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PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIALS have confirmed a further 591 new cases of Covid-19 in Ireland.
Additionally, eight more people with Covid-19 have died.
Of the deaths recorded, four deaths occurred in March, and four in February.
The median age of those who died was 74 years and the age range was 51 – 94 years.
The total number of Covid-19 cases since the first outbreak of the virus here last year now stands at 237,187.
The number of people who have died has reached 4,713.
Of today’s cases:
As of 8am today, 264 Covid-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 62 are in ICU.
The number of hospitalisations is at its lowest point since Christmas Day.
There were 18 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours, and 22 discharges.
Over the past year the vast majority have consistently done all they could to protect themselves & their families from #COVID19; please do so again this weekend
— Dr Ronan Glynn (@ronan_glynn) April 2, 2021
1. Keep your contacts low & only meet up with others outdoors
2. Don't travel in cars with people from other households
As of 30 March, 840,561 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:
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Not moving from the 500 mark, time we open up and start to live with this.
@Uncle Montys oaf: that would invovle some sort of Living with Covid plan…that’s madness you are asking.
@Uncle Montys oaf: careful you’re about to be called a granny killer, told you hate our frontline staff or you are just a far right, trouble making, conspiracy theorist for daring to suggest this sort of thing
@Uncle Montys oaf: It has ranged been between 350 and 750 this week, enough movement there to satisfy anybody.
@Uncle Montys oaf: Opening up has already begun. People out and about in big numbers here today enjoying the good weather.
@Uncle Montys oaf: Poland, which has only slightly fewer vaccinated than us, had 2,850 COVID-19 deaths in the last 7 days. This is equivalent to 52.5 deaths per day here.
As many died in Poland this week as they did before vaccination started (their November peak).
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=poland+covid+deaths
Poland illustrates that we are not yet able to open up, just a few more weeks. We’ll be vaccinating >200,000 per week in April.
@Justin Gillespie: careful Justin, you’ll upset the people who’ve convinced themselves we’re living in some sort of police state.
@David Jordan: Prepare yourself for the sky to fall in on top of you David..
@Uncle Montys oaf: live with it or maybe die with it
@Derek Power: what exactly is the living with covid plan, please enlighten me.
@Uncle Montys We need to keep the lockdown till everyone is vaccinated.. NPHET are giving good advice to the government so we should heed them.
@David Jordan: You’re basing your opinion on the recent experience of a single country. If you push that approach to its conclusion, Ireland will be the very last country on the planet to reopen its society. We need to base decisions on our own situation, not on that of the latest country to experience an outbreak, for whatever reason that might be. Note also that one of the reasons Poland is experiencing a relatively large number of deaths now is that they had very few back in the first half of 2020 when most other countries in Europe were experiencing a large surge. You probably would not have been calling for us to copy Poland back then.
@Justin Gillespie: Being outside is doesn’t mean ‘ opening up ‘ would you expect everyone to stay indoors ?
@Uncle Montys oaf: maybe if people stopped being rubber heads the numbers will drop below 500
@Jason Shortt: Its not a single country though Jason. Many countries in Western Europe are in real trouble, France 50,000 new cases yesterday, Holland 7,800, Belgium 5,600, Hungary 9,300, Italy 23,000, Czech Republic 7,200. These are all many multiples of our figures and a warning of what could happen if we do not stay on the slow and steady approach.
@Uncle Montys oaf: they made up numbers so can’t move as does not suit their agenda
@Justin Gillespie: that’s an average of 550 which is what he more or less said. The swings are generally to do with delayed test verifications. The low days generally have more positive swabs than verified. These are carried over. But you know this, it just doesn’t fit with your keep people scared agenda.
The average for the last month is probably just under 575, which under the current very basic model published on Tuesday is around 16 hospitalisations a day. (50% of hospitalisations were Under 70in wave 3, according to Nolan) .
ICU cases will be higher while death rate will be way lower.
So what’s the number we need to get back to some level of normalcy
@Sean: What “agenda” is that Sean? I keep hearing about this agenda but no one ever explains what it is. Maybe you are the man to explain it all to us.
@Uncle Montys oaf: OK so answer me this. And this question also goes to the others who’ve agreed with your comment. You say “open up and learn to live with it” and I’ve heard numerous people say this…. But what does learning to live with it look like to you? We opened for most of December and look what happened in January. So seriously, how do you suggest we open without incurring the same cases and deaths that we had in January? Or are you happy to have those numbers again if it means we can return to our normal lives?
