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Covid 19 Part XXXIV-249,437 ROI(4,906 deaths) 120,195 NI (2,145 deaths)(01/05)Read OP

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  • #2612
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,265 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    Seriously annoyed with myself tonight for watching RTE News , God almighty they give us one day of positivity then they knock us down again the next day


  • #2613
    GeorgeBailey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭GeorgeBailey


    Deleted User wrote: »
    And all those who work in the events and wedding industry. Its very difficult to have your livelihood decimated. A lot of people forget about this when they dismiss the wedding related queries.

    Yip. I'm in the wedding business. I think decimated means 1 in 10 so I'd go with the word annihilated (not trying to nitpick at your post btw just trying to give folks a picture of how bad it has been).

    I very much appreciate Zara asking questions and hope she continues to do so.

    Couples have very much lowered their expectations in terms of guest numbers compared to most of last year. Even an increase to 25 would save most of the dates remaining on my 2021 calendar. I think 50 would save all of them.


  • #2614
    thegreengoblin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,174 ✭✭✭thegreengoblin


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I wont go down this rabbit hole, but the use of twitter to report on COVID in this country is pretty shocking. We are in a world where most people (obviously not you) absorb their news in soundbites. Our journalists, FB included, are after only one thing, and that is being first to the punch. They shirk their journalistic responsibility in the race to hit send. They might add some context later when they get chance.....that is secondary to the tabloid headline.

    have little respect for any of them, Bowers, Lee, any of them

    The back slapping between them is nauseating. Some of them, the Virgin TV lot in particular, consider themselves 'names' now as if they're all on CNN with their pal Donie. Mortifying stuff.


  • #2615
    Sweet.Science
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,072 ✭✭✭Sweet.Science


    My daughter and myself will be part of the positive swabs tomorrow . After me giving out about cases and lockdowns for months :)


  • #2616
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,265 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    Sweet.Science wrote: »
    My daughter and myself will be part of the positive swabs tomorrow . After me giving out about cases and lockdowns for months :)

    I hope you are both ok .


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  • #2617
    Faugheen
    Site Banned Posts: 12,341 ✭✭✭✭Faugheen


    Sweet.Science wrote: »
    My daughter and myself will be part of the positive swabs tomorrow . After me giving out about cases and lockdowns for months :)

    Best wishes.

    Any idea where you picked it up? Don’t answer if you’d rather not.


  • #2618
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    Sweet.Science wrote: »
    My daughter and myself will be part of the positive swabs tomorrow . After me giving out about cases and lockdowns for months :)


    If memory serves, I don't always agree with your posts but I hope you both are asymptomatic and ok

    Any idea where you might have got it?


  • #2619
    Sweet.Science
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,072 ✭✭✭Sweet.Science


    I'm working from home since March 2020 . It must've been the creche . No other child there has been unwell though .


  • #2620
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Sweet.Science wrote: »
    I'm working from home since March 2020 . It must've been the creche . No other child there has been unwell though .

    Hope you have a mild dose and recover soon

    Will they test the other kids in the creche?


  • #2621
    Sweet.Science
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,072 ✭✭✭Sweet.Science


    Not sure . I've been on here regularly saying contact tracing for creches and schools are intentionally going by different rules than others

    The HSE are due to call me within 2 days . Will be interesting if they are close contacts


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  • #2622
    wadacrack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,172 ✭✭✭wadacrack


    France with a hard lockdown. Schools the main reason why its happened it seems. Hopefully we can avoid a 4th wave here.

    https://twitter.com/BFMTV/status/1377324709696655374


  • #2623
    Wombatman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,349 ✭✭✭Wombatman


    Sweet.Science wrote: »
    Not sure . I've been on here regularly saying contact tracing for creches and schools are intentionally going by different rules than others

    The HSE are due to call me within 2 days . Will be interesting if they are close contacts

    Do the creche know?


  • #2624
    Sweet.Science
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,072 ✭✭✭Sweet.Science


    Wombatman wrote: »
    Do the creche know?

    Rang them asap . Construction being shut down means I've been living with the folks waiting on my house to complete . Not ideal but what can you do


  • #2625
    Wombatman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,349 ✭✭✭Wombatman


    B117 + Schools = Sh1tshow


  • #2626
    podgeandrodge
    Site Banned Posts: 5,975 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I wont go down this rabbit hole, but the use of twitter to report on COVID in this country is pretty shocking. We are in a world where most people (obviously not you) absorb their news in soundbites. Our journalists, FB included, are after only one thing, and that is being first to the punch. They shirk their journalistic responsibility in the race to hit send. They might add some context later when they get chance.....that is secondary to the tabloid headline.

    have little respect for any of them, Bowers, Lee, any of them

    Too many of them hooked on Twitter now. They have forgotten that it's a minority of the population on the platform and it's like a haven for older folks who probably monitor the likes more than anything else.


  • #2627
    FFVII
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,382 ✭✭✭FFVII


    wadacrack wrote: »
    France with a hard lockdown. Schools the main reason why its happened it seems. Hopefully we can avoid a 4th wave here.

    https://twitter.com/BFMTV/status/1377324709696655374
    Do we not have to come out of wave 3 to have a wave 4?


