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

KrustyUCC

jhegarty wrote: »

Positive Swabs : 712
Positivity Rate : 3.38%
Tests : 21051

Crap

In of themselves not bad figures

Was hoping for better considering the cases

igCorcaigh

jhegarty wrote: »

Positive Swabs : 712
Positivity Rate : 3.38%
Tests : 21051

That's quite the jump, although that's a very high level of testing too.

stephenjmcd

jhegarty wrote: »

Positive Swabs : 712
Positivity Rate : 3.38%
Tests : 21051

Not bad for a Wednesday from a very high number of tests.

Fair few to be reported tomorrow so

wadacrack

Faugheen wrote: »

What about 25? 30? 35?

I don’t understand why people seem to get really annoyed by the question being asked.

They get annoyed because of the repetition and everyone knows what the answer is going to be. Pretty specific question too.

igCorcaigh

Highest swab numbers in all of March.

ninebeanrows

MerlinSouthDub wrote: »

Yep. Never trust the case numbers!

Still, not bad numbers

Pretty much flat from last Wednesday. Not too bad but bump in announced cases likely tomorrow.

Faugheen

wadacrack wrote: »

Repeating the same question and getting the same answer every time is infuriating for everyone involved. Hairdressers and Retail aren't asking when can we open under every opportunity at this press briefing . Theirs way more examples.

She doesn’t ask at every briefing ffs.

There was announcement on restrictions just yesterday and nothing about weddings. It’s a fair question to ask because there are hundreds of families that are wondering what the story is.

Sweet.Science

Faugheen wrote: »

She doesn’t ask at every briefing ffs.

There was announcement on restrictions just yesterday and nothing about weddings. It’s a fair question to ask because there are hundreds of families that are wondering what the story is.

Exactly . Weddings have been on hold for a year now . It's a big issue for lots of people. And hotels themselves

Sweet.Science

Sweet.Science wrote: »

Exactly . Weddings have been on hold for a year now . It's a big issue for lots of people. And hotels themselves

And all those who work in the events and wedding industry. Its very difficult to have your livelihood decimated. A lot of people forget about this when they dismiss the wedding related queries.

Benimar

Ouch, those swab numbers put a dampener on things. Not the worst numbers but not great either and fits with there being a plateauing of infection.

Sweet.Science

Benimar wrote: »

Ouch, those swab numbers put a dampener on things. Not the worst numbers but not great either and fits with there being a plateauing of infection.

With 5 new walk in centres I think we can expect positive swabs to increase or plateau

Its important not to think its armageddon when it happens.

Wolf359f

Benimar wrote: »

Ouch, those swab numbers put a dampener on things. Not the worst numbers but not great either and fits with there being a plateauing of infection.

Yeah it's a big jump, such a shame.
Maybe a delay in reporting of swabs yesterday?

Faugheen

[Deleted User] wrote: »

And all those who work in the events and wedding industry. Its very difficult to have your livelihood decimated. A lot of people forget about this when they dismiss the wedding related queries.

They dismiss them because it doesn’t impact them so therefore it doesn’t matter.

Same people kick off about how NPHET have ruined people’s businesses as well.

Benimar

Sweet.Science wrote: »

With 5 new walk in centres I think we can expect positive swabs to increase or plateau

Its important not to think its armageddon when it happens.

Thanks for the advice, but given I don’t see a single days figures as either ‘Armageddon’ or ‘it’s over, open up’ it’s a bit wasted on me.

Benimar

Wolf359f wrote: »

Yeah it's a big jump, such a shame.
Maybe a delay in reporting of swabs yesterday?

Cases were 17 lower than swabs yesterday, so any delay look minimal. As always, tomorrow will tell a lot regarding any backlog.

AdamD

https://twitter.com/FergalBowers/status/1377275983535951875

Are they just pretending vaccines don't exist?

Jinglejangle69

Paddy's day repercussions?

Oranage2

jhegarty wrote: »

Positive Swabs : 712
Positivity Rate : 3.38%
Tests : 21051

High no 2 ways around it. Positivity Rate though isn't too high though still very high. I think it's just going to be a long road in lockdown till the vaccines are fully rolled out

Faugheen

AdamD wrote: »

https://twitter.com/FergalBowers/status/1377275983535951875

Are they just pretending vaccines don't exist?

