Covid 19 Part XXIII-33,444 in ROI(1,792 deaths) 9,541 in NI(577 deaths)(22/09)Read OP

smellyoldboot · 20-09-2020 11:38pm

Multiple needles on the ground following a concert by the most middle aged, middle of the road rock bands in existence and where tickets were what €90+ for the cheap seats? Walter Mitty hasn't a patch on you lad.

drunkmonkey · 20-09-2020 11:40pm

I'm not making it up lads...why would I make up something like that, I go to plenty of gigs, festivals etc and I've never seen anything like it. That was the one and only time I've seen that happen. Maybe there was something else in them but I can't think what else comes in needles besides some types of smoke but there's no way they were doing that either.

humberklog · 20-09-2020 11:40pm

U2 in '05 probably had more diabetics than junkies in the audience.

smellyoldboot · 20-09-2020 11:41pm

Be honest now. It was you were on the skag. There weren't any young people there at all. Where there?

TonyMaloney · 20-09-2020 11:42pm

U2 fans are the biggest bunch of aul wans. There's no chance there was any heroin at a u2 gig. Ever.

drunkmonkey · 20-09-2020 11:42pm

humberklog wrote: »

U2 in '05 probably had more diabetics than junkies in the audience.

sounds more plausible.

normanoffside · 20-09-2020 11:43pm

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

Ah don't blame Tony, how could he have known. It wasn't as if elderly people were falling victim in large numbers elsewhere in Europe that we were aware of.....sssh don't mention Italy.

The truth will hopefully eventually come out, unfortunately too late for all the lives he has destroyed (both the dead and those destroyed by the restrictions as a result).

A simple acknowledgment from NPHET when asked instead of saying 'no-one is to blame' would have sufficed but they couldn't even admit their mistakes.

Plumbthedepths · 20-09-2020 11:43pm

drunkmonkey wrote: »

I'm not making it up lads...why would I make up something like that, I go to plenty of gigs, festivals etc and I've never seen anything like it. That was the one and only time I've seen that happen. Maybe there was something else in them but I can't think what else comes in needles besides some types of smoke but there's no way they were doing that either.

Well Bono's head was firmly up his own ass by that timeframe so maybe drugs were required to get through his monologues. Good music though.

Non solum non ambulabit · 20-09-2020 11:44pm

tigger123 wrote: »

A load of people in Croke Park were shooting up while watching a gig?

I know?? Makes zero sense.

Plumbthedepths · 20-09-2020 11:45pm

normanoffside wrote: »

The truth will hopefully eventually come out, unfortunately too late for all the lives he has destroyed (both the dead and those destroyed by the restrictions as a result).

A simple acknowledgment from NPHET when asked instead of saying 'no-one is to blame' would have sufficed but they couldn't even admit their mistakes.

Doesn't matter no one will be held responsible. Holohan is a hero in the eyes of many with very short memories.

forumdedum · 20-09-2020 11:45pm

What were the statistics for locking down Kildare etc? Cases per 100,000?

KrustyUCC · 20-09-2020 11:46pm

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Rumours its a nursing home

Fermoy area?

hetuzozaho · 20-09-2020 11:50pm

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Me neither but that's what was on the ground close to where we all were. I remember it clearly, it was one of those jesus christ moments. I didn't see anyone shooting up but must have been a gang of them.

How many needles we talking?

drunkmonkey · 21-09-2020 12:00am

hetuzozaho wrote: »

How many needles we talking?

It was a lot, not just one or two, it was a few meters from where we were standing during the gig. Maybe it was something else in them or someone dropped a box. It hasn't crossed my mind in 15yrs until that picture of all the nox on the ground.

Jinglejangle69 · 21-09-2020 12:05am

Wake me up I'm dreaming.

Last 3 pages are surely a dream.

Arghus · 21-09-2020 12:09am

Jinglejangle69 wrote: »

Wake me up I'm dreaming.

Last 3 pages are surely a dream.

I had to check the thread title twice to make sure I hadn't clicked into some other thread by mistake.

hetuzozaho · 21-09-2020 12:13am

Jinglejangle69 wrote: »

Wake me up I'm dreaming.

Last 3 pages are surely a dream.

Sunday night, everyone's kicking back with some U2 and a bit of heroin before the long week ahead!

Wolf359f · 21-09-2020 12:13am

Jinglejangle69 wrote: »

Wake me up I'm dreaming.

Last 3 pages are surely a dream.

Next we're gonna hear about crack pipes left behind at the royal concert hall.

Oberkon · 21-09-2020 12:29am

https://youtu.be/jJUZXzovjs0

Jinglejangle69 wrote: »

Wake me up I'm dreaming.

