Covid 19 Part XXXII-215,743 ROI (4,137 deaths)111,166 NI (2,036 deaths)(22/02)Read OP

normanoffside

niallo27 wrote: »

In fairness if anyone has been or seen these areas of South Africa, covid is the least of their worries.

That's it in a nutshell. This is a first world problem. Poor countries have much more important things to worry about like infant mortality and starvation, yet people who think like me or you are considered right wing nutters and racists....

hotmail.com

enricoh wrote: »

Yup, escort Ireland, the number comes up on the homepage so didn't take long, ta.
Outrage, recommendation- good man yourself

One hopes they are washing their hands.

Elessar

PTH2009 wrote: »

This week has been the worst i've felt i any of the lockdowns

Same tbh. I'm glad I'm not the only one. Endless bad news after bad news this week, a longer lockdown, longer stripping of my human rights, without it seems, a care in the world. COVID is all that matters and to hell with anyone or anything else. No one fighting the other corner in government or the media. No balance at all. I never thought I'd see it in the Republic of Ireland.

nj27

mcburns07 wrote: »

I know people keep saying this but I genuinely wouldn’t be surprised if compliance really started to slip when an extension to April is officially announced, it’s like going on a strict diet, maintaining it for a while is possible but eventually most people revert to old habits.

The diet analogy is a good one regarding the likelihood of the populace giving up. It’s like people have been eating celery and working out every day for a month then when they weigh in it’s sorry dickhead you put on a stone and a half, get back to it. People will just say balls to this.

niallo27

Elessar wrote: »

Same tbh. I'm glad I'm not the only one. Endless bad news after bad news this week, a longer lockdown, longer stripping of my human rights, without it seems, a care in the world. COVID is all that matters and to hell with anyone or anything else. No one fighting the other corner in government or the media. No balance at all. I never thought I'd see it in the Republic of Ireland.

Looking at the states, 25k at the super bowl, bars open. Why isn't their hospital system collapsing.

wadacrack

nj27 wrote: »

The diet analogy is a good one regarding the likelihood of the populace giving up. It’s like people have been eating celery and working out every day for a month then when they weigh in it’s sorry dickhead you put on a stone and a half, get back to it. People will just say balls to this.

Some older people are still terrified to leave the house. I'm not sure the diet analogy is a good one. Numbers have come down too so that would probably be the equivalent to losing weight

Jim_Hodge

niallo27 wrote: »

Looking at the states, 25k at the super bowl, bars open. Why isn't their hospital system collapsing.

It's not in the best of nick in many states. They're running at 3500 deaths a day, so doing fine I suppose by your reckoning.

Plumbthedepths

wadacrack wrote: »

Some older people are still terrified to leave the house. I'm not sure the diet analogy is a good one. Numbers have come down too so that would probably be the equivalent to losing weight

What are you opinions on what will stop them been terrified. If it's vaccination I'm not so sure considering the negativity been pushed about them by ordinary people and those that should know better.

niallo27

Jim_Hodge wrote: »

It's not in the best of nick in many states. They're running at 3500 deaths a day, so doing fine I suppose by your reckoning.

Their 7 day average is 2900 and trending downwards. Why aren't their hospital systems collapsing though. They were 2 weeks away from collapsing about 17 times in the last few months.

niallo27

wadacrack wrote: »

Some older people are still terrified to leave the house. I'm not sure the diet analogy is a good one. Numbers have come down too so that would probably be the equivalent to losing weight

Ok so they lost weight and after few months they are told, nah your still fat, keep going there for another few months.

mcburns07

wadacrack wrote: »

Some older people are still terrified to leave the house. I'm not sure the diet analogy is a good one. Numbers have come down too so that would probably be the equivalent to losing weight

Probably not a good one in that the vast majority pack in a strict diet :pac:

I expect the majority to continue to follow most of the rules most of the time but I do think a lot of people will start to make exceptions and bend the rules for a bit of respite after the slog that has been 2021 so far.

Most of us are hunkering down because that's typically what you do most of the time in winter anyway, it'll be hard to resist getting out and about more once the weather starts to pick up and the days get longer.

lawred2

RTE at their best trying to make mountains out of a few molehills..

All done to sinister music

Any chance of some perspective at all?

niallo27

mcburns07 wrote: »

Probably not a good one in that the vast majority pack in a strict diet :pac:

I expect the majority to continue to follow most of the rules most of the time but I do think a lot of people will start to make exceptions and bend the rules for a bit of respite after the slog that has been 2021 so far.

Most of us are hunkering down because that's typically what you do most of the time in winter anyway, it'll be hard to resist getting out and about more once the weather starts to pick up and the days get longer.

Come next month, I'll be back drinking at the lads houses, only 2 or 3 of us. **** it, I'm miserable as ****.

Atlantic Dawn

lawred2 wrote: »

RTE at their best trying to make mountains out of a few molehills..

All done to sinister music

Any chance of some perspective at all?

I find it a little crazy having reporters doing non essential reports from places around the country that could easily be done with a blue screen graphic behind them. Why do they need to be outside the HSE, Dept Of Education or Dail to make a report when it's nothing but optics, complete unnecessary journey for the reporter and camera team.

bb1234567

niallo27 wrote: »

Their 7 day average is 2900 and trending downwards. Why aren't their hospital systems collapsing though. They were 2 weeks away from collapsing about 17 times in the last few months.