@Jason Shortt: so you are suggesting that relaxing restrictions in Ireland won’t be followed by a rapid increase in hospitalisations?
@David Jordan: they’re being hit by the UK variant… already here. They haven’t been in lockdown nearly continuously for 6 months.. where are the similarities in circumstances??
European countries know they have to strike a balance, they haven’t got it right but neither have we unless you think Covid is the only fatal illness in circulation.
@Derdaly: It all depends what you mean by normal. If you are talking about nightclubs, big weddings and concerts then I suspect you will be waiting some time. If you are talking about people getting back to work, travelling round the country, meeting up, playing a round of golf, then I would have said a gradual opening between April and June, providing the numbers stay sort of steady. By then most of the vulnerable should have been vaccinated and the case numbers won’t be such a big deal.
Only my take on it, but that’s what a lot of those in the know seem to think and I see no reason to disagree with them.
@Derdaly: Nobody has it right, there is no getting it right with the UK variant, it is a right fecker and will wreak havoc given half a chance. Vaccines are the only answer to it and until they are administered to those most vulnerable then restrictions are the only weapon we have.
@Justin Gillespie: Same point Justin. The reason you didn’t mention Portugal, for example, and the reason you never point to Sweden, is that these do not support your wish to be permanently locked down.
@Tarraing Mo Liathróidí: No you might be called blissfully unaware of the reality of things or narcissistic in the extreme.
We are at a tipping point, you want to tip us back into the mess, others like me want to stay the course.
If we open up with not enough people vaccinated, the virus will run wild again. Wait till all the numbers are ruight and we can open and stay open.
Like France Germany, Spain and others have learned open up to soon and you have major problems again.
@Lesidees: no, read my comment again.
@Jason Shortt: Where has he said he wanted lockdown forever, Sweden has a terrible death rate and they are back in ock down as well. Portugal went into another lockdown as are other countries, We if we the latest plan annoucned works will be opening slowly over the next month or two.
@Jason Shortt: Talk sense man, I have no wish to be permanently locked down, my business is closed due to Covid, my 92 year old mother still isn’t vaccinated, I haven’t seen some of my kids in weeks, my golf clubs have rust on them and my hair is down to my rear end.
I can’t wait for this to end but where we differ is that I am prepared to be patient, live with restrictions and wait for the vaccination program to take care of things.
@Gary Kearney: Sweden’s death rate, when adjusted for age demographics, is almost identical to Ireland. Portugal is currently reopening its society.
@Justin Gillespie: I disagree Justin. Based on your regular comments here, it is absolutely clear that you are loving this. The government are destroying our country and you are cheering them on every day.
@Gary Kearney: Gary if you wanna stay the course thats fine, you wanna put blind faith in messes like MHQ which is turning into a disaster, another vaccine supplies mess, jabs for the boys, and believe in the one trick pony NPHET and their lockdown only ways….thats grand, but plenty won’t put their lives on hold while those in charge stumble from mess to mess. I don’t mind lockdown if I could see the hse could multitask covid and other medical issues given the billions we pumped in, instead we have low hospital cases and ICU and no sign of things like cancer services getting ramped up. We still have red tape around getting people to become administrators of vaccines or some cases are being asked to do it for free…..but we should definitely hold firm, wait a bit longer and all the rest
@Sean: Please stop talking rubbish ..
@Ger: How are we going to have the same amount of cases as winter when we are just about to come into summer. Respiratory illness’s do not thrive during summer months. Never have, never will.
@Jason Shortt: Cheering the government on every day? Are you nuts? I think they have made an awful mess of some things, airports, nursing homes, Xmas among them. But I keep asking the same question here every day and get no answer. Name me the parties which will make up a government which will do markedly better. Until you have an answer for that simple question I will stick with the devil I know poor and all as they are.
@Justin Gillespie: for me it’s about following the science and the data..
Outdoors is good, indoors is bad. The restrictions on meeting outdoors be it for golf, training, walking or having a coffee on a terrace have never made any sense. Closing barbers, hairdressers etc who invested heavily in Covid safe practices…no data to backup their closure
Non essential retail was closed to avoid people traveling to shopping centres because theres no risk difference between woodies and pennys, but appointment based click and collect could have been organised. Electric retail safe, furniture retail not. Ok to build public housing not private housing??
