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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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  • #2402
    Steve012
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Steve012


    Bambi wrote: »
    Its funny how when Tony Hulahoop was up in arms about more restrictions he wasnt getting upset about flights coming in from South Africa


    Funny business, this public health gig

    Exactly we banned flight from Denmark for a while, why not SA?


  • #2403
    wadacrack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,172 ✭✭✭wadacrack


    We need to ban flights until the over 65's are vaccinated tbh

    https://twitter.com/hannahkuchler/status/1347642005371936770


  • #2404
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,962 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Bambi wrote: »
    Remember when the media was up in arms because the incompetent president claimed America would have a vaccine by the end of the year?

    A rum affair, eh?

    also claimed that 20m would be vaccinated.

    go to maybe 10% of that


  • #2405
    Tandey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,431 ✭✭✭Tandey


    Bambi wrote: »
    Remember when the media was up in arms because the incompetent president claimed America would have a vaccine by the end of the year?

    A rum affair, eh?

    And remember when the incompetent president suggested injecting people with disinfectant to kill the virus?

    A vodka affair, eh?


  • #2406
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,936 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    Bambi wrote: »
    Its funny how when Tony Hulahoop was up in arms about more restrictions he wasnt getting upset about flights coming in from South Africa


    Funny business, this public health gig

    Probably due to the fact there are no direct flights from South Africa!


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  • #2407
    SpacialNeeds
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 203 ✭✭SpacialNeeds


    Anyone else shjtfaced

    Hope you're having something resembling a Friday night in spite of the apocalypse


  • #2408
    UrbanFret
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭UrbanFret


    caveat emptor wrote: »
    Really most of the polls called for more restrictions. Any link?




    Depends on who you polled. ;)


  • #2409
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,248 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    I don’t understand the numbers at all ? Independent reporting 8 k new cases today and Orla O Donnell tweeting 1770 cases ?
    I am completely confused as are many


  • #2410
    Gruffalux
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭Gruffalux


    Stheno wrote: »
    If they had the same level as we did, just under 155000 would have died so 250000

    However were they on a par with the UK it would be even higher than now at 431000

    Confirmed deaths (absolute) Deaths in last 7 days Daily increase (# deaths) Population (in millions) Deaths per million (total) Deaths per million (last 7 days)
    Belgium 19,936 355 53 11.48 1,735.97 30.91
    Slovenia 2,922 194 23 2.09 1,399.46 92.91
    Italy 77,291 2,670 414 60.3 1,281.83 44.28
    Bosnia and Herzegovina 4,211 125 0 3.3 1,275.67 37.87
    North Macedonia 2,581 71 10 2.08 1,238.81 34.08
    Czechia 12,621 910 185 10.67 1,182.88 85.29

    Coming well before UK and US in the worst countries re covid are above. They rarely get mentioned in political terms. It is simply an interesting observation. Belgium has done really bad and hardly anyone knows who runs it.


  • #2411
    UrbanFret
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭UrbanFret


    Stheno wrote: »
    18th birthday party


    Their Parents must be the same age.:mad:


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  • #2412
    CIARAN_BOYLE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,599 ✭✭✭✭CIARAN_BOYLE


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    I don’t understand the numbers at all ? Independent reporting 8 k new cases today and Orla O Donnell tweeting 1770 cases ?
    I am completely confident as are many

    It's 8k cases.

    I haven't seen any tweeting of 1770 and its not on her twitter.


  • #2413
    GeorgeBailey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭GeorgeBailey


    Bambi wrote: »
    Remember when the media was up in arms because the incompetent president claimed America would have a vaccine by the end of the year?

    I remember the media being up in arms when he said it would just disappear. Don't remember him being criticised for saying there'd be a vaccine at the end of the year.


  • #2414
    Wolf359f
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭Wolf359f


    Goldengirl wrote: »
    Go back and look at the hospitalisation rates for the last 14 days under 65s.
    Increased for all age groups .
    Of course it is down to increased numbers of those infected , not saying otherwise.
    4 children hospitalised, forget the 0.2% , wolf!

