@The Great Cornholio: I see you like swimming in the big Egyptian river. Denial.

@John Mulligan: what is over? When the virus is completely eradicated globally? It’s a virus, it’s not going to disappear.

@John Egan: Some do and some don’t. The experts are saying it is unlikely that this one will disappear but you can’t just say it won’t.

@John Egan: people is acting as if it has already disappeared, hence the comment.

@John Egan:
John I agree but people seem to believe that it can be eradicated by listening to the brainwashed they don’t seem to get the fact that like any virus such as the flu virus it cannot be completely eradicated
So what if the numbers go up suure 9 out of 10 people have no symptoms
Am I missing something here?

@Football in the Groin: Indeed. I want to get back to normal as much as the next person, but not lose all sense of reality and the respect for those who have lost loved ones to the virus that is still a threat.

@ciaran carroll: Facts!

@Sorcha Ní Shúilleabháin:
100% in agreement with you but there seems to be great difficulty educating pork! Masks should be worn.

@Sorcha Ní Shúilleabháin: I have seen a decline in the number of people wearing face covering in supermarkets since they announced the mandatory wearing of them on buses, people are thinking if they did not make them mandatory in supermarkets we do not need to wear them!!!

@Sorcha Ní Shúilleabháin: I work in a major supermarket and more people are wearing them now over the last week.

@Buggsy Malone: Well, that’s what mandatory means…

@Sorcha Ní Shúilleabháin:
I won’t be wearing one either voluntarily or compulsory as I don’t want to make myself sick

@Joe Toner: not a hope

@Sorcha Ní Shúilleabháin:
Thank God
People are intelligent enough not to be brainwashed into wearing them save for the odd few hypochondriacs
But Sure it’s a psychological thing with them I suppose they think it makes them safer God love them

@Sorcha Ní Shúilleabháin: and they dont know how to walk in the direction of the arrows, or they wont walk in the direction of the arrows. They wont give people space in the grocery isle, someone reached in front of this older lady to get biscuits in tesco, she wouldnt even have the courtesy to wait until the lady got what she wanted first. I swear,people are the worst.

@Sorcha Ní Shúilleabháin: i will say though, that as much as i adhere to sanitizing and social distancing, the masks are very hard to breathe in. I would wear them on the bus or in a waiting room, but going around a grocery store or on the street, i just cant.

@Pauline Gallagher: Imagine how us as staff feel wearing them for 13 hours

@barry moore: why 3 months?

@John kavanagh: while there is a delay in the reporting of deaths as the legal requirement is three months, many are reported a lot faster but hardly ever a one day turn around. You have raised an interesting point though and the question needs to be asked, many of the deaths with covid-19 were not in ICU or even in hospital and I suspect that this was because the underlying condition did not require ICU and breathing intervention or the patient was assessed too ill to recover. It is a sad debate but long time before covid-19, sometimes older people in particular, do not get to ICU before they pass away as ICU had nothing to offer them

I would have thought when this started that all serious cases with covid-19 would be in hospital and ICU but as I watched the stats from day to day I realised that many were simply not in hospital (for as many different reasons as there were people).

RIP to those who have passed and a sepedy and complete recovery to those still affected.

@David Clements: deaths don’t have to be reported straight away. Give the link a read.
https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/death/after_a_death/death_cert.html

@barry moore: Indeed. But to date there’s been no suggestion of a time lag of anything close to that

@David Clements: where do you get that information from?

@John kavanagh: nursing homes

@Jonny: I was at BLM distributing PPE and every single person there wore a mask

@Calvin James: every single person? Good lad that’s some achievement.

@Calvin James: haha big claim. But the pictures show they weren’t all wear masks.

@Calvin James: Brilliant, but what made you think it was ok to attend a mass gathering when the rest of the country was on lockdown?

@Thomas O’ Donnell:
Sure numbers are bound to go up what’s the big deal
I wonder how many people were diagnosed with cancer today? A lot more than 23 I’d say or flu or heart attacks or strokes etc etc the list goes on
Are we turning into a nation of statisticians now?
It’s a virus you cannot eradicate it like the flu cannot be eradicated

@ciaran carroll: Cancer and heart attacks aren’t contagious and there’s a vaccine for the flu

@easy_money82: Disappointing news, Phase 3 great but reopening pubs, group sports especially football, rugby is a receipe for disaster. As for large gatherings which includes drunken brawls. Shut down and arrest those responsible and issue fines. Look at Liverpool, the beaches last week, nothing is being done to deal with this.

@Colm Malone: yeah, but you can’t catch cancer off someone.

@Peter Cavey: Exactly. The ‘but look over there’ arguments from the Gemma fanboys is getting tiresome.

@Colm Malone: you can’t catch cancer for somebody else!

@Peter Cavey: but those people deserve the same attention as someone who catches COVID-19

@Peter Cavey:
You can catch the flu off someone though
Let’s lockdown the country and wear a double mask when it arrives this winter shall we?

