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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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  • #6452
    crossman47
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,622 ✭✭✭crossman47


    Rebelbrowser wrote: »
    This "they" and "us" stuff is very hard to understand. Who are they? Who are us / we? They, as far as I can see, are people doing their very best (which on occasions isn't remotely good enough I accept) faced with a global pandemic - something no one alive has ever dealt with before. And they almost all have husbands / wives / kids / parents/ siblings doing all the same stuff / and facing all the same risks and challenges as the rest of us. So "they" are very much part of "us".

    Well said. These conspiracy theorists have lost the plot.


  • #6453
    Scuid Mhór
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,326 ✭✭✭Scuid Mhór


    prunudo wrote: »
    Unless they announce over 1000 cases I don't think anyone cares anymore. Its all background noise now.

    It's amazing watching national burnout in action. NPHET appear to have lost the people, as have the media and the government.


  • #6454
    Loafing Oaf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,650 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    pauldry wrote: »
    The government here thinks lockdowns cure all ales

    I'd say they've cut down alcohol consumption alright...


  • #6455
    goingnowhere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,515 ✭✭✭goingnowhere


    pauldry wrote: »
    The government here thinks lockdowns cure all ales so lets close everything and cancer might bugger off.

    Lockdown works, Christmas is a great study of what happens when you don't

    The current lockdown is nothing close to a proper lockdown and the unwillingness to enforce it robustly is why it is dragging on.


  • #6456
    timmyntc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,734 ✭✭✭timmyntc


    goingnowhere wrote: »
    Lockdown works, Christmas is a great study of what happens when you don't

    The current lockdown is nothing close to a proper lockdown and the unwillingness to enforce it robustly is why it is dragging on.

    Christmas is a great study of what happens when you lockdown needlessly and pent-up demand happens.

    Several countries locked down over christmas and saw a spike.
    Several countries didnt lock down over christmas and saw a spike.

    But only ireland with lockdowns in lead up to christmas, only to reopen weeks before so everyone had to do all christmas shopping & socialising in a 2 week window - only Ireland saw such a big spike. Is it any wonder. :rolleyes:


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  • #6457
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Marty Bird wrote: »
    The mean average age of death was 81.1 years while the median age was 84.0 years for all deaths due to COVID-19 in quarter 3 2020.


    Causes of death between June and September of last year


    Cancer the real scourge on humanity, pity we couldn’t wipe that out.

    That is on BionTech's list!


  • #6458
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Strip NPHET of their very well-paid positions and lock them down for 6-months.

    See how long they last before asking for restrictions to be lifted.
    Eh they all have day jobs anyway.


  • #6459
    Szero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 162 ✭✭Szero


    Now Scotland have a clear plan out of lockdown.

    When are we getting our plan? Is the expectation that we will get our plan in Early April? (I know construction is expected to resume on 5 April and personal services/gyms/hairdressers in Early to Mid May but there is a lack of any real detail beyond that).

    https://twitter.com/NicolaSturgeon/status/1371855196037517314


  • #6460
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Szero wrote: »
    Now Scotland have a clear plan out of lockdown.

    When are we getting our plan? Is the expectation that we will get our plan in Early April? (I know construction is expected to resume on 5 April and personal services/gyms/hairdressers in Early to Mid May but there is a lack of any real detail beyond that).

    https://twitter.com/NicolaSturgeon/status/1371855196037517314
    You'd expect indicators towards the end of next week but it's all down to the numbers so probably not confirmed until the end of the month, so the week after next.


  • #6461
    Normal One
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 355 ✭✭Normal One


    Swab numbers for today back on track

    https://twitter.com/COVID19DataIE/status/1371808978452287490?s=19


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  • #6462
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 12,836 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Szero wrote: »
    Now Scotland have a clear plan out of lockdown.

