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

namloc1980

is_that_so wrote: »

Not his job this time. These are the lads running the show.

Not his job. He's the Minister for HEALTH!

christy G

retro:electro wrote: »

I’m stocking up on on Graham Norton wine and Easter eggs.

Haha better get a move on and get some Easter eggs before there al gone so

fr336

And people had the cheek to accuse the early cautious posters of scare mongering! Every man in the bar is now in this thread and we're seeing some real scaremongering.

Poorside

Seriously need to stop this east/West shïte now, I don't need the street but a town/ city is needed if they want people to really start to take it seriously.

martingriff

DVDM93 wrote: »

is there anything to be said for another mass?

No can not be that amount of people in 1 area

Pseudonym121

As regards hospital appointments you have to bear in mind that the prevalence of COVID19 in the community is now low but will rapidly ramp up and hospitals and hospital waiting areas are going to be high risk areas because of both the patient populations, the fact that doctors and nurses etc will catch COVID at high rates, almost certainly exceeding the rate of infection of the general population, and that these waiting areas have very poor ventilation ( in general ).

Right now the risk is low but it will rapidly climb.

What I would suggest is simply asking if you can wait in your car and get a call when the doctor/nurse is ready to see you.

I know I and several colleagues have started asking patients to wait in their cars and come in when we are ready to see them to avoid people congregating in waiting areas. It is a precaution which doesn’t discomfit people much, doesn’t lower the throughput in OPD much and should have a significant impact on transmission from an infected person attending for review.

Larbre34

A while back RTE had one of their 'One Day In' programmes looking at how Ireland spends its leisure time and it included a look at a few survivalists down Kilkenny way. They have garages, barns and basements full with lots of non perishables, water, fuel etc and they possess licenced firearms and are handy at hunting, fishing and foraging.

I had a good laugh at them at the time. At the time.

Spanish Eyes

leahyl wrote: »

That’s the second time you’ve said that now - what’s your issue with Cork being named? Was Clare and Dublin not named with the other cases?

Ah get a grip, in fairness up to the UHC case it was all East and West really from HSE.

Scuid Mhór

As someone trying to get into the business of practicing law, I must say the public interest in releasing more accurate information about the case specifics surely outweighs any such concept of "patient confidentiality". The HSE must know this can only be damaging its credibility, the fact that they have not switched to a more transparent approach is beyond me.

stephenjmcd

Haven't been able to listen but is he still sticking to the paddys day is ok line ?

bennyl10

irishgeo wrote: »

What did people expect the HSE to do? Some of the talk here is just **** talk.

People raging about flights from Italy. All these people were irish. We can't leave our citizens to be looked after by other countries. Good to see the amount cured increasing. The snowflakes generation we have here is fuelling the panic. Only 0.00027% of the population are infected.

But we’re going to have 2/3rds of the population infected very soon.. despite this happening absolutely nowhere else, and most the countries with infections that we’ve seen have followed a similar graph!

But yes 2/3rd very shortly with 100s of thousands dead


A little piece of perspective and a deep breath wouldn’t go amiss here

ChikiChiki

False Prophet wrote: »

If you have it then you shouldn't be commuting anyway

Do you think people who potentially have cases and a sniffle won't commute?

Bill's have to be paid. They will.

Nijmegen

The language changed in the UK a few days ago and we see how it’s exploding now. Same with the HSE today, real change in their tone of language.

IQO

Me trying to understand questions from the back of the room

harr

irishgeo wrote: »

What did people expect the HSE to do? Some of the talk here is just **** talk.

People raging about flights from Italy. All these people were irish. We can't leave our citizens to be looked after by other countries. Good to see the amount cured increasing. The snowflakes generation we have here is fuelling the panic. Only 0.00027% of the population are infected.

Not everyone on those flights were Irish ..many were Italian tourists arriving for a holiday and many more arriving this weekend

jackboy

irishgeo wrote: »

What did people expect the HSE to do? Some of the talk here is just **** talk.

People raging about flights from Italy. All these people were irish. We can't leave our citizens to be looked after by other countries. Good to see the amount cured increasing. The snowflakes generation we have here is fuelling the panic. Only 0.00027% of the population are infected.

So, you think people are snowflakes. A lot of us have older relatives. This is a devastating illness for the elderly.

ITman88

lainey_d_123 wrote: »

It's becoming very clear that the UK is riddled with it. Was just in London and tremendous numbers of people coughing and sneezing all over the place, trying to convince themselves it's 'just a cold'. The vast majority of people who have it probably will never know. They'll keep taking the tube to work and infecting everyone around them and only vulnerable and elderly people will pay the price.

