Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Pen Rua

It feels like the public are being treated like children by politicians & media. “We’re going to punish you unless...” It’s tiresome and I’m fed up of the threats.

I don’t see why Galway, Cork are mentioned in the same breath as Donegal, Dublin when our cases are low albeit rising. This comes with the caveat of: I’m not a decision maker and do not have access to the same info as NPHET et al.

How do they justify restricting Cork for c. 30 cases per day when Donegal got moved on the day it had c. 100 cases? Not even adjusted for population.

Anyhow, I’m off home to Galway City to get married next weekend, please God. If you’re a religious type, I’d appreciate prayers for the wedding & marriage.

bee06

Pen Rua wrote: »

It feels like the public are being treated like children by politicians & media. “We’re going to punish you unless...” It’s tiresome and I’m fed up of the threats.

I don’t see why Galway, Cork are mentioned in the same breath as Donegal, Dublin when our cases are low albeit rising. This comes with the caveat of: I’m not a decision maker and do not have access to the same info as NPHET et al.

How do they justify restricting Cork for c. 30 cases per day when Donegal got moved on the day it had c. 100 cases? Not even adjusted for population.

Anyhow, I’m off home to Galway City to get married next weekend, please God. If you’re a religious type, I’d appreciate prayers for the wedding & marriage.

Giving them the benefit of the doubt I’ve always assumed it’s based on the information they get from contact tracing and how it’s spreading. If it’s due to a lot of community transmission rather than clusters that can be somewhat contained. For example back in August Tipperary had a spike that came back down without a change in restrictions because it was due to a food processing factory. Tipperary is now one of the lowest for cases per 100k. But maybe I’m wrong and that involves too much logic. If they did explain the logic (if there is one) it would help.

Best of luck with the wedding and the marriage. It can’t be easy with this hanging over ye.

whisky_galore

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Yeah, no. House parties are far from the main problem here.

They're not part of any solution.

jojofizzio

ACitizenErased wrote: »

They've mentioned Limerick and Galway too, and they'll never happen. There's a big difference between locking down Donegal and locking down the biggest county.

Pen Rua wrote: »

It feels like the public are being treated like children by politicians & media. “We’re going to punish you unless...” It’s tiresome and I’m fed up of the threats.

I don’t see why Galway, Cork are mentioned in the same breath as Donegal, Dublin when our cases are low albeit rising. This comes with the caveat of: I’m not a decision maker and do not have access to the same info as NPHET et al.

How do they justify restricting Cork for c. 30 cases per day when Donegal got moved on the day it had c. 100 cases? Not even adjusted for population.

Anyhow, I’m off home to Galway City to get married next weekend, please God. If you’re a religious type, I’d appreciate prayers for the wedding & marriage.

Aw,best of luck with it,hope it will all go ahead as planned:)

ACitizenErased

whisky_galore wrote: »

They're not part of any solution.

Not sure why people don’t get that until there’s a vaccine there is not a solution. COVIDs going nowhere.

ofcork

Pfizer seem to be confident of having their vaccine ready in october.

ACitizenErased

ofcork wrote: »

Pfizer seem to be confident of having their vaccine ready in october.

Yep, emergency approval in November and mass vaccinations beginning in early 2021.

yerwanthere123

Great to hear, but I wonder what the initial uptake would be like? I'd certainly be holding off for a while to see what the initial affects are.

Zardoz

ofcork wrote: »

Pfizer seem to be confident of having their vaccine ready in october.

Good stuff.
I've much more faith in an industry based vaccine , the Oxford one is pie in the sky.

JP Liz V1

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Pen Rua wrote: »

I’m off home to Galway City to get married next weekend, please God. If you’re a religious type, I’d appreciate prayers for the wedding & marriage.

Best of Luck

mean gene

All students be arriving now I dont expect numbers to go down -reckon we will be hitting high figures every day now

SleetAndSnow

https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1310217938151108608?s=20

Once it doesn't move past closely watching because we are still not near Level 3 restrictions.

