Covid 19 Part XXXV-956,720 ROI (5,952 deaths) 452,946 NI (3,002 deaths) (08/01) Read OP

brickster69

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117648069#Comment_117648069

I totally agree with you on projections, i don't think at all Ireland will be a disaster, far from it compared to plenty of others . But judging by how it has started off in other countries, one day just kicks it off and you get a shock and then it goes on until it slows down or stops.

is_that_so

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117648179#Comment_117648179

One thing very much in our favour is the uniformity of takeup down through the age groups, which shouldn't leave too many holes in older age groups. 1100 teens positive for COVID is no big deal as the hospitalisations would be minimal. Our numbers at present also have high cases in relatively low population areas, so less scope for it to spread to huge numbers. If this hospital surge is going to happen we should start to see signs next week but the age profile of cases is giving me a feeling that it won't be shocking.

Relax brah

Honestly, you’d swear some people don’t want this pandemic to end.

Why not be positive about the amazing progress we have made, people forget how bad it was this time 12 months ago. The end is basically here, we had one additional admission to ICU over night - it’s incredible progress

Glass half full please people

Lumen

Despite the steady rise in the 7-day average recently, actual daily case numbers seem to have plateaued. Here are the last 7 days:

1189, 1260, 1110, 1071, 1179, 1377, 1170.

Is that in ascending or descending date order? You can't tell, because it's basically flat.

With the vaccines pouring into arms 50 times faster than confirmed cases I think we might be on top of this thing.

I’m only 35 and I’ll be fully vaccinated next week. There cant be many if any vulnerable left to do.

I know 20 odd years olds ringing GPs and getting vaccinated.

brickster69

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117648358#Comment_117648358

2 months ago today when the UK more or less started they had 2700 cases from 1 million plus tests & 6 deaths

Ireland has 1200 cases from 13K tests & 0 Deaths today

cheezums

what exactly happened in israel with vaccination? they basically stopped back in march and have been around 60% fully vaccinated for months.

stephenjmcd

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117648445#Comment_117648445

They don't need to ring GPs, MVCs are giving appointments now

Tyrone212

North Inishowen now has the highest Covid 19 incidence rate in the country at almost 2,000 cases per 100,000 people.

South Inishowen is the second highest with a rate of just over 1,200.

brickster69

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117648596#Comment_117648596

This is where you should attack the area with mass testing and test everyone, even if they have no symptoms. even lock it down for a week.

corkie

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117648177#Comment_117648177

It is the number of cases at Midnight!

Hospital figures are from 8am on date of reporting, (11:30 am for ICU) according to the Hub.

https://covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com/

They maybe reporting the maximum reached the previous day.

Relax brah

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117648399#Comment_117648399

The virus is not clever, people are just stupid.

Follow the guidelines and listen to the professionals I say. I wish people spent more time supporting one another instead of buying into these BS conspiracy theories and arguing with eachother over it.

Cork2021

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117648577#Comment_117648577

Few younger lads at work got jabbed this week from their GP, some are still going through age groups on their list!

funnydoggy

We don't need herd immunity to open back up. We're already opening up regardless. Things are moving in the right direction restriction wise.

Relax brah

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117648717#Comment_117648717

Exactly.

Last year we had loved ones locked in nursing homes that we couldn’t visit for example. If one thing this pandemic has thought me is gratitude and people need to be grateful for how far we have come along.

redlad12

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117648028#Comment_117648028

Our freedom day won't be in 2021🤣😪

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117648643#Comment_117648643

explain the science here to me brah..unvaccinated adults cannot eat inside but as soon as an unvaccinated child is accompanied by their parents, the virus washes by like some phantom past a door in a biblical plague story..are you for real?? also, this is a departure by the govt from NPHET advice, sure why not depart from their advice on other things, like scientific antigen tests???

it's only so the the influential and affluent can dine out of the rain with their little jonny and jenny without looking over their shoulder for a smart phone pic destined for watsap..simple as that.. all these guys have kids and while they have their month off and cannot travel, they want their indoor steak dinners with the kids.

you want good support, go buy a sports BRA!, BRAH!

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117648825#Comment_117648825

That’s because that jingoistic sh*te doesn’t wash here. One day we will just realise things are pretty much back to normal. Far sooner than many think

duffman13

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117648596#Comment_117648596

40,000 people so 800 odd cases in there. That's crazy. Would be an interesting test case to distribute antigen tests to everyone in that area

Cork2021

Orla Hegarty being wheeled out on Prime time! Can’t stand here! She’s a fecking architect!

