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

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    #5582
    irishguy1983
    Registered Users Posts: 1,389 ✭✭✭irishguy1983


    podgeandrodge wrote: »
    I think the problem is the well known scrums that happen with golf. And the hugs and kisses with every successful putt. Dangerous game.

    I know yeah. Kind of shocked someone came out with that...If people do have a chat afterwards it is also outside...Bars, clubhouses are all closed...My club is opening on the 26th and we can’t use the toilet.....


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    #5583
    celt262
    Registered Users Posts: 3,497 ✭✭✭celt262


    Anyone hear anything about a convoy of travellers landing down to Pfizer demanding the vaccine ? Just got a video send to me of loads of caravans and vehicles pulling up outside a factory.


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    #5584
    RGS
    Registered Users Posts: 787 ✭✭✭RGS


    podgeandrodge wrote: »
    I think the problem is the well known scrums that happen with golf. And the hugs and kisses with every successful putt. Dangerous game.

    The hugs and kisses in mixed foursomes are a known covid spreader.


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    #5585
    Bubbaclaus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,461 ✭✭✭Bubbaclaus


    niamh247 wrote: »
    What's wrong with education through online classes?

    Yes I'm sure a 5 year old from a disadvantaged background is going to learn a lot in an online setting, if they even have a laptop in the family to log onto it. Good luck to a poor family with 3 or 4 kids fighting over access to the one laptop in the family.


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    #5586
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    celt262 wrote: »
    Anyone hear anything about a convoy of travellers landing down to Pfizer demanding the vaccine ? Just got a video send to me of loads of caravans and vehicles pulling up outside a factory.

    Grange Castle.


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    #5587
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users Posts: 10,910 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    niamh247 wrote: »
    What's wrong with education through online classes?

    Have you kids at primary school? Online has been shown to not be working for younger students.


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    #5588
    jackboy
    Registered Users Posts: 4,600 ✭✭✭jackboy


    niamh247 wrote: »
    What's wrong with education through online classes?

    Loads of children had zero engagement with the on line classes. On line classes mean zero education for thousands of children.


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    #5589
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users Posts: 16,139 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    WoollyRedHat wrote: »
    A ski resort in Whistler, Canada has had a large breakout of the P1 variant, making Canada the biggest hotspot outside Brazil for it.

    Good news today about that . They are vaccinating the whole of Whistler this week !


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    #5590
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,656 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    niamh247 wrote: »
    What's wrong with education through online classes?

    Do you have kids?:confused:


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    #5591
    Lumen
    Registered Users Posts: 31,091 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    I have two kids in secondary school. One has thrived and doesn't want to go back. The other has struggled. Really struggled. I don't want to be melodramatic but I'd have serious worries for him if he didn't get some structure and social contact soon.

    Nonetheless, their patience has been remarkable. They haven't moaned once since last March. Heroic really, given that the virus poses zero risk to them.

    I'll sure they'll grow into the moaning cult eventually. :pac:


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    #5592
    Renjit
    Registered Users Posts: 949 ✭✭✭Renjit


    Looks like it's not over yet with new variants cropping up. This year will take a hit too.


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    #5593
    Rebelbrowser
    Registered Users Posts: 3,164 ✭✭✭Rebelbrowser


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    Good news today about that . They are vaccinating the whole of Whistler this week !

    Whistler is a high altitude ski resort, a place you can ski with certainty in April. You just know there are wealthy Irish types skiing there right now....


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    #5594
    blowitupref
    Registered Users Posts: 2,069 ✭✭✭blowitupref


    Hospital operations update

    In hospital 223 (increase of 11 from last night)
    In ICU 50 (increase of 2 and no deaths)

    Sunday 8pm last week.

    In hospital 250
    In ICU 56


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    #5595
    Corholio
    Registered Users Posts: 14,014 ✭✭✭✭Corholio


    blowitupref wrote: »
    Hospital operations update

    In hospital 223 (increase of 11 from last night)
    In ICU 50 (increase of 2 and no deaths)

    Sunday 8pm last week.

    In hospital 250
    In ICU 56

    The hospital increase should almost certainly come down in next few days with only increases at weekends.


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    #5596
    Corholio
    Registered Users Posts: 14,014 ✭✭✭✭Corholio


    blowitupref wrote: »
    Hospital operations update

    In hospital 223 (increase of 11 from last night)
    In ICU 50 (increase of 2 and no deaths)

    Sunday 8pm last week.

    In hospital 250
    In ICU 56

    The hospital increase should almost certainly come down in next few days with only increases at weekends.


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    #5597
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users Posts: 16,139 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    Rebelbrowser wrote: »
    Whistler is a high altitude ski resort, a place you can ski with certainty in April. You just know there are wealthy Irish types skiing there right now....

    No one is skiing in Whistler right now . The slopes are all closed for last two weeks . Restaurants all closed and facilities closed . They locked down the slopes fully two weeks ago

    https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.nsnews.com/amp/bc-news/whistler-blackcomb-indoor-dining-closed-for-three-weeks-3586747


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    #5598
    Golfman64
    Registered Users Posts: 314 ✭✭Golfman64


    Renjit wrote: »
    Looks like it's not over yet with new variants cropping up. This year will take a hit too.

