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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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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    niamh247 wrote: »
    Just 40 intensive care beds available ahead of Delta Covid wave

    https://www.breakingnews.ie/amp/ireland/spike-in-hospital-admissions-from-delta-covid-wave-would-be-extreme-concern-1151823.html

    Why don't someone get fired for this lack of prep? Why is this tolerated or seen as normal in this country? How can he have a face to declare this and proudly say "we are busy"?

    Also only 300 general beds our of 11K seem to be available. This country is only more concerned about teaching their men about how to collect and carry dog poop than doing any sort of real planning and administration. Rediculous.

    One major incident in this country building collapse train crash etc and we have instantly none

    It’s pathetic


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,447 ✭✭✭brickster69


    One major incident in this country building collapse train crash etc and we have instantly none

    It’s pathetic

    It is like watching a train crash but in slow motion. No one has a fu##king clue what is going on. Just sack NPHET, open the pubs indoors, i'm just trying to book my holiday to Portugal.

    "if you get on the wrong train, get off at the nearest station, the longer it takes you to get off, the more expensive the return trip will be."



  • Posts: 895 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Pubs and restaurants may support the vaccine pass in return for distancing being abolished for the vaccinated. Makes sense.

    https://m.independent.ie/world-news/coronavirus/pubs-and-restaurants-demand-end-to-social-distancing-for-vaccinated-customers-40613037.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,222 ✭✭✭Valhallapt


    It is like watching a train crash but in slow motion. No one has a fu##king clue what is going on. Just sack NPHET, open the pubs indoors, i'm just trying to book my holiday to Portugal.

    One of the more sensible things you have posted


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 173 ✭✭beaz2018


    Pubs and restaurants may support the vaccine pass in return for distancing being abolished for the vaccinated. Makes sense.

    https://m.independent.ie/world-news/coronavirus/pubs-and-restaurants-demand-end-to-social-distancing-for-vaccinated-customers-40613037.html

    Coppers has to be included in this.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 706 ✭✭✭TefalBrain


    I’ve no doubt this has been answered but things changing so quickly so I am unsure and all the looking up I do is so grey, we’ve had a sudden family bereavement in london, my dads brother and my dad passed away some years ago. The death was non Covid related and I am the only nephew in Ireland so feel I should travel for a few days to pay condolences. I have had my first dose of vaccine. Could anyone please advise what I need to do to enter and exit london, it is only going to be for 3 or 4 days when they have verified the funeral. Many thanks.

    Sorry for the loss.

    Just get a flight back to Belfast and avoid the hassle.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 706 ✭✭✭TefalBrain


    One major incident in this country building collapse train crash etc and we have instantly none

    It’s pathetic

    Remember some are championing cervical Tony for a presidential run and it's not a small minority either. That's the mentality you are dealing with here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 205 ✭✭Skygord


    I’ve no doubt this has been answered but things changing so quickly so I am unsure and all the looking up I do is so grey, we’ve had a sudden family bereavement in london, my dads brother and my dad passed away some years ago. The death was non Covid related and I am the only nephew in Ireland so feel I should travel for a few days to pay condolences. I have had my first dose of vaccine. Could anyone please advise what I need to do to enter and exit london, it is only going to be for 3 or 4 days when they have verified the funeral. Many thanks.

    Sorry for your loss. Try the Travel thread for more up to date comments re travel. Basically you check UK rules for your travel into UK, and check Ireland rules for your travel back home. AFAIK your travel into London will be like normal, returning home you'll have to get a private PCR test in London within 72 hrs of your return travel home, fill in Ireland's passenger locator form, and then self quarantine once home for 10 days.

    FWIW this was my experience in May... https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=117170107


  • Posts: 10,049 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    It is like watching a train crash but in slow motion. No one has a fu##king clue what is going on. Just sack NPHET, open the pubs indoors, i'm just trying to book my holiday to Portugal.

    https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-portugal-announces-new-restrictions-including-curfew-in-45-areas-amid-rising-coronavirus-cases-12347196.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,753 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    niamh247 wrote: »
    Just 40 intensive care beds available ahead of Delta Covid wave

    https://www.breakingnews.ie/amp/ireland/spike-in-hospital-admissions-from-delta-covid-wave-would-be-extreme-concern-1151823.html

    Why don't someone get fired for this lack of prep? Why is this tolerated or seen as normal in this country? How can he have a face to declare this and proudly say "we are busy"?

    Also only 300 general beds our of 11K seem to be available. This country is only more concerned about teaching their men about how to collect and carry dog poop than doing any sort of real planning and administration. Rediculous.

    there has been chronic mismanagement in the delivery of services, the public sector funnily seems to hire more managers than anyone else, but they dont seem to be able to deliver improvements in the front line. despite the mountain of cash thrown at them.

    My weather

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



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,447 ✭✭✭brickster69



    Three weeks and critical ICU level will be hit. Algarve worse than Lisbon / population. They will be in lockdown in a month.

    "if you get on the wrong train, get off at the nearest station, the longer it takes you to get off, the more expensive the return trip will be."



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,271 ✭✭✭✭JRant


    "Well, yeah, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man"



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,446 ✭✭✭Cork2021


    Some people are actually not going to recover at all from this! Look at the replies to this tweet.
    ‘We’re not setting people free, we’re setting covid free’

    https://twitter.com/dminghella/status/1411960653477261316?s=21


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭MarkY91


    I don't see any mention of the single dose Janssen vaccine that's available from today. Is anyone going to register today for it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,629 ✭✭✭✭Vicxas


    MarkY91 wrote: »
    I don't see any mention of the single dose Janssen vaccine that's available from today. Is anyone going to register today for it?