I know she’s an expert on ventilation but speaks as if she’s a virologist! ISAG twat!

FishOnABike

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117648596#Comment_117648596

Should we just dig a big trench north of the N14?

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117648988#Comment_117648988

I think some people need to get a grip on reality. Someone expressing a view based on their knowledge of ventilation is “ISAG twat”. Whatever group they may or may not be a member of and whatever your views on the rights on wrongs of the usage zero Covid policy that we never actually came anywhere close to following, these types of rants a quite strange.

Atlantic Dawn

Prime Time now trying to spread fear. Cases numbers mean absolutelty nothing without deaths and ICU admissions, that's why we have vaccines.

Not a single country in the entire world that has rolled out a successful vaccine program has experienced a surge in deaths and ICU numbers, are we somehow specialists in failure?

TefalBrain

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117649035#Comment_117649035

Watching it now. Disgraceful coverage. Pure scaremongering

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117649037#Comment_117649037

Why watch? The vast majority of the population are getting on with living with the actual real changes associated with the continuing roll back of public health measures

Cork2021

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117649020#Comment_117649020

Did you listen to her at all?

coming out with statements that schools are now at risk, another lockdown seems likely, hospitality should spend even more (they don’t have) on improving building quality or stay closed! In my mind she’s a twat! Another one that’s wheeled out constantly! FairPlay to the GP he was taking sense!

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117649145#Comment_117649145

I did not see it as prime time is painful in the extreme 100% of the time.I don’t doubt that serious objections could raised to the content based on what you said. Maybe best avoid prime time I’d say?

redlad12

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117648905#Comment_117648905

I hope you are right!

hatrickpatrick

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117649020#Comment_117649020

RTE have given undue weight to these extremists over the last year, particularly since late last summer, and that has had direct impacts on viewers' mental health. I know ISAG's piece on the future of concerts and festivals completely f*cked me up, and I know I'm not the only one just in my own social circle either. The leaks earlier this year proved that RTE were in direct contact with this lobby / pressure group and inviting them to author pieces for "current affairs" programming - not just to come on and be interviewed, but to actually perform role-play sketches indicating what the post-pandemic future would look like. Off the top of my head, I remember the hairdresser, the pub, the festival, and the Christmas dinner - we know that the latter was authored by ISAG after a direct invite from RTE with reference to previous successes, which one can infer means that all four sketches were authored by the same group.

"Previous successes" obviously means that they got a huge amount of traction on social media, primarily because they depressed the sh!t out of so many people and those people shared the clips aghast at the suggestion that this was what life would become. At no point did RTE ever disclose that these pieces for current affairs programmes (Claire Byrne in particular) were authored by a lobby group whose modus operandi was to psychologically manipulate the public into backing a particular anti-COVID strategy.

It may come across as hyperbole but I cannot stress enough the spiral of absolute despair that festival piece, presented as an impartial current affairs piece, sent me into. I'm not exaggerating when I say that it pushed me to the brink of a dark abyss I had managed to steer clear of since my only ever brush with it in 2011, and I ended up writing a blog post to that effect in the hopes of showing others that they weren't alone if they happened to be feeling that way.

I'm no COVID denier, my father was in one of the highest categories of risk and as such we as a family had been coccooning since *before* the government even advised social distancing (his doctor got wind of the incoming pandemic and advised him to get out ahead of it as he would be a 99% certainty to end up in the ICU if he contracted it, even a seasonal flu knocks him out for weeks on end) and I have nothing but respect for the media coming from a family of journalists. But RTE's cosy relationship with ISAG and their constant failure to point out that ISAG is a pressure / lobby group with a specific agenda, is a complete and utter betrayal of their public service broadcasting remit. To use ISAG's self-title without clarifying what the group actually is, is akin to referring to "The Iona Institute" without pointing out that it is in no way any kind of officially-connected organisation but an entirely private, agenda driven lobby group.

Tl;dr, ISAG are a group of extremists who have been intentionally manipulating the public's psyches through social engineering, and RTE has facilitated this apparently without a moment's hesitation. That is not ok, no matter who's side you happen to be on. A public service broadcaster should not be in cahoots with a political lobby group and allowing them to script current affairs segments without disclosing this to the public.

alias no.9

Given the rates of positive cases in certain areas and the age profile of the cases, is it possible that vast numbers of young people made a conscious decision to catch covid and get a positive swab as their quickest route to vaccine passport freedom? An unintended but not entirely unpredictable response to vaccine segregation.