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

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Edit: As above....not quick enough!

stephenjmcd

County breakdown
https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1375504031318220801?s=19

harr

Still seeing high deaths due to big numbers early January and the fact you have months to register a death.

Gael23

Appears the drop in hospital numbers are due to death

Milanative

Larbre34 wrote: »

20 deaths, 584 cases.

RIP.

Damn stubborn British variant. Lets hope Easter doesn't **** us altogether.

You should inform the UK of this oh so scary "British variant"

namloc1980

Gael23 wrote: »

Appears the drop in hospital numbers are due to death

No it doesn't at all.

Tredstone.

Is it just me or is there a stark contrast between the leadership and communication being shown here and the UK ?

I appreciate there's a large BS element to the communications

namloc1980

TheDoctor wrote: »

Bump in deaths along with big drop in ICU sure there’s a bit of correlation

11 of the deaths were from February and January and only being reported now

UsBus

What the hell are they at in Offaly..??

is_that_so

UsBus wrote: »

What the hell are they at in Offaly..??

They may need bigger walk-ins!

Banana Republic 1

covidrelease wrote: »

Well fortunately the "highly transmissible" UK variant has been rampant here for months, so we won't need to worry about this one because we will all have got the UK variant.

Lucky us.

There effectively different viruses captain doctor science.

Banana Republic 1

UsBus wrote: »

What the hell are they at in Offaly..??

Meat plants!

frank8211

Banana Republic 1 wrote: »

Meat plants!

Probably And schools and a creche anyway. Any local knowledge here?

spookwoman

is_that_so

Banana Republic 1 wrote: »

Meat plants!

They have their own regular testing cycles.

titan18

Martina1991 wrote: »

The priority for vaccination is HCW because they have to run the health service and are exposed to the virus at a higher rate than the general population.

Then it's the elderly and medically vulnerable. They are at the greatest risk for hospitalisation and death.

Teachers are not a medically vulnerable group. They are at no more of a risk to transmission than others or those that work in other essential services.

Teachers shouldn't skip the queue above people who are at a far greater risk of becoming critically ill or dying.

Tbf sales staff in Specsavers are being vaccinated. I'd consider teachers a higher priority than that.

Always_Running

7 day average in cases 580. It was 500 last Friday. Big difference in testing this week compared to last week. 93,976 v 115,814

fred funk }{

Banana Republic 1 wrote: »

Meat plants!

Kildare too.

CoronaBlocker

Wouldn't you think that at least one of those teachers in Bray would have had the good grace to stand up and say "No lads - it's not our turn yet. There are still folks out there more vulnerable than us that need these jabs more. Our turn will come"?

caveat emptor

Mitch Connor wrote: »

Then they simply wouldn't send their kids to school. 20 teachers being vaccinated will have a minimal impact on whether their kids will be exposed. they will be interacting with multiple times more kids than teachers.

True but a bit of a coincidence that the kids of the CEO of the hospital happen to attend that very school.

Watching that Netflix documentary about the college admissions scandal. Big daddy CEO would be in a bit of bother state side.

Classic quid pro quo can't be ruled out. It's interesting with the leaving cert being decided by teachers rather than exam for some pupils this year.

It shouldn't have happened and it makes a mockery of all the old and vulnerable still waiting to be vaccinated.

I do think teachers should be given it as soon as possible given their exposure but this smells.

Normal One

CoronaBlocker wrote: »

Wouldn't you think that at least one of those teachers in Bray would have had the good grace to stand up and say "No lads - it's not our turn yet. There are still folks out there more vulnerable than us that need these jabs more. Our turn will come"?

Presumably one of them, or one who wasn't in the magic 20, blew the whistle.

Normal One

caveat emptor wrote: »

True but a bit of a coincidence that the kids of the CEO of the hospital happen to attend that very school.

Watching that Netflix documentary about the college admissions scandal. Big daddy CEO would be in a bit of bother state side.

Classic quid pro quo can't be ruled out. It's interesting with the leaving cert being decided by teachers rather than exam for some pupils this year.

It shouldn't have happened and it makes a mockery of all the old and vulnerable still waiting to be vaccinated.

I do think teachers should be given it as soon as possible given their exposure but this smells.

If the vaccines are property of the state (or HSE or whomever) then Mr CEO should be done for theft.

rodders999

CoronaBlocker wrote: »

Wouldn't you think that at least one of those teachers in Bray would have had the good grace to stand up and say "No lads - it's not our turn yet. There are still folks out there more vulnerable than us that need these jabs more. Our turn will come"?

These are the Tarquin’s and Rupert’s of this world and would have been indignant that they weren’t top priority to begin with, what with Fergus being a barrister and chairman of the golf club to boot.


They’d certainly have no qualms of jumping the queue ahead of the great unwashed.

Tally Ho!

is_that_so

Normal One wrote: »

If the vaccines are property of the state (or HSE or whomever) then Mr CEO should be done for theft.

Neither he nor the Beacon stole them. There were used as expected to vaccinate people, but a very small number of people were done way out of turn.

Chris_5339762

CoronaBlocker wrote: »

Wouldn't you think that at least one of those teachers in Bray would have had the good grace to stand up and say "No lads - it's not our turn yet. There are still folks out there more vulnerable than us that need these jabs more. Our turn will come"?

Almost everyone who wants a vaccine will take it if offered... I'd say there are very very few people honest or good enough to say "No thanks, I'll wait, its not my turn yet". I'll be very honest and say I'd jump at the chance for a needle in the arm in those situations. That said, I did get mine back in January as HCW.

is_that_so

Chris_5339762 wrote: »

Almost everyone who wants a vaccine will take it if offered... I'd say there are very very few people honest or good enough to say "No thanks, I'll wait, its not my turn yet". I'll be very honest and say I'd jump at the chance for a needle in the arm in those situations. That said, I did get mine back in January as HCW.

I have seen posters say they would trample over their elderly relatives to get one!

Polar101

Tredstone. wrote: »

Is it just me or is there a stark contrast between the leadership and communication being shown here and the UK ?

Yes.

UK - can't believe anything they say
Ireland - can't believe they'll do anything

Polar101

Polar101 wrote: »

Yes.

UK - can't believe anything they say
Ireland - can't believe they'll do anything

UK - gap between saying and doing is narrowing
Ireland - expectation of doing anything is falling

https://www.axios.com/wuhan-lab-coronavirus-cdc-director-c599cf7b-9e30-4314-909b-a9bdac28ead6.html

so this EX CDC head thinks this was indeed designed and "escaped"

is_that_so

rusty cole wrote: »

https://www.axios.com/wuhan-lab-coronavirus-cdc-director-c599cf7b-9e30-4314-909b-a9bdac28ead6.html

so this EX CDC head thinks this was indeed designed and "escaped"

It also quickly states he has nothing but an opinion. Man has form in making things up.