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  • #302
    muffler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,316 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    sea swimmer wrote: »
    So, here's the thing, what about family coming over from mainland UK? Are they a risk in self catering accommodation?
    If you mean the easing of restrictions in Phase 3 then of course every single visitor to this county or any county in Ireland or any off shore islands is an increased risk. But the government have stipulated what needs to be done so if people adhere to that then the risk factor should decrease.


  • #303
    [Deleted User]
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    sea swimmer wrote: »
    So, here's the thing, what about family coming over from mainland UK? Are they a risk in self catering accommodation?

    Shouldn't you be asking if people coming from a country that handled the outbreak so badly pose a risk to people here?


  • #304
    muffler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,316 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    Its been a few weeks now since we had posts in this thread. I suppose things were ticking over as best as we could hope for but I just heard on the RTE news that there are 5 new cases reported today in Donegal. That's worrying.


  • #305
    kathleen37
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 813 ✭✭✭kathleen37


    Oh blimy


  • #306
    IrishZeus
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    That’s probably the staycations kicking in. Anyone know which locality they were in?


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  • #307
    muffler
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    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Anyone know which locality they were in?
    No idea. They just stated 5 in the county.


  • #308
    lulu1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,815 ✭✭✭lulu1


    I really think a lot of young people and plenty not so young are doing their own thing now as regards meeting up with very little or no social distancing and having young ones of my own I can only remind them of the dangers and that the virus is still out there.

    Will we ever get back to normal??


  • #309
    md23040
    Registered Users Posts: 505 ✭✭✭md23040


    I heard last week that the local GAA clubs were doing testing of players and a junior in Glenties and one in the Cross were discovered and both unaware and asymptotic. Further developments from two sources in the Cross with another case and several suspected related to the GAA players with quite a number of young ones sent to quarantine from yesterday


  • #310
    muffler
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    md23040 wrote: »
    I heard last week that the local GAA clubs were doing testing of players and a junior in Glenties and one in the Cross were discovered and both unaware and asymptotic. Further developments from two sources in the Cross with another case and several suspected related to the GAA players with quite a number of young ones sent to quarantine from yesterday
    Local rumour has it that there are 5 family members from the Cross area who have tested positive.

    Another rumour has it that there is a cluster of up to 10 people in the Drumkeen area who have also tested positive but there isn't anything official about that and I do have to stress its merely a rumour at this time.

    On an official level I see Donegal has recorded a further 4 cases in this evening's press release...up to midnight on Thursday. That's an increase of 12 in the last 8 days


  • #311
    muffler
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    Another 5 cases listed today which is a total of 17 since the beginning of the month up to Saturday night.


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  • #312
    CastorTroy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,307 ✭✭✭✭CastorTroy


    Heard of ones as well who don't want to go and get tested because they know they have it.
    I'm sure there a lot like that. As long as they self isolate, no issue with it


  • #313
    echo beach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭echo beach


    CastorTroy wrote: »
    Heard of ones as well who don't want to go and get tested because they know they have it.
    I'm sure there a lot like that. As long as they self isolate, no issue with it

    There is an issue. If they do have it (which they can’t know without a test) then all close contacts from 2 days before first symptoms have to be traced and tested. That is how you break the chain of transmission.
    Self isolating after they have symptoms isn’t enough.

    What happens if they get sicker? They still don’t know what they have.

    The advice is simple. If you have symptoms or have been in contact with a confirmed case contact your GP. If they say you should get tested go and get tested.


  • #314
    CastorTroy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,307 ✭✭✭✭CastorTroy


    I know. I'm not saying they're right. But as we've seen many times during all this, some people only care about themselves.
    So if the best we can get from them is self isolation then will take that at least, but unfortunately some don't want to miss that big house party.


  • #315
    muffler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,316 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    I see Dr Dara Scally has posted this on her Facebook page........
    Be careful my friends. Coronavirus is here in Letterkenny. I don't know why we, the public, aren't told what's going on. But me the doctor is. There's a huge cluster here. Please stay safe.