    Past 14 days, the hospitalization rate of those aged under 65 was 1.08%
    The 14 days up to 20/10/20 that rate was 1.3%

    You're looking at the % of those people hospitalized under 65 as a total of all people hospitalized. Yes that has increased due to the higher incidence rate in the under 65's.

    I'm not taking away from the seriousness of all hospitalizations (regardless of age), but the higher % of the hospitalizations in the under 65's is far better than having a higher % in the over 65's. (apart from children, that's must be an even more horrible and scary experience)


  • #2415
    pc7
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,279 Mod ✭✭✭✭pc7


    SpacialNeeds wrote: »
    Anyone else shjtfaced

    Hope you're having something resembling a Friday night in spite of the apocalypse

    On the way, watching the Leinster match dreading fooking work and homeschool next week!


  • #2416
    firemansam4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭firemansam4


    loughside wrote: »
    Terrible.
    As an aside we here in Northern Ireland have started vaccinating our more vulnerable a second time already..


    ...but then again we`ve left the EU, thrown our little blue flags in the skip and are paddling our own canoe now, thankfully it may have saved several lives.


    Really hope you folk get supply sorted out with the EU soon.

    You do realise that the UK leaving the EU made no difference whatsoever to the UK approving and making deals for vaccinations themselves? Any EU member could have gone down this route if it wished.
    There is no way that the Republic could have approved and made the same vaccine deals that the UK did by itself, we can count ourselves lucky we are part of the EU that have been able to do this.


  • #2417
    Goldengirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,984 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    caveat emptor wrote: »
    So the fact that countries went outside the EU commission to secure their own supply is nonsense? Why have we not seen fit to do the same if it's a non issue as you claim. :pac:

    No conspiracy but nice straw man mick.

    By the time we are vaccinated enough for life to return to normal it'll be 2022. Going at a snails pace.

    https://twitter.com/vincentbrowne/status/1347602570550849538?s=20

    This is an assumption based on one type of vaccine, that requires special storage and 2 doses.
    We will have at least 3 vaccines on the go and hopefully more in Q2 2021 being dispensed at a pharmacy / gp practice near you .


  • #2418
    embraer170
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,494 ✭✭✭embraer170


    HereinBray wrote: »
    So - in your mind - someone who dies early at 83 when they (without Covid) may have lived a full and lovely life until their nineties - is not a tragedy?

    Who in the name of all that is good and pure are you to decide what deaths are tragic?

    And BTW - you are heartless. I lost my father recently - and to me it was and still is a tragedy. And yes - I realize that I am sensitive.

    Do you not think we should be doing all in our power to prevent this disease?

    These types of posts make my blood boil. Have a heart.

    Edit - apologies - I didn't see the threadban. Backing off!

    100% agree.


  • #2419
    majcos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 596 ✭✭✭majcos


    Wolf359f wrote: »
    Understandable, it's important for people to realise when they see 1000+ in hospital, around 45% of them are under 65. When you hear headlines state "we're seeing more younger people presenting with covid in hospital", it almost comes across as it being more serious of a dose compared to last year, when in fact it's just more younger people are contracting covid.
    Yes. Most who are younger and have no underlying medical conditions are now shocked that they can quite sick too as they would not consider themselves vulnerable. Absolutely this happens at a much lower rate in this population but if enough people in those healthy groups contract Covid, some of them will be unlucky enough to become very ill and need admission.


  • #2420
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Gruffalux wrote: »
    Confirmed deaths (absolute) Deaths in last 7 days Daily increase (# deaths) Population (in millions) Deaths per million (total) Deaths per million (last 7 days)
    Belgium 19,936 355 53 11.48 1,735.97 30.91
    Slovenia 2,922 194 23 2.09 1,399.46 92.91
    Italy 77,291 2,670 414 60.3 1,281.83 44.28
    Bosnia and Herzegovina 4,211 125 0 3.3 1,275.67 37.87
    North Macedonia 2,581 71 10 2.08 1,238.81 34.08
    Czechia 12,621 910 185 10.67 1,182.88 85.29

    Coming well before UK and US in the worst countries re covid are above. They rarely get mentioned in political terms. It is simply an interesting observation. Belgium has done really bad and hardly anyone knows who runs it.

