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WARNING: The video below contains blood and gore.
NOEL MARSHALL, TIPPI Hedren, and their family lived with 140 untrained animals, including 100 untamed lions, in what is called “the most dangerous movie ever made”. The idea for “Roar” was conceived after the couple toured several safari wildlife preserves and were struck by the scene of an abandoned plantation house overrun by lions.
The entire Marshall family moved along with their pride of 100 lions to a ranch property 40 miles north of Los Angeles and began shooting. They were forced to film documentary style after they realised that they could rarely get through a scene without the lions attacking.
Drafthouse Films / Vimeo
The cast suffered serious injuries over the 11 years the movie was filmed. Tippi Hedren endured a fractured leg and deep scalp wounds. Noel Marshall was gored so many times that he was eventually hospitalised with gangrene.
Their daughter, Melanie Griffith, was mauled by a lion, resulting in over 100 stitches and reconstructive surgery. Her real-life mauling is on display in the final cut of the film.
The film was originally released in 1981 but is being released again in cinemas in April – just not in Ireland unfortunately. It will be available on Blu-ray, DVD, and On Demand platforms later this summer.
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“may” or may not. “Could” or might not. Stop the scaremongering…
@Sean Oige: it’s not an exact science, even the experts admit that, no point looking for guarantees when you know there aren’t any.
@Paul: why not look at Australia? Their flu season was almost non existent.
@Sean Oige: there is no scaremongering. I remember people mentioning the word “pandemic” back in February and people like yourself screaming scaremongering at them. For lots of people the role of denial keeps them closer to the world they want to live in and further from the what is happening right here right now.
@Sean Oige: You may get lung cancer from heavy smoking. Oh sorry, I’m scaremongering.
@Peter Denham: But you can’t transmit it to your family or friends. And it’s a result of your own actions. You’re comparing apples and oranges.
@John Lyons: No
@John Lyons: No, it isn’t true. You (or someone you’ve listened to) has completely made that up.
You can see the HIQA report on excess mortality across the pandemic compared to projections based on previous years here:
Now John, would you be a good lad and stop spreading your rubbish all over the internet? Cheers
@ihcalaM: your link highlights mid-March to mid-June. Lyons says six months. Inconclusive.
@John Lyons: not true at all. This has been widely debunked, including on here. Do some research yourself
@Cian Martin: correct and we may follow suit. Parts of Australia were under longer lockdown than us. The first spike, when the lockdown in Australia occurred coincided with their flu season, we won’t be going into a nation wide lockdown so we may not follow suit. It’s not a certainty.
@Daniel Dunne: The link I posted shows significant excess mortality of nearly 2,000 people in that period. Unless you’re claiming that the subsequent months saw a magical decline in deaths that balanced out that huge spike, then my point stands.
Also, I gave the most recent data I could find. Have the CSO/etc. even published deaths from more recent months? Where are the figures to back up John’s claim? Seeing as he very helpfully told us to ‘look it up’, we don’t have his evidence. Sounds more like unproven speculation than inconclusive to me.
@ihcalaM: *over 1,000, not 2,000
@ihcalaM: how can you say that with such certainty when even the Taoiseach admitted in a press conference that we could wipe at least 500 deaths off the covid figures, which unlike the UK etc we have not done.. the figures are not correct.
@Madethyme: Because even when you wipe those 500 deaths off, the excess mortality from March to June is still over 1,000. It’s all there in the HIQA report. All you have to do is read it!
@John Lyons: although the first 6 months of the year present an excess mortality of 1,072 , the CSO advises that it is premature to evaluate 2020:
“It is important to put this figure of 1,072 deaths within the context of around 30,000 deaths per year. It is possible that there will be lower mortality levels later in the year given the concentration of these deaths in nursing homes & the older population“
“As excess mortality is estimated to be lower than the number of reported COVID-19 deaths, this indicates the need to bear in mind some of the caveats mentioned above on measuring excess mortality including the year-on-year variations, concentration of deaths in the older population (..)
https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/br/b-mpds/measuringmortalityusingpublicdatasources/
@Sean Oige: the reality is that the only people claiming certainty in any of this pandemic, are the Muppets that pull their conclusions out of their backsides with zero facts to support them.
