China Coronavirus

[sid waddell]

It is hard to get detail on that without full conspiracy theory...

i read a bit on it in the huffington post and it appears that there are a huge number of variables to it so it is very hard to put a hard and fast number on it.

This comment strikes me:
Additionally, if false positives were causing the spike in numbers, it would be uniform across the UK and it isn't.]Additionally, if false positives were causing the spike in numbers, it would be uniform across the UK and it isn't.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/false-positives-coronavirus_uk_5f686da4c5b6de79b677e909?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAI2D3IG3_S0ZlHdWexuWLnWh61EOi3_9BGIE_v4cWm6KLYUXO4JOXPpDP62KGfPbKaERcuzS9rzMe1bVPSIdyfdLhiwGlAiI1yk0aHBecTTlJd1SRB0OqER4EUi_9wGcZAMu3VULcbrP_7rFbb9RWHZ4rz8pYjyta0fdmE_4KXh

Disclaimer there is some shite in that article too and some of the people's tweets who are highlighted are muppets however maybe that's a good thing to provide some balance to the argument.

Scientific literacy has never been very evident in politician in this part of the world, even during the best of times, and that no doubt plays a part in the confusion.

However, there is an unmistakingly obvious ploy to muddy with waters with this sort of stuff. Far too much undue prominence has been given to the thoughts of some conceited egotist and attention seekers.

Sikora, Heneghan, Gupta - credentialled cranks, who shamelessly blather on despite having been discredited time after time after time. Yet they're are still platformed. Legions across the internet still parrot their tweets. Politicians still slyly allude to their contrariant musings.

It all adds up to a give the impression that the science is much more uncertain than is actually the case. Who benefits from this? Who has crafted their convenient scapegoat when the questions get a little too difficult?

The scamdemic wing-nuts might be right about the reality of manipulation, just not the direction of it.

This is exactly right

They are part of the cutting edge of the international right-wing propaganda and disinformation war

The equivalent of the climate crisis denying cranks like Myron Ebell

[sid waddell]

Did Raab go on Sky yesterday and say 93% of the tests were giving false positives and if so why arent the media all over this.

Im confused. And i think so are the policymakers..

In all honesty you couldn't take that man seriously. He either doesn't know but wouldn't admit it or just lies

Raab is a real life mixture of two Harry Enfield characters, Tory Boy and Tim Nice But Dim

The Scousers from the same sketch show would be be far more competent than the real life Dominic Raab, eeh aah, eeh aah, chalm down, chalm down

[Rossfan]

Rumours that Donegal will be getting extra restrictions from midnight.

[Blowitupref]

Rumours that Donegal will be getting extra restrictions from midnight.

The case numbers continue to rise in Donegal and Louth their 14-day incidence rate is high than what it was for Offaly, Laois when restrictions was applied.

[sid waddell]

Can't wait for January when there's a hard border and a locked down Donegal will have one road in and out of it

It'll be like the blockade of Berlin in 1948

[Rossfan]

Now official for Donegal.
Especially prevalent on the "East coast" per Eileen Magner!

[Milltown Row2]

Now official for Donegal.
Especially prevalent on the "East coast" per Eileen Magner!

What's the population of Donegal? Wouldn't take much time for everyone to get it

[armaghniac]

 

Rumours that Donegal will be getting extra restrictions from midnight.

The case numbers continue to rise in Donegal and Louth their 14-day incidence rate is high than what it was for Offaly, Laois when restrictions was applied.

except it is coming from the 6 counties and not meat factories.

[imtommygunn]

Is it definitely?

[armaghniac]

Six-fold increase in the number of active infections in Donegal in 16 days. Some class of superspreader event up there, wherever it came from. It goes to show how things can move quickly from tolerable to dangerous. You'd be hard put to get them back down that amount in a fortnight.

[Rossfan]

Now official for Donegal.
Especially prevalent on the "East coast" per Eileen Magner!

What's the population of Donegal? Wouldn't take much time for everyone to get it

159,192 in Census 2016.

[ONeill]

https://www.ft.com/content/6831be3e-2711-4ea3-8f62-daa82cf9ca11

https://twitter.com/FinancialTimes/status/1309115400127500288?s=19

[Farrandeelin]

Galway, Cork, Louth, Wicklow and Kildare (again) were mentioned in the news of counties that could be moved to level 3.

Have numbers in Dublin stabilised or will the restrictions be longer than three weeks? At what point will they be able to be moved back down to level 2 again?

[Milltown Row2]

Now official for Donegal.
Especially prevalent on the "East coast" per Eileen Magner!

What's the population of Donegal? Wouldn't take much time for everyone to get it

159,192 in Census 2016.

There's a population of 90 thousand Newtownabbey alone,  in a more condense area, Donegal is well spread out, you'd wonder why it's getting special attention

[JoG2]

Now official for Donegal.
Especially prevalent on the "East coast" per Eileen Magner!

What's the population of Donegal? Wouldn't take much time for everyone to get it

159,192 in Census 2016.

There's a population of 90 thousand Newtownabbey alone,  in a more condense area, Donegal is well spread out, you'd wonder why it's getting special attention

Donegal has 2 x hotspots. 1 of which is Lifford which is on Strabane's doorstep. Strabane is under fair pressure Covid wise. Strabane's numbers are a fair bit higher than Donegals. No idea what is going on in the twin towns