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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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  • #7922
    [Deleted User]
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    https://twitter.com/globalhlthtwit/status/1345760734538592264?s=20

    https://twitter.com/globalhlthtwit/status/1345760742042193925?s=20


  • #7923
    ElJeffe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 725 ✭✭✭ElJeffe


    cmac2009 wrote: »
    School closure here is inevitable I'd assume. Scotland just announced and Boris will follow suit later tonight.

    Will be March at the earliest before we see school's open again I'd say. The governments PR department are working flat out to spin it somehow. Varadkar flew the new varient kite the other day before it was blown out of the sky. Interesting to see how they manage it.


  • #7924
    What Username Guidelines
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,139 ✭✭✭What Username Guidelines


    titan18 wrote: »
    If it's an IT issue as they say, we likely won't, atm there's about 16k ish cases unreported (todays number and the backlog). It's likely we're reporting cases today that could have been swabs on Friday and Saturday so we're days behind what we should be reporting.

    Looks like they may be slowly unclogging the IT block though.. If cases come in about 6,700 to 6,900 this evening it seems like this theory might be correct.

    https://twitter.com/higginsdavidw/status/1345802943719739392?s=20


  • #7925
    AutoTuning
    Closed Accounts Posts: 423 ✭✭AutoTuning


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    How does a petrol pump attendant work form home?

    They’re replaced by a card operated self service pump?

    There are plenty of examples of jobs that you cannot do at home. For example plumbing or even working at a retail bank. Counting the money and processing cheques in someone back bedroom isn’t really feasible even if a lot of the IT focused elements and management might be.


  • #7926
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    Lemonzero wrote: »
    No point in blaming each other,Nephet,the neighbours,the government and who ever else for the current situation!! It is what it is and is caused by a vicious virus that literally knows no better.

    I think in terms of the current spread, I totally agree that it relates to the weather.I read somewhere that the virus can last up to a week in cold weather on surfaces but only a half hour in hot weather. We are more susceptible and immune system lower in winter too.

    Surfaces can be disinfected. How long does it stay in the air with these low temperatures?


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  • #7927
    Ace2007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,029 ✭✭✭✭Ace2007


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    How does a petrol pump attendant work form home?

    Well the petrol station has had 10 months to install pay per use pumps and not have to risk the health of a staff member. What has the owner of those pumps being doing all this time????


  • #7928
    [Deleted User]
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    titan18 wrote: »
    Tbf the numbers in October peaked at over 1k a day when we did this sort of lockdown. We're a long way past that so to me, it seems like a harder lockdown is needed

    Not necessarily so - "lockdowns" (we are not and have never been in an actual lockdown) impact the growth rate, not the raw numbers. This will stop growing very quickly as cases retreat into homes. The downward curve will be slower this time in all likelihood as more cases work their way through households


  • #7929
    ednwireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,717 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    bennyl10 wrote: »

    close everything else and put in mandatory WFH

    can you arrange them to fix my broadband to a point where i can sit on a zoom call with 10 or 15 participants ?

    (fibre roll out stopped 200 yds down the road, barely any mobile signal, no wifi provider )

    edit less than 2 km from a town

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



  • #7930
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    bennyl10 wrote: »
    ties in with transport surely

    The vast majority of us that aren't working form home can

    So all taxi drivers can stay working, filling station employees, delivery drivers, bus drivers. Then there’s the whol food industry, essential industries. That’s a lot of people that can’t stay the ‘f**k at home as so elegantly put by the poster I replied to


  • #7931
    JP100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 498 ✭✭JP100


    Big Boris busily clearing his big throat to make a big announcement at 8 this evening!


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  • #7932
    Gruffalux
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭Gruffalux


    I wish some of the moonlighters on here working comfortably from home for the Ministry of Cheerful Consolations and Seers of the Upcoming Certain Peak would drop their kaks a few times daily in a filthy portaloo that has been frequented scores of times before them already thay day. I know not a few who have not turned in for work today because they are worried for their own health due to underlying asthma etc or are afraid to bring it home to the elderly parents they live with. Those people are entitled to zero financial support.


  • #7933
    AutoTuning
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    You can minimise the number of people congregated at work by removing what you can to WFH and changing work practises for those who can’t.


  • #7934
    Ace2007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,029 ✭✭✭✭Ace2007


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    So all taxi drivers can stay working, filling station employees, delivery drivers, bus drivers. Then there’s the whol food industry, essential industries. That’s a lot of people that can’t stay the ‘f**k at home as so elegantly put by the poster I replied to

    But there are a lot of places calling themselves essential. Local coffee shop and cafe down the road - they are side by side - must have been about 15 people standing earlier today - waiting on take outs and there was no social distancing. Most but not all were wearing masks.

    Now is there a need to Tom's coffee shop really to be open, or Mary's cafe?


  • #7935
    William Faithful Deer
    Posts: 0 ✭ William Faithful Deer


    Just Saying wrote: »
    Your showing your age...I last saw a petrol pump attendant 20 years ago!

    That poster is being obtuse just for the sake of it


  • #7936
    ElJeffe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 725 ✭✭✭ElJeffe


    Wife just back in from work. She says the traffic is pretty heavy out and about no checkpoints despite her 20klms drive to and from work. Sounds like this lockdown is a farce.


  • #7937
    wadacrack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,172 ✭✭✭wadacrack


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    Do you think it's the actual temperatures or that people are inside with windows closed?

