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

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9103

its absolutely insane what is happening in Ireland, completely bonkers, a big “crunch” cabinet meeting today, I wonder what the coalition of chaos will come up with

9104

Combine it with robust contact tracing. Then keep on top if it.

9105

You wouldn’t need contact tracing if you were testing the entire population would you? You’d know exactly who had it.

9106

I was wondering about this over the weekend. Ireland now tests 100k a week. If you could increase that ten fold then you could test the whole country over the course of a month on a province by province basis.

9107

And then contact trace the new cases. Plus you need to robustly ensure that positive cases are quarantining.

9108

Our hearts. Our minds.

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9109

And then at the end of the month, you could start all over again.

9110

Great to have you back tass are you taking refugees over kn the mainland?

9111

The head of science foundation Ireland says we are small enough to test the entire country every two weeks. The whole country could essentially operate as normal if we did that.

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9112

it costs 200 quid a test or thereabouts. 1 billion every 2 weeks.

How long would it take to process 5 million tests? How much would that cost?

9113

so basically zero covid?

9114

Managing it to acceptable levels. Never going to eliminate it there are always going to be variables. But as we’ve seen this year, when you get on top of it, you need to keep on top if it.

9115

It’s coming back apparently :grimacing:

9116

Apparently.

9117

“There is also a view that travel limits will most likely be in the range of 5km to 10km” from RTÉ today.

9118

Thanks, I had to take a break from this place, it was the same thing every day, lads repeating themselves for months, it would drive you ape. I laid off 40 lads last week here on the mainland over this cod of a thing, its beyond a joke now

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9119

Shur you’ve already contradicted what you said in the post meant to be backing up what you said!

9120

so you’d have to keep testing the entire population? Doing it once will have zero effect on future mitigation efforts, at huge cost and at the detriment of future targeted testing.

The benefits will be getting a snapshot of the disease at the point of time the tests are processed

9121

Apologies. I read 5km earlier today in one report. Now RTÉ is saying 5-10. It’ll be 6.84km by the end of today

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9122

Great to see tassoti/chairman dan back.