We had no deaths last Sunday either did we not? - It’s a miracle …
It’s time to bring back mass now lads. We’ve driven Tony back, GAA is back. Ireland needs mass.
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All local outbreaks in Europe but don’t let that logic get in the way of some TERROR
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Hes highlighting that there was cases reported of people under 35 which has no relevance to the danger of the virus. The spread of infection is fairly even across all age groups and the median age is 48/49 ,which is a fair reflection on the population. Where the issue is the deaths spike after 60 years old and increases as the age increases. This fear mongering is a joke.
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Bandage is incoming with a right long post. He’s crafting it for 10 mins now.
The Sunday Times yesterday accused Dr Tony et al of fiddling the excess death stats to make Ireland look better comparatively. The accusation was that they weren’t using like for like figures. For other countries their starting point was deaths from the beginning of the pandemic so some time in late Feb/early Mar. But the starting point for Ireland was 1 January, even though the first reported case was on the last day of Feb.
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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water…
So does that mean Ireland had a very low number of deaths in January and February compared to normal?
Not sure if it was lower than normal but the excess death rate % would be lower if workings are based on a longer timeframe that incorporates deaths before COVID arrived here. That said, Breda on Facebook had it last December.
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It’s a bit of a catch 22 for them though if the ‘cod’ theory that it was never all that serious took hold they’d have to prove how bad it was whereas on the other hand they’d have to prove we didn’t have many deaths.
If anything they’ve been exaggerating the figures
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A bizarre argument. Especially since I had it in February and Karen on Facebook had it in December
Joe and Sharon had it back in November. They were both very sick and the doctors were flummoxed by their condition. Neither had ever been as sick in their life.
I posted it before but in reality there was at least 800,000 for a few days in March/April when testing was widespread. There were over 8,000 deaths on both April 15th and April 17th and with an IFR of 1% (and many suggest its lower) you get to that level, anything below that and you can add a lot of cases. 0.8% for example would result in 1,000,000 daily cases which doesn’t seem that crazy tbh given the poor testing still early in April and asymptomatic cases.
The death curve globally has leveled off a bit, you’re talking 3k-5k a day generally. June 16th looks like a bit of an outlier with over 6k.
We’ll see if this results in a permanent swing back upwards for the death curve. It’s hard to know as every country is different but it appears as though in the US that new cases are being driven by younger people, meat factories and prisons - that should mean the number of deaths doesn’t increase significantly at least - it isn’t care homes. It’s hard to know what to trust coming out of Latin America and Brazil but in the west at least it looks like the people really at risk aren’t being infected to the same levels as before - you’d hope that even with crooked regimes in power and a lack of resources that they could at least try to isolate at risk people earlier given what they saw elsewhere in the world.
Has he been using that in press conferences?
Most of the coverage has simply focused on number of deaths in each country. Excess deaths was a really significant issue in the UK as they clearly were underreporting.
The article said he had a slide about it in one of last week’s press conferences.
Will he get his own TV show after all this or will he settle for radio?
Two deaths four new cases.