    When are we getting our plan? Is the expectation that we will get our plan in Early April? (I know construction is expected to resume on 5 April and personal services/gyms/hairdressers in Early to Mid May but there is a lack of any real detail beyond that).

    https://twitter.com/NicolaSturgeon/status/1371855196037517314

    This actually seems pretty slow considering where their vaccinations are at.

    E.g. From end of June 6 people from 3 households can socialise indoors. That's not great


  • #6463
    titan18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,071 ✭✭✭✭titan18


    Szero wrote: »
    Now Scotland have a clear plan out of lockdown.

    When are we getting our plan? Is the expectation that we will get our plan in Early April? (I know construction is expected to resume on 5 April and personal services/gyms/hairdressers in Early to Mid May but there is a lack of any real detail beyond that).

    https://twitter.com/NicolaSturgeon/status/1371855196037517314

    Wish I lived in Scotland.


  • #6464
    mollser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,168 ✭✭✭mollser


    Normal One wrote: »
    Swab numbers for today back on track

    https://twitter.com/COVID19DataIE/status/1371808978452287490?s=19

    They will be scratching down the back of the couch for cases tonight! Or announcing some future cases now also - pretty sure they've done before too:D


  • #6465
    blade1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,021 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    AdamD wrote: »
    This actually seems pretty slow considering where their vaccinations are at.

    E.g. From end of June 6 people from 3 households can socialise indoors. That's not great

    3 households in the one room would feel like a concert in the O2 at this stage.


  • #6466
    Martina1991
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,544 ✭✭✭Martina1991


    gctest50 wrote: »
    The mean average age of death was 81.1 years while the median age was 84.0 years for all deaths due to COVID-19 in quarter 3 2020.

    Causes of death between June and September of last year :
    Why did you just pick June to September?

    When cases, hospitalizations and deaths were at the lowest.

    Why ignore all other Covid-related deaths.

    fred funk }{ wrote: »
    The thing is, according to the Dept of Health, on average between 300-500 and it can be up to 1000 people die every Winter in Ireland from flu. This year ZERO. As a society we have accepted these deaths as normal but we eradicated it this winter. Should we do a lockdown every winter?

    We've had over 4,500 deaths WITH restrictions. Can you imagine how many more we'd have with no restrictions.

    Covid and flu are not comparable at all. Over a year into this and people are still trying to draw similarities with influenza. Unbelievable.


  • #6467
    GooglePlus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,010 ✭✭✭GooglePlus


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Strip NPHET of their very well-paid positions and lock them down for 6-months.

    See how long they last before asking for restrictions to be lifted.

    That's just silly now, come on.

    You know what happens when restrictions are lifted too much and too soon, so what alternatives do NPHET have when we don't have a vaccinated population.

    I get people are fed up but there needs to be some common sense here instead of emotionally fuelled nonsense.


  • #6468
    Timmy O Toole
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 348 ✭✭Timmy O Toole


    blade1 wrote: »
    3 households in the one room would feel like a concert in the O2 at this stage.

    3 households in 1 room while a few miles over down the road in England no restrictions at all. Best of luck with that Nicola.


  • #6469
    poppers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 711 ✭✭✭poppers


    blade1 wrote: »
    3 households in the one room would feel like a concert in the O2 at this stage.

    Id say by end of june our restrictions will be at least this.


  • #6470
    bb1234567
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    Why was that Irish Times article published about just a 4 month period? Seems very odd, like obviously COVID was not a major cause of death during the period when just 191 people died of it, by far the lowest period of transmission of the entire pandemic? LIke it's so just so weird, I don't understand why it was published at all, seems like a deliberate attempt at misleading almost, given it was the least newsworthy period of the pandemic, so much so that restrictions were almost not needed.


  • #6471
    muddypuppy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 322 ✭✭muddypuppy


    bb1234567 wrote: »
    Why was that Irish Times article published about just a 4 month period? Seems very odd, like obviously COVID was not a major cause of death during the period when just 191 people died of it, by far the lowest period of transmission of the entire pandemic? LIke it's so just so weird, I don't understand why it was published at all, seems like a deliberate attempt at misleading almost, given it was the least newsworthy period of the pandemic, so much so that restrictions were almost not needed.

