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    #2732
    mandrake04
    Registered Users Posts: 4,435 ✭✭✭mandrake04


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    I was told they were, by someone who has a close relative living there. Sydney, I believe.

    You believe?

    I live in Sydney and have been for the last 15 years.
    21/12/2020

    The Australian Defence Force has deployed 1298 personnel to support hotel quarantine.

    That includes 342 ADF personnel in New South Wales, 284 in Queensland and 150 in Victoria, Mr Morrison said.

    The ADF is not currently patrolling any borders or hotspots.



    https://www.9news.com.au/national/coronavirus-nsw-paul-kelly-appointed-as-australias-chief-medical-officer/11fb1d30-9914-4740-b0c6-3c8ff06bcc04


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    #2733
    alps
    Registered Users Posts: 4,937 ✭✭✭alps


    orm0nd wrote: »
    I reckon there will be have to designated centres set up,

    storage is the big issue, I can't see -70c facilities being available at small scale outlets

    Back to the farmers again.....who has -70 storage tanks in their dairies?


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    #2734
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    alps wrote: »
    Back to the farmers again.....who has -70 storage tanks in their dairies?

    We really are the all rounders


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    #2735
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,699 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    mandrake04 wrote: »
    You believe?

    I live in Sydney and have been for the last 15 years.



    https://www.9news.com.au/national/coronavirus-nsw-paul-kelly-appointed-as-australias-chief-medical-officer/11fb1d30-9914-4740-b0c6-3c8ff06bcc04

    Look, I was only saying what I was told. No need to be tetchy.

    'When I was a boy we were serfs, slave minded. Anyone who came along and lifted us out of that belittling, I looked on them as Gods.' - Dan Breen



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    #2736
    mandrake04
    Registered Users Posts: 4,435 ✭✭✭mandrake04


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Look, I was only saying what I was told. No need to be tetchy.

    Sorry Mate, I was just clarifying the facts rather than hearsay.

    No harm intended


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    #2737
    greysides
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 8,974 Mod ✭✭✭✭greysides


    Maybe asymptomatic cases aren't infectious...

    https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4851

    The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert

    The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It's to promote critical thinking.

    Adam Grant



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    #2738
    Water John
    Registered Users Posts: 21,142 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    greysides wrote: »
    Maybe asymptomatic cases aren't infectious...

    https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4851

    Interesting that it says 17/20% of infections a re asymptomatic. This is much lower than any figure I have heard. This means we have a fairly accurate knowledge of the total numbers, by multiplying the known cases by 1.2.

    BTW one of a family, a front line worker, has been notified they are being vaccinated next week.


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    #2739
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,136 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Almost 1300 cases today... this is crap


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    #2740
    gozunda
    Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Almost 1300 cases today... this is crap

    With the known lag to hospital admission and likley increase rate of deaths down the road - its going to make for a rough January I reckon.

    Stay safe everyone.


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    #2741
    _Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 18,485 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    gozunda wrote: »
    With the known lag to hospital admission and likley increase rate of deaths down the road - its going to make for a rough January I reckon.

    Stay safe everyone.

    The positive age profile is younger which will hopefully result in fewer admissions and fewer desperately sick admissions.


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    #2742
    yosemitesam1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,944 ✭✭✭yosemitesam1


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Almost 1300 cases today... this is crap

    We are in a phase of rapid growth in testing. We have gone from 78,000 tests a week two weeks ago to somewhere around 125,000 for the week ending tomorrow.
    This will level off, but the changes in testing numbers make it look like numbers are growing much faster than they actually are at this point in time


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    #2743
    yosemitesam1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,944 ✭✭✭yosemitesam1


    yosemitesam1 wrote: »
    I think it's pretty much a given, unless changes are made to testing. As a small to moderate rise will lead to test numbers being ramped up by 20+% over a short period of time giving the illusion of a much faster rise than actually is going on.
    We still have no way of knowing what the test results actually represent

    Posted at the start of this month.
    We went from 75k tests last week of November to 76k test the first week of December to 82k tests 2nd week, 91k in the third week and for the last 7 days we are currently on 110k tests with the rate of testing still on the increase.


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    #2744
    dh1985
    Registered Users Posts: 586 ✭✭✭dh1985


    yosemitesam1 wrote: »
    Posted at the start of this month.
    We went from 75k tests last week of November to 76k test the first week of December to 82k tests 2nd week, 91k in the third week and for the last 7 days we are currently on 110k tests with the rate of testing still on the increase.

    That's a 50% increase in testing ability but the resultant has been a 300% increase in positive cases in the same time frame. Going by those figures there been a 200% increase in cases in 4 weeks


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    #2745
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    dh1985 wrote: »
    That's a 50% increase in testing ability but the resultant has been a 300% increase in positive cases in the same time frame. Going by those figures there been a 200% increase in cases in 4 weeks

    744 cases today. Nearly a 40% drop


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    #2746
    Water John
    Registered Users Posts: 21,142 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Saying there are more positive because of more testing is an old Donald Trump argument. More testing is because more have symptoms and thus the virus is spreading more. We know a lockdown during Jan/Feb will be the only way to lower the figures. With vaccine rollout, esp first to the vulnerable, it will the the last one.


