Dublin Airport Christmas

[Justin Time]

Its being said that 140,000 people are  to travel through  Dublin Airport over Christmas,many of these will be from the UK where  there were 20k  new cases  of covid yesterday.

Expect a shitstorm to hit us in Jan.

Welcome to lockdown number 3

[mercenary for hire]

They've already hinted there will be another lockdown.I'd be surprised if it didn't happen.Maybe by March most of the old and vulnerable will have gotten vaccines so there will be no need for a fourth lockdown.

[Octavia1]

If yu look at any flu  surveys from the past ......Christmas week is its peak of infection rate ......hibernating till march at least ....

[mercenary for hire]

I've posted this already but if you're not spreading Coronavirus you can't spread the Flu.Both are spread in the same way but for some reason they concerned about the flu.

Masks and hand washing and limited contacts also stops other viruses.What am I missing?

[Octavia1]

I've posted this already but if you're not spreading Coronavirus you can't spread the Flu.Both are spread in the same way but for some reason they concerned about the flu.

Masks and hand washing and limited contacts also stops other viruses.What am I missing?

I read somewhere the flu rates this year wer something like 8% -10 % of last year ....

[markmiwurdz]

Airport Xmas passengers this year so far down 88% on last year.

[mercenary for hire]

^^^^They said yesterday there has been no cases of the winter flu registered in Ireland this year.Why would there be when so many are wearing masks and washing the skin off their hands.

[Octavia1]

Sorry meant to say Australia flu season this year

[watty]

I've posted this already but if you're not spreading Coronavirus you can't spread the Flu.Both are spread in the same way but for some reason they concerned about the flu.

Masks and hand washing and limited contacts also stops other viruses.What am I missing?

In a normal year, if you get the flu, chances are you'll be told to take 2 paracetamol and take to your bed.  This year, someone turns up coughing and spluttering and they have to assume they have C19 until the test clears them.  So that takes up lots of HDU/ICU beds.  So the HSE is probably worried about allocating resources (nurses, doctors, beds etc).

I can't remember the numbers but they're staggering for how many people look after an ICU patient.  I think it's something 3 nurses + doctor per bed per shift x 24 hours.  So you could maybe 10-15 healthcare workers per ICU patient and we've 'only' 30 patients in ICU at the moment.