Coronavirus Part III - 9 cases across the Island - 503 errors abound!! *read OP*

Skylinehead

GeorgeBailey wrote: »

That's a very small, selective crop to that picture

Aldi in Ashtown had plenty of everything, so yeah.

gmisk

GeorgeBailey wrote: »

That's a very small, selective crop to that picture

I was in an aldi and Tesco today absolutely zero shortages of anything.
So really not indicative I would say

Unearthly

Is there any reliable reports on how the Italian health system is coping?

Signore Fancy Pants

I just heard from a friend who is not on Twitter that Lidl has the Corona virus.

fr336

Cilldara_2000 wrote: »

Bear in mind that we still have no idea how bad it might get, what impact warmer spring might have &c. And only a tiny proportion of people in the countries where it has hit so far actually contracted it. And even for older people and the higher cfr, most survive. It's not a death sentence for anyone, even the higher risk groups.

Thanks for the reasurance, really kind and much appreciated. I totally get that they are older and have conditions and are therefore prone to even the yearly flu but I've accounted for this in my head - they're older, they have conditions, fine. If something happened what could I do. But this thing could make it happen unnecessarily and I'm not prepared. But hey ho it's not just me - we are all in this together now, whether we're old ourselves or have parents grandparents etc. Fingers crossed.

smelly sock

pad199207 wrote: »

Lidl today

Supervalu wont have that problem . Robbin cnuts.

da gamer

Boozybooze wrote: »

What are other people doing to prepare themselves when the country goes into lock down?

Will we still have electricity or should I go out now and buy and buy gas cooking rings and a ton of gas? Really want to get a load of meat and freeze it but not sure if electricity will be turned off?

I have 72 cans of tinned food, loads of pasta and sauces and bottled water and hand sanitizer, cleaning products, face masks and goggles.

Really not looking forward to this.

Why wouldn't there be electricity?

naughto

odyssey06 wrote: »

It makes you wonder why we have hospitals then. People gonna die from viruses. Let's just let natural run its course.

If it gets in to a hospital say through a&e then up to a ward it will spread like wildfire as 60%are elderly in a hospital at any one time.





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KiKi III wrote: »

^^^^^

Now this, if serious, is one of the only actual examples of hysteria I’ve seen on the thread.

What if it's not hysterical, it's a measured response to the situation?

We have similar stocks which we've been replenishing since mid-January. Better to be looking at it than looking for it. What will you do if it turns out you're wrong?

BanditLuke

Deleted User wrote: »

And this has what to do with the Corona virus?

Well maybe its me but won't the HSE be responsible for handling the outbreak? Just a thought like

solidasarock

Live from the latest conference from the Deportment of Health

Professor Moriarty

Loafing Oaf wrote: »

No sign of it in Italy, and I'd set a lot more store by their figures than the ones coming out of China:(

Yeah. The spikes in various countries across Europe should give us pause for thought considering they would also have good health services.

Indestructable

Unearthly wrote: »

Is there any reliable reports on how the Italian health system is coping?

There was a report earlier, I'll try dig it out, that hospitals in the Lombardy region are beginning to struggle massively with 130 people in a serious condition.

Boozybooze

da gamer wrote: »

Why wouldn't there be electricity?

If the country goes into lockdown and ESB workers won't show up to work.

Maybe i should go out and buy a generator as well. Think I will actually.

KiKi III

Brenden Agreeable Rabble-rouser wrote: »

What if it's not hysterical, it's a measured response to the situation?

We have similar stocks which we've been replenishing since mid-January. Better to be looking at it than looking for it. What will you do if it turns out you're wrong?

I’ll continue drinking my tap water for a start. Why the need to stockpile bottled? Then I suppose I’ll use up that bag of brown pasta I can never be bothered to cook with whatever is in the freezer.

KGLady

froog wrote: »

the people who need to know know. why does the entire country need to know? all that would do is cause panic from thousands of people who walked by the school or who's neighbour works in a shop down the road from there, or whose kid's friend's cousin goes there, etc etc

There's very few gaelcholaiste in the country and as a result kids travel from several areas to attend, and there's a bunch of gaelscoileanna which are their feeder schools. Gaelscoils across a wide part of Dublin have kids with older siblings attending Scoil Caitriona, which vastly multiples the potential community contagion area. Families with immunocompromised members to be worried about need to be able to make informed decisions.

Millem

Larbre34 wrote: »

I heard several clinicians comment in recent days that there seems to be no inordinate risk to expectant mothers, the foetus or newborns.

Of course talk to your obstectrician but I think you will be reassured.

