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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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  • #5522
    blowitupref
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,169 ✭✭✭blowitupref


    Hospital operations update

    In hospital 223 (increase of 11 from last night)
    In ICU 50 (increase of 2 and no deaths)

    Sunday 8pm last week.

    In hospital 250
    In ICU 56


  • #5523
    Corholio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,014 ✭✭✭✭Corholio


    blowitupref wrote: »
    Hospital operations update

    In hospital 223 (increase of 11 from last night)
    In ICU 50 (increase of 2 and no deaths)

    Sunday 8pm last week.

    In hospital 250
    In ICU 56

    The hospital increase should almost certainly come down in next few days with only increases at weekends.


  • #5524
    Corholio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,014 ✭✭✭✭Corholio


    blowitupref wrote: »
    Hospital operations update

    In hospital 223 (increase of 11 from last night)
    In ICU 50 (increase of 2 and no deaths)

    Sunday 8pm last week.

    In hospital 250
    In ICU 56

    The hospital increase should almost certainly come down in next few days with only increases at weekends.


  • #5525
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,265 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    Rebelbrowser wrote: »
    Whistler is a high altitude ski resort, a place you can ski with certainty in April. You just know there are wealthy Irish types skiing there right now....

    No one is skiing in Whistler right now . The slopes are all closed for last two weeks . Restaurants all closed and facilities closed . They locked down the slopes fully two weeks ago

    https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.nsnews.com/amp/bc-news/whistler-blackcomb-indoor-dining-closed-for-three-weeks-3586747


  • #5526
    Golfman64
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 314 ✭✭Golfman64


    Renjit wrote: »
    Looks like it's not over yet with new variants cropping up. This year will take a hit too.

    Those pesky variants for which all current vaccines have proven to be effective?


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  • #5527
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,042 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    Bubbaclaus wrote: »
    It's based on the adult population, 1 in 5 adults have received a first dose.
    Fair enough. The numbers check out, but it feels high - I know only one person here (in Ireland, as opposed to friends in their twenties and thirties who've had it in the US, Spain and Germany..) that I know has had it.


  • #5528
    Cluedo Monopoly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,705 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    The number of deaths by date-of-death chart is trending very well for quite a while now.

    https://www.hpsc.ie/a-z/respiratory/coronavirus/novelcoronavirus/surveillance/epidemiologyofcovid-19inirelandweeklyreports/COVID-19%20Weekly%20Report_%20Week%2013_%20Slideset_HPSC%20-%20Web.pdf

    It peaked right at the end of January and dropped fast after that. Chart is near the bottom.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



  • #5529
    saabsaab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,751 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    Golfman64 wrote: »
    Those pesky variants for which all current vaccines have proven to be effective?


    Not 100% effective. More to come.


  • #5530
    lawred2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,784 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    saabsaab wrote: »
    Not 100% effective. More to come.

    ?


  • #5531
    Wolf359f
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,566 ✭✭✭Wolf359f


    Cluedo Monopoly wrote: »
    The number of deaths by date-of-death chart is trending very well for quite a while now.

    https://www.hpsc.ie/a-z/respiratory/coronavirus/novelcoronavirus/surveillance/epidemiologyofcovid-19inirelandweeklyreports/COVID-19%20Weekly%20Report_%20Week%2013_%20Slideset_HPSC%20-%20Web.pdf

    It peaked right at the end of January and dropped fast after that. Chart is near the bottom.

    Unfortunately due to the reporting delay, it's always trending down. (always on a downward trend, one reason why people on the Sweden thread get confused as that's how they report deaths)
    But obviously deaths are thankfully low now.


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  • #5532
    Hobgoblin11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Hobgoblin11


    Wolf359f wrote: »
    Unfortunately due to the reporting delay, it's always trending down. (always on a downward trend, one reason why people on the Sweden thread get confused as that's how they report deaths)
    But obviously deaths are thankfully low now.

    I'm about to book my flights from New York to DUblin to back into the country before the mandatory quarantine, when is the last date for me to get in?

