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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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  • #7202
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,580 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    The same pattern happened in USA

    '' WE HAVE MORE CASES BECAUSE WE TEST MORE PEOPLE''

    So many of the positive cases are because of the contact tracing doing it's job. But none of those people are in any danger of dying.


  • #7203
    niallo27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,137 ✭✭✭✭niallo27


    pjohnson wrote: »
    That people cant just assume they are automatically immune to catching the virus and then blame "hindsight" for catching it.

    Why would anyone think that.


  • #7204
    boardise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,530 ✭✭✭boardise


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    Anyone watching fair city?

    When were these episodes shot? People going into other people's homes like it's nothing.

    probably should be retitled 'Fear City' going by the atmosphere being generated by the latest numbers.:D


  • #7205
    jojofizzio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,287 ✭✭✭jojofizzio


    babyboom wrote: »
    My daughter works for Easons. They are considered essential as they sell papers and stationery. She works in a shopping centre and they initially were told to allow 49 into the shop including staff. Management in the centre said they had to increase to 95 excluding staff. She said people are coming in, sipping coffee and eating ice creams with their masks under their chins. They also leave their coffee cups on books when they're finished and off they go. She's had abuse from many customers for asking them to take their rubbish with them. She also noticed declining compliance with mask wearing.

    Am I right in thinking Easons weren’t open in the first lockdown?


  • #7206
    Str8outtaWuhan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 968 ✭✭✭Str8outtaWuhan


    WhiteMemento9 wrote: »
    Is there anything that isn't considered essential at this stage?

    pints:D


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  • #7207
    Goldengirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,854 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    The_Brood wrote: »
    People are a complete, complete joke. No matter how dire the situation gets, no matter how miserable, people continue supporting this utter sham of a government, refusing to ask for anything even remotely resembling a coherent plan.

    I have never been more disappointed with people as this. Economic lockdowns but no shutdowns of schools or borders. Complete and utter joke.

    Has there ever been more blind obedience to failure?

    It mightn't be obedience .
    Maybe people agree that borders should not be shut and schools should stay open?
    Just throwing it out there ...


  • #7208
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    jojofizzio wrote: »
    Am I right in thinking Easons weren’t open in the first lockdown?

    They weren't where I am but that was because they were were in a shopping centre iirc


  • #7209
    Jim Gazebo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,363 ✭✭✭Jim Gazebo


    Simple enough in my view. Every night I am told stay at home do not socialize. But a pub 200 metres from my house is serving takeaway pints and cocktails so I can go out and meet someone for a pint if I want. Having click and collect shops open, and construction and schools creates a complacency. If it was as serious as they keep saying, people think they would not be open. To regain the public buy in they are going to have to do something, close everything for a couple of weeks and give no one any reason to go anywhere other than for exercise or work. The halfway house **** was going on too long back in November never mind now. Do something about it or just open up and let it rip because where we are now is giving us the worst of both worlds.


  • #7210
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,366 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    Pat Leahy is the spokesman for the government in the Irish Times tonight.


  • #7211
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,444 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    WhiteMemento9 wrote: »
    Is there anything that isn't considered essential at this stage?
    How the hell are newspapers even still considered safe to sell? Filthy, germ ridden things at the best of times, they've been barred from chez 'cat since March.


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  • #7212
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    Str8outtaWuhan wrote: »
    pints:D

    And clothes


  • #7213
    niallo27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,137 ✭✭✭✭niallo27


    Jim Gazebo wrote: »
    Simple enough in my view. Every night I am told stay at home do not socialize. But a pub 200 metres from my house is serving takeaway pints and cocktails so I can go out and meet someone for a pint if I want. Having click and collect shops open, and construction and schools creates a complacency. If it was as serious as they keep saying, people think they would not be open. To regain the public buy in they are going to have to do something, close everything for a couple of weeks and give no one any reason to go anywhere other than for exercise or work. The halfway house **** was going on too long back in November never mind now. Do something about it or just open up and let it rip because where we are now is giving us the worst of both worlds.

    I'm not sure would putting 500k people out of work would gain back the public by in, they would need the banks to suspend all loans and mortgages as well.


  • #7214
    Goldengirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,854 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    Daphne Mushy Searcher wrote: »
    You have more control over it than you realise. Just be sensible. Don't share cutlery. Try to minimise your contact with colleagues, beyond what is necessary. Try to adhere to social distancing. If not possible, then use your PPE correctly, and fastidious hand hygiene.

    Remember, this too shall pass. We shall be vaccinated soon. There will likely be a peak up to 10 days post-New Year's Eve, followed by a blip of up to a week beyond this (the lung problem->ARDs can occur up to 1 week after the onset of Covid). Hopefully then, we will see the numbers starting to normalise. And historically, there has always been a lower rate of hospitalisation in Spring and Summer. "Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day"

    The infections being announced today will have seeded more infections which will only become evident in the 10 days after that, 3rd week of January and those after that that they seed, so talking about large numbers till mid February at least .


  • #7215
    babyboom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 201 ✭✭babyboom


    WhiteMemento9 wrote: »
    Is there anything that isn't considered essential at this stage?

