Covid 19 Part XXVI- 50,993 ROI (1,852 deaths) 28,040 NI (621 deaths) (19/10) Read OP

Benimar

iamwhoiam wrote: »

Is it just me who thinks this shouldn’t be coming through the media ? The information should be given by a Government briefinf with clear concise and information guidelines

No, you certainly aren’t alone on that one. It’s also pretty clear that someone in Cabinet is leaking like a sieve, and have been for a while.

I think we all have our suspicions who it might be!

joe40

Sardonicat wrote: »

Yes. Lol. Kid gets infected by someone at home then brings it into school. Lol

That may happen but the infected pupil is then in contact with literally hundreds of others in the same building.
Infections may start in households but considering how infectious covid is schools have to propagate the spread.

quokula

statto25 wrote: »

Intercounty can continue if there is proper testing provided to each time. GAA is far from the first thing that's needs to go

It’s hard to imagine anything in more of a Goldilocks zone of being a major contributor to spread of infection and being totally unimportant to the functioning of society as the GAA. Can’t for the life of me see how the government can justify keeping it going while so much else need to shut.

suicide_circus

Sardonicat wrote: »

Yes. Lol. Kid gets infected by someone at home then brings it into school. Lol

Yeah. So someone brings it into school and infects someone else who then brings it home. At which point the school becomes a source of transmission.

owlbethere

AlphaDelta1 wrote: »

Can't actually believe they are letting the GAA go ahead but shutting down small businesses. I give in.

Christ almighty, do they know what they are doing at all in government?

CruelSummer

Happydays2020 wrote: »

On the radio this morning there was a reference to numbers by the end of the month, including 100 in ICU. I did not pick up the other numbers.

Given that those numbers will arise no matter what happens now, it will be interesting to see how accurate they actually are, particularly given this is the basis that decisions are being made to shut down the country.

How do they know that? Are they basing it on April when we weren’t testing the same number of people? The previous models were miles off. Why are these ones correct? The Irish people need hard evidence on this. Why is it not being shared with us?

niallo27

Fuascailteoir wrote: »

Polls indicate otherwise, is a big level of support for level 5

50/50 any polls i have heard about. Even if it was 70/30 they would struggle.

accensi0n

landofthetree wrote: »

What if Waterford won their first All Ireland since 1959?

Good luck stopping the celebrations.

Retire and claim his pension?

Plumbthedepths

giveitholly wrote: »

Thought you were hell bent on blaming the schools,now it's the Gaa

Same theme, young people. Funny no blame attached to those in government or the health service.

AlphaDelta1

iamwhoiam wrote: »

Is it just me who thinks this shouldn’t be coming through the media ? The information should be given by a Government briefinf with clear concise and information guidelines

Half the PR working for FFG worked in the media before being offered their positions. FG has two ex newstalk employees as an example.

It's all about spin these days.

Gradius

There's only one choice going forward; giant condoms.

I'll have my specialist supplier whip up a batch for the country

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV_BPDi8Ems

owlbethere

iamwhoiam wrote: »

Is it just me who thinks this shouldn’t be coming through the media ? The information should be given by a Government briefinf with clear concise and information guidelines

Thats right. I find it all bizarre. Rte new was running with a story from the 6 news about a level 5 lockdown yet there was no announcement from government yet. That doesn't seem right.

Jinglejangle69

s1ippy wrote: »

A good friend of mine has a shop in Cork. He's 66 so he doesn't get the PUP. What's he supposed to do? He has no choice but to close down.

There is another payment for people in this predicament.

Heard Regina on about it the other day.

Doctors room ghost

statto25 wrote: »

Intercounty can continue if there is proper testing provided to each time. GAA is far from the first thing that's needs to go

If the gaa had an ounce of respect for the players wellbeing or that of their families and fans they would have pulled the plug on this year months ago.
They want to class the players as voluntary amateurs but run it as an elite sport.
A load of sh1te the lot of it.
We have to stay 5kms from home and panels of players are encouraged to travel the country and they hardly even getting diesel money out of it.
Nothing short of a farce

Benimar

Just to echo others. There is no way amateur sports should be permitted at the moment.

AlphaDelta1

Roots 2020 wrote: »

It makes perfect sense. People are going to need something to sustain them in the coming weeks.

It's a calculated risk mental health v the virus risk.

What about the mental health of small business owners

is_that_so

Turtwig wrote: »

Watch their press conference on the Wednesday afterwards. The data they had on Thursday was markedly different to that Sunday. They explained it quite well.