These are the issues people have, NPHET have consistently proposed inconsistent reactions based on subjective opinion not science or data.
@Joe Moore: This is not a respiratory illness, this is a highly infectious virus, huge difference.
@Justin Gillespie: Try to remain calm. So, you think that a coalition of people who hate each other, led by the leader of the party that came THIRD in the election, and who appointed a health minister with NO cabinet experience and NO medical qualifications, in the MIDDLE of a pandemic, is the very best we could have done? There is a reason that these people are happy to let NPHET call the shots.
@Derdaly: I agree with you up to a point, I can’t see the logic in allowing people to travel round the county and not allow them play golf, that makes no sense. I also agree that outdoor activity is much lower risk than indoor. What they are afraid of is that even with restrictions as they are numbers are still more than double what they were last December before the loosening up that was such a disaster.
They are looking at what is happening in Europe and have decided to err substantially on the side of caution. You might take issue with that and I might not disagree with you entirely but I have a dughter who works as a nurse in the Covid ward in Letterkenny Hospital and some of the things she told me about what she has seen convinces me that I will live with erring on the cautious side for a couple of months until the vaccines are rolled out to those who are at real risk from this variant.
@Jason Shortt: I’m still waiting for you to tell me who is going to make up the new government which will perform substantially better than the present crowd.
I have been asking this question for weeks now and not one person has given me an answer. You are just the latest in a long line.
@Justin Gillespie: “This is not a respiratory illness “?!!!! And there was I, thinking that I was arguing with an intelligent person who just happens to have a different point of view. Google it Justin. It’s respiratory illness.
@Justin Gillespie: The government should have had the integrity to go back to the polls. Nobody would have voted for the current arrangement.
@Jason Shortt: Its a virus that manifests itself in many different ways, and yes, a lot of people who are infected have respiratory illness. But crucially many don’t. What about all the asymptomatic cases. These have Covid, can spread it but have no respiratory illness of any sort. Many people have other problems that have nothing to do with the respiratory system. Heart damage, liver damage, this virus can attack any organ not just the longs.
Covid 19 is a virus, I can’t believe I am having to say this.
By the way, any progress with the new government that is going to lead us all to the land of milk and honey? Thought not.
@Jason Shortt: People don’t vote for arrangements of any description. People vote to elect TD’s in their own constituency. They are never asked about the possible make up of an incoming government. That is left to the parties after the election is over.
You might not like it, but that’s the system we have.
@Justin Gillespie: regarding the current government, my previous comment (which you appear to have ignored) stands.
@Justin Gillespie: we have been on the cautious side for 13 months, at no point have we been restriction free. Christmas was a disaaster of their own making starting in October when lvl 5 was introduced. If we’d stayed at lvl 3 imposing extra restrictions in December would have been easier. Increasing case numbers in September and October were down to schools and testing and tracing ramping up after the HSE inexplicably wound it down in July. NPHET threw out the models in October on Holohans who driven whim and we’ve been operating on the subjective views of a group patently unqualified to make decisions. The combination of NPHET waking up to late in November and thousands of Irish coming home when asked to stay put by both Irish and UK Governments basically had us where we are now.
@Jason Shortt: That WHO report was attacked and withdrawn soon after. This gives a truer picture
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/20-percent-of-people-with-covid-19-are-asymptomatic-but-can-spread-the-disease
@Derdaly: Nobody has been restriction free anywhere in the last year but last summer was a lot freer here than it is now. I don’t agree that increasing numbers last Autumn and early winter were down to schools, the schools opened in September and yet we had only half the number of cases in early December that we have now.
I agree Xmas was a disaster of their own making, asking people not to come home was nowhere near enough, the airports and ports should have been closed to holidaymakers. It was the UK travellers who brought the infectious variant with them not to mention the government opening up hospitality when NPHET told them not to if they were going to allow families get together for a “meaningful” Xmas.
It was all a balls up to open too quickly once but to make the same balls up of opening too soon a second time could not be easily explained to the electorate and politicians being politicians they will not take that risk. .
@Justin Gillespie: you should be more careful where you get your information Justin. Respiratory viruses are mainly spread by symptomatic carriers (i.e. coughing and sneezing). That has always been the case. We don’t need some alarmist online magazine story to tell us the truth about this.
