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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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  • #8432
    MerlinSouthDub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,627 ✭✭✭MerlinSouthDub


    quartz1 wrote: »
    For the first time I am envious of the British with this approach .....our shower running around like headless chickens ...

    ? We are taking the same approach. The only difference is their schools were due to open today, so announcement is earlier than ours.


  • #8433
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,228 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    I feel it is worse, more rampant now than last year :( everyone take care and just assume everyone has it, stay safe

    It is and we can now see the deniers who go on about scamdemics for the complete and utter charlatans they are.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #8434
    Ace2007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,029 ✭✭✭✭Ace2007


    pjohnson wrote: »
    Who the fook would have thought we'd be relying on Boris and Arlene to guide us through this.

    Boris - the lad that leads at government who are going against the manufactures advice surrounding the two jabs, and instead of doing what the manufactures advise - and give them 3 weeks apart, he is gambling that 12 weeks apart is ok.

    You happy for Ireland to take this gamble????


  • #8435
    jojofizzio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,296 ✭✭✭jojofizzio


    A-levels off??big call.....no hope of having them in five months time??


  • #8436
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    Primary and secondary schools to close for the foreseeable there. (UK)

    Does anyone really think that they'll be opening ours or that people will send them.

    Missed opportunity for the government to steady the ship.

    The pace of vaccination is fast there (UK).


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  • #8437
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    SuperRabbit wrote: »
    funny how skipping the last stages of safety precautions you can go faster

    Not buying that line for one second. Think that is just a line being spun by some bitter folk in the EU and USA. The USA were probably fuming that the UK got there first and I say that as an American. The vaccine is being used all round the world right now.


  • #8438
    Pcgamer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 139 ✭✭Pcgamer


    Kallie Future Marinade wrote: »
    It's strange that they cannot create a new system in parellel, run both systems and do a switchover on a quiet period, and migrate archived/historic data afterwards from a certain point in time before finally knocking off the old system.

    They made it sound impossible to do.

    Big wages, inept managers in charge, try to look good by keeping costs down. Afraid of change because they dont even know how to go about it, job security, impossible to get fired.

    If software needs to gets updated then the hardware needs too as well.


  • #8439
    podgeandrodge
    Site Banned Posts: 5,975 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    It's good they're not dropping dead but they could be the cause of spreading it.

    If they're spreading it all around their customers (and not much proof of that being a main source), they're infecting each other. Not much evidence of that either.


  • #8440
    TheQuietBeatle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 614 ✭✭✭TheQuietBeatle


    Did I misunderstand or did the presenter on Sky News just confirm the Premier League must now stop?


  • #8441
    wadacrack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,172 ✭✭✭wadacrack


    The only reason he closed them was because of Scotland

    https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1346187996165500928


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  • #8442
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,108 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    Ace2007 wrote: »
    Boris - the lad that leads at government who are going against the manufactures advice surrounding the two jabs, and instead of doing what the manufactures advise - and give them 3 weeks apart, he is gambling that 12 weeks apart is ok.

    You happy for Ireland to take this gamble????

    Despite the numerous fcuk ups they at least can make a decision to close fcuking schools.


    We dither and delay basic decisions Stevie Wonder could see were needed.


  • #8443
    TexasTornado
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 285 ✭✭TexasTornado


    caveat emptor wrote: »
    Primary and secondary schools to close for the foreseeable.

    Does anyone really think that they'll be opening ours or that people will send them.

    Missed opportunity for the government to steady the ship.

    The pace of vaccination is fast their.

    Will be end of February at the very earliest before we see them open.


  • #8444
    jojofizzio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,296 ✭✭✭jojofizzio


    TheQuietBeatle wrote: »
    Did I misunderstand or did the presenter on Sky News just confirm the Premier League must now stop?

    Yep....and presumably no 6 nations now (no elite sport)


  • #8445
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    wadacrack wrote: »
    The only reason he closed them was because of Scotland

    https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1346187996165500928
    That thundering hypocrite can fook right off.


  • #8446
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,450 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    TheQuietBeatle wrote: »
    Did I misunderstand or did the presenter on Sky News just confirm the Premier League must now stop?

    Sky reporter said it but looks like he's wrong. Sports reporters all saying Premier league and EFL to continue


  • #8447
    TheQuietBeatle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 614 ✭✭✭TheQuietBeatle


    jojofizzio wrote: »
    Yep....and presumably no 6 nations now (no elite sport)

    The matches were keeping me sane, this is a big loss. I understand the reasoning of course.


  • #8448
    Widdensushi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,553 ✭✭✭Widdensushi


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    It's good they're not dropping dead but they could be the cause of spreading it.

    Who's dropping dead? Are they suffering from heart disease? The fact remains that supermarket staff and their families, contacts would have been a higher chance of catching covid if it was easily transmitted in those circumstances, they handle every item bought in the shop after the customer, this is going back pre screen and pre masks being mandatory, they often handle customer phones due to rewards issues.


