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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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  • #3812
    Eod100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,178 ✭✭✭✭Eod100


    kilkenny31 wrote: »
    I've said it over the weekend and I'll say it again now. We will be close to 1000 cases by this weekend. Our dramatic increases was because of Christmas and we will have an equally dramatic decrease. Hospital figures will likely be at a peak this weekend. I think our new cases peak was well over a week ago.

    I can't see how cases could be 1,000 as soon as this weekend unfortunately. And there could be lag of hospitalisations of 2/3 weeks from peak in cases.


  • #3813
    CIARAN_BOYLE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,599 ✭✭✭✭CIARAN_BOYLE


    Polar101 wrote: »
    8% of today's cases are swabs from the last three days, according to Fergal Bowers who was quoting Tony H.

    Nolan had a chart up separating cases into swab date. It was interesting.


  • #3814
    blade1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,773 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    What Username Guidelines wrote: »
    They wouldn't know. Congratulations on cracking the code, keep it a secret though.

    Yeah I was stopped after completing a major drug deal.
    Just told them I was heading to Tesco.
    Drive on they said!! :D


  • #3815
    rob316
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,683 ✭✭✭✭rob316


    Antares35 wrote: »
    Stopped at a checkpoint earlier taking the cat to the vet. Just told them where I was going and that was it. Sure you could just tell them any old shíte, how would they know you're lying?

    I always say I'm going shopping. They couldn't look more disinterested to be honest


  • #3816
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,481 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    blade1 wrote: »
    Yeah I was stopped after completing a major drug deal.
    Just told them I was heading to Tesco.
    Drive on they said!! :D
    Selling vaccines on the sly?
    How much we talking? :)


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  • #3817
    SCOOP 64
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,572 ✭✭✭SCOOP 64


    gmisk wrote: »
    Fergal Bowers on the RTE news thank feck, really factual and with some positives....give George Lee a break imo, he would wreck your head


    Mo matter how bad it is Fergal will always put it in a good light.


  • #3818
    MerlinSouthDub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,627 ✭✭✭MerlinSouthDub


    CIARAN_BOYLE wrote: »
    Nolan had a chart up separating cases into swab date. It was interesting.

    Yes it cleared things up a bit. I guess he was saying there is always a backlog (or delay in confirming cases) but it is usually less than 3 days, and it stretched out to more than that. It's back to normal delays now. All of this supports looking at the swab data, rather than case data (which can go up and down due to reporting issues rather than actual changes in numbers)


  • #3819
    blade1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,773 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    gmisk wrote: »
    Selling vaccines on the sly?
    How much we talking? :)

    It was actually multi pack beer coupons. :eek:


  • #3820
    Boggerman12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 130 ✭✭Boggerman12


    Akabusi wrote: »
    I see construction work is still going on at Intel. So much for essential only construction, money ultimately talks.

    Covid will pass and we will still need employment to pay for all the free money we are borrowing.plus work started can stay going.some people are too content to lockdown forever


  • #3821
    kilkenny31
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 701 ✭✭✭kilkenny31


    Eod100 wrote: »
    I can't see how cases could be 1,000 as soon as this weekend unfortunately. And there could be lag of hospitalisations of 2/3 weeks from peak in cases.

    I think we likely peaked well over a week ago. Hospital figures to peak at the weekend. ICU to peak around the 20th. We are suffering because of Xmas. That's over now. Most people am have limited contacts since around new years. The daily figures are all over place but starting to come right now.


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  • #3822
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,481 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    SCOOP 64 wrote: »
    Mo matter how bad it is Fergal will always put it in a good light.
    I don't agree.
    He was very factual.
    Signs things might have levelled off to a degree. But emphasising how serious things still are.

    George Lee is all hand wringing and negativity, even when things were looking positive. Doesn't know the data well either imo.


  • #3823
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,038 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    Personally I don’t think its a good idea or very professional to be causing anxiety by posting such things
    There are people reading these threads with loved ones who are ill and are terrified . There are ill people reading maybe who will be so scared to read about this
    I dont think that scaring people is worth it just to point score
    Pointing out that things are sh*t and wishing people would cop-on is not "point-scoring", ffs.


  • #3824
    CruelSummer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,334 ✭✭✭CruelSummer


    My goodness, NPHET don’t seem to want to answer journalists questions re data, variants, percentages, etc. They just want to single out people who dare go to the park, shop, near anyone else. They all keep repeating stay at home. We all know this - this press conference needs to have more information on the restrictions and their effectiveness, vaccinations, variants, positivity rate, etc.