The outcomes of the may or may not in this, will only really be known after the fact, which is why measures need to be put in place to mitigate what may or may not happen in the here and now.
@ihcalaM: Think you should re-read your own material.
Nowhere near 2000!
More scaremongering!!!
Based on the time series model, the expected number of death notices over the
period 11 March 2020 to 16 June 2020 was 8,482 (95% CI: 8,264 to 8,703). The
estimated excess mortality for the period is 1,072 deaths (95% CI: 851 to 1,290).
The reported number of all COVID-19-related reported deaths on 16 June was
1,709. As such, the excess mortality is less than the reported COVID-19 related
mortality by 637 cases.
@ed o brien: He corrected himself. You must have missed it!
@Isabel Oliveira: I love the way you didn’t quote the full sentence in your second quote. The bit where they go on to say one of the effects on the excess mortality would be the fact the restrictions would impact other deaths. “and potential impacts of the COVID-19 restrictions on other death events.” Did it not suit your narrative to finish the sentence?
@Lita Campbell: I was making a point that health advice warning of possible illness is not scaremongering. Obviously.
@John Lyons: This is why people like you are dangerous. You would believe anything that goes against the facts.
@NotMyIreland: i can’t. I’m limited to 800 characters. That’s why I put the link out so that all can read it.
@NotMyIreland: I also don’t have a narrative. I merely quoted the relevant excerpt for the topic.
@Cian Martin: australia is in the southern hemisphere, yes?
Stands to reason that flu will find it difficult to thrive with current hygiene practices this year, thankfully.
@John O’Brien: I thought the same but the schools will spread a lot of it I’d say.
3 years ago my father in law was admited to hospital after falling ,2 weeks later he died of ( the flu) fact not fiction,he was an elderly man though, but was never in danger of dieing until he went into hospital,so try not to end up in hospital if you are of a certain age.
@Paul Mc: Thanks Paul, if you hadn’t told people all the old folks would be trying their best to end up in hospital.
@Paul Mc: That came across as smart when I was just trying to be funny, soz, I know what you’re saying
@Fandandi: trying to “be funny” when replying to a comment where someone talks about their father dying says a lot about you
@Ger: Father in law but my response was to the second part of the comment anyway. Don’t be so dry all your life, we will all be dead soon ourselves so if we can’t joke about things then what’s the point of it all.
@Paul Mc: “Hi I’m Ray Bowers and welcome to Jackass” – Nee Naw Nee Naw Nee Naw
Limit what you can. Wear a mask. Do your best but live a little to. That’s all the country is asking
@Daniel Mulcahy: Wear a mask until when?
@Daniel Mulcahy: too
@Ray Lawler: until its safe not to. Its not rocket science. It’s not like we’re being asked to storm the beaches in Normandy, it’s only a bloody mask
@Ger: let’s be honest, masks are an absolute nuisance. And that’s coming from someone who wore one when our experts told us not to because they were of no consequence. I knew they’d flip flop over time and now all the sheep that listened to them in the first place are acting like government enforcers now. It’s pa thetic!
@Bill: for sure they’re annoying, no one says any different. But they help if used correctly and I’d rather wear one than know I made someone sick or worse because of inconvenience.
@Ray Lawler: until the pandemic ends, which it will once we suppress the virus. Masks have a part to play in that. It’s a minor inconvenience for a major good.
Last year the flu virus started early, in December I believe and then they said it was the wrong strain as the vaccine wasn’t effective… What’s the bet Covid-19 started in December and not March as the experts tells us….they just didn’t know what it was
@a politicians promise is as good as a lie: they test for flu in hospital settings. They don’t guess like you are doing above. They know the strain of flu most prevalent last year.
@a politicians promise is as good as a lie: I think so, me and my family etc had a bad dose of it over Christmas and a family member couldn’t get rid of a cough for weeks, ended up in hospital, they tested for the known flu’s but said she didn’t have that so it must be a virus. Could be a coincidence but I wouldn’t be suprised if it was covid based on how strong it was,the cough and since it wasn’t a known flu.
@a politicians promise is as good as a lie: well is all started back around the World Military games , guess where they were ? Wuhan. It was about earlier than we thought
This article references that influenza killed 40 people in australia this year compared to 950 last year. It doesn’t mention that Covid 19 has killed in total 872 people in Australia.