Itssoeasy

SleetAndSnow wrote: »

https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1310217938151108608?s=20

Once it doesn't move past closely watching because we are still not near Level 3 restrictions.

While corks numbers have risen but we are nowhere near Dublin and Donegal and several other counties. Now that could change but hopefully it doesn’t because I keep saying it but the level of mask wearing is very high in general and the outbreaks are in known places so the virus isn’t wandering around the lough ffs.

Maybe I’m being overly sensitive but cork is being lumped in with counties who are closer to level three counties and there’s not a big outbreak in neighbouring counties to us.

Santy2015

It would be an absolute joke if Cork was put into level 3 restrictions. Donnelly is just a spoofer. Dublin is understandably in level 3 as is Donegal but we’ve nowhere near the threshold which I suppose is an incident rate of 100 per 100,000

happyday

bee06 wrote: »

Giving them the benefit of the doubt I’ve always assumed it’s based on the information they get from contact tracing and how it’s spreading. If it’s due to a lot of community transmission rather than clusters that can be somewhat contained. For example back in August Tipperary had a spike that came back down without a change in restrictions because it was due to a food processing factory. Tipperary is now one of the lowest for cases per 100k. But maybe I’m wrong and that involves too much logic. If they did explain the logic (if there is one) it would help.

Best of luck with the wedding and the marriage. It can’t be easy with this hanging over ye.

Best of luck with the big day. I hope it all goes well for you both.

Treehelpplease

cork went from being at the bottom to nearly being top 10. i don't think we are level 3 ready yet but maybe their information points to a trend where we will have to. I really think they need to start splitting the city and county into different figures. Dublin is okay as the whole county basically is the city, and the other three aren't big enough, but Cork City's population (including Carrigaline and other county suburbs like Passage West and monkstown) if it was a county would be the fourth biggest county (after Dublin, rest of County Cork and Galway). Cork County is also so huge that cases in Douglas or Glasheen or the city centre shouldn't be counted with cases from Youghal or Bantry or Ballydesmond.

there should be Cork North, Cork East, Cork West and Cork city figures, like this

igCorcaigh

54 cases

Sonrisa

+54 today

ACitizenErased

Not great but still way below what Donegal’s at per capita.

Santy2015

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Not great but still way below what Donegal’s at per capita.

But our overlord health minister thinks otherwise

ACitizenErased

Santy2015 wrote: »

But our overlord health minister thinks otherwise

The last few days in Donegal are almost 150 down here

Vinnie222

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Not great but still way below what Donegal’s at per capita.

Cork has the 2nd largest percentage increase in cases in the last two-week period, not looking good going forward

SleetAndSnow

Vinnie222 wrote: »

Cork has the 2nd largest percentage increase in cases in the last two-week period, not looking good going forward

Limerick was increasing day on day last week/week before and suddenly flatlined and stopped. Can't say that for certain, lets hope that is what happens here

mean gene

just gone to sh1t here since the schools re opened just as some thought -not a surprise at all

ACitizenErased

Vinnie222 wrote: »

Cork has the 2nd largest percentage increase in cases in the last two-week period, not looking good going forward

You can’t lockdown the biggest county in Ireland for ~30-50 cases per day, primarily in the city. Not happening.

Vinnie222

SleetAndSnow wrote: »

Limerick was increasing day on day last week/week before and suddenly flatlined and stopped. Can't say that for certain, lets hope that is what happens here

Let's hope, the last thing we want is another lockdown

JP Liz V1

We are going the wrong way

Vinnie222

ACitizenErased wrote: »

You can’t lockdown the biggest county in Ireland for ~30-50 cases per day, primarily in the city. Not happening.

My pt is its growing. 3 weeks ago cases were v low. Just shows how it can get out of hand

Ludo

ACitizenErased wrote: »

You can’t lockdown the biggest county in Ireland for ~30-50 cases per day, primarily in the city. Not happening.