  • #8449
    jojofizzio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,296 ✭✭✭jojofizzio


    TheQuietBeatle wrote: »
    The matches were keeping me sane, this is a big loss. I understand the reasoning of course.

    Yeah....well maybe not confirmed if sports commentators are saying the football is still on....


  • #8450
    SuperRabbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 698 ✭✭✭SuperRabbit


    tara2k wrote: »
    Not buying that line for one second. Think that is just a line being spun by some bitter folk in the EU and USA. The USA were probably fuming that the UK got there first and I say that as an American. The vaccine is being used all round the world right now.

    Uch half the conspiracy theorists are complaining that the vaccine was rushed and isn't safe and the other half are saying that it wasn't rushed enough

    Companies put billions into these things and people worked on them without days off for month after month... but it just feels cool to believe that everyone felt no sense of urgency and dragged their feet at the end, why the heck not?

    A few extra weeks to make sure it was safe wouldn't have been a big deal if so many people hadn't decided to act like everything was normal mid winter

    There's also no evidence that giving one vaccine dose instead of two won't affect how long the immunity lasts, that's not how they are supposed to be used, that's not how they were designed. And we don't know if they will get their 90% immunity now when they finally get the second at all, or if they will effectively have been wasted

    he's gambling with people's lives, repeatedly, for political points. They didn't even have proper levels until today! They just let everyone get it and have one of the highest death rates per capita in the world! do not think he rushed that vaccine out becasue he cares about people's lives when he has never ever showed he cares

    They locked down in what, April!? Completely ignoring the numbers and the warnings from Italy, let the thing spread, talked about "herd immunity"

    But now you trust that his actions with the vaccine were to save lives?


  • #8451
    HalfAndHalf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 827 ✭✭✭HalfAndHalf


    wadacrack wrote: »
    The only reason he closed them was because of Scotland]

    Complete rubbish! Sturgeon is privy to the Cobra meetings where these decisions are made and simply announces them first to make herself look like she’s ahead of the curve!


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  • #8452
    Fakediamond
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,055 ✭✭✭Fakediamond


    tom1ie wrote: »
    Don’t need to.
    70% will get you herd immunity

    And how long would that take?


  • #8453
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,450 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    jojofizzio wrote: »
    Yeah....well maybe not confirmed if sports commentators are saying the football is still on....

    https://twitter.com/joepike/status/1346186750566281218?s=19


  • #8454
    PsychoPete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,574 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    TheQuietBeatle wrote: »
    Did I misunderstand or did the presenter on Sky News just confirm the Premier League must now stop?

    They'll hardly stop the Premier league with the Euros on in the summer


  • #8455
    Ace2007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,029 ✭✭✭✭Ace2007


    pjohnson wrote: »
    Despite the numerous fcuk ups they at least can make a decision to close fcuking schools.


    We dither and delay basic decisions Stevie Wonder could see were needed.

    After he sent that back to school for a day...


  • #8456
    HalfAndHalf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 827 ✭✭✭HalfAndHalf


    SuperRabbit wrote: »
    Uch half the conspiracy theorists are complaining that the vaccine was rushed and isn't safe and the other half are saying that it wasn't rushed enough

    Companies put billions into these things and people worked on them without days off for month after month... but it just feels cool to believe that everyone felt no sense of urgency and dragged their feet at the end, why the heck not?

    A few extra weeks to make sure it was safe wouldn't have been a big deal if so many people hadn't decided to act like everything was normal mid winter

    But you stated stages were missed! Which stages?


  • #8457
    jackboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,036 ✭✭✭jackboy


    TexasTornado wrote: »
    Will be end of February at the very earliest before we see them open.

    Yep, then they have a big decision. If they don’t open by mid March then they will be closed until September. They really need to open them again first week of March if the numbers are ok.


  • #8458
    cmac2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,720 ✭✭✭cmac2009


    caveat emptor wrote: »
    Primary and secondary schools to close for the foreseeable there. (UK)

    Does anyone really think that they'll be opening ours or that people will send them.

    Missed opportunity for the government to steady the ship.

    The pace of vaccination is fast there (UK).

    Thought I read he stated lockdown would end after Feb mid-term?


  • #8459
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,228 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    shocksy wrote: »
    6110 new cases
    6 new deaths

    776 in hospital with 70 in ICU

    On 28th December there were 359 in hospital with 30 in ICU

    Over 100% increase in hospitalisations in a week. Scary. Very scary.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #8460
    jojofizzio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,296 ✭✭✭jojofizzio


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/joepike/status/1346186750566281218?s=19

    My bad (well sky news dude’s bad)....you can exhale....:D


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  • #8461
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    TexasTornado wrote: »
    Will be end of February at the very earliest before we see them open.

    Middle of October, we had around 1000 cases and beginning of December we had around 300... Took 6 weeks to get numbers to drop to those levels.

    We have 5000 daily cases now. For some reason I'm thinking it will be after Easter before they'll even open again.


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