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    #2747
    yosemitesam1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,944 ✭✭✭yosemitesam1


    Reggie. wrote: »
    744 cases today. Nearly a 40% drop

    There was a fairly large drop in samples collected on Christmas day, we were on 110k tests in the 7 days up until yesterday, todays update is 106 for the last 7 days


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    #2748
    yosemitesam1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,944 ✭✭✭yosemitesam1


    Water John wrote: »
    Saying there are more positive because of more testing is an old Donald Trump argument. More testing is because more have symptoms and thus the virus is spreading more. We know a lockdown during Jan/Feb will be the only way to lower the figures. With vaccine rollout, esp first to the vulnerable, it will the the last one.

    Testing lags spread and then rapidly closes the gap. Giving the illusion of an exponential growth.
    We've seen the exact same thing happen in October, fast rise in testing then testing numbers fell off a cliff. But the falling trend in covid positives was never sustained because it was never on quite as high a trajectory as testing indicated.


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    #2749
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,136 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    The 14 day incidence rate in donegal and wexford is very high. 21 deaths in northern Ireland reported today :eek:


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    #2750
    Water John
    Registered Users Posts: 21,142 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Cabinet meeting tomorrow to consider further Level 5 restrictions. Numbers at 1,566 in NI today.
    Great to see vaccine rollout here.


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    #2751
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Water John wrote: »
    Cabinet meeting tomorrow to consider further Level 5 restrictions. Numbers at 1,566 in NI today.
    Great to see vaccine rollout here.

    1500ish here too


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    #2752
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Large number of people have arrived around here for New Years.


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    #2753
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,136 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Large number of people have arrived around here for New Years.

    Very disheartening to hear of shopping centres being full etc.


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    #2754
    Water John
    Registered Users Posts: 21,142 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Will all non essential shopping and services be stopped and all work from home be brought in for one last push. A lot of the highly vulnerable will be fully vaccinated by the end of Feb.


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    #2755
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Water John wrote: »
    Will all non essential shopping and services be stopped and all work from home be brought in for one last push. A lot of the highly vulnerable will be fully vaccinated by the end of Feb.

    Looking that way I'd say


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    #2756
    dzer2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,938 ✭✭✭dzer2


    Water John wrote: »
    Will all non essential shopping and services be stopped and all work from home be brought in for one last push. A lot of the highly vulnerable will be fully vaccinated by the end of Feb.

    Me hole more important to have a bank holiday than vaccinate. It will be end of February before my dad gets it. He is very high on the vulnerable list in a nursing home. Haven't seen him since March. Guarantee there will be no vaccinations done on the weekend


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    #2757
    Dinzee Conlee
    Registered Users Posts: 2,140 ✭✭✭Dinzee Conlee


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Large number of people have arrived around here for New Years.

    Where is that Herd if you don’t mind me asking?
    You’d wonder what people are thinking...


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    #2758
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,119 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Large number of people have arrived around here for New Years.

    I was coming behind a yellow reg car today.. Well it was a bmw yellow reg that passed me out and I caught up with them miles down the road when they got stuck behind a car on a twisty road.
    I'd swear they were straight off the boat.
    Anyway a few miles more of them taking turns at junctions and me still following on my way home. They indicated and pulled over to let me past. So on I goes.

    There wouldn't be too many roads left the way they were going. I'd say they were getting worried that I was either the guards going to ask questions or a nosey neighbour wondering which house they were going to pull into.


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    #2759
    Dinzee Conlee
    Registered Users Posts: 2,140 ✭✭✭Dinzee Conlee


    Say my name wrote: »
    I was coming behind a yellow reg car today.. Well it was a bmw yellow reg that passed me out and I caught up with them miles down the road when they got stuck behind a car on a twisty road.
    I'd swear they were straight off the boat.
    Anyway a few miles more of them taking turns at junctions and me still following on my way home. They indicated and pulled over to let me past. So on I goes.

    There wouldn't be too many roads left the way they were going. I'd say they were getting worried that I was either the guards going to ask questions or a nosey neighbour wondering which house they were going to pull into.

    And which house did they pull into Say?

    ;):)


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    #2760
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,119 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Dinzee Conlee wrote: »
    And which house did they pull into Say?

    ;):)

    A beech tree.


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    #2761
    [Deleted User]
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    Dinzee Conlee wrote: »
    Where is that Herd if you don’t mind me asking?
    You’d wonder what people are thinking...

    Way out West Dinzee. Merchants opened again today so I was on the road picking up a few bits. Met several "convoys", which aren't usual for normal traffic. See the village parking spots filled up and cars around tourist houses. People will moan but they're "at home", bull, they'll waddle off back East again Jan 2nd.

    Big outbreak in the local town thanks to an after funeral pub session.

    Some are too stupid to think. I don't particularly give a toss about the stupid ones, but you can bet they bring this virus on those who don't want it.


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