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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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  • #42392
    corkie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,515 ✭✭✭corkie


    The HSE's Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) has launched a new Covid-19 data hub to provide the latest figures relating to cases, deaths and outbreaks in Ireland.

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  • #42393
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,268 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118642107#Comment_118642107

    The Explorium in Sandyford is drive through if still available



  • #42394
    degsie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,765 ✭✭✭degsie


    The test center in Ballycoolin was really really quiet when both myself and boss went on separate occasions this week. Can't see how this will stay open.



  • #42395
    Spudman_20000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,217 ✭✭✭Spudman_20000


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118640228#Comment_118640228

    Can I ask why you need a pcr test considering you've had a positive antigen test?



  • #42396
    Cluedo Monopoly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,799 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    The teachers unions are letting their members down yet again trying to pressure NPHET over masks.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



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  • #42397
    FishOnABike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,928 ✭✭✭FishOnABike


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118643098#Comment_118643098

    Could be for a recovery cert.



  • #42398
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118645097#Comment_118645097

    In my older one's class, half of the kids are just not bothering any more and the teachers don't care.

    She told us she "forgot" to put her mask on for the whole day in school yesterday. Clearly nobody said a thing to her.

    I'd say the teachers' unions are way out of step on this one. More than half of teachers have probably had covid at this stage anyway, they don't care anymore.

    They'll likely replace it all with public health advice, but I think it would be important to put protections in place for people who wish to continue to wear masks.

    That is, to make it unlawful for an employer to refuse to allow a mask to be worn unless there's an obvious safety issue, and to make it illegal to refuse access to a shop/pub/etc if someone is wearing a mask. Niche concerns, but there are enough weirdos out there taking umbrage at people wearing masks. People should be permitted to continue wearing masks if they feel it is necessary for their own or others' protection.



  • #42399
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,806 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Its really pathetic to see the amount of rubbish in the media from unions and experts begging to keep masks and restrictions.

    It's actually sickening how many people have used this pandemic for their own self gain.

    Some people would do anything to avoid the return of normality.


    While I understand that society is not perfect, we can't keep using a pandemic as an excuse to push whatever the agenda is.



  • #42400
    brianc27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 681 ✭✭✭brianc27


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118643098#Comment_118643098

    Just incase my work were to ask for proof, I don't think they would but best to have it on the off chance they do, otherwise I wouldn't bother



  • #42401
    prunudo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,237 ✭✭✭prunudo


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118635504#Comment_118635504

    Everyone's over on the weather forum arguing whether schools should or shouldn't be open tomorrow and whether its really a red warning or an orange plus!



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  • #42402
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118647313#Comment_118647313

    Well, they have to rile against something.



  • #42403
    marno21
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 14,715 Mod ✭✭✭✭marno21


    Tony Holohan indicating NPHET to be stood down after today’s meeting. Masks to remain only in healthcare settings.

    It’s finally done and dusted now. After 2 years I think it’s time to unsubscribe to the threads in this forum for once and for all.



  • #42404
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 895 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Great news. Hopefully it’s done overnight too. No reason it can’t

    Can’t wait for the “but they’re not following the sCiEnCe” crowd who’ve suddenly gone from worshipping the advice to now railing against it.



  • #42405
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 895 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Any word on the other school measures I wonder? Obvs distancing and masks the big ones gone now - hopefully the magic pods and ban on mixing to be quietly dropped too?



  • #42406
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,451 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    As we're nearing the complete end of this saga, many are wondering, did Ireland over react to covid?



  • #42407
    lee_baby_simms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,515 ✭✭✭lee_baby_simms


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118647670#Comment_118647670

    Myself and the missus have a bottle of champagne saved for when RTE eventually go to the wall but tonight may be the night it gets popped!

    https://youtu.be/3GwjfUFyY6M




  • #42408
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Same as before, most likely they will be scrapped from midnight tomorrow or Sunday night.

    Now it's been said, people will just stop wearing masks and you create this vacuum of tension while it's still mandatory but it has been advised to drop it. So chances are the government will meet early tomorrow and make an early statement in order to remove any ambiguity.

    Secondary schools are on a week break next week anyway. Primary schools may be advised to wait till after they come back. Seems redundant though. They can be dropped immediately.



