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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,445 ✭✭✭Cork2021


    Looks like the time limit for indoor dining will be scrapped! Even though I don’t think she’s the most reliable journalist out there




  • Posts: 695 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    RTE reported profits of seven million euros today, was it five million they got from the Government.

    Their costs were lower this year due to covid, we have had wall to wall coverage from them since March 2020, no one is even listening anymore but that doesnt matter ad long as Government keeps giving them money.

    RTE will never let covid ago, its the cash cow that keeps on giving.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 529 ✭✭✭lukas8888


    You would be more likely to receive helpful advice on boards, rather than your everyday overworked GP.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,443 ✭✭✭brickster69


    I doubt it will even get to the point where indoor dining opens in a fortnight.

    "if you get on the wrong train, get off at the nearest station, the longer it takes you to get off, the more expensive the return trip will be."



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,445 ✭✭✭Cork2021


    It will happen, your taking at least another 600,000 vaccines administered in that time as well. They’ve gone so far with the legislation they’ll be massive failures if it doesn’t. None of the others in our region have closed indoor hospitality in spite of a serious amount of cases!



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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,615 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Yeah, it's a bit counterintuitive, but it should be expected that most deaths (and serious illness) would occur in the vaccinated, as they are older. That effect should lessen hugely as the vaccination rollout catches up with the younger.

    Still, I remember reading that most deaths in the US are among the unvaccinated, so not sure what's going on there.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,934 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Is there a County to County breakdown of cases or is that information still basically fcuked with the hack.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • Posts: 4,806 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Leo is flying kites today for continued restrictions all year and already talking about needing teenagers vaccinated before a full reopening



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 745 ✭✭✭ClosedAccountFuzzy


    Is there anywhere else there’s a discussion on covid like this?

    I’m really struggling to use boards since it went back online. I can’t navigate the mobile site at all. Took me ages to even find this thread.

    Useful forum but I can’t see myself posting here again with the revamp. It’s unusable.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,154 ✭✭✭MrMusician18




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,075 ✭✭✭jackboy


    If the case numbers keep increasing it is highly likely that NPHET will recommend to push out the indoor dining. The government will just go along with that.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,213 ✭✭✭Ohmeha


    Weekly LEA numbers have not appeared this evening on the data hub anyone know why?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,785 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Government sending letters to NPHET to ask them to have another think about some indoor gatherings.

    Have they forgotten who who sets the rules?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 738 ✭✭✭gral6


    In around 2 weeks NPHET will meet over the weekend and Tony will come with an idea of sharp lockdown in order to re-open schools



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,435 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    Mistake the government made early on was to allow NPHET to have their press conferences without government ministers present.

    In England, their chief medical officer is always accompanied and led by a government minister in their press conferences which clearly indicates that the government is in charge.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 745 ✭✭✭ClosedAccountFuzzy


    Pros and cons to it no matter which way you do it. They’re supposed to be independent advisers and not be concerned with politics, which does seem to be the case and it is important that we know what’s being advised.

    The government being seen as somewhat indecisive and spineless is a broader issue to do with the current coalition personalities.

    As I see it, NPHET didn’t over step the line, but the media keeps talking as if they’re the ones setting policy, rather than the government. They’re not the Troika and decisions are being made by the cabinet.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,739 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    No doubt NPHET will recommend indoor hospitality doesn't open till more are vaccinated and they might even want level 4/5 back to curb the spread

    Government wont stand in there way and its a win win as it will give them more time to sort out the vaccine cert etc

    We need to move on and really live with this virus. Financially and mentally we cant take anymore of it

    Great to be buying tickets and going to matches again



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,500 ✭✭✭Deeper Blue


    But if only vaccinated people are allowed in why would they?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,528 ✭✭✭fun loving criminal


    How about those in ICU? Did they go into hospital with a sore toe, get tested and eventually ended up in ICU?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭speckle


    A gentle reminder those averagely healthy living at home over 80s have a 94.5% survival rate...about c82-4% co morbodities x2 or more if in a nursing home.

    This was the data PRE vaccination so they got an extra nudge now on top of that in the right direction

    ..as one 80+ year old in my family said that aint bad on top of 'they' know how this virus works now and what treatments to give you even if still somewhat imperfect but more importantly what not to do!

    We have a lot of 80+ers in the family and are real about losing some of them to death probably soon enough as they are to their own mortality.

    We should be asking the likes of them how they want to live the rest of their lives now and how much more stress they want to put on younger people.

    We are not going for sterilising community immunity ..its harm/symptom reduction immunity.

    We do need both natural amd vaccination to be part of that community immunity and treated equally.

    Some potentially brighter news

    Nite all ...great to have boards back warts and all😆



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,137 ✭✭✭eviltimeban


    And I wonder how many of them were actually "sick", or showing symptoms.



  • Site Banned Posts: 5,975 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    So are many of the 5% fully vaccinated going to hospital or getting seriously sick? Has an age group been mentioned for these cohorts, are they in the 'younger' categories of vaccinated i.e. 40s to 50s or more elderly?



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




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,669 ✭✭✭Klonker


    People end up in ICU for lots of reasons, not just covid. There's over 200 people in ICU at the moment for non covid reasons. Some of the covid ICU patients could of been heading for ICU before catching covid anyway. Its a lot less likely than hospital patients of which thousands are admitted everyday hence why I mentioned that and not ICU.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 713 ✭✭✭cheezums


    Unless we have a different version of delta to the UK I'm not sure what the panic is.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    There's a delay with deaths. In the graphs you show, you can see a delay of two weeks between case rises and deaths. There is a small rise in deaths this time around, but until the UK cases plateau, we know don't what'll happen with deaths/hospitalisations.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,655 ✭✭✭timmyntc


    It's clear to anyone with 2 braincells that the UK are not seeing a substantial increase in mortality this time around.

    You can keep scaremongering about the next 2 weeks, but it will not materialize. You've singing this tune for weeks now and there has still been no surge in mortality in the UK. No reason whatsoever to believe it will be the case in 2 more weeks.


    Vaccines work.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Deaths in the UK are up 47% week-on-week. https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

    That's a doubling time of about 12 days.

    I'm not sure how pointing out facts can be "scaremongering". And the usual defence is, "But the numbers are low, 47% of a low number is still a low number". The current average deaths/day in the UK is 37. With a 12-day doubling time becomes 600/day inside two months. That's how exponential growth works.

    It may not. If everything does plateau then things might be very different. Lots of "ifs" and "mights" though. The UK are carrying out a gigantic experiment on their society. Nobody knows how it's going to turn out.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,445 ✭✭✭Cork2021


    What ever ye do and if your from Cork do not turn on 96fm!! Pj Coogan is back on the zero covid wagon and has Crackpot Killeen on! Coogan comparing last year with this year!

    as far as I remember we weren’t testing 20,000plus a day and have walk in testing centres…

    absolute fûcking nonsense!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,669 ✭✭✭Klonker


    Professor of Immunovirology at University College Cork, Liam Fanning was on Newstalk Breakfast this morning talking sense as usual. He's not overly worried about the rising case numbers and this is probably the beginning of covid becoming endemic rather than pandemic and it'll be around for years. Also calling for a bit more clarity on those ending up on hospital/icu in terms of age and vaccination status as hard to guess where these numbers will go if we don't know if we dont know who's making uo these numbers.



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