I think this is the most accurate post on this.
Look at the testing rate in Japan or Korea I forget which, massive testing rate has uncovered a multitude of cases, and the mortality rate of which is 0.5%.
It is going to be detrimental to the vulnerable, because many people have no idea they have it

is_that_so

Jessa Flaky Repayment wrote: »

The HSE come across so badly. Acting cagey, being dismissive, you would swear they were trying to do a cover up.

They are DoH, not HSE.

retro:electro

Your man in ICU Cork was discharged from hospital last week apparently

Edit: as in before being admitted again recently

owlbethere

No body really knows what this viral disease is because it's so new. There's reports of reinfection etc. It takes so long to get better from it, if you do. If it won't kill you, you might end up on anti viral drugs - for how long? For life?
This has to be stopped, and nothing short of a world war 2 type of lock down all around Europe will do it, to stop the spread of it.

Jin luk

Was runaways out foreign did he say? Is he the case in cork i wonder? Everything should of being shut down from the start ive said over and over from the early cases of italy, fact is europe is more or less a big country with easy accessible travel, was always going to spread quick once it got started.

Really disturbing though that it has jumped by 7 cases on the 6th day, could anyone say what numbers of mild or servere cases we have?

Ulysses Gaze

Funsterdelux wrote: »

Its not Ebola

I am sick of seeing this.

Ebola was transferred through direct/indirect contact with bodily fluids.

It is a disease that was spread primarily in Africa through incredibly poor hygiene, the way that people handled bodies when relatives had died (kissing the bodies, moving them without gloves, leaving them out in the open as well as people walked by) and negligible, to say the least, healthcare.

It was never a serious threat to the West.

namloc1980

False Prophet wrote: »

If you have it then you shouldn't be commuting anyway

People can't afford to be off sick. They'll still commute and go to work etc.

SeaBreezes

fritzelly wrote: »

Community transmissions is not community transmission because we know where it came from

Jaysus these guys are incredulous

I think its worse, they think the public believe them.
Or the public don't have critical thinking facilities...

johnmcdon

Reported from Department of Health today"HSE Specialist in Public Healthcare Medicine Dr Sarah Doyle told a press conference in Dublin that healthcare professionals will now be asked not to return to work for 14 days after travelling to such regions, depending on where they have been.

Dr Doyle said this was because health professionals interact with vulnerable patients and it was important to minimise risks.

Almost all have been associated with travel from northern Italy, which has been the hardest hit area in Europe."
Talk about after the horse has bolted.
The Doctor who has it in Clare worked in A&E after coming back and held his full clinics...pure daft.
Schools are still going to Italy on skiing holidays.
We should close all the schools now and return on 18th March. Ban all travel to Northern Italy.
Anyone who returns should self isolate.
Government has to get its act together...

leahyl

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Ah get a grip, in fairness up to the UHC case it was all East and West really from HSE.

Me, get a grip! What’s the UHC??

lainey_d_123

ChikiChiki wrote: »

Do you think people who potentially have cases and a sniffle won't commute?

Bill's have to be paid. They will.

Yep. My boss is downplaying it completely and refusing to allow everyone who wants to to work from home, even though we could do it no bother. If everyone with any kind of cold or flu symptoms stayed at home for a week or two, it would surely help massively in stopping the spread.

Snow Garden

Pseudonym121 wrote: »

This is really wrong-headed. Ireland is so small that you should simply assume you will be in contact with people with COVID19 as it is now circulating in the community. The idea that you’d be safe in Louth or Donegal if it was in CUH is incorrect.

Containment is done, you need to assume it is circulating and that 12 months now roughly 2/3rd of the population will have had it with a commensurate death rate. That works out to roughly 40,000.

If we are lucky and really socially isolate it’ll be much lower but I can’t see it being less than 2,000 over the course of the year.

So there is no point obsessing over whether it is in Cork or Galway or Louth. It is in Ireland, it is in the community and you need to behave as though people you interact with on a daily basis have it no matter where you live.

I was just thinking the same. How long are people going to obsess over the new numbers at 9pm every evening? It's here to stay. And there is no point shouting for Italian flights to be stopped.

skimpydoo

Blueshoe wrote: »

Has the virus spread to Africa?

Yes and South Africa had its first case today.

Funsterdelux

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

I am sick of seeing this.

Ebola was transferred through direct/indirect contact with bodily fluids.

It is a disease that was spread primarily in Africa through incredibly poor hygiene, the way that people handled bodies when relatives had died (kissing the bodies, moving them without gloves, leaving them out in the open as well as people walked by) and negligible, to say the least, healthcare.

It was never a serious threat to the West.

Follow the thread back

It was a joke

Jeez