Covid 19 Part XXXIV-249,437 ROI(4,906 deaths) 120,195 NI (2,145 deaths)(01/05)Read OP

Nqp15hhu

Qrt wrote: »

Anybody got the official source for cases in NI re: cases and positivity rates?

Why are you questioning me?

UDAWINNER

irishlad. wrote: »

Its hard to believe we blamed the north as our bad neighbours for so long.

Over the next few weeks/months, it'll be us who will be viewed as the annoying, unvaccinated neighbours.

Especially when they open up and we're so far behind

AdamD

Went to one of those walk in test centers today, my first covid test - was pretty efficiently run. Hope they stick with the idea as you'd have to think they'll lower the incidence rates in these areas over the course of the next few weeks

Rambling Man

RTE:
At least 14,000 asymptomatic people were tested over the past week at other walk-in centres and 3% tested positive for the virus. 

Higher than I would have imagined.

Eod100

igCorcaigh wrote: »

I thought we couldn't meet with others even outdoors?

https://twitter.com/ronan_glynn/status/1378001147651256327?s=19

Could all along to exercise alright but yeah guess its sending out message that if meeting anyway outdoors is better than inside. Unless fully vaccinated too.

Purple Mountain

Eod100 wrote: »

Could all along to exercise alright but yeah guess its sending out message that if meeting anyway outdoors is better than inside. Unless fully vaccinated too.

No I don't think youre even currently supposed to meet someone from another house to exercise.

podgeandrodge

CoronaBlocker wrote: »

Jesus, the horror of having to go to the Northside, eh? Just outrageous what they make good people do nowadays, isn't it?

Agreed. Totally unfair. Thanks for your support

iamwhoiam

Purple Mountain wrote: »

No I don't think youre even currently supposed to meet someone from another house to exercise.

Yes . You could all along meet one other to excercise .
Now from the 12 th you can meet one other household outdoors to socialise
( officially not in your garden )

Banana Republic 1

Deeper Blue wrote: »

Have you a source for that please? I don't see anything online about it?

Ya several links but they all largely lift from a Reuters article from March 16. They also mentioned it on Clare burn with Sam mconkey this morning. I think at this stage the WHO class it a vui Virus of interest, where as the Brazilian and South African variant are classed as vuc, virus of concern.

Gael23

I’m not in favour if these walk in centres. I think it’s a ploy by NPHET to keep case numbers high

blowitupref

JTMan wrote: »

https://twitter.com/rtenews/status/1378000736450191368

7-day average in cases 557 it was 580 last Friday.

Wolf359f

blowitupref wrote: »

7-day average in cases 557 it was 580 last Friday.

Easy to just focus on large numbers like yesterday and forget the lower than average days.
When you compare the 7 day average, it's not growing at least!

GooglePlus

Banana Republic 1 wrote: »

Ya several links but they all largely lift from a Reuters article from March 16. They also mentioned it on Clare burn with Sam mconkey this morning. I think at this stage the WHO class it a vui Virus of interest, where as the Brazilian and South African variant are classed as vuc, virus of concern.

VUI is variant under investigation, haven't heard of vuc but it's definitely not variant "of" anything considering the U.

GooglePlus

Gael23 wrote: »

I’m not in favour if these walk in centres. I think it’s a ploy by NPHET to keep case numbers high

Yeah it's a big ploy by NPHET to keep us all inside because that makes loads of sense, they're mad to have the case numbers increase, sure why not..

Or.. maybe we're finally on a road to better testing, tracing and surge control, meaning no more lockdowns and better understanding of the virus.

But yeah, it's a big mysterious plot by NPHET, even though other countries successfully containing this virus have been doing it for the guts of a year.

People are all mad to get out of lockdown and then they're mad at measures that help us out of lockdown, it's hilariously sad.

Pinch Flat

GooglePlus wrote: »

Yeah it's a big ploy by NPHET to keep us all inside because that makes loads of sense, they're mad to have the case numbers increase, sure why not..

Or.. maybe we're finally on a road to better testing, tracing and surge control, meaning no more lockdowns and better understanding of the virus.

But yeah, it's a big mysterious plot by NPHET, even though other countries successfully containing this virus have been doing it for the guts of a year.

People are all mad to get out of lockdown and then they're mad at measures that help us out of lockdown, it's hilariously sad.

