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

mloc123 · 22-03-2021 02:50PM

So what is the solution to level 5 restrictions no longer working? 2 more months of level 5 restrictions....

I wonder at any point will they consider a different approach.

Theboinkmaster · 22-03-2021 02:51PM

paddyisreal wrote: »

They will rise this week, the preparation is been laid down in the media by the nphet lads already for the shock we are all going to experience in the next few days.

We shall see, they may not go up much.

If we rise to average 800 cases a day with still 350 in hospital it'll be grand.

KrustyUCC · 22-03-2021 02:52PM

mloc123 wrote: »

So what is the solution to level 5 restrictions no longer working? 2 more months of level 5 restrictions....

I wonder at any point will they consider a different approach.

Nah as lockdown is their only solution

Theboinkmaster · 22-03-2021 02:52PM

mloc123 wrote: »

So what is the solution to level 5 restrictions no longer working? 2 more months of level 5 restrictions....

I wonder at any point will they consider a different approach.

I'm shocked nobody has pushed government/NPHET on plan B.

What's your plan if level 5 does not work?

Maybe it did work and 500-800 cases a day and 300 in hospital is as good as it gets - job done, move onto level 4 now...

MD1990 · 22-03-2021 02:54PM

things are looking bad.
Bringing back even more school children.

I can see us having well over 100 cases a day in 2-3 weeks.
Surely wont be a rise like in December/Jan but things are not looking good.

MrMusician18 · 22-03-2021 02:55PM

iamwhoiam wrote: »

Have you any evidence of that ? Anyone I know is quite happy to meet outdoors and stay out there .

How people behaved would Christmas was a good example of people taking liberties and "assessing their own risk".

The Shure what harm, be grand attitude will strike again.

billyhead · 22-03-2021 02:56PM

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

Stephen Donnelly is currently flat out searching for a rug to sweep this under.

Where is he anyway. We haven't heard much from him lately.

TobyHolmes · 22-03-2021 02:57PM

so could I just have a symbolic wedding blessing in a backyard with 4 guests? that would be allowed under current guidelines?

billyhead · 22-03-2021 02:59PM

covidrelease wrote: »

Schools back, Paddys day, cheltenham, vaccine farce, people mixing more, general apathy, increases across Europe, hard to see us not hitting 1000 a day next week IMO.

Do you honestly believe the numbers posted each evening. I don't. Call me cynical if you like but I think the latest figures are to put the frighteners on people with Easter approaching not that some people care about restrictions anyway.

covidrelease · 22-03-2021 02:59PM

MrMusician18 wrote: »

How people behaved would Christmas was a good example of people taking liberties and "assessing their own risk".

The Shure what harm, be grand attitude will strike again.

Not really, it was bad management more than anything, they shut absolutely everything and then told people make the most of the few weeks in December as there will probably be a shutdown again in January so people went mental.

22-03-2021 02:59PM

billyhead wrote: »

Where is he anyway. We haven't heard much from him lately.

Stephen..today is a good day...donnelly..:rolleyes:

NIMAN · 22-03-2021 02:59PM

mloc123 wrote: »

So what is the solution to level 5 restrictions no longer working? 2 more months of level 5 restrictions....

I wonder at any point will they consider a different approach.

Maybe they need to go to Level 6?

It's starting to remind you of that saying about doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, isn't it?

Mwengwe · 22-03-2021 03:00PM

Asylum15 wrote: »

A family member of mine recently booked a holiday to Lanzarote from Dublin and drove from Cork to Dublin, spent a week there and then returned to Cork. (We are all furious with said person). However, she was not stopped once at a checkpoint either way and did not get a single fine.

Then last week I drove from Cork City to Fermoy to deliver crucial meds to my aunt (diabetic, doesn't drive) and was stopped by a Garda who absolutely smashed the ears off me and handed me a nice fine.

It's this type of stuff makes me wonder.

There is no way they fined you if you'd explained that to them? Hope you're not paying the fine.

paddyisreal · 22-03-2021 03:02PM

Theboinkmaster wrote: »

I'm shocked nobody has pushed government/NPHET on plan B.

What's your plan if level 5 does not work?

Maybe it did work and 500-800 cases a day and 300 in hospital is as good as it gets - job done, move onto level 4 now...

That would be good reporting/journalism something that has been sadly missing for the last year.

Mwengwe · 22-03-2021 03:05PM

Strumms wrote: »

If you had the meds with either prescription or receipt that’s a bit crap of them.

It's crap of them either way, people shouldn't need to be worrying about documentation/proof when they have enough to worry about. Nowhere in the guidelines does it say you need to have 'valid prescriptions' or anything like that.
Just a clown on a power trip.

rob316 · 22-03-2021 03:05PM

Theboinkmaster wrote: »

I'm shocked nobody has pushed government/NPHET on plan B.

What's your plan if level 5 does not work?

