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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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  • #6692
    Tork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,699 ✭✭✭Tork


    Monster249 wrote: »
    That's not good enough anymore, can't just pass the book, that's 9k vaccines across two days, unacceptable.

    They can't administer what they don't have. My parents were booked in for their first vaccinations this week. The GP practice made contact with them last week to cancel. The same thing has happened to other people I know/know of. Even the UK, which had been going gangbusters, is facing into a shortage in the near future. Truth is, the manufacturers can't make these vaccines fast enough.

    If we find the HSE makes a balls of the vaccination program once a larger number of these come into the country, then it'll be time to give out. For now, I reserve judgement.


  • #6693
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,669 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    Why are we getting a MM speech?

    He sounds downhearted


  • #6694
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,775 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    Why are we getting a MM speech?

    He sounds downhearted

    Martin wanted the full-blown Taoiseach experience, and that meant handing over a bowl of weeds to a US president that has to pretend to care about the day.

    Internally, Martin is absolutely devastated he's not in the US right now.

    His cardiac fibers are tearing themselves asunder as we speak.


  • #6695
    jojofizzio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,321 ✭✭✭jojofizzio


    Wolf359f wrote: »
    We're still going with 3-4 weeks for moderna/Pfizer and 12 weeks for AZ. Nothing has changed, that was always the plan/schedule.

    Well okay,point is that the UK’s second dose of Pfizer is up to 12 weeks after first,so the “numbers vaccinated” stat is proportionally higher than here,as we were predominantly using Pfizer only up to recently (and delivering second dose within a month)....if we had done as the UK are doing our “numbers vaccinated” would be substantially higher...


  • #6696
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,578 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Martin wanted the full-blown Taoiseach experience, and that meant handing over a bowl of weeds to a US president that has to pretend to care about the day.

    Internally, Martin is absolutely devastated he's not in the US right now.

    His cardiac fibers are tearing themselves asunder as we speak.

    Amazing insight into the psyche of somebody you have never met.


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  • #6697
    corcaigh07
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,993 ✭✭✭corcaigh07


    Rebelbrowser wrote: »
    58 cases in Kildare with a population of 230k. Cork has a population of 570k. Pro rata, Cork should have ca. 143 cases to match Kildare today. It had 10 cases. So pro rata 14 times more cases in Kildare today than Cork. Easy for me to say but time for regional rules.

    And again, very low despite the fact there was a protest 11 days ago, was built up as a super spreader event at the time, Covidiots, etc.


  • #6698
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,055 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Slight sidenote, but what a ghastly phrase.
    I like it. There are plenty more ghastly turns of phrase on these threads..




    And Jesus wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer :)


  • #6699
    hynesie08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,582 ✭✭✭✭hynesie08


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    Why are we getting a MM speech?

    He sounds downhearted

    Why is the Taoiseach addressing the nation on the national holiday?


  • #6700
    mightyreds
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,935 ✭✭✭mightyreds


    rob316 wrote: »
    Time for regional restrictions, pretty much all of munster could be in level 3/4

    Regional lockdowns or actually any sort of plan, kildare, meath are troublesome ramp up contact tracing, follow up on people staying put during their isolation anything.
    No tell them to hold firm that will do it. Contract tracing has collapsed in kildare the figures aren't that high for that to happen.


  • #6701
    Bubbaclaus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,460 ✭✭✭Bubbaclaus


    Jim_Hodge wrote: »
    Amazing insight into the psyche of somebody you have never met.

    Maybe he could write him an email with the insight.


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  • #6702
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,578 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    Bubbaclaus wrote: »
    Maybe he could write him an email with the insight.

    And actually put his name to his beliefs? Highly unlikely. Easier to take shots at him from a safe distance.


  • #6703
    Conall Cernach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,993 ✭✭✭Conall Cernach


    Ficheall wrote: »
    I like it. There are plenty more ghastly turns of phrase on these threads..




    And Jesus wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer :)
    Alexander surely.


  • #6704
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,055 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    Conall Cernach wrote: »
    Alexander surely.
    If you prefer accuracy to amusing me, then yes, absolutely.


  • #6705
    Danzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,242 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    Jim_Hodge wrote: »
    And actually put his name to his beliefs? Highly unlikely. Easier to take shots at him from a safe distance.

    I'd love if someone took a shot up close at MM, as wretched a man as he is, he is dealing with a crap hand.


  • #6706
    blowitupref
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭blowitupref


    7-day average in reported deaths is 10 it was 20 per day average last Wednesday. Of the 71 reported deaths in the last 7 days 39 occurred in March.

    On cases 219 more this week compared to last week from 1,264 extra tests carried out.


  • #6707
    feelings
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 747 ✭✭✭feelings


    Our local village was jammed today. Large groups of 15-30 year olds with no social distancing, no masks. If that was replicated throughout the country, we're going to see a big jump in positive cases in a few days.


  • #6708
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,775 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    feelings wrote: »
    Our local village was jammed today. Large groups of 15-30 year olds with no social distancing, no masks. If that was replicated throughout the country, we're going to see a big jump in positive cases in a few days.

