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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,108 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Drumpot wrote: »
    I wonder if counties are going to start now using automatic quarantine protocols widespread instead of banning flights from a country. Kind of a technical way to ban flights (who would fly to a foreign country just to spend 2 weeks in quarantine?) without the major political fallout.

    We may bitch about Ireland but no country is really doing anything bar superficial containment
    At this point any talk of containment is pointless in Europe. Almost every country has cases identified and probably has a lot more that will never be identified as they will think it's flu but still probably spreading it around


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 95 ✭✭PrairieDawn


    Quote...

    Elsewhere, most of the the Diamond Princess cases have now passed > 2 weeks since testing positive, and there have not been any additional fatalities for some days now. That gives some hope that this disease may have a lower fatality rate than at first feared.



    Really hope so, this is a nugget of good news .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,283 ✭✭✭kenmc


    laurah591 wrote: »
    I wonder did the narrative re todays cases change given that he was on Prime time tonight

    Or did the ambassador, thinking he was grand here and not in china, just get tangoed?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭laurah591



    So are China going to ban inbound Italian flights...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,108 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    lol, of course they were

    Would be very funny if this virus originated in pasta

    On a serious note how do they not know these people visited Italy in incubation with the virus and came back with it fully blown


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Note how the CCP are trying to change the narrative while they bullsh!t their numbers.

    Trying to make the face of the virus other countries and not themselves.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,057 ✭✭✭✭spookwoman


    Supposedly ref that dr
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    https://www.teletica.com/250876_salud-confirma-primer-caso-sospechoso-de-coronavirus-en-el-pais
    First case in Costa Rica...brought to you by Italy!

    Also in the last hour new case in Argentina, Chile, 2 more in Hungary, all from residents who recently travelled to Italy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭owlbethere


    Just listening to him on the David McWilliams podcast. Talking lots of sense.

    https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Mvm8ChYMFaOUZbwyVIPYv?si=2ajaQtcDTAGsw6rVJkyE6A

    Thank you so much for sharing.


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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Note how the CCP are trying to change the narrative while they bullsh!t their numbers.

    Trying to make the face of the virus other countries and not themselves.

    Didn't Italy get it from China? Isn't it a bit like regifting a sh!tty Christmas present back to the person who gave it to you the year before. This is your gift to the world China, we're just regifting it back to you!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,998 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    ... I’m also taking steps to try to reduce the number of patients in any waiting areas at any one time as I think those areas where people can wait for some time before being called in for review are areas of heightened risk
    ...

    I was waiting for an appointment at a surgery not very long ago, but before this was on the radar, and thought that it might be an idea if people sat in their cars outside, rather than the waiting room, and that the receptionist could just ring their phone and ring off (zero cost), to signal they should come inside.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,090 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Well septacaemic plague has a near 100% CFR if untreated. COVID-19 is nowhere near that. So the end result is quite different.

    You are perfectly entitled to believe what you like, but factually, that is not correct.

    I'm saying "This paint is blue and that paint is also blue", you're answering me with "They can't be, you're wrong, because this is acrylic and that's watercolour".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,038 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    What's with all this "15 minutes" bs?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭05eaftqbrs9jlh


    New Home wrote: »
    I'm saying "This paint is blue and that paint is also blue", you're answering me with "They can't be, you're wrong, because this is acrylic and that's watercolour".
    I'd say non-engagement is the best policy. They draw everyone into bizarre pedantic back and forth. I think they're either a bot or some sort of belligerent civil servant.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,090 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Ficheall wrote: »
    What's with all this "15 minutes" bs?

    You need to be next to someone infected for 15 minutes before you have a chance of catching it. But just brush your eye with your hand for a millisecond and you're dooooomed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,580 ✭✭✭10000maniacs


    They feel really hard done by in Cock University Hospital.
    The doctor was probably a strapadictamy specialist. Not so much on best practices for virus containment. He should have had the good sense to get checked in Italy before he hopped on the plane.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,050 ✭✭✭Shelga


    I'm meant to be flying to Birmingham at 6pm tomorrow, is anyone else becoming a little worried about non-essential travel at this point?

    I'm young and healthy so have no worries about myself personally, but, as with many other people, I don't want to risk passing anything on to elderly-ish relatives and acquaintances.

    I mean, it is Birmingham, not Barbados, so cancelling it would hardly be the end of the world.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,509 ✭✭✭Jeff2


    New Home wrote: »
    You need to be next to someone infected for 15 minutes before you have a chance of catching it. But just brush your eye with your hand for a millisecond and you're dooooomed.

    Yeah, 15 minutes thing is BS and being 2 metres to someone.

    It is unbelievable that that information was given out in the first place and by people that looked like they would know about this.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    8 new cases in Brazil, 1 critical


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭gabeeg


    8 new cases in Brazil, 1 critical

    How's the weather?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,274 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    Shelga wrote: »
    I'm meant to be flying to Birmingham at 6pm tomorrow, is anyone else becoming a little worried about non-essential travel at this point?

    I'm young and healthy so have no worries about myself personally, but, as with many other people, I don't want to risk passing anything on to elderly-ish relatives and acquaintances.

    I mean, it is Birmingham, not Barbados, so cancelling it would hardly be the end of the world.

    The risks of either catching it or passing it on to anyone in the UK or Ireland at the moment are still absolutely tiny. We're talking about 200 cases out of a combined population of 70m.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,074 ✭✭✭skimpydoo


    fritzelly wrote: »
    Do a boards coronavirus thread inspired show and I'll listen in - you know I'm alright jack to It's the end of the world
    It's the end of the world is the first song we are playing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,074 ✭✭✭skimpydoo


    gabeeg wrote: »
    How's the weather?
    Warm I have an Irish friend over there on holiday and he is enjoying the beach.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/mar/06/coronavirus-update-latest-live-news-symptoms-cases-global-infection-rate-uk-usa-australia-italy-china-updates
    South Korea strongly protested on Friday Japan’s decision to impose a two-week quarantine for visitors from South Korea, calling it “unreasonable, excessive and extremely regrettable”.

    Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday ordered a two-week quarantine for people arriving from South Korea while barring arrivals from highly affected areas starting on Saturday.

    Seoul’s foreign ministry will summon the Japanese ambassador on Friday to lodge a complaint, after calling in a senior diplomat late on Thursday to request explanations, it said in a statement.

    Really?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    The northwestern Chinese province of Gansu reported 11 new confirmed coronavirus patients, all of whom entered China on commercial flights from Iran.

    Of course they did


  • Posts: 8,647 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'd say non-engagement is the best policy. They draw everyone into bizarre pedantic back and forth. I think they're either a bot or some sort of belligerent civil servant.

    Civil servants don't work in the HSE. You can add that to the list of factually incorrect statements you've made in the last 24 hours ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,722 ✭✭✭✭josip


    Strazdas wrote: »
    The risks of either catching it or passing it on to anyone in the UK or Ireland at the moment are still absolutely tiny. We're talking about 200 cases out of a combined population of 70m.

    I agree that the chances are small but the number of actual cases is likely to be much higher than 200. There is very limited testing taking place.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    South Korea reports 518 new cases and 7 new deaths

    https://twitter.com/DailyFXTeam/status/1235737284273561601


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