Covid 19 Part XXX-113,332 ROI(2,282 deaths) 81,251 NI (1,384 deaths) (05/01) Read OP

MerlinSouthDub

What Username Guidelines wrote: »

4,426 swabs from 19,869 tests - 22.28%, a welcome dip but just one day

Lowest number of positive swabs since 31st December - we can beat this

Ok, I know, it's only 1 day and the positivity rate is still awful. But, look, maybe we're starting to turn the corner.

titan18

IrishStuff09 wrote: »

https://covid19.shanehastings.eu/api/swabs/

4426 positive swabs, 22.28% positivity on 19,869 swabs.

I don't have that breakdown of people online on it, or missing it at least.

bennyl10

What Username Guidelines wrote: »

4,426 swabs from 19,869 tests - 22.28%, a welcome dip but just one day

We aren’t testing close contacts anymore

The dip was always gonna happen

What Username Guidelines

titan18 wrote: »

I don't have that breakdown of people online on it, or missing it at least.

Irish stuff runs the site

Northernlily

What Username Guidelines wrote: »

4,426 swabs from 19,869 tests - 22.28%, a welcome dip but just one day

Here's hoping the wheel is starting to turn back, albeit slowly.

bennyl10

MerlinSouthDub wrote: »

Lowest number of positive swabs since 31st December - we can beat this

Ok, I know, it's only 1 day and the positivity rate is still awful. But, look, maybe we're starting to turn the corner.

We’ve stopped testing close contacts which we were before.

Away With The Fairies

What Username Guidelines wrote: »

4,426 swabs from 19,869 tests - 22.28%, a welcome dip but just one day

How are contact tracing getting on with the huge numbers lately?

JDD

Had a sobering call with the colleague today.

She is self isolating because she has been identified as a close contact. She knew before the HSE told her, as her tennis club had called her. She is on a tennis team, and the 7 people on the team do cardio training together once a week. The training is outside, and socially distant, so highly unlikely she caught anything. But all the same, she is a close contact and has to self isolate, which means forking out huge amounts of money to care nurses to look after her two terminally ill parents.

The galling thing is that the person who tested positive went to training while awaiting the outcome of a covid test.

She then went on to tell me that her husband's daughter attended her in laws house for Christmas Day. So she, her husband and her son went for Christmas Dinner with her mother in law, father in law, the grannies on both sides, and her husbands two siblings. Turns out one of the grannies had tested positive for covid, and hadn't told anyone. All in all she infected 14 people on the day.

Now, I obviously blame the granny. Like HOW could you put your own family in such danger, including another elderly person?? I also blame the MIL for flagrantly flouting the three household rule. I hope she feels suitably guilty about that.

Two examples of people just being massively massively selfish. Bordering on criminal assault I would say.

Bloody hell. I'm generally very upbeat "people are generally good" kind of person, but I'll be side eying everyone for the next few weeks.

titan18

What Username Guidelines wrote: »

Irish stuff runs the site

Ah, thanks then irishstuff

igCorcaigh

Drop in swabs and positivity is welcome!

The_Brood

Loafing Oaf wrote: »

I think the approach we adopted in April/May last year worked well enough in most people's eyes. The problems arose when we opened things up again. I suppose the question for the next pandemic is is there a way of easing restrictions that won't just bring the virus surging back.

I believe you mean March/April, the initial lockdown?

What was happening then that can no longer be replicated is mass fear. It worked almost as well as having a military on the streets. There was too much unknown about the virus, it was the first time anyone had ever seen such a global pandemic, the majority of people were genuinely scared to be outside and near other people, even if subconsciously so.

All that is gone now. Even though many remain concerned and afraid, the majority of society is tired, and just waiting for all this to be over with. It is impossible to replicate the initial level of compliance without a military-like treatment.

IrishStuff09

titan18 wrote: »

I don't have that breakdown of people online on it, or missing it at least.

I run it so that's why Jumped up to 785 now. One of these days they'll surely block the site accessing the API :pac:

MerlinSouthDub

bennyl10 wrote: »

We’ve stopped testing close contacts which we were before.

The positivity rate has stabilised a bit though. The positivity rate for close contacts is 10% to 15%, so the + rate would be lower again if they were still testing close contacts. But, yes, you are correct, we are not catching all the cases at the moment.

poppers

bennyl10 wrote: »

We aren’t testing close contacts anymore

The dip was always gonna happen

Actually it would be a lower positivity rate if contacts are tested as not all would be pos.
We should be getting a higher positivity if only people with symptoms are tested.

Stheno

bennyl10 wrote: »

We aren’t testing close contacts anymore

The dip was always gonna happen

I'd have expected positivity to go up due to not testing close contacts

Its good its gone down but strange

BattleCorp

Northernlily wrote: »

2021 off to a flyer ffs.

2021 is the year that Mad Max is set. Just sayin. :cool:

Arduach

titan18 wrote: »

Threadbanned I think

ACitizenErased - 1 week from 05/12/20 - Lifted 12/12/20

Ban was lifted.

What Username Guidelines

bennyl10 wrote: »

We aren’t testing close contacts anymore

The dip was always gonna happen

It's a lower positivity rate than the last two days, where it should increase as less contacts are tested.

bennyl10

poppers wrote: »

Actually it would be a lower positivity rate if contacts are tested as not all would be pos.
We should be getting a higher positivity if only people with symptoms are tested.

