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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: 37,818 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Your refusal to consider what 'deadly' means in relation to infectious diseases in general shows how ill informed your original comment was as it has no basis or context.

    Which disease is more deadly if we look at lives lost? Covid is \ was infecting and killing people here. Ebola hasn't killed anyone here. Covid is a more deadly disease in Ireland and the Western World.

    So laughing in response just further highlights how weak and glib your case was when subjected to scrutiny.

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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 193 ✭✭rahmalec


    Sweden also has more people living alone, etc, compared to here (and places like Italy)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,303 ✭✭✭sporina




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,750 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    Absolutely. People in their 40s and 50s with asthma , high blood pressure or diabetes would not be acutely at risk like they have been for the past 2 years plus requiring repeated vaccination to keep them out of hospital and ICU .

    @Johnboy1951 Misinformation with an attempt to dress it up as real facts .

    This has been the mantra from deniers and antivaxxers social media sites and is just too ignorant to discuss or even to requote your post .

    The famous Nurse John (the one with the phD )was called out by the BBC for attempting to justify this nonsense and by the Broadcasting Regulating Authority in UK for misinformation in the guise of science .

    He of course retracted saying that that was not what he meant to say at all , but with his credibility shot to bits , unfortunately.

    I think the number of patients he said that died in the UK was 17000 !

    Did you ever hear such a load of bs in your life ?

    Eh , maybe you have , but I prefer to get my information from people who know what they are talking about .



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,646 ✭✭✭Micky 32


    MM today :


    “He said that there are currently 800 people in hospital with Covid-19, and while half of those were in hospital for other reasons”



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 111 ✭✭Ouch Chinese Byrne




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,750 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    My work , colleagues (qualified medical and nursing ) and HSPC statistics re around the country . Also verified research from reliable sources and not just anecdotal makey up claptrap.

    It's not just those in the elderly bracket that have been hospitalised and seriously ill with this .

    These same statistics and information have been posted on this forum as soon as they became available all along .

    Some of the reliable posters have been here all along and are plain to see.

    Some of the good people who did post statistics left because of persistent abuse from some posters who sought to deny that there was a pandemic and tried to twist statistics to suit their own narrative as above.

    Theres a bit of that hanging around the thread here still it seems .


    A good place to start , bearing in mind at present because this variant is so infectious and milder , 50% of cases are picked up on admission for other issues , the rest are sick because of Covid.

    https://covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com/pages/hospitals-icu--testing



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭Don't Chute!


    Reliable posters being posters that agree with you I take it?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,962 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    @Johnboy1951 Misinformation with an attempt to dress it up as real facts .

    I quoted the information from the CSO. It is there on line should you wish to inform yourself.

    That you refer to the CSO figures as misinformation shows more about you than them or me.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,818 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Isolated snippete of factual Information taken out of context is misinformation when dressed up with the spin you tried to put on it.

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



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,646 ✭✭✭Micky 32


    A thread with some info on the current variants in circulation:




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,962 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    It is good to see that you recognise that I posted the facts.

    I placed it in context - otherwise healthy people dying of Covid.

    Some here appear to like throwing about that 'misinformation' term when they see facts that don't suit their views.

    I will state yet again, that according to the CSO, 153 people died of Covid who had no other co-morbidities listed on their death certificates, during the two years 2020 and 2021.

    Accept it or not that is the number.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,750 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    No... facts without context does not equal reliable information.

    Statistics being taken from CSO ?.. the CSO themselves would day that to use them without appropriate context is incorrect .

    You made up your own context and try to pass it off as true .

    What you said was only so many " died " of Covid alone .

    Are you a pathologist ? Are you qualified to make statements like that.?

    Only charlatans try to pass their statements off as more educated than the experts .

    Its rubbish that has been discredited before .

    No more to say to you .



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,750 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    Well if you are talking about people who try to claim that Covid is gone or that Covid was never anything to be worried about when the evidence is RELIABLY to the contrary , yea , won't be agreeing with people like that , no .



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,962 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    Are you seriously calling into question what is written on death certificates?

    153 people died in Ireland, whose death certs had Covid alone - no other co-morbidities - mentioned on those certs. The WHO determined the categories - U07.1 and U07.2.

    If you have a problem with the categories, then I suggest you take the matter up with the WHO.

    I do not question the qualified people who filled those certs, nor do I question the statisticians at the Central Statistics Office who produced the numbers.

    You appear to believe you are qualified to do both.

    I will still believe the numbers produced by the CSO regardless your opinion.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,750 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    You know I am not questioning either the WHO or the CSO for either their data or their categorisation , just YOU , for your ridiculous statements about how many died with " only Covid " .

