Coronavirus Part V - 34 cases in ROI, 16 in NI (as of 10 March) *Read warnings in OP*

is_that_so

silver2020 wrote: »

The gloom merchants who suggested we'd be in the "hundreds of cases by Monday" seem to be very quiet.

Seems the HSE are doing a hell of a lot better than the doom merchants hoped.

TBF most posters have acknowledged the good news such as it is.

iamwhoiam

Achasanai wrote: »

I do think - at least in my case - that it's more surprise than anything else. Everything I've read suggests that the virus increases rapidly at some particular point, but that doesn't seem to have happened yet. The rate of increase - while obviously horrific for those infected - is great news for everyone else, but it seems to be that we're bucking the trend, but little explanation as to why this is.

I am no expert and not speculating but listening to the wind whipping down the chimney and wondering if weather plays a part ? Could it be that still warm air is a better environment for the virus as opposed to windy wild weather

Duke of Url

Level 42 wrote: »

Ah come on

Reported:pac:

cnocbui

super_furry wrote: »

Some real scummy price gouging going on. Hickeys Pharmacy are charging €150 for a small pack of face masks that would usually cost less than a tenner.

Screwfix P3 filtration mask is around €27.

gabeeg

silver2020 wrote: »

The gloom merchants who suggested we'd be in the "hundreds of cases by Monday" seem to be very quiet.

Seems the HSE are doing a hell of a lot better than the doom merchants hoped.

The HSE won't test you for the virus if you've got symptoms and you've been in Germany, France, Spain, USA etc etc

They seem to have dropped the ball

TTLF

Any particular reason why France Spain, UK and Germany report a lot more cases and we report small figures daily?

Is it due to more testing and quicker times for results? I mean Spain shot up 500 people in a day, so I’m just wondering.

Also I don’t get why the HSE are only testing people under a certain criteria, maybe it’s to keep a control of the number of people tested...

normanoffside

super_furry wrote: »

Some real scummy price gouging going on. Hickeys Pharmacy are charging €150 for a small pack of face masks that would usually cost less than a tenner.

2 for a fiver on Henry street

wadacrack

Italy is essentially the epicenter/Wuhan of Europe, so its possible that other regions may not be hit as badly. Mainland Europe likely to worse than UK/Ireland

amadangomor

silver2020 wrote: »

The gloom merchants who suggested we'd be in the "hundreds of cases by Monday" seem to be very quiet.

Seems the HSE are doing a hell of a lot better than the doom merchants hoped.

Nice petty point scoring about some good news :rolleyes:

4068ac1elhodqr

Andreas1977 wrote: »

Hi, guys, . Hopefully I won’t need to make new thread for this question, but maybe moderator will advise otherwise. I was wondering if community will compare my stack , as advice was given to stock on beans, canned goods, reason being: the coronvirus. So far I have five of kidneys, five of black eyed, five of cannellinis, five of favas. Brand of black eye beans is Batchelor's, brand of Kidneys is Bunalun (organis) , brand of cannelini is Bunalun (organis), brand of Fava is Sofra (I think Turkish)
Obviously this is tip of the iceberg, I’m yet to do my major shopping, but rationale is that black eyed beans, fava beans, butter beans, kidney beans, these items, and more, will provide folata, antioxidants, protein, and alsofibres, also long shelf life, filling for stomach, and will not interfere with testosterone. I’m eating 30 raw egg yolks a week, with coconut oil ( currently on the hunt for unpasteurised milk, unpasteurised cheese , unpasteurised butter, please inform) so you can see I am somewhat of a health freak, but providing for the apocalypse is not something I thought of before lol! One funny thing today I went to Garda station to inquire about best procedures , and noticed overwhelming quantity of babes waiting in the lobby, for passports, for food stamps, who knows, * but these women are very attractive, plenty brown, plenty black, some japs, honestly I stayed a while outside to see these beauties, and more *, exit the building, a little cheeky maybe, actually I realised that I always see these babes wandering in and out from morning to mid day from thepolice station and to be honest, yes I plan on tinned mackerel, tinned salmon, grass fed butter, , brown rice, basmati rice, pudding rice, Rye bread, confitures coffee beans wet wipes, toilet rolls, kitchen paper, detergent, some magazines, paper,postage stamps, nutritional yeast,

Maybe re-format that brickwall of text, and post over in the SHTF thread?
https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056466228&page=71

From what can quickly gather (on a scan of it), you have copious tinned foods, jolly good: 10pts for that anyway.

Also... send details of these women that are much attractive. As I also have 2kg of egg protien, and dry 90% whey isolate. Also have Zinc in the multivits collection so can offer re-population services, for many weeks, to your 'many nicest ladies in the village'.

Duke of Url

Enter name here wrote: »

With the ever increasing demand on hospital services we need a fair system to prioritise patients. Patients should be classified by taxes paid. The higher tax paid should move you straight to the front, cull the great unwashed and millennial's.

