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

titan18 wrote: »

Tbf, it's also 6 people in the video. Who knows if there's more than that in the pub, as they clearly don't give a damn about the restrictions

See some other videos doing the rounds. This is a regular thing it seems. But sure God bless them they are fed up, why not have a Sunday night party and rub it everyone's faces on social media.

quokula wrote: »

It's true that it's nature's virus, but it's also true that the UK's failure to lockdown adequately or control the virus in any way turned the country into a massive petri dish that allowed the virus ample opportunity to mutate.

It's no coincidence that two of the most problematic variants in the world have come from the UK and Brazil, the two countries with the absolute worst handling of the pandemic of all major nations on earth.

Why is it acceptable to associate these variants with their place of origin but not the original strain?

Happydays2020 wrote: »

I think the train has left the station on that one and i really don’t appreciate being called a racist about it. The British variant, the South African variant, the Brazilian Variant the Californian variant. Used by multiple commentators and indeed experts and advisors. I am not someone who has called for borders to be closed.

First of all I didn't I call you a racist . I referred deliberately to the term 'quasi-racist'. Can you not appreciate the nuance ?

Second of all- you chose to use gratuitous terms like 'their nasty' variant -
what 's the point in adding superfluous irrelevant words like that ?

boardise wrote: »

First of all I didn't I call you a racist . I referred deliberately to the term 'quasi-racist'. Can you not appreciate the nuance ?

Second of all- you chose to use gratuitous terms like 'their nasty' variant -
what 's the point in adding superfluous irrelevant words like that ?

bit like 'quasi-pregnant', not sure there is much nuance there.

Deleted User wrote: »

If the intention is to smear an entire people based on the location where a variant was identified - not knowing its absolute origin of source, then there is a racial dimension to these kinds of comment.

Referring to it as the "English variant" that they unleashed on the rest of us implies some degree of collective national responsibility.

Here is what another poster said:

Very anglophobic of them.

seamus wrote: »

You can see this still a nice linear drop. 315-335 should be the number this day next week, but still can't rule out a plateau of sorts. Averaged 25 admissions/day last week.

It looks like we've turned a corner of sorts. Not a good one, but not a terrible one. Average weekly admissions today are 22, which is still slightly down, but dropping very slowly. It might be 20/21 this day next week.

For the first time in a good while, hospital numbers are larger than expected at the start of the week. 360 today. It's still a drop, discharges are on average still beating admissions. So we should continue to see hospital numbers dropping, but a good bit slower than they have been thus far.

Weekly drops;
25th - 30th: Down 454 (23%)
Feb 2nd - 6th: Down 330 (21.6%)
9th - 13th: Down 314 (26%)
15th - 20th: Down 197 (21.5%)
22nd- 27th: Down 196 (26%)
Mar 1st - 6th: Down 140 (25%)
Mar 8th - 13th: Down 83 (19.6%)

I wouldn't be confident at this stage of 200 by Easter. I think right now any projection beyond next week is fraught because we may have hit a bit of an inflection point.

If we're under 300 this day next week, we should be happy. We should also have a better indicator of what way the trends are going.

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ICU is still looking OK, solid downward trend continuing. But then ICU lags behind by 10-14 days anyway.

Number of deaths in ICU is down considerably this week. Looks like 8 this week compared to 18 the previous week, and 30 the week before that.

At this stage, it's all eyes on ICU I think. With cases and hospital numbers beginning to plateau, the key metric will be whether this translates to ICU numbers or whether the vaccination programme is making a difference.

GP figures out (for Friday) and decent enough. Slightly up on Thursday (which was the best figure so far in 2021) but still down on the previous Friday and a slight general downward trend still visible.

Presumably these figures should be the canary in the mine for any sudden growth in the virus.

Rebelbrowser wrote: »

GP figures out (for Friday) and decent enough. Slightly up on Thursday (which was the best figure so far in 2021) but still down on the previous Friday and a slight general downward trend still visible.

Presumably these figures should be the canary in the mine for any sudden growth in the virus.

I might be mistaken, but didn't NPHET say that they've seen an increase in GP referrals in one of the last briefings? I wonder why we don't see it in the data from GPBuddy - I guess that's a volunteer based system, but i would expect to see an increase anyway.

bb1234567 wrote: »

Some of the most staunch anti vaxxers I know of, not just COVID but vaccines in general, are nurses and nursing home carers. It's very odd, you'd wonder how that happens and why they'd choose to enter employment in healthcare systems they have always had such clear distrust of and who's intentions they consider malicious and nefarious.

Big pharma doesn't exactly have a great track record.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_pharmaceutical_settlements

I'd warrant there are a subset of medical professionals who are in the job to help and care for others but who also have a distrust when it comes to pharmaceutical companies.

[Deleted User] wrote: »

EUROPEAN UPDATE

Europe is being convulsed by a third wave, which appears to be principally driven by the variant identified in Kent (B117).

Changes in cases over the past 2-weeks

ITALY - up 50% (with 54% being the UK variant)

FRANCE - up 1% (with 65.3% being the UK variant)

GERMANY - up 9% (with 46.1% being the UK variant)

NETHERLANDS - up 3%

SWEDEN - up 6%

ESTONIA - up 58%

POLAND - up 63%

AUSTRIA - up 63%

HUNGARY - up 108%

SERBIA - up 29%

GREECE - up 48%

The Iberian peninsula has, however, experienced a decline in cases over the past 2-weeks:

SPAIN - down 33%

PORTUGAL - down 49%

The UK has experienced a drop of a third in cases over the past 2-weeks.

Czech Republic has had to send some patients to Poland due to saturation of critical care capacity.

...and this is likely to get worse across the continent before it gets better.

Can you add the actual numbers instead of percentages please? Very vague post , are you purposely trying to frighten us

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2021/3/15/unthinkable-eu-considers-russias-sputnik-v-vaccine

From Russia with love, everyone!

seamus wrote: »

I wouldn't be confident at this stage of 200 by Easter. I think right now any projection beyond next week is fraught because we may have hit a bit of an inflection point.

If we're under 300 this day next week, we should be happy. We should also have a better indicator of what way the trends are going.

Would it not be reasonable enough to assume that we will probably never see anything below 250-300 cases? Especially with schools opening fully, construction half open, some workers back in the office, and the likely 5km limit, click & collect, and construction opening back up. Not to mention the fact that a lot of people are sick of the restrictions

ek motor wrote: »

Would be humiliating for the EU politically , but Europe can do with all the vaccines it can get right now

At this stage the EU needs to stop grandstanding and eat some humble pie. Their citizens are suffering.