    Both , but more so the temperature. Virus transmits primarily in the air. Its now lingering longer with lower temperatures.


  • #7938
    Don't Chute!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭Don't Chute!


    bennyl10 wrote: »
    Medical
    food
    public transport

    close everything else and put in mandatory WFH

    What about services like water electricity gas bin collection? You’re talking absolute nonsense. I think people like you need to take a step away from the hysterics for awhile.


  • #7939
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    Ace2007 wrote: »
    But there are a lot of places calling themselves essential. Local coffee shop and cafe down the road - they are side by side - must have been about 15 people standing earlier today - waiting on take outs and there was no social distancing. Most but not all were wearing masks.

    Now is there a need to Tom's coffee shop really to be open, or Mary's cafe?

    Tom and Mary probably wish to be able to pay their bills and support their family. So to me they’re essential , plus most coffee shops and cafes also sell food. Something which is also quite essential. I take it you can work form home.


  • #7940
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    wadacrack wrote: »
    Temperatures are extremely low now and the last 3 weeks or so. Its playing a big role in my opinion. The virus has never been in this country with optimal conditions to spread until now

    Ah jeez, I suppose we have blamed everyone else at this stage.


  • #7941
    VinLieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,945 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    ElJeffe wrote: »
    Wife just back in from work. She says the traffic is pretty heavy out and about no checkpoints despite her 20klms drive to and from work. Sounds like this lockdown is a farce.


    Dropping kids to creche and went to shops at lunch, saw exactly the opposite, was much closer to March/April levels than ive seen all year.


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  • #7942
    alentejo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 962 ✭✭✭alentejo


    Folks - We all need to eat and live so you will always have coffee shops open all be it Take out only.

    Home visits would appear to account for the majority of recent increases in the virus.


  • #7943
    AutoTuning
    Closed Accounts Posts: 423 ✭✭AutoTuning


    I think we need to be a bit realistic about this. It’s an emergency situation, probably the biggest one we have ever faced since WWII. There’s going to be serious disruption that’s inevitable.

    We should have ensured there was an online teaching platform built for schools over the summer instead of this “business as usual” mentality that went on. It was blatantly obvious and well warned about that there would be multiple waves and that they may get progressively more dramatic.

    I would think the majority of bigger employers and the universities have taken the right approaches. They’ve excellent contingencies in place and by and large have adapted around this. The schools really haven’t and the department hasn’t done anything like enough to ensure they could.

    We are all poking fun at Boris Johnson but effectively our schools are in the same mess as the U.K. American plenty of other school systems have gone largely online.


  • #7944
    Vicxas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,613 ✭✭✭✭Vicxas


    Are they really only vaccinating between 8am and 5pm mon-fri?


  • #7945
    cjyid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 101 ✭✭cjyid


    VinLieger wrote: »
    Dropping kids to creche and went to shops at lunch, saw exactly the opposite, was much closer to March/April levels than ive seen all year.

    Same here. Driving into Dublin city centre from Leopardstown this morning at about 8:30am and it was exactly like the first lock down.


  • #7946
    bennyl10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,591 ✭✭✭bennyl10


    Don't Chute! wrote: »
    What about services like water electricity gas bin collection? You’re talking absolute nonsense. I think people like you need to take a step away from the hysterics for awhile.

    if you weren't open in the start March you shouldn't be open now


    Much better way to phrase it

    There is plenty of non essential places masquerading as essential.


  • #7947
    Crocodile Booze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 545 ✭✭✭Crocodile Booze


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Tom and Mary probably wish to be able to pay their bills and support their family. So to me they’re essential , plus most coffee shops and cafes also sell food. Something which is also quite essential. I take it you can work form home.

    I can assure you that the 744 people in hospital don't give a fluck about Tom and Mary's bills.


  • #7948
    giveitholly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭giveitholly


    ElJeffe wrote: »
    Wife just back in from work. She says the traffic is pretty heavy out and about no checkpoints despite her 20klms drive to and from work. Sounds like this lockdown is a farce.

    My wife just back as well from a journey,roads very quite and met 2 checkpoints


  • #7949
    AutoTuning
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    Vicxas wrote: »
    Are they really only vaccinating between 8am and 5pm mon-fri?

    Given the current supply chain is only beginning to broaden, it wouldn’t have made much sense to have people standing there looking at syringes without any vaccine to put into them.

    The supplies are only ramping up this week.


  • #7950
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Sierra Oscar wrote: »
    I think the big difference between this wave and the first wave is the level of activity in the community. Far more people still in work, far more shops and businesses classing themselves as essentially and remaining open, far more team sports training and getting on with things and just a large increase in the number of people just generally out and about. It's not surprising, we always knew Covid fatigue would set in.

    I wouldn't be counting on hospital admission numbers simply falling off a cliff-edge in the weeks ahead. You can't compare this wave with the first wave. The whole country literally ground to halt back in March and April, that just isn't the case now.

    I actually think it may be difficult for the Government to get the case numbers below 1,000 given the level of general activity in communities.

    It looks to me that it was the household mixing from the weekend before Christmas that did it - Growth rate only really went out of trend from the 23rd on.

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  • #7951
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    wadacrack wrote: »
    Both , but more so the temperature. Virus transmits primarily in the air. Its now lingering longer with lower temperatures.

    So what can we do or can we do anything to help? Do we keep windows closed to keep in heat?


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