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

seamus

MerlinSouthDub wrote: »

GP referral data for yesterday is out. Good news - lower than last Monday. I thought we might see a big spike with the long weekend, but it looks fine.

https://tomorrowscare.ie/covid/2021-04-07_COVID_GP_Survey_Results.pdf

Interesting jump in calls that met the criteria without clinically likely being covid.

Anecdotally we've all noticed dry throats and sniffley noses with the sharp change in the weather. I wonder is that anything to do with it.

OwenM

Banana Republic 1 wrote: »

If the vaccines work we won’t have any cases.

That's very unlikely, the virus is endemic and is likely to be with us for many years.

Doctor Jimbob

Banana Republic 1 wrote: »

When you add numbers together they get bigger.

If you have .9 of an orange on a plate and then add .6 of an orange to the plate you have 1.5 pieces of orange.

Is there a reason you picked the two ends of the quoted R number range for your orange example?

Banana Republic 1

OwenM wrote: »

Was that an attempt at humour or did you post accidentally?

No it’s science.

BlondeBomb

Only around 3k vaccines administrated Easter Sunday so 12K Saturday and Sunday.

caveat emptor

Poor Canada isn't blessed with the science know-how of our Norma.

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1379766377502945281?s=20

Banana Republic 1

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

Is there a reason you picked the two ends of the quoted R number range for your orange example?

Ok if you take 1000000 oranges and then add 1 orange to the pile you have 1000001 oranges.

Eod100

https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1379768086832640001

stephenjmcd

Eod100 wrote: »

https://twitter.com/RTENewsPaulC/status/1379765642455318528

He probably woke up at the end of the meeting

OwenM

Banana Republic 1 wrote: »

Ok if you take 1000000 oranges and then add 1 orange to the pile you have 1000001 oranges.

Trying to illustrate that we don't comprehend addition and the effect of adding R numbers? Why would you add R numbers? It doesn't derive any meaningful or usable number.

A bit like saying it was 12 degrees yesterday and 11 degrees today so 23 degrees? See - I can do addition and I know yesterday isn't today....

What Username Guidelines

seamus wrote: »

Interesting jump in calls that met the criteria without clinically likely being covid.

Anecdotally we've all noticed dry throats and sniffley noses with the sharp change in the weather. I wonder is that anything to do with it.

Daughter came down with nasty cough and sore throat over the weekend, 8 days since being in school, and no external contacts. Tested Sunday and negative. Sample of one, but she caught something somehow.

100 days in and it's news that in 2 weeks time we'll allow younger pensioners to register to get the vaccine. Ugh.

Eod100

Not too far off the figures on Prime Time last night https://twitter.com/Jennifer_Bray/status/1379771676687220741?s=19

KrustyUCC

Stephen Donnelly parroting Paul Reid yesterday about outdoor transmission on about cases from changing rooms

Anything to down play the outdoor report

If they so concerned about cases in changing rooms then come out with concrete figures of cases related to that

ninebeanrows

Looks like that's the end for international travel for a few years

How is a variant of concern measured or monitored

What even is a variant of concern? It's all based on questionable science or anecdotal evidence

The government have caved to the zero covid mob and ultra conservative NPHET

There is no way out of this once it goes ahead

We should have just joined the UK last year and left the EU as there is no respect for its principles or laws in this country

lawred2

OwenM wrote: »

Trying to illustrate that we don't comprehend addition and the effect of adding R numbers? Why would you add R numbers? It doesn't derive any meaningful or usable number.

A bit like saying it was 12 degrees yesterday and 11 degrees today so 23 degrees? See - I can do addition and I know yesterday isn't today....

Fairly sure he's being sarcastic

lawred2

ninebeanrows wrote: »

Looks like that's the end for international travel for a few years

How is a variant of concern measured or monitored

What even is a variant of concern? It's all based on questionable science or anecdotal evidence

The government have caved to the zero covid mob and ultra conservative NPHET

There is no way out of this once it goes ahead

We should have just joined the UK last year and left the EU as there is no respect for its principles or laws in this country

What's been announced now?

WoollyRedHat

ninebeanrows wrote: »

Looks like that's the end for international travel for a few years

How is a variant of concern measured or monitored

What even is a variant of concern? It's all based on questionable science or anecdotal evidence

The government have caved to the zero covid mob and ultra conservative NPHET

There is no way out of this once it goes ahead

We should have just joined the UK last year and left the EU as there is no respect for its principles or laws in this country

Where to even start...

WoollyRedHat

lawred2 wrote: »

What's been announced now?

