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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: 1,678 ✭✭✭Multipass


    And the hospital spread, who can you blame for the deaths of over 800 people who caught it in there?

    The whole blame game is pathetic, it’s airborne and humans can’t live isolated from each other. The hilarious thing about your comment is that you said that this wouldn’t have gone on so long if the morons could just…….. obey, whatever. Quite the opposite, the restrictions are what has dragged this on for so long, remember ‘flattening the curve’. Everyone is going to get this eventually.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 710 ✭✭✭TefalBrain


    You've absolutely no proof of this. Stop talking pony.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    You are over thinking it.

    Its a virus, the same as any corona virus, you could pick it up anywhere, its no ones fault.

    The vast majority of us are at no risk from covid,its a dangerous virus for the eighty five year olds with multiple underlying conditions but any minor illness can cause fatalities in this age group.

    Omicron is seemingly going to transmit through the whole population and nothing is going to stop this.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭Bananaleaf


    Schools are the problem when they get in the way of hospitality.

    Cast your mind back to March 2020 when they did close and the island went mental. The world and its mother wanted them back open because they apparently weren't the issue. Back then they were a huge issue because none of us were vaccinated and we had no mandate for masks in the classroom.

    It's not that hospitality are "the problem". They are trying their best. But, to use your own analogy, it's difficult to get rid of the smell of **** if you're a slurry farmer. When the guidance is not to socialise, the hospitality sector is at a disadvantage from the get-go

    I don't worry - I am responsible and I mind myself. I don't expect anyone to do that for me and I wouldn't blame anyone for me not being safe. What I am doing here is observing and giving my opinion.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭Bananaleaf


    I used them that once. I didn't know before going in that they weren't checking. I do now and I haven't been back since. Yes, I would be part of the problem if I continued.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,038 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    Only the over-85s with multiple underlying conditions? That's it?

    Let's not be quite so obvious with the blatant dishonesty.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,328 ✭✭✭bloopy


    Only the holiest of the holies can follow the rules properly. All others are at fault and their heresy hurts us all.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    You think this would be over if people just took precautions? That's incredibly naive



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,248 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    At what stage did you think they would check ? They should be checked before entry ? I went to a cafe who didnt ask for mine at the door so I walkec away



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭Bananaleaf


    I don't blame anybody, because I don't care what others do. They can do what they want, it is none of my business.

    I do find it very weird how many people on this thread seem to think that the government stay up late, thinking of ways to control us all. Too much Netflix?? I'm not sure, but it's really odd.

    I'm not the 'restriction nut' that some people on here probably think I am and I sympathise immensely with local business owners. In fact, I started a fundraiser for our local business association (yes, I know that it isn't going to make up for what has happened to them but I can't afford to reimburse them for 2years of this sh1te)

    If the plan is to let everyone get it then fine, open it all up. Those of us who don't wish to go out, still don't have to. But that doesn't seem to be the plan. And if it isn't the plan, then restricting the social, less controllable aspects of society seems to make the most sense, no?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,876 ✭✭✭bokale


    Didn't realise we were closing in on 6000 deaths from this thing. Let's hope this omicron stays mild like people are thinking.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,943 ✭✭✭✭bucketybuck


    You don't blame anybody and you don't care what others do.

    But you make sure to tell us all about the dirty shoppers in LIDL not wearing masks properly and the dirty costa coffee staff who don't check the little certs, and proclaim that it is their own fault that they are getting shut down.

    Ok then.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,036 ✭✭✭✭tom1ie




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,750 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    I see South Africa's version of NPHET have recommended stopping contact tracing and isolation. They think immunity is enough to declare it endemic.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭Bananaleaf


    Fair point. It was my dad's birthday and we had to call to reserve the table so we stayed. This was the restaurant. At the cafe I didn't realise I had given the wrong cert so I didn't leave there because I didn't believe I had a reason to.

    I haven't claimed at any point to be "holier than thou". I don't claim to not be part of the problem. Some posters are ultra-defensive and seem to be conditioned to react a certain way towards anyone who thinks differently. All I have done is come here with a different viewpoint to what seems like about 10 regular posters and the religious language being used to describe my opinions has ramped up massively in just the last two pages. Is it that I'm staunchly pro-restriction or is it that they are staunchly anti-them?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 220 ✭✭Acey10


    What about parents out in restaurants and pubs, they catch it and give it to their kids who bring it to school?? It works both ways...

    Many children also attend extracurricular activities and mix with other children.

    I also know many teachers who got covid out socialising, not in school.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    "As of midnight last Tuesday, 5,835 people had died from Covid in Ireland, and at least 4,957 of these also had conditions such as chronic heart, kidney, liver, respiratory or neurological disease; hypertension; obesity — defined as a BMI of 40 or more; diabetes, asthma or cancer. A further 395 cases were inconclusive about the presence of underlying medical conditions, and only 483 deaths occured where they could be definitively ruled out."