    That is meaningless twaddle as you know , because so many people in the population have at least one comorbidity , when you are talking about common diseases like asthma for example ...

    You think asthma , hypertension , or even diabetes are death sentences these days for the majority of people ?


    Good night .



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 42,454 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    My dad, 81, broke his hip and ended up in hospital and now has covid. Luckily no symptoms to this point. He's got three shots.

    I've still managed to avoid it somehow and my family.

    I was a close contact last week for the first time since this began.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,646 ✭✭✭Micky 32


    Hope he gets well soon. I was a close contact myself a couple of weeks back. I was in a small kitchen with 3 other people. One was 80 and the other 2 late 70’s. I did notice one was coughing a bit. 2 days later the other 2 developed symptoms. I miraculously didn’t catch it. All fully recovered.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,646 ✭✭✭Micky 32


    BA.5 is now like having viral meningitis according to the die hard Loonies 😆. Do we think we could get a vaccine to cure these clowns anytime soon ? 🤡




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,818 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    More disinformation from the poster.

    You quote the information out of context.

    Where is the list of co-morbidities?

    What is a co-morbidity?

    What is an underlying cause of death?

    And then it becomes misinformation when you attach words like 'healthy' or 'deadly' and include them in your editorial on snippets of out of context information.

    You can have a 'comorbidity' and live for decades. You can have a comorbidity and still be in relatively good health for your age, the condition well managed with prescription medication.

    Comorbidities, while they may raise the risk of severe disease, are not necessarily the cause of death. The virus itself can be the cause of otherwise preventable death among those who had manageable health conditions.

    Throughly debunked disinformation resposted again and again on this thread.


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



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,646 ✭✭✭Micky 32


    Some positive news this morning. Hospitals dropped from 885 to 849. Lots of discharges. I’d say we aren’t too far away from the peak.



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


    I will state yet again, that according to the CSO, 153 people died of Covid who had no other co-morbidities listed on their death certificates, during the two years 2020 and 2021.

    It could be an unknown comorbidity or very likely a genetic issue. Recent work in that area has identified over 1,000 genes that may be part or the puzzle.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 42,454 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,962 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    Sure we can all speculate on lots of things.

    But speculation is all it is.

    I could speculate that something else killed all those who are classified as Covid deaths too .... maybe it was some other respiratory disease ... but that would be just speculation and nothing else regardless what I based it on.

    Heck, I might speculate that those 153 might have had undiagnosed co-morbidities and that is what killed them. More speculation and just pointless.

    The numbers I have consistently quoted are factual. Do we trust those who are responsible for filling out death certificates accurately?

    I will take their numbers before any speculation. They are the facts.

    153 people in two years were certified that they died from Covid alone, all others had contributory factors/co-morbidities/etc..

    I have no idea why these facts are abhorrent to anyone.



  • Posts: 4,806 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    If you look at all of the information we have available.

    1) 153 deaths in 2 years with ONLY COVID as the cause.

    2) The age of the deaths

    3) The lack of excess deaths

    Those 3 pieces of information would lead me to believe that most of the people that died with COVID likely would have died very soon without COVID also.

    That doesn't mean their deaths are not sad.


    But if we ever intend to bring back any measures, we really need to understand exactly what the value of those measures would be.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,818 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    The measures were brought in also to protect health service capability to treat those who would not have died very soon - unless they got covid. The median age for ICU admission was 60.

    That's why there was ICU capacity and hospital available to treat them.

    This is why country after country brought in measures, they weren't just looking at covid deaths, but hospital capacity.

    You know this, yet pretend not to.

    So unless you also look at the lives saved in the covid pandemic, you are deliberately presenting a deceptive and incomplete picture by ignoring that aspect.

    So it's completely without merit or foundation to simply presume that we could have had no excess mortality without measures to contain covid.

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



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


    Another China headline: Zero-Covid strategy shuts down north-central city of 13 million following 18 reported cases of Omicron!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,646 ✭✭✭Micky 32


    I think if I lived in China I’d start thinking about emigration.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,646 ✭✭✭Micky 32


    It does now seem BA.5 can cause more serious disease. It’s now believed to infect the lungs more easily like before with the Delta variants etc.

    However thankfully because of the mass infections of BA.1 and BA.2 ( more importantly) along with vaccinations it has created a lot of immunity against serious illness in our population hence why our hospitals aren’t rising like they did with BA.2 and people are not getting as sick.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 594 ✭✭✭Fr0g


    Countries that didn't enforce stringent interventions fared no differently to those that did. If anything they had better outcomes. The intervention strategy was a failure.



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