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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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  • #6542
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,590 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    paddyisreal wrote: »
    Ah stop ffs, lol. Ignore

    Serious question. What was missing from the press conference that would have given balance?


  • #6543
    FintanMcluskey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,812 ✭✭✭FintanMcluskey


    Jim_Hodge wrote: »
    Serious question. What was missing from the press conference that would have given balance?

    At this stage it’s been so one sided Gemma O Doherty would be needed to balance it out


  • #6544
    hynesie08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,582 ✭✭✭✭hynesie08


    FintanMcluskey wrote: »
    At this stage it’s been so one sided Gemma O Doherty would be needed to balance it out

    It was a report on increase in family transmission with a story of family transmission. The balance would be a story of families meeting up an not getting it....


  • #6545
    Cluedo Monopoly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 12,813 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    I actually think Paddys Day should be a Covid free day. No Covid news/coverage
    on the TV/radio, no HSE press conferenes, no Covid numbers etc etc.

    And no bloody Tubridy either!

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  • #6546
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    Happydays2020 wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/xruiztru/status/1371814003715014656?s=21


    Beautiful to see our eventual future

    "Eventual" being the word :pac:

    But we'll get there

    Great vid


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  • #6547
    CIARAN_BOYLE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,595 ✭✭✭✭CIARAN_BOYLE


    Cluedo Monopoly wrote: »
    I actually think Paddys Day should be a Covid free day. No Covid news/coverage
    on the TV/radio, no HSE press conferenes, no Covid numbers etc etc.

    And no bloody Tubridy either!

    Turn it off.

    Its on you to choose what media you consume.


  • #6548
    paddyisreal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭paddyisreal


    FintanMcluskey wrote: »
    At this stage it’s been so one sided Gemma O Doherty would be needed to balance it out

    Lol, balance would consist of a report without the mention of the word fear, killer virus, very concerning etc etc.. Its tabloid over the top scare mongering bull**** every morning, noon and night. There is some balance on newstalk but rté is a joke right now.


  • #6549
    cheezums
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 719 ✭✭✭cheezums


    how cringey is RTE going to be tommorow?

    "a patrick's day like no other"
    "the further apart we are, the closer together"
    "here's some lad on zoom with a leprechaun costume"

    etc etc


  • #6550
    wadacrack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,172 ✭✭✭wadacrack


    Germany struggling to contain the virus

    https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1371938343433469955


  • #6551
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,590 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    paddyisreal wrote: »
    Lol, balance would consist of a report without the mention of the word fear, killer virus, very concerning etc etc.. Its tabloid over the top scare mongering bull**** every morning, noon and night. There is some balance on newstalk but rté is a joke right now.

    You know, I hear, watch and read the news every day and I'm not being scared by it. If you know it's BS why does it scare you? Are you projecting on to the general public or what?

    Or you could pick and choose what media outlet you use perhaps.

    Stick to Newstalk if it helps you sleep better.


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  • #6552
    FintanMcluskey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,812 ✭✭✭FintanMcluskey


    CIARAN_BOYLE wrote: »
    Turn it off.

    Its on you to choose what media you consume.

    The taxpayers contributes to RTE as well as the licence payer

    Turn it off doesn’t cut it, it’s affecting a lot of people watching paying for the consistent delivery of pessimism


  • #6553
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    Doctor Jimbob wrote: »
    The lad on zoom is Ryan Tubridy.

    He introduces Nathan Carter, who performs a song about the importance of staying apart.

    Halfway through, it becomes a duet with Sam McConkey.


    z2CvR6.gif



    Brilliant

    And then - for no reason whatsoever - Luke O'Neill appears in a giant bubble again, smiling manically

    luke-bubbke.jpg?strip=all&w=960


  • #6554
    Cork2021
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,463 ✭✭✭Cork2021


    Jaysus that Louise Byrne one on prime time is painful! Awful presenter


  • #6555
    TheDoctor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,983 ✭✭✭TheDoctor


    Hospital numbers at 8pm

    Total 349 (up from 336 last night)
    ICU 85 (no change)

    Last Tuesday
    Total 371
    ICU 93


  • #6556
    TheDoctor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,983 ✭✭✭TheDoctor


    Doctor Jimbob wrote: »
    The lad on zoom is Ryan Tubridy.

    He introduces Nathan Carter, who performs a song about the importance of staying apart.

    Halfway through, it becomes a duet with Sam McConkey.

    What sort of hell is this?????


  • #6557
    Happydays2020
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭Happydays2020


    TheDoctor wrote: »
    Hospital numbers at 8pm

    Total 349 (up from 336 last night)
    ICU 85 (no change)

    Last Tuesday
    Total 371
    ICU 93

    Anything with lack of discharges with SPD?