Someone on an Irish times facebook article on testing reckons the guys in NPHET are personally benefitting from testing.:)

shinzon

Gael23 wrote: »

I’m not in favour if these walk in centres. I think it’s a ploy by NPHET to keep case numbers high

Heres the NPHETS the shadowy Cabal wanting to keep case numbers high and us in lockdown tin foil hat theory, rather than what it actually is which is to catch cases and understand why certain counties have higher incidence rates.

I cant wait for the vaccination program to complete and this thread dies the death it so fully deserves with comments like that

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Shin

Faugheen

Gael23 wrote: »

I’m not in favour if these walk in centres. I think it’s a ploy by NPHET to keep case numbers high

This bollocks again.

NPHET want to keep cases high so they can keep hold of their non-existent power.

timsey tiger

shinzon wrote: »

Heres the NPHETS the shadowy Cabal wanting to keep case numbers high and us in lockdown tin foil hat theory, rather than what it actually is which is to catch cases and understand why certain counties have higher incidence rates.

I cant wait for the vaccination program to complete and this thread dies the death it so fully deserves with comments like that

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Shin

... they won't go away you know, just on to the next thing to rail against.

GooglePlus

shinzon wrote: »

Heres the NPHETS the shadowy Cabal wanting to keep case numbers high and us in lockdown tin foil hat theory, rather than what it actually is which is to catch cases and understand why certain counties have higher incidence rates.

I cant wait for the vaccination program to complete and this thread dies the death it so fully deserves with comments like that

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Shin

Yeah, the Orwellian circle jerking among some in here is the saddest thing I've seen. It's the main reason I'm looking forward to things opening up again, so they can look back and see how thick they were.

Faugheen

Faugheen wrote: »

This bollocks again.

NPHET want to keep cases high so they can keep hold of their non-existent power.

Many feel that they de facto run the country.

Qrt

Nqp15hhu wrote: »

Why are you questioning me?

Why are you getting defensive? I just want to know like! 🙄

JP Liz V1

blowitupref wrote: »

7-day average in cases 557 it was 580 last Friday.

Not a big decrease but still a decrease

8 further deaths RIP 591 new confirmed cases

is_that_so

Gael23 wrote: »

I’m not in favour if these walk in centres. I think it’s a ploy by NPHET to keep case numbers high

That would be a ploy by the HSE who are running them! NPHET just advise and generally get on people's nerves!

Jimi H

I’ve heard from quite a few family and friends who have got their first or second jab over the last week or so. Although the daily numbers are high, I think we’ll see a big decrease in hospital/ICU numbers over the next month. If we get some nice weather we’ll have more people mixing outdoors too and for the first time in a while I’m starting to feel positive.

cameramonkey

Rambling Man wrote: »

RTE:
At least 14,000 asymptomatic people were tested over the past week at other walk-in centres and 3% tested positive for the virus.

Higher than I would have imagined.

I heard that on the radio earlier. It is a pretty high %. It means that there were 420 people walking around last week allegedly with no symptoms. It shows how difficult this virus is to stop and how easily it spreads without some people even knowing they have it. One good thing is that many more people will have contracted and got over it with no adverse impact on their health meaning that there will be a larger cohort of immune people.

is_that_so

cameramonkey wrote: »

I heard that on the radio earlier. It is a pretty high %. It means that there were 420 people walking around last week allegedly with no symptoms. It shows how difficult this virus is to stop and how easily it spreads without some people even knowing they have it. One good thing is that many more people will have contracted and got over it with no adverse impact on their health meaning that there will be a larger cohort of immune people.

It also suggests this is a valuable new tool. Rapid testing needs a role as well.

Jim_Hodge

GooglePlus wrote: »

VUI is variant under investigation, haven't heard of vuc but it's definitely not variant "of" anything considering the U.

It's VOC: Varient of Concern

Faugheen

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Many feel that they de facto run the country.

Many can feel whatever they want but they’re wrong. Like, very wrong.

It just suits the government to hide behind them so they don’t have to take responsibility for ignoring them for over a year.

‘Many people’ fall right into the government’s trap.

PTH2009

George Lee with the daily NPHET fear

FintanMcluskey

Jimi H wrote: »

I’ve heard from quite a few family and friends who have got their first or second jab over the last week or so. Although the daily numbers are high, I think we’ll see a big decrease in hospital/ICU numbers over the next month. If we get some nice weather we’ll have more people mixing outdoors too and for the first time in a while I’m starting to feel positive.

We already have seen a massive decrease over the last month.

We’re in a better position than we realise