Coronavirus Part IV - 19 cases in ROI, 7 in NI (as of 7 March) *Read warnings in OP*

niallo27

Assetbacked wrote: »

Ken?!?

Think he means Kent.

jam_mac_jam

2ndcoming wrote: »

You're wrong. While it is new, it bears far more similarities to the flu than any other illness. Comparing it to say Cholera or Ebola would be as relevant as waving a yardstick around.

Sorry not being rude but i am not bothered doing this again. Yeah I'm wrong you're right.

Just a flu

freshpopcorn

sideswipe wrote: »

Was in a Power City at 11:30 this morning, the guy there said they had sold 17 chest freezers already today. Local Tesco looks like Christmas Eve. People starting to get spooked!

Going by the stock levels on the power city website they are about the same as the time I was buying one in 2018.
Supermarkets in my town are the normal Friday trade.

s7ryf3925pivug

Super valu had plenty of everything. Only change was a table with empty sanitizer bottles and packets of wipes at the entrance.
Doctor's phone was engaged most of the morning. They have started asking if you've been in Italy etc now when you make an appointment. (My kid has an ear infection.)

bronkobilly

cameramonkey wrote: »

Was in two Aldi's and two Lidl's this morning there was no shortage of any products that I could see except hand sanatisers and disinfectants.
Plenty of toilet roll. I dont understand the toilet roll thing, its as if the worst thing that can happen to you in the outbreak is having a dirty hole. Surely we can find other ways of cleaning are arse?

news paper

Dante7

cameramonkey wrote: »

Singapore has 120 cases with 82 recovered, first case Feb 4th so its a horse of a different colour.

Singapore is the Gold standard in how to contain this outbreak. Total transparency, travel bans, forced quarantines. They have been proactive from the beginning, and have contained the virus even though they they recorded their first case over a month ago. This is the model we should be following, but the HSE seem hellbent on doing the exact opposite.

"Singapore was aggressive out of the gate and has continued to be. It was one of the first countries to impose restrictions on anyone with recent travel history to China and parts of South Korea. It has a strict hospital and home quarantine regimen for potentially infected patients and is extensively tracing anyone they may have been in contact with.

It’s charging a couple who gave false information on their travel history and taking away residency status from a person who breached his quarantine, among other punitive actions.

Singapore “will not hesitate to take strong action” against rule breakers, Law Minister K. Shanmugam said in a statement Thursday. “The deliberate breaking of the rules, in the current situation, calls for swift and decisive response.”

The country started a text and mobile web-based software solution on Feb. 10 through which people placed under home quarantine could report their location to the government, according to a statement Thursday from the Prime Minister’s Office."

https://fortune.com/2020/02/28/singapore-coronavirus-contained-response/

Juwwi

In Dublin city centre at the moment just saw a group of about 15 Italians going into a hostel type accommodation off Talbot Street ..

Absolutely madness letting them come over .

I see sheep

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Togo has it's first case of Coronavirus!

WELCOME to the club

You seem to be getting a huge buzz out of human suffering, I bet your your browser history is disturbing.

tillyfilly

Dow Jones drops 4%, 850 points

Duke of Url

str8talkingguy wrote: »

You arguing that more people on the internet is losing tech companies money,is like saying the sky is green and grass is blue.

No Im stating that Tech Companies are not cleaning up. I showed that with proof.

I dont know where your Argument is coming from. I can only guess that you are presuming without knowing.

DOCARCH

Juwwi wrote: »

In Dublin city centre at the moment just saw a group of about 15 Italians going into a hostel type accommodation off Talbot Street ..

Absolutely madness letting them come over .

Weld the door shut!!!

Assetbacked

niallo27 wrote: »

Think he means Kent.

You're telling met this? The person who made the Simpsons reference.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Deleted User wrote: »

Lads, whats the point in fighting this????

Knowledgeable posters with obvious scientific backgrounds/PhDs (definitely not hysterical loons) have said it is some kind of mixture between SARS/HIV/Black plague. We are doomed anyway.

Are you serious with this shit? I’m guessing not.

frillyleaf

stephenjmcd wrote: »

No it doesn't. Virus clearly hadn't manifested itself yet

Is this why some countries are quarantining people returning or travelling from badly infected regions ?

Assetbacked

tillyfilly wrote: »

Dow Jones drops 4%, 850 points

Stock market panic = boomer panic.

