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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: 7,585 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    95% of the adult population.


    Not the overall population.


    A fact that seems to have gone over many peoples heads.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 520 ✭✭✭Avon8


    Grand yeah. Pin down toddlers and force jabs into their arms. It may help their 0.00 death rate. Hopefully



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,616 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    I suspect support for closing pubs is at an all time high.

    The only thing that will change this support is an increase in taxation to fund the compensation.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,585 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,913 ✭✭✭Danno


    Case numbers going through the roof and every adult I know of in my town who has Covid or recently had was double vaccinated.

    Strangely enough the very few adults I know of that are not vaccinated haven't caught Covid.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,495 ✭✭✭✭bucketybuck


    It doesn't matter. The simple need a scapegoat and the unvaccinated are it.

    But at least the unvaccinated as scapegoat stops the loons really going after those dirty covid spreading toddlers, so thats something at least.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 670 ✭✭✭fm


    Maybe it's because the unvaccinated can't get in anywhere,not having a cert is protecting them😀



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,310 ✭✭✭bloopy


    It is scary what is being promoted at the moment.

    For the last few months I have been trying to get an idea of weekly deaths and icu vaccination status of patients. I did this by using the hspc weekly Friday reports which ran from April 1st until a week before the date of each publication.

    Unfortunately the HSPC nixed these reports Friday just gone and replaced them with a report that starts 27 June until 20 November. Unfortunately this has made it impossible to continue to track the weekly admissions and deaths without going through months of reports. It may be easier if I can compare next Friday's report with this fridays (assuming they keep June 27 as the start date).

    I have also been keeping an eye on the CSO Deaths And Cases Series for the latest update. They have been released every two weeks on a Friday since March 2020. This Friday just gone is the first time that this report has not been released in 20 months. I do not know if it has been nixed also or just delayed until tomorrow.

    CSO report series 36 is at the following link. The figures I will use are from Table A.

    The new style report from the HSPC does give a percentage for confirmed unvaccinated in the total case rate for the period 17 October to 20 November.

    The percentage is 13% confirmed unvaccinated for this period.

    The CSO also gave the weekly percentage for confirmed unvaccinated for each week from 20 August to 12 Novermber (linked above Table A).

    For some of the period in the HSPC report the percentage was:

    22 Oct 32%

    29 Oct 24%

    5 Nov 21%

    12 Nov 12%

    For this period this gives a percentage of 22.25% confirmed unvaccinated.

    Between the 12 Nov and 20 Nov that percentage was reduced to 13% confirmed unvaccinated.

    From what I can work out (and I might have made a mistake in the numbers here somewhere so let me know if I have), the only way that it can be reduced to 13% is if confirmed unvaccinated made up just 4 or 5% of the case numbers for that week.

    Unfortunately this is information that is two weeks old by now. But the percentage confirmed unvaccinated had been dropping pretty rapidly in the weeks leading up to that week.

    Unfortunately, it is difficult to see what (if any ) effect this has had on admissions as the new HSPC reports are now two weeks out of date instead of one. With another week before an updated report is released.

    Assuming they keep June 27 as the start days then it might be possible to calculate weekly admission rates or deaths again.



  • Registered Users Posts: 568 ✭✭✭72sheep



    This is a worryingly bold from MM. NPHET pushed behind a govmt relations team on Friday and so they can't counter this particularly aggressive govmt statement coming on the Sunday evening. Now whatever could MM be planning!?! 

    The in-fighting scientists and medics are not blameless and are being played like fools. Looking on the positive side, there is loads of money to be made providing media training to these people :-)  



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,913 ✭✭✭Danno


    But Leo and Mehole say different! According to those two and their merry band of supporters, the unvaccinated carry covid 24/7, never recover from it, spread it like wildfire and yet hog ICU beds like a middle lane driver on the M50.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 520 ✭✭✭Avon8


    Grand pal. You played pedantic Pete about what percentage is vaccinated. My original post was clearly referring to the restrictions imposed on non vaccinated adults and the talk that it may become mandatory in future. We have a miniscule anti vax community that is way too small to matter was my point, and well meaning people are being caught in the crossfire

    The point about kids Is a completely separate matter. Unless you're a conspiracy theorists yourself and you think WHO guidelines are wrong, and that we should be vaxing kids way quicker than we are already, then the point around general population Vax rate is irrelevant. We're on course with everyone else on that score. What more would you like us to do?



  • Registered Users Posts: 42 Rynaldo


    Is inciting hatred a crime?