Watch the bloody briefing.

Philip Nolan said that was worse case scenario if there’s a big increase in mixing. He added the caveat that if people stick by the restrictions then the vaccination rollout reduces any future risks of such an increase like the above.

He went into clear, concise detail about this, including how in 8 weeks time if people stick to restrictions then the vaccination programme will cut a theoretical R number of 1.4 by half to 0.7. He compared this to if there was no vaccine at all.

Watch the briefing instead of looking at a single tweet.

SEPT 23 1989

AdamD wrote: »

https://twitter.com/FergalBowers/status/1377275983535951875

Are they just pretending vaccines don't exist?

they said the same sort of thing at the start of December

Goldengirl

AdamD wrote: »

https://twitter.com/FergalBowers/status/1377275983535951875

Are they just pretending vaccines don't exist?

Very poor reporting by Fergal Bowers and usual bandwagon jumping by people.
That is not what was said at the briefing at all.
But sure have an oul pop anyhow..

MerlinSouthDub

AdamD wrote: »

https://twitter.com/FergalBowers/status/1377275983535951875

Are they just pretending vaccines don't exist?

That's bizarre - assumes zero impact on transmissibility from vaccines. Why would they publish such nonsense.

funnydoggy

Faugheen wrote: »

Watch the bloody briefing.

Philip Nolan said that was worse case scenario if there’s a big increase in mixing. He added the caveat that if people stick by the restrictions then the vaccination rollout reduces any future risks of such a spike in cases.

He went into clear, concise detail about this. Watch the briefing instead of looking at a single tweet.

To be fair, RTÉ's health correspondent has posted this in a tweet. He doesn't tell you to watch the briefing, nor does he give any sort of context of said projection.

Bit harsh to blame OP for not watching the briefing when, most people will also see this tweet in isolation.

Turtwig

AdamD wrote: »

https://twitter.com/FergalBowers/status/1377275983535951875

Are they just pretending vaccines don't exist?

Clearly they are not pretending this.

Not enough will be vaccinated by April to impact transmission to such a significant degree. Bowers is just parroting a figure too. It's a potential rise in cases if the number of social interactions increases. This may not happen.

Faugheen

Goldengirl wrote: »

Very poor reporting by Fergal Bowers and usual bandwagon jumping by people.
That is not what was said at the briefing at all.
But sure have an oul pop anyhow..

It wasn’t bad reporting. Those were the facts that were stated at the time.

He later tweeted this

https://twitter.com/fergalbowers/status/1377281059423932417?s=21

Funnily enough the poster ignored that one and posted that first one to whip up a frenzy in here.

Faugheen

funnydoggy wrote: »

To be fair, RTÉ's health correspondent has posted this in a tweet. He doesn't tell you to watch the briefing, nor does he give any sort of context of said projection.

Bit harsh to blame OP for not watching the briefing when, most people will also see this tweet in isolation.

Read my last post where the same health correspondent put that tweet into context.

Watch the briefings instead of looking at individual tweets.

External Association

jhegarty wrote: »

Positive Swabs : 712
Positivity Rate : 3.38%
Tests : 21051

Disappointing given case numbers. Just one day.

Turtwig

funnydoggy wrote: »

To be fair, RTÉ's health correspondent has posted this in a tweet. He doesn't tell you to watch the briefing, nor does he give any sort of context of said projection.

Bit harsh to blame OP for not watching the briefing when, most people will also see this tweet in isolation.

It's a tough one though. People here know how crappy and inept our journalists have been through this whole thing. Bowers tweets of late seem to be targeted at maximum outrage.

CIARAN_BOYLE

Benimar wrote: »

Thanks for the advice, but given I don’t see a single days figures as either ‘Armageddon’ or ‘it’s over, open up’ it’s a bit wasted on me.

I especially refuse to see one days figures as both.

Its always amazing when we see people coming out with both opinions from different figures on a single day.

seamus

Those swab numbers are good. Compared to last Wednesday it's ten more cases from 1,000 more swabs.

Ever the optimist, cases over the last two weeks have also well aligned with the GP referral tracker, which means we should see even better numbers in the days to come.