    Dundalk, Co. Louth



  • #5533
    Cluedo Monopoly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,705 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    Wolf359f wrote: »
    Unfortunately due to the reporting delay, it's always trending down. (always on a downward trend, one reason why people on the Sweden thread get confused as that's how they report deaths)
    But obviously deaths are thankfully low now.

    I am aware of the reporting delay but the weekly chart is clearly trending down. Considerably. It's the key metric for me.

    I mean Jan 31 shows 75 deaths on one day whereas most of March was < 10. Even taking in the reporting delay, the first half of March would be fairly accurate. The numbers are excellent and I hope they go even lower.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



  • #5534
    jojofizzio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,298 ✭✭✭jojofizzio


    Hobgoblin11 wrote: »
    I'm about to book my flights from New York to DUblin to back into the country before the mandatory quarantine, when is the last date for me to get in?

    Thursday April 15th @4am


  • #5535
    CalamariFritti
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,367 ✭✭✭CalamariFritti


    Faugheen wrote: »
    It's amazing that people still don't understand that the restrictions on golf etc aren't necessarily about the activities themselves, but it's about people gathering.

    Where exactly do people gather during a game of golf?


  • #5536
    Bubbaclaus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,460 ✭✭✭Bubbaclaus


    Ficheall wrote: »
    Fair enough. The numbers check out, but it feels high - I know only one person here (in Ireland, as opposed to friends in their twenties and thirties who've had it in the US, Spain and Germany..) that I know has had it.

    Are you doubting the official numbers because of your own personal anecdote?


  • #5537
    Faugheen
    Site Banned Posts: 12,341 ✭✭✭✭Faugheen


    CalamariFritti wrote: »
    Where exactly do people gather during a game of golf?

    At golf courses, obviously.


  • #5538
    RGS
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 746 ✭✭✭RGS


    Faugheen wrote: »
    At golf courses, obviously.

    There has been no gatherings at golf courses for the short period they were open last year. We have been closed for 210 days since March 2020.
    It was turn up, shoes on in the car park, off to the 1st tee, play and go home.

    We had strict protocols in place. Rakes disappeared, flags remained in the hole, the majority of clubs implemented online bookings, online payment and digital scorecards, kept locker rooms and shower facilities closed.


  • #5539
    Normal One
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 355 ✭✭Normal One


    CalamariFritti wrote: »
    Where exactly do people gather during a game of golf?

    The drunken orgy at the 19th hole according to some


  • #5540
    The Great Gatsby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16 ✭The Great Gatsby


    RGS wrote: »
    There has been no gatherings at golf courses for the short period they were open last year. We have been closed for 210 days since March 2020.
    It was turn up, shoes on in the car park, off to the 1st tee, play and go home.

    We had strict protocols in place. Rakes disappeared, flags remained in the hole, the majority of clubs implemented online bookings, online payment and digital scorecards, kept locker rooms and shower facilities closed.


    With those protocols in place, it's mind boggling that golf courses in Ireland have been closed as long as they have been -- as someone said earlier, more than 3 times longer than in Scotland . . . I'd love to know what goes through someone's mind (or a groups mind) when they sit down and decide what's open, what's not, what's essential, what's not, etc -- how golf is on the lockdown list for so long is ridiculous.


  • #5541
    Wolf359f
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,566 ✭✭✭Wolf359f


    The Great Gatsby wrote: »
    With those protocols in place, it's mind boggling that golf courses in Ireland have been closed as long as they have been -- as someone said earlier, more than 3 times longer than in Scotland . . . I'd love to know what goes through someone's mind (or a groups mind) when they sit down and decide what's open, what's not, what's essential, what's not, etc -- how golf is on the lockdown list for so long is ridiculous.

    Hard to justify Golf as essential.
    But then if you allow it, based on it being outdoors and played solo, then they have to allow a whole lot of outdoor solo activities:
    Kayaking
    Surfing
    Paddle boarding
    Horseback riding
    Archery
    Scuba diving
    Fishing
    Windsurfing
    Sailing
    Diving
    etc...