I know you are trying to put a positive spin on this, and that's fine, but at this stage I do think we are heading for level 3 lockdown unless there is a sudden downward change.

It probably won't happen at 50 per day but that will go up I feel I unfortunately.

JP Liz V1

How many in hospitals?

It was 102 in total for ROI

titan18

I think once we push close to 100 cases a day, we'd have to locked down. 30-50 is small numbers with our population

mean gene

unfortunately it will be locked down next week before we go to 100 plus a day

JP Liz V1

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rodders999

How did Limerick manage to get on top of things? Were a lot of their cases traveller related and therefore relatively easy to contain? I know they had a pop up test centre in Rathkeale so they attacked the outbreak at one of its sources. Hopefully we’re in a position to follow suit.

cantalach

rodders999 wrote: »

How did Limerick manage to get on top of things? Were a lot of their cases traveller related and therefore relatively easy to contain? I know they had a pop up test centre in Rathkeale so they attacked the outbreak at one of its sources. Hopefully we’re in a position to follow suit.

Yes, the LED map shows it was really around Rathkeale and not the city.

Funsterdelux

Im not sure if it was mentioned here, but I heard today that a special school (Which was closed during the week with 6 cases (staff and pupils)) has had a further 6 cases, mostly no symptoms. At this rate we may see many schools having to close, even before the midterm.

JP Liz V1

Funsterdelux wrote: »

Im not sure if it was mentioned here, but I heard today that a special school (Which was closed during the week with 6 cases (staff and pupils)) has had a further 6 cases, mostly no symptoms. At this rate we may see many schools having to close, even before the midterm.

St. Gabriel's?

JP Liz V1

110 in hospital 18 ICU

Sephiroth_dude

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

110 in hospital 18 ICU

In Cork?

ACitizenErased

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

In Cork?

5, 1 in ICU

Funsterdelux

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

St. Gabriel's?

I think so, not 100% with the name.

Just got email from my son's school. A positive case in 5/6th class, he's in 2nd. Its a country school in North Cork, didnt think it would be here so soon.

JP Liz V1

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

In Cork?

No all of ROI

TheBetsy

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Yes I agree with large fines for the owners/landlords/parents etc.,

Any evidence of these actually being the problem? Please enlighten

JP Liz V1

TheBetsy wrote: »

Any evidence of these actually being the problem? Please enlighten

I think they are helping increase cases, spreading as the majority of cases are under 45 and with a lot school college age etc.,

Treehelpplease

it's not the pubs, it's house parties. it's not house parties it's.. what?

Widdensushi

Treehelpplease wrote: »

it's not the pubs, it's house parties. it's not house parties it's.. what?

It's inevitable, the mentality where people are looking to blame others is also inevitable

JP Liz V1

MerlinSouthDub wrote: »

Daily operations report is out. 108 in hospital, down 2. 17 in ICU, down 1.

At least decreasing

Junkyard Tom

Would the relatively high numbers in Cork South West LEA be attributable to the returning third level student population?

Ludo

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Would the relatively high numbers in Cork South West LEA be attributable to the returning third level student population?

I don't think it is that simple or that we can just blame "outsiders". For example, Beantown Cafe on Model Farm Road closed all week and now say on Facebook's that a number of their staff have tested positive.

Pen Rua

Thanks for the kind wishes for the wedding. Planning any wedding is tough, but these past six months have been exceptionally stressful & emotional. We’re almost there. Even if Galway (where we’re due to get married) moves to Level 3, the Govt has set the precedent in Donegal & Dublin to allow weddings to go ahead as planned that weekend.

re the colleges, the call to move online for two weeks was made far too late. By Fri evening most of the students were in their accommodation. Now they have two weeks online with no on campus structure. By Friday, they could (could!) have no supervised venues to socialise (bars, restaurants...) where one would think contract tracing is easier to manage. Instead, the volume of house gatherings will likely raise which will be harder to contact trace.