Covid 19 Part XXXIII-231,484 ROI(4,610 deaths)116,197 NI (2,107 deaths)(23/03)Read OP

Plumbthedepths · 26-02-2021 06:57PM

Turtwig wrote: »

I mean like there are two options.
Open the schools.
Close the schools.

Well from what I can see there are many posters here that want the schools to remain closed but have no idea of an alternative. Not every child can remote learn due to internet coverage. Remote learning is not great for very young kids. This is before you even discuss socialisation, mental health, safe environment.

igCorcaigh · 26-02-2021 06:58PM

the corpo wrote: »

To anyone on top of the figures, am I imagining we're seeing more young amongst the deaths? 29 year old today, 16 year old during the week.

Interesting question.
I guess we need a larger dataset to have any confidence in how things may or may not be changing.

Galwayhurl · 26-02-2021 06:59PM

blade1 wrote: »

3rd person I know after dying with covid today.
All 3 came around bit a week before dying.
Is this what's happening with most who die?

Something that I was told when my father was dying of cancer many years ago was that, quite often, people improve briefly just before they finally pass away. So it's not just a Covid thing.

the corpo · 26-02-2021 07:00PM

I don't want schools closed, but I do want an increase in safety measures. For example, seems willfully stupid not to invest in Co2 monitors for classrooms, one simple solution, amongst many, that would make a hugely significant difference.

Why not give the schools every chance to *stay* open...

is_that_so · 26-02-2021 07:00PM

the corpo wrote: »

To anyone on top of the figures, am I imagining we're seeing more young amongst the deaths? 29 year old today, 16 year old during the week.

They do emerge every so often but that much higher median age in the 80s is where the overwhelming bulk of deaths have occurred.

26-02-2021 07:00PM

(Posted in the Gardai thread but might get more responses here)

Does anyone have any experience of driving the M4 / N4 in recent times? My sister is heading out to Easkey next week (midweek) to view a property as has got advanced in the process on the basis of virtual viewing

The legislation is clear that you can do in person viewings anywhere in the country when you’re nearing contract stage, but she suffers from anxiety and is nervous about having to explain to a Garda who may give her a hard time

Has the Dublin Sligo road been a busy one for checkpoints in anyone’s experience? If so I might try to get a family member to go with her

spookwoman · 26-02-2021 07:01PM

SeaMermaid · 26-02-2021 07:02PM

Dubit11 wrote: »

My wife only got her vaccination today and she's in healthcare. The rollout is painfully slow here and i can't see a return to any kind of normality by the summer unfortunately. Opening the schools next week is a recipe for disaster.

Numbers definitely headed in the wrong direction also.

blade1 wrote: »

3rd person I know after dying with covid today.
All 3 came around bit a week before dying.
Is this what's happening with most who die?

That's horrifying.

Definitely wouldnt want to risk the virus going out for a non essential activity like a meal out even if it was allowed with the current high-ish numbers. You wouldnt be able to relax in fear of contracting the virus. There's no know what way your body will respond to an infection. The key to living with this virus will be to get the case numbers down low so we can move about and the chances of meeting an infected person transmitting virus will be low. Currently the numbers are too high. Why someone would open their arms and welcome infection and disease into thier lifes, I will never know.

JP Liz V1 · 26-02-2021 07:04PM

29 additional deaths - with an age range of 29 to 95 years.

776 new cases.

RIP those 29

Stateofyou · 26-02-2021 07:05PM

Russman wrote: »

This should be posted on every thread on this forum !!
You’d think with all the experts we have on here some sane government somewhere would have come to the same conclusions. The very idea that anyone anywhere likes or wants this is simply batsh1t crazy.

Sane government... like NZ?

DellyBelly · 26-02-2021 07:09PM

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

29 additional deaths - with an age range of 29 to 95 years.

776 new cases.

RIP those 29

Those numbers are stubbornly high.. Why is that. I really expected it to be in the 3-400s but it's almost double that. It's really going on the wrong direction..

Plumbthedepths · 26-02-2021 07:10PM

DellyBelly wrote: »

Those numbers are stubbornly high.. Why is that. I really expected it to be in the 3-400s but it's almost double that. It's really going on the wrong direction..

Ronan Glynn on Virgin news now, oddly he is more positive than you and several posting here in the last hour.

Loafing Oaf · 26-02-2021 07:11PM

DellyBelly wrote: »

Those numbers are stubbornly high.. Why is that.