Hygiene in work not great at the minute

SeaBreezes

Call Me Jimmy wrote: »

In fairness they didn't even fight it. They rolled over and said ces't la vie. South Korea is doing their utmost (bar the full lockdown yet, incoming) and they are short hospital beds. Nobody will just realise what they have to do. They are more interested in buying ~2 - 3 weeks of relative calm before the big realisation. Again. and again.

It's really annoying me. We were warned we had time to prepare.
Figure out where to treat COVID patients so we wouldn't be infecting people already compromised in hospital.
Drive thro checkpoints for people worried about being infected.
Work from home for anyone who can should have been brought in 2weeks ago.
And the HSE were handing out leaflets.
Nice easily infected pieces of paper to all travellers to leave elsewhere. Great.

LadyMayBelle

Popped into local Aldi and Tesco this eve expecting it to be manic and bare... neither store was either.. little low on pasta but not in anyway unusual. I do wonder if some stores are holding back stock to induce a panic buy...

Hoping we get some info on work tomorrow. I work face to face with people all day everyday in a service connected to the HSE...I've stopped hand shaking which is something I would do about 10 times a day when meeting new patients and bought Lidl hand gels as a 'gift' for colleagues 😂

BanditLuke

BanditLuke wrote: »

Well maybe its me but won't the HSE be responsible for handling the outbreak? Just a thought like

I don't see the correlation unless you are saying that haem/Onc is similar to infectious diseases? It would be interesting to see how you think they are connected.

da gamer

Boozybooze wrote: »

If the country goes into lockdown and ESB workers won't show up to work.

Maybe i should go out and buy a generator as well. Think I will actually.

So if the ESB workers don't turn up somebody presses the red button and turns off all power in the country?

MrMusician18

gmisk wrote: »

I was in an aldi and Tesco today absolutely zero shortages of anything.
So really not indicative I would say

In Lidl this evening
No pasta
No jam
Breakfast cereal almost gone
No tinned foods
No disinfectant
Toilet paper almost gone.

We usually shop on Sundays in this lidl, empty shelves like that is not normal. Haven't seen that since the beast from the East.

Boozybooze

da gamer wrote: »

So if the ESB workers don't turn up somebody presses the red button and turns off all power in the country?

I'm preparing for the worst. The Conavirus apocalypse is coming.

Call Me Jimmy

Cilldara_2000 wrote: »

Bear in mind that we still have no idea how bad it might get, what impact warmer spring might have &c. And only a tiny proportion of people in the countries where it has hit so far actually contracted it. And even for older people and the higher cfr, most survive. It's not a death sentence for anyone, even the higher risk groups.

We have a pretty good idea what happens in the short term... China, South Korea, Iran, Italy.

There's no point sugar coating. There is hope the government could realise that the whole point is to take the big decisions early because you'll have to make them anyway.

Some people might think 'sure what can ye do?', but we're seeing that play out in those countries. Latest are France and Germany. The WHO says it's a big mistake.

smelly sock

da gamer wrote: »

So if the ESB workers don't turn up somebody presses the red button and turns off all power in the country?

Its ok. Im with airtricty.

gabeeg

Boozybooze wrote: »

If the country goes into lockdown and ESB workers won't show up to work.

Maybe i should go out and buy a generator as well. Think I will actually.

Mate, if we go into lockdown and they don't keep the water flowing and the leccy on the lockdown will not work.

Save your money. Buy some crap to keep you entertained

Fr_Dougal

MrMusician18 wrote: »

In Lidl this evening
No pasta
No jam
Breakfast cereal almost gone
No tinned foods
No disinfectant
Toilet paper almost gone.

We usually shop on Sundays in this lidl, empty shelves like that is not normal. Haven't seen that since the beast from the East.

It’s like the vegan apocalypse...

all about the mane

LadyMayBelle wrote: »

Popped into local Aldi and Tesco this eve expecting it to be manic and bare... neither store was either.. little low on pasta but not in anyway unusual. I do wonder if some stores are holding back stock to induce a panic buy...

Hoping we get some info on work tomorrow. I work face to face with people all day everyday in a service connected to the HSE...I've stopped hand shaking which is something I would do about 10 times a day when meeting new patients and bought Lidl hand gels as a 'gift' for colleagues 😂

Stores are not holding back stock to induce a panic buy. Jesus wept. Why the hell would they do that??

tillyfilly

smelly sock wrote: »

Its ok. Im with airtricty.

I'm ok, I use gas

CinemaGuy45

da gamer wrote: »

So if the ESB workers don't turn up somebody presses the red button and turns off all power in the country?

Fuel has to be loaded into coal fired power stations.

Moving parts to be maintained.

Fuel has to be delivered.

I could go on but I know very little about power generation it appears you know even less.