Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Zardoz

the beer revolu wrote: »

Don't mean to be pessimistic but I can see a massive surge in cases , possibly even before Christmas. And I mean massive.

I will be keeping my head down and not going to bars or restaurants this side of Christmas. Having said that, I totally understand the pent up eagerness to get out and socialise especially amongst people who live on their own - they are the group I really feel for. And I completely understand businesses who just want to get some money in their accounts after an extremely difficult year.

I don't want to jeopardise being able to spend Christmas day with my 91 year old mother, though.

I wont be going near a pub or restaurant.
Every December/January for the last 4 years I've gotten a terrible dose of bronchitis from going to the pub.
Usually takes me 3 weeks to get over it .
Poorly ventilated, hot stuffy pubs are unfortunately a breeding ground for viruses.

Morries Wigs

Zardoz wrote: »

I wont be going near a pub or restaurant.
Every December/January for the last 4 years I've gotten a terrible dose of bronchitis from going to the pub.
Usually takes me 3 weeks to get over it .
Poorly ventilated, hot stuffy pubs are unfortunately a breeding ground for viruses.

any link to that claim stats nationwide dont reflect this

Chuck Noland

Morries Wigs wrote: »

any link to that claim stats nationwide dont reflect this

I don’t know when that poster last visited a pub but the 1970’s would be my guess if that’s the description they give of it

the beer revolu

Morries Wigs wrote: »

any link to that claim stats nationwide dont reflect this

Sure why not throw up your link, there, and clear it all up!

Hard to see how you'd have stats for transmission in pubs considering they've be almost entirely closed since mid March

fin12

fin12 wrote: »

I think it’s funny people here saying won’t be going out this side of Christmas as if there’s another side after Christmas, it’s straight into lockdown again in January, even have the date already January 6th.

Unreal funny.
People want to see their loved ones with as little risk as possible of passing on covid.

ACitizenErased

16 additional cases in Cork today.

JP Liz V1

titan18 wrote: »

Apparently a decent amount of no shows in places. Collected food in Quinlan's there and they were saying they're turning people away at the door but have bookings not turning up at the same time

That's bad, making bookings and then no shows without any notice

Cape Clear

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

That's bad, making bookings and then no shows without any notice

Might be part of the reason some places didn't bother opening for Xmas.

Cork Lass

16 in Cork today.

JP Liz V1

Anyone been to the market down by the marina?

KrustyUCC

https://twitter.com/ZaraKing/status/1336005874184314882

10 new cases in Cork today

ACitizenErased

Remarkable progress made here in the last few weeks, fair play to all

JP Liz V1

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Remarkable progress made here in the last few weeks, fair play to all

Yes well done all

KrustyUCC

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Remarkable progress made here in the last few weeks, fair play to all

Great to see

Hopefully it can be kept up

leahyl

Friend of mine in town today said it was very busy but everyone was masked up on the streets and he didn’t feel uncomfortable - queues outside shops. Good to see people doing their bit too slow/prevent spread.

KrustyUCC

https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1336364989976891392

7 cases in Cork today

Itssoeasy

So as many Covid cases today as we have all Ireland football titles. That’s good. The Covid number I mean not the all Ireland’s.

Be right back

It's great to see single figures.

ACitizenErased

Really good to see such low numbers again

ACitizenErased

5 additional cases in Cork today

Cork Lass

ACitizenErased wrote: »

5 additional cases in Cork today

That’s great - we are in a good place at the moment, hopefully we continue like this.

Zardoz

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Remarkable progress made here in the last few weeks, fair play to all

What was the primary reason for cases spiking in Cork during September and October, has there been any scientific research ?

Aftermath of August light restrictions I imagine, it happened nationwide more or less.

saabsaab

Augeo wrote: »

Aftermath of August light restrictions I imagine, it happened nationwide more or less.

Opened schools, Colleges and holiday returnees.

Cape Clear

Zardoz wrote: »

What was the primary reason for cases spiking in Cork during September and October, has there been any scientific research ?

Greedy publicans

igCorcaigh

Cape Clear wrote: »

Greedy publicans

Damn right. And business interests won again with the opening up right before Christmas, when a lot of people will be visiting their elderly parents.
Hopefully cases locally will stay low, as I am hoping to visit my parents on Christmas day too.

ACitizenErased

Based on the location of the cases in September, it was very much not the pubs, but that narrative runs rampant once again.

JP Liz V1

I was in city centre today and it was lovely to hear the Echo boy shouting Echo and Holly Bough at the GPO, it is the little things like that you miss sometimes, not many queues and all mask wearing even if some had under their noses

SusieBlue

Cape Clear wrote: »

Greedy publicans

Pubs were open for all of two weeks before they were shut when we went back to level 3 again. They are once again being made scape goats for something that wasn’t their fault.

They have been closed for almost 9 months now, nearly a full year of lost business while the bills are still mounting up and I don’t think there’s anything remotely greedy about them anxiously trying to salvage any kind of income they can, just like every other industry is.

deeperlearning

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Damn right. And business interests won again with the opening up right before Christmas, when a lot of people will be visiting their elderly parents.
Hopefully cases locally will stay low, as I am hoping to visit my parents on Christmas day too.

In the words of Dr Gabriel Scally - "It's no use having a good Christmas if you're burying friends and relations in the new year."