Coronavirus in ROI/NI part 2

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Following on from the other thread

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

The bra section of Debenhams was simply the best! Now what will I do?

Huge jump in numbers today. Wonder what'll be like in a few weeks after all this travelling.

Ooof, I just looked at the numbers on the RTE site.
Thats a lot of new cases.
So where are all those infections arising from?
A bit worrying if the lockdown is not doing what it's supposed to do.

I live right next to scenic walkways. My dp took the kids for a walk this morning, I went on my own this evening. Both times the guards were there to check no one was travelling to park there and walk. As a result there wasn't a car or person to be seen there.
Just had to head into town aswell (reluctantly) and the streets are still very very quiet, but the guards have also been walking the streets of the town aswell (I spotted them a few weeks ago)
Cant believe all the people that think it's ok for them to go away for the weekend.

Is the number of new infections the result of the delay in getting test results back? The deaths are high, though; I think the next few days up to Easter Sunday will hopefully be the highest, then they should start to come down.

The deaths are high in residential units, there seems to be a lot of staff off in Cavan hospital. And the testing now focused on health staff seems to be showing more correct results.

I'm pretty sure they are now contact tracing and testing everyone who has been in contact with a proven case, so they are picking up a lot of family members etc.

There are a lot more tests per million population than there are in the UK - roughly double the number of tests per head, apparently (lots of figures on Worldometer).

I know a few people in holiday homes. They all went as soon as the schools closed and have been there since.

New thread! And it’s flying along. Craicnet has never been so busy.

I’m feeling really disheartened today with all the news about people throwing parties, travelling and harassing the gardai. It’s showing such contempt and disrespect to the dead, the bereaved and all those people putting their lives at risk to fight this thing. If people would just stay put, we could identify clusters, implement contact tracing and potentially get ahead of it.

I miss my mum so much, and my dad is in such poor health that every weekend I saw him, I’d wonder if it was the last. It’s killing me not to see him and hug him. He’s terrible with technology and video calling is no substitute. I can’t be confident I’ll ever see him alive again. I know that’s not anyone’s fault, but it’s so hard not to be furiously angry with selfish, entitled gobshites who can’t stay the fuck at home.

Yes it's their fault, they should stay at home. It might not be directed infection, but even being stopped at a garda check is a contact, or getting chips delivered,or a puncture repair.
I think we are waiting for test results sent to a German lab?

I think some of the German ones are back, eggandonion. I'm hoping that's what's accounting for the extra new cases in the last few days.

Apparently the N11 bumper to bumper photo was because they were all stuck at a checkpoint.

Also apparently the Guards have some made app in their cars where they put in the registration and can see the address the car is currently registered at and how far away it is from there!

@Barbararara I'm sorry you can't see your parents, that must be so tough

I'm feeling fed up today too. My household has been doing really well staying at home and not having visitors etc. Some of the neighbours, not so much. At the house opposite there have been non-resident teenagers popping in and out, other cars appearing most days, and today he was doing something to his car on the road with a friend, not observing social distancing at all. And a Garda car drove past them, turned round at the end of the road and drove past them again, without stopping. Yes I was being nosy, from the comfort of my conservatory where I happened to be sitting, but it really annoyed me.

The peak was meant to be over the next 2 weeks. Let's just keep staying in and we will get there. Fuck what anyone else is doing.

I'd be wary of the hype around outsider car regs

Our town is so small that we know cars and I can guarantee if a local is earning enough to drive a182 D Porsche Jeep, or northern Irish reg Porsche Jeep or a massive 192D Reg Range Rover we know who they are. And this evening they are here, absolved from normal societal rules as usual. They are not local and have not been around for the past two weeks. And they do not give a shit who sees them.

Why bother getting wound up. Some people will always be above the law and some of those will succeed exceptionally financially to prove their Infallibility and negate their need to follow the rules. Yay them

I'm not suggesting that everyone with a car from another country should be immediately arrested, but it would be very easy to knock on doors in Donegal with NI cars outside, or West Cork with Dublin cars outside and just ask why they are there.

If they genuinely live there, then fine. If not they should be charged and sent home immediately. Send a few and others may not come. If they are left, there'll be hordes over the next few weeks.

Reports on Twitter, from a retired rte journalist I think, says two caravan parks in sectors are open. Discussion about whether it's for hospital staff isolating?

The lady in mustard seemed happy with the curve flattening on prime time

Caravan parks in Wexford, not sectors! Tourists don't come to where I live, they pass through!

Thanks Kanye recent namechange, felt like it was time for an Irish one!

Barbararara that is so sad it's justifiable anger. I thought we were doing so well as a country accepting the restrictions, obviously there will always be arseholes that don't care but I am genuinely shocked at people going to holiday homes.
Its so unbelievably selfish and such a smack in the face to everyone following the rules and missing their loved ones. Not to mention all the essential staff.

I think some caravan parks are open because people live in them permanently.

I think you can all relax about these alleged hordes coming to rural Ireland. Because people are mostly sticking to the rules, the Guards are on the case, the media is all over it, everything is closed anyway and hardly anyone owns a second home in the first place.

I live in a coastal tourist area of Dublin which is literally so packed every sunny weekend that we can't go out in the car. And since the lockdown it is deserted. Nobody is selling ice cream, fish and chips, coffee etc. Nobody is on the bus and there are empty darts passing by any time I'm on my "2km" walk.

So if these "hordes" aren't going for days out on their own doorstep they are hardly going to be driving across the country.

There a doubtless a few idiots but this is all media hype because they've nothing else to be talking about on the radio. People are getting scared and now believe they are about to be invaded.

I have never heard of that in Ireland - I worked in England and there was a mobile home park near us with year round occupants. It was badly hit by the hurricane in the eighties.

Hopefully, @Focalpoint

Simom Harris is hinting at changes...more restrictions? I've heard rumours that masks are going to be required too .

I see loads of people wearing masks these days. If I went anywhere I might be tempted too although they say they dont really work, whomever they are I dont know. And we used to laugh at the Chinese wearing face masks.