  • #42409
    Pussyhands
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,237 ✭✭✭Pussyhands


    I hope all the measures and moves brought in during covid are recorded somewhere so we can look back in years to come.

    That 9 euro meal for example.

    I know there's a Wikipedia page but don't think it has all the little details.

    Hard to believe two years of our lives have been spent with covid!



  • #42410
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,472 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118647848#Comment_118647848

    The recommendation to government is appearently from the 28th, to let the current SI lapse. Soon see what they do



  • #42411
    lee_baby_simms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,515 ✭✭✭lee_baby_simms


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118647893#Comment_118647893

    Seems pointless with midterm next week.



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  • #42412
    hynesie08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,387 ✭✭✭✭hynesie08


    NPHET winding down when there's no longer a NPHE to oversee?


    No, boards told me they'd desperately cling onto power forever and would keep restrictions till the end of the year.


    Tony must be lying.



  • #42413
    growleaves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,037 ✭✭✭growleaves


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118647887#Comment_118647887

    Remember all the jokes about essential and non-essential?

    We've never had such blunt bureaucratic control over our lives - with units of statistical models substituting for real actually-existing people.

    I suspect a lot of professionals (ABC1) took to it because they already spend 37-42 hours a week putting gibberish into spreadsheets and performing similar tasks for idiot managers, whether in the public or private sector.

    All the blah-blahing pseduo-science and amateur statistics and the total faith in narrow micro-specialisms, so that we're suddenly in thrall to a sub-sub-discipline of medical science that most people had never even heard of before (epidemiology). "Are you an epidemiologist?" "Hold on, this chemist/biologist/physicist/doctor/Nobel Prize winning statistician is NOT an epidemiologist so they have nothing to contribute!" *vomit*



  • #42414
    MrMusician18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,182 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118647887#Comment_118647887

    This place?

    The €9 meal had to be one of the most misrepresented public health measures of them all.

    Did the Irish Government overreact? With hindsight being 20/20 we can see that some of the measures were more restrictive than they likely needed to be. You could probably point to the end of last summer where restrictions could've been unwound further than they were - but were largely invisible anyway. In the end though, that really wouldn't have changed things for long as the Omicron unknown was surfacing.

    In the round though, the Irish Government did a pretty good job at containing the virus and preventing a limited capacity healthcare system from becoming overrun - in the context of a threat that had many unknowns about it.



  • #42415
    Spudman_20000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,217 ✭✭✭Spudman_20000


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118648152#Comment_118648152

    Yeah, only ran up 40 billion of debt and affected the mental and physical well-being of thousands of people. Champagne all round lads.



  • #42416
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,806 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118648152#Comment_118648152

    We never actually contained the virus though as such a thing was not possible. Peaks occurred in all countries regardless of restrictions. And peaks fizzled out with or without restrictions.

    When cases were low we credited lockdowns. When we had thousands of cases we blamed lack of adherence.

    The harsh reality is that they came at a huge cost and really didn't help much.

    Now we pay the price with record levels of debt, inflation and a housing crisis that got a whole lot worse thanks to being the only country to close construction for months on end in 2021.



  • #42417
    rob316
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,831 ✭✭✭✭rob316


    Nearly 2 years, its finally over. Like totally over



  • #42418
    MrMusician18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,182 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118648265#Comment_118648265

    Little bit of revisionism there. Construction closed for all but exempted projects on 8th January and reopened for housing on 12 April. So not months on end. 3 months.

    And yes it hit output, but in the context of the housing crisis, 3 months delayed supply was not hugely impactful. By the end of 2021, construction significantly caught up.



  • #42419
    CruelSummer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,344 ✭✭✭CruelSummer


    I hope the last two years and the response to Covid is examined properly. I fear very little investigative journalism as one thing this shone a light on for me is that impartial media is gone. Agendas and narratives are the new approach with salesman tactics with guest contributors and ‘debates’.



  • #42420
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    The decision will probably be made on Tuesday unless someone has a rush of blood to the head to move it up.

    https://twitter.com/MichealLehane/status/1494364151484923906




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  • #42421
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,840 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118648297#Comment_118648297

    yep its fantastic

    Part of me thinks we may never see something like this again in our lifetimes and proves that lockdowns don't work long term



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