Another commenter here very kindly posted a 35 page hiqa report which says that Ireland has overstated covid19 deaths by as much as 50 percent and possibly more and even some unconfirmed cases have been classed as covid deaths.
I fail to see why a negative headline is required for this article.
Do the press in this country have an earthly idea the damage their doing to the morale of people and particularly the elderly? Do they care? Is it all about clicks now?
@John D: not sure you understand excess mortality but the report says essentially 637 of the covid deaths would have been expected in that time period. That is that they were not over and above the normal for the period. The 1072 is the figure that was over the average. It doesn’t mean covid deaths were overstated. This is from the CSO study also posted by another commenter “This figure for excess mortality, does not exclude the 1,7364 reported COVID-19 confirmed and probable deaths. As excess mortality is estimated to be lower than the number of reported COVID-19 deaths, this indicates the need to bear in mind some of the caveats mentioned above on measuring excess mortality including the year-on-year variations, concentration of deaths in the older population, and potential impacts of the COVID-19 restrictions on other death events. However, this estimate appears to indicate that Department of Health data on COVID-19 related deaths comprehensively captures the impact of the pandemic on mortality in Ireland.”
@NotMyIreland: if the number of deaths listed as Covid in a three month period is over 600 higher than the number of deaths over and above normal in a three month period then that’s a huge discrepancy. (And yes even a lowly being like me knows what the term excess deaths means).
After that I don’t understand what your comment is about. Lots of fancy language in there. My point still stands. I’m not on here to argue with fake accounts. Take care
Much more dangerous than this?
Irish hospitals at breaking point after unexpected early arrival of killer flu season
Ferghal Blaney, 27 Dec 2019
https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/irish-hospitals-breaking-point-after-21172185
@David Lee: A lot of those flu cases were probably covid since it has been circulating here since at least December
@David Lee: Yes David, look at the pressure flu season puts on the health system as per your own article. Now add a pandemic to the mix. It’s really, really simple to understand.
@Peter Denham: I dont think you understand the point I was making, but thanks pete X
@Peter Denham: flu season or early covid!!!
@David Lee: even if you accept that Covid was present here then, this year will be worse because it’s far more widespread.
@John Lyons: virtually no flu is a massive stretch. You also wilfully ignore the amount for people not adhering to guidelines.
@Frank Scanlon: Hospital cases of influenza are confirmed by testing. It wasn’t covid. My GP was warning me about the bad flu coming from early September.
Well done Journal.ie for unnecessary scaremongering the public
What an incredible contradicting headline!
@Colette Kearns: Flu is lower this year, but the presence of Covid could put extra strain on services. Use that pea brain of yours Colette.
@Peter Denham: do u have to be sarcastic in every post u write? Bit repetitive. But then, ur brains probably the size of a melon.
@Colette Kearns: contradictory
@Sam Greene: I wasn’t being even remotely sarcastic.
@Colette Kearns: Yes. It’s more scaremongering trash. Flu levels expected to be lower this year somehow turned into “Be scared because of the double attack”
Can wait to see the results. . it will definitely show how affective the basic guidelines were.
@Thomas: effective
Winter is a season. It’s not dangerous. Ffs.
MOG. PLEASE.
I listened to a finding from the states. And to be honest. I think no one took it seriously.
They put out a report that if u had have the flu vacation and had a covid test that out of every one that had received the flu vacation tested positive for covid 19. And the said the results were significantly positive.
I drove back from work today. Around 7pm. Town was packed. God bless.
D.
@Declan Lennon: are you on something? The only bit that makes sense is god bless so god bless you
Sounds like we are been asked to treat all flu seasons now as a pandemic. We are bunched if we except this.
If the flu vaccine is important to reduce the number of winter deaths and overwhelming the health system, why only select certain members of the community to get a free vaccine. If it is effective, why not offer it to all citizens for free to encourage uptake and reduce community transmission. Surely a vaccine is cheaper than a hospital bed to the state. I understand not everyone will take up the offer but surely it would help.
Piss off
Ok.
It will depend on the weather as for the last few year we have had no severe frost to kill off the bugs and so reason why flu levels have being high among people
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