    Out of 5,835 deaths only 483 deaths occured where underlying conditions could definitively be ruled out.

    In other words most of the dead were very, very unwell and many would have died with covid not of covid.

    Obesity is being classed as a BMI of 40 or more which means many other obese people did not have their condition classed as an underlying issue.

    A BMI of over thirty is hugely obese.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭Bananaleaf


    I couldn't read all of that because it is behind a paywall. Wondering do they list many more 'underlying healthy conditions' after obesity.

    You don't have to be that overweight to be classed as obese on the BMI scale btw. You would be surprised at what counts for 'obese' according to that way of measuring!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,052 ✭✭✭✭titan18


    Whilst it might not be the case, it's very possible.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭Bananaleaf


    Yeah, that's it. It's almost as if you are saying that if you don't take personal offence to something, you can't hear or see it? And you certainly can't mention that you've heard or seen it.

    Outrage for the sake of it, anyone?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭Bananaleaf




  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Thats really good ews.

    Hopefully we will follow them shortly.

    We just have to move on from this for the sake of the children and young people, if this means accepting large numbers of deaths of very old people with multiple underlying conditions then so be it.

    We cant sacrifice children and young peoples rights to enjoy the lives the rest of us enjoyed before 2019.

    If covid is going to cause problem to our very poor health service then we must build covid specific hospitals where people can be treated.

    If we hadnt been led to believe the vaccines were the answer then we could have built these hospitals while construction was closed down for months.

    We have nothing to show for the lockdowns that did so much mental health damage, not even friggin filters in primary schools, fighting for weeks over antigen tests, refusing to provide free antigen tests for everyone who wants them but now spending millions paying the hospitality sector to close at 8pm.

    Its infuriating.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,533 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06



    You are making a lot of jumps there. Just because someone has an underlying condition, they are not "very very unwell". People with those conditions can live for decades with the right medication and management.

    Last spring the largest age group in ICU were 55-64 year olds with such conditions. These are the people who get hit hard by covid but can pull through - if ICU capacity is there to treat them.

    So not only are you mistaken in how you have interpreted the deaths, the deaths are only half the equation.

    You have a figure for how many people in Ireland at just at deaths door if they get covid, based on your previous post?

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,025 ✭✭✭jackboy


    Interesting days ahead. 2500 cases today. That means 10000 cases by Thursday and 20000 by Christmas Day if the 2 day doubling happens. It will be interesting if we are still at 5000 to 6000 cases by the end of the week, that would indicate serious issues with the data being presented.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    More than six out of every seven people who died with Covid in Ireland since the beginning of the pandemic were suffering from a serious underlying medical condition, according to the latest data published by the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC), a division of the HSE.

    The pandemic mortality analysis shows that 85 per cent of those who died since March 2020 had an underlying medical condition that weakened their immunity and left them more vulnerable to the coronavirus.

    As of midnight last Tuesday, 5,835 people had died from Covid in Ireland, and at least 4,957 of these also had conditions such as chronic heart, kidney, liver, respiratory or neurological disease; hypertension; obesity — defined as a BMI of 40 or more; diabetes, asthma or cancer. A further 395 cases were inconclusive about the presence of underlying medical conditions, and only 483 deaths occured where they could be definitively ruled out.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭Bananaleaf


    Yeah, that is fair enough. 40+ is the severe obesity range, which definitely is not good. Thanks for quoting article



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,325 ✭✭✭cuttingtimber22


    You may well be a wise man. But they will find an excuse that they prevented the high numbers despite infections seeded already.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,624 ✭✭✭FintanMcluskey


    You don't have to be that overweight to be classed as obese on the BMI scale btw

    It's accurate for 99.9% of the population

    For anyone else they need to accept the facts



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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    And if ICU isnt there to treat them then they dont survive, thats the harsh reality.

    We cant live our lives going forward based on ICU occupancy.

    Young people are entitled to go to school, to attend on campus university, to attend physical workplaces.

    If we deny them all these things that make life worthwhile then many will think life isnt worth living.

    People can give no more after almost two years of this.

    We have vaccination levels other countries would only dream of, we have younger people staning in the freezing cold today for boosters because they are afraid they wont beable to travel in the spring with a boostered covid cert. They want their lives back and we cant move on because those running the health service have failed us,every single year for the last ten years, waiting lists, people on trolleys, old people stuck in hospital beds, unsatisfactory unstimulating nursing homes, adult residential facilities with abuse of resident on resident being carried out in plain sight.

    And the same people who have held positions of responsibility are now the same people on twitter blaming the public for "not adhering to guidelines", it would make you puke.



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