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

But you are able to get numbers yourself right?

Thank god we had the longest lockdown in Europe all the way from January to the end of October when nightclubs finally opened, so that what opens stays opened. Thankfully we had the wise NPHET/government loyal posters like yourself that supported this hugely successful plan.

Besides the obvious bad news about the lockdown, there's been some good news in recent days:

• 410 in hospital - a great number! Lowest since October.
• Clearly a backlog today, so BAU for the other numbers
• Boosters being sped up now
• Reports from SA that Omni doesn't affect the lungs as much as it isn't as good at infecting cells
• Cases seem to clear quicker with Omni - 2/3 days vs two weeks of illness from the original virus

Are nightclubs now the barometer of when it’s a lockdown?

Stop reading it mate. Looks like you are part of click bite. Disgrace isn't it.

Bate not bite

How many hospitals are there in Ireland? And what's the average capacity of each?

I'm just curious how it works out PER-hospital. It always makes it sound like there's 400 in ONE hospital, which would probably be pretty hard to manage.

But if it's like, 10 people in a hospital with 300 beds - that's not exactly "over run" now is it?

2k or so from mid-October and the current level of 4-4.5K, excepting today, from about mid-November.

I'm guessing that will go right over the heads of the types who get very angry at any minor inconvenience in their lives.

The magnitude of the numbers is not the point, it’s how quickly there are multiple deaths coming through despite the typical lag from cases to deaths, and a supposedly milder variant. These early figures - which is the only real data we can go by - do not suggest it is milder with the proportion of cases to deaths, factoring the time lag. You all complain about modelling, but of course when there’s early real world data “ah it’s too small a sample, let’s just wait and see if more people die!”

If you're looking at the UK, they have a big unvaccinated problem. If you're talking about here, 68% have underlying conditions, age being one of them. The assumptions in our models are flawed or even wrong and they have not been anywhere near indicating the level of more severe cases, since the summer at least, and probably for most of this year. Models can be useful but as our inaccurate models are used to dictate NPHET advice and consequently government actions they do need to be challenged and dismissed if needs be.

1,510,532 negatives tests recorded in the UK yesterday. Funny how no one mentions that.

I’m actually over here (London) at the moment and got my booster here. Hoping to head back to Dublin to see the family before Christmas but really up in the air whether I can get home given how everything is going. Bit of a dilemma.

Anyway, they were struggling with PCR testing capacity one day during the week but they seemed to iron that out. They have run out of delivery capacity for antigen tests. Over here you can order free antigen tests, box of 7 tests once per day, which will be delivered to you. But demand has gone so high they can’t deliver them all.