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Covid 19 Part XXXV-956,720 ROI (5,952 deaths) 452,946 NI (3,002 deaths) (08/01) Read OP

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  • #1532
    Drumpot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭Drumpot


    Goldengirl wrote: »
    I got told off a few weeks ago for raising concern about the Indian variant :confused:
    In fairness it was only a variant of interest at that stage.

    I have a feeling this could come to the fore soon, didnt say much myself as I dont want to come across as a Debbie Downer all the time! ;) Been watching some different sources on it and it seems like it could potentially result in a Christmas like surge where we opened up at the exact wrong time with the UK variant. As somebody said, its now a race to get the most amount vaccinated before it potentially takes off.

    The potential positive is that most of the most vulnerable have some sort of protection from the worst of it.

    I had a discussion with my wife earlier. I am cautiously optimistic in many regards, but I think it unwise to presume its all plain sailing from here. At least until next summer I would be factoring in perhaps rolling lockdowns (of different degrees). Preferably more comparable with Australia (less severe) and with a significant amount of Immunity and protection from the worst effects, hopefully the next year will feel like a breeze in comparison to last year.

    I am getting a few things done to the house (cause its nice), to also make it a bit more comfortable for winter in case there is some further disruptions. The biggest mistake any individual or organization or government could make is presume the graph of COVID interference will only reduce continually. I would also hope that our government , this time, has somebody working on contingency plans beyond opening and closing the entire country. To go back to the last 5 months would be a damning indictment of how little they have learned/prepared/


  • #1533
    PopTarts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,246 ✭✭✭PopTarts


    galaxy12 wrote: »
    Got my covid test done yesterday and since the morning getting text messages from HSEcovid with results of other people who might have been tested .

    My partner was tested yesterday morning and nothing yet. You probably have it :D


  • #1534
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,269 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Luke O'Neill is desperate to become the Brian Cox of immunology.

    He's irritating; an intellectual hemorrhoid.

    Ignore him. Forever.

    But he's cool and trendy

    Can sing a tune now and again


  • #1535
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    Walk in testing available at all testing centres

    https://twitter.com/HSELive/status/1394651737512845313?s=19


  • #1536
    Widdensushi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,542 ✭✭✭Widdensushi


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    Walk in testing available at all testing centres

    https://twitter.com/HSELive/status/1394651737512845313?s=19

    That could lead to a serious wait for a test if you have an outbreak in an area


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  • #1537
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    Widdensushi wrote: »
    That could lead to a serious wait for a test if you have an outbreak in an area

    No not really, close contacts & those who are symptomatic take priority.

    It's while the referral system isn't functioning correctly.


  • #1538
    galaxy12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 212 ✭✭galaxy12


    PopTarts wrote: »
    My partner was tested yesterday morning and nothing yet. You probably have it :D

    :):)
    HSE sorted it out now and finally I have my own results (I think)


  • #1539
    cameramonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,220 ✭✭✭cameramonkey


    galaxy12 wrote: »
    :):)
    HSE sorted it out now and finally I have my own results (I think)


    Dont keep us in suspense.


  • #1540
    ceadaoin.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,651 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    US2 wrote: »
    Zero deaths in texas yesterday, 2 months after all restrictions, including masks were ended. Here in Ireland were told we still have to mask and distance even if vaccinated

    Masking and social distancing is effectively over in the whole US at this point.


  • #1541
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,121 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    US2 wrote: »
    Zero deaths in texas yesterday, 2 months after all restrictions, including masks were ended. Here in Ireland were told we still have to mask and distance even if vaccinated

    Meaningless going on a single day's results. Their 7 day average for deaths is 44.

    Too early to draw conclusions yet but it may indicate that vaccination is having the expected results. They have 74% with at least a single dose.


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  • #1542
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    ceadaoin. wrote: »
    Masking and social distancing is effectively over in the whole US at this point.

    Except it isn't.

    The advice on not having to wear masks is for those who are fully vaccinated (except places where individual states dictate otherwise)

    Currently about 37% of people are fully vaccinated in the US ...

    If you're fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (as in, you've gotten all your shots and waited two weeks), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday, you can mostly go ahead and stop wearing your mask and stop social distancing — inside and out.

    "Fully vaccinated people can resume activities without wearing a mask or physically distancing, except where required by federal, state, local, tribal or territorial laws, rules and regulations, including local business and workplace guidance," the CDC now says.


    https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/05/14/996879305/confused-by-cdcs-latest-mask-guidance-heres-what-weve-learned


  • #1543
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Jim_Hodge wrote: »
    Meaningless going on a single day's results. Their 7 day average for deaths is 44.

    Too early to draw conclusions yet but it may indicate that vaccination is having the expected results. They have 74% with at least a single dose.

    Pfft, facts schmacts, a single data point selected to paint a particular story is much more valid than the full data in context


  • #1544
    Eod100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,161 ✭✭✭✭Eod100


    https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1394682237635923972?s=19


  • #1545
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    Eod100 wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1394682237635923972?s=19

    Before some people take this out of context

    https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1394683580576669698?s=19


  • #1546
    galaxy12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 212 ✭✭galaxy12


    cameramonkey wrote: »
    Dont keep us in suspense.