The numbers of tests dropping is the thing.

We should be testing more and then pos % changes with that..

giveitholly

bennyl10 wrote: »

We aren’t testing close contacts anymore

The dip was always gonna happen

A certain amount of close contacts are contacting their GPs to get tests,so while all close contacts might not be getting tested,a certain amount are

mcburns07

JDD wrote: »

Had a sobering call with the colleague today.

She is self isolating because she has been identified as a close contact. She knew before the HSE told her, as her tennis club had called her. She is on a tennis team, and the 7 people on the team do cardio training together once a week. The training is outside, and socially distant, so highly unlikely she caught anything. But all the same, she is a close contact and has to self isolate, which means forking out huge amounts of money to care nurses to look after her two terminally ill parents.

The galling thing is that the person who tested positive went to training while awaiting the outcome of a covid test.

She then went on to tell me that her husband's daughter attended her in laws house for Christmas Day. So she, her husband and her son went for Christmas Dinner with her mother in law, father in law, the grannies on both sides, and her husbands two siblings. Turns out one of the grannies had tested positive for covid, and hadn't told anyone. All in all she infected 14 people on the day.

Now, I obviously blame the granny. Like HOW could you put your own family in such danger, including another elderly person?? I also blame the MIL for flagrantly flouting the three household rule. I hope she feels suitably guilty about that.

Two examples of people just being massively massively selfish. Bordering on criminal assault I would say.

Bloody hell. I'm generally very upbeat "people are generally good" kind of person, but I'll be side eying everyone for the next few weeks.

I know it's the exception rather than the rule, but it's mind boggling how some people intentionally hide that they tested positive / continue as normal while waiting for a result.

All the more strange when they had some level of cop on to go get tested in the first place.

igCorcaigh

poppers wrote: »

Actually it would be a lower positivity rate if contacts are tested as not all would be pos.
We should be getting a higher positivity if only people with symptoms are tested.

Yes, good news?

I still don't know if the Christmas wave of cases has passed the testing stage or yet to be processed.

MerlinSouthDub

Stheno wrote: »

I'd have expected positivity to go up due to not testing close contacts

Its good its gone down but strange

It's not that strange, we are 10 days after Christmas now, so I would have expected stabilisation this week.

It will probably go up again tomorrow and my optimism will be wrong again.

AxleAddict

Arduach wrote: »

ACitizenErased - 1 week from 05/12/20 - Lifted 12/12/20

Ban was lifted.

Then threadbanned again.

ginoginelli

Elements of the goverment are still trying to pull the wool over are eyes with comments that they could never foresee this.

Absolute rubbish. I spoke to a head nurse during the summer as well as my own gp back in april and they both highlighted January/February as the time they were most fearful about. This seemed to be the general consensus throughout the medical field and beyond.

The lack of real leadership is literally killing us now.

Boggerman12

caveat emptor wrote: »

UK is going to implement stronger border controls. Effectively admitting they got it wrong.
We'll probably need another wave to make sure. Locking down with no inward travel restriction is dumb.
He get's called on the "enforcement" bull**** to boot. Not a piers fan by any stretch but he is right.

https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1346381745218859009?s=20

Gove all of a sudden wants to believe in experts.wasnt that his reason for brexit sick of experts.ðŸ˜

Ficheall

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

It’s not very nice that you reference someone who doesn’t have the right to respnd tbh, I guess that’s why you went with the screenshot I suppose.

Aw, diddums. I called out his bs plenty of times when he was on thread. The screenshot was for the benefit of those who thanked it.

igCorcaigh

MerlinSouthDub wrote: »

It's not that strange, we are 10 days after Christmas now, so I would have expected stabilisation this week.

It will probably go up again tomorrow and my optimism will be wrong again.

I would have expected around now to be seeing the start of the worst, so I find it a bit strange, but hopefully we have passed the peak?

What Username Guidelines

JDD wrote: »

Had a sobering call with the colleague today.

She is self isolating because she has been identified as a close contact. She knew before the HSE told her, as her tennis club had called her. She is on a tennis team, and the 7 people on the team do cardio training together once a week. The training is outside, and socially distant, so highly unlikely she caught anything. But all the same, she is a close contact and has to self isolate, which means forking out huge amounts of money to care nurses to look after her two terminally ill parents.

The galling thing is that the person who tested positive went to training while awaiting the outcome of a covid test.

She then went on to tell me that her husband's daughter attended her in laws house for Christmas Day. So she, her husband and her son went for Christmas Dinner with her mother in law, father in law, the grannies on both sides, and her husbands two siblings. Turns out one of the grannies had tested positive for covid, and hadn't told anyone. All in all she infected 14 people on the day.

Now, I obviously blame the granny. Like HOW could you put your own family in such danger, including another elderly person?? I also blame the MIL for flagrantly flouting the three household rule. I hope she feels suitably guilty about that.

Two examples of people just being massively massively selfish. Bordering on criminal assault I would say.

Bloody hell. I'm generally very upbeat "people are generally good" kind of person, but I'll be side eying everyone for the next few weeks.

My faith in humanity has taken a serious beating in the last year or so. It was nice when you could just ignore the selfish as they had no impact on your life, mostly. But it makes these restrictions all the more difficult when others have absolutely zero regard.

BringBackMick

Lets hope we have past the peak of infection now, lets pray for rapid decline over next 2 weeks so schools can reopen on 1 February