    I know it's ridiculous, particularly as her branch is situated between two supermarkets who sell both these items. It's a joke. I don't want her there as I have to look after my 94 year old mother who lives alone.


  • #7216
    Bubbaclaus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,461 ✭✭✭Bubbaclaus


    TonyMaloney wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/RiochtConor2/status/1345819403049463812?s=19

    Close the...colleges?


  • #7217
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    babyboom wrote: »
    My daughter works for Easons. They are considered essential as they sell papers and stationery. She works in a shopping centre and they initially were told to allow 49 into the shop including staff. Management in the centre said they had to increase to 95 excluding staff. She said people are coming in, sipping coffee and eating ice creams with their masks under their chins. They also leave their coffee cups on books when they're finished and off they go. She's had abuse from many customers for asking them to take their rubbish with them. She also noticed declining compliance with mask wearing.

    God, I don't know how your daughter sticks it. It's a pandemic full of stupid.


  • #7218
    Renjit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 949 ✭✭✭Renjit


    We have reached the new normal now :)


  • #7219
    Munsterman12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91 ✭✭Munsterman12


    SimonTemplar wrote: »
    Even if our hospitals get completely overwhelmed and RTE announces dozens or hundreds of deaths a day, the sad fact is that there is a certain portion of the population who still won't give a damn about the restrictions.

    They might if there is a big fine coming their way.


  • #7220
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,248 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    There is no doubt it is absolutely rampant now
    I knew no one who had it up to a week ago
    And now i am getting text all day about positive cases . I must know about 15 people at this stage


  • #7221
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    WhiteMemento9 wrote: »
    Is there anything that isn't considered essential at this stage?

    The longer things go on the more places need to be considered 'essential'. Essential for an initial lockdown and essential 9 months later are two different things


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  • #7222
    babyboom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 201 ✭✭babyboom


    She's very distressed with it. She suffers from pretty serious depression and this isn't helping. It really is amazing the amount of arseholes out there. She's had customers physically push her out of the way to get past when she's working on the shop floor.


  • #7223
    growleaves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,978 ✭✭✭growleaves


    Funsterdelux wrote: »
    On the upside Bella is in a wheelchair

    Bella has Long Covid?


  • #7224
    Jim Gazebo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,363 ✭✭✭Jim Gazebo


    niallo27 wrote: »
    I'm not sure would putting 500k people out of work would gain back the public by in, they would need the banks to suspend all loans and mortgages as well.

    The thing is I agree, but you must agree that for it to even be taken seriously, they need to actually do something serious... It's getting stupid. They seem to have backed themselves into an impossible situation. Of course, an extra closure like above should include suitable support. No one should be disadvantaged by it.


  • #7225
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    babyboom wrote: »
    She's very distressed with it. She suffers from pretty serious depression and this isn't helping. It really is amazing the amount of arseholes out there. She's had customers physically push her out of the way to get past when she's working on the shop floor.

    Is there security in the shop? What are they doing? What about a complaint to health and safety authority? The place isn't safe if customers have no space and have to push past your daughter.


  • #7226
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,041 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    Munsterman12 wrote: »
    They might if there is a big fine coming their way.
    Which is unlikely to happen because there's not enough resources for them and, if people didn't pay, there's no way to punish them given we're in a country where people can have 90+ convictions and walk the street. I'd be quite happy to see some penalties in theory but, in truth, I just don't see it ever occurring.


  • #7227
    Cluedo Monopoly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,357 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    In other news, filming has already started on Reeling in the Years for 2020. It will be an 8 part mini-series. Many of the cast from Angela's Ashes, Black 47, The Crying Game, Hunger and Song for a Raggy Boy will be joining the production. Phil Hogan will be doing a cameo role for an undisclosed sum. His contract states that he is allowed use the sentence 'I am an innocent man' in his dialogue. 840,000 rolls of toilet paper have been procured for some vital scenes.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



  • #7228
    jojofizzio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,287 ✭✭✭jojofizzio


    Stheno wrote: »
    They weren't where I am but that was because they were were in a shopping centre iirc

    Yes,the ones i know are all shopping centre based and were closed for the first lockdown but not the second...


  • #7229
    babyboom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 201 ✭✭babyboom


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    Is there security in the shop? What are they doing? What about a complaint to health and safety authority? The place isn't safe if customers have no space and have to push past your daughter.

    No security other than the centres own security guards who haven't time to police every shop. They were supposed to be restricting numbers allowed into the shopping centre itself before Christmas, but that never materialised. She just keeps her head down and says nothing, she's afraid she'll loose her job. Hopefully, she's going back to do a Masters next year and she can get out of there!


  • #7230
    ElJeffe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 725 ✭✭✭ElJeffe


    Government now saying this is a serious situation with grave concern for heath system. But sure let's keep the schools and construction open. Absolute idiots.


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  • #7231
    beaz2018
    Closed Accounts Posts: 173 ✭✭beaz2018


    Ingrid Miley just announced that a significant number of people with Covid will be going to hospital soon. They don’t know it yet apparently, but she does.


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