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

Record cases in Scotland today. Looks like schools going back is the reason, with Total new Scottish Child cases of 1778 - 35% of total Scottish cases of 5021.

Oh right ! You best phone up the people in charge of Scotland's health and tell them that they have it wrong then.

Highlands school outbreaks

Nothing to see here, just a coincidence

You're not the only one. Same thing every time schools have to reopen. Spin the oul globe there and find some country that's has a bad news story and apply it to Ireland somehow, but ignore other countries that are removing restrictions etc.

It's not really spinning the globe is it, it's only 12 miles away.

Lucky the schools weren't closed and you were able to study geography, eh?

Brazil, India, US, Peru, South Africa.....want me to go on? We love a good Covid misery story in Ireland so we do.

So the first red line is supposed to show what : that after the schools closed, the cases increased ? Or do you mean there is a 2weeks delay to see the impact before it starts decreasing ?

Second red line : the cases increase the day after the red line.

Either the impact is immediate, and the cases should not increase after schools closed in June, either there is delay in the impact, and the increase we see in the next week or two after the schools reopened is not related to schools. But it can't be both at the same time, depending on what we want to prove. Only 2 points taken on the chart and they are not consistently showing the same thing.

Let's add more points:

• Christmas 2020: close the schools -> peak of cases for 2 weeks
• 10 aug 2020: school opens -> nothing happens

There is no direct correlation between the number of cases in the general population and the fact that schools are opened. There are too many other factors that have an influence.

I don't see what the big deal is, everyone expects cases to go up once the schools go back.

I mean look at the difference in a week

England cases today down 4.5% compared to a week ago.

Scotland up 97.8%.

2,051 new cases,323 in hospital and 56 in ICU

Seems like India doing great with their Delta now 🤣

Nothing ridiculous about it, Northern Ireland regularly reported 1200 cases on a daily basis over the last few weeks equivalent to 4000 cases here.

We will not reach those numbers but not impossible.

Anyone explain to me why govt keeps saying it will peak in late September? Like why doesn’t it just keep going if ya get me? Like in late September wouldn’t it just spread more with more of us indoors,etc? I am not disagreeing with the point - just confused as to why they would say such a thing?

Also if there are 300 plus in hospital now won’t there be a lot more in late Sep/early Oct???

By the way I want us to get back to normality but looking at the past don’t numbers keep going up the more we hang out/get closer ??! I’m confused :)