@Uncle Montys oaf: yup, that’s the right kind of action, just days before wave 4 gets its legs under it.. And takes a swipe at another load of people. I can tell you have put a lot of thought into this issue
@Gary Kearney: Sweden has a terrible death rate when its 27 in the world for deaths per million and 13 EU countries are higher…lol
Deaths per 1 million
Czechia 2,496
Hungary 2,205
Belgium 1,982
Slovenia 1,954
Italy 1,827
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Sweden 1,330
Sweden’s lockdown is bars, restaurants and gyms shut at 8pm, you have to wear a mask on public transport during rush hours 2 hours in the morning and 2 hours in the evening. I wish all lockdowns were that harsh…lol
Stop watching the news!
@Gary Kearney: you constantly make the false comparison that France Germany Spain opened too soon but you are missing the facts that they weren’t in lockdown since last summer – they had curfews 10 pm _, the UK variant has spread again but not because they opened too soon as you claim – you also can’t seem to fathom that some of us think the Irish strategy has been wrong – we have sufferd the worst of both worlds – deaths -, and not stopping the variants but still the longest lockdown – the Irish plan has resulted us longest lockdown and equally bad outcomes and unnecesscary extra collateral damage to our people
@Justin Gillespie: I was very much in the open up camp until I started to see the impact of the 4th wave is taking elsewhere. I am fairly happy with the government over the past week 1) the testing centres are a great idea 2) the quarantine while not perfect are acting as a big deterrent to international travellers 3) the levels of vaccinations seem to be finally getting going: 4) the opening of construction sites and the other loosenings of restrictions
All the above while not perfect I’m kind of swung that it’s the right balance now.
I was one of the ones pushing to open up before and happy to hold my hands up a little now and say maybe I was premature.
@Joe Moore: the USA was having 2000 + deaths and over 60,000 cases per day last summer., the highest rates of any country in the world, followed by Brazil who were also having their summer. Australia had their worst wave in terms of cases and deaths during their summer. So did Iran and India. So there goes your summer theory.
@Uncle Montys oaf:
“Open Up”& “Live with this” are mutually contradictory.
@MB:
Splendid
@David Jordan: oh…did someone say we are opening up ?
@Justin Gillespie: @Sean will never answer that, simply because there IS no logiglcal, rational reason for EVERY government in the world, EVERY nurse/doctor/health minister to WANT neverending lockdown.
Sean is either another troll, or someone we should pity.
@Ger: 92% of our deaths have been in over 65s. We have vacinted nursing homes and a large portion of the vunerable if we opened up now it wouldn’t be as bad. That being said, I think a reasonable middle ground would be to open up once over 65s are done. Or easing of restrictions by age groups (far from perfect solution but it’s not mandatory, if someone wishes to remain in level 5 ) .People will mix & live with vulnerable once restrictions lift, there needs to be a level of self responsibility. Lockdown has huge costs to the Exchequer and for missed medical screenings etc, which will have a far greater cost to deaths potentially in the future. Personally I don’t think we are looking at this from a cost benefit analysis and weighing up the tough choices appropriately at the moment.
What’s equally important to note is there are 10 less people hospitalised and 1 less in ICU than yesterday. They used to include this in their articles but have been omitting to do so recently for whatever reason.
@Paul Quinlan: they publish their articles before they’ve finished writing them. The figures are there now. And always are
@David Clements: I see they have updated today’s article, but that’s just not true of any others in the past week.
@Paul Quinlan: RIP. Numbers in icu and hospitals need to headlined first, then those vaccinated and lastly the case numbers. This fascination with case numbers by media is absolute madness considering we’re in a different place to 12 months ago with vaccines and less old folk being infected now.
@Paul Quinlan: yes it is true
@Tony Lyons: Take a look at any of these articles over the past (at least) 3 weeks and try to come to the same conclusion Tony. Literally even look at yesterday’s article. It’s a positive thing that hospitalisations and ICU numbers are falling, I just wish they would report it.
Open the pubs and split the dubs
@John ScouseSlayer Macken: With pleasure be nice to get a break from the country cousins.
@John ScouseSlayer Macken: open the Dubs and split the pubs.
@Alex Marquis: open the split and pub the dubs
Given the static nature of the case numbers over past few weeks, and the reopening up in april, numbers can only go up tbh.
@Kerrydone: With vaccinations rolling out, hospital numbers and deaths should be down.
@Justin Gillespie: Poland, which has only slightly fewer vaccinated than us, had 2,850 COVID-19 deaths in the last 7 days. This is equivalent to 52.5 deaths per day here. As many died of COVID in Poland this week as in their November peak.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=poland+covid+deaths
Poland illustrates that we are not yet able to open up, just a few more weeks I think. We’ll be vaccinating >200,000 per week in April.
