Covid in Limerick - Mod Warning in Post #1

jpharvey

breezy1985 wrote: »

And have the 4th highest deaths per million in the world.
Also I dont care who oks it I think the 12 week wait is a joke and playing with fire and I am very happy I was lucky enough to get Pfizer cause I would be well annoyed and nervous about waiting 12 weeks

You got one already? Fair play.
The nonsense about international students is just white noise to me at this stage.

jpharvey

Clareman wrote: »

I guess I think there should be a city and county venue for Limerick, the Radisson has pros and cons as other places do, I think Limerick has a big enough population to warrant 2 venues. The Radisson is very handy to get to for drivers, has loads of car parking and is big enough to allow for large amounts for people to be seen at the same time but it's the wrong side of the county in my opinion as either everyone from the city has to make their way out to it or get around/through the city to get to it

Everyone is making the same point all over twitter and facebook, as well as highlighting the non car owner/reliant on public transport demographic not being considered. The whole the Radisson is in Clare issue seems to be ramping up frustrations felt by people from County Limerick too.

Getting a bit tired of it all tbh.

YFlyer

colmtheperson wrote: »

Questionable as to why they needed to come in the first place with 90% of classes going online, but on the flip side Algeria has had 110,000 cases on a population of 44m so I'd be very slow to lay any blame at their feet

Online for 1st year. Laboratory base onwards. As long as they were quarantine a d then checked again with PCR, all is good.

Red Silurian

jpharvey wrote: »

Everyone is making the same point all over twitter and facebook, as well as highlighting the non car owner/reliant on public transport demographic not being considered. The whole the Radisson is in Clare issue seems to be ramping up frustrations felt by people from County Limerick too.

Getting a bit tired of it all tbh.

Personally I'd swim from Kilkee to New York for a vaccine, county Clare is beyond doable, another point is the vaccines are time limited, I think 8 hours after removal from cold storage, do we really want to be relying on public transport?

Red Silurian

jpharvey wrote: »

You got one already? Fair play.
The nonsense about international students is just white noise to me at this stage.

I think the international students, like most minorities are easy targets... Fact is that human to human transmission is what spreads it, can we say human beings are to blame?

YFlyer wrote: »

Online for 1st year. Laboratory base onwards. As long as they were quarantine a d then checked again with PCR, all is good.

Sure they can't do any more than that to make sure they aren't carrying the virus

Clareman

OK folks time to get things back on track, this is a regional forum please limit the COVID discussion to just issues relating to the issue, there is a full COVID forum on boards where national/international issues can be discussed as well as details on vaccines.

Red Silurian

Listening to Limerick today and Niall Collins (Fianna Fail TD for Limerick) says that a points based calculated report was carried out by the HSE to determine that the Radisson was the best location, ie it wasn't politically motivated

I hope they make the report public, would love to take a look

stefanovich

colmtheperson wrote: »

Listening to Limerick today and Niall Collins (Fine Gael TD for Limerick) says that a points based calculated report was carried out by the HSE to determine that the Radisson was the best location, ie it wasn't politically motivated

I hope they make the report public, would love to take a look

FOI request would obligate them?

FileNotFound

Sister is in UL and told me of a 200 person house party that happened in college court beside the Uni - numbers may be exagerated but the social media videos showed a huge amount of people there.

She was thankfully under the cosh with workload haha.

It also appears many of the attendees then attended other smaller gatherings in the University region (off campus in fairness i might add)

jpharvey

colmtheperson wrote: »

Personally I'd swim from Kilkee to New York for a vaccine, county Clare is beyond doable, another point is the vaccines are time limited, I think 8 hours after removal from cold storage, do we really want to be relying on public transport?

jpharvey wrote: »

Everyone is making the same point all over twitter and facebook, as well as highlighting the non car owner/reliant on public transport demographic not being considered. The whole the Radisson is in Clare issue seems to be ramping up frustrations felt by people from County Limerick too.

Getting a bit tired of it all tbh.

What I meant there is I'm tired of the non-transparency about choice of location and frustrating lack of consideration for non-drivers. I'll be fine, I only have to worry about getting myself out there, but it's adding unnecessary stress to others who have to either navigate it from the other end of the county, or the city itself.

phill106

stefanovich wrote: »

Clarion suites?

Empty for so long, probably mould all over it.
Plus it didnt have any large meeting rooms from what i remember, biggest being for about 40people in the old building (ardhu?).

breezy1985

The whole idea of doing these things by county is stupid anyway and Ireland needs to get over the county idea for everything other than sport.

North Limerick and south Clare including Ennis could share the Raddison and then put one in south west Limerick/Kerry and so on and you could probably cover better ground with the same amount of centrees

FileNotFound

breezy1985 wrote: »

The whole idea of doing these things by county is stupid anyway and Ireland needs to get over the county idea for everything other than sport.

North Limerick and south Clare including Ennis could share the Raddison and then put one in south west Limerick/Kerry and so on and you could probably cover better ground with the same amount of centres

Couldn't agree more, this and the concept of "I want if on my doorstep" is a bit of a farce. I'm sure in the grand scheme of things the distance the average resident in Ireland will have to travel to get to a center will be far lower than most of the world.

I'd rather fewer more effective ones than a load of ineffective ones where all we hear are stories of wasted vaccine etc.

Red Silurian

breezy1985 wrote: »

The whole idea of doing these things by county is stupid anyway and Ireland needs to get over the county idea for everything other than sport.

