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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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  • #7772
    wadacrack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,172 ✭✭✭wadacrack


    https://twitter.com/MetroUK/status/1346088299073589248


  • #7773
    ElJeffe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 725 ✭✭✭ElJeffe


    This is us in a week or so if we don't make serious decisions right now.

    https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1340864821131153411


  • #7774
    Humberto Salazar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 624 ✭✭✭Humberto Salazar


    Theboinkmaster wrote: »
    if schools close they absolutely should close construction also.

    Construction won't be shut though I've said it should. The CIF has a stronger lobby than the vintners, and though FFFG might want to close them, they will be unable to do so. Politics runs above public health you see.


  • #7775
    ShyMets
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭ShyMets


    ElJeffe wrote: »
    I'd bring in a rule that if anyone is caught transgressing restrictions, they go to the back of the vaccination queue, regardless of age or condition.

    Also anyone refusing the vaccine is banned from getting any HSE treatment if the knobheads do then catch Covid.

    Might make a few think twice before screwing it up for everyone.

    Remind me not to take your posts seriously


  • #7776
    AlekSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,004 ✭✭✭✭AlekSmart


    Deleted User wrote: »
    A girl i work with who had Covid two months ago has just had a second Positive result.
    Been told it could be a false positive or a re infection so has to isolate.

    Interesting double tap,so to speak ?

    Anyway,some places now looking a bit closer at the testing regime,and not being very positive about it either....

    https://www.nexusnewsfeed.com/article/geopolitics/msm-deathly-silent-as-pcr-test-legally-ruled-useless-to-test-for-covid#.X_JJidkILU8.twitter
    Four German holidaymakers who were illegally quarantined in Portugal after one was judged to be positive for Covid-19 have won their case, in a verdict that condemns the widely-used PCR test as being up to 97-percent unreliable.

    Earlier this month, Portuguese judges upheld a decision from a lower court that found the forced quarantine of four holidaymakers to be unlawful. The case centred on the reliability (or lack thereof) of Covid-19 PCR tests.

    Now,it has to be admitted that this is a foreign Court,and the Portugese Judiciary are,to me,an unknown quantity,however they are,after all,still a member of ' our ' EU club,so perhaps it's worth taking note of ?


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



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  • #7777
    Humberto Salazar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 624 ✭✭✭Humberto Salazar


    wadacrack wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/MetroUK/status/1346088299073589248

    What is the definition of full lockdown? To me its everyone staying in their places of abode. All the time. No exceptions. Anything else is not a lockdown, only restrictions.


  • #7778
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    wadacrack wrote: »
    Official. Im not sure their are loons , their are all qualified scientists. Harsh comment. I can see you seem to be attacking nearly ever post on here. Take a break it could do you some good.

    I clicked on the link it didn’t look like an official government Twitter feed hence my question. If you don’t believe Tomas Ryan is a loon that’s fine.
    You perceive a question as an attack, maybe you should take your own advice.


  • #7779
    duffman13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,247 ✭✭✭duffman13


    AlekSmart wrote: »
    Interesting double tap,so to speak ?

    Anyway,some places now looking a bit closer at the testing regime,and not being very positive about it either....

    https://www.nexusnewsfeed.com/article/geopolitics/msm-deathly-silent-as-pcr-test-legally-ruled-useless-to-test-for-covid#.X_JJidkILU8.twitter



    Now,it has to be admitted that this is a foreign Court,and the Portugese Judiciary are,to me,an unknown quantity,however they are,after all,still a member of ' our ' EU club,so perhaps it's worth taking note of ?

    Clicked the link and the first word in the subheading is MSM (Main stream media) :rolleyes:

    Save someone else a click


  • #7780
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    TonyMaloney wrote: »
    We have the highest incidence rate on the planet. Our hospitals are in deep, deep trouble.
    It's completely understandable that people are anxious.

    Our lackadaisical approach was only going to catch up with us. You can and cannot blame people. They're fed up with the whole thing. It's the government that allowed opening up and allowed passengers in without following them up at a time we're all fed up. It's quite sickening what they allowed.


  • #7781
    JP100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 498 ✭✭JP100


    Norma's number 2 Josepha Madigan fighting with journalists on twitter is a very bad look for the government.


