Coronavirus in ROI/NI part 2

[Zantedeschia]

Following on from the other thread

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/craicnet/3834552-Coronavirus-in-Ireland-N-Ireland?pg=40&order=

Is that the first craicnet thread to hit 1000

And thank you for the new thread Zantedeschia.

@lipz I think social distancing is working because so many people are taking it seriously. Don't give up, ring the guards sooner next time.

Forecast is bad for the weekend and I'm disappointed for the kids (household BBQ/egg hunt planned in the garden, just us!) but think it's actually a good thing.

@lipz I am taking it seriously here like you. In my small town everyone seems to be as far as I can see. When I go for a walk people nearly run to the other side of the road when they see you coming. 😂
You'll always get a few who cant follow orders I suppose. I really wanted an icecream today but I wouldn't go into the local shop. It wasnt the crowd that concerned me, i knew it would be quiet enough, it was having to open the freezer to take one out, hand over money as I didnt have my card on me, and touch the ice cream wrapper, you know things I didn't think about before.
I'd be worried I didnt wash my hands properly.

Hi all
Just joining the new thread
Most people are obeying the social distancing rules around here.
@Zantedeschia that's so disappointing if the weather will be bad again, I've been wfh all week so havent been able to get out in the garden or go for walks with the kids, and now we'll be stuck in all weekend again

Thanks for starting a new thread. Placemarking from the Mid West

@Dk20 dont say that, I'm just getting used to the fine weather.

Just showers hopefully. Same as that, working all day today and tomorrow.

Thank you Zantedeschia for the new thread. It IS the first Craicnet thread to reach 1000. Wow !
I was afraid they might pull Craicnet ( great name whoever thought of it ) off Mumsnet because of lack of posts.
Not now hopefully.

Thanks for the new thread, but sad this is the topic to hit 1000! Most people are grand here, but supermarket is a hassle.

I have to build up to the shopping every week it's such a rigmarole now. It's my full time job now just to survive it although the supermarket seems to be full to the brim again with stock which is lovely.

All is good here in the mid west too, I wonder are we in the same city @2HorseOutside
I have been trying to avoid the news and just focussing on our own house and keeping indoors. I never remember the weather being this good at Easter before.

Plenty people breaking the rules up here in Co.Down. We walked to the beach today (close to our house) and the amount of people coming in and out of the carpark was mad. It was definitely quieter than normal (would usually be heaving on a lovely sunny day like today) but still far busier than it should have been considering NO-ONE should have been driving there.

What annoyed me more though were the amount of people sitting on the benches and along the walls. I thought the whole point was to keep moving!

Yesterday we walked through another local park and the amount of kids playing around the war memorial and climbing on the cannon was ridiculous - there was a queue to climb! Climbing on the cannon has been a regular occurrence in that park for as long as I can remember but at the minute when the play equipment is chained and locked up, you’d think people would have the sense to not make their own play equipment elsewhere!

I'm delighted to see a scumbag woman in Sligo got 4 weeks in prison for coughing in a garda's face, pity she didn't get longer.

We are in the south east and the amount of people who have descended on us. People arriving in the middle of the night so they didn't get caught by checkpoints. I hope it rains the entire Easter weekend.

@3luckystars I'm not in the city, I'm about 15km away so not too far. I can only go to our local shops now, which to be fair aren't bad, but by God I miss my weekly trip to Dunnes.

People are idiots. A think there's stil an air of "Sure it's only a flu" and "How many people die of flu every year" after all it's all a big conspiracy.

Just tagging on the new thread 👋

I'm in the sunny south east and went for a walk in my estate this evening and noticed a car with a NI car reg in a drive obviously here for the weekend. There are people arriving to holiday homes in the nearby town and villages.

The Facebook groups are absolutely horrendous for all the posts of what "they" are telling us. There's literally gobshites agreeing with each other that "they" are making it all up and it's just a flu, and simultaneously "they" are playing it down and "they" are digging mass graves in Mullingar* that can be seen from space.
*Ok I made up the mass graves in Mullingar bit. (Interesting to see if t takes off though)
But do not any of these people not know any nurse, doctor, porter, dinner lady, whatever in a hospital? I thought that was the thing in Ireland, everyone has a sister in law who works with a lad who'd nephew does whatever is in the news today.
Is it a class thing, or am I an insufferable snob?

How are cars arriving from the UK?
There is no way ferries are still running is there?

People are idiots.

Yup.

Much as I like my neighbours, it's funny how many times their dogs need to be walked right now compared to a fortnight ago. On average, it's gone from 3 or 4 walks a day to 5 or 6. I'm staying well away from them as their idea of social distancing is pretty lax as well. And most of my neighbours are OAPs.

Is anyone able to look at any charts and see what the trends are please? I’m in NI, and thankfully out death rate doesn’t seem to have gone mental (yet). I noticed a post on the last thread that said the South had peaked 3 or 4 April? I think 3 April was the most deaths up here too.

Does anyone know? Or is good at these things and can take an educated guess?

All of the other analysis is about England which I’m finding annoying (although understandable).

I know where I am, while we weren’t officially locked down until the rest of the UK, the children were off school from 13 March, and the shops/pubs etc started to close then of their own accord, but I don’t know about the rest of NI.

(I haven’t been out past the front gate aside from a scan in 5 weeks, the world seems an unfamiliar place to me at the minute!)

Are UK statistics excluding people who die in nursing homes and other residential care settings?

Hi all
Lurked on the last thread but feel like I need to join in now! Not that I have much to add
I just can't understand the mentality of people who are out and about travelling to holiday homes. Everyone I know is sticking to the restrictions.

No egg and onion they don’t. Just hospital deaths.

I do think NI is different to GB because St Patrick’s Day meant the schools, or a lot of them, closed earlier.

Yes the virus can't move, people are moving it.

Does anyone know of it was true that the car ferries are operating. This should have been stopped weeks ago?

I aircraft are still flying but they are mostly cargo now.