Last 3 pages are surely a dream.

It’s all a dream - some mad stuff tonight

ACitizenErased · 21-09-2020 12:38am

KrustyUCC wrote: »

Fermoy area?

City

Blondini · 21-09-2020 12:40am

Arghus wrote: »

I had to check the thread title twice to make sure I hadn't clicked into some other thread by mistake.

Me too and it looked interesting so I thought to myself "I will follow"

JP Liz V1 · 21-09-2020 12:43am

Virtual Emmys

Renjit · 21-09-2020 12:57am

This thread has been coke blocked

Plumbthedepths · 21-09-2020 1:03am

Renjit wrote: »

This thread has been coke blocked

Horse, coke was the slang for cocaine. Poor attempt tbh.

Charles Babbage · 21-09-2020 1:14am

normanoffside wrote: »

What about the residents that Holohan sent back to the homes Covid Positive (without test) from Hospital in order to clear beds for the younger population?

The HSE did this, but not necessarily Holohan.

normanoffside · 21-09-2020 1:19am

Charles Babbage wrote: »

The HSE did this, but not necessarily Holohan.

He recommended it as part of NPHET, certainly did nothing to stop it.

Plumbthedepths · 21-09-2020 1:20am

Charles Babbage wrote: »

The HSE did this, but not necessarily Holohan.

Holohan was the CMO he also advised the Nursing homes not to restrict visitors.

Wolf359f · 21-09-2020 1:39am

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

Holohan was the CMO he also advised the Nursing homes not to restrict visitors.

And it's been proven visitors didn't spread covid into nursing homes.
No matter how many times you suggest it, it's just untrue.
NPHET did actually advise nursing homes to restrict visitors.
weeks before they had cases in nursing homes.

Wolf359f · 21-09-2020 1:41am

normanoffside wrote: »

He recommended it as part of NPHET, certainly did nothing to stop it.

Despite what people think NPHET have zero power/control, they advise, they cant actually take actions.

I'm not defending NPHET, but I hate when people think NPHET are calling the shots and actually have the power to make the changes.

s1ippy · 21-09-2020 2:22am

Tbf as CMO and NPHET representative, Tony said it was all good in the hood as regards visiting nursing homes and there was a case in one later that week and then the whole situation snowballed. So I would say that his decision and inaction is the most visible cause of the spread in nursing homes.

spookwoman · 21-09-2020 2:59am

s1ippy wrote: »

Tbf as CMO and NPHET representative, Tony said it was all good in the hood as regards visiting nursing homes and there was a case in one later that week and then the whole situation snowballed. So I would say that his decision and inaction is the most visible cause of the spread in nursing homes.

The nursing homes brought in the restrictions first and he said not necessary.

On March 4, Nursing Homes Ireland announced a blanket ban on visitors to narrow the possibilities of infection. Six days later, the chief medical officer Tony Holohan said such a ban was “unnecessary” at that point.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-30994257.html

I will never forget him trying to stop the cervical smear review and wrote a quite nasty letter to one of the women who is dying.

MOR316 · 21-09-2020 3:07am

TonyMaloney wrote: »

U2 fans are the biggest bunch of aul wans. There's no chance there was any heroin at a u2 gig. Ever.

Not in 05.

I saw many people between 13 and 21 attend those gigs

mirrorwall14 · 21-09-2020 5:27am

As a Dublin reg car Not living in Dublin we were down west this weekend. Plenty of commuters in D reg’s I’d say who aren’t in lockdown

caveat emptor · 21-09-2020 6:47am

CDC catching up regarding flights.
https://twitter.com/alinouriphd/status/1307764546556354561?s=21

Funsterdelux · 21-09-2020 6:52am

TonyMaloney wrote: »

U2 fans are the biggest bunch of aul wans. There's no chance there was any heroin at a u2 gig. Ever.

Maybe it was a euthanise pact. I know I would if i were at a U2 gig.

mandrake04 · 21-09-2020 7:02am

caveat emptor wrote: »

CDC catching up regarding flights.
https://twitter.com/alinouriphd/status/1307764546556354561?s=21

Surely this is an impossibility the HEPA filters is like Kryptonite to the virus, boom!!! it sucks it right out of your filthy infected body.

igCorcaigh · 21-09-2020 7:05am

Wolf359f wrote: »

Despite what people think NPHET have zero power/control, they advise, they cant actually take actions.

I'm not defending NPHET, but I hate when people think NPHET are calling the shots and actually have the power to make the changes.

Agreed, although I hate when some people in the government point to them as a way of deflecting blame. Very poor leadership.