  • #2628
    podgeandrodge
    Site Banned Posts: 5,975 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    Irish Times - "Outbreaks among schoolgoers more than doubled last week".

    "New data from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) show 49 outbreaks among schoolgoers compared with 22 the week before. The surveillance centre report notes that these outbreaks are associated with school children or school staff and transmission of the virus within the school has not necessarily been established."

    Always a bit slow to accept that transmission can take place in schools.


  • #2629
    WWEfansince90s
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20 ✭WWEfansince90s


    Wait they actually said ‘hold firm’!! I honestly thought that was just a cliche at this stage - but no it’s on the RTE news headlines!!’


  • #2630
    Russman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Russman


    Sweet.Science wrote: »
    My daughter and myself will be part of the positive swabs tomorrow . After me giving out about cases and lockdowns for months :)

    Best wishes with it, hope ye’re both ok. As someone mentioned above, despite all the back and forth on the threads, it’s all just meaningless opinions, nobody wishes this on anyone in the real world.


  • #2631
    BlondeBomb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 418 ✭✭BlondeBomb


    All the best for your recovery sweet.science


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  • #2632
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,265 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    WWEfansince90s wrote: »
    Wait they actually said ‘hold firm’!! I honestly thought that was just a cliche at this stage - but no it’s on the RTE news headlines!!’

    My knuckles are white and numb at this stage from holding firm . Doubt I can hold much longer


  • #2633
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 10,049 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Banana Republic 1 wrote: »
    That’s someone else quote. It all started because people won’t accept that new virus strain are new viruses and thus there is a real risk that the vaccines won’t at some stage work at all.

    Except that you are wrong, completely


  • #2634
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    wadacrack wrote: »
    France with a hard lockdown. Schools the main reason why its happened it seems. Hopefully we can avoid a 4th wave here.

    https://twitter.com/BFMTV/status/1377324709696655374
    Wombatman wrote: »
    B117 + Schools = Sh1tshow
    podgeandrodge wrote: »
    Irish Times - "Outbreaks among schoolgoers more than doubled last week".

    "New data from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) show 49 outbreaks among schoolgoers compared with 22 the week before. The surveillance centre report notes that these outbreaks are associated with school children or school staff and transmission of the virus within the school has not necessarily been established."

    Always a bit slow to accept that transmission can take place in schools.



    Someone with more Photoshop skills than me feel free to put Donnelly's head onto Ali's

    They said they'd monitor Schools closely after they re-opened them and act accordingly

    They fcuking lied



    53xnte.jpg


  • #2635
    Martina1991
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,548 ✭✭✭Martina1991


    Over 4 million tests completed to date.

    About 500,000 processed a month now.


  • #2636
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 10,049 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    ShineOn7 wrote: »
    Someone with more Photoshop skills than me feel free to put Donnelly's head onto Ali's

    They said they'd monitor Schools closely after they re-opened them and act accordingly

    They fcuking lied



    53xnte.jpg

    Except for facts. Where last week over 6,500 tests following contact tracing in 257 schools found only a 1.9% positive rate. That’s less than 1 in 50 children or teachers who have been exposed to a confirmed case going on to test positive.

    But everyone should plough on and make themselves feel better about themselves by piling on the 10% of the population who have 10% of cases


  • #2637
    Golfman64
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 314 ✭✭Golfman64


    Concern plans to extend hotel quarantine could breach EU citizens’ rights
    via The Irish Times
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/concern-plans-to-extend-hotel-quarantine-could-breach-eu-citizens-rights-1.4525043

    Hopefully the beginning of the end of the total madness around international travel. Scary that this is even a possibility...


  • #2638
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Except for facts. Where last week over 6,500 tests following contact tracing in 257 schools found only a 1.9% positive rate.


    Do you honestly believe those statistics aren't being "massaged" to favour their stance on Schools for the past year?

    A friend of mine works as a teacher, she's told me it's been one cover up after another for 12 months now


  • #2639
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 10,049 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    ShineOn7 wrote: »
    Do you honestly believe those statistics aren't being "massaged" to favour their stance on Schools for the past year?

    A friend of mine works as a teacher, she's told me it's been one cover up after another for 12 months now

    Your friend definitely trumps facts.


    Since return there has been clear data. In the two weeks to the 30th 270 schools were reported as having cases on the Facebook page tracking this. Last week 257 schools have 6500 tests with less than 2% positive. Show the evidence that they are hiding cases?


  • #2640
    Russman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Russman


    Golfman64 wrote: »
    Concern plans to extend hotel quarantine could breach EU citizens’ rights
    via The Irish Times
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/concern-plans-to-extend-hotel-quarantine-could-breach-eu-citizens-rights-1.4525043

    Hopefully the beginning of the end of the total madness around international travel. Scary that this is even a possibility...

    Why do you think it’s total madness ?
    I’m not sure where you’re coming from, maybe I’ve picked it up wrong, do you think unrestricted travel in the middle of a pandemic is a good thing ?


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  • #2641
    Ten of Swords
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,486 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ten of Swords


    ShineOn7 wrote: »
    Do you honestly believe those statistics aren't being "massaged" to favour their stance on Schools for the past year?

    A friend of mine works as a teacher, she's told me it's been one cover up after another for 12 months now

    Please take this to the heard it from a friend forum, thanks

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