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

Just dipping into the very early threads. How different it all was back then! Posters are almost giddy now in comparison!

Here's one from thread III - early March.


https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=112715531&postcount=6164

CrabRevolution wrote: »

I can't find it now, but there was a poster on one of the threads in mid December who said we were on track for over 1000+ cases a day come New Years and they were given dogs abuse and called a doom monger who must love misery and lockdown etc.

In response others reassured us that we'd probably be down to double figures by New Years since there's actually a conspiracy to hide the truth that schools are the major spreader, and with schools closed transmission will drop to almost nothing.

Sorry for the late reply, but it’s true. I remember someone must’ve predicted 1000 cases by Christmas actually, and a very prominent poster, who actually always posted very informative information, laughed and said some posters obviously wear NPHET t-shirts.

StevenToast wrote: »

Im just making the point about the obsession with christmas people seem to have.

Ive never understood it.....and the one year where people could have enjoyed a nice, quiet christmas by themselves.....they p1ssed it away...

Tubridy and his like have overhyped christmas to death....

If overhyping something helps raise 6.2 million for charities I can go along with some overhyping.

MattS1 wrote: »

If we've dropped from circa 6k cases to 3.5k cases in a few days. Could we drop from 3.5k to 1-2k soon enough?

End of the month

degsie wrote: »

What do you have to say for yourself today :rolleyes:

From today on he shall be known as a right bollocks :pac:( seen as he lost his left one)

Deleted User wrote: »

Restrictions are simply not working.

Asking healthy people to give up their jobs, businesses and social lives for a disease that doesn’t impact them just is not sustainable.

Putting clever steps in place to protect nursing homes is something simple that should have been done 10 months ago and would have cut the deaths in half at least.

Believing that lockdown is the ONLY solution with thousands of cases a day is bizarre to me.

You do realise that we have thousands of cases a day now because restrictions were lifted previously? And the only thing that will eventually bring them down again is the current restrictions and people obeying the public health guidelines.

Restrictions are the only thing that have been shown to bring numbers under control, on more than one occasion, and it's an absolute rock solid fact that when you loosen them numbers go up again - this has played out literally everywhere in the world.

When you say they aren't working I think that you just fundamentally don't get the purpose of them. You seem to have this mistaken impression that they are designed to totally eradicate the virus and that used once they never have to used again. That's not how it is.

All restrictions do is arrest the growth of the disease and halt it temporarily, they buy you time, they prevent your hospital systems becoming overwhelmed etc, etc. Unless you make the choice to go for a zero Covid strategy they do kick the can down the road, hopefully to the point where enough vaccination can ocurr so that a different strategy can be employed.

I'd love to know what these "clever steps" are to protect nursing homes, beyond what is already been done. Covid is rampant in the community. Carers will bring it in to homes. The nature of the work they do involves close physical contact with residents. It's very naive to assume that nursing homes can be protected beyond increased risk if Covid is spreading like wildfire in the community at large, because it is going to get in. You suppress the risk at it's source: the wider community.

Your obtuseness at ever seeing this is, quite frankly, bizarre.

Deleted User wrote: »

Restrictions are simply not working.

Asking healthy people to give up their jobs, businesses and social lives for a disease that doesn’t impact them just is not sustainable.

Putting clever steps in place to protect nursing homes is something simple that should have been done 10 months ago and would have cut the deaths in half at least.

Believing that lockdown is the ONLY solution with thousands of cases a day is bizarre to me.

What are these clever steps then? Replacing all the nurses, cleaners, caterers, handy-men etc with robots? Because that's the only way to keep this out of nursing homes if it's rampant in the community.

Staff in nursing homes are regularly tested so if one has caught the COVID then it should be found early on, they wear full PPE and have access to such for months now, they get temperature checks regularly and they are all aware of the importance of hand hygiene and ventilation.

So what is your solution, how do you propose that nobody that works in a nursing home is exposed to COVID while they go about their daily lives, in order not to bring it into a nursing home when they go to work? How do you make sure that the husbands, wives, children or housemates of nursing home staff don't get COVID, so as not to give it to them and then bring it with them into the nursing home?

As far as I can see, the only solutions to protecting nursing homes are to either reduce the transmission in the community, AKA Lockdown, so the staff aren't exposed or to replace the workers in nursing homes with robots, which is frankly a non-runner, outside of that, COVID will get in.

This idea that nursing homes are to blame if COVID get's in and that there are simple solutions to keeping it out is just looking for an easy scapegoat.

Deleted User wrote: »

Restrictions are simply not working.

Asking healthy people to give up their jobs, businesses and social lives for a disease that doesn’t impact them just is not sustainable.

Putting clever steps in place to protect nursing homes is something simple that should have been done 10 months ago and would have cut the deaths in half at least.

Believing that lockdown is the ONLY solution with thousands of cases a day is bizarre to me.

How many cases do you think there would be now if there hadn't been restrictions?

I bet Richard Hillmans last remaining right bollock that the vaccine rollout will not go according to Stephen Donnellys "plan"...

Q1...700,000 Q2...1.5m
Q3 Everyone!

P*iss off you liar Donnelly....

What kind of clowns speak in terms of "Quarters" anyway....americans and property porn w@nkers....

DraftDodger wrote: »

A neighbour of mine passed away in the early hours of Tuesday morning from Covid. He was 47 and leaves behind a wife and 3 kids.

He wasn't in a nursing home obviously and had no health issues previous to catching Covid.

Yes he's an outlier as most people who catch this and pass on are older but without a lockdown there would be many more like him on a daily basis and probably hundreds of older people.

Restrictions do work and tbh anyone who fails to realise that almost a year into this pandemic is wilfully ignoring the science.

I'm so sorry about your neighbor. A healthy friend of a friend at the same age died of "pneumonia" I think it was around last February, they'll never know if it was covid. This thing is so awful.

Also I hate everyone who feels if you are elderly or if you have diabetes or are receiving cancer treatment etc. it doesn't actually matter when you die. I don't want to hate anyone but I feel so angry. Saying "oh yeah well they had underlying conditions" is incredibly heartless. Everyone has a right to live and age or a disability or a health condition doesn't mean that the rest of us aren't responsible for keeping you safe and shouldn't feel bad if we accidentally kill you because the restrictions were inconvenient

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

Maybe it’s time to put ‘ I TOLD YOU SO ‘ as a sticky here and then move on. Pages and pages or repeating the same anecdotes.

Not half as boring as those who've never been right still posting the same nonsense.