Well I agree there has been a couple of oversensationalised hysterical collapse news stories(but also valid ones like what happened in California) in USA but it does have the 3rd highest number of ICU beds capita on earth which certainly helps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_hospital_beds

niallo27

Now a section on how to **** off safety.

bb1234567

https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1359932480044871692

MerlinSouthDub

Hospital report is out

943 in hospital (down from 990)
167 in ICU (same as last night, 1 death)

Richard Hillman

The UK PM is saying they made need booster jabs in the autumn for variants.

If the jabs do not work, it's game over. It's herd immunity time. All out survival of the fittest.

We are in a war. And at some stage you have to abandon the city leaving the weak behind. Even Stalin had a plan for abandoning Moscow during Operation Barbarossa. And he wasn't bringing the babushkas to the urals with him.

Plumbthedepths

BlowHard wrote: »

The obsession with RTE on here is a bit eh weird.

Why? Any of us who own a TV are paying for the rubbish and sensationalism being peddled by RTE. Surely paying for a service gives one an automatic right to comment on said service?

bb1234567

Richard Hillman wrote: »

The UK PM is saying they made need booster jabs in the autumn for variants.

If the jabs do not work, it's game over. It's herd immunity time. All out survival of the fittest.

We are in a war. And at some stage you have to abandon the city leaving the weak behind. Even Stalin had a plan for abandoning Moscow during Operation Barbarossa. And he wasn't bringing the babushkas to the urals with him.

Eh. One thing at a time. Let's hope for some luck

Plumbthedepths

Richard Hillman wrote: »

The UK PM is saying they made need booster jabs in the autumn for variants.

If the jabs do not work, it's game over. It's herd immunity time. All out survival of the fittest.

We are in a war. And at some stage you have to abandon the city leaving the weak behind. Even Stalin had a plan for abandoning Moscow during Operation Barbarossa. And he wasn't bringing the babushkas to the urals with him.

Considering Stalin was responsible for the deaths of more of his people than the German invaders I wouldn't use him as an example. He was an equal opportunity killer. Weak, strong, old or young it didn't matter.

monkeybutter

Richard Hillman wrote: »

The UK PM is saying they made need booster jabs in the autumn for variants.

If the jabs do not work, it's game over. It's herd immunity time. All out survival of the fittest.

We are in a war. And at some stage you have to abandon the city leaving the weak behind. Even Stalin had a plan for abandoning Moscow during Operation Barbarossa. And he wasn't bringing the babushkas to the urals with him.

That's loser talk right there

normanoffside

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

Why? Any of us who own a TV are paying for the rubbish and sensationalism being peddled by RTE. Surely paying for a service gives one an automatic right to comment on said service?

More fool you for paying.

bikeman1

PowerToWait wrote: »

His wife is terminally ill. That’s reason enough to take the odd evening off.

Just logging back in now.

I absolutely understand that his wife is terminally ill. He has the opportunity like last year to take time off if that is what he is doing. For me I would prefer he was able to be fully focused on the job at hand.

We all have very difficult situations in life that we have to manage. But nobody has a more important job at the moment than the CMO who is advising the government how to rule the health restrictions that effect us all.

I truly wish him and his family the very best in these extra hard times.

Widdensushi

Richard Hillman wrote: »

The UK PM is saying they made need booster jabs in the autumn for variants.

If the jabs do not work, it's game over. It's herd immunity time. All out survival of the fittest.

We are in a war. And at some stage you have to abandon the city leaving the weak behind. Even Stalin had a plan for abandoning Moscow during Operation Barbarossa. And he wasn't bringing the babushkas to the urals with him.

That makes mm speech look sensible.

Plumbthedepths

normanoffside wrote: »

More fool you for paying.

I have a thing about not wanting to go to court and a possible conviction. Stupid I know but that's just me.
Not everyone can be an EdgeLord. ;-)

normanoffside

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

I have a thing about not wanting to go to court and a possible conviction. Stupid I know but that's just me.
Not everyone can be an EdgeLord. ;-)

20 years without paying for something I don't want. I'll take my chances.

Turtwig

Richard Hillman wrote: »

The UK PM is saying they made need booster jabs in the autumn for variants.

If the jabs do not work, it's game over. It's herd immunity time. All out survival of the fittest.

We are in a war. And at some stage you have to abandon the city leaving the weak behind. Even Stalin had a plan for abandoning Moscow during Operation Barbarossa. And he wasn't bringing the babushkas to the urals with him.

Dafuq did I just read?

bb1234567

https://www.rte.ie/news/regional/2021/0211/1196639-monaghan-cavan-have-highest-covid-19-death-rates/
Interesting that the regions of Ireland with the highest numbers of deaths in the first wave saw the lowest percent growth in deaths in the second wave.

Deaths in Dublin grew by about 50% in the December/January wave.
Deaths in Kildare only grew by 15% in the second wave.
Cavan with the highest deaths per capita overall in Ireland saw deaths grow by 30% in the second wave,


While deaths in Cork tripled, and deaths in Limerick also tripled, deaths in both of these places were extremely low before December.