More infectious new variants, peopoe flouting regulations more would be my guess at the main reasons

26-02-2021 07:12PM

Deleted User wrote: »

(Posted in the Gardai thread but might get more responses here)

Does anyone have any experience of driving the M4 / N4 in recent times? My sister is heading out to Easkey next week (midweek) to view a property as has got advanced in the process on the basis of virtual viewing

The legislation is clear that you can do in person viewings anywhere in the country when you’re nearing contract stage, but she suffers from anxiety and is nervous about having to explain to a Garda who may give her a hard time

Has the Dublin Sligo road been a busy one for checkpoints in anyone’s experience? If so I might try to get a family member to go with her

The checkpoints I've come across are at Kinnegad and Edgeworthstown. I'm in Newtownforbes so I don't know what it's like further west.

SeaMermaid wrote: »

That's horrifying.

Definitely wouldnt want to risk the virus going out for a non essential activity like a meal out even if it was allowed with the current high-ish numbers. You wouldnt be able to relax in fear of contracting the virus. There's no know what way your body will respond to an infection. The key to living with this virus will be to get the case numbers down low so we can move about and the chances of meeting an infected person transmitting virus will be low. Currently the numbers are too high. Why someone would open their arms and welcome infection and disease into thier lifes, I will never know.

It's absolutely tragic seeing someone living in fear like this. More so seeing them trying to encourage others to live in fear.

26-02-2021 07:12PM

DellyBelly wrote: »

Those numbers are stubbornly high.. Why is that. I really expected it to be in the 3-400s but it's almost double that. It's really going on the wrong direction..

It is literally not going in the wrong direction

is_that_so · 26-02-2021 07:13PM

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

Ronan Glynn on Virgin news now, oddly he is more positive than you and several posting here in the last hour.

Hospitals currently at 574 with 136 in ICU.

igCorcaigh · 26-02-2021 07:15PM

is_that_so wrote: »

Hospitals currently at 574 with 136 in ICU.

Looking forward to when the effects of vaccinations really kick the hospitalisation figures down, and we can focus less on the case numbers.

giveitholly · 26-02-2021 07:17PM

Dubit11 wrote: »

My wife only got her vaccination today and she's in healthcare. The rollout is painfully slow here and i can't see a return to any kind of normality by the summer unfortunately. Opening the schools next week is a recipe for disaster.

Numbers definitely headed in the wrong direction also.

You want normality returned by the summer but don't want schools to open? Doesn't opening schools not mean we are starting to return to some sort of normality

is_that_so · 26-02-2021 07:18PM

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Looking forward to when the effects of vaccinations really kick the hospitalisation figures down, and we can focus less on the case numbers.

Yeah, but there are still about 30 a day being admitted.

igCorcaigh · 26-02-2021 07:21PM

is_that_so wrote: »

Yeah, but there are still about 30 a day being admitted.

There is. But capacity in the healthcare system is improving. We came back from the brink.
The vaccines will reduce levels of illness despite case numbers, and we are on the road back to normality.

manofwisdom · 26-02-2021 07:22PM

Gael23 wrote: »

Going in the wrong direction

DellyBelly wrote: »

It's really going on the wrong direction..

A year into this now and no excuse for such a poor understanding of the current situation.

26-02-2021 07:24PM

manofwisdom wrote: »

A year into this now and no excuse for such a poor understanding of the current situation.

I think it's a deliberate misunderstanding by people sometimes.

PowerToWait · 26-02-2021 07:29PM

manofwisdom wrote: »

A year into this now and no excuse for such a poor understanding of the current situation.

Break it down for us so.

retro:electro · 26-02-2021 07:33PM

RTE really going the whole hog with the misery porn today

Azatadine · 26-02-2021 07:36PM

retro:electro wrote: »

RTE really going the whole hog with the misery porn today

What flavour is their misery today? Variants? Vaccines useless? Death for everyone soon?

manofwisdom · 26-02-2021 07:37PM

b0nk1e wrote: »

I think it's a deliberate misunderstanding by people sometimes.

Certainly.

PowerToWait wrote: »

Break it down for us so.

Has been broken down already read back on previous posts

spookwoman · 26-02-2021 07:41PM

Why do people continue to watch rte news when all they do is come on here then and complain

JP Liz V1 · 26-02-2021 07:42PM

https://twitter.com/rtenews/status/1365370838241992705

caveat emptor · 26-02-2021 07:42PM

spookwoman wrote: »

Why do people continue to watch rte news when all they do is come on here then and complain

self flagellation?

MerlinSouthDub · 26-02-2021 07:44PM

Nice story about vaccinated Spanish pensioners going to the theatre.

https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/2021/0226/1199639-madrid/

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