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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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  • #4562
    FishOnABike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,913 ✭✭✭FishOnABike


    patnor1011 wrote: »
    Can you get infected with covid even after taking vaccine? Seems that you can.
    What I struggle to understand is that folks going into rage when someone say they do not take vaccine, claiming that these dirty "antivaxxers" will be killing grannies do not realize that they too will become potential granny-killers.

    There are no absolutes. It's about playing the odds and tilting them very much in your (or your granny's) favour.

    Without vaccination you are very much more likely to contract CoViD-19 and in turn pass it on to others. With vaccination the chances of contracting CoViD-19 are very much reduced as are the chances of passing it on to someone else, even more so when the community vaccination level is sufficient to provide here immunity.

    Vaccinations are the main reason why illnesses which were common in our parent's and grandparent's time are now uncommon.


  • #4563
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,265 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    lee_baby_simms wrote: »
    Makes sense on paper but I’m not sure Urban Outfitters will bother opening if the only people allowed in shops are 70+ years of age.

    Healthcare workers are young , many on the vulnerable list are young .


  • #4564
    Lucas Hood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,206 ✭✭✭Lucas Hood


    jhegarty wrote: »
    Don't forget that 761 cases (from last Thursday) is falling off the 7 day average today. So this is a big drop.

    Yep probably looking at about 450 on the 7 day average I'd say.


  • #4565
    KrustyUCC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,087 ✭✭✭KrustyUCC


    marno21 wrote: »
    Those are fantastic numbers. No bump this week. Absolutely fantastic.

    NPHET will still need to spread some doom and gloom at the briefing later on

    I'm sure the situation is still precarious


  • #4566
    ednwireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,747 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    kilns wrote: »
    So what is the situation with Ireland? The cases are ridicously low and one of the best in Europe but have the tighest restrictions in Europe nearly.

    Here in Switzerland, cases are higher but managable and life is like normal with the exception of some restictions like masks and restarants still closed

    When are things going to be lifted so that relative normal life can resume

    i think they are waiting for Godot

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



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  • #4567
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,775 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    KrustyUCC wrote: »
    NPHET will still need to spread some doom and gloom at the briefing later on

    I'm sure the situation is still precarious

    Ronan Glynn: "We've identified a cluster of unusual rash in 4 patients. The situation is therefore still highly precarious. We are therefore urging the public to stay at home, and limit your contacts.

    I will now pass you over to Professor Nolan for today's weather".


  • #4568
    Corholio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,014 ✭✭✭✭Corholio


    ednwireland wrote: »
    i think they are waiting for Godot

    Gal? I'd gladly wait :P


  • #4569
    pauldry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,520 ✭✭✭pauldry


    I hope they dont "find" some extra cases too like for example 583 cases

    They seem to be fond of doing that........as well as notifying us of deaths from the past 4 months (RIP)


  • #4570
    Banana Republic 1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,316 ✭✭✭Banana Republic 1


    shamco wrote: »
    I think the government secretly wants to achieve zero Covid and MM wants to be admired like Arden from NZ

    There was a simpler way to do that but then we constantly reinvent the wheel in Ireland.


  • #4571
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,302 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Ronan Glynn: "We've identified a cluster of unusual rash in 4 patients. The situation is therefore still highly precarious. We are therefore urging the public to stay at home, and limit your contacts.

    I will now pass you over to Professor Nolan for today's weather".

    How about sticking to facts and waiting until they actually say something you don't like and then ridicule them?


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  • #4572
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91,660 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    https://twitter.com/COVID19DataIE/status/1380161519699255304
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  • #4573
    wadacrack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,172 ✭✭✭wadacrack


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Ronan Glynn: "We've identified a cluster of unusual rash in 4 patients. The situation is therefore still highly precarious. We are therefore urging the public to stay at home, and limit your contacts.

    I will now pass you over to Professor Nolan for today's weather".

    "I'm afraid to say the weather will be volatile over the next few weeks, umbrella's will be mandatory for every citizen."


