Coronavirus (COVID-19)

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.

Oafley Jones

Ludo wrote: »

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.

Huge amount of Mount Mercy kids go in there. Not so many CIT students, but a large amount of hospital employees as well. Small premises as well and I know they try their best as regards social distancing, but it can get very crowded there.

newuser99999

Pen Rua wrote: »

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.

The student shaming relating to covid is borderline hilarious. I’ve never seen the UCC / CIT area quieter in my life. Students have been made aware from the middle of August that the learning was to be blended and anything that could be done online would be done online, and plenty of notice would be given for any in person activity to sort out travel arrangements. It’s not a surprise that college is online now.

Treehelpplease

talking to friends, all of CIT is online this year anyway and the vast majority of UCC is

Level 42

newuser99999 wrote: »

The student shaming relating to covid is borderline hilarious. I’ve never seen the UCC / CIT area quieter in my life. Students have been made aware from the middle of August that the learning was to be blended and anything that could be done online would be done online, and plenty of notice would be given for any in person activity to sort out travel arrangements. It’s not a surprise that college is online now.

Quiet is it their only starting this week give them time to organize a p1ss up

titan18

newuser99999 wrote: »

The student shaming relating to covid is borderline hilarious. I’ve never seen the UCC / CIT area quieter in my life. Students have been made aware from the middle of August that the learning was to be blended and anything that could be done online would be done online, and plenty of notice would be given for any in person activity to sort out travel arrangements. It’s not a surprise that college is online now.

I live in the UCC area. There was a very noticeable increase in younger people in the area last week. In April and may, there was loads but it did die down over the summer.

fin12

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-40056158.html

Front page news again, Cork - Lockdown.

the beer revolu

fin12 wrote: »

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-40056158.html

Front page news again, Cork - Lockdown.

It bugs me when GPs are wheeled out as viral pandemic experts.
It is not their field!

rodders999

A man in his 70s lives near me, was scheduled to go in for a routine operation today so went for his pre admission covid test as is the norm the other day. He tested positive, zero systems - couldn’t believe it.

Anyway the upshot is from the contact tracing they’ve now discovered 8 others who have tested positive with 12 others being tested today - again all asymptomatic.

Thing is if he hadn’t had a hospital appointment all those people would be strolling about the place completely oblivious to having the disease. Kids going to school, parents off out to work and all that goes with it.

How the hell are we meant to contain something like that? It must be silently spreading all over the place with the vast majority of cases never coming to light.

Level 42

Fierce session students had last night all over the radio

Pen Rua

the beer revolu wrote: »

It bugs me when GPs are wheeled out as viral pandemic experts.
It is not their field!

Like I said previously in this thread - pointless articles.

titan18

Level 42 wrote: »

Fierce session students had last night all over the radio

What was that on

ACitizenErased

rodders999 wrote: »

A man in his 70s lives near me, was scheduled to go in for a routine operation today so went for his pre admission covid test as is the norm the other day. He tested positive, zero systems - couldn’t believe it.

Anyway the upshot is from the contact tracing they’ve now discovered 8 others who have tested positive with 12 others being tested today - again all asymptomatic.

Thing is if he hadn’t had a hospital appointment all those people would be strolling about the place completely oblivious to having the disease. Kids going to school, parents off out to work and all that goes with it.

How the hell are we meant to contain something like that? It must be silently spreading all over the place with the vast majority of cases never coming to light.

It's widely believed that the rise in testing and the sensitivity of our testing = more cases.

namloc1980

Level 42 wrote: »

Fierce session students had last night all over the radio

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fin12

https://amp.independent.ie/world-news/coronavirus/third-wave-of-coronavirus-entirely-possible-expert-warns-39566897.html

Now they are going on about a third wave.

corks finest

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

St. Gabriel's?

Yes

SleetAndSnow

21 cases. A nice drop. Hopefully it keeps on dropping

ACitizenErased

SleetAndSnow wrote: »

21 cases. A nice drop. Hopefully it keeps on dropping

27

SleetAndSnow

ACitizenErased wrote: »

27

Ah richard chambers reported wrong numbers then

SleetAndSnow

70 cases associated with pubs/restaurants out of 350 or so in Cork in the last few weeks

ACitizenErased

Cork transmission details from Dr. Glynn:
70 cases associated with pubs/restaurants out of 350 in last few weeks