Coronavirus thread - 19/10/2020 - The Day Ireland Died

[Tank]

A very busy day today in Dublin. Most people here have deliberately increased their social contacts since the stage 3+ was announced.

[maroonandwhite]

It was like Christmas Eve in Liffey valley this afternoon

[Iggy]

Gerry Killeen was back predicting 35,000 deaths today before it’s all over. A bit to go yet seeing as we’re still on 1,800 odd.

[Batigol]

He predicted 10,000 cases a day by Christmas a few weeks back.

[johnnysachs]

@Batigol

Me too. It’s very unlikely there’ll be much of a normal Christmas this year.

There will be people going around with bits of tinsel and fairy lights on their masks and wearing santa themed sanitary gloves

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

@Batigol

I’m starting to really pine for an end to all this. Assuming some genius somewhere hasn’t already got a vaccine and has 7 billion of them ready to go in the warehouse, this virus will probably linger around for a few years until herd immunity (through a vaccine or “natural” antibodies) is achieved.

However, I feel the return to normality will come sooner, and will occur through society gradually opening up, through fatigue of restrictions and when the cost of the restrictions outweighs what good they are doing.

read someone on twitter say we never got herd immunity to the flu why would we get it for this

whats the counter argument to that?

[TheUlteriorMotive]

How many times in your life have you had flu?

I had it once. It’s not that easy to get flu.

Flu mutates/different strains are more predominant each year. Vaccine take up in Ireland is about 40 per cent. If more people got the vaccine each year fewer people would get it. Herd immunity is possible for flu by bigger vaccine take up but people don’t see it as a serious illness so don’t bother.

[Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy]

Just a bad flu? How Irish death notices debunk that Covid-19 myth

Covid is 3x more deadly than a bad flu.

[Heyyoubehindthebushes]

David McWilliams (davidmcw)

[flattythehurdler]

@croppy_boy

Situation is a bit fucked up here with so many people going over the border to work and do shopping. That and house parties, are definitely what has it spreading around Stranorlar anyhow, there’d be no tourism down around there.

In short a hard border might save us all.

They could make one out of PPE

[flattythehurdler]

@Iggy

Simon Harris; “Sometimes the virus likes to show us who’s boss” and “the next two weeks are crucial”.

It’s the manana virus.

[flattythehurdler]

@TheUlteriorMotive

The biggest mistake in Western civilisation continues to unravel.

This is the natural conclusion of snowflakeism, a world where dying is the ultimate sin.

[TheUlteriorMotive]

Nobody should die unless they are empowered and choose to die.

[myboyblue]

@flattythehurdler

@Iggy

Simon Harris; “Sometimes the virus likes to show us who’s boss” and “the next two weeks are crucial”.

It’s the manana virus.

Doo-be-doo-be-do

[PhattPike]

100 cases in hospital currently and this means the system is under “severe pressure”. It’s criminal. It’s like they didn’t think there was going to be a surge in cases once winter came round again. Maybe they thought if we would stay under the bed long enough the virus would just fizzle out.

[Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy]

FFG decades of neglect of the health service coming home to roost

[TheUlteriorMotive]

20 per cent of the “open” critical care beds are vacant.

Next two weeks are vital.

No word from HSE in flu vaccine availability.

[Julio_Geordio]

@TheUlteriorMotive

20 per cent of the “open” critical care beds are vacant.

Which is about standard. In a normal winter they run at about 120% capacity. It’s 96% on average for the year

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

When Did Ewan change his tune?

[Julio_Geordio]

He must be planning a move back to Brazil