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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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  • #6332
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,359 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    All im seeing on social media is Dr Tony been concerned

    Tbh thats a worry because of his power and influence in decision making


  • #6333
    Goldengirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,976 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    I am actually sorry I didnt keep a diary since day 1. Just jotted down the daily thoughts and how we managed

    Sitting on the road with neighbours miles from each other on fold up chairs with rugs on our knees in April .

    Shouting to grandchildren who were at my gate and singing Happy Birthday

    Throwing a sliced pan over the wall to my neighbour , I had braved the shops to buy bread and milk

    My friend texting me that Supervalu had anti bac wipes in and would she grab me a pack

    Making my own ant bac hand gel with all sorts of concoctions

    Figuring out how to join a zoom call

    Using words we never used before and now part of life .


    Stepping on the road if passing anyone while walking

    And watching films made before Covid and worrying they were far to close to each other

    Christalmighty


    Haha , the WhatsApp tells a story :D


  • #6334
    Kunta Kinte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 718 ✭✭✭Kunta Kinte


    Funsterdelux wrote: »
    Its like living in a Michael Bay movie!

    Anyone else watching Armageddon?

    I would think the film Contagion would be more fitting for what has and is continuing to happen.


  • #6335
    Goldengirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,976 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    Arghus wrote: »
    Covid nostalgia.

    Who ever thought it'd come to this?

    No it 'll be deleted as soon as fvck once we get out of this , never tobe seen again! :D

    The first few threads of this are hilarious to read now !


  • #6336
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,193 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Datacore wrote: »
    I’m just not posting here anymore. I’m too ratty about all of this not to just end up in a textual argument.

    Nothing to do with the people or the discussion. It’s just really really starting to stress me out.

    Apologies if I came across as a bit grumpy. It’s not intended.

    It's good to take a step back from posting sometimes.

    I still post here frequently enough, but I've cut back a lot since Christmas.

    It can be bad for the head getting too into the back and forth. At the end of the day we're only largely clueless randomers on a message board.


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  • #6337
    FintanMcluskey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,624 ✭✭✭FintanMcluskey


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Yes, now that we all know that the relaxations led to the current death/infection rate. Let's blame the front line workers. Easy to hurl from the ditch:rolleyes:

    It’s not hurling in the ditch or blaming it’s asking a question to try to get relevant data.

    Did the HSE ever publish that report your were talking about with HCW’s being reinfected with Covid?


  • #6338
    Goldengirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,976 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    Datacore wrote: »
    I’m just not posting here anymore. I’m too ratty about all of this not to just end up in a textual argument.

    Nothing to do with the people or the discussion. It’s just really really starting to stress me out.

    Apologies if I came across as a bit grumpy. It’s not intended.

    We have all had our moments , some of us a bit more than others :pac:


  • #6339
    Corruptedmorals
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,195 ✭✭✭Corruptedmorals


    Outbreak where I work (essential hospital admin) looks to maybe have contained itself. Close contacts and a bunch of others who got the fear somewhat due to some poor compliance like the positive cases had are all negative. We are not out of the woods yet and my own test as a casual contact is Monday but I am confident the risk is miniscule due to compliance. The worst thing would be to endanger any patients or nursing/medical staff I work with who are facing redeployment.

    The main thing is not to worry a symptom into existence. Once we have enough admin staff to organise emergency care and functions we will be fine.


  • #6340
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,193 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Goldengirl wrote: »
    No it 'll be deleted as soon as fvck once we get out of this , never tobe seen again! :D

    The first few threads of this are hilarious to read now !

    Looking back it's mad to think that we were well into March and our first confirmed cases before the government pulled the plug on St. Paddy's day.

    I remember that was the big story in the media for a while: will the government let them go ahead?

    Ah, much more innocent times!


  • #6341
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,248 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    Goldengirl wrote: »
    No it 'll be deleted as soon as fvck once we get out of this , never tobe seen again! :D

    The first few threads of this are hilarious to read now !

    We were only talking about that today . At what stage will it fade from memory ? When will we be comfortable in crowds again ? Will we carry hand sanitizer in our bags for ever more ? Will we shift uneasily in out seat on the LUAS if someone sits beside us in 2024 ?

    My MIL lived through the world war , till she died in the 90’s she hoarded tins of food in hiding places


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  • #6342
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,647 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    FintanMcluskey wrote: »
    It’s not hurling in the ditch or blaming it’s asking a question to try to get relevant data.

    Did the HSE ever publish that report your were talking about with HCW’s being reinfected with Covid?

    No. You are purposely blaming health care workers for the ride in cases. Just to fit your "agenda". The reason that cases are higher in health care workers is because we actually have to deal directly.with covid positive patients who present to hospital but yet again, this is our fault for caring for people.

    Continue hurling from the ditch. You are digging your own grave. Maybe you should retreat to your echo chamber ;)


  • #6343
    Psychedelic Hedgehog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 498 ✭✭Psychedelic Hedgehog


    I made the mistake of watching The Stand in late March. Didn't sleep a wink that night.


  • #6344
    Donald Trump
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,327 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    All im seeing on social media is Dr Tony been concerned

    Tbh thats a worry because of his power and influence in decision making




    Why is it a worry "because of his power and influence in decision making".


    Should you not be more worried because of his experience, education and judgement?


  • #6345
    Russman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,978 ✭✭✭Russman


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    Making my own ant bac hand gel with all sorts of concoctions

    Guilty !!!

    It’s funny the things you remember, as it happens I was on holiday last Feb when it all began to get real and on the last morning we were killing a couple of hours before heading to the airport and one of the girls came in having been in the local Spar - she’d bought the last 3 bottles of hand gel they had and I swear if she’d won the lotto she wouldn’t have been happier !


