Coronavirus

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Do they release vaccination figures by county or just country?

the helicopter flew over my house at about 100 feet last week delivering vaccines to arranmore !!!

Whats happening around the county and how are people behaving or misbehaving?

Apparently a shabeen has been found in Burnfoot according to Highland Radio.

A recent funeral in an East Donegal town was one of the biggest seen for a number of years. Chapel was packed and the priest welcomed everyone :eek:

The Gardai have detected a pub serving customers in another East Donegal town and in the same town a hairdressers premises was discovered to be in full swing so to speak.

A fairly high profile licenced premises in the twin towns was also found to be serving customers.

Greed is an awful thing not to mention all the health risks.

babybuilder wrote: »

Teenagers partying.

It's not only teenagers partying. Last week, there was an 80th birthday party near me. There was about 20 at it, the majority of whom were over 75.

a certain building site near me reopened this week.

shop fitting going on as well

increase in traffic this week as well but thats most likely schools i guess

ednwireland wrote: »

a certain building site near me reopened this week.

shop fitting going on as well

increase in traffic this week as well but thats most likely schools i guess

Construction being shut in the first place was mad - better to have sites going than have all tradesmen doing nixers in peoples houses.

As for house parties and shebeens - not surprising when you deny people any social outlets for months. Looking like not even outdoor dining until May or even later.

muffler wrote: »

Obviously in a different county but this guy posted yesterday that he had 2 off duty guards doing tiling work for him. Would you be surprised though?

At some point we have to act like adults and take responsibility for our own actions. That means having the freedom to live our lives and choose (if we wish) to put ourselves at risk. If the guards and the guy paying them are both happy to accept the (potential) risk of contracting the virus, so be it.

mutley18 wrote: »

So are tradesmen not meant to be working at all? As in if you needed a plumber you cant get one?

Anything that is classed as essential is fine so getting a plumber to fix a leaking radiator or broken heating system would be okay.

timmyntc wrote: »

At some point we have to act like adults and take responsibility for our own actions

Couldnt agree more.

timmyntc wrote: »

That means having the freedom to live our lives and choose (if we wish) to put ourselves at risk.

Not wanting to sound harsh but thats fine if you want to put your own life at risk, no skin of my nose as they say. But did it sink in yet that we are living with a deadly pandemic and that your actions could possibly result in the deaths of family, friends and neighbours.

Maybe rewind to the first part of your post where you suggested acting like an adult and behave accordingly.

i do like the fact that supervalu sent me an email promoting a magnum of prosecco, that wont encourage gatherings

echo beach wrote: »

Some might have got a first injection but none have their second injection so aren’t fully vaccinated.

It is also important to remember that vaccination isn’t a passport to party. No vaccine gives 100% protection and it may not prevent transmission so until a large proportion of the population is vaccinated everyone should continue to follow public health advice.

Not to mention the risk of mutations.

67 new cases notified today.

The last time we had more cases than that was 21 January. So in one way we are no further forward than we were 2 months ago despite the sacrifices made by a lot of people. I hope the people who didnt "do their bit" are proud of themselves.

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Any word if they're concentrated in an area/location, or widespread?

South Inishowen was mentioned earlier in the week and I think the Milford EA also had higher numbers ... open to correction on the latter.

Deleted User wrote: »

I do believe they are safe. (Although I'd still like more info).
Which is precisely why I'm more than happy to be vaccinated.

My husband, who is higher risk than I am, is not an anti vaxxer, but is concerned at some of the posts he reads on social media, so, he's more hesitant than I am.

I'm sure he's not the only one - therefore surely it's a good idea to replace misinformation with actual stats, no?

There were many I could have replied to but I just chose this one.

I've had both jabs now, the pfizer one. First one, sore arm the day after. Second one, felt 'grotty' and achy for a couple of days.

Approx 60 of my colleagues have reported the same and none have reported having two sets of side effects, just after either the first or the second.

Approx another 60 have had the first dose of the AZ jab. About half of them reported have a couple of days feeling cráp.

Around five of my colleagues have been unlucky enough to catch covid with one of them landing in ICU for 3 weeks. Each and every one of them have said that they'd take 100 days for side effects than covid again.

It's a small sample but it is real lived experience.

lulu1 wrote: »

Hubby who is a front line worker got the az vaccine a few weeks ago. He was fine the rest of the day but the next day he had a splitting headache was freezing cold and was all aches and pains

This only lasted a day and he was back to normal the next day

heard that from a couple of people my boss in newcastle had the same last friday

muffler wrote: »

I wont say where but Im aware of a creche that has had to close. 8 children and 3 staff tested positive. It appears that the transmission came from one child who picked it up at home from an older sibling who in turn was infected at national school.

Im also aware of a family of 6 who all tested positive last week and the man of the house was seen returning home with shopping this morning! God knows how may others he may have transmitted the virus to while in the shop or shops.

:mad::mad::mad:

Fully agree.

It's hard for people to do the difficult things and still see no reward. Remember when Donegal was locked down separately from other counties? We were really bad.

Then people really make the effort and get the numbers down to low levels. I think what causes them to go back up again is just tiredness, exhaustion of the never ending effort that's needed. It is easy to make the odd mistake.

The bottom line is all this is the lack of a vaccine roll out. Look at the UK figures now. They have really low death figures now, simply because they have so many vaccinated. If we could have got our act together, Ireland would be the same. Instead we are arsing around, and being led around by the nose by the eu, and that is why we are all in a mess in Europe. Boris has shown them up, after he made a balls of the crisis initially.

The AZ debacle hasn't helped either, and already many people are refusing to get vaccinated for fear of it, when there was no issue in the 1st place. 4 clots out of 70,000,000 jabs given worldwide. Absolute hames they made of it.

tl/dr, bottom line, you can ask people to behave all you want, but until we get most of the population vaccinated, nothing is going to change.

Augeo wrote: »

If he had clean hands, wore a mask and touched nothing but the stuff he bought he likely infected no one.

Infected folk have been in shops since March 2020.

People who have tested positive are required to self isolate. Wearing a mask and having clean hands counts for nothing when you are in a shop as there are so many other scenarios whereby the virus can be passed on to others.

Big numbers again today, 2nd behind Dublin.

I hope to god the schools will reopen after Easter.

Technique wrote: »

This guy explains why he thinks that 86% of the population will be fully vaccinated by the end of June.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/ma2y3h/why_the_vaccination_situation_isnt_as_bad_as_it/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

The big ramp ups in production have been promised since back in January - they said production would already be ramped up a good bit by now, and by April, moreso by May etc.

What we are seeing is continued supply issues and failure to hit vaccine targets - so I'd be very surprised if we hit that target for end of June

NIMAN wrote: »

The bottom line is all this is the lack of a vaccine roll out. Look at the UK figures now. They have really low death figures now, simply because they have so many vaccinated. If we could have got our act together, Ireland would be the same. Instead we are arsing around, and being led around by the nose by the eu, and that is why we are all in a mess in Europe. Boris has shown them up, after he made a balls of the crisis initially.

I don't know why you're holding the UK up as a bastion of doing things right let alone giving the PM the credit.

He dropped the ball, multiple times. He ignored the science time after time. He said that the roadmap out of this current would be based upon data, not dates then proceeded to give dates.

The reason that the UK numbers are looking better is because of some brave moves by the vaccine task force last year. They took a chance and threw money at pharmaceutical companies and it has worked out brilliantly.

But lets not kid ourselves, we still have ~5k positive cases per day and that seems to have levelled off more recently. We had over 500 deaths in the past week.