  • #316
    retalivity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,520 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Yeah thats been doing the rounds all evening. Dismissed it as scaremongering til i realised who it was...


  • #317
    NIMAN
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    Surely it'll show on the official figures then.


  • #318
    echo beach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭echo beach


    Official figures run 24-48 hours behind ‘real time’. They aren’t notified the second they occur. Figures are only given at county level to protect the confidentiality of patients so it won’t be revealed if they occur in Letterkenny. Immediately there is speculation about who it might be and by a process of Chinese whispers everyone off work for whatever reason is branded first a a possible then as a certain case.

    If someone you were in close contact with tests positive you will be contacted. If you have any possible symptoms contact your GP. Don’t spend your time trying to figure out if someone you know MIGHT be infected.

    There is coronavirus spreading in our county, with positive cases identified every day for over a week. Yes we should be careful and follow the public health advice to wash our hands, wear a face covering in shops and other indoor areas and limit the number of people we are in contact with. We need to keep doing this for the foreseeable future no matter what the figures are.


  • #319
    Donegal Storm
    Registered Users Posts: 2,023 ✭✭✭Donegal Storm


    Everyone at work today was commenting on that post, thought it was extremely unprofessional from the doctor to just throw out a 'statement' with no real proof and no context as to what huge means.


  • #320
    Moragle
    Registered Users Posts: 107 ✭✭Moragle


    Donegal Storm wrote: »
    Everyone at work today was commenting on that post, thought it was extremely unprofessional from the doctor to just throw out a 'statement' with no real proof and no context as to what huge means.

    I'm really glad to see this, from reading the "you're the best dr in the world" posts on Facebook I thought I was in a tiny minority. Hugely unprofessional in my opinion, and scaremongering to the point people who need to see the dr will avoid the surgery fearing its crawling with covid even though the gps refer you to o Donnell park over the phone


  • #321
    StillThinking
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    Moragle wrote:
    I'm really glad to see this, from reading the "you're the best dr in the world" posts on Facebook I thought I was in a tiny minority. Hugely unprofessional in my opinion, and scaremongering to the point people who need to see the dr will avoid the surgery fearing its crawling with covid even though the gps refer you to o Donnell park over the phone


    Thankfully I haven't heard one single person praising her. Let's face we all know it's in Letterkenny, it's everywhere, but now to the rest of the country we sound like a leper colony. I know it's the end of the holiday season but this would usually be the time retirees decide to spend a few days away, we've not a hope of those staying in Letterkenny now


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  • #322
    slimboyfat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 581 ✭✭✭slimboyfat


    Donegal Storm wrote: »
    Everyone at work today was commenting on that post, thought it was extremely unprofessional from the doctor to just throw out a 'statement' with no real proof and no context as to what huge means.

    My thoughts exactly, good to see there are more level headed people om here than those on facebook.


  • #323
    Porthallian
    Registered Users Posts: 2,359 ✭✭✭Porthallian


    Someone posted a video today on FB. A HSE van in Fortwell. Hearing many rumors but without anything concrete I won't post those, going to be a lot of frightened people in the town in the coming days.


  • #324
    echo beach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭echo beach


    Porthallian wrote: »
    Someone posted a video today on FB. A HSE van in Fortwell. Hearing many rumors but without anything concrete I won't post those, going to be a lot of frightened people in the town in the coming days.

    The HSE don’t send out vans to the location of positive cases.
    If Covid travels as fast as rumours we must all be infected.


  • #325
    Porthallian
    Registered Users Posts: 2,359 ✭✭✭Porthallian


    echo beach wrote: »
    The HSE don’t send out vans to the location of positive cases.
    If Covid travels as fast as rumours we must all be infected.

    Why was the van there then? What I mean is, in what scenario do they send out a van?


  • #326
    redt0m
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 346 ✭✭redt0m


    echo beach wrote: »
    The HSE don’t send out vans to the location of positive cases.
    If Covid travels as fast as rumours we must all be infected.


    Heard from someone whose son lives in Fortwell apartments, he saw the 'men in spacesuits at three in the morning and the mobile unit'. Either he was tripping balls or something was actually going on.


