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Covid 19 Part XXXI-187,554 ROI (2,970 deaths) 100,319 NI (1,730 deaths)(24/01)Read OP

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  • #902
    Stheno
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    Follow_ur_lead wrote: »
    Anyone reckon any chance of Lanzarote in July? Sorry if off topic. New to this.

    Probably but you will probably need to have tests going out and coming back unless you are vaccinated


  • #903
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    growleaves wrote: »
    Hospitalisations, ICU admissions and deaths will be way, way down in that instance so what will the justification be for Level 5...Long Covid?

    To paraphrase Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels:

    "A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of Long Covid."

    My fiancé has an Australian passport.

    See yee later suckerssssss!!!!!!!!!




    :pac:


  • #904
    [Deleted User]
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    Belt wrote: »
    We shouldnt need everyone vaccinated. Once those over 65, the vulnerable and frontline workers are vaccinated, we should be opening things back up. The low levels of ICUs and deaths would not justify keeping society lockdown.

    The answer is we don't know. We will st least be continuing this lockdown through paddies day.


  • #905
    Endintheclowns
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 138 ✭✭Endintheclowns


    Belt wrote: »
    We shouldnt need everyone vaccinated. Once those over 65, the vulnerable and frontline workers are vaccinated, we should be opening things back up. The low levels of ICUs and deaths would not justify keeping society lockdown.

    We will need the majority vaccinated


  • #906
    Mike3549
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,131 ✭✭✭Mike3549


    Follow_ur_lead wrote: »
    Anyone reckon any chance of Lanzarote in July? Sorry if off topic. New to this.

    Let me take my crystal ball.... I have tickets to lanzarote end of april, and my expectations changes everyday. At the same time, one of my friends is on holidays in gran canaria atm, so i try to be positive.... and covid negative


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  • #907
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    Deleted User wrote: »
    My fiancé has an Australian passport.

    See yee later suckerssssss!!!!!!!!!




    :pac:

    Don't you have to be married? :pac:

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  • #908
    yermandan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,068 ✭✭✭yermandan


    Stheno wrote: »
    Probably but you will probably need to have tests going out and coming back unless you are vaccinated

    Wondering about this. Is it not the case that even if vaccinated we can catch it from and transmit to others? That the vaccination just prevents it impacting us? Apologies if I have that completely wrong


  • #909
    Widdensushi
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    The answer is we don't know. We will st least be continuing this lockdown through paddies day.

    Construction etc will be back sooner, gastropubs will be after Easter


  • #910
    Follow_ur_lead
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 60 ✭✭Follow_ur_lead


    Widdensushi wrote: »
    Construction etc will be back sooner, gastropubs will be after Easter

    Majority of construction wont stop.


  • #911
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,190 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    The answer is we don't know. We will st least be continuing this lockdown through paddies day.
    I know Leo was gearing business up for end of March but realistically construction and click and collect will be back by Valentine's day, if not sooner.

    Restaurants are done till after Paddy's, but we'll likely be at level 3 by then.


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  • #912
    [Deleted User]
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    caveat emptor wrote: »
    Don't you have to be married? :pac:

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    October! Why do you think I'm jumping all over posts stating we will be stuck like this past summer :D


  • #913
    Endintheclowns
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 138 ✭✭Endintheclowns


    You know you've screwed up when even Boris Johnsons government is making more sense and taking this more seriously than your own.


  • #914
    Plumbthedepths
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    Follow_ur_lead wrote: »
    Anyone reckon any chance of Lanzarote in July? Sorry if off topic. New to this.

    Every chance but a negative test may be required going and coming. Factor that into the cost.
    Colleague of my son went to Tenerife on Monday for six weeks. Rain and misery or Sun and misery. Easy choice if you have the time.


  • #915
    CoronaBlocker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 247 ✭✭CoronaBlocker


    Endintheclowns wrote: »
    You'll have to point those doctors, nurses or Tesco workers in the small room with 25 others at the same time for 6 hrs to me because I must have missed it

    Yes, teachers have it worse than everyone else. No question.
    By far the worst affected through this whole thing. Again, no question.
    Once more for emphasis: No question.


  • #916
    eggy81
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,174 ✭✭✭eggy81


    seamus wrote: »
    I know Leo was gearing business up for end of March but realistically construction and click and collect will be back by Valentine's day, if not sooner.

    Restaurants are done till after Paddy's, but we'll likely be at level 3 by then.

    I think the majority of construction may have put the 2 fingers up at these restrictions if what we are being told holds true


  • #917
    [Deleted User]
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    seamus wrote: »
    I know Leo was gearing business up for end of March but realistically construction and click and collect will be back by Valentine's day, if not sooner.