    Ah you're correct, I was just doing a lazy comparison tbh


  • #2421
    Goldengirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,984 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    Martina1991 wrote: »
    I don't think close contact testing was stopped due to lab capacity. That is being increased all the time. It was more to do with the public health depts not being able to get through the amount of positive cases. The link with the German lab is still there if we need it.

    Good to know .
    But it is still a disappointment that if the lab capacity is there , we haven't got the matching public health capacity to at least validate the cases .
    We are flying blind without this accuracy in numbers , and now it is imperative that our health service needs to know what is coming down the line , more than any time since the first wave .


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  • #2422
    embraer170
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,494 ✭✭✭embraer170


    Germany has dozens of large vaccination centres ready all over the country. What is planned in Ireland? It doesn't seem realistic to expect GPs, pharmacies etc. to manage a fast rollout once enough vaccines are available.

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    impfen-134~_v-gseapremiumxl.jpg


  • #2423
    froog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,784 ✭✭✭froog


    SpacialNeeds wrote: »
    Anyone else shjtfaced

    Hope you're having something resembling a Friday night in spite of the apocalypse

    i'm getting there.


  • #2424
    bluefivetwo23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53 ✭✭bluefivetwo23


    Just back from a shift in hospitality. It’s got very inhospitable now. Spending the entire day telling customers to wait in the allocated area etc.

    The place I work sells about 2 paninis a day, the rest is entirely coffee and entirely not essential.

    The restrictions still have a long way to go in my mind as for drinks only my place of work is still very busy and there are often queues of people waiting inside.

    Need to either close or operate a hatch service now or it’s only a matter of time before my colleagues or myself get infected.


  • #2425
    Goldengirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,984 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    lawred2 wrote: »
    Like pulling teeth

    Many people are too busy to be digging through such statistics..

    Could you share the comparative numbers please?

    Can you not look them up yourself? I am off duty ;)
    Btw have been posted twice on this thread in the last few pages by Spookwoman and Majcos, after my post you probably have them now .


  • #2426
    Polar101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,043 ✭✭✭Polar101


    George Lee on Nine O'Clock news saying there was no backlog in today's numbers.


  • #2427
    CharlieHaghy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 77 ✭✭CharlieHaghy


    bluefivetwo23 wrote: »
    Just back from a shift in hospitality. It’s got very inhospitable now. Spending the entire day telling customers to wait in the allocated area etc.

    The place I work sells about 2 paninis a day, the rest is entirely coffee and entirely not essential.

    The restrictions still have a long way to go in my mind as for drinks only my place of work is still very busy and there are often queues of people waiting inside.

    Need to either close or operate a hatch service now or it’s only a matter of time before my colleagues or myself get infected.

    Bring antibacterial spray with you tomorrow and start using it if people come within 2 metres of you.


  • #2428
    Azatadine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,590 ✭✭✭Azatadine


    Polar101 wrote: »
    George Lee on Nine O'Clock news saying there was no backlog in today's numbers.

    Yeah, that's not true though. I think he's just afraid that might downplay the situation.


  • #2429
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Polar101 wrote: »
    George Lee on Nine O'Clock news saying there was no backlog in today's numbers.

    Is he not supposed to be the science person in RTE?


  • #2430
    Endintheclowns
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 138 ✭✭Endintheclowns


    No backlog in the numbers.

    That's nuts. Could easily see 10k plus cases tomorrow


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  • #2431
    Frank Bullitt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,001 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    embraer170 wrote: »
    Germany has dozens of large vaccination centres ready all over the country. What is planned in Ireland? It doesn't seem realistic to expect GPs, pharmacies etc. to manage a fast rollout once enough vaccines are available.

    impfzentrum188_v-fullhd.jpg

    impfen-134~_v-gseapremiumxl.jpg

    I can't wait to stand in line at a place like this. Never did I think I would say that.


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