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

Larbre34

Maddox Jealous Yard wrote: »

those in the hospitality sector for this absolute genocide being thrust upon them. Two weeks time there'll be nobody to wait your tables or pull your pint in Dublin.

Have a very large word with yourself.

People with underlying conditions working in this setting should be protected, for everyone else of working age they're looking at a fever and a cough then well again.

I'm beginning to think we should just have a big old national pox party and let everyone get it and get over it and move on with life rather than this feckin thing ebbing and flowing with the seasons for years until antibodies are built up in general population.

babybuilder

Mic 1972 wrote: »

I hope they are joking, an outbreak is not cost effective at all
Economy will be badly hit when things get out of hand here

This is the lesser of two evils in their minds. Make tough decisions to curtail events and suffer the economic consequences. Or let the virus run its course and hope for the best.

josip

blueskys wrote: »

I have a friend in cuba, he said any ships/planes entering there with passengers have a 24hr quarantine before actually going into the country. This has been in place since January. This is why they have 0 cases.

24 hours quarantine ain't gonna do diddly squat for Covid-19.
If they've 0 cases, it's because like some other countries, they're not bothering to test, eg. Turkey.

Duke of Url

SuperValu is full of pasta again 1kg of fusilli pasta. 94c

Can’t go wrong.

tuxy

darjeeling wrote: »

There is no 'stronger strain'.

A bull**** paper noted two differences / 32,000 positions in the genome (one of which doesn't even change any of the viral proteins) that happened early on.

The authors then speculated wildly that one of these strains was more transmissable and more pathogenic, despite having no evidence to do so.

The media then picked it up and, lacking any background understanding, went all in.
This is happening a lot with media coverage of scientific papers during this outbreak.

Read what some virologists at the Glasgow MRC virology centre made of it:
http://virological.org/t/response-to-on-the-origin-and-continuing-evolution-of-sars-cov-2/418

It's difficult to read and doesn't have the big exciting headlines like the sun newspaper.

wadacrack

Please just stop speculating on rumors. Its just better if we post updates and factual/helpful information

EDit

Regardless of what the government say, I don’t think the parade will go ahead simply because a lot of folks involved in it will just make their own minds up not to participate. It’s all well and good Leo saying it’s still on, but if all the dancers, band members and people who stand on the floats waving don’t turn up + no-one goes to watch, it won’t be much of a parade

bunderoon

Mic 1972 wrote: »

I hope they are joking, an outbreak is not cost effective at all
Economy will be badly hit when things get out of hand here

Treasure Island. Let us all get it and someone in the gov later gets a speaking job/board member in a few years in the company that sold us the antiviral medication.

KWAG2019

Irish Times seem to be getting confidential information sooner than the public. Who is leaking this? It serves only to build hype.

bodhrandude

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

That's yesterday

It bloody said 54 minutes ago!

cannotlogin

How can not cancelling the St Patrick's Day parade be even a possibility given that foot & mouth, which is far less dangerous, was enough to cancel it in 2001?

khalessi

cloudatlas wrote: »

Dr. Campbell is a doctor in the sense that he has a phd in nurse training and he is a A&E nurse so we need to take his comments with a large pinch of salt when he criticises the scientists leading the WHO.

Pure ignorant viewpoint

BorneTobyWilde

Some good parenting

https://twitter.com/GD_Grimes/status/1235979288622567426

Pudsy33

KWAG2019 wrote: »

Irish Times seem to be getting confidential information sooner than the public. Who is leaking this? It serves only to build hype.

Its literally their job.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Maddox Jealous Yard wrote: »

Irish Times article ten minutes ago.

https://www.earthcam.com/world/ireland/dublin/?cam=templebar
Have a look at Temple Bar this evening. Virtually no Irish people except the odd Irish person hurriedly walking with their head down. Many tourists with backpacks on their holidays taking photos.

My thoughts tonight are with those in the hospitality sector for this absolute genocide being thrust upon them. Two weeks time there'll be nobody to wait your tables or pull your pint in Dublin.

Bonkers, I tell you.

Kermit.de.frog

mloc123 wrote: »

Exciting

Worrying I would say but each to their own.

fritzelly

bodhrandude wrote: »

It bloody said 54 minutes ago!

Check the numbers in the article and it's 13 for Ireland

babybuilder

ixoy wrote: »

The Parade is a bad idea but how many other countries are banning large events? France and Switzerland I think but Germany or the UK? It is not unique to us alas m

Collective European decisions. Economics and protecting the single market etc pure and simple. Together we are stronger bullsh1t.

dePeatrick

cannotlogin wrote: »

How can not cancelling the St Patrick's Day parade be even a possibility given that foot & mouth, which is far less dangerous, was enough to cancel it in 2001?

That was before a single case was discovered in Ireland, they also closed all parks, playgrounds and Pitches plus a lot more.

namloc1980

49 dead in Italy today after 41 yesterday on the rte scrolling update. That is fairly shocking numbers no matter how anyone tries to play it down.

Kermit.de.frog

The EU had the choice to seal off northern Italy. They didn't. No point crying over spilt milk.

fritzelly

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Some good parenting

Should be grateful she's not in Iran - be getting a flogging

Rob A. Bank

Larbre34 wrote: »

People with underlying conditions working in this setting should be protected, for everyone else of working age they're looking at a fever and a cough then well again.

I'm beginning to think we should just have a big old national pox party and let everyone get it and get over it and move on with life rather than this feckin thing ebbing and flowing with the seasons for years until antibodies are built up in general population.

Pox party... great idea yeaaa

Earlier in this thread the disgusting comments about “culling the herd of the coffin dodgers” etc were rightly condemned.

Now we find the government is of exactly the same mentality... Business interests above peoples health.

Have they no older relatives ?

fr336

Basically the WHO are out there shouting "FIRE! FIRE!" while our fine leaders, the ones who you can't get rid of normally, have effectively gone into hiding.

skimpydoo

lalababa wrote: »

Breaking news...7 players showing symptoms in the French rugby camp.

Source?

KWAG2019

Pudsy33 wrote: »

Its literally their job.

To leak confidential information in advance of HAE? After all the condemnation of hype and panic? After condemnation of social media? That’s not their job.

niallo27

If you get this and recover, are you then immune from it. Sorry if this has been answered 50 times.

Speak Now

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

The EU had the choice to seal off northern Italy. They didn't. No point crying over spilt milk.

People dying is spilt milk, strange one frog.

Boggles

namloc1980 wrote: »

49 dead in Italy today after 41 yesterday on the rte scrolling update. That is fairly shocking numbers no matter how anyone tries to play it down.

More than 2 deaths an hour at quite a relative early stage is quite worrying.

Miike

niallo27 wrote: »

If you get this and recover, are you then immune from it. Sorry if this has been answered 50 times.

No, and also note worthy is there are 2 strains of the current SARS2CoV virus (L & S). There is a reported case of someone concomitantly infected with both strains although there is no conclusive way of proving whether the virus mutated internally while they were infected with one strain (https://academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nsr/nwaa036/5775463) and it's entirely possible people who are "recovered" may still be sources of transmission (LINK TO COME, CANT FIND THE PAPER)