    Tested negative. All the others also tested negative :);)


  • #1547
    corkie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,400 ✭✭✭corkie


    358 additional cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed
    this number of cases may change due to future data validation
    102 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 39 are in ICU

    https://twitter.com/roinnslainte/status/1394684544566104070

    ⓘ "At some point something inside me just clicked and I realized that I didn't have to deal with anyone's bullshit ever again."
    » “mundus sine caesaribus” «



  • #1548
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    corkie wrote: »
    358 additional cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed


    I was thinking "That's the first two consecutive days without Covid mortalities I can remember. Great stuff"

    And then I remembered the HSE cyber attack

    George Lee will be buying lube next week if 20 mortalities are all reported at once


  • #1549
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    Previous Tuesdays
    • 11/05: 379
    • 04/05: 383

    5 day average

    389 (Last wk:423)


    7 day average

    407 (Last wk: 418)

    14 day incidence rate

    121/100k (Last wk: 129)

    Hospital Numbers (From @roinnslainte here)
    • In hospital: 102 (−8)
    • In ICU: 39 (−3)


  • #1550
    wadacrack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,172 ✭✭✭wadacrack


    Strange that 30% of current hospital numbers are in ICU. Must be the highest percentage since this began. Maybe due to some patients requiring many weeks of care.


  • #1551
    What Username Guidelines
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,139 ✭✭✭What Username Guidelines


    ShineOn7 wrote: »
    George Lee will be buying lube next week if 20 mortalities are all reported at once

    15 months in and this line is still being thrown about, give it a rest will ya.


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  • #1552
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    What Username Guidelines wrote: »
    15 months in and this line is still being thrown about, give it a rest will ya.


    Jaysus

    Sense of humour much?

    George Lee and RTE have mentally terrorized many for over a year now

    "15 months" alright. 15 months of scaremongering and trolling under the guise of "reporting"

    So no, I'll never tire of mocking Lee :)


  • #1553
    Goldengirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,916 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    wadacrack wrote: »
    Strange that 30% of current hospital numbers are in ICU. Must be the highest percentage since this began. Maybe due to some patients requiring many weeks of care.

    Yes .
    Unfortunately.
    But new Covid admissions to ICU have all but stopped .
    Still some patients being admitted to hospital in the 40 to 60 age group of unvaccinated but in very small numbers thankfully .
    It's totally different picture , from a Covid pov anyway .


  • #1554
    Goldengirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,916 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    ShineOn7 wrote: »
    Jaysus

    Sense of humour much?

    George Lee and RTE have mentally terrorized many for over a year now

    "15 months" alright. 15 months of scaremongering and trolling under the guise of "reporting"

    So no, I'll never tire of mocking Lee :)


    Whatever about his style of reporting, its the vision that you painted there that is sooo unappealing :D
    And at teatime, too .


  • #1555
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    Goldengirl wrote: »
    Whatever about his style of reporting, its the vision that you painted there that is sooo unappealing :D
    And at teatime, too .


    :pac:

    Sorry GG

    (Hopefully you aren't having sausages)


  • #1556
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,458 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    ShineOn7 wrote: »
    I was thinking "That's the first two consecutive days without Covid mortalities I can remember. Great stuff"

    And then I remembered the HSE cyber attack

    George Lee will be buying lube next week if 20 mortalities are all reported at once
    Do not post in this thread again


  • #1557
    Polar101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,039 ✭✭✭Polar101


    galaxy12 wrote: »
    :):)
    HSE sorted it out now and finally I have my own results (I think)

    Did you have to do anything, or did HSE manage to fix it on their own?


  • #1558
    galaxy12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 212 ✭✭galaxy12


    Polar101 wrote: »
    Did you have to do anything, or did HSE manage to fix it on their own?

    I did send an email to them via the HSE Twitter handle and called them twice explaining the test results of others I was getting and eventually got my own .

    response was ..As the system its causing some problems with results I would contact the helpline again and explain you are still getting messages about this. they will be able to look into this for you


  • #1559
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,170 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Hellrazer wrote: »
    No he wasnt spot on - he predicted 80,000 - 120000 deaths from covid.

    There was no way we were going to get any where near these figures even with the country not locked down - Restrictions did not save 90 thousand people.

    McConkey - the biggest doom monger of them all.

    McConkey has for sure said some inconsistent things throughout, but he was referencing those kind of figures in terms of a possible worst case scenario, not that it was a certainty that those kind of figures were to be expected. He never said we are definitely going to have 80,000 deaths or more, he was making an assumption about the worst possible outcome.

    It amazes me that so many people thanked your post, without really thinking about it. I guess if you just put the combination of "McConkey" and "doom" close together it'll get the thanks, even if the sentiments expressed aren't accurate or logical.

    If someone asks you what is the worst possible outcome of a given situation, you outlining that isn't the same as saying you think it definitely will happen.


  • #1560
    Goldengirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,916 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    Arghus wrote: »
    McConkey has for sure said some inconsistent things throughout, but he was referencing those kind of figures in terms of a possible worst case scenario, not that it was a certainty that those kind of figures were to be expected. He never said we are definitely going to have 80,000 deaths or more, he was making an assumption about the worst possible outcome.

    It amazes me that so many people thanked your post, without really thinking about it. I guess if you just put the combination of "McConkey" and "doom" close together it'll get the thanks, even if the sentiments expressed aren't accurate or logical.

    If someone asks you what is the worst possible outcome of a given situation, you outlining that isn't the same as saying you think it definitely will happen.

    Yes, was amazed at the amount of people thanking this when it was clearly just anti McConkey. Must be a groundswell of dislike there for the man


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  • #1561
    Boggerman12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 130 ✭✭Boggerman12


    Goldengirl wrote: »
    Yes, was amazed at the amount of people thanking this when it was clearly just anti McConkey. Must be a groundswell of dislike there for the man

    Well Samuel certainly enjoyed the limelight.his predictions were off the wall and sorry but he’s been wildly wrong before with his predictions for the sars virus in 08/09.plus some of his advice last yr on how people would avoid getting the thing were for the birds


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