  • #4574
    Messi19
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 751 ✭✭✭Messi19


    pauldry wrote: »
    RTE will say numbers are flat but they dont take into account the positivity, I dont think they know in RTE what that word means

    Did anyone else see George Lee at 1 o'clock? Eileen Whelan mentions hospital numbers dropping and he was straight in with the doom and gloom of but but but Easter. We've not seen Easter and the thousands of cases it will bring. How dare she piss on his misery parade


  • #4575
    Deeper Blue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,500 ✭✭✭Deeper Blue


    Messi19 wrote: »
    Did anyone else see George Lee at 1 o'clock? Eileen Whelan mentions hospital numbers dropping and he was straight in with the doom and gloom of but but but Easter. We've not seen Easter and the thousands of cases it will bring. How dare she piss on his misery parade

    Saw that alright. He's pathetic.


  • #4576
    ElTel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,672 ✭✭✭ElTel


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    Update on the walk in test centres

    https://twitter.com/ZaraKing/status/1380156394947670026?s=19

    I hope they give us contact tracing info on these asymptomatic positives at tonight's briefing. Is there any identifiable differences/trends or no new insights?
    This info should be available for the first five centres which had a positivity of about 3% from 14k tests.


  • #4577
    muddypuppy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 322 ✭✭muddypuppy


    hmmm wrote: »
    It'd be incredibly unfair to ask businesses to stay closed until everyone has been offered a vaccine if it is safe for them to reopen earlier to vaccinated people.

    One of the points I've seen around is: If you open the shops only to the vaccinates, what about the staff? They're likely not vaccinated at this point, but you would force them to go to work anyway.


  • #4578
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,775 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Case Numbers

    Over 85s was 2,604 on the 21st of Jan and is just 78 today - a 97% reduction in case levels in the age cohort with nearly half of deaths.

    75-84 has a 94.2% reduction and 65-74 has 91.5%.


  • #4579
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,775 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    One million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have now been administered in Ireland!

    Excellent progress!


  • #4580
    CoronaBlocker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 247 ✭✭CoronaBlocker


    Deleted User wrote: »
    One million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have now been administered in Ireland! Excellent progress!

    We know, we know - sure you can see all the old needles down on the boardwalk over the Liffey. Could have tidied as they went like.


  • #4581
    Messi19
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 751 ✭✭✭Messi19


    muddypuppy wrote: »
    One of the points I've seen around is: If you open the shops only to the vaccinates, what about the staff? They're likely not vaccinated at this point, but you would force them to go to work anyway.

    I'd say you've answered your own question there


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  • #4582
    Golfman64
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 314 ✭✭Golfman64


    Deeper Blue wrote: »
    Saw that alright. He's pathetic.

    Agreed, it’s time he was retired. His unchallenged and unfounded negativity is just awful journalism.


  • #4583
    muddypuppy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 322 ✭✭muddypuppy


    Corholio wrote: »
    50% of people who tested positive in the walk ins had symptoms. Strange, people were told not to go to the walk ins if they had symptoms.

    I would love to see what is the definition of "symptoms" in this case. It's one thing to have difficulty breathing or no sense of smell/taste, it's another to have a bit of a dry throat, the sniffles or feeling a bit off. Easy to overlook the second.

    But also some people might go to those testing centers for fun, but I think the vast majority has some reasons - maybe they thing they're close contact of someone they know but the HSE didn't contact them, feel a little under the weather etc... I doubt there are lots of people waking up and says "you know what - I'm tired of the usual routine, today I'll get a covid test"


  • #4584
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,775 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Golfman64 wrote: »
    Agreed, it’s time he was retired. His unchallenged and unfounded negativity is just awful journalism.

    It's not George Lee's job to be positive; it's to present the facts, however unpalatable and emotionally flat those facts may be.

    His questions to NPHET are still head and shoulders above the other self-referred "journalists" at these biweekly conferences, which we'll have to suffer through later today.


  • #4585
    mloc123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,445 ✭✭✭mloc123


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    It's not George Lee's job to be positive; it's to present the facts, however unpalatable and emotionally flat those facts may be.

    His questions to NPHET are still head and shoulders above the other self-referred "journalists" at these biweekly conferences, which we'll have to suffer through later today.


    George is litteraly a government mouthpiece these days. The only time he is positive on the news is when he is talking about what a great job the government have done on vaccine roll out etc..


  • #4586
    podgeandrodge
    Site Banned Posts: 5,975 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    Corholio wrote: »
    50% of people who tested positive in the walk ins had symptoms. Strange, people were told not to go to the walk ins if they had symptoms.