    Double jabbed / triple jabbed / unjabbed whatever.

    Is this the society we are going to manipulated into? Will have to see if I fit under the floorboards if the trajectory of this aggression continues.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,310 ✭✭✭bloopy




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭Real Donald Trump


    The headline should be, Public mood turns against the Government



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,365 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    Yeah, going by this thread and others, it should say public mood turns against the government. The brief anger about the unvaccinated came and went when it started to become more and more obvious that the vaccines aren't all they were cracked up to be. It's gaslighting. "No no, don't look behind the curtain, look over there!"



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  • Registered Users Posts: 42 Rynaldo


    Quite relieved at some of the responses here, in my social circle there are more than a few seeming to get some perverse pleasure from watching the segregation of the unvaccinated, and it's not public health that they're expressing this joy from.


    This covid experience has shown me more about society and people than the rest of my life had combined, depressingly sobering.



  • Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    It's like watching the invention of a religion in a cave 50,000 years ago because people needed something to believe in in order to give their world meaning. It can't just be a shlt time. There must be sinners out there ruining everything.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,432 ✭✭✭SusanC10


    Just a question on the Government controlling public communications from NPHET.

    Will the letters from the CMO to Donnelly still be published on gov.ie website?

    I don't always agree with NPHET's advice or what the Government choose to do with their advice but I would still like to know how the Government arrived at whatever restrictions they impose.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    There is no reason for that to change but we can expect a lot less of the CMO and others tweeting or chatting to the media or making press releases.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,432 ✭✭✭SusanC10


    Tbh, I am ok with that if I can still easily find the advice NPHET give to Government if I want to.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 242 ✭✭The Nu man in town


    Hopefully we get a banger of a storm tomorrow to remind people there is more to life than covid.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    The ultra busy dr.Mary xavier of nphet on the radio.she hasn’t got the message



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    DSE have revised their mask mandate for primary schools.


    Also recent HSE data shows that 37% of all tests currently are kids.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Storms will happen every year, pandemics once in a generation, but they have and always will happen, but to wish for a huge storm with associated disruption to prove a point?

    Just when you think this place cant get any more unhinged



  • Registered Users Posts: 242 ✭✭The Nu man in town


    Nothing I say, do or think will make any difference to whatever the storm throws at us tomorrow.

    I wonder will the test addicts stay at home tomorrow or put lives at risk in search of their paid days off to "isolate"

    And the pandemic is effectively over in Ireland by the way, its a casedemic at this point.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,785 ✭✭✭✭tom1ie




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    "Test addicts". **** hell.

    This place really loses the run of itself over the weekend. paranoia levels through the roof. People need to stay off boards when they're coming down or hungover.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    Thankfully my toilet blocked up this morning. Gave me 10 minutes when I didnt have to worry about the Covid and it made me realise theres more to life.


    Thank you Toiletman



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,542 ✭✭✭RocketRaccoon




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,976 ✭✭✭Marty Bird


    Every day this goes on its looking more and more like it is.

    🌞6.02kWp⚡️3.01kWp South/East⚡️3.01kWp West



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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,892 ✭✭✭the kelt


    Cmon, theyre not going to give up their celebrity that easily.

    I noticed over the weekend a bit from the media lamenting over the "gagging" of NPHET by the government, Fionan Sheehan another one at it this morning.

    Poor sods might actually have to do a bit of actual journalism now rather than feeding at the behest of our celebrity medical emergency team.



  • Registered Users Posts: 545 ✭✭✭Crocodile Booze


    Is that aimed at yourself? You appear to be the most covid-obsessed poster here all day every day. Ironic really.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,309 ✭✭✭Cork2021


    For fûck sake!! What’s she saying now? We’re all bold boys and girls?



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭I see sheep


    Guest on Claire Byrne talking about 'long-term scarring' from the pandemic.

    "Could that be positive scarring?" says CB 😐️ wtf



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,141 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Have you never heard the expression "what doesn't kill you makes you scream at the radio"?



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    The Waterford example was a concern, as far as transmission of the virus was concerned. The most vaccinated part of the nation with the highest incidence of positives. However hospitalisations and deaths didn't go up which shows the vaccines work well there.

