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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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  • #9512
    BredonWimsey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 227 ✭✭BredonWimsey


    Crocodile Booze wrote: »
    Nope. The prognosis is still the same for any fool who will pay 6 euro for a pint of overpriced slop that has been sitting in a barrel for 9 months, when you can get a fresh can of beer for a euro.


    haha:pac:


  • #9513
    titan18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,052 ✭✭✭✭titan18


    Arduach wrote: »
    Do you think level 5 til after 17 March is pretty much guaranteed?

    No, but I'd say hospitality being closed til after then is pretty much guaranteed.

    I'd personally hope once we're sub 500 the non hospitality stuff that are closed will be allowed reopen so hairdressers, gyms, non essential retail etc.

    I can't see hospitality reopening for a long while and when it does probably start as outdoor only.


  • #9514
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    titan18 wrote: »
    No, but I'd say hospitality being closed til after then is pretty much guaranteed.

    I'd personally hope once we're sub 500 the non hospitality stuff that are closed will be allowed reopen so hairdressers, gyms, non essential retail etc.

    I can't see hospitality reopening for a long while and when it does probably start as outdoor only.
    When we wrap up the over 65s will also influence things.


  • #9515
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Crocodile Booze wrote: »
    Nope. The prognosis is still the same for any fool who will pay 6 euro for a pint of overpriced slop that has been sitting in a barrel for 9 months, when you can get a fresh can of beer for a euro.

    Maybe it might drown the virus :pac:


  • #9516
    prunudo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,105 ✭✭✭prunudo


    Arduach wrote: »
    Do you think level 5 til after 17 March is pretty much guaranteed?

    Probably a level 5 minus similar to October from middle of Feb.


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  • #9517
    mohawk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭mohawk


    bucketybuck wrote: »
    One thing I can't understand. In WW2 governments raided patent offices and took over factories to crank out thousands of tanks and jeeps and missiles and whatever they needed for their war efforts.

    In 2021, why are the covid vaccines still in the hands of private companies? We are now seeing supply delays, why are more powerful countries like the US etc not building factories and massively ramping up production of what are now known products?

    Is Covid not important enough?

    Pharmaceutical manufacturing is one of the most heavily regulated industries worldwide. For good reason.

    Anything that gets injected directly into people needs to be manufactured in sterile conditions. So you need clean rooms and staff that are trained to work in this environment. The vaccine itself gets regulatory approval to be given to patients. The manufacturing sites themselves also need regulatory approval. There is only so much ramping up of production that can be done. Buying new equipment is a hugely time intensive process. It’s often made to order and installation can take months and months. Also important to remember that the likes of Pfizer make a lot of other products that people are depending on. So it’s not like they can convert all their factories to this one product.

    Building new factories isn’t really feasible to be honest.


  • #9518
    Windmill100000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 585 ✭✭✭Windmill100000


    blowitupref wrote: »
    Pure nonsense.

    Compared to the previous Sundays it's way down.

    17/01: 2944
    10/01: 6888
    03/01: 4962

    Don't have to wait, you get a better idea by the 7-day average. 2125 today and Last week 3602.

    Agreed, its very good news. No reason it won't continue to drop while in level 5.


  • #9519
    fits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,049 ✭✭✭✭fits


    BredonWimsey wrote: »
    aww i see - yes indeed and thats vulgar actually - she is grieving the poor woman

    I thought she was amazing actually. And she wanted to get the message through to people of how this can go. Nigel Pim her husband was only 50. I’m grateful people like Jenni are talking about it.

    100 people’s deaths were announced this weekend. 100.


  • #9520
    frank8211
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 306 ✭✭frank8211


    Arduach wrote: »
    Do you think level 5 til after 17 March is pretty much guaranteed?

    Yes bar schools construction and shops if things go well. Everything else needs to stay shut if we dont want to go through this again. The opening of schools will arrest our progress when it happens


  • #9521
    Mike3549
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,124 ✭✭✭Mike3549


    Maybe we will see Level 4 for the first time.


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  • #9522
    DraftDodger
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 284 ✭✭DraftDodger


    Jesus yeah the cheek of the woman coming on RTE telling us how serious this virus is just after she'd lost her husband.

    Do some of you ever listen to yourselfs??


  • #9523
    titan18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,052 ✭✭✭✭titan18


    is_that_so wrote: »
    When we wrap up the over 65s will also influence things.

    I'd say best case scenario we'll be on their group so some of them might have got first dose by mid to late March. Should hopefully have all healthcare workers and long term care residents over 65 done and I'd imagine a large amount of over 70 will have had the first dose. Some of group 6 will be done too.


  • #9524
    oceanman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,779 ✭✭✭oceanman


    Mike3549 wrote: »
    Maybe we will see Level 4 for the first time.
    this is level 4


  • #9525
    spookwoman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,059 ✭✭✭✭spookwoman


    Latest Briefing Vs Confirmed Numbers

    daily-report-24-01-2021.jpg


  • #9526
    Mike3549
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,124 ✭✭✭Mike3549


    oceanman wrote: »
    this is level 4

    No, this is level 5.69
    Schools and constr are openin level 5


  • #9527
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Sierra Oscar wrote: »
    To be precise, there were 205 new cases on November 27th when the Government took the decision to ease restrictions. 725 new cases a month later on December 27th.

    What was the positivity rate around then?