  • #3825
    Antares35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Antares35


    Jim_Hodge wrote: »
    Why no? Nothing else to do for about an hour. Beats just asking repeat questions.
    ;)

    I haven't asked the question before, or seen anyone else asking. Sorry for not keeping up with every single post Jim. The job, kid and life kind of get in the way. Thanks for the info though, although someone else already answered. Repeat answers hey, tut ;)


  • #3826
    tom1ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,091 ✭✭✭✭tom1ie


    Wow. Highest infection rate in the world per 100k of population last week!


  • #3827
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    What is the status of contact testing? Are they planning to resume it?


  • #3828
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91,194 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Of the cases notified today:

    •2,250 are men / 2,641 are women
    •59% are under 45 years of age
    •The median age is 39 years old
    •1,513 in Dublin, 695 in Cork, 320 in Limerick, 305 in Wexford, 225 in Galway and the remaining 1,871 cases are spread across all other counties.

    As of 2pm today, 1,582 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 146 are in ICU. 156 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
    https://forumofgames.com/




  • #3829
    tom1ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,091 ✭✭✭✭tom1ie


    Boggerman12 wrote: »
    Covid will pass and we will still need employment to pay for all the free money we are borrowing.plus work started can stay going.some people are too content to lockdown forever

    Ah yeah sure open up. What could go wrong!!


  • #3830
    CIARAN_BOYLE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,599 ✭✭✭✭CIARAN_BOYLE


    is_that_so wrote: »
    What is the status of contact testing? Are they planning to resume it?

    Hasn't been asked.

    Hopefully it is.


  • #3831
    PowerToWait
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,789 ✭✭✭PowerToWait


    CruelSummer wrote: »
    Their over focus on negativity, raising the fear in the population actually backfired as people switched off for December.
    We need to hear the way forward - projected outcomes for Level 5+, what will the vaccination programme achieve by say March, etc.

    The knots some people will get themselves into to put the blame on NPHET or the 'demon dictator' Hologhan for basically everything. Same posters every time as well.

    Like, give your head a shake there.


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  • #3832
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    CIARAN_BOYLE wrote: »
    Hasn't been asked.
    Kind of an obvious one, I would have thought.


  • #3833
    What Username Guidelines
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,139 ✭✭✭What Username Guidelines


    CruelSummer wrote: »
    My goodness, NPHET don’t seem to want to answer journalists questions re data, variants, percentages, etc. They just want to single out people who dare go to the park, shop, near anyone else. They all keep repeating stay at home. We all know this - this press conference needs to have more information on the restrictions and their effectiveness, vaccinations, variants, positivity rate, etc.

    According to the data presented, socialising went to pre-pandemic levels before Christmas (perhaps compared to Feb 2020?) and resulted in us having the worst 14-day incidence in the world. I'm sure Tony and the lads are absolutely blue in the face saying Stay at Home, but believe it or not, some people are still not hearing it.


  • #3834
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,248 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    SCOOP 64 wrote: »
    Mo matter how bad it is Fergal will always put it in a good light.

    Fergal was doing is best to be positive and Caitriona Perry doing her best to draw him back to negativity


  • #3835
    froog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,784 ✭✭✭froog


    no doubt now we have turned the corner in transmission levels. fairly dramatic fall in positive swabs and a good downward 7 day positivity trend. hospitals of course won't peak for probably at week at least.

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  • #3836
    mean gene
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 875 ✭✭✭mean gene


    any update on the take away pints ?


  • #3837
    Faugheen
    Site Banned Posts: 12,341 ✭✭✭✭Faugheen


    mean gene wrote: »
    any update on the take away pints ?

    Yes. Stay at home.


  • #3838
    Crocodile Booze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 545 ✭✭✭Crocodile Booze


    mean gene wrote: »
    any update on the take away pints ?

    Mr Tony says you can have one on the way home from the hairdressers.


  • #3839
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,300 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    Finally some relative clarity on the vaccine, too many people thinking it was like drinking from the Holy Grail.


  • #3840
    CruelSummer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,334 ✭✭✭CruelSummer


    What Username Guidelines wrote: »
    According to the data presented, socialising went to pre-pandemic levels before Christmas (perhaps compared to Feb 2020?) and resulted in us having the worst 14-day incidence in the world. I'm sure Tony and the lads are absolutely blue in the face saying Stay at Home, but believe it or not, some people are still not hearing it.

    That’s very true, but I do think there are people absolving NPHET, George Lee and the mainstream media for their constant doom over the Summer / early Autumn. It did reduce compliance as people switched off in my opinion.


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  • #3841
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    First time to see Karina Butler - very good communicator.


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