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

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  • #2072
    Loafing Oaf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,960 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    Ficheall wrote: »
    There were definitely hundreds there at least, judging by clips.

    jox26.jpg


  • #2073
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91,607 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1365729025784700928
    https://forumofgames.com/




  • #2074
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,870 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    Covid patients in Ireland are going to be offered Ivermectin as part of an international clinical trial.

    https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/tropical-drug-to-be-tested-on-critically-ill-patients-here-40140143.html


  • #2075
    speckle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭speckle


    eagle eye wrote: »
    Covid patients in Ireland are going to be offered Ivermectin as part of an international clinical trial.


    https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/tropical-drug-to-be-tested-on-critically-ill-patients-here-40140143.html
    Nice one... must be showing promise for that...I remember the negative reaction on this thread from some people when you first posted on it here... fingers crossed.


  • #2076
    Nqp15hhu
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,254 ✭✭✭Nqp15hhu


    Once everyone is vaccinated. There is absolutely no need for lockdown, in any shape or form.


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  • #2077
    Nqp15hhu
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,254 ✭✭✭Nqp15hhu


    Bluwave wrote: »
    How golf courses and outdoor tennis can’t open and insist on a few strict measures is beyond me, only two players and no mixing transportation.

    The 5km rule is complete nonsense and takes policing resources away from where they are needed. Imagine stopping a cyclist out for a spin FFS.

    Construction is still flat out despite the ban, so clearly construction isn’t an issue.

    This government is losing the focus of more and more people by the day, they need to make some changes and they can improve the restrictions without risking increasing cases.

    Really glad I don’t live down south. It’s bad enough here. I couldn’t imagine being restricted to a 2 mile drive. Awful


  • #2078
    Nqp15hhu
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,254 ✭✭✭Nqp15hhu


    Once everyone is vaccinated. There is absolutely no need for lockdown, in any shape or form.


  • #2079
    YFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,713 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    speckle wrote: »
    Nice one... must be showing promise for that...I remember the negative reaction on this thread from some people when you first posted on it here... fingers crossed.

    Yes for those that are infected. Not as a preventative measure.


  • #2080
    Away With The Fairies
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    Nqp15hhu wrote: »
    Once everyone is vaccinated. There is absolutely no need for lockdown, in any shape or form.

    Even with vaccines, the virus is here to stay and someone mentioned this becoming epidemic. So what I'd like to know will we have a short lockdown to find, track, trace and isolate cases when it does become epidemic?

    What's the plan when it's epidemic?


  • #2081
    dwayneshintzy
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    is_that_so wrote: »
    The first two use mandatory tracking apps and in the last one 75% live in rural areas and are out in the open air a lot.
    There is no mandatory tracking app in Hong Kong.


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  • #2082
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    Pure scumbags whoever they are.

    https://twitter.com/OtooleOfficial/status/1365778200639512576?s=20

    I feel sorry for these people. Who knew all of human knowledge available at your fingertips could make people dumber.

    https://twitter.com/molloyjohn/status/1365754215105236993?s=20


  • #2083
    prunudo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,214 ✭✭✭prunudo


    The lad in the light grey hoodie and about 2 or 3 others are scumbags. The rest just seem to be standing around.
    Bad grammar can be frustrating but it shouldn't be used to belittle a protesters (or anyone for that matter) beliefs or reason they feel aggrieved.


  • #2084
    mean gene
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 875 ✭✭✭mean gene


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    Even with vaccines, the virus is here to stay and someone mentioned this becoming epidemic. So what I'd like to know will we have a short lockdown to find, track, trace and isolate cases when it does become epidemic?

    What's the plan when it's epidemic?

    Hopefully your asleep chilling out from it calm down mate


  • #2085
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,081 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    prunudo wrote: »
    The lad in the light grey hoodie and about 2 or 3 others are scumbags. The rest just seem to be standing around.
    Bad grammar can be frustrating but it shouldn't be used to belittle a protesters (or anyone for that matter) beliefs or reason they feel aggrieved.


    So many questions.
    Who did RTÉ sell their souls to? Does this mean a possible reduction or abolition of the licence fee on foot of this sale?
    What about the rest of "mainstream media?" Did they not sell their souls also?


  • #2086
    Nqp15hhu
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,254 ✭✭✭Nqp15hhu


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    Even with vaccines, the virus is here to stay and someone mentioned this becoming epidemic. So what I'd like to know will we have a short lockdown to find, track, trace and isolate cases when it does become epidemic?

    What's the plan when it's epidemic?

    Why would we have another lockdown? If the vaccines don’t work, nothing is going to work.

    At that point it’s time to move on. Society can’t be in lockdown perpetually over a virus.


  • #2087
    Nqp15hhu
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,254 ✭✭✭Nqp15hhu


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    So many questions.
    Who did RTÉ sell their souls to? Does this mean a possible reduction or abolition of the licence fee on foot of this sale?
    What about the rest of "mainstream media?" Did they not sell their souls also?

    Well one criticism many people have is that the media in most countries haven’t critiqued governments on their lockdown plans and overall strategies. Meaning more stringent lockdowns and daft strategies that have wasted time, resources and money.


  • #2088
    Nqp15hhu
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    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    Even with vaccines, the virus is here to stay and someone mentioned this becoming epidemic. So what I'd like to know will we have a short lockdown to find, track, trace and isolate cases when it does become epidemic?

    What's the plan when it's epidemic?

    Why would we have another lockdown? If the vaccines don’t work, nothing is going to work.

    At that point it’s time to move on. Society can’t be in lockdown perpetually over a virus.


  • #2089
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,081 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Nqp15hhu wrote: »
    Well one criticism many people have is that the media in most countries haven’t critiqued governments on their lockdown plans and overall strategies. Meaning more stringent lockdowns and daft strategies that have wasted time, resources and money.