    As for "anti vaxxers", or at least the few I know, some are like your examples. Not anti vaccinations, but suffered bad side effects from them earlier this year. One chap I know was fecked by his first dose for quite a while, doctors visits and out patient hospital tests involved and refused to get the second on the back of it. Others got the full course, aren't anti vaccination, but are holding off on boosters because they're younger than 50 and got mild enough but noticeable side effects from the first lot. I only know a couple of actual anti vaccination types, one is from the former Soviet bloc and just doesn't trust authorities, the others are deep in the social media rabbit hole and are convinced this is all part of a planned reset to get us primed for constant injections of god knows what sterilising the population and a cashless society bent on control. Or something.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Ah about that the usual auld crap.pubs etc,etc.then got all a bit bothered when asked if she needed permission to speak and said no.they ain’t letting go



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    😂

    And yeah, any time I have the misfortune of overhearing Newstalk by mistake.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,141 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    That's Newstalk's business model, outrage farming.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,668 ✭✭✭quokula


    I was due in for a long awaited surgical procedure today, but the hospital called this morning and cancelled because they're overrun and have no beds. I'm left in limbo and they said they'd call back when they know more.

    This is one of the reasons why the selfishness and stupidity of anti-vaxxers absolutely does impact the rest of us, even if you don't believe they spread covid more than responsible people.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,125 ✭✭✭timmyntc


    This happened often pre-covid too you know. Every flu season certain hospitals would very quickly hit capacity and have hallways full of dying people on trolleys. The problem is the HSE and their pitiful capacity - "anti-vaxxers" are just a nice scapegoat for them.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    536 in hospital this morning, which isn't a bad outcome from the weekend. Exactly what one would expect.

    Hospital data has done a really odd levelling-off in the last 3-4 days. New admissions, new cases and discharges, have all settled, nearly flatlined. There's usually some level of variance day-to-day, but is the first time since August they've all levelled off so consistently. It's only a few days mind, so an anomaly more than anything else.

    But it suggests a certain amount of equilibrium between case numbers and hospital numbers. Though average discharges are outstripping average admissions, so there's a good chance we'll see it drop for a bit yet before settling. I think I had previously said based on the UK figures that around 500 in hospital (100 in ICU) seemed to be their settling point, so that could be ours too.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭floorpie


    The hospital told you that they're overrun and have no beds due to unvaccinated people?! Wtf



  • Posts: 8,647 [Deleted User]


    I am unsure of what surgery the patient was supposed to have but major surgery requires a period of time in HDU/ICU bed post-op as it's a major stressor on the body (increased risk of cardiac arrest etc.). If can't guarantee HDU/ICU bed post surgery, the operation will be cancelled. Half of people in ICU at the moment are unvaccinated which presumably had a knock on effect. It's a sad situation and hopefully OP can get their operation soon.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,627 ✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    Careful...Ireland has a very poor track record of putting child welfare first. Ask GSK.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,940 ✭✭✭Sweet.Science


    Yep . If we are to be fully open as a society that's looking like the figure that will be in our hospitals give or take. Once this new variant is hopefully confirmed as not game changing i think the HSE will be told to get on with things.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,330 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    93% over 18s vaccinated yet the place is "infested" with anti vaxxers seemingly? Are you having a laugh?? The use of the word "infested" is telling also - dehumanisation of elements of society is an age old tactic.



  • Registered Users Posts: 242 ✭✭The Nu man in town


    Is it not half of all covid patients in ICU, as in about 50?

    Nearly 2 years into this there has been ample time to prepare so that 50 people won't break the system.



  • Registered Users Posts: 991 ✭✭✭Stormyteacup


    No half the people in ICU are not unvaccinated. There are maybe 50 unvaccinated in ICU that are positive for Covid.

    We have no way of knowing if all 50 would not have needed an ICU bed regardless of Covid status.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,310 ✭✭✭bloopy


    Micheál Martins comments last night has pulled all the little authoritarians out of the woodwork and given them permission to voice their true opinions.

    Reddit Ireland last night was noticeably more extreme than it's usual extreme self. Some of the opinions being put forward are quite frightening if they were to be enacted.

    The discontinuation of both the HSPC and (as it seems for the moment) the CSO vaccination break down reports makes it now almost impossible to see if the collapse of confirmed unvaccinated case rates continued beyond the 12 November.

    It does seem from the new style HSPC report that the confirmed unvaccinated case rate may have been as low as 4% for the week between 12 November and 20 November. (Scratch that. See note below).

    Beyond that is definitely unknown.

    Edit: CSO report has now been updated with new figures. Percentages raised for some weeks.

    New figures now correspond with HSPC figures for confirmed unvaccinated showing 13% all cases between 17 Oct and 20 Nov.

    CSO report:




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