The minister of health had to know a Sunday meeting shouldn't happen if they thought ah level 2 looks fine. Iirc he was given advance notice about potential level 4 before meeting begun.

Communication has been poor I agree there. It vexes me no end that we cannot see their slides as they talk about them.

I suspect the leak was government side. Took away all the focus of the leaving cert cock up. They were able to move to level 3 far easier too.

Yeah, but not Level 5. That's very poor communication and they must be utter halfwits to imagine that such a bombshell of a recommended three level change would not be leaked.

Sardonicat

Gradius wrote: »

There's only one choice going forward; giant condoms.

I'll have my specialist supplier whip up a batch for the country

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV_BPDi8Ems

LOL. I proposed as much to my partner, who doesn't live with me, last night. If I didn't laugh now, I'd cry, believe me.

ElTel

harr wrote: »

People see a slight drop in cases and suddenly we are over the worst of it and and cases have stabilised .. cases dropping over a 7 day period then he can say cases are stabilising.

What's wrong with that?
I'd be in the anti lockdown camp and probably one of the more optimistic posters.

A lot of the current surge in cases started around the end of August and the reasons have been highlighted already. It has masked a lot of the success that L3 and "living with covid" has had imo.

Incubation can be 2 weeks and secondary infections take time too so perhaps we'll only see this peaking around now?

I don't think putting tens of thousands more on PUP/essential business only will have much effect above the current level of restrictions.

s1ippy

stephenjmcd wrote: »

Unbelievable how that's overlooked.

Presume they'll just tell him to apply for the grant per week of closure but I doubt that'll be of much comfort to him.

Thanks man, I'd say he didn't know about that. I'll send him the info, that'll be a big help.

Work is his lifeline. He loves seeing all the characters who come in to visit him. He's absolutely hilarious too. Luckily he didn't buy too much stock for Christmas but it's still pretty galling to see the lads having ragers celebrating matches when he hasn't been able to go for a quiet pint with his friends in eight months and now because of the spike in cases his business is gone again. And his business has absolutely no connection to the cases, nobody who ever set foot in the place tested positive.

prunudo

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

If the gaa had an ounce of respect for the players wellbeing or that of their families and fans they would have pulled the plug on this year months ago.
They want to class the players as voluntary amateurs but run it as an elite sport.
A load of sh1te the lot of it.
We have to stay 5kms from home and panels of players are encouraged to travel the country and they hardly even getting diesel money out of it.
Nothing short of a farce

The ad campaign on Sky means I suspect where their morals lie.

Phil.x

Gyms, hardware and car dealers/repair should at the minimum be allowed to operate at level5.

Mantis Toboggan

#Leotheleak is trending on Twitter!!

Sardonicat

Phil.x wrote: »

Gyms, hardware and car dealers/repair should at the minimum be allowed to operate at level5.

How so gyms?

is_that_so

Phil.x wrote: »

Gyms, hardware and car dealers/repair should at the minimum be allowed to operate at level5.

Nah, they are places that are riddled with COVID!

Sweet.Science

Benimar wrote: »

Just to echo others. There is no way amateur sports should be permitted at the moment.

Why . Winter will be very bleak . Over a million people watch the games on tv . It would give them something to look forward to

ForestFire

landofthetree wrote: »

What if Waterford won their first All Ireland since 1959?

Good luck stopping the celebrations.

I already said before this post, winning an all Ireland, even for waterford and as a supporter, would not mean much this year, especially if the trend of winners and increased cases continues...

Funsterdelux

TG4 should run All Ireland Gold instead, including any decent provincial matches

XsApollo

These C*nts are a f**king joke.
It’s maddening how people’s lively hoods are being f**ked up because of the inaction of these w**nkers in power.

They had the chance back after the first lockdown To eradicate the virus when we were in single digits.

But they did nothing, Kn*ackers arriving everywhere , tourists doing what they like , borders wide open on the pretence that they had to keep them open to keep business going but here we are again shutting Businesses down ruining the bloody country.

All they had to do was lock the borders , Ban tourists, business travellers, Mandatory quarantine and test for anybody arriving in and penalties for not doing so.


But they couldn’t do it or didn’t have the balls.

I rarely get mad at politics, I just bury my head in the sand usually, because it’s a waste of time.
It’s the good law Abiding people that get shafted as always In this country while the chosen few do what they like.

ACitizenErased

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

Same theme, young people. Funny no blame attached to those in government or the health service.

I blame the sugarcoaters