    Because the CSO released their metric for Q3 2020 today. https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-vs/vitalstatisticsthirdquarter2020/


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  • #6472
    bb1234567
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    muddypuppy wrote: »
    Because the CSO released their metric for Q3 2020 today. https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-vs/vitalstatisticsthirdquarter2020/

    Ah I see! No big question mark then :pac:


  • #6473
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,686 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    GooglePlus wrote: »
    That's just silly now, come on.

    You know what happens when restrictions are lifted too much and too soon, so what alternatives do NPHET have when we don't have a vaccinated population.

    I get people are fed up but there needs to be some common sense here instead of emotionally fuelled nonsense.

    lift the 5km restriction immediately!

    It makes no sense at all. Especially now that the good weather has arrived. Stop cooping people up in small parks in Dublin, all on top of each other. Allow people disperse!!!


  • #6474
    GeorgeBailey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭GeorgeBailey


    Szero wrote: »
    Now Scotland have a clear plan out of lockdown.

    When are we getting our plan? Is the expectation that we will get our plan in Early April? (I know construction is expected to resume on 5 April and personal services/gyms/hairdressers in Early to Mid May but there is a lack of any real detail beyond that).

    https://twitter.com/NicolaSturgeon/status/1371855196037517314

    Weddings with 50 people at the end of April, but no alcohol. May as well just outright ban them really.


  • #6475
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 12,836 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    blade1 wrote: »
    3 households in the one room would feel like a concert in the O2 at this stage.

    In 3 and a half months time?

    They'll be doing well to have any adherence to that when their entire adult population has been offered a vaccine.


  • #6476
    Batattackrat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 222 ✭✭Batattackrat


    Gonna be some house parties across the country tonight. People are fed up.

    Pity ya can't go to a regulated environment like a pub with table service or even have outdoor events to be setup.

    But sure what can ya do. 300 or so in hospital out a population of 4,900,000.

    Its not like the vaccinations are not working or anything.

    Even a sense of hope of going back to Level 3 in April but the government treating us like fools.

    Protests should be interesting tomorrow!!!!


  • #6477
    bb1234567
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    Batattackrat wrote: »
    Gonna be some house parties across the country tonight. People are fed up.

    Pity ya can't go to a regulated environment like a pub with table service or even have outdoor events to be setup.

    But sure what can ya do. 300 or so in hospital out a population of 4,900,000.

    Its not like the vaccinations are not working or anything.

    Even a sense of hope of going back to Level 3 in April but the government treating us like fools.

    Protests should be interesting tomorrow!!!!

    Yes it will be interesting. Think it might get a bit spicy..especially with people drinking


  • #6478
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    349 cases, 18 deaths

    County breakdown

    https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1371880762228797443?s=19


  • #6479
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    349 seems low


  • #6480
    sonofenoch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,644 ✭✭✭sonofenoch


    Deleted User wrote: »
    lift the 5km restriction immediately!

    It makes no sense at all. Especially now that the good weather has arrived. Stop cooping people up in small parks in Dublin, all on top of each other. Allow people disperse!!!

    The checkpoints are a nonsense at this stage, out in force in Dublin yesterday again for some reason when they seemed to have been getting less and less in recent weeks .....(paddies maybe? whatever who cares) ...the one on the quays by Guinness's is a fking joke at this stage, the tailbacks caused and they most likely just wave everyone through most of the time, wasting everyones time


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  • #6481
    hynesie08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,592 ✭✭✭✭hynesie08


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    349 cases, 18 deaths

    County breakdown

    https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1371880762228797443?s=19

    But the evil government and NPHET have been holding back numbers to scare us for having a can on patricks day!!!


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