@David Jordan: yet not included on the list of countries that should be in quarantine in hotel upon arrival…
@David Jordan: you can always find someone who are doing worse than us and the same with someone doing better than us.
@David Jordan: Their population is quite a bit bigger though
@David Jordan: Compare Ireland and Poland’s Covid deaths in April of last year. Would you have been saying back then “look, nobody is dying of this in Poland – that means we should reopen everything right away!”. Assuming you would not have said that, why are you using Poland as justification now?
@Jason Shortt: directly comparing Ireland and Poland is just ridiculous as their population is 9 1/2 times larger than Ireland.
@Jason Shortt: Isn’t it madness how people loose their minds over a consultant taking home a few vials of vaccine resulting in the remote possibility of someone higher on the list dying of COVID, but the same people are here in another thread demanding to open up right now which could result in 100s of extra deaths. It makes no logical sense. And all I am suggesting it waiting a few more weeks until we get >65s vaccinated.
@David Jordan: The consultant issue is of zero concern to me. Your comment is disingenuous, I think – I don’t believe that you want all restrictions lifted once the over 65s have been vaccinated. If you do, I am with you 100%.
We are testing 40,000 people more per week than we were last week with our positivity rate dropping from 4% to 3.2% put the numbers into perspective.
@Jason Pierce: I know and in any other country we would be reporting no new deaths today – those people died in Feb and March – I know it’s still a sad loss but it bs to be announcing 8 more deaths on April 2 – if they have no new deaths from. Covid today they should be able to. Say that at this stage – we are a year into this a bit of sophistication to these daily briefings would be welcomed – they may as well play recordings from last Easter at this rate
@Dave Hammond: still at this stage, some folk can’t grasp a simple concept like an autopsy. It takes time to for that process, hence the “apparent lag” in deaths reported. Face palm for you sir.
@Keith: You’ve completely missed his point there.
@Dave Hammond: I agree and they did change the reporting system for covid-19 deaths. If a person is a confirmed case then the local health professional, relative or even garda, is supposed to notify the local coroner who reports the death. This is to speed up the process, but seems to work in institutions (hospital etc.) better than in the general community. NPHET have also asked relative to report covid deaths without delay to also help with the delay notifications… I find it strange that you can be three months dead any buried before you need to be reported as dead.
The Northern Ireland reports just state if the death occurred since the last report, Sweden report deaths in bulk and the dates of death to WorldoMeters web site and the death for each day is updated in arrears.
This is the 21st century can we can get live feeds from Mars .. there must be a better way to get the data, even provisionally, in a more timely manner.
The same I add for the case count. We have no idea when the swabs were taken or tested or how many we negative in the reported figures as there is a validation process which, even this week, saw an under reporting of 311 and over reporting of 208 cases when compared to the lad test count and results.
It does really help to know that there were over 30,000 tests and 1935 positive results in the last three days. Particularly if they are including the walk in test figures on top of the close contacts and the people with symptoms.
@Keith: the autopsy where very ill people die of something else but have covid and it gets reported as a covid death?
@Dave Hammond: agree can’t get why they do that either it occurs on the month we’re in or don’t include previous months just makes sense
Yeah and half of the deaths are from over a month ago. Anything to keep the scaremongering going.
@Derek Anderson: So they should hide those numbers?
@Derek Anderson: And you’ll be saying the same again in a month’s time when the records from today are processed. How do you know if today’s real-time deaths are zero or twenty. (the day isn’t even over.) It’s going to be the same numbers that come out in the wash at the end anyway.
Lots of people here blaming everything except the virus? Y’all should give your heads a wobble. It’s not government, nphet, nica etc….the Virus makes the rules. Go ahead…run around like children and get it, spend the rest of your days taking an hour to climb the stairs.
@SheepleDog: You ok hun?
@Robert Clifford: I’m mortified for you….
@SheepleDog: Spot on and the people that scream about making rules and sticking to dates do not understand the issues at all.
@SheepleDog: yawn
@SheepleDog: A tad over dramatic don’t you think?
@SheepleDog: what’s this? A bit of common sense in the journal comments. Shocker! Agree fully.