    Restaurants are done till after Paddy's, but we'll likely be at level 3 by then.

    A lot depends on access to the astra zeneca vaccine.


  • #918
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    Deleted User wrote: »
    October! Why do you think I'm jumping all over posts stating we will be stuck like this past summer :D

    Congrats, don't let her get away so :eek:


  • #919
    podgeandrodge
    Site Banned Posts: 5,975 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    So with all the restrictions, and assuming most people are impacted and contacts drop considerably, what is the main reason things are expected to stay bad until March?

    If socialising got us to this point, should the stopping of that not cause a quick drop in numbers?


  • #920
    [Deleted User]
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    caveat emptor wrote: »
    Congrats, don't let her get away so :eek:

    Em. I'm the 'her'.

    :D


  • #921
    [Deleted User]
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    podgeandrodge wrote: »
    So with all the restrictions, and assuming most people are impacted and contacts drop considerably, what is the main reason things are expected to stay bad until March?

    Highly infectious variant.


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  • #922
    landofthetree
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    quartz1 wrote: »
    A lot of this was avoidable if The Government had the courage before Christmas . .....the economic cost of keeping the lobby groups sweet will be massive not to mention the suffering of people who pick the virus up. Opposition can't say much because they never opened their mouths either.

    What the government did before Xmas was popular with the public. Thats why it was done.


  • #923
    Endintheclowns
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 138 ✭✭Endintheclowns


    CoronaBlocker wrote: »
    Yes, teachers have it worse than everyone else. No question.
    By far the worst affected through this whole thing. Again, no question.
    Once more for emphasis: No question.

    So you can't point them out. Grand so, point made.


  • #924
    BobbyMalone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 325 ✭✭BobbyMalone


    Kivaro wrote: »
    I'm confused on that one.
    Why is it less dangerous/contagious for builders to build social houses than it is for builders to build private houses, which are badly needed for the workers in the country? I understand that a small portion of social housing are occupied by workers, but it seems unfair that the building of private housing developments are now stopped, but social housing developments are allowed to continue.


    I'm confused too. Are there many solely social housing developments being built? I thought most (at least in Dublin, maybe its different elsewhere) social housing was the 10 percent or whatever allocated from private developments?


  • #925
    Follow_ur_lead
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    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Every chance but a negative test may be required going and coming. Factor that into the cost.
    Colleague of my son went to Tenerife on Monday for six weeks. Rain and misery or Sun and misery. Easy choice if you have the time.

    Regarding a neg test coming back could the govt stop you comong back in to the country either way ?


  • #926
    Stheno
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    podgeandrodge wrote: »
    So with all the restrictions, and assuming most people are impacted and contacts drop considerably, what is the main reason things are expected to stay bad until March?

    It will possibly take that long to get cases down to 100ish a day

    And thats also when we should see the impact of the first waves of vaccines

    All just imo


  • #927
    wadacrack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,172 ✭✭✭wadacrack


    This is what is at stake with the new variant. We are taking unnecessary risk with Schools. Its crazy. Need logical decision making

    https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1346899021621813249


  • #928
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    We are officially worse than the north. May as well admit defeat against the virus and it's mutant bastard of a cousin and regroup together instead of playing politics. Think of it like the Germans in WW1 , once vaccines rolled out and it's banished from the land like the snakes we can agree to return to handbags. By handbags I mean being not nice to each other and doing nothing constructive.

    https://twitter.com/DarranMarshall/status/1346895286808027139?s=20


  • #929
    podgeandrodge
    Site Banned Posts: 5,975 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    podgeandrodge wrote: »
    So with all the restrictions, and assuming most people are impacted and contacts drop considerably, what is the main reason things are expected to stay bad until March?

    If socialising got us to this point, should the stopping of that not cause a quick drop in numbers?
    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Highly infectious variant.

    Even if so, nobody socialising so it shouldn't be easy to spread. Within 14 days or so of restrictions the vast majority of people are not in the line of fire.


  • #930
    landofthetree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,464 ✭✭✭landofthetree


    podgeandrodge wrote: »
    So with all the restrictions, and assuming most people are impacted and contacts drop considerably, what is the main reason things are expected to stay bad until March?

    If socialising got us to this point, should the stopping of that not cause a quick drop in numbers?

    We probably have 80,000+ active cases. Even with a low R0 it takes a while to get the numbers down.


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  • #931
    Mike3549
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,131 ✭✭✭Mike3549


    If I remember clearly, the last time only the sites where it was hard to keep a social distancing closed, like FB Datacenter. If youre building a new estate, you have to sell a percentage of units to council as social/affordable + housing organisations can buy them separately. So obviously in this case "work as usual".


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