Maybe it did work and 500-800 cases a day and 300 in hospital is as good as it gets - job done, move onto level 4 now...

It did work and it won't go any further down, but NPHET seem to think they can get to under 100 cases a day. Its fantasy stuff.

Government call this living with covid, its more like existing with COVID as there is little living happening.

Tyrone212 · 22-03-2021 03:09PM

87 cases in NI today. There was 67 in Donegal yesterday. Says it all.

Eod100 · 22-03-2021 03:10PM

Good to see. Will be 80 next month. https://twitter.com/SeanDefoe/status/1373999255971622913?s=19

Eod100 · 22-03-2021 03:13PM

Tyrone212 wrote: »

87 cases in NI today. There was 67 in Donegal yesterday. Says it all.

Vaccinations making big difference. If NI finishes vaccinations wonder would people living in border counties be prioritised for vaccines? For relatively small number of vaccines could help NI.

rob316 · 22-03-2021 03:13PM

And the lack of any dates for reopening, gives no one any hope so people are like "**** it I'm not wasting anymore of my life".

Literally how hard is it to say if the disease has X profile on 5th April, X can open. If not we will review again in 7 days.

No one has any appetite for this ****e any longer. I can see the sentiment across social media has changed drastically over the last 3 months too.

22-03-2021 03:14PM

Tyrone212 wrote: »

87 cases in NI today. There was 67 in Donegal yesterday. Says it all.

NI are streets ahead in the vaccination programme, and this is reflected by declining cases. Meanwhile, our government are still fumbling around in the dark for a can to kick down the road.

NIMAN · 22-03-2021 03:14PM

Good for them.

I'm in my early 50s and got mine in NI three weeks ago.

Getting it before the Pres!

wadacrack · 22-03-2021 03:15PM

Tyrone212 wrote: »

87 cases in NI today. There was 67 in Donegal yesterday. Says it all.

They had a small increase two weeks ago, but seems like it just a blip. Hopefully similar here but more difficult with less people vaccinated

TheDoctor · 22-03-2021 03:16PM

Tyrone212 wrote: »

87 cases in NI today. There was 67 in Donegal yesterday. Says it all.

Restrictions + good vaccine roll out = plummeting case numbers.

Colour me shocked!!!

batman_oh · 22-03-2021 03:16PM

Tyrone212 wrote: »

87 cases in NI today. There was 67 in Donegal yesterday. Says it all.

Surely it's because the people here just can't follow the rules. It's a simple request to follow the longest set of restrictions/business closures in the western world by far :pac:
Those jammy feckers up there haven't even been forced to stay within 5km with checkpoints handing out fines like we have here. And now they are going to be out of it miles ahead of us. It's a far cry from the narrative a few months back where the North was a laughing stock for some

Nqp15hhu · 22-03-2021 03:16PM

Only 87 cases in Northern Ireland today. The vaccine is clearly working.

seamus · 22-03-2021 03:17PM

Total spitballing, but I wonder was the phased return to school an actual mistake rather than a big-bang approach.

Why? Because as soon as the younger kids went back to school, all of the other kids were released to mix. And without school, there's little control on who they see and when.

Where if teenagers in particular were back in school there'd be less hanging around, less mixing in huge groups, home and done by 10pm, Monday-Friday.

Could be nonsense. But when schools went back in September, we didn't see any particular change in virus levels.
This time though, perhaps it was the confluence of level 5 restrictions and schools. In September kids had all been mixing for 3 months anyway, so a return to school was unlikely to change anything. This time around everyone had been separated for 3 months.

We still haven't seen a spike in cases in children, but the slightly older age groups appear to be rising.

Nqp15hhu · 22-03-2021 03:17PM

NIMAN wrote: »

Good for them.

I'm in my early 50s and got mine in NI three weeks ago.

Getting it before the Pres!

Do you live here? How did you manage to get the vaccine here?

cjyid · 22-03-2021 03:17PM

Nice to see those numbers in NI.

Example of vacations working.

Eod100 · 22-03-2021 03:19PM

seamus wrote: »

Total spitballing, but I wonder was the phased return to school an actual mistake rather than a big-bang approach.

Why? Because as soon as the younger kids went back to school, all of the other kids were released to mix. And without school, there's little control on who they see and when.

Where if teenagers in particular were back in school there'd be less hanging around, less mixing in huge groups, home and done by 10pm, Monday-Friday.

Could be nonsense. But when schools went back in September, we didn't see any particular change in virus levels.
This time though, perhaps it was the confluence of level 5 restrictions and schools. In September kids had all been mixing for 3 months anyway, so a return to school was unlikely to change anything. This time around everyone had been separated for 3 months.

We still haven't seen a spike in cases in children, but the slightly older age groups appear to be rising.

I think the other difference than September is the new variants. Could understand the logic in doing it one go but think they wanted the time to see effect on cases but as you say could risk more cases that way.

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