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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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  • #4682
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,038 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    political analyst wrote: »
    Are our government and other governments in Europe afraid of being blamed for Covid deaths if they lift restrictions early because they are unwilling to blame the Chinese government for letting the virus spread outside China?

    Have people in this country and in the rest of Europe forgotten that the Chinese government let this pandemic happen?

    If people were reminded of where the virus came from then they'd be less likely to blame their governments for Covid deaths, wouldn't they?
    We've not had a pop at the Chinese in here for a while.



    As a matter of interest, if the virus had originated in Ireland, how well do you think it would have been contained?
    Ireland had what, two months' notice that the virus was on the way before it got here?


  • #4683
    DellyBelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,602 ✭✭✭DellyBelly


    That's a massive jump from yesterday.. Very disappointing. I didn't expect that. Must be the schools?


  • #4684
    political analyst
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,049 ✭✭✭political analyst


    runawaybishop wrote: »
    No one cared about your troll post when you made it the first time.

    It's not a conspiracy theory - it's a fact. How can blame for letting the virus spread worldwide not matter?!


  • #4685
    political analyst
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,049 ✭✭✭political analyst


    Doctor Jimbob wrote: »
    Is it really so unreasonable to suggest schools could be having some impact on case numbers? I'm sure it's a low impact, and I can understand wanting to have them open, but there's no need to try to silence anyone who suggests they could play some role in viral spread.

    Closing the schools certainly didn't lower the case numbers to a point where even only a reduction of restrictions to Level 4 would be considered safe.


  • #4686
    runawaybishop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,516 ✭✭✭runawaybishop


    DellyBelly wrote: »
    That's a massive jump from yesterday.. Very disappointing. I didn't expect that. Must be the schools?

    There is a bump in cases every Wednesday due to GPs being closed over the weekend and referrals being done on the Monday, with results of those referals coming today. All the important data is trending to where we want it to be.


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  • #4687
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 676 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    runawaybishop wrote: »
    Knock it off with the nonsense. There is no conspiracy and reporting guidelines are easily available.

    Here's a comment I left earlier incase you didn't see it and I have heard of other incidents of the same so it's not nonsense

    I know a woman in her 90s who passed away from natural causes last April but who's death was classed as covid on the death cert even tho she had a negative covid test 2 days before she passed away.Her family were not happy with this


  • #4688
    Jinglejangle69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,167 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    Doctor Jimbob wrote: »
    Is it really so unreasonable to suggest schools could be having some impact on case numbers? I'm sure it's a low impact, and I can understand wanting to have them open, but there's no need to try to silence anyone who suggests they could play some role in viral spread.

    I'm not trying to silence anyone.

    I'm going my what the experts who have the access to all the cases etc are saying.

    Noone is saying there is no cases in schools but every time there's an increase in cases people have the magical one word answer.

    "schools"

    While offering up no basis or explanation for their answer.


  • #4689
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    seamus wrote: »
    People need to stop getting worked up about rumours and throwaway comments.

    With all due respect, you have been saying this since at least the end of January. It is now mid March and we are still being strung along by the balls with little to get excited about. Every rumour that has surfaced regarding any easing you have quickly dismissed, urged people to relax and stop getting worked up and hysterical, but they always end up being true. When are you going to realise we are not getting out of this shlt show any time soon.


  • #4690
    hynesie08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,342 ✭✭✭✭hynesie08


    blowitupref wrote: »
    https://mobile.twitter.com/FergalBowers/status/1369713149969072130

    Screenshot-20210310-181902-2.png

    That is the best you can hope for considering it's a death chart.


  • #4691
    runawaybishop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,516 ✭✭✭runawaybishop


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Here's a comment I left earlier incase you didn't see it and I have heard of other incidents of the same so it's not nonsense

    I know a woman in her 90s who passed away from natural causes last April but who's death was classed as covid on the death cert even tho she had a negative covid test 2 days before she passed away.Her family were not happy with this

    No I saw it, it's just bullsh1t.


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  • #4692
    ShyMets
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭ShyMets


    FlubberJones wrote: »
    Its called being pissed off and at the end of my tether with this bull****.

    It wasn't well thought out, as many posts like this are reactionary as is mine... so get off your high horse and realise how ****ing ridiculous this scenario is, in this joke of a country

    Calm down old boy. I suggest you go for a walk and take the air. But do be so good to stay within 5k of your house


  • #4693
    PmMeUrDogs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 771 ✭✭✭PmMeUrDogs


    DellyBelly wrote: »
    That's a massive jump from yesterday.. Very disappointing. I didn't expect that. Must be the schools?

    There's a jump every Wednesday, as you well know because any day figures even slightly rise, you come in talking about how horrific the numbers are :rolleyes:


  • #4694
    PowerToWait
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,792 ✭✭✭PowerToWait


    Jinglejangle69 wrote: »
    I'm not trying to silence anyone.

    I'm going my what the experts who have the access to all the cases etc are saying.

    Noone is saying there is no cases in schools but every time there's an increase in cases people have the magical one word answer.

    "schools"

    Whole offering up no basis or explanation for their answer.

    It wasn’t an entirely serious post.


