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

quartz1 wrote: »

There seems to be sad news of the death of a 39 year old Consultant Doctor in Wexford .

Didn't see any indication it was COVID related though? Autopsy underway

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

https://twitter.com/Antcon7062/status/1349447504912384001

Where's he getting the 272 figure from?

mandrake04 wrote: »

Goes in the biomedical waste bag, burned at 120C.

This solution been around for years, it’s rapid, portable and it works.

Does cost a bit to run, but it’s fit for purpose for vulnerable settings where antigen is more gimmick.

1200°C ... otherwise it would be spewing viruses everywhere!

What Username Guidelines wrote: »

Also, those who were raising flags to the seriousness on here were not only called doom-mongers, but also told they were hoping the numbers would rise, enjoying it even, just so they could say "I told you so".

I've become absolutely fascinated with how differently people deal with bad news, grim outlooks, and a crisis like this.

Yeah they're the ones that pissed me off the most. I basically didn't feel like posting here at the start of December, knowing there's so many trigger-happy types who will shoot me and others down for posting different to their worldview.

lucernarian wrote: »

Yeah they're the ones that pissed me off the most. I basically didn't feel like posting here at the start of December, knowing there's so many trigger-happy types who will shoot me and others down for posting different to their worldview.

Other one that was shot down was the hospitals having issues. We are going back to the start again with hospitals stopping elective procedures and stopping outpatient clinics.

UnderReporting of numbers is continuing ..
Can today's swab discussions please bear in mind the fact that there are just as many unidentified close contacts cases out there at the moment ?

Numbers are only symptomatic cases , we knew this would cause a levelling off , but hopefully it will be sustained and translate into lower numbers in hospital.



It is absolute pandemonium in the hospital I work in with staff getting sick and pressure on others to return to work before they are fit .

It is , as JPLizVI said, way too early to be talking about schools or anything else reopening until we can be past the mitigation stage and back to containment ie adequate test and trace.



And then there was a very distasteful post about deaths being accrued by Richard Hillman , a propos some sort of manipulation of figures ?

After 46 deaths reported...38 were in the first week of January , the other 6 were the last week of December !

Do people like this not think relatives are registering their loved one's deaths fast enough , at this time ?:mad:





Figures over last 2 weeks show age groups in hospital / ICU in screenshot below .

DraftDodger wrote: »

There was a post here last week regarding that doctors death and the immediate reaction from a couple of posters was "yeah sure, where's the proof" etc..

They almost where accusing the poster of making it up or like it was doom monging.

From memory that poster was new and while some replies were less than kind, I'm always skeptical when new posters come on with multiple posts in a short space of time which could be precieved as wild claims.
Rip to those hcw's who have passed while trying to care for others.

lucernarian wrote: »

Yeah they're the ones that pissed me off the most. I basically didn't feel like posting here at the start of December, knowing there's so many trigger-happy types who will shoot me and others down for posting different to their worldview.

You were told to stay under your bed, trembling in fear, while all the real men and women should be allowed go about their business, which was mostly drain pints and go shopping.

You were told to cop on, stop fear mongering, spreading NPHET propaganda. You were a bed wetting curtain twitcher. You wanted to destroy the economy.

Funny, most of these nasty posts have disappeared, along with their writers.

The famous hugger of faces springs to mind, with the nasty, belittling posts. Nowhere to be found now.

And those saying “ah, let’s move on, we all made mistakes, let’s work together now” it’s a bit late for that chum.

DraftDodger wrote: »

For me personally I think people who threw caution to the wind and decided Xmas was more important than a global pandemic are on a level with drink drivers. They'll attempt to find ways of justifying it but that's the reality.

I did not throw caution to the wind and it is nearly 4 weeks since my last close contact.

However, do you think it is ok that there will be a narrative that Jonny went to a restaurant, met his uncle and now the uncle is dead is a healthy one to have in communities and families?

FlubberJones wrote: »

Nope, watching BBC news this morning, Superdrug in the UK is delivering the Astra vaccine.

The Astra Zenaca vaccien was developed by Oxford.

The previous poster was correct.

PowerToWait wrote: »

You were told to stay under your bed, trembling in fear, while all the real men and women should be allowed go about their business, which was mostly drain pints and go shopping.

You were told to cop on, stop fear mongering, spreading NPHET propaganda. You were a bed wetting curtain twitcher. You wanted to destroy the economy.

Funny, most of these nasty posts have disappeared, along with their writers.

The famous hugger of faces springs to mind, with the nasty, belittling posts. Nowhere to be found now.

And those saying “ah, let’s move on, we all made mistakes, let’s work together now” it’s a bit late for that chum.

Great post, but you are right I too have noticed absence of certain serial posters that had an answer for basically everything .... The online associate Professors of infectious diseases from the University of Retardistan.

Then those who like to snipe with the snide remarks for the sake of it, we should have legalised abortion in Ireland 40 years ago.