    I registered on Friday and my appointment wasnt cancelled


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,792 ✭✭✭PowerToWait


    JRant wrote: »
    Those are levels of restrictions we can only dream about here.

    Yeah, not allowed out of your house between 11 pm and 5 am. The dream.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭MarkY91


    Vicxas wrote: »
    I registered on Friday and my appointment wasnt cancelled

    Did you do it through a phone call? The pharmacy lists on the vaccine portal only give an option to call.


  • Posts: 4,806 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Yeah, not allowed out of your house between 11 pm and 5 am. The dream.

    What would you be doing in Ireland between those hours with every form of entertainment closed?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,629 ✭✭✭✭Vicxas


    MarkY91 wrote: »
    Did you do it through a phone call? The pharmacy lists on the vaccine portal only give an option to call.

    Did it online when they still had it up. They've taken it down since then


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,271 ✭✭✭✭JRant


    Yeah, not allowed out of your house between 11 pm and 5 am. The dream.

    Nothing is open after 11am here anyway. At least people can sit in cafes and restaurants during the day and enjoy a level of normality that we are a long way from here.

    "Well, yeah, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man"



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,425 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    Cork2021 wrote: »
    Some people are actually not going to recover at all from this! Look at the replies to this tweet.
    ‘We’re not setting people free, we’re setting covid free’

    https://twitter.com/dminghella/status/1411960653477261316?s=21

    On a positive note Covid hospital numbers in England are one tenth they were in December when new case numbers were the same, clearly vaccines working and working well.
    Professor Powis said there are "far fewer" patients in hospital compared to the winter and spring of last year.

    He said there were about 23,000 COVID cases a day in mid-December – which is "pretty similar" to now in England – and about 15,000 people in hospital.

    But today there are about 1,700 people in hospital, which is "almost 10 times less", he added.
    https://news.sky.com/story/covid-news-live-latest-boris-johnson-press-conference-lockdown-restrictions-july-19-12349015


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 706 ✭✭✭TefalBrain


    Three weeks and critical ICU level will be hit. Algarve worse than Lisbon / population. They will be in lockdown in a month.

    You wish.

    I know it's hard to take but there will be another virus along in a few years to keep you happy. :) This one is beat.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 706 ✭✭✭TefalBrain


    Cork2021 wrote: »
    Some people are actually not going to recover at all from this! Look at the replies to this tweet.
    ‘We’re not setting people free, we’re setting covid free’

    https://twitter.com/dminghella/status/1411960653477261316?s=21

    When this is said and done Covid will have done more damage to people's mental health than anyone could imagine. People are still walking around others on footpaths ffs like it's Ebola on steroids.

    Make no mistake Covid was a windfall for doom mongers and the media and they are finding it almost impossible to let go. It's beyond sad really.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,447 ✭✭✭brickster69


    TefalBrain wrote: »
    You wish.

    I know it's hard to take but there will be another virus along in a few years to keep you happy. :) This one is beat.

    I'm not happy but ICU in Portugal is at 55% of the critical level now. If it increases as it is for 3 weeks ICU capacity will be breached. Once again hopefully not.

    "if you get on the wrong train, get off at the nearest station, the longer it takes you to get off, the more expensive the return trip will be."



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,380 ✭✭✭fly_agaric


    TefalBrain wrote: »
    People are still walking around others on footpaths ffs like it's Ebola on steroids.

    Probably just trying to have some courtesy + it has become automatic at this stage.
    But then they run into Tefal Brain who ruins their day by fake coughing or roaring at them! :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭ginoginelli


    Pubs and restaurants may support the vaccine pass in return for distancing being abolished for the vaccinated. Makes sense.

    https://m.independent.ie/world-news/coronavirus/pubs-and-restaurants-demand-end-to-social-distancing-for-vaccinated-customers-40613037.html

    The pubs/restaurants really need to get new representatives.

    The arrogant disregard for public health displayed is crigny and downright dangerous.

    I do not trust them one bit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 248 ✭✭kieran26


    The pubs/restaurants really need to get new representatives.

    The arrogant disregard for public health displayed is crigny and downright dangerous.

    I do not trust them one bit.

    If everyone granted entry is fully vaciinated or has a recent negative test, where is the danger? It will have to be done sometime. A lot of these business will not be viable without a certain number of people allowed on the premesis.

    Seems like a resonable request to me. As long as it is monitored. although i suspect by the time anything is put in place vaccinaation levels will be such that it is not necessary. due to heel dragging form the government.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,779 ✭✭✭celt262


    kieran26 wrote: »
    If everyone granted entry is fully vaciinated or has a recent negative test, where is the danger? It will have to be done sometime. A lot of these business will not be viable without a certain number of people allowed on the premesis.

    Seems like a resonable request to me. As long as it is monitored. although i suspect by the time anything is put in place vaccinaation levels will be such that it is not necessary. due to heel dragging form the government.

    I can see where they are coming from and totally understand that they need to get people back in but it will be a free for all and they will let everyone in. There are pubs at it already.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,773 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    Pubs and restaurants may support the vaccine pass in return for distancing being abolished for the vaccinated. Makes sense.

    https://m.independent.ie/world-news/coronavirus/pubs-and-restaurants-demand-end-to-social-distancing-for-vaccinated-customers-40613037.html

    All well and good but what about people who simply are unable to access a vaccine or only have 1 dose ?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,957 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    Swaine wrote:
    But yeah, lets all blame the youth.

    I know this is from last night but it quoted me.
    I never said anything about the youth. I talked about idiots and cowboys.


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