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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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  • #4112
    OwenM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 860 ✭✭✭OwenM


    CIARAN_BOYLE wrote: »
    Probably a gap in mass testing cycles.

    Nursing homes hospitals etc. Those cycles have the lowest positivity rate of all testing groups and drag the over all average down significantly.

    I'd like some statistical information on positivity in different groups. We won't get it except for the odd quote in nphet briefings but it would be interesting to see.

    This is a close as it gets I think:

    https://twitter.com/RiochtConor2/status/1368557955747045380


  • #4113
    bikeman1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,476 ✭✭✭bikeman1


    I do not know of anyone personally through work, family or the local community who has contracted the virus over the last 5 weeks. The previous 5 weeks to that were mad with lots of people I knew catching it. This is on the Northside of Dublin.

    What is the situation of those that are testing positive now? Can it not be safe to assume we should go to Level 4 from 22nd March. With a review prior to April 5th whether to go further to Level 3 then or stick with Level 4? Everyone (even the die hard restricted folks) are fed up with the 5km rule.

    The numbers are at the best end of NPHET's modelling and the people need hope!


  • #4114
    Shelby Foote
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 119 ✭✭Shelby Foote


    Totally off topic, there are some nice avatars posters have here that aren't on the main list. Like Seamus' David McCulloch. Do you pay for them?


  • #4115
    manofwisdom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭manofwisdom


    seamus wrote: »
    Sunday: 445 / 13741: 3.24% (!)
    Today: 464 / 10675: 4.35%

    7-day is now firmly below 4 - 3.81%

    Equivalent two days last week were 5.06% & 4.14% (663 & 506 swabs)

    Good numbers all round.

    Swab count and case count Monday to Sunday was 3660. First time the two matched up?


  • #4116
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    SusieBlue wrote: »
    I thought that it was widely accepted that regardless of the variant, Christmas, or leaks, we were going to be in and out of lockdowns until a large portion of the population is vaccinated anyway.

    Christmas or no Christmas, we’d probably be in lockdown again by now regardless. And as with all of our lockdowns, we get into them easily but find it very hard to navigate our way back out.

    Let’s also not forget that the government left our airports wide open with no mandatory quarantine to import thousands of cases of the new variant.
    I believe it was Leo who said imposing forced quarantine on incoming citizens and travellers would be too harsh and unfair, but then supports long term indefinite lockdowns on 5 million people.
    The mind boggles.

    But hey, high five gang, case numbers are very gradually coming down! Half a million of ye on PUP, just gonna have to suck it up another few months. Mandatory hotel quarantine for arrivals to Ireland? Give us a month to have an aul thinkeroo and we might bring it up in the Dáil. By the way, Tony is wonderful and you're all alcoholics so no traditional pubs need reopen until the autumn. Join us again this time tomorrow for more patronising piffle about case numbers "trending in the right direction and if you're good lickle boys and girls you might get half a summer".


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  • #4117
    timsey tiger
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    OwenM wrote: »
    This is a close as it gets I think:

    https://twitter.com/RiochtConor2/status/1368557955747045380

    I wonder if the 85+ age group not in long term care have seen an increase in incidence. It seems like there can be a bit of a bump in rates in the two weeks after the first dose.


  • #4118
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    NH2013 wrote: »
    Excellent news on the positivity rate, does this now mean Ireland is off the red list on travel and back as an orange country for acceptance in other European countries?
    The EU light system is based on the 14-day case rate as well as the swab positivity.

    We were orange as of last Thursday. Yellow is < 150 cases per 100k, and we were at 172 yesterday.

    So there's an outside chance we might turn yellow by this Thursday. If not, definitely next Thursday. The EU map actually has sub-regions, so the South-West of the country will likely go yellow this week as they've been doing very well.


  • #4119
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,293 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    OwenM wrote: »
    This is a close as it gets I think:

    https://twitter.com/RiochtConor2/status/1368557955747045380

    How are secondary schools showing those figures when less than a week back in school?


  • #4120
    MrMusician18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,133 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    OwenM wrote: »
    This is a close as it gets I think:

    https://twitter.com/RiochtConor2/status/1368557955747045380

    A great chart to point to the next time our students start whining about some injustice or other. They're doing a great job at the old social solidarity :rolleyes:


  • #4121
    seamus
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    Jim_Hodge wrote: »
    How are secondary schools showing those figures when less than a week back in school?
    He's classifying that by age rather than location. It's just unfortunate he used those labels as it looks like he's implying they were infections in school.

    Secondary: 13-18, Primary: 4-12, Creche: < 4


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  • #4122
    What Username Guidelines
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,139 ✭✭✭What Username Guidelines


    https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1368955846483402753?s=20

    While somewhat expected, it's still a pretty big deal.


  • #4123
    Stheno
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    Jim_Hodge wrote: »
    How are secondary schools showing those figures when less than a week back in school?