    At first I thought this was a joke. Is this deffo true?? WTF like!


  • #4587
    sekond
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 287 ✭✭sekond


    muddypuppy wrote: »
    I would love to see what is the definition of "symptoms" in this case. It's one thing to have difficulty breathing or no sense of smell/taste, it's another to have a bit of a dry throat, the sniffles or feeling a bit off. Easy to overlook the second.
    "

    Exactly this. At this time of the year I am usually coughing, sneezing and sniffing a lot because of allergies. When they first kick in, I often have a day or so of needing to sleep a lot and a scratchy throat. Those symptoms were the exact symptoms I had when I had (presumed - I hadn't been to Italy) covid last March. I did get a lot sicker, so it became quite obvious, but had a walk in centre been available last March I would have gone to get a test for peace of mind before visiting elderly relatives - fully expecting to test negative. I can see plenty of people with mild/allergy-like symptoms presenting at a test centre not considering they had "covid symptoms".


  • #4588
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,261 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    mloc123 wrote: »
    George is litteraly a government mouthpiece these days. The only time he is positive on the news is when he is talking about what a great job the government have done on vaccine roll out etc..

    Fergal bowers is doing a great job in just giving the numbers and he normally says whether that’s up or down as the last time. He doesn’t give his opinion when it’s to do with numbers. George lee is just causing unnecessary fear and anxiety(there’s been enough of that anyway the past year) to the public that listen to him speak.


  • #4589
    podgeandrodge
    Site Banned Posts: 5,975 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    sekond wrote: »
    Exactly this. At this time of the year I am usually coughing, sneezing and sniffing a lot because of allergies. When they first kick in, I often have a day or so of needing to sleep a lot and a scratchy throat. Those symptoms were the exact symptoms I had when I had (presumed - I hadn't been to Italy) covid last March. I did get a lot sicker, so it became quite obvious, but had a walk in centre been available last March I would have gone to get a test for peace of mind before visiting elderly relatives - fully expecting to test negative. I can see plenty of people with mild/allergy-like symptoms presenting at a test centre not considering they had "covid symptoms".

    Fair point. Actually the HSE state not to go if you have following symptoms:

    "These include a high temperature, a new cough, shortness of breath or a loss or change to your sense of smell or taste."

    So the question is whether the walk in's had those symptoms, or more common cold symptoms. If they are reporting that they had covid specific symptoms as above, there is no excuse.


  • #4590
    Dr. Em
    Closed Accounts Posts: 320 ✭✭Dr. Em


    podgeandrodge wrote: »
    At first I thought this was a joke. Is this deffo true?? WTF like!

    I'm not surprised at all. I tried to get a test in Sept when teaching afterschool classes. I had a headache, sore throat and stuffy nose and one of the kids in the class I had been teaching had a persistent cough, but the GP wouldn't send anyone for testing unless they had one of the headline four covid symptoms. Another GP in the same area was on the radio a week later saying that almost every close contact in the area who tested positive only had a sore throat. They needed to roll out these walk-in testing centres last year whenever they had extra capacity.


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  • #4591
    mohawk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭mohawk


    hmmm wrote: »
    It'd be incredibly unfair to ask businesses to stay closed until everyone has been offered a vaccine if it is safe for them to reopen earlier to vaccinated people.

    Depends on what your business is. For example come May are there enough people vaccinated for it to be viable to open up your business such as a hairdressers.

    Then some businesses make their money predominantly from certain age groups. In my experience cinemas don’t tend to get many elderly patrons that is just one example off the top of my head.

    Then let’s fast forward to the summer. Families will want to staycation before the kids go back to school so July/ August. It would be a huge loss of business to hotels if they have to say no to young families because parents are in 20’s/ 30’s and won’t be fully vaccinated until after the second dose. (Also children won’t be done).

    I have elderly/older relatives/neighbours and they are comfortable etc. But they don’t tend to eat out as often, or drink as often as younger people. They buy what they need when they need it. A treat is a scone and a cup of tea in the cafe. It’s not a regular thing like it would be compared to younger ages.

    How good for business is this idea to open up for vaccinated people only? I am not convinced it is viable in all circumstances.


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