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Lenny82
Liam Brady Joined: 20 Aug 2010 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 2914 |
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Anybody seen any actual data on demands on mental health services or suicides?
I feel that there will be a point in time that data will show lockdowns contribute to more deaths than they save, through suicide or untreated health issues. At the moment, Nphet have one brief, it would appear, and that is to give advice on how best to reduce, and hopefully eradicate, coronavirus without considering anything else. That said, while the virus appears to have mutated to a much less severe one, given so few deaths for such a large number of cases, there is nothing to suggest that it couldn't mutate further to be a much more severe virus with huge death rate!
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MayoMark
Moderator Group The NEW angrier Freewheeler Joined: 27 Jan 2009 Location: Castlebar Status: Offline Points: 26312 |
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Surely the point if lockdown is to stop hospitals being overwhelmed, which will lead to other untreated health issues? Not the other way around?
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They finally did it man... They killed my f**kin' car...
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9fingers
Paul McGrath Ballymun Resident #MONKEANO Joined: 30 Jan 2010 Status: Offline Points: 16125 |
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I’ve seen this a few times here & elsewhere about the virus mutating, but haven’t seen any data or experts say it. I’m not saying you’re wrong but I would’ve thought the correlation between cases and deaths isn’t following the same path as March as testing numbers are far higher & the age range of positive results is completely different. Last week we set a record for daily testing, 20k I believe, and obviously that’s resulted in positive cases spiking, but if the average age range is 14-45 then it won’t translate to deaths as it did in March, just yet as the higher positivity rate will eventually filter through to the vulnerable. That’d be my opinion anyway, I could be way off
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pre Madonna
Robbie Keane I am MALDING Joined: 30 Nov 2014 Location: Trumpton Status: Offline Points: 44659 |
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There's also the fact that, whatever the figures around it now, there has been a mental health crisis for a long time. This isn't new, but all this pandemic has done is highlight already existing issues in society and how badly they have been mismanaged.
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thebronze14
Jack Charlton Derry City Til I Die Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Location: Dublin/Donegal Status: Offline Points: 7165 |
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A health crisis in general! We would be under far less pressure now if a plan for our health service was properly thought out by governments this last couple of decades
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pre Madonna
Robbie Keane I am MALDING Joined: 30 Nov 2014 Location: Trumpton Status: Offline Points: 44659 |
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Absolutely! One of the biggest problems of our age, and with parliamentary democracy in general, is that everything is planned for the next election and not even a decade's time!
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Lenny82
Liam Brady Joined: 20 Aug 2010 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 2914 |
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No, I fully get that but I was referring more to the unavailability of certain procedures or screenings, so more undetected rather than untreated, I suppose. There is a family not far from me and the mother was recently diagnosed with cancer. Had been due a screening earlier in the year but was cancelled because of the lockdown. Now I am not saying she will die of this, as I believe it has still been caught early enough, but I'd be pretty sure others won't be so fortunate. Also, and at the risk of sounding facetious, suicide victims are unlikely to take up many beds.
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Lenny82
Liam Brady Joined: 20 Aug 2010 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 2914 |
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Very true. My original point was more opinion based on what I have heard but can't say I have heard that from an expert!
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sid waddell
Roy Keane On a dark desert highway Joined: 20 Nov 2009 Status: Offline Points: 12173 |
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England's Daily Telegraph has called New Zealand's strategy during Covid "disastrous"
This would be the same New Zealand where a grand total of 25 have died, where 35k attended the rugby last week and where the virus continues to be suppressed, and normal life has long resumed
I wonder what the Telegraph makes of Britain's strategy I just keep being proved correct in everything I say about right-wingers and the magical fantasy land of the mind they inhabit There should be a law where the Telegraph and other right-wing rags should only be stocked on the "fiction" shelves |
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Gary McKay
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There’s a reason why its called the Torygraph !!!
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"Smalling and Jones.... have the potential to be the PL’s best ever pairing in my opinion." - SlurAlex
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sid waddell
Roy Keane On a dark desert highway Joined: 20 Nov 2009 Status: Offline Points: 12173 |
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But being a Tory is now pretty much indivisible from believing in a fantasy, make believe view of the world There used to be Tories who weren't actually like that, you could disagree with them in terms of ideology but they did not exist in a world which was as fantastical as Russian television Perhaps there still are people like that, I just can't think of many Maybe yer man Julian Smith But that's one person Not a lot I suppose though that the current incarnation of Toryism was always going to be the logical outcome |
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Jackal
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The bookies seems like the place where everyone is socialising these days.
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Baldrick
Robbie Keane Peyton-tly Pedantic Joined: 18 Sep 2008 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 32714 |
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Strange that they are being left open. Is there a link to closing bookies and increased problems elsewhere. Only thing I can think of. They really serve very little positive purpose in society other than some tax and jobs in the shop itself. |
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AKA pedantic kunt
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Gary McKay
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Gov increased funds to Horsey lot to €80m next year.
Grassroots soccer clubs going under
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"Smalling and Jones.... have the potential to be the PL’s best ever pairing in my opinion." - SlurAlex
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McG
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https://twitter.com/Trishee14/status...942638080?s=20
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irishmufc
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Wings? They're only the band The Beatles could have been.
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McG
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YBIG Table Quiz winner 2016 & 2017
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Jackal
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That's something to do with the rules of the betting tax.
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