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  • #7782
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    caveat emptor wrote: »
    That hospitalisation curve is more of a straight line at this stage.

    538251.png

    I wonder will your Y axis be limited to 1000?
    ;)


  • #7783
    PsychoPete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,504 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    Over the last year I've only known 5 or 6 people locally to me that tested positive but in the last week I've heard of countless number of people testing positive in the 4 villages that are closest to me. Know one family that 7 out of 8 people in the family tested positive


  • #7784
    ElJeffe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 725 ✭✭✭ElJeffe


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    Our lackadaisical approach was only going to catch up with us. You can and cannot blame people. They're fed up with the whole thing. It's the government that allowed opening up and allowed passengers in without following them up at a time we're all fed up. It's quite sickening what they allowed.

    The close relationship between politicians and lobby groups has always been a massive problem for the state. The failure to tackle it is costing us dearly now.


  • #7785
    Icyseanfitz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,532 ✭✭✭Icyseanfitz


    JP100 wrote: »
    Norma's number 2 Josepha Madigan fighting with journalists on twitter is a very bad look for the government.

    She couldn't even give a straight answer to how we can realistically and morally open schools when our testing and tracing system has all but becoming pointless due to its inaccuracies


  • #7786
    Eod100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,150 ✭✭✭✭Eod100


    JP100 wrote: »
    Norma's number 2 Josepha Madigan fighting with journalists on twitter is a very bad look for the government.

    Even more so when the writing it on the wall. It's ok to say you don't know or that it's a quickly changing scenario etc. People understand that over blanket guarantees.


  • #7787
    duffman13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,247 ✭✭✭duffman13


    PsychoPete wrote: »
    Over the last year I've only known 5 or 6 people locally to me that tested positive but in the last week I've heard of countless number of people testing positive in the 4 villages that are closest to me. Know one family that 7 out of 8 people in the family tested positive

    I have a lot of friends in pharmacies who are sharing the symptoms on their social media accounts again. A lot of people presenting with Covid symptoms looking for a cough bottle etc staring blankly when told to leave and contact a GP to arrange a test :confused:


  • #7788
    podgeandrodge
    Site Banned Posts: 5,975 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    Icyseanfitz wrote: »
    She couldn't even give a straight answer to how we can realistically and morally open schools when our testing and tracing system has all but becoming pointless due to its inaccuracies

    Neither of those 2 covering themselves in any glory imo since their election. At next election will be interesting to see if people remember that.


  • #7789
    Doctors room ghost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,839 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    ElJeffe wrote: »
    I'd bring in a rule that if anyone is caught transgressing restrictions, they go to the back of the vaccination queue, regardless of age or condition.

    Also anyone refusing the vaccine is banned from getting any HSE treatment if the knobheads do then catch Covid.

    Might make a few think twice before screwing it up for everyone.






    That’s nothing eljeffo.
    They need to deploy the army and mass inject people at gun point.
    Anyone who refuses gets a bullet.

    I’ve heard it all now.


  • #7790
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    Funsterdelux wrote: »
    I wonder will your Y axis be limited to 1000?
    ;)

    It won't be according to Paul Reid (who is only second to Tony in terms of demonisation on here.) Dublin and Doubling something something. Someone will likely tell him to get a sense of perspective shortly.
    "I think we’ve run out of adjectives to describe how serious this is. The numbers in that trajectory we cannot sustain. We will be taking actions this week to reduce and in most places eliminate non-urgent care across our hospitals. We are literally going back to where we were in March and April."

    The head of Ireland’s health service operator said that on that trajectory, the total number in hospitals could hit 2,500 this month with between 250 and 430 in ICU. Public hospitals can surge ICU capacity safely to 375 and the health service is again seeking to take over private hospital ICU beds, Reid said.


  • #7791
    What Username Guidelines
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,139 ✭✭✭What Username Guidelines


    Getting a doomy feeling about the swabs now with so many people saying they've heard of no-one getting it until the last week or so.

    Wondering how stopping close contact testing will have an effect on the overall test numbers.


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  • #7792
    PsychoPete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,504 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    duffman13 wrote: »
    I have a lot of friends in pharmacies who are sharing the symptoms on their social media accounts again. A lot of people presenting with Covid symptoms looking for a cough bottle etc staring blankly when told to leave and contact a GP to arrange a test :confused:

    People are idiots


  • #7793
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    Doctors room ghost wrote: »
    That’s nothing eljeffo.
    They need to deploy the army and mass inject people at gun point.
    Anyone who refuses gets a bullet.