  • #4695
    Tyrone212
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭Tyrone212


    A lack of free press did contribute to the spread of covid in China in the early stages. As the government there cracked down on any mention of it and silencing doctors who raised alarm. A lack of media reports meant people were unaware. Factual reporting would have lead to people altering their behaviour and diminishing the incidence of the disease and the wider world would have known earlier. Whether it would have prevented the global pandemic is unknown but the Chinese government deserve criticism for how they handled it.


  • #4696
    SnuggyBear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 965 ✭✭✭SnuggyBear


    blowitupref wrote: »
    George Lee delivering positive news on RTÉ. Colour me shocked!

    Oh I missed it I turned it when I seen his miserable face.


  • #4697
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 676 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    runawaybishop wrote: »
    No I saw it, it's just bullsh1t.

    Believe what you want but it ain't bullsh1t. Your probably one of Tony's/NPHETs little puppets that believe every word that comes out of there mouths


  • #4698
    runawaybishop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,516 ✭✭✭runawaybishop


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Believe what you

    I will, thanks. I'll believe the HSE and who guidelines over someone with an agenda on an online forum reporting stuff they heard from a friend of a friend. :rolleyes:


  • #4699
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,038 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    Tyrone212 wrote: »
    ...and the wider world would have known earlier. Whether it would have prevented the global pandemic is unknown but the Chinese government deserve criticism for how they handled it.
    They do deserve criticism, for sure, but so do most other governments - who had advance notice the disease was coming and did diddly-squat.


  • #4700
    KaneToad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,742 ✭✭✭KaneToad


    runawaybishop wrote: »
    I will, thanks. I'll believe the HSE and who guidelines over someone with an agenda on an online forum reporting stuff they heard from a friend of a friend. :rolleyes:

    The HSE are clear in the guidelines they use to assess the death count. Disputing their methodology is permissible but disputing their numbers is stretching it a bit. Unfortunately, anecdotal evidence tends to be 'jucier' and is more readily. There is also an anecdote to support whatever side of the debate you are on.


  • #4701
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 676 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    runawaybishop wrote: »
    I will, thanks. I'll believe the HSE and who guidelines over someone with an agenda on an online forum reporting stuff they heard from a friend of a friend. :rolleyes:

    The only agenda I have is that there are too many people like you that believe everything that's reported in the media and that's probably loving the current restrictions


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  • #4702
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,038 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    Deleted User wrote: »
    The only agenda I have is that there are too many people like you that believe everything that's reported in the media and that's probably loving the current restrictions
    Don't forget to call him a sheeple.


  • #4703
    vienne86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,076 ✭✭✭✭vienne86


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    I appreciate that but as far as I'm aware both Longford and Offaly have had meat plant (colour me shocked...) outbreaks, other counties pop in and out of the top 10 but Dublin is consistently top 5.

    That's my worry too.


  • #4704
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,775 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    600 cases is great, at least when compared to January; and it's only 0.012% of the population.

    Very low numbers, no matter how anyone else tries to interpret it as "high".

    We will always want it lower, so there's not much point arguing. If it were 300 for 4-days in a row, we'd be disappointed it wasn't 200 etc.

    Might as well accept that 600 is pretty good in the overall scheme of things / total population.


  • #4705
    Maestro85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 199 ✭✭Maestro85


    "Open the Pubs" ..... was the attitude yesterday evening. Leo is saying April 5th it will all ease. Vaccine rollout debacles continue. What a great day.


  • #4706
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,290 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    PowerToWait wrote: »
    Schools.

    BS and you know it.


  • #4707
    Batattackrat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 222 ✭✭Batattackrat


    Maestro85 wrote: »
    "Open the Pubs" ..... was the attitude yesterday evening. Leo is saying April 5th it will all ease. Vaccine rollout debacles continue. What a great day.

    Hopefully they will when the over 70's are vaccinated and the airport quarantine is in. Go to Level 3 for a month and then level 2.


  • #4708
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    Tyrone212 wrote: »
    Stephen Donnely on six one yesterday said our target has only been reduced from 1.2m to 1.1m . He was immediately corrected that the initial target was 1.7m.


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    I'm surprised Paddy Power aren't taking bets on who'll replace Donnelly yet

    He's easily the weakest "minister" in the entire country


  • #4709
    wadacrack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,172 ✭✭✭wadacrack


    Deleted User wrote: »
    600 cases is great, at least when compared to January; and it's only 0.012% of the population.

    Very low numbers, no matter how anyone else tries to interpret it as "high".

    We will always want it lower, so there's not much point arguing. If it were 300 for 4-days in a row, we'd be disappointed it wasn't 200 etc.

    Might as well accept that 600 is pretty good in the overall scheme of things / total population.

    Its not good tbh considering nursing homes and hospitals are not a problem anymore. Portugal had 600 today also. We started restrictions before them. The new variant is very difficult to contain


  • #4710
    Boggerman12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 130 ✭✭Boggerman12


    Doctor Jimbob wrote: »
    I don't have much time for either Martin or Varadkar but I truly cannot stand Martin in particular. He reminds me of the kind of teacher I couldn't stand in school - thinks he knows everything, condescending, and can't accept any form of criticism.

    Or just a typical useless career politician who somehow managed to become Taoiseach.


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  • #4711
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 707 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    ShineOn7 wrote: »
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    I'm surprised Paddy Power aren't taking bets on who'll replace Donnelly yet

    He's easily the weakest "minister" in the entire country

    I heard him on with Pat Kenny this morning..He is terrible!!!


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