@SheepleDog: more scaremongering dude. 99% recovery rate for healthy people. Simple as
@SheepleDog: I got it at the end of January, sore throat for 4 days and never had a high temperature. And now I’m taking the stairs like I’d take the Corrs sisters – 2 at a time!
Maybe my maths isn’t great but if we have new cases where its 292 for men and 295 for women…..that doesn’t add up to 591?…did someone forget to use a calculator when doing up the totals or do we have people neither identified as man or women with cases now
@Tarraing Mo Liathróidí: the gender of all cases isn’t always available, data is updated in the subsequent HPSC reports
@Tarraing Mo Liathróidí: sure they pick the numbers out of a hat… In the current climate, you’ve got high expectations if you think they can count!! ;)
@Tarraing Mo Liathróidí: 2 potatoes and 1 each of deck chair and wheel-brace have also been confirmed to have it.
@Tarraing Mo Liathróidí: probably a few non binary “them ” or what ever cool name is in fashion
We should move to Level 5 restrictions to get the numbers down!
Why not give out the daily death figure like they used to? Propaganda rte news says we’ve had 17 deaths don’t say when. Next breath they say there has been no deaths in the last 24hrs in the north of Ireland. Why do they report like that? Giving people more nervousness all over the place
@peter monaghan: They can only pass on what they are told & have verified & that’s normally SFA. by the look of things.
@peter monaghan: Because deaths are not registered straight away as has been explained for over 12 months now.
So that’s 591 new cases and no new deaths then in 24 hours then
@Brian Nevin: We won’t know for some time – sometimes it can take a few weeks to confirm the cause of death. So a handful could have died in the past 24 hours, and it may not be reported on until next month.
Don’t know about other people’s counties but in mine it’s like no one even knows about covid or restrictions, level 1, 2,3,4,5 or 10, good weather = place is mobbed, beaches, lakes, woods, streets and roads all packed. So we can leave the government and nphet to rabbit on all they like, nobody is listening anymore.
Why so early with the numbers??
@Catriona Collins: its good Friday they are all finishing early for the Easter.
@Catriona Collins: because the civil service is closing until Tuesday !! Only in Ireland
@Scott Coulter: it was the same the last few days, they must be clocking out early to enjoy the nice weather and a couple of beers in the Dail beer garden
@Críostóir Ó hÍcí: some of these civil servants will be working tomorrow, Sunday and Monday. Will you?
@Críostóir Ó hÍcí: Easter Mon is a holiday in a number of countries
@Scott Coulter: Nope early yesterday also.
@Críostóir Ó hÍcí: actually monday is a public holiday.
@Críostóir Ó hÍcí: No, its the same holiday all across Europe.
@Críostóir Ó hÍcí: but but but…I thought they were loving the limelight and making up numbers to keep us all in lockdown and themselves on TV? Now all of a sudden they can’t be ärsed and want to disappear for a few days? I’m so confused. Maybe one of you free thinkers can enlighten me.
“Is there anything to be said for saying another mass”
@Da Dell: That record is worn out by now.
13114 first doses given between 29th and 30th of March. Not exactly convincing
@Paul Dolan: it’s a slough for sure, 125k doses in the last week, I am starting to finally see neighbours and family members getting the vaccine, gives me hope.
More doom and gloom, and be interesting to see the numbers after Easter, Wexford Town so busy today rules are made to be broken it seems
@kennyjones27: absolutely
@kennyjones27: they’re more guidelines than rules
Open up the country
@Fran O’Keeffe: Someone didn’t watch Pandemic 2020 last night
Up and down, up and down, side, side, side, side side. According to Mel Brooks in High Anxiety
@Anna Carr: while brushing his teeth, great film.
The number of people who have died from “Covid Only” in the states is 6%. Many people think all the deaths are just from covid
The numbers are high because of the walk in test centres for asymtomatic people. They should state this in their release of cases of how many are from these and how many from people being poorly!
All the under 45 as usual. They just can’t keep to the law and do as the rest of us older ones are doing. It these F…… that are holding the rest of us back from a normal life. Get a grip ye F……! Daily rant over.
@Brian Kelly: Sure they are you and they are in no danger until the catch the virus and end up with Long Covid. Then they will learn the hard way. Breaking rules comes sometimes with a high cost
@Brian Kelly: go hide in your bunker boomer
@Gary Kearney: Only 10% of people get some form of long covid, 8% of people who get covid get a mild form of long covid that lasts no longer than a few months, most of the time its a loss of taste and smell.
