✭✭FintanMcluskey


    bb1234567 wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/hazechu/status/1345484856239779847
    https://twitter.com/hazechu/status/1345491473312198656

    Our Lord Mayor of our capital has seemingly refused to expressly condemn the idea of mass gatherings at this time . She needs to grow a pair, apart from the awful timing the fact the protests are about a case where so far there is no evidence of any wrongdoing just further makes a mockery of the whole affair.

    Those protests in Dublin are fuelling part of the problem in rural Ireland

    If BLM overrides all restrictions in the most densely populated part of Ireland surely a few country lads can congregate in a house for a few tins.


  • #6320
    normanoffside
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,229 ✭✭✭✭normanoffside


    majcos wrote: »
    I don’t think sleeping arrangements were analysed. My grandparents slept in separate beds although they somehow still managed to have nine children.

    Maybe some are wise enough to move to spare room/couch when start feeling sick so that would help. Could have transmission before symptoms but even so that should mitigate spread somewhat.

    Lots we don’t know about this infectious disease transmission yet. Many infected with Covid have no idea where they got it from and yet people living in the same house can escape. That happens with other infectious illnesses too though. Several members of households can get gastroenteritis but some members don’t despite caring for those who are sick.


    I have heard of stories of spouses getting it and their partner not despite sleeping together but i thought those must be exceptions.

    If it’s true that approx 1 in 3 people transmit it to their spouse and less than 1 in 5 to their housemates then there really must be something to super spreaders. There must be some who are really infectious and without noticing spread it to all they come in contact with if most people don’t even pass it to their husband or wife.


  • #6321
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91,060 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Snugglebunnies wrote: »
    After being so so careful since this all kicked off I'm now isolating while I wait to hear if a colleague is positive. A family member of hers was contacted traced after meeting friends for drinks on Christmas Eve.
    Now all I can do is hope that the measures in my workplace were enough to protect me.

    I hope negative for you
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  • #6322
    bb1234567
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    normanoffside wrote: »
    I have heard of stories of spouses getting it and their partner not despite sleeping together but i thought those must be exceptions.

    If it’s true that approx 1 in 3 people transmit it to their spouse and less than 1 in 5 to their housemates then there really must be something to super spreaders. There must be some who are really infectious and without noticing spread it to all they come in contact with if most people don’t even pass it to their husband or wife.

    It must be something do with viral load surely, anecdotally know of two young people who tested positive and has spent hours at table eating/playing board games with their family the day before they were confirmed. Families all shocked to see none of them were positive. Then you hear of some infected person who goes to a party and infects a dozen.Surely couldn't all be down to behaviour of the infected person. Mad to think 10 months in important phenomena like this remain mostly unexplained


  • #6323
    Christy42
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    bb1234567 wrote: »
    It must be something do with viral load surely, anecdotally know of two young people who tested positive and has spent hours at table eating/playing board games with their family the day before they were confirmed. Families all shocked to see none of them were positive. Then you hear of some infected person who goes to a party and infects a dozen.Surely couldn't all be down to behaviour of the infected person. Mad to think 10 months in important phenomena like this remain mostly unexplained

    People tend to think in black and white but it is a lot of luck and what you want to do with the odds. There are probably a fair few cases of people going to parties and infecting no one but they are less interesting. However like running across the street without looking it is a risk and should obviously be avoided.

    The above stuff is likely super super hard to study without having people trying to I fect others under test conditions which is obviously a moral issue.

    Finally mathematically the odds of something becomobg a pandemic are in fact tiny. Generally you would expect stuff like this to die out with patient 0. However once they take off they are super hard to stop as odds are someone will pass it on to a good few people and so on.


  • #6324
    MrMusician18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,080 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    bb1234567 wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/hazechu/status/1345484856239779847
    https://twitter.com/hazechu/status/1345491473312198656

    Our Lord Mayor of our capital has seemingly refused to expressly condemn the idea of mass gatherings at this time . She needs to grow a pair, apart from the awful timing the fact the protests are about a case where so far there is no evidence of any wrongdoing just further makes a mockery of the whole affair.
    That fuckwit was out at that nonsensical BLM protest during the lockdown in the summer so I'm not at all surprised at her equivocation.

    I remember listening to her prattling on about the right to protest at the time and being filled with utter disgust at her contempt for society. Some of us had to make huge sacrifices for the good of society - I couldn't be there with my wife as she struggled with a serious illness in hospital as just one example. She thought it fine to participate in a mass rally, she is utterly unfit to be a public representative.


  • #6325
    KaneToad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,664 ✭✭✭KaneToad


    bb1234567 wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/hazechu/status/1345484856239779847
    https://twitter.com/hazechu/status/1345491473312198656

    Our Lord Mayor of our capital has seemingly refused to expressly condemn the idea of mass gatherings at this time . She needs to grow a pair, apart from the awful timing the fact the protests are about a case where so far there is no evidence of any wrongdoing just further makes a mockery of the whole affair.

    She attended protest marches during previous lockdowns.

    She really is a poor quality public representative. Unfortunately she's not alone...


  • #6326
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91,060 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    vafankillar wrote: »
    working in a supermarkett one of the things that's baffled me since march is how not once has the lotto machine been turned off. with the lotto on twice a week, euromillions twice, telly bingo 3 times, daily millions everyday and scratch cards beside it it's incentivised probably hundreds of thousands of unncessary journeys to the shops around ireland since the pandemic began. and yes people are coming in multiple times a week for just to do the lotto and / or get scratch cards, it's not doing a weekly shop and buying a ticket.

    It's the same with alcohol shops, multiple trips
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  • #6327
    MOR316
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,243 ✭✭✭MOR316


    bb1234567 wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/hazechu/status/1345484856239779847
    https://twitter.com/hazechu/status/1345491473312198656

    Our Lord Mayor of our capital has seemingly refused to expressly condemn the idea of mass gatherings at this time . She needs to grow a pair, apart from the awful timing the fact the protests are about a case where so far there is no evidence of any wrongdoing just further makes a mockery of the whole affair.

    Wait, what?

    Why is there a protest?


  • #6328
    MrMusician18
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    MOR316 wrote: »
    Wait, what?

    Why is there a protest?

    That's a great question.


  • #6329
    JP Liz V1
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    MOR316 wrote: »
    Wait, what?

    Why is there a protest?

    Gardai shot a criminal from Clonee who had a knife after a crime spree of stabbing and stealing afaik and he was black so "BLM" protests here now
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  • #6330
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,038 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    Gardai shot a criminal from Clonee who had a knife after a crime spree of stabbing and stealing afaik and he was black so "BLM" protests here now
    Just because one side is being very economical with the truth doesn't mean this helps.


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  • #6331
    JP Liz V1
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    Ficheall wrote: »
    Just because one side is being very economical with the truth doesn't mean this helps.

    I don't want to derail this thread on it but afaik he stabbed the shop keeper
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