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

[EstebanSexface]

Aren’t you an academic

[fenwaypark]

School buildings

[glasagusban]

@johnnysachs

But the problem roared back again and we are back at square 1.

What did you think was going to happen, the virus would get bored and go home? Of course the problem was still there.

[Copper_pipe]

Gavan Reilly (gavreilly)

Gavan Reilly (gavreilly)

[Tierneevin1979]

No mate, I’ve done a small bit of teaching that’s about it. Most of it on here.

[Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy]

Does the virus not seem more prevalent now than when we were in lockdown back in March/April/May?

I’ve heard of people I know recently get it, or a close contact who has had far more than the first wave.

Is there not a chance that the second wave that is happening at present is at a much higher rate than the first wave but the majority of it is undetected to it being a younger demographic who are likely asymptomatic?

[peddlerscross]

I know but they’ve increased massively in recent months. Their lockdown started in July and they are still going nowhere.

All young people too.

[the_man_himself]

It certainly is a lot more prevalent where you’re from I’d imagine

[flattythehurdler]

@Martys_Tan

Leo was buying time to get resources ready and probably was caught on the hop on Sunday night.

Leo was playing to the gallery, and thought he knew exactly what he was doing.

[glasagusban]

Yes. The word exponential on one side of it has the potential to seriously unbalance the equation.

[Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy]

@Biff_Egan

People blaming the government and NPHET for the health service response are forgetting one key stakeholder - unions, which have stymied attempts at reform ever since the establishment of the HSE amounted to a layer of bureaucracy added to the regional health boards, with no layoffs or attempts to derive economies of scale.

That’s the governments problem.

They should grow a pair of balls.

[cluaindiuic]

@glasagusban

Yes. The word exponential on one side of it has the potential to seriously unbalance the equation.

Which would be balanced with merited heavy sustained severe lockdowns.

[The_Most_Infamous]

There’s far less people dying from covid now than back in March/April,

A good example was the 10 deaths last Saturday - 8 of which happened pre September yet were declared in October. I don’t understand how thats still happening at this stage. Doesnt seem to bother anyone.

The curve was flattened there is no question.

I’ve an open question re the certification of deaths though and the cloak and dagger antics of dropping a number for same and yet giving no background on them at all.

Yet they can give reems of detail on cases every evening before the news.

A large percentage of the 1800 or so deaths were supposed rather than Covid tested, I find that scandalous.

[flattythehurdler]

@EstebanSexface

right wing economist site?

It’s left wing from where he’d be standing

[glasagusban]

Sure. Or, you try and come up with a plan that strikes a balance without getting to either extreme.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy

Does the virus not seem more prevalent now than when we were in lockdown back in March/April/May?

I’ve heard of people I know recently get it, or a close contact who has had far more than the first wave.

Is there not a chance that the second wave that is happening at present is at a much higher rate than the first wave but the majority of it is undetected to it being a younger demographic who are likely asymptomatic?

Definitely. I know of numerous cases now who are close enough to me whereas Up to August I didn’t know a single person who had it.

[Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy]

Yup. I’d say we’ll probably be past the worst of this at the start of the new year but we’ll be twiddling our thumbs for a year after not realising this.

Covid-19 has cancelled science.

[Biff_Egan]

You are spot on. But if FF couldn’t manage to turf out the pen pushers back in an era where Bertie was handing out sweets every year there’s not much chance in the present environment

[Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy]

@Biff_Egan

You are spot on. But if FF couldn’t manage to turf out the pen pushers back in an era where Bertie was handing out sweets every year there’s not much chance in the present environment

FF don’t have much interest in it as they don’t really give much of a toss about anything as long as the gravy train of career politics keeps chugging onwards.

[Bod95]

Definitely I knew of 4 people that I would know well diagnosed in the last 10 days or so, hardly knew anyone up to then.