North Limerick and south Clare including Ennis could share the Raddison and then put one in south west Limerick/Kerry and so on and you could probably cover better ground with the same amount of centrees

FileNotFound wrote: »

Couldn't agree more, this and the concept of "I want if on my doorstep" is a bit of a farce. I'm sure in the grand scheme of things the distance the average resident in Ireland will have to travel to get to a center will be far lower than most of the world.

I'd rather fewer more effective ones than a load of ineffective ones where all we hear are stories of wasted vaccine etc.

Agreed, most of us will probably be getting it from our GPs to be fair so where a mass vaccination centre is will make very little difference

LeoD

colmtheperson wrote: »

Niall Collins (Fine Gael TD for Limerick)

FF

Red Silurian

LeoD wrote: »

FF

Thanks, edited my original post, small correction but I appreciate it

MarkR

FileNotFound wrote: »

Sister is in UL and told me of a 200 person house party that happened in college court beside the Uni - numbers may be exagerated but the social media videos showed a huge amount of people there.

She was thankfully under the cosh with workload haha.

It also appears many of the attendees then attended other smaller gatherings in the University region (off campus in fairness i might add)

I'd prefer not to go down the blame game. While there is no shame in getting Covid, it's not fair to assume a student has gotten through a lack of care. Quite often they live in shared accommodation, and will be working outside the home.


If there was a party, I hope it was broken up, and I hope they all get fined. It's irresponsible and I wasn't invited.

breezy1985

colmtheperson wrote: »

Thanks, edited my original post, small correction but I appreciate it

Easy mistake to make these days

YFlyer

colmtheperson wrote: »

I think the international students, like most minorities are easy targets... Fact is that human to human transmission is what spreads it, can we say human beings are to blame?



Sure they can't do any more than that to make sure they aren't carrying the virus

They received the PCR test after arriving and were told to quarantine.

Red Silurian

19 new cases in Limerick today, hopefully the start of a downward trend

mitresize5

The skill sets of the posters on this covid thread is amazing ..

epidemiologists
Logistics and Supply chain experts
Public health consultants
Project managers for mass vaccination of entire populations
Facilities Managers ...

And plenty more, and even some really gifted folks here are experts across all those skillets, some even showing their knowledge of the different areas within 3 or 4 posts.

What a time to be alive

kilburn

And all the people who actually gave a damn about the rules and protecting the vulnerable were run out of the thread.....

breezy1985

mitresize5 wrote: »

The skill sets of the posters on this covid thread is amazing ..

epidemiologists
Logistics and Supply chain experts
Public health consultants
Project managers for mass vaccination of entire populations
Facilities Managers ...

And plenty more, and even some really gifted folks here are experts across all those skillets, some even showing their knowledge of the different areas within 3 or 4 posts.

What a time to be alive

I actually think there are some of these people lurking around on the Limerick forums

kilburn

breezy1985 wrote:

I actually think there are some of these people lurking around on the Limerick forums

Maybe I read incorrectly earlier but did you say you got the Pfizer vaccine which makes you either a healthcare worker or over 85 ?

breezy1985

kilburn wrote: »

Maybe I read incorrectly earlier but did you say you got the Pfizer vaccine which makes you either a healthcare worker or over 85 ?

Yep. Im not any of these 3 things though just to be clear
Logistics and Supply chain experts
Public health consultants
Facilities Managers .

Clareman

kilburn wrote: »

And all the people who actually gave a damn about the rules and protecting the vulnerable were run out of the thread.....

You clearly don't give a damn about the rules in here so banned

Clareman

mitresize5 wrote: »

The skill sets of the posters on this covid thread is amazing ..

epidemiologists
Logistics and Supply chain experts
Public health consultants
Project managers for mass vaccination of entire populations
Facilities Managers ...

And plenty more, and even some really gifted folks here are experts across all those skillets, some even showing their knowledge of the different areas within 3 or 4 posts.

What a time to be alive

I know sarcasm can be difficult to get across in type but I'm taking this as a sarcastic post and you are right, the skill set for discussing such issues is not available here, even if it is the moderators definitely aren't skilled enough to be able to moderate such discussions, hence when things get too deep we suggest people bring the discussions to the main forum where the skills are, some people don't like those forums so don't want to post there but a regional forum isn't the place for the in depth discussion that some people want to have.

To be clear, the Limerick forum is a part of boards to discuss anything Limerick related, it's not a part of boards for Limerick people to discuss anything, some posters don't seem to get that or seem to think that I'm the past it was a magical place where Limerick people discussed whatever they wanted and the moderators did nothing except join in the discussion.

Red Silurian

Just listening back to Joe Nash yesterday (available as a podcast on the website if anybody is wondering) Kieran O Donnell made the claim that the Radisson was meant to be a regional mass vaccination centre but a decision was made in the dáil to put one in every county, not every region

This would make sense as most traffic going between the 2 counties would use this road and the politicians probably thought that Clare and Limerick were the same county or something

Also would explain why the West County which is only 30 minutes away is bring used also

Red Silurian

45 new cases in Limerick today

MarkR

I heard some really reaching arguments against the Radisson. Have to use a car or a bus, but were happy if it was in Patrickswell. Fine walk from the city! Another lady who just didn't want it to be on Clare, and wasnt too fond of Clare people coming into limerick!

I'd crawl on my hands and knees to get a vaccination at this stage. Some people would complain about anything. My understanding is that this is only a mass vaccination centre, and GPs and pharmacies will also be options.

Glad I'm working from home through all this. Fat as a harvest frog though.ðŸ˜