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Covid 19 Part XXXI-187,554 ROI (2,970 deaths) 100,319 NI (1,730 deaths)(24/01)Read OP

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    #812
    SuperRabbit
    Registered Users Posts: 698 ✭✭✭SuperRabbit


    is_that_so wrote: »
    That would merely reinforce the perception that teachers unions have the collective IQ of a toadstool.

    Agreeing not to go to work because you feel it's unsafe is not an indicator of IQ.. more anxiety and fear, which you can regard as rational or irrational but not unintelligent


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    #813
    Gael23
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    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    RIP

    :(

    We could be nearing 10,000 cases a day, is there still back log?

    Backlog of about 8k


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    #814
    Endintheclowns
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 138 ✭✭Endintheclowns


    Over 1k deaths in the UK today and highest ever cases. Completely out of control now.


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    #815
    CIARAN_BOYLE
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 14,599 Mod ✭✭✭✭CIARAN_BOYLE


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    RIP

    :(

    We could be nearing 10,000 cases a day, is there still back log?
    About 8,000 someone said.

    We haven't taken more than 1000 backlog in a day so it sounds close enough.


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    #816
    statesaver
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,084 ✭✭✭statesaver


    Hospital and ICU numbers today ?


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    #817
    is_that_so
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    BobbyMalone wrote: »
    I don't see anything online about the 5km limit being reduced, so assume that's staying as is? Would rather not run into a checkpoint if it can be avoided.
    They did say it was not under discussion. 5km is a reasonable compromise and keep people very local.


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    #818
    Sexual Chocolate
    Registered Users Posts: 2,060 ✭✭✭Sexual Chocolate


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    RIP

    :(

    We could be nearing 10,000 cases a day, is there still back log?

    Wow. I knew the Christmas would **** us over but not by that amount. Can see current restrictions lasting till at least mid Feb, then possibly level 4 until end of March.


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    #819
    atilladehun
    Registered Users Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭atilladehun


    nj27 wrote: »
    The thing covid has really shone a light on is the futility of life, and what a great number of people's enjoyment of life actually comes down to. And I'm not just talking about alcoholics, it's a melancholic thought to consider what things constitute fundamental pillars of people's lives like going to the gym or the shops. It's like we're just feicin around figuring out stuff to do under we kick the bucket. I'm saying this from the perspective that it's interesting rather than depressing btw.

    Always has been really, no? Even trying to answer the question what is the meaning of life is just filling in time till there's no more time.

    I could never understand people who became melancholy over this.


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    #820
    blowitupref
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    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    RIP

    :(

    We could be nearing 10,000 cases a day, is there still back log?
    Today's total includes 974 backlog cases. The previous two days included 1810.


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    #821
    tom1ie
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    Pcgamer wrote: »
    Yes, a lot of people are. Alchololics require medical supervision to detox Other people use it as a crutch.

    Suicide rates would soar. I don't think you have any idea of the amount of alcoholics in Ireland.

    Welcome to the Real world.

    Ok.
    Educate me and tell me how many people are alcoholics in this country.


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    #822
    Mervyn Skidmore
    Registered Users Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭Mervyn Skidmore


    An example of the stupidity out there. A direct report of mine has tested positive and is at home. I told them not to send anything to me, certs etc, that can be all sorted when they get back. Anyway, today I had an envelope thrown on my desk after work. I opened it and it was medical certs and a letter from the positive colleague. Anyway threw it on the ground, straight to wash and sanitize hands. I noticed that the letter wasn't posted so I asked around as to where it came out of. Another colleague said they went out to the person's house to collect it. ****ing hell, I'm fuming.


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    #823
    What Username Guidelines
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    statesaver wrote: »
    Hospital and ICU numbers today ?

    954 / 88


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    #824
    sonofenoch
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    Endintheclowns wrote: »
    Over 1k deaths in the UK today and highest ever cases. Completely out of control now.

    The latest strain seems to be a bit of a beast ......imagine even more new variants ......then imagine if they're even worse


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    #825
    SuperRabbit
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    This is a very steep slope. This happened in level 3

    This is a thing that is happening


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    #826
    statesaver
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    What Username Guidelines wrote: »
    954 / 88

    Oh fuk.


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    #827
    Arghus
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    TonyMaloney wrote: »
    34 deaths in the last two days.

    About to get very sad

    Yes, unfortunately.

    These next few weeks are not going to be particularly hopeful ones.


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    #828
    Endintheclowns
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 138 ✭✭Endintheclowns


    is_that_so wrote: »
    That would merely reinforce the perception that teachers unions have the collective IQ of a toadstool.

    Would you sit in a room for 6 hrs with 25 young adults from different households 3 days a week in the middle of a pandemic that is reaching its peak?

