Covid 19 Part XXVII- 62,002 ROI (1,915 deaths) 39,609 NI (724 deaths) (02/11) Read OP

Skylinehead

GooglePlus wrote: »

At least elaborate?

I will. First off, Y2K comparisons are wrong. That was a massive effort that isn't going to be done in a week.

Second, you can't just roll out an OS update to production systems with the click of a finger. The vendor has to make the patch, test it, roll it out, and then whoever has to apply the patch will do the same testing in each of those environments. It would be months at a minimum to achieve that.

awec

GooglePlus wrote: »

At least elaborate?

Suggesting that a change to something as critical as time can be made, tested, and rolled out to all affected systems in a 5 day period is insane.

perrito caliente

Glorious body on the airline chick. Cute accent too. My kind of woman drool

JimToken

Cue shortage of cannabis

Lockdown ends gards start drug raids all over again

political analyst

perrito caliente wrote: »

Glorious body on the airline chick. Cute accent too. My kind of woman drool

Who?

TonyMaloney

ACitizenErased wrote: »

5 admissions, 2 discharges. Death =/= discharge.

https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1318451315710828546?s=20

perrito caliente

political analyst wrote: »

Who?

Video a few pages back.

JimToken

awec wrote: »

Suggesting that a change to something as critical as time can be made, tested, and rolled out to all affected systems in a 5 day period is insane.

Thought it should be simple

Explains why I'm not a programmer

hmmm

GooglePlus wrote: »

At least elaborate?

I think you're underestimating the fragility of complex IT systems, particularly industrial control and financial systems, and the amount of testing which is required for even seemingly minor changes. Correct time is a huge deal for many companies.

spookwoman

TonyMaloney wrote: »

despite 2 ICU deaths in the last 24 hours

34, 5 icu admissions and 2 discharged. The daily op report for the 18th has gone missing

https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/news/newsfeatures/covid19-updates/coronavirus-daily-operations-updates.html

Stheno

This made me laugh, an journo in the Indo giving out about George Lee

https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/am-i-the-only-person-tired-of-george-lees-scare-the-bejaysus-out-of-the-nation-reports-39640031.html

For decades, the Halloween horror movie franchise was regarded as the last word in October TV terror.

Then, last week, George Lee appeared on Six One News in full-on, scare-the-bejaysus-out-of-the-nation mode.

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And, all across a petrified land, children, many convulsing into tears as the bespectacled bogeyman prophesised the imminent end of days, ran to the bosom of their mothers.

Cats jumped behind their owners' couches and meowed urgent will and testaments to their solicitors for each of the nine lives George warned were hanging by the flimsiest feline thread.

Lee obsessing about Covid-19 can make The Grim Reaper appear as cuddly as Thelma Mansfield.

As far as the Montrose Science Correspondent is concerned, coronavirus is Lionel Messi and we are bumbling Harry Maguires: The latter thinking they can stop the former is, in Lee's world of extreme fright, an act of lunacy.

Hysterical

The dodgy football metaphors don't end there.

George is the Irish equivalent of those frenzied Brazilian soccer commentators when Neymar scores a goal: An uncontainable exhalation of hysterical streams of conscious.

Except, with the national broadcaster's prince of pessimism, it is not a drawn out chorus of GOOOOAAAALLLLL, but a ceaseless blizzard of LOCKDOWNNNNNNNNNNN.

George can seem even more enthusiastic than Nphet to shunt the nation into an endless existential limbo.

It would be no surprise to discover that Lee has life-sized posters of Tony Holohan on his bedroom wall.

If, sometime in the next century, there is a post-Covid fancy dress ball in RTÉ, the smart money is on George dressing up as Sam McConkey or Luke O'Neill or Cillian de Gascun.

He can seem as philosophically wedded to the great minds of Nphet as Donald Trump is to orange make-up.

We have nicknamed Lee Apoca-lips - because every syllable he utters warns us the end of the world is nigh.

Or Armagh-geddon, as each time he discusses the number of cases in Northern Ireland he begins to twitch and tremble while turning a whiter shade of pale.

Mild lockdowns no more satisfy George's craving to hermetically seal every living Irish man and woman in some subterranean nuclear bunker than a half of bitter would have sated Brendan Behan on a night on the tiles.

He is an advocate not of Level Four or Level Five. Rather, like a music geek who misses 1980s' jazz-funk, he craves Level 42.

If George had his way the shutters would come down on every business in the land, the nation would turn off the lights and crawl into a black hole until some distant afternoon in 2074.