  • #327
    Donegal Storm
    Registered Users Posts: 2,023 ✭✭✭Donegal Storm


    Article here says there've only been 3 or 4 cases in Letterkenny in the past two weeks and that the doctor was on holiday last week when she posted her comments.

    https://donegalnews.com/2020/08/growing-number-of-cases-now-scattered-across-county/
    After going 23 days without a single Covid-19 case in May/June, Donegal has had twenty-five new cases over the last 14 days. Of these, 20 were found to be in the 25-54 year age group.

    Included in those cases are ‘three or four’ in Letterkenny which prompted local GP, Dr Dara Scally, to take to social media earlier this week.

    Dr Scally from the Scally, McDaid, Roarty Medical Practice in Letterkenny, sparked fear in the local community when she claimed that there was a huge cluster of cases in Letterkenny.

    “Be careful my friends. Coronavirus is here in Letterkenny. I don’t know why we, the public, aren’t told what’s going on. But me the doctor is. There’s a huge cluster here. Please stay safe,” read her post to Facebook on Monday afternoon.

    The following afternoon, Tuesday, Dr Scally let her followers know that she was on holiday this week and was not taking calls but stood by her ‘truthful’ post.

    Only one case in hospital which is good news at least


  • #328
    Heighway61
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,972 ✭✭✭Heighway61


    Was in LUH today getting bloods done. Nurse said to expect substantial increases in positive cases in the coming days.


  • #329
    malinheader
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    14 cases in Donegal today.
    Not looking good


  • #330
    Heighway61
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,972 ✭✭✭Heighway61


    malinheader wrote: »
    14 cases in Donegal today.
    Not looking good
    More to come. A taxi driver was doing his job during the day and going to soccer and GAA training and the pub in the evenings. Pub and clubs closed now. Everybody at the pub and the clubs traced but taxi customers not possible.


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  • #331
    malinheader
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    Heighway61 wrote: »
    More to come. A taxi driver was doing his job during the day and going to soccer and GAA training and the pub in the evenings. Pub and clubs closed now. Everybody at the pub and the clubs traced but taxi customers not possible.

    Not good. I was hoping we could get back to a wee bit of normality but the way the figures are rising I fear were heading the way of more restrictions again.


  • #332
    DrPhilG
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    Where's the surge in deaths?


  • #333
    muffler
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    DrPhilG wrote: »
    Where's the surge in deaths?
    Deaths???


  • #334
    DrPhilG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,454 ✭✭✭✭DrPhilG


    Yes. A surge in cases isn't particularly relevant. Younger fitter members of the population being confirmed doesn't really matter provided they steer clear of the old and vulnerable.

    So a surge in cases is only a worry if there is an accompanying surge in deaths.

    There hasn't been, so talk of new lockdowns are daft.


  • #335
    muffler
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    DrPhilG wrote: »
    Yes. A surge in cases isn't particularly relevant. Younger fitter members of the population being confirmed doesn't really matter provided they steer clear of the old and vulnerable.

    So a surge in cases is only a worry if there is an accompanying surge in deaths.

    There hasn't been, so talk of new lockdowns are daft.
    So it doesnt matter one iota how many people are affected by covid? I for one certainly cant agree with those sentiments.


  • #336
    DrPhilG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,454 ✭✭✭✭DrPhilG


    The more people are affected and recover, the sooner some form of herd immunity will be achieved. A vaccine is most likely a pipe dream (at least any time soon) and lockdown is going to have vastly more devastating effects in the long term due to depression, economic devastation and disruption to education.

    Lockdown is not an answer.


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  • #337
    NIMAN
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    There's a balance though, I can see where you are both coming from.

    It worrying that cases are rising , and are ten times what they were in June. It shows we are getting slack and too many people think it's life as normal. And of course the more people get it, raises the chances of older or more vulnerable people getting it who may not be so lucky.

    And yes I don't think the country can take another lockdown. We need the schools back and the economy functioning as well as it possibly can. If that means the majority getting on with life and taking precautions, and the vulnerable being cautious, then so be it.