    Remember now if you somehow get very ill you might not get an ICU bed. Answer truthfully.


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    #829
    Lashes28
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    Endintheclowns wrote: »
    Over 1k deaths in the UK today and highest ever cases. Completely out of control now.

    30000 in hospital with it.


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    #830
    StevenToast
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    I blame Ryan Tubridy and his like....and their overhyping of christmas/Toyshow etc...

    "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining." - Fletcher



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    #831
    statesaver
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,084 ✭✭✭statesaver


    Has the South African variant been detected in Europe yet ?


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    #832
    bb1234567
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    Further to Belgium, France and USA which confirmed their highest annual deaths in a year since WW2 and in the case of USA since records began.

    Unsurprisingly Italy, Netherlands and Poland also now confirm deaths in 2020 are the highest since 1944 and in UK since 1940.

    Italy
    https://www.thelocal.it/20201216/italy-records-highest-annual-death-toll-since-world-war-two?fbclid=IwAR1Urljxvp68-dt2kIw5xWBLlVjc4Ccf7ybrXoVYTSivVfT-VbKAQ_-I2Qc

    Netherlands
    https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/12/dutch-excess-death-rate-tops-13000-this-year-coronavirus-the-likely-cause/

    UK
    https://twitter.com/NickStripe_ONS/status/1346863072435179520

    Poland
    https://notesfrompoland.com/2021/01/04/poland-recorded-more-deaths-in-2020-than-any-year-since-wwii/
    Spain does not have a report explicitly saying this but it's excess deaths are the highest per capita in the EU after Belgium, so same story for them.
    https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-spain-idUSL8N2IQ308

    Ireland is now one of only a handful of European countries to see normal range mortality in 2020.


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    #833
    titan18
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    What Username Guidelines wrote: »
    954 / 88

    I think we get the latest numbers after 8 and based on the rate we've been growing could get over 1000


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    #834
    SuperRabbit
    Registered Users Posts: 698 ✭✭✭SuperRabbit


    sonofenoch wrote: »
    The latest strain seems to be a bit of a beast ......imagine even more new variants ......then imagine if they're even worse

    how about we don't imagine that, if that's ok


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    #835
    lawrencesummers
    Registered Users Posts: 8,571 ✭✭✭lawrencesummers


    Mervyn Skidmore wrote: »
    An example of the stupidity out there. A direct report of mine has tested positive and is at home. I told them not to send anything to me, certs etc, that can be all sorted when they get back. Anyway, today I had an envelope thrown on my desk after work. I opened it and it was medical certs and a letter from the positive colleague. Anyway threw it on the ground, straight to wash and sanitize hands. I noticed that the letter wasn't posted so I asked around as to where it came out of. Another colleague said they went out to the person's house to collect it. ****ing hell, I'm fuming.



    That’s some dumb people you have working for you.


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    #836
    SuperRabbit
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    statesaver wrote: »
    Has the South African variant been detected in Europe yet ?

    yes they have found it in people who have traveled from SA but not people in the community yet


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    #837
    SuperRabbit
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    lawrencesummers wrote: »
    That’s some dumb people you have working for you.

    i would be a terrible boss if i had to work in a pandemic. They would never hear the end of it, i would persecute them as far as the law would allow me

    nah probably not i'm too scared to be impolite


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    #838
    is_that_so
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    Endintheclowns wrote: »
    Would you sit in a room for 6 hrs with 25 young adults from different households 3 days a week in the middle of a pandemic that is reaching its peak?

    Remember now if you somehow get very ill you might not get an ICU bed. Answer truthfully.

    Yep, but I clearly have different perceptions of risk to you. As for the illness they are at far lower risk of needing that ICU bed.


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    #839
    landofthetree
    Registered Users Posts: 2,344 ✭✭✭landofthetree


    sonofenoch wrote: »
    The latest strain seems to be a bit of a beast ......imagine even more new variants ......then imagine if they're even worse

    This wont be over till 2023 at the earliest. The governments and the WHO need to start being honest with people.

    https://www.top1000funds.com/2020/12/2023-until-normal-returns/



    "Speaking at FIS Digital 2020 Dr Ian Norton, founder and managing director of Respond Global and the former global head of WHO’s Emergency Medical Team Initiative warned the 185-odd asset owner attendees with a collective $11 trillion assets under management that a long road to normal still lies ahead.

    “We’ve never seen a pandemic end in less than two years,” he said."


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    #840
    statesaver
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,084 ✭✭✭statesaver


    SuperRabbit wrote: »
    yes they have found it in people who have traveled from SA but not people in the community yet

    Jesus, that's all we need.


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    #841
    suicide_circus
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    George Lee currently climaxing on RTE 1


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