  • #6346
    Wolf359f
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭Wolf359f


    Annalee Tight Geisha wrote: »
    Irrelevant etc etc
    https://twitter.com/TimoneyKevin/status/1350512543245225985?s=19

    Read the twitter post, he made a mistake, it's reporting over 4 days and not a single day.
    When someone sees a ten fold increase in figures, they should really investigate rather than just report it.


  • #6347
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,193 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Psychedelic Hedgehog wrote: »
    I made the mistake of watching The Stand in late March. Didn't sleep a wink that night.

    If we'd been invaded by aliens in late March I think I would have scarcely batted an eye.


  • #6348
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    KaneToad wrote: »
    I would gladly never interact with work colleagues face to face ever again.

    I miss interaction with friends & family.

    I get that we're all different but the idea of not interacting with people from 9-5 (minimum), 5 days a week is a bit grim to me.

    WFH for the rest of my life is my idea of hell


  • #6349
    Russman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,978 ✭✭✭Russman


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    We were only talking about that today . At what stage will it fade from memory ? When will we be comfortable in crowds again ? Will we carry hand sanitizer in our bags for ever more ? Will we shift uneasily in out seat on the LUAS if someone sits beside us in 2024 ?

    My MIL lived through the world war , till she died in the 90’s she hoarded tins of food in hiding places

    It’ll be a very interesting study for someone. I think 70 years of relative peace and prosperity in Europe has left people and governments completely unprepared for the sort of upheaval we’ve seen. Things that we’d have said were totally unconscionable have become the norm within 6 months. Mad altogether.


  • #6350
    Eod100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,178 ✭✭✭✭Eod100


    Arghus wrote: »
    It's good to take a step back from posting sometimes.

    I still post here frequently enough, but I've cut back a lot since Christmas.

    It can be bad for the head getting too into the back and forth. At the end of the day we're only largely clueless randomers on a message board.

    Excuse me, I'll have you know I went to the esteemed Micheal O'Leary night school of epidemiology.. :pac:


  • #6351
    majcos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 596 ✭✭✭majcos


    FintanMcluskey wrote: »
    I seen a report that alluded to UK hospital acquired transmission only accountable for 1 in 4 cases in hospital.

    It’s not 1 in 2 in Ireland

    I wonder is that stat with HCW’s seen in other countries?
    He made an error in his calculations of percentage of cases detected in HCWs. It is acknowledged in his Twitter posts.

    HCWs are however going to make up a higher proportion of current detected cases at present than they have been as they are being tested when asymptomatic as surveillance in certain settings, as close contacts of household members to facilitate their safe return to work, and with mild symptoms unlike others in the community.


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  • #6352
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,647 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    majcos wrote: »
    He made an error in his calculations of percentage of cases detected in HCWs. It is acknowledged in his Twitter posts.

    HCWs are however going to make up a higher proportion of current detected cases at present than they have been as they are being tested when asymptomatic as surveillance in certain settings, as close contacts of household members to facilitate their safe return to work, and with mild symptoms unlike others in the community.

    I wouldn't bother engaging with this poster. He is just trying to blame health care workers for the increase in cases rather than his ideology.


  • #6353
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91,194 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/ambulances-driving-300km-round-trip-journey-to-treat-covid-stricken-north-mayo-town-39974743.html
    https://forumofgames.com/




  • #6354
    majcos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 596 ✭✭✭majcos


    Professor David Foley, Consultant Cardiologist in Beaumont passed away in Beaumont today. He had a serious medical illness and then got Covid. RIP.


  • #6355
    Wolf359f
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭Wolf359f


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/ambulances-driving-300km-round-trip-journey-to-treat-covid-stricken-north-mayo-town-39974743.html

    Paywall doesn't help reading past sensational headlines, but are they alluding that someone in Mayo ringing for an ambulance, the ambulance is dispatched from Leitrim to drive to Mayo to pick up the local and drop them to hospital?
    They mention round trip, so the ambulance goes back to Leitrim and then does the same again? Would it not make sense for the Ambulance to hang about in the area with one of the the highest incidence rate in the country, rather than returning to the county with one of the the lowest incidence rates?


  • #6356
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91,194 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    How is Mayo so high?
    https://forumofgames.com/




  • #6357
    runawaybishop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,523 ✭✭✭runawaybishop


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    How is Mayo so high?

    It's belmullet in particular, massive socialising around Xmas. Hotel party on Stephens day caused a huge outbreak.


  • #6358
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    Eod100 wrote: »
    Excuse me, I'll have you now I went to the esteemed Micheal O'Leary night school of epidemiology.. :pac:

    Just Vax and Go!


  • #6359
    Corruptedmorals
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,195 ✭✭✭Corruptedmorals


    majcos wrote: »
    Professor David Foley, Consultant Cardiologist in Beaumont passed away in Beaumont today. He had a serious medical illness and then got Covid. RIP.

    Oh that is sad news. By all accounts a great in his profession and a well respected gentleman. Never met him but did my dad's heart cath procedure. His own consultant wasn't confident he could do it without avoiding bypass surgery so sent him to the best in the game. R.I.P


  • #6360
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/ambulances-driving-300km-round-trip-journey-to-treat-covid-stricken-north-mayo-town-39974743.html

    What happened in Belmullet?


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  • #6361
    FintanMcluskey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,624 ✭✭✭FintanMcluskey


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I wouldn't bother engaging with this poster. He is just trying to blame health care workers for the increase in cases rather than his ideology.

    Your don’t appear to have anything to back up your fictional claims previously it seems.

    Must be hard to be exposed I’m sure


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