You need to stop watching the news and scaring people.
If the number of cases was not reported on a daily basis, and only deaths that took place in the last 24 hours were being reported, this headline would have read “No deaths from Covid today”. Would so many be calling for continued lockdown if only these key points were reported each day?
@Jason Shortt: A question for you. Does a death still occur if it’s not yet reported? The answer is obviously yes. Deaths can take weeks to be officially reported, therefore we do not know if someone has died with the virus today, 2/Apr, and won’t know until days or even weeks time. That’s just how deaths are reported in this country, it’s really not the conspiracy/scaremongering that some people want it to seem…
Madness! It’s all madness!
Put a dome over dublin and kildare for 6 months and u have 60% of the problem dealt with immediately, always go after the source, or ring leader :).
With the rest of Europe having big increases in infections, we are doing well. In two weeks we will spike again after this weekend and it will be younger people again.
We just need to stick with it a few more weeks and we will be fine.
It is that close now. So put on your big boy or girl pants and keep following the rules.
It will be a lot worse for us all if you don’t.
We still have over 200,000 people infected. So we still have a way to go, just not that far anymore.
@Gary Kearney: You sound like someone who’s read one too many life coaching/self-help books or listened to one too many motivational gurus. Positivity obviously has it’s place but you need to recognise when people don’t wish to hear it anymore. The inability to do so is fairly common in overly positive types. Do something really positive and give it a rest for a few days…
@William Tallon: Nothing negative types hate more than positivity. People like Gary and myself will give it a rest when you down in the mouth types join us. journal.ie will be such a quiet place then.
@Justin Gillespie: How do you conclude I’m a ‘down in the mouth type’ who hates positivity when I’ve clearly stated positivity obviously has its place? Your logic escapes me. I’m generally a positive person but not overly so. There’s a time and a place for most things but some people don’t realise when that is. Relentless positivity and optimism can be just as draining as relentless negativity and pessimism and after a time both will eventually attract ridicule and hostility. Some good judgement regarding balance and perspective is required to avoid this happening. Haranguing us daily with relentlessly positive platitudes and exhorting us to carry on regardless of the cost show none of these. Recommended reading for the weekend – ‘The Positive Power Of Negative Thinking’ by Julie Norem…
@William Tallon: I see you at picking on people as usual..
@Fran Proins: Still trolling I see…
@Gary Kearney: give it a rest chap most people have been putting up with this shìte for a year now and stuck to the rules and our reward was our thick government allowing multiple variants into the country causing the shìt storm you see now. Now anyone can catch it because its twice as strong regardless of following restrictions or not. Our vaccine plan is a shambles regardless of supply and the cherry on top is people like yourself bashing young people its not just young people its people of all ages that are sick to the teeth with this clown show and want to live their lives again. How about the government pull up their big boy pants and actually do a half decent job so we arent still talking about this bollòx in another six months time.
Where do they make these numbers up?
@Sean: or even WHY would they make the numbers up? Can you tell us, Seán?
‘Good Friday figures but not great Friday figures…’ as Eamon Dunphy might say.
@William Tallon: this Glynn fella only does it against the small viruses, a cod bill!
@Fred spins kdb: Throws down pen saying ‘I’m ashamed to be Irish…’
always on the ball,very quick with all the information….quicker than the news on TV….love reading the journal……
Im gonna get slaughtered for saying this as a culchie but over half today’s cases,as every day,are from Dublin and the commuter counties around it. Yes I know per 100k it’s lower compared to other ones yet the population density of Dublin is higher than London,and the same as Greater London. Once again I’m accepting I’ll get other opinions thrown at me but should other bigger counties in area and size ,who have had none or very little cases in a few weeks suffer as much as others just because their population is lower compared to Dublin yet bigger in size. Just a thought.
@John Ryan: you have a point the fairest way was by regions where many counties were on different restriction levels based on lower numbers they should go back to this way
Will somebody please think of the children
Sick to the back teeth of the fear state.
Take precautions & stop instilling fear on to people.
No deaths today
Surely the two women arrested for not going to the hotel quarantine are entitled to go home and quarantine as there are Irish citizens
@Kehoe21: they need to make an example of these two. People living here are sick of lockdown. Hotel quarantine works. It’s not ideal but better than us being locked down for another 12 months.
Cases don’t matter its all about hospitals and Icu this varient is extremely contagious so cases will be high but once no one is seriously ill from it cases don’t matter
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