    Think it's the age group they are referring to there, i.e. secondary = 12-18?


  • #4124
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    Shelby Foote wrote: »
    Totally off topic, there are some nice avatars posters have here that aren't on the main list. Like Seamus' David McCulloch. Do you pay for them?

    It used to be for Subscribers only

    See here for more Subscriber privileges https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056950118


    That post is over 7 years old so not sure if it's the same now or if subscribing to Boards is still a thing


  • #4125
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    Hmmmm. I'd like to see a boutique festival with a thousand people max tried before they do a festival with 70,000 people


    https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/electric-picnic-hopes-vaccination-programme-will-allow-festival-proceed-1.4503686
    Electric Picnic hopes vaccination programme will allow festival proceed


    The Electric Picnic promoter has said it hopes to go ahead with the festival if the Government’s vaccination programme is completed in time.


    In a statement on Twitter on Monday, the festival organisers said it “remains in Government hands” for the event to take place as scheduled this year between September 3rd and 5th at Stradbally, Co Laois.


  • #4126
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    The cautious phased reopening doesn't look that cautious or phased.

    https://twitter.com/AudreyCarville/status/1368937169369391108?s=20


  • #4127
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    caveat emptor wrote: »
    The cautious phased reopening doesn't look that cautious or phased.

    https://twitter.com/AudreyCarville/status/1368937169369391108?s=20
    Half the kids last week and the other half next week sounds phased to me.


  • #4128
    seamus
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    What Username Guidelines wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1368955846483402753?s=20

    While somewhat expected, it's still a pretty big deal.
    All of those people who are convinced that Covid is a smokescreen for introducing permanent restrictions will be devastated at this news.


  • #4129
    Jim_Hodge
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    caveat emptor wrote: »
    The cautious phased reopening doesn't look that cautious or phased.

    https://twitter.com/AudreyCarville/status/1368937169369391108?s=20

    What's not phased about it? And the review of procedures and protocols seems cautious.


  • #4130
    stephenjmcd
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    What Username Guidelines wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1368955846483402753?s=20

    While somewhat expected, it's still a pretty big deal.

    Interesting, can see it being the first such announcement of many as we progress. Would expect many more to follow once large numbers are being vaccinated.


  • #4131
    Sanjuro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,241 ✭✭✭Sanjuro


    seamus wrote: »
    All of those people who are convinced that Covid is a smokescreen for introducing permanent restrictions will be devastated at this news.

    Ah, they're just trying to get everyone to mix indoors in the same place and then lock those places down. Concentrated lockdowns. You know. For reasons.


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  • #4132
    lawred2
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    caveat emptor wrote: »
    The cautious phased reopening doesn't look that cautious or phased.

    https://twitter.com/AudreyCarville/status/1368937169369391108?s=20

    You must have your own definition for phase


  • #4133
    What Username Guidelines
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    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    Interesting, can see it being the first such announcement of many as we progress. Would expect many more to follow once large numbers are being vaccinated.

    I'm wondering about timing, they're at about 10% fully vaccinated and while I expected it over the next few months, I do wonder if it's a little early. Will it open floodgates of those who dont want the vaccine, or who are waiting, or who just have FOMO, to say they're vaccinated when they are not?

    I presumed most governments were being cagey on both the possibility of the vaccine not stopping spread and an early rush to return to normality before critical mass.

    Guess you gotta dangle the carrot tho. I just can't believe world leaders are giving up so easily, they had come so so close to gaining full control over their populations forever.


  • #4134
    stephenjmcd
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    437 cases, 0 reported deaths


  • #4135
    KrustyUCC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,082 ✭✭✭KrustyUCC


    Great to see no reported deaths

    Cases not bad at all


  • #4136
    cjyid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 103 ✭✭cjyid


    Brilliant to see that 0 figure.


  • #4137
    Benimar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,793 ✭✭✭Benimar


    Jim_Hodge wrote: »
    What's not phased about it? And the review of procedures and protocols seems cautious.

    In fairness, it was said that things would be reviewed this week to see if the rest of Primary could be brought back. They wanted to see if the first phase caused a spike. To make that call today, 7 days after schools reopen is a bit early tbh.


  • #4138
    Dermot224
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    How's that number of cases for a Monday


  • #4139
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,806 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Really time to start opening up. 5km should be scrapped immediately and construction reopened.


  • #4140
    CIARAN_BOYLE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,595 ✭✭✭✭CIARAN_BOYLE


    Dermot224 wrote: »
    How's that number of cases for a Monday

    687 last monday the 1st
    686 the previous monday the 22nd
    821 the previous monday the 15th


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  • #4141
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,992 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Really time to start opening up. 5km should be scrapped immediately and construction reopened.

    Any chance you might give the old vaccination schedule a chance before throwing the horse under the cart just yet?


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