@Colm Malone:
Yes it’s jus t a very bad flu

@Peter Cavey: you can actually – cervical cancer for example can be caused by HPV (a virus) which also causes penile cancer, & throat cancer. But of course no one cares about this. Or the numbers of people around the world who die daily because of decisions governments make. We have to get on with our lives and ensure we protect the most vulnerable pple in society – the small minority who are at risk of dying. When people see new cases they panic and gleefully start fear mongering / finger pointing instead of being pragmatic and putting it in tyr bigger picture.

@IRL77: second hand cigarette smoke would beg to differ

@ciaran carroll: Flu is caused by Influenza viruses A,B or C,not a coronavirus.There are vaccines for Type A&B

@Daragh: can you back that comment up with facts?

@barry moore: nope they were fit and healthy. Had heart attack at home but died by time ambulance had them at the hospital. I don’t pay much attention conspiracy theories but I know the family very well.

@Darrell Mc Cormack: The coronavirus causes inflammation in many organs including the heart, it also causes far more coagulation of the blood and thus raises the blood pressure. Combine inflammation of the heart with raised blood pressure and you are at serious risk of heart attack. If he was otherwise healthy as you state, but tested positive for covid19, then that is the most likley cause of the heart attack. He may even have had a heart condition that hadn’t been picked up, raising his risk again.

@Daragh: I don’t believe you, but can’t afford to waste my time on you.

@Darrell Mc Cormack: Darrell, if the person was fit and healthy then they would not have died from a heart attack. There was obviously, underlying heath issues which were undiagnosed and I doubt a death certificate could include covid 19 as a cause of death unless the person was tested and was positive for same. If this was a sudden death then the post mortem will confirm, not all people with the virus are in hospital but for the wider family , they would need to be tested.

@Honeybee: Agreed, if the person was fit and healthy, how would they have died from a heart attack? RIP, anyway.

@John Hazelnut: inclined to agree with you on both counts

@barry moore: common sense. Never believe the given narrative without questioning EVERYTHING

@Daragh: if that’s the highlight of your argument it’s a poor argument. I’m still waiting on facts.

@Daragh: look at this knuckledraggers tweets.

@Fergus Lynch: That really explains a lot.

@Daragh: Gemmaroid OD and John Waters are looking for you over on Twitter. Go on over there now there’s a good lad.

@Darrell Mc Cormack: COVID-19 causes a massive increases the risk of blood clots, that causes heart attacks and stokes.

60% of people in ICU, ill with COVID-19 ,ultimately die from blood clots that fatal cause heart attacks (myocardial infarction).

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/how-covid-19-triggers-heart-conditions

@Darrell Mc Cormack: Only cause I have read as much as I can about it…

1. Did the death cert say exclusively covid-19 or just include covid-19 as the cause of death. To explain, when someone gets the flu and then pneumonia flu is included in the cause of death. Likewise if someone gets covid-19 and then pneumonia then covid-19 is included in the cause of death – The journal have an explainer article on this.

2. Lung disease can affect the efficiently of gas exchange and eve cause the heard to work harder to try to get oxygen into the blood and carbon dioxide out. People with serious emphysema will be aware of that. So eventually the right hand side of the heart muscle grows to a dangerous point. A lung infection (any) can reduce the gas exchange area, resulting in extra stress on the already damaged heart until there is heart failure… so a chain of events can least to a heart attach or failure as the immediate cause of death but only because it is at the end of a chain of events and this is why covid-19 (flu, pneumonia, etc.) should be included on a death cert cert when a person dies with an active covid-19 infection unless there is a definitive unrelated cause.

My I, with respect, suggest that if this is an issue then the death certifying doctor should be approached and have the record corrected – we do see cases being de-notified and maybe this is the reason why – but the bottom line on this is that if someone gets covid-19 and dies rather than recovering this fact is usually recorded on the death cert and quite correctly.

@David Jordan: Sorry about the spelling mistakes, I rushed my comment as I was angry.

@David Jordan: Good to see you here, thanks.

@Darrell Mc Cormack:
Yes because they are manipulating the figures anyone with a brain knows that sure some of the nursing homes are now contesting the death figures as they are inaccurate

@barry moore: where do you get your facts from? The corrupt W. H. O?

@Padraig Collins: hopefully not!

@Anthony Whelan:
I agree Anthony but unfortunately lots of people have allowed themselves to be completely brainwashed
I reckon when the normal flu come this winter that we should all be counting the number of people that get it and quarantining oh and wear ridiculous face masks too
You couldn’t write this stuff I’d say Tommy Tiernan will have a field day with this comedy show in a few months time

@ciaran carroll: well yeah probably should continue similar precautions for flu. You’re so sharp must be hard dealing with sheeple.

@Winston Smith: couldn’t agree more, let’s all hide under the stairs! And hopefully, when we emerge, there’ll still be some sort of economy or health service bones worth picking at………

@Winston Smith: Who doubted it? Strawman argument. Everyone besides the 5G/Gemma brigade knew cases would increase with the easing of restrictions.

@Winston Smith: What comes? If you mean the second wave we could be lucky if it would only come with such numbers.

They can now determine pretty much where someone got the virus from there is no need to lock the whole country down.

I feel sorry that you feel so much fear.

@Winston Smith: Agreed, we are at perpetual war.