    I’ve heard it all now.

    Or you kill 2 birds with one stone and replace tranquilliser darts with vaccine.


  • #7794
    Russman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,977 ✭✭✭Russman


    What Username Guidelines wrote: »
    Getting a doomy feeling about the swabs now with so many people saying they've heard of no-one getting it until the last week or so.

    Wondering how stopping close contact testing will have an effect on the overall test numbers.

    Positivity rate will go through the roof if they're only testing symptomatic people, I guess overall numbers might fall without the close contacts.


  • #7795
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,777 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    ElJeffe wrote: »
    I'd bring in a rule that if anyone is caught transgressing restrictions, they go to the back of the vaccination queue, regardless of age or condition.

    Also anyone refusing the vaccine is banned from getting any HSE treatment if the knobheads do then catch Covid.

    Might make a few think twice before screwing it up for everyone.

    I’d be for that.

    Making people take responsibility for their actions and ****ty behavior.

    Because you’ll have the same people who are fûcking it up, roaring that they want to be vaccinated first... send them to the back of the Q and reward people who have been adhering to restrictions.

    If you don’t pass your driving test, you don’t get a driving license.. caught out flunking the covid behavioral test... you don’t get the vaccine too quickly...


  • #7796
    BattleCorp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,853 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    Our lackadaisical approach was only going to catch up with us. You can and cannot blame people. They're fed up with the whole thing. It's the government that allowed opening up and allowed passengers in without following them up at a time we're all fed up. It's quite sickening what they allowed.

    :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

    Of course you can blame people. Who else is spreading the virus? People aren't social distancing and, to be fair, the Government have been putting out that message since February/March 2020.

    Have you ever heard of personal responsibility? If people stay the fcuk away from other people, this virus can't spread like it is right now.

    Yes, the Government could have tightened things up more but if people copped the fcuk on we wouldn't be knee deep in sh1t right now.


  • #7797
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,385 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    More than half of new cases in Scotland are the new variant.


  • #7798
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    JP100 wrote: »
    Norma's number 2 Josepha Madigan fighting with journalists on twitter is a very bad look for the government.

    She is terrifying. She was going around 12 cafes of Christmas in December. Not a mask in sight in the 12 videos posted. "Coming to a bus stop near you" I'll be waiting for the next bus so....

    She didn't believe herself about the schools on the radio this morning.

    https://twitter.com/nestorpadraig2/status/1338939283705655300?s=20


  • #7799
    podgeandrodge
    Site Banned Posts: 5,975 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    caveat emptor wrote: »
    She is terrifying. She was going around 12 cafes of Christmas in December. Not a mask in sight in the 12 videos posted. "Coming to a bus stop near you" I'll be waiting for the next bus so....
    https://twitter.com/nestorpadraig2/status/1338939283705655300?s=20

    words fail.


  • #7800
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,041 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    BattleCorp wrote: »
    :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

    Of course you can blame people. Who else is spreading the virus? People aren't social distancing and, to be fair, the Government have been putting out that message since February/March 2020.

    Have you ever heard of personal responsibility? If people stay the fcuk away from other people, this virus can't spread like it is right now.

    Yes, the Government could have tightened things up more but if people copped the fcuk on we wouldn't be knee deep in sh1t right now.
    Harsh but kind of fair. It reminds me a little bit of the mindset around the property collapse where people blamed the banks and government entirely for the loss of value on their multiple properties rather than take any personal responsibility.


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  • #7801
    Doctors room ghost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,839 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    Strumms wrote: »
    I’d be for that.

    Making people take responsibility for their actions and ****ty behavior.

    Because you’ll have the same people who are fûcking it up, roaring that they want to be vaccinated first... send them to the back of the Q and reward people who have been adhering to restrictions.

    If you don’t pass your driving test, you don’t get a driving license.. caught out flunking the covid behavioral test... you don’t get the vaccine too quickly...





    In the real world strumms none of that would be practical in fairness.who would police that and how would they decide who are actually adhering to the restrictions and who are acting the maggot.
    You’d need the simpsons dome with the cctv.
    Ain’t gonna work


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