Everyone in Ireland is to surrender their passport immediately. Reports of an exodus of Irish people on makeshift dinghy's on their way to the UK to seek asylum. It's like Flight of the Doves for the 21st Century.

celt262

KrustyUCC wrote: »

Stephen Donnelly parroting Paul Reid yesterday about outdoor transmission on about cases from changing rooms

Anything to down play the outdoor report

If they so concerned about cases in changing rooms then come out with concrete figures of cases related to that

The GAA only allowed changing rooms open for the Inter-County Championships and i presume other amateur sports did without them as well so i would love to see them figures also.

Sanjuro

ninebeanrows wrote: »

Looks like that's the end for international travel for a few years

How is a variant of concern measured or monitored

What even is a variant of concern? It's all based on questionable science or anecdotal evidence

The government have caved to the zero covid mob and ultra conservative NPHET

There is no way out of this once it goes ahead

We should have just joined the UK last year and left the EU as there is no respect for its principles or laws in this country

Think it's time for you to log off the internet for a while.

OwenM

ninebeanrows wrote: »

Looks like that's the end for international travel for a few years

How is a variant of concern measured or monitored

What even is a variant of concern? It's all based on questionable science or anecdotal evidence

The government have caved to the zero covid mob and ultra conservative NPHET

There is no way out of this once it goes ahead

We should have just joined the UK last year and left the EU as there is no respect for its principles or laws in this country

Of all the variants, and there have been 10's of thousands, none of them have been shown to evade any vaccine so far approved, efficacy may vary slightly but universally the results show no deaths or hospitalisations even when efficacy is reduced.

Public health restrictions on travel (or anything else) have to be proportionate to the threat, in a few weeks the death, ICU and hospital case numbers are going to implode and life goes back to normal, international travel at least within the EU will follow shortly after.

Lillyfae

shtpEdthePlum wrote: »

https://www.rte.ie/news/education/2021/0407/1208370-sna-vaccines/

A load of education staff in the government ministers constituencies were contacted by the HSE and received their jab last week.

This is getting beyond a joke. I don't begrudge those people a vaccine for one minute but maybe if the cunts in charge were more interested in actually getting it rolled out than hand picking which menial labourer they deem worthy of selection we would be getting somewhere.

As that report puts it it was the reserve list for 1 postcode. Special schools staff. What is the problem exactly?

ninebeanrows

Sanjuro wrote: »

Think it's time for you to log off the internet for a while.

Sorry for trying to voice an opposing view to the continued erosion of our rights and liberties. Who would have thought a view opposing the enforced incarceration of visiting EU workers and residents who have negative COVID tests would be so unpopular.

We are tieing ourselves up here and it is going to take years to unravel what we are doing.

Once the precedent has been set, it is hard to row back on it.

It's sad to see, and I guess what I would like to do is logg off out of this country for a few months.

covidrelease

lawred2 wrote: »

What's been announced now?

Germany, Italy and France to be added to the quarantine list?

KrustyUCC

KrustyUCC wrote: »

Stephen Donnelly parroting Paul Reid yesterday about outdoor transmission on about cases from changing rooms

Anything to down play the outdoor report

If they so concerned about cases in changing rooms then come out with concrete figures of cases related to that

Or lock the doors to the changing rooms.

covidrelease

OwenM wrote: »

Of all the variants, and there have been 10's of thousands, none of them have been shown to evade any vaccine so far approved, efficacy may vary slightly but universally the results show no deaths or hospitalisations even when efficacy is reduced.

Public health restrictions on travel (or anything else) have to be proportionate to the threat, in a few weeks the death, ICU and hospital case numbers are going to implode and life goes back to normal, international travel at least within the EU will follow shortly after.

Its a pity NPHET and the government keep banging about these new variants then.

kippy

Banana Republic 1 wrote: »

If the vaccines work we won’t have any cases.

There will ALWAYS be cases, Vaccine or no Vaccine.....
Once the serious cases are reduced significantly (which is what vaccines are designed to do) then we can move on.

KrustyUCC

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Or lock the doors to the changing rooms.

Exactly what happened in my Club all year since March and every club I visited which is a lot

No dressing rooms at all

ninebeanrows

covidrelease wrote: »

Its a pity NPHET and the government keep banging about these new variants then.

The new variant drum will only grow louder I feel once vaccination rates are higher and cases hopefully stay low or stable.

It is hard to imagine there won't be a push for some zero covid outcome even though any infection that occurs is unlikely to result in serious illness.

These so called variants aren't going to just disappear from continental Europe in the next year, there will always being variants of COVID once COVID exists!

If we are banning countries with covid variants, we should be banning ourselves and basically every nation in the world and will prob have to do that for 1-2 years.