Yeah a 100 a day was the target. Philip Nolan did say after the first 3 weeks that he expected cases to be down to 250 a day and that by the end of the 6 weeks to be around 50 a day. 100 was the worst case scenario. I think in making their predictions they havenât acknowledged the extent to which schools and the mass movement of people that entails at 8-9 and 4-5 everyday.
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And they never acknowledged testing numbers or positivity.
Nolan is a busted flush at this stage, Level 5 did not go how they intended.
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How has this only 8 likes in 2 hours. Shame on you all.
Have we the lowest numbers in Europe?
Are we the first country in Europe that has come out of itâs lockdown?
Fairly good job done, all told
Are we the country in Europe with the longest lockdown? Is Dublin the only capital in Europe whose bars have been shut since March?
Answer my questions first, like a good man
Have we the lowest numbers in Europe? I donât know but Iâll take your word for it. We are the first out because we were the first in by weeks.
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Level 5 is a busted flush by their own definition.
Cases did not go down to what they expected they would and close contacts increased. Test positivity had already decreased from 7.3% to 5% by the time it came in. Cases were falling when NPHET had expected them to increase right into November.
Hospitalisations had peaked pre Level 5. NPHETâs modelling of even the lower band of hospitalisations was off by nearly 30%.
It was the fear driven into the population in October and the ban on household visits that decreased cases.
Thereâs no point in NPHET moaning about the public altering their behaviour, thatâs part and parcel of restrictions, and we know they were monitoring âworryâ into October when it increased rapidly. They didnât wait to see the impact of Level 3 and whatâs even more disgraceful, they never presented the Government with the implications of it. As in their own words âLevel 3 would not workâ.
NPHET had a desire to return to March to May time but it wasnât possible, they should have anticipated it. Sure Holohan delayed Lockdown 1.0 for these reasons;
We will need people to comply with those arrangements and if we start things early, people get fatigued with them, they cause significant hardship socially and economically and the compliance levels go down and they lose their effectiveness.
NPHET have got themselves muddled with half baked modelling.
Closing down retail was a very costly mistake.
And in fairness to NPHET, I can actually understand their worry on December as we still have a very susceptible population, but they live in a land of perpetual lockdowns which just doesnât cut the mustard. You can only play the fear card so many times and you can only keep the economy dormant for so long.
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You are a hero Tim.
I would love to vote for @Tim_Riggins to end the lockdown, disband the League of Ireland and take Ireland into the Commonwealth.
With some really cold weather coming towards the end of the week, could it kill off âthe virusâ?
Cold weather killing viruses in a MYTH.
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Claire Byrne has jumped the shark. About time that she was called out for the relentless shite features.
Traffic was noticeably busier this morning in Limerick & Chipp. Good to see it.
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Damn you. I was looking for a crumb of hope there, just a crumb that everything would be open for Christmas and as Enda like to say âWe can all partyâ.
Weâll have a vaccine to the disease 99% of people survive soon mate
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We will potentially be back up at around 800 cases a day by Christmas.
The only hope in keeping the numbers down will be reduced tracing and testing over the holidays.
Tagged twice in one morning?
A bit of a tangent from your post, but related to it, thereâs this guy with virtue-signaling disorder who posts on an online forum about all sorts of things that really bother him. It can range from travelers and homosexuals one day, to education and the church the next. The Internet makes it all so much worse because the guy can go onto various sites and see literally thousands of other virtue-signaling people screaming about the same things, which makes it ok for him to label people. He loves labels.
Anyway, heâs a cunt like @glasagusban.
Schools being off should help
Wonât be here in time to save Christmas and by that I donât mean getting to meet the family, I mean heading out to pubs and clubs.