    There are 300-500 cases a day with 5 million people.

    I doubt there'll be an enormous swing in new cases.

    Our existing cases are pretty low as it is.


  • #6709
    Rosita
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,147 ✭✭✭Rosita


    The weekly cases gave gone up for the first time since January so the momentum has turned. Could be a far worse situation by the end of the month alright.


  • #6710
    Rosita
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,147 ✭✭✭Rosita


    Deleted User wrote: »
    There are 300-500 cases a day with 5 million people.

    I doubt there'll be an enormous swing in new cases.

    Our existing cases are pretty low as it is.

    Not sure why you are mentioning the population. It's not like that's a variable.


  • #6711
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,578 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    Deleted User wrote: »
    There are 300-500 cases a day with 5 million people.

    I doubt there'll be an enormous swing in new cases.

    Our existing cases are pretty low as it is.

    How times change and memories shorten. 500 a day is not low considering the length of the restriction or otherwise.


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  • #6712
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,775 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Jim_Hodge wrote: »
    How times change and memories shorten. 500 a day is not low considering the length of the restriction or otherwise.

    It's absolutely low.

    There are many European countries that, without any kind of Lv. 5 lockdown, maintained the equivalent of 1,000 - 3,000 cases a day over a 6-month period.

    This idea that 500 is "high" is absurd.

    High and low depend on how the population behaves.


  • #6713
    tom1ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,604 ✭✭✭✭tom1ie


    So cases go up, does that automatically mean hospital admissions go up? Depends on age demographics I suppose.
    We are stuck in this lockdown until vaccines hit a certain percentage.
    (Not sure what that percentage is as the government haven’t told us)


  • #6714
    Danzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,242 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    God be with the days when we peeded our pants at 500 a day. Now, about 3 months in, it's a breeze. I'm not thinking in that terms.

    Not mad busy but there are a lot of gatherings tonight.

    Hopefully it'll not lead to too high a jump.


  • #6715
    Rosita
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,147 ✭✭✭Rosita


    tom1ie wrote: »
    So cases go up, does that automatically mean hospital admissions go up? Depends on age demographics I suppose.

    Almost certainly. The extent to which they'd go up is another matter.


  • #6716
    Danzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,242 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    It's absolutely low.

    There are many European countries that, without any kind of Lv. 5 lockdown, maintained the equivalent of 1,000 - 3,000 cases a day over a 6-month period.

    This idea that 500 is "high" is absurd.

    High and low depend on how the population behaves.

    Yet the compliance here was beyond the imagination of most European countries.


  • #6717
    titan18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,071 ✭✭✭✭titan18


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    It's absolutely low.

    There are many European countries that, without any kind of Lv. 5 lockdown, maintained the equivalent of 1,000 - 3,000 cases a day over a 6-month period.

    This idea that 500 is "high" is absurd.

    High and low depend on how the population behaves.

    Tbf considering we've been locked down for nearly 3 months now, it's still quite high. There are some counties with the same incidence rate as they were at back in January, which is absolutely ridiculous at this stage.

    Nearly every county should be down to Cork/Kerry incidence rates after this length.


  • #6718
    tom1ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,604 ✭✭✭✭tom1ie


    Rosita wrote: »
    Almost certainly. The extent to which they'd go up is another matter.

    So what’s the %? Does 509 extra cases mean 80 extra cases in hospital? At this stage I presume we’ve established a correlation.


  • #6719
    Curious_Case
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭Curious_Case


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Internally, Martin is absolutely devastated he's not in the US right now.

    His cardiac fibers are tearing themselves asunder as we speak.

    "I read you loud and clear Bones, so you're saying that the engine, so to speak, of his cardio-vascular system has had it's hull integrity compromised?
    Dammit Bones, there must be some way we can restore normal functioning of his heart"?

    "Heart Jim? I think you may have misunderstood me; politicians have no hearts, or brains, that's why we thought we were just scanning a strange shaped rock"


  • #6720
    tom1ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,604 ✭✭✭✭tom1ie


    Curious_Case wrote: »
    "I read you loud and clear Bones, so you're saying that the engine, so to speak, of his cardio-vascular system has had it's hull integrity compromised?
    Dammit Bones, there must be some way we can restore normal functioning of his heart"?

    "Heart Jim, I think you may have misunderstood; politicians have no hearts, or brains, that's why we thought we were just scanning a strange shaped rock"

    Lol!! KHHAAAANNNNN!!!!!!!


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  • #6721
    Rosita
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,147 ✭✭✭Rosita


    Jim_Hodge wrote: »
    How times change and memories shorten. 500 a day is not low considering the length of the restriction or otherwise.

    Yeah, it was said recently that but for the B117 variant we should be at less than 50 cases now. The inability to get lower than 500 and the fact that cases have actually risen in the last week despite what you'd assume would be an accumulated benefit after so long at level 5 suggests that Philip Nolan might not be as misguided as some want to believe. Situation delicate enough right now I'd say.


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