    Those pesky variants for which all current vaccines have proven to be effective?


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    #5599
    Ficheall
    Registered Users Posts: 9,034 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    Bubbaclaus wrote: »
    It's based on the adult population, 1 in 5 adults have received a first dose.
    Fair enough. The numbers check out, but it feels high - I know only one person here (in Ireland, as opposed to friends in their twenties and thirties who've had it in the US, Spain and Germany..) that I know has had it.


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    #5600
    Cluedo Monopoly
    Registered Users Posts: 9,434 ✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    The number of deaths by date-of-death chart is trending very well for quite a while now.

    https://www.hpsc.ie/a-z/respiratory/coronavirus/novelcoronavirus/surveillance/epidemiologyofcovid-19inirelandweeklyreports/COVID-19%20Weekly%20Report_%20Week%2013_%20Slideset_HPSC%20-%20Web.pdf

    It peaked right at the end of January and dropped fast after that. Chart is near the bottom.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



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    #5601
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 8,208 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    Golfman64 wrote: »
    Those pesky variants for which all current vaccines have proven to be effective?


    Not 100% effective. More to come.


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    #5602
    lawred2
    Registered Users Posts: 24,404 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    saabsaab wrote: »
    Not 100% effective. More to come.

    ?


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    #5603
    Wolf359f
    Registered Users Posts: 5,859 ✭✭✭Wolf359f


    Cluedo Monopoly wrote: »
    The number of deaths by date-of-death chart is trending very well for quite a while now.

    https://www.hpsc.ie/a-z/respiratory/coronavirus/novelcoronavirus/surveillance/epidemiologyofcovid-19inirelandweeklyreports/COVID-19%20Weekly%20Report_%20Week%2013_%20Slideset_HPSC%20-%20Web.pdf

    It peaked right at the end of January and dropped fast after that. Chart is near the bottom.

    Unfortunately due to the reporting delay, it's always trending down. (always on a downward trend, one reason why people on the Sweden thread get confused as that's how they report deaths)
    But obviously deaths are thankfully low now.


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    #5604
    Hobgoblin11
    Registered Users Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Hobgoblin11


    Wolf359f wrote: »
    Unfortunately due to the reporting delay, it's always trending down. (always on a downward trend, one reason why people on the Sweden thread get confused as that's how they report deaths)
    But obviously deaths are thankfully low now.

    I'm about to book my flights from New York to DUblin to back into the country before the mandatory quarantine, when is the last date for me to get in?

    Dundalk, Co. Louth



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    #5605
    Cluedo Monopoly
    Registered Users Posts: 9,434 ✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    Wolf359f wrote: »
    Unfortunately due to the reporting delay, it's always trending down. (always on a downward trend, one reason why people on the Sweden thread get confused as that's how they report deaths)
    But obviously deaths are thankfully low now.

    I am aware of the reporting delay but the weekly chart is clearly trending down. Considerably. It's the key metric for me.

    I mean Jan 31 shows 75 deaths on one day whereas most of March was < 10. Even taking in the reporting delay, the first half of March would be fairly accurate. The numbers are excellent and I hope they go even lower.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



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    #5606
    jojofizzio
    Registered Users Posts: 6,160 ✭✭✭jojofizzio


    Hobgoblin11 wrote: »
    I'm about to book my flights from New York to DUblin to back into the country before the mandatory quarantine, when is the last date for me to get in?

    Thursday April 15th @4am


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    #5607
    CalamariFritti
    Registered Users Posts: 5,634 ✭✭✭CalamariFritti


    Faugheen wrote: »
    It's amazing that people still don't understand that the restrictions on golf etc aren't necessarily about the activities themselves, but it's about people gathering.

    Where exactly do people gather during a game of golf?


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    #5608
    Bubbaclaus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,461 ✭✭✭Bubbaclaus


    Ficheall wrote: »
    Fair enough. The numbers check out, but it feels high - I know only one person here (in Ireland, as opposed to friends in their twenties and thirties who've had it in the US, Spain and Germany..) that I know has had it.

    Are you doubting the official numbers because of your own personal anecdote?


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    #5609
    Faugheen
    Site Banned Posts: 12,341 ✭✭✭✭Faugheen


    CalamariFritti wrote: »
    Where exactly do people gather during a game of golf?

    At golf courses, obviously.


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    #5610
    RGS
    Registered Users Posts: 787 ✭✭✭RGS


    Faugheen wrote: »
    At golf courses, obviously.

    There has been no gatherings at golf courses for the short period they were open last year. We have been closed for 210 days since March 2020.
    It was turn up, shoes on in the car park, off to the 1st tee, play and go home.

    We had strict protocols in place. Rakes disappeared, flags remained in the hole, the majority of clubs implemented online bookings, online payment and digital scorecards, kept locker rooms and shower facilities closed.


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    #5611
    Normal One
    Registered Users Posts: 357 ✭✭Normal One


    CalamariFritti wrote: »
    Where exactly do people gather during a game of golf?

    The drunken orgy at the 19th hole according to some


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