  • #6558
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,590 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    Latest figures show that 1,842 tests for Covid-19 were carried out in 108 schools in the seven days from 7-13 March.

    According to the Health Service Executive report, the number of detected cases of the virus in that period across all schools was 44, representing a positivity rate of 2.4%.

    Reasonable positivity figure.


  • #6559
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    Happydays2020 wrote: »
    Anything with lack of discharges with SPD?


    Good point actually

    Tomorrow is pretty much a Sunday in hospital administration terms too


  • #6560
    Goldengirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,247 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    ShineOn7 wrote: »
    Good point actually

    Tomorrow is pretty much a Sunday in hospital administration terms too

    More non Covid patients being admitted now .
    You can see it reflected in available bed numbers although Covid numbers in hospital pretty static.

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  • #6561
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    Goldengirl wrote: »
    More non Covid patients being admitted now .
    You can see it reflected in available bed numbers although Covid numbers in hospital pretty static.


    On the upside GG, your A&E department won't be full of drunken injuries tomorrow, compared to 2019 and before


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  • #6562
    Wolf359f
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,682 ✭✭✭Wolf359f


    ShineOn7 wrote: »
    Good point actually

    Tomorrow is pretty much a Sunday in hospital administration terms too

    Sunday and Mondays have the lowest discharges, so I'd have expected the 8pm figure to drop today and increase tomorrow, before finally dropping again Thursday?
    Today is a normal day in hospital, why wouldn't they be discharging as normal?


  • #6563
    Goldengirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,247 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    ShineOn7 wrote: »
    On the upside GG, your A&E department won't be full of drunken injuries tomorrow, compared to 2019 and before

    Always a silver lining ;)

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  • #6564
    Polar101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,136 ✭✭✭Polar101


    FintanMcluskey wrote: »

    Turn it off doesn’t cut it, it’s affecting a lot of people watching paying for the consistent delivery of pessimism

    I don't really watch TV myself, but I keep reading constant reports about RTE in here - not sure why everything negative on RTE is always reported here.


  • #6565
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 78,496 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    A number of off-topic posts removed

    Please attempt to include some narrative that is relevant to this pandemic


  • #6566
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92,394 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Happy St. Patrick's Day, Enjoy and Stay Safe


  • #6567
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    FintanMcluskey wrote: »
    The taxpayers contributes to RTE as well as the licence payer

    Turn it off doesn’t cut it, it’s affecting a lot of people watching paying for the consistent delivery of pessimism

    Sounds worthy of it's own thread. RTE has been ****e since before the pandemic. It's been unwatchable for decades, glad people are cottoning on.

    I heard on newstalk that some head the balls are organising a protest outside RTE in donnybrook today. Sounds like somewhere you could meet some like minded souls who feel passionately about making TV better for all.

    I personally change the channel when confronted with some RTE sh!te I don't like but each to their own.


  • #6568
    Golfman64
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 314 ✭✭Golfman64


    And in the least surprising news of all time - Preparations for AstraZeneca vaccinations to resume amid optimism on safety clearance
    via The Irish Times
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/preparations-for-astrazeneca-vaccinations-to-resume-amid-optimism-on-safety-clearance-1.4512324

    Perhaps NPHET will ask for a further delay to check that the unseasonably warm St Patrick’s Day hasn’t been caused by the AstraZeneca vaccine?...I mean it’s better to be extra cautious right?


  • #6569
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 78,496 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    caveat emptor wrote: »
    Sounds worthy of it's own thread.
    There is one

    And there is another

    But we do not want another discussing the licence fee - there are a number in CA that have addressed that


  • #6570
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 41,888 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    caveat emptor wrote:
    I heard on newstalk that some head the balls are organising a protest outside RTE in donnybrook today. Sounds like somewhere you could meet some like minded souls who feel passionately about making TV better for all.
    Newstalk are crap too, in fact all Irish media is agenda driven drivel.
    George Hook was the last great show on Irish radio.


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  • #6571
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,590 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    Golfman64 wrote: »
    And in the least surprising news of all time - Preparations for AstraZeneca vaccinations to resume amid optimism on safety clearance
    via The Irish Times
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/preparations-for-astrazeneca-vaccinations-to-resume-amid-optimism-on-safety-clearance-1.4512324

    Perhaps NPHET will ask for a further delay to check that the unseasonably warm St Patrick’s Day hasn’t been caused by the AstraZeneca vaccine?...I mean it’s better to be extra cautious right?

    Hardly. As this isn't under NPHET.


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