    I've heard media outlets here doing exactly that.
    Many times. Criticising govt policy.
    We aren't China or Burma.

    So that argument is bullcrap as far as Ireland is concerned.


  • #2090
    StevenToast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,109 ✭✭✭StevenToast


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    Even with vaccines, the virus is here to stay and someone mentioned this becoming epidemic. So what I'd like to know will we have a short lockdown to find, track, trace and isolate cases when it does become epidemic?

    What's the plan when it's epidemic?

    You first need to look up the meaning of epidemic....

    Then go look up the meaning of endemic..

    Then come back and report your findings...

    "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining." - Fletcher



  • #2091
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,295 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    speckle wrote: »
    Nice one... must be showing promise for that...I remember the negative reaction on this thread from some people when you first posted on it here... fingers crossed.

    They claimed it was a cure that would end the need for lockdowns etc.

    It is, as we all tried to explain at the time, a treatment for those critically ill.


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  • #2092
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    dwayneshintzy wrote: »
    There is no mandatory tracking app in Hong Kong.
    And yet there is this!

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-hongkong-idUSKBN2AI0I8


  • #2093
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    speckle wrote: »
    Nice one... must be showing promise for that...I remember the negative reaction on this thread from some people when you first posted on it here... fingers crossed.
    Well, it was found not to have any effect on COVID in mild cases, apart from earlier recovery from anosmia. The trial is to test if it has any promise, quite a few candidates have not.


  • #2094
    Polar101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,058 ✭✭✭Polar101


    Nqp15hhu wrote: »
    Well one criticism many people have is that the media in most countries haven’t critiqued governments on their lockdown plans and overall strategies. Meaning more stringent lockdowns and daft strategies that have wasted time, resources and money.

    I wonder if that is true. I guess you won't find many opinion pieces on RTE, but that's not really their job. Irish newspapers regularly publish articles and opinion pieces, that are critical of government actions.

    As for "most countries", I haven't followed the media in most countries so I can't verify that. I did read some Finnish news yesterday - they are on their way to a lockdown. The media reports are critical of the government's confusing communication, speed of vaccinations, lack of a clear roadmap out of restrictions and economic problems faced by businesses forced to close. Which sounds almost exactly like the discussion in Ireland.


  • #2095
    blade1
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    Vaccines slashing hospital numbers in UK on the news there.
    Great to see it having that much of an effect.


  • #2096
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Polar101 wrote: »
    I wonder if that is true. I guess you won't find many opinion pieces on RTE, but that's not really their job. Irish newspapers regularly publish articles and opinion pieces, that are critical of government actions.

    As for "most countries", I haven't followed the media in most countries so I can't verify that. I did read some Finnish news yesterday - they are on their way to a lockdown. The media reports are critical of the government's confusing communication, speed of vaccinations, lack of a clear roadmap out of restrictions and economic problems faced by businesses forced to close. Which sounds almost exactly like the discussion in Ireland.
    Most of that is really not under discussion unless you mean media megaphone pieces. Apart from basic communications on where we are going we do get the rest of it.


  • #2097
    SeaMermaid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 62 ✭✭SeaMermaid


    Pelvis Parsley wrote: »
    What minds? They're morons with access to more information than ever before possible, good bad or indifferent.

    In times past, such idiots, who ALWAYS existed were illiterate, or couldn't afford newspapers, or were so malnourished because they hadn't the brains to feed themselves that they stayed quiet. Now they are fed and watered whether they work or not, have the internet to prosper in their echo chambers, congregate, and display their stupidity for all the world to see.

    It's a distinct downside of the age we live in-like giving a monkey an AK47.

    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
    I needed a LOL this morning. Thank you.


  • #2098
    Away With The Fairies
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    StevenToast wrote: »
    You first need to look up the meaning of epidemic....

    Then go look up the meaning of endemic..

    Then come back and report your findings...

    Ok, got confused. But you knew what I meant to put me right. But if this continues, and if a new strain pops up that the vaccine doesn't work, what then?


  • #2099
    Underground
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    So the protests yesterday were flagged as a mass gathering of the far right and protesting in such large groups was a big middle finger to our health care workers.

    Let me be clear, I think the people protesting yesterday were morons, with more than a few scumbags in their ranks as evidenced by the fireworks, absolute muppets.

    The condemnation of the protest as a middle finger to healthcare workers, whilst a sentiment I agree with, was not forthcoming during the BLM protests. Why is that?

    Is it because we have new strains of the virus on the island now where as we didn't last summer? Either people have the right to protest or they don't, it shouldn't be okay for some and banned for others.


  • #2100
    nocoverart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,354 ✭✭✭nocoverart


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    Ok, got confused. But you knew what I meant to put me right. But if this continues, and if a new strain pops up that the vaccine doesn't work, what then?

    And if it does work, what then? you'll still be on here looking for the negative in everything I'm sure...


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  • #2101
    MarkY91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,072 ✭✭✭MarkY91


    Underground wrote: »
    So the protests yesterday were flagged as a mass gathering of the far right and protesting in such large groups was a big middle finger to our health care workers.

    Let me be clear, I think the people protesting yesterday were morons, with more than a few scumbags in their ranks as evidenced by the fireworks, absolute muppets.

    The condemnation of the protest as a middle finger to healthcare workers, whilst a sentiment I agree with, was not forthcoming during the BLM protests. Why is that?

    Is it because we have new strains of the virus on the island now where as we didn't last summer? Either people have the right to protest or they don't, it shouldn't be okay for some and banned for others.

    I don't remember any garda getting a firework to the face during any BLM protests.


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