  • #9528
    Gael23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,150 ✭✭✭✭Gael23


    titan18 wrote: »
    No, but I'd say hospitality being closed til after then is pretty much guaranteed.

    I'd personally hope once we're sub 500 the non hospitality stuff that are closed will be allowed reopen so hairdressers, gyms, non essential retail etc.

    I can't see hospitality reopening for a long while and when it does probably start as outdoor only.

    What about inter county travel?


  • #9529
    niallo27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,138 ✭✭✭✭niallo27


    oceanman wrote: »
    this is level 4

    How the **** is it level 4, no schools, no construction, no non essential retail.


  • #9530
    titan18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,052 ✭✭✭✭titan18


    Gael23 wrote: »
    What about inter county travel?

    I'd say no. Likely get the removal of 5k to county wide first (I'd imagine that would move when gyms and non essential retail open) and when outdoor dining opens you get the inter county travel loosened


  • #9531
    BredonWimsey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 227 ✭✭BredonWimsey


    fits wrote: »
    I thought she was amazing actually. And she wanted to get the message through to people of how this can go. Nigel Pim her husband was only 50. I’m grateful people like Jenni are talking about it.

    100 people’s deaths were announced this weekend. 100.


    i'm not commenting on the poor lady- its a bit vulgar of RTE to be calling someone 2 days after their partner dies and asking them to go on TV. its vulture journalism. on the other hand if she called RTE thats another story.


    i dont know the circumstances but surely someone is extreamly vulnerable after their partner has died - this was just a few days later- so were they really having her best interests at heart or were they just wanting to get the story.


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  • #9532
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    titan18 wrote: »
    I'd say best case scenario we'll be on their group so some of them might have got first dose by mid to late March. Should hopefully have all healthcare workers and long term care residents over 65 done and I'd imagine a large amount of over 70 will have had the first dose. Some of group 6 will be done too.
    Groups 1 & 2 should be done and dusted next month. I think they had hoped to start on Group 3 in February but early March is a better guess now as a kickoff. Over 70s are about 500,000 so that's about 4 weeks if we have supplies. Over 65s more like April or later.


  • #9533
    BredonWimsey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 227 ✭✭BredonWimsey


    DraftDodger wrote: »
    Jesus yeah the cheek of the woman coming on RTE telling us how serious this virus is just after she'd lost her husband.

    Do some of you ever listen to yourselfs??


    can you read. my comment was at RTE not the lady.



    I cant speak for the other poster as to their intention - they merely commented on how depressing it is.



    if you want to give out to people dont use the boards as your excuse to do it.


  • #9534
    titan18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,052 ✭✭✭✭titan18


    is_that_so wrote: »
    Groups 1 & 2 should be done and dusted next month. I think they hoped to start on Group 3 in February but early March is a better guess now as a kickoff. Over 70s are about 500,000 so that's about 4 weeks if we have supplies. Over 65s more like April or later.

    I'd be hoping we have AZ and J&J with us by late March so a lot of progress will start getting made when we have decent supply of those coming in.


  • #9535
    TonyMaloney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,150 ✭✭✭TonyMaloney


    Windmill100000 wrote: »
    Agreed, its very good news. No reason it won't continue to drop while in level 5.

    Kent's cases continued to grow under restrictions very similar to level 5.

    Pubs, restaurants and non essential retail shut. Schools open.
    It was well adhered to, but cases got out of control anyways.


  • #9536
    vienne86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,078 ✭✭✭✭vienne86


    is_that_so wrote: »
    Groups 1 & 2 should be done and dusted next month. I think they hoped to start on Group 3 in February but early March is a better guess now as a kickoff. Over 70s are about 500,000 so that's about 4 weeks if we have supplies. Over 65s more like April or later.

    Given the priority given to opening schools, I'm wondering might teachers jump the queue.


  • #9537
    bb1234567
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    An FYI for people to be aware of

    https://twitter.com/FergalBowers/status/1353393712684879872?s=19

    Sickos..honestly just :(:( A different breed of humanity


  • #9538
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    BredonWimsey wrote: »
    i'm not commenting on the poor lady- its a bit vulgar of RTE to be calling someone 2 days after their partner dies and asking them to go on TV. its vulture journalism. on the other hand if she called RTE thats another story.


    i dont know the circumstances but surely someone is extreamly vulnerable after their partner has died - this was just a few days later- so were they really having her best interests at heart or were they just wanting to get the story.

    Exactly. RTÉ are exploiting people far too much, come years ahead it will not be a good look. If it actually does some good to individuals and gets the message across to people, maybe it's appropriate, but I have my reservations.


  • #9539
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    vienne86 wrote: »
    Given the priority given to opening schools, I'm wondering might teachers jump the queue.
    Very doubtful. THE HSE seem intent on following the vaccination groups rigidly. The only group who might be moved up are the 18-34s.


  • #9540
    cameramonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,220 ✭✭✭cameramonkey


    a
    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/please-take-vitamin-d-to-protect-against-covid-19-say-irish-experts-1069537.html


    Another doctor recommending Vit D


    It is amazing that the government has not rolled out a health programme involving the population be encouraged to take Vitamin D. There are no downsides and many indications that having high levels of vitamin D will save you from the worst effects of covid.


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  • #9541
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,248 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    vienne86 wrote: »
    Given the priority given to opening schools, I'm wondering might teachers jump the queue.

    There will be uproar if they do . So many vulnerable people waiting for it now


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