Scuid Mhór

quokula wrote: »

The current virus is unlikely to last that long either, but if you do extrapolate the 3 weeks out to a year you still end up with a far smaller number.

I would love to believe this but like... what's the evidence for this? How long do we think the virus will last? Can it not just last indefinitely?

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Wibbs wrote: »

Not just Americans. Just look at this thread and damned near every page coughs up(pun intended) a howler of misinformation or complete idiocy, like stating this virus is a mix of SARS and HIV. :rolleyes:

Funny enough C, a proper respirator/mask that actually filters down to the size of virus particles is not an easy thing to breathe through. As you can imagine for obvious reasons. They're very similar to military gas masks. Not easy. Kinda like breathing through a thick straw.

I’m still trying to get my dropped jaw back into position after reading that one.

KaneToad

cameramonkey wrote: »

Was in two Aldi's and two Lidl's this morning there was no shortage of any products that I could see except hand sanatisers and disinfectants.
Plenty of toilet roll. I dont understand the toilet roll thing, its as if the worst thing that can happen to you in the outbreak is having a dirty hole. Surely we can find other ways of cleaning are arse?

I'll better that. I was in 2 Lidls, 2 Aldis, a Dunnes and a Tesco. No apparent shortage of anything...although I didn't go looking for hand sanitizer.

(Before you ask, I was looking for honeycomb!)

jam_mac_jam

Assetbacked wrote: »

Stock market panic = boomer panic.

No. It's a reaction to uncertainty and the likely contraction in manufacturing and tourism likely to happen as a result of the virus.

purple hands

KaneToad wrote: »

I'll better that. I was in 2 Lidls, 2 Aldis, a Dunnes and a Tesco. No apparent shortage of anything...although I didn't go looking for hand sanitizer.

(Before you ask, I was looking for honeycomb!)

Does it boost the immune system or something?

SHOULD WE ALL BUY HONEYCOMB?!

niallo27

Assetbacked wrote: »

You're telling met this? The person who made the Simpsons reference.

I don't know who said what anymore this thread is moving too fast.

Assetbacked

jam_mac_jam wrote: »

No. It's a reaction to uncertainty and the likely contraction in manufacturing and tourism likely to happen as a result of the virus.

It is panic.

Funsterdelux

Morrisseeee wrote: »

This thread is spreading faster than the Corona virus :eek:

You took the words straight out of my mouth

niallo27

tillyfilly wrote: »

Dow Jones drops 4%, 850 points

Still up from 5 days ago.

pjohnson

Funsterdelux wrote: »

You took the words straight out of my mouth

Musta been while he was kissing you.

jam_mac_jam

Assetbacked wrote: »

It is panic.

Everything is panic

There will be no economic effects to this at all.

All panic

Somedaythefire

Duke of Url wrote: »

No Im stating that Tech Companies are not cleaning up. I showed that with proof.

I dont know where your Argument is coming from. I can only guess that you are presuming without knowing.

They probably think website clicks are how the big tech companies make money.

DrumSteve

Scuid Mhór wrote: »

I would love to believe this but like... what's the evidence for this? How long do we think the virus will last? Can it not just last indefinitely?

It'll eventually burn itself out due to a lack of hosts (people becoming immune or dying).

More than likely will peak by May based on current numbers, cos people will absolutely **** the bed by this time next week and just self isolate whether they are sick or not.

sjb25

KaneToad wrote: »

I'll better that. I was in 2 Lidls, 2 Aldis, a Dunnes and a Tesco. No apparent shortage of anything...although I didn't go looking for hand sanitizer.

(Before you ask, I was looking for honeycomb!)

Did you get the honeycomb we all need to know

str8talkingguy

Duke of Url wrote: »

No Im stating that Tech Companies are not cleaning up. I showed that with proof.

I dont know where your Argument is coming from. I can only guess that you are presuming without knowing.

Unfortunately a lack of brain usage is the norm these days,but have at your share prices,and not use a bit of critical thinking,tech companies are having a field day with this,you might see some short term massaging of the figures for useful idiots like yourself to parrot around to everyone and say its not the tech companies.

But they are making massive gains from this absolutely massive,might not show on the share price in the short term but the gains will eventually hit the share price when the initial furore of this blows over so people don't realise who is really making the most profit from this.