  • #338
    DrPhilG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,454 ✭✭✭✭DrPhilG


    NIMAN wrote: »
    If that means the majority getting on with life and taking precautions, and the vulnerable being cautious, then so be it.

    Nail on the head.


  • #339
    henke
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    Two days with no reported cases in Donegal. Hoping things have somewhat stabilised.


  • #340
    NIMAN
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    Heighway61 wrote: »
    More to come. A taxi driver was doing his job during the day and going to soccer and GAA training and the pub in the evenings. Pub and clubs closed now. Everybody at the pub and the clubs traced but taxi customers not possible.

    So this never came to pass?

    Lot of rumours like this during this pandemic.


  • #341
    Heighway61
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,972 ✭✭✭Heighway61


    NIMAN wrote: »
    So this never came to pass?

    Lot of rumours like this during this pandemic.
    It wasn't a rumour. I had first hand experience of this. Luckily, pub and soccer club returned no positive tests and both reopened. The GAA club is still closed, don't know the situation there regarding testing.


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  • #342
    Heighway61
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    Figures for Donegal not the best in recent days. A person in the HSE was able to tell me that it will be similar numbers or higher in the coming days. Outbreaks in two organisations with large staff numbers.


  • #343
    muffler
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    Heighway61 wrote: »
    Figures for Donegal not the best in recent days. A person in the HSE was able to tell me that it will be similar numbers or higher in the coming days. Outbreaks in two organisations with large staff numbers.
    I think we may well have seen that today with the announcement of 13 additional cases.


  • #344
    Heighway61
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    Lifford Courthouse closed following positve test(s). Factory in Dungloe closed. Buritto Loco in Letterkenny closed with 9 positive tests.

    :(


  • #345
    Risteard81
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    DrPhilG wrote: »
    The more people are affected and recover, the sooner some form of herd immunity will be achieved. A vaccine is most likely a pipe dream (at least any time soon) and lockdown is going to have vastly more devastating effects in the long term due to depression, economic devastation and disruption to education.

    Lockdown is not an answer.
    Not only is it not an answer - it is treasonous. Varadkar, Harris and Martin et al need to be prosecuted and punished in the most severe way for their crimes against the Irish people. They are enemies of Ireland.

    And dictating to people to wear stupid gas masks etc. is equally unlawful.


  • #346
    muffler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,316 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    There is a full forum dedicated to Coronavirus here which would be a more appropriate place for these type of comments. For now can we try to keep the discussion to local issues only. Cheers.


  • #347
    muffler
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    12 more cares announced today. Thats 25 in the last 2 days.


  • #348
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,542 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Any indication of whereabouts the cases were?


  • #349
    muffler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,316 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    Any indication of whereabouts the cases were?
    This post earlier from Heighway61 might shed some light....possibly


  • #350
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    muffler wrote: »
    12 more cares announced today. Thats 25 in the last 2 days.

    I'm actually surprised that it isn't more.
    The world and its mother seems to have come to Donegal this year - understandably, since we had a relatively long period with no cases.

    It couldn't have come at a worse time though. Schools are well known breeding grounds for infections. All we need now is for one of the clusters to spread into the schools, and, IF it spreads through the school, all bets are off with trying to contain it, imho.

    Having said that, GPs do appear to be referring a lot of kids for testing, so, fair play, they're trying their best to keep on top of it.
    We'll find out, soon enough whether the test results and the tracing systems are fast enough to be effective.
    My own Granddaughter was tested (negative, thankfully), and it took 48 hrs for the results to come back.

    There have been several children tested at a different school that my grandson attends also - also, all results negative, thankfully.

    48 hours is a long time, where there are other children - even allowing for "pods" of children, those infected may have brothers and sisters, either in the same school, or another - and based on how fast your average seasonal flu, or the various other viral infections spread, I think faster testing times are required, personally speaking.

    Does anyone know how Donegal is faring for testing capacity?


  • #351
    Heighway61
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,972 ✭✭✭Heighway61


    I'm surprised too there hasn't been more, going by what I'm seeing and reliably hearing.

    The schools are a worry, moreso the school bus. No social distancing.


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