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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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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,693 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    268 days until Christmas!

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,734 ✭✭✭thebiglad


    Vicxas wrote: »
    Anyone have the hospital numbers from last night/ this morning?

    Its posted here daily but headline - it's 290 hospitalised of which 65 are ICU

    https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/news/newsfeatures/covid19-updates/coronavirus-daily-operations-updates.html


  • Posts: 6,775 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    268 days until Christmas!

    Meaningful Christmas, you mean. :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,316 ✭✭✭Banana Republic 1


    Thus I'm watching the UK news rather than the Irish, the UK is full of positivity and "getting it all going"... As you have stated above, all they do here is try and fill people with dread and worry... they can just f*ck off.

    You must be watching fake news if that’s what your getting from it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 911 ✭✭✭FlubberJones


    You must be watching fake news if that’s what your getting from it.

    I thought the term "fake news" was only used by idiots?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,316 ✭✭✭Banana Republic 1


    We have plenty of fake news to choose from in fairness with ISAG getting airtime on all our main media sources.

    That’s not fake news, the fake news is the anti isag propaganda which the same media and the government spin out against them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,316 ✭✭✭Banana Republic 1




    I thought the term "fake news" was only used by idiots?

    You’ve just used it there ergo your an idiot. Ha ha hoisted on your own petard.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭ShyMets


    That’s not fake news, the fake news is the anti isag propaganda which the same media and the government spin out against them.

    It kind of is. We've had members of ISAG suggest that the vaccines are infective against variants without providing a shred of proof


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,288 Mod ✭✭✭✭pc7


    lawred2 wrote: »
    Any time Leo tried to say anything remotely positive last night on prime time, Murayum was butting in with some negative crap about "varyunts" or what not.

    I truly don't understand the mentality.


    Because misery sells, older people are glued to RTE, advertising goes up, RTE get some dosh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,316 ✭✭✭Banana Republic 1


    ShyMets wrote: »
    It kind of is. We've had members of ISAG suggest that the vaccines are infective against variants without providing a shred of proof

    The other side never do that at all sure they don’t. Who specifically said those things and when ?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭Curious_Case


    You’ve just used it there ergo your an idiot. Ha ha hoisted on your own petard.

    The poster seemed well aware of the potential for perceived irony, that's why they put "it" in quotation form.

    Now I've used the term too, by virtue of my "it" reference.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭ShyMets


    The other side never do that at all sure they don’t. Who specifically said those things and when ?

    Check out Sam McConkey and Antony Staines twitter feeds


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,316 ✭✭✭Banana Republic 1


    The poster seemed well aware of the potential for perceived irony, that's why he put "it" in quotation form.

    Now I've used the term too, by virtue of my "it" reference.

    No what the poster was trying to do was call me an idiot from behind his twitching curtain


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,316 ✭✭✭Banana Republic 1


    ShyMets wrote: »
    Check out Sam McConkey and Antony Staines twitter feeds

    I don’t use Twitter.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 418 ✭✭BlondeBomb


    Vicxas wrote: »
    Anyone have the hospital numbers from last night/ this morning?

    297 this morning.

    Great to see it below the 300. Maybe below 200 end of April?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭ShyMets


    I don’t use Twitter.

    You dont need to have an account. Just type in one of their names with twitter and their twitter feed will come up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭Curious_Case


    No what the poster was trying to do was call me an idiot from behind his twitching curtain

    Accepted


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 860 ✭✭✭OwenM


    That’s not fake news, the fake news is the anti isag propaganda which the same media and the government spin out against them.

    You must be inhaling solvents or very exotic fungal spores.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 911 ✭✭✭FlubberJones


    No what the poster was trying to do was call me an idiot from behind his twitching curtain

    True.... But I don't use curtains


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,992 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Kivaro wrote: »
    Good news that Covid hospitalisations are now below 300. You wouldn't think it listening to all the negativity from RTE this morning. "High numbers", "4th Wave" all repeated in the 7 am morning news. And then they had a list of union reps lined up to argue against the vaccination by age change announced yesterday.