One of these days, he is going to decline to join Catriona Perry on the Six One sofa until RTÉ costume him in full Dustin Hoffman' Outbreak hazmat suit.

Angry

And don't dare suggest to Lee that we must live with Covid.

Don't make George angry, you wouldn't like him when he's angry.

When Marty Morrissey mentioned how the GAA championship proceeding might help the nation's mental health, he immediately went into Lee's little black book.

A shrill, hyperbolic human panic alarm, Lee offers alternates for what the letters RTE stand for in this time of wrinkled normality and shattered nerve-endings.

Reporter Traumatising Elderly; Radiate Terror Everywhere; Revere The Epidemic; Ruin The Evening.

To him, the coronavirus is more catastrophic than an amalgam of bubonic plague, the Black Death, that deadly nuclear payload dropped on Hiroshima by the Enola Gay and repeated listening to the Ray D'Arcy Show.

Don't mention pubs, restaurants, off licenses or house parties, to George. He is the Elliot Ness of this new age of prohibition.

awec

JimToken wrote: »

Thought it should be simple

Explains why I'm not a programmer

There is absolutely nothing simple about date and time.

JimToken

32 in ICU = 5 Million Locked Down

Makes sense alright

ACitizenErased

TonyMaloney wrote: »

https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1318451315710828546?s=20

That report doesn't even exist.
https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/news/newsfeatures/covid19-updates/coronavirus-daily-operations-updates.html

GT89

political analyst wrote: »

https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/1019/1172397-coronavirus-ireland/

So by March/April they'll go back up and then back to lockdown again?

DOCARCH

JimToken wrote: »

32 in ICU = 5 Million Locked Down

Makes sense alright

Sensitive!

eagle eye

JimToken wrote:

32 in ICU = 5 Million Locked Down
Makes sense alright

Preventing hospitals from being overrun makes sense.

Funsterdelux

perrito caliente wrote: »

Video a few pages back.

Whatever floats your boat

TonyMaloney

ACitizenErased wrote: »

That report doesn't even exist.
https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/news/newsfeatures/covid19-updates/coronavirus-daily-operations-updates.html

Weird.

Maybe someone got a bit sloppy and they're redoing it.

Apologies if I was peddling poor info

amadangomor

GT89 wrote: »

So by March/April they'll go back up and then back to lockdown again?

More like January

spookwoman

Daily operations report from last night before it was deleted from site

Mister Vain

The mad bitch coughing all over the plane.

Funsterdelux

JimToken wrote: »

Cue shortage of cannabis

Lockdown ends gards start drug raids all over again

Whats the price of a quarter of hash these days?

Asking for research purposes

Stheno

amadangomor wrote: »

More like January

Someone posted earlier that NPHET calculate that a six week lockdown will give us twelve weeks grace before cases potentially shoot up so more likely March if this one works

JimToken

If we know rolling lockdowns is the plan

Why are we bothering opening hairdressers and pubs during the interval?

GT89

eagle eye wrote: »

Preventing hospitals from being overrun makes sense.

Hospitals are far from overrun

ACitizenErased

spookwoman wrote: »

Daily operations report from last night before it was deleted from site

That's 18th, Sunday.

niallo27

odyssey06 wrote: »

Your figures aren't remotely accurate.

40% of US covid deaths were under 75.
4% of US covid deaths were under 65 without other co-morbidity.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6928e1.htm

8% of UK covid deaths were under 75 without other co-morbidity.

The demographic in Ireland with the highest ICU admission was 55-64.
90% of ICU admissions during the Spring were under 75.

Whether you agree with the Level 5 move or not, this is a disease that can put a lot of people into hospital and quickly overwhelm our capacity to treat it (and other medical issues).

I would argue that it can quickly overwhelm capacity, countries with lesser health systems and more cases have not collapsed. Can we be so sure our health system would collapse. We were also told 20k would die from this, I know restrictions lowered this dramatically but we are miles off these figures. Even with 20k getting this over last few months, deaths are still really low even taking into account the 2 or 4 or 6 week lag we are told to expect.

political analyst

GT89 wrote: »

So by March/April they'll go back up and then back to lockdown again?

According to NPHET's letter to the health minister, the six-week lockdown will keep cases afterwards below 300 a day until early January.

froog

I see the usual anti lockdown posters getting a bit hysterical this morning and spreading more lies than usual. I would suggest them going out and getting a bit of fresh air and maybe a break from the internet for a while. Would do them the world of good. I would genuinely be worried about their mental state right now.