China Coronavirus

Started by lurganblue, January 23, 2020, 09:52:32 AM

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Cunny Funt

Not a good week at all, back to early May figures.

Cases in the ROI this week - 1314 (393 more than last week)

Deaths reported - 8 (all deaths apparently happened recently)

armaghniac

While you can make a case that the present numbers are tolerable, you can't have increasing numbers each week with running into problems down the line.with universities restarting in the next few weeks with at least some gathering it's looks like something will give.
If at first you don't succeed, then goto Plan B

seafoid

Quote from: armaghniac on September 13, 2020, 06:24:06 PM
While you can make a case that the present numbers are tolerable, you can't have increasing numbers each week with running into problems down the line.with universities restarting in the next few weeks with at least some gathering it's looks like something will give.
Numbers are going up everywhere as people spend more time indoors. France is pretty bad, for example.
The authorities will try to avoid national lockdowns but local restrictions will be used a lot
There was a good article in the FT about using quick and dirty tests

https://www.ft.com/content/059684da-b180-409b-865f-d7283c7407b3
"Imagine a quick-and-dirty test which takes five minutes to conduct, but produces a false positive rate of 10 per cent. Two hundred false positives might be flagged for every genuine case. That is disastrously high if we apply the current UK rules, in which the tested person and everyone in their household has to self-isolate for more than a week. But even the bad test produces some information: the person with a positive test is 10 times more likely to be infected than a randomly selected person.

So what about the following rule? If you take the test at the school gate and test positive, you must go home and try again tomorrow. If you take a positive test at the theatre entrance, you will need to leave and your ticket will be refunded. If you take it on arrival at Heathrow airport, you'll have to do a more accurate swab test and isolate until results arrive. These are all irritating scenarios for the 200 out of 201 who do not actually have the virus. But they are not nearly as irritating as no school, no theatre, no flights and everyone back in lockdown by Christmas. Fast, cheap tests don't need to be perfect to help contain the virus. They don't even need to be nearly perfect. Cheap and quick is enough — provided we use the information wisely. We can't shut down a school or an office block because one person tests positive on a ropey test: the risk of false positives is too great. But we can ask them to stay at home instead and book a more accurate test"
"f**k it, just score"- Donaghy   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbxG2WwVRjU

Cunny Funt

Quote from: armaghniac on September 13, 2020, 06:24:06 PM
While you can make a case that the present numbers are tolerable, you can't have increasing numbers each week with running into problems down the line.with universities restarting in the next few weeks with at least some gathering it's looks like something will give.

I can imagine more restrictions will be placed on Dublin, 784  cases they had this week alone.

Eire90

cant lockdown dublin without a blockade otherwise its fake lockdown people will go to kildare pubs or dundalk

Eire90

Is Ireland on the verge of some sort of civil meltdown with the emergence of elements of the far right and qanon people in ireland.

Rossfan

#7371
That sh1te got 0.8% of the vote in the GE.
Cases rising in Dublin and the News saying the Government want people to stop working from home to save City Centre business.
No word about the positives for small towns having more of their  people staying at home.
Davy's given us a dream to cling to
We're going to bring home the SAM



highorlow

QuoteThat sh1te got 0.8% of the vote in the GE.

Back when we were a Republic.....
They get momentum, they go mad, here they go

Rossfan

Quote from: highorlow on September 14, 2020, 06:21:36 PM
QuoteThat sh1te got 0.8% of the vote in the GE.

Back when we were a Republic.....


??????
Davy's given us a dream to cling to
We're going to bring home the SAM

Cunny Funt

As expected the published roadmap has caused plenty of confusion. For some reason Dublin aren't placed at level 3. (over 200 causes confirmed today there)

The latest developments takes the biscuit. The health minister Stephen Donnelly turned up to the Dáil today feeling unwell and now the entire cabinet is self isolating and the Dáil is abandoned for the week.

Rossfan

Donnelly has some track record ;D
Moving parties, knowing everything, and now possibly infecting the whole Cabibet.
Davy's given us a dream to cling to
We're going to bring home the SAM

five points

Quote from: Cunny Funt on September 15, 2020, 05:46:27 PM
The latest developments takes the biscuit. The health minister Stephen Donnelly turned up to the Dáil today feeling unwell and now the entire cabinet is self isolating and the Dáil is abandoned for the week.

::) Have they not been social distancing?

PadraicHenryPearse

the news story i read said he began to feel unwell around lunchtime.. not turned up feeling unwell which are very different things.

still begs the question, if positive, how he got it and how many close contacts he has had