    One can only hope that the actual 4th wave is actually a bye-bye wave to RTE in their current format, because they are pitiful.

    Yes I agree the Hospital numbers are great. And that should be widely acknowledged.

    Unfortunately that's not the whole story with regard to the rare of infection which does appear to be rising albeit slowly.

    But that's the problem with this virus - it can go from 0 to 60 in a very short period as we Unfortunately saw over the Christmas period. (And no that's not to assign blame to anyone btw)

    I will admit to only selectively listening to / reading the media. Much of it is - as its too often was - based on headlines. And you can give a lot of that a wide berth most days imho


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,316 ✭✭✭Banana Republic 1


    OwenM wrote: »
    You must be inhaling solvents or very exotic fungal spores.

    Fungal spores are in the air no matter what, you would have to operate in an air tight clean room to avoid them.

    Again solvents are inherent in modern societies the amount of toxins in your own home would alarm anyone.

    If you’re going use a put down use one you understand..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,316 ✭✭✭Banana Republic 1


    ShyMets wrote: »
    Check out Sam McConkey and Antony Staines twitter feeds

    I’ve had a look at mcconkeys Twitter and from I can see there no mention of what your on about.

    Post the tweets if you want to be taken seriously.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭ShyMets


    I’ve had a look at mcconkeys Twitter and from I can see there no mention of what your on about.

    Post the tweets if you want to be taken seriously.

    Below is an article that Staines recently wrote. Below is a paragraph

    https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/government-must-move-now-to-prevent-another-wave-of-covid-19-1.4514880

    "We know there are at least three strains of the virus in circulation globally, which are relatively resistant to current vaccines. Two of these commonly cause more severe disease"

    He presents no data to back up the claim.

    Am I serious enough now


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,316 ✭✭✭Banana Republic 1


    ShyMets wrote: »
    Below is an article that Staines recently wrote. Below is a paragraph

    https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/government-must-move-now-to-prevent-another-wave-of-covid-19-1.4514880

    "We know there are at least three strains of the virus in circulation globally, which are relatively resistant to current vaccines. Two of these commonly cause more severe disease"

    He presents no data to back up the claim.

    Am I serious enough now

    You must not watch the British news then afterall


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭ShyMets


    You must not watch the British news then afterall

    I've no idea what you mean by that reply


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,072 ✭✭✭MarkY91


    I know someone who works in the perfume section of boots who got her vaccine today yet my 73 year old mother with underlying conditions still hasn't a clue when she will get her vaccine.

    Where's the logic here?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,316 ✭✭✭Banana Republic 1


    ShyMets wrote: »
    I've no idea what you mean by that reply

    I mixed you up with another poster that time.
    But weeks ago British government specialists were worried about two strains the South African and Brazilian strains for the very reason Staines suggests.

    A quote from the Irish times article, the Irish times being a newspaper not a science journal, Staines was writing an OP ED

    “Two of these commonly cause more severe disease”.

    ie the South African and Brazilian strains. There is actually two Brazilian strains, P1 and P2. All variants are new viruses and the vaccines were developed to fight the original. Even Boris Johnson admits now that it when not if a new strain enters the UK. Europe are in there third wave and the South African strain is a real worry there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    MarkY91 wrote: »
    I know someone who works in the perfume section of boots who got her vaccine today yet my 73 year old mother with underlying conditions still hasn't a clue when she will get her vaccine.

    Where's the logic here?
    She may well be part of the vaccination programme when pharmacies come online? That would be Group 6, which they are doing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,065 ✭✭✭funnydoggy


    Because it will become the new normal here as it has for Asian countries due to other flu etc




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    Masks grand, but social distancing no. South Korea above ^


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  • Posts: 6,775 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    That explains a lot.

    Or don't, if you value your sanity.

    Part of me wonders whether McConkey is playing this up to keep a spotlight on himself.

    Some of the proposals are so extreme that it appears that there's some sort of confection going on.


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