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

titan18 wrote: »

And we all suffer cos the government are too cowardly to enforce people not going back into the office. WFH should be mandatory if you can (and most can) and companies fined if they bring people in.

Is not WFH causing the latest increases of incidents?

Yes, I do notice an increase of people returning to offices. However, in most cases it to either an empty office or nearly empty one.
The other issue is that a lot of work got put off in early January with the expectation that restrictions would be lifted in February or March. With the latest guidance that it could be May or June, companies can no longer put things on the long finger so more people have reason to return to the office (all be it on a part time basis)

Really need to get to the bottom of the latest increases. The GP referral data and Ronan Glynn's comments about an increase in GP referrals don't match. SOmething is up!

fits wrote: »

We actually haven’t really. The rate of decrease has slowed down but the trend was always downwards. It’s not in recent days.

Just going by swabs, we've 4 days of pretty level swabs. Back on 23rd of Feb we had 4 days of increasing swabs followed by a rapid 4 day decline. That's what I'm hoping to happen again. Could be wishful thinking.

mloc123 wrote: »

Was my thought also... People could manage another "few weeks" but that week of leaks where the talk was another 2 months, was a step too far.

Yeh the lost the people with that . Many People threw in the towel and said F that

titan18 wrote: »

Lovely for everyone out of work then. We can't enforce our existing restrictions so all of ye have to suffer when you're doing nothing wrong.

Breaking restrictions needs to be proven and there is no actual legal way to do that. You'd be amazed how many IT people companies have! So, are these people going to be added to the blame list next week?

titan18 wrote: »

Unless you're doing physical hardware maintenance, no reason for any person working in IT to be on-site tbh.

Not true at all, some work just cannot be done off-site and they are classified as essential workers.

titan18 wrote: »

Examples then. I work in IT and the only people in the department who go in are if they need to do something to physical hardware so that's really only systems teams or help desk. No one in SD, testing, data roles, BAs, PMs should be in.

I know some who do in development. I don't ask them why, I accept that they need to go in. TBH this is really more about your need to blame people.

is_that_so wrote: »

I know some who do in development. I don't ask them why, I accept that they need to go in. TBH this is really more about your need to blame people.

Tbh, no one in software development is unable to work from home so they or their employer is just taking the piss. Restrictions are there so people should stick to them. People ignoring them (and Id love to myself) just result in others being unable to work and all of us suffering with things closed.

iamwhoiam wrote: »

Yeh the lost the people with that . Many People threw in the towel and said F that

Totally correct you have to give people some hope. Why they cant provide metrics like every other country is beyond me.

wadacrack wrote: »

By next week their could be a big gap in the incidence rate in alot of counties. Incidence still dropping in many and escalating in others. Strange situation , I dont think theirs been such a large gap as this in previous wave's. The context of the cases would be a help. Telling people in Leitrim and Longford to live the same way seems to be a limited approach.

https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1370788026444619778

Kildare and Meath featuring in the top counties for daily cases again.

Questions need to be asked at the next press conference regarding outbreaks in these counties. Something is clearly happening

Sweet.Science wrote: »

Chickens coming home to roost now for our useless politicians .

Construction won't even be able to open april 5th if they are going by cases numbers

Serious consequences for everyone going forward .

Doubt it's the politicians that are spreading it.
There is lockdown in name only. The roads are thick with cars and the supermarkets jammed.
Serious amount of people on the move. Mothers day tomorrow will be another problem.

wadacrack wrote: »

By next week their could be a big gap in the incidence rate in alot of counties. Incidence still dropping in many and escalating in others. Strange situation , I dont think theirs been such a large gap as this in previous wave's. The context of the cases would be a help. Telling people in Leitrim and Longford to live the same way seems to be a limited approach.

https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1370788026444619778

Was it Gavin Reilly who use to do color codes charts of counties cases over the last 14 days? We need to see that again.

I hate to say it, but there's some counties that could really move to level 4 or better come April. Remove the 5km limit and keep travel to within counties. Let some have a way out and those still lockdown can then see a way out. Would be a good way to test the waters on when stuff reopens. Easier to lockdown said counties again if it goes tits up.

I think it’s time to look at regional lockdowns again, we could have county competitions to who has the lowest numbers ��

titan18 wrote: »

Yup, if everyone was progressing like Cork, Kerry etc wed be in a lot better place but some countries it just isn't going down in.

Didn't I read today that Cork and Kerry have 25% of all fines for breaching restrictions.

I guess enforcement is helping.

Wolf359f wrote: »

Was it Gavin Reilly who use to do color codes charts of counties cases over the last 14 days? We need to see that again.

I hate to say it, but there's some counties that could really move to level 4 or better come April. Remove the 5km limit and keep travel to within counties. Let some have a way out and those still lockdown can then see a way out. Would be a good way to test the waters on when stuff reopens. Easier to lockdown said counties again if it goes tits up.

This one ?

https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1370790376534118410?s=19

aziz wrote: »

I think it’s time to look at regional lockdowns again, we could have county competitions to who has the lowest numbers ��

The government seem to be reluctant to go down this route again but I wonder is this also causing a slipping in adherence to the rules. Why would you bother being a good citizen in your county of 0-5 daily cases when you're treated the same as someone in a county of 50-100 cases (obviously taking population differences into account).