    Or is golf allowed as as it on private property?
    So 2 guys meeting up in a garden with 2 hurleys, a flag, a flaggan of cider and a hole dug out can be classed as golf.... once they use a gold ball of course.
    Once something is allowed, then it's always up for bending the rules etc....

    For the greater good, who really gives a **** about golf?


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  • #5542
    mollser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,153 ✭✭✭mollser


    Wolf359f wrote: »
    Hard to justify Golf as essential.
    But then if you allow it, based on it being outdoors and played solo, then they have to allow a whole lot of outdoor solo activities:
    Kayaking
    Surfing
    Paddle boarding
    Horseback riding
    Archery
    Scuba diving
    Fishing
    Windsurfing
    Sailing
    Diving
    etc...

    Or is golf allowed as as it on private property?
    So 2 guys meeting up in a garden with 2 hurleys, a flag, a flaggan of cider and a hole dug out can be classed as golf.... once they use a gold ball of course.
    Once something is allowed, then it's always up for bending the rules etc....

    For the greater good, who really gives a **** about golf?

    All of those activities should have continued as they pose minimal covid risk but greatly increase peoples wellbeing. Reward>>>>>>>>>>>risk. But they don't care, it's only about covid.


  • #5543
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,477 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    As far as I know none of those activities are explicitly prohibited, only travelling more than 5km to get there and gathering while doing them.

    Am I wrong?


  • #5544
    Kiith
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,467 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    Wolf359f wrote: »
    Kayaking
    Surfing
    Paddle boarding
    Horseback riding
    Archery
    Scuba diving
    Fishing
    Windsurfing
    Sailing
    Diving
    etc...
    Yeah, it'd be terrible if people were allowed to do outdoor activities that pose practically no risk to anyone :rolleyes:


  • #5545
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,686 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Lumen wrote: »
    As far as I know none of those activities are explicitly prohibited, only travelling more than 5km to get there and gathering while doing them.

    Am I wrong?

    Where i live I’ve seen lots of horseback riding, paddle boarding, sea swimming , and fishing throughout level 5, I’ve done some of the above activities myself!

    I live close to beaches , fantastic to see people outdoors enjoying healthy safe activities for the last few months! There was no ban on such activities.


  • #5546
    bucketybuck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,030 ✭✭✭✭bucketybuck


    Wolf359f wrote: »
    But then if you allow it, based on it being outdoors and played solo, then they have to allow a whole lot of outdoor solo activities:

    Yes, you are right, they should be allowing outdoor solo activities.

    Doing so would have allowed people some respite and in turn increased the likelihood of adherence to more important measures implemented elsewhere.

    Unfortunately such complicated ideas are beyond NPHET and our current government.


  • #5547
    leahyl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,436 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    Donnelly on Morning Ireland now, there’s something very arrogant about him - I don’t know why I think this!


  • #5548
    Happydays2020
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭Happydays2020


    Kiith wrote: »
    Yeah, it'd be terrible if people were allowed to do outdoor activities that pose practically no risk to anyone :rolleyes:

    Archery could be dangerous to other people.


  • #5549
    wadacrack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,172 ✭✭✭wadacrack


    leahyl wrote: »
    Donnelly on Morning Ireland now, there’s something very arrogant about him - I don’t know why I think this!

    He puts on an act. Strikes me as very insecure


  • #5550
    Happydays2020
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭Happydays2020


    leahyl wrote: »
    Donnelly on Morning Ireland now, there’s something very arrogant about him - I don’t know why I think this!

    Interesting from the IT today

    Donnelly queries exclusion from department tweets
    Simon Carswell
    Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly queried why he was not being mentioned in tweets posted on the Department of Health’s Twitter feed, internal department records show.


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  • #5551
    leahyl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,436 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    wadacrack wrote: »
    He puts on an act. Strikes me as very insecure

    Being totally caught out now by Mary Wilson - he’s stumbling over his words.


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