21-09-2020 7:32am

caveat emptor wrote: »

CDC catching up regarding flights.
https://twitter.com/alinouriphd/status/1307764546556354561?s=21

That's not very many contacts for flights - only 6 per infected person

21-09-2020 7:33am

caveat emptor wrote: »

CDC catching up regarding flights.
https://twitter.com/alinouriphd/status/1307764546556354561?s=21

mandrake04 wrote: »

Surely this is an impossibility the HEPA filters is like Kryptonite to the virus, boom!!! it sucks it right out of your filthy infected body.

Worth reading the article not the headline:

But though the agency says some of those travelers subsequently fell ill, in the face of incomplete contact tracing information and a virus that incubates over several days, it has not been able to confirm a case of transmission on a plane.

lawred2 · 21-09-2020 7:33am

mirrorwall14 wrote: »

As a Dublin reg car Not living in Dublin we were down west this weekend. Plenty of commuters in D reg’s I’d say who aren’t in lockdown

But Dublin isn't in lockdown

mirrorwall14 · 21-09-2020 7:35am

lawred2 wrote: »

But Dublin isn't in lockdown

I’m referencing a poster giving out about seeing Dublin reg cars elsewhere. There is request not to travel for Dubliners

Peter Flynt · 21-09-2020 7:43am

lawred2 wrote: »

But Dublin isn't in lockdown

It's in lockdown lite.

Peter Flynt · 21-09-2020 7:44am

mirrorwall14 wrote: »

I’m referencing a poster giving out about seeing Dublin reg cars elsewhere. There is request not to travel for Dubliners

Phoenix Park is empty of cars this morning.

Only those told to be at work are going.

GooglePlus · 21-09-2020 7:44am

mirrorwall14 wrote: »

I’m referencing a poster giving out about seeing Dublin reg cars elsewhere. There is request not to travel for Dubliners

D car registration is fairly common outside of Dublin.

Boggles · 21-09-2020 7:51am

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Going by the ground when they left yes it was covered in needles, It was the Vertigo tour in 2005.

It's the real reason they wouldn't let the Garth Brooks concerts go ahead, smack heads everyone of them.

True story.

Eod100 · 21-09-2020 7:54am

Looks like HSE sourcing more tests from Germany. Only up to 2000 extra a day so not huge. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/struggling-hse-agrees-deal-with-german-lab-to-boost-covid-19-testing-capacity-1.4359975?mode=amp&localLinksEnabled=false&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Struggling+HSE+agrees+deal+with+German+lab+to+boost+Covid-19+testing+capacity&utm_campaign=morning_briefing_digest

John O.Groats · 21-09-2020 8:01am

drunkmonkey wrote: »

I was at a concert in croke park a good few years ago, held on for a few minutes to let the crowd disperse all around us was covered in needles.
I'm happy to see young folk taking laughing gas rather than heroin. Yea I know it's against public health advice before you go off on one.

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Going by the ground when they left yes it was covered in needles, It was the Vertigo tour in 2005.

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Me neither but that's what was on the ground close to where we all were. I remember it clearly, it was one of those jesus christ moments. I didn't see anyone shooting up but must have been a gang of them.

drunkmonkey wrote: »

I'm not making it up lads...why would I make up something like that, I go to plenty of gigs, festivals etc and I've never seen anything like it. That was the one and only time I've seen that happen. Maybe there was something else in them but I can't think what else comes in needles besides some types of smoke but there's no way they were doing that either.

drunkmonkey wrote: »

It was a lot, not just one or two, it was a few meters from where we were standing during the gig. Maybe it was something else in them or someone dropped a box. It hasn't crossed my mind in 15yrs until that picture of all the nox on the ground.

Are you sure you weren`t on something yourself at the gig and hallucinated all this crap about seeing needles?

SEPT 23 1989 · 21-09-2020 8:05am

U2 in Croke Park in 87 I could believe

CiarraiManc · 21-09-2020 8:07am

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

My friends wife is a financial controller in a nursing home. They had no cases until a patient was transferred from a public hospital guess what happened. Anecdotal I know.

Does your friend have two wives as well?

Get Real · 21-09-2020 8:16am

mirrorwall14 wrote: »

As a Dublin reg car Not living in Dublin we were down west this weekend. Plenty of commuters in D reg’s I’d say who aren’t in lockdown

And those D reg cars were probably saying the same about your D reg car...

Loads of D regs outside of Dublin belonging to people who live outside of Dublin.

Covid 19 Part XXIII-33,444 in ROI(1,792 deaths) 9,541 in NI(577 deaths)(22/09)Read OP

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