Wtf

Maybe the sickest to the top of the queue.

tillyfilly

Trump must be one of the last on the planet to be still playing down the corona virus, he will pay at the ballot

Gods Gift

Boggles wrote: »

The virus would probably get sick if it entered that dotard.

When trump got better The news would report that the covid19 is now trump free.

aloevera33

TTLF wrote: »

Any particular reason why France Spain, UK and Germany report a lot more cases and we report small figures daily?

Is it due to more testing and quicker times for results? I mean Spain shot up 500 people in a day, so I’m just wondering.

Also I don’t get why the HSE are only testing people under a certain criteria, maybe it’s to keep a control of the number of people tested...

According to the briefing there this evening testing turnaround time is 12 hours

silver2020

gabeeg wrote: »

The HSE won't test you for the virus if you've got symptoms and you've been in Germany, France, Spain, USA etc etc

They seem to have dropped the ball

incorrect and you know it

completedit

Id say the cases are far higher, the HSE’s strict rules re testing mean that potentially loads of people have it that have not been tested. I was on the dart the other day and a huge group of Italians got off from the next carriage.
Nightclubs and bars packed at the weekend.

Duke of Url

tillyfilly wrote: »

Trump must be one of the last on the planet to be still playing down the corona virus, he will pay at the ballot

Not at all. He has a loyal fan base

Boggles

silver2020 wrote: »

The gloom merchants who suggested we'd be in the "hundreds of cases by Monday" seem to be very quiet.

Seems the HSE are doing a hell of a lot better than the doom merchants hoped.

Just to temper this post so there is no complacency.

The HSE are only testing people with symptoms who have traveled from a list of effected areas then doing contact testing on close associates.

24 confirmed is great news, but it's not an accurate figure of how many people in the country may have the virus.

e.g. If you ring the HSE or GP saying you have the symptoms, chances are unless you meet there strict criteria you are not getting tested.

Obviously the main reason for that is to stop time wasting at this point.

Make no mistake the HSE have a figure in their head and it's not 24, the real question is what is the number where they move into phase 2.

Blueshoe

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Any word on Trump yet?

Yeah. He signed off an 8 billion dollar funding bill to fight the virus and find a cure.

Feár Oráiste olc

nocoverart

Would be nice if any Boardie who knows their stuff (who isn’t a “only a Flu person) could write a post focusing on just the positives in all of this, like maybe its not spreading as quick as we feared. Give us stress heads something LOL.

Cuckoo7

Duke of Url wrote: »

Wtf

Maybe the sickest to the top of the queue.

Sadly, if we ever get to “crunch” time, I don’t think that will be the case.

Absoluvely

Bob24 wrote: »

The French culture minister has been tested positive.

I didn't know we had a Minister for French Culture

Jim_Hodge

tillyfilly wrote: »

Trump must be one of the last on the planet to be still playing down the corona virus, he will pay at the ballot

He has told them that it will be good for the economy as people won't travel abroad and spend their money in the US instead. What an idiot!

gabeeg

silver2020 wrote: »

incorrect and you know it

I'd love to be corrected

Please, correct me

dmc17

Andreas1977 wrote: »

Hi, guys, . Hopefully I won’t need to make new thread for this question, but maybe moderator will advise otherwise. I was wondering if community will compare my stack , as advice was given to stock on beans, canned goods, reason being: the coronvirus. So far I have five of kidneys, five of black eyed, five of cannellinis, five of favas. Brand of black eye beans is Batchelor's, brand of Kidneys is Bunalun (organis) , brand of cannelini is Bunalun (organis), brand of Fava is Sofra (I think Turkish)
Obviously this is tip of the iceberg, I’m yet to do my major shopping, but rationale is that black eyed beans, fava beans, butter beans, kidney beans, these items, and more, will provide folata, antioxidants, protein, and alsofibres, also long shelf life, filling for stomach, and will not interfere with testosterone. I’m eating 30 raw egg yolks a week, with coconut oil ( currently on the hunt for unpasteurised milk, unpasteurised cheese , unpasteurised butter, please inform) so you can see I am somewhat of a health freak, but providing for the apocalypse is not something I thought of before lol! One funny thing today I went to Garda station to inquire about best procedures , and noticed overwhelming quantity of babes waiting in the lobby, for passports, for food stamps, who knows, but these women are very attractive, plenty brown, plenty black, some japs, honestly I stayed a while outside to see these beauties, and more, exit the building, a little cheeky maybe, actually I realised that I always see these babes wandering in and out from morning to mid day from thepolice station and to be honest, yes I

plan on tinned mackerel, tinned salmon, grass fed butter, , brown rice, basmati rice, pudding rice, Rye bread, confitures coffee beans wet wipes, toilet rolls, kitchen paper, detergent, some magazines, paper,postage stamps, nutritional yeast,

Have you considered becoming an organ donor?

coastwatch

Boggles wrote: »

Just to temper this post so there is no complacency.

The HSE are only testing people with symptoms who have traveled from a list of effected areas then doing contact testing on close associates.

24 confirmed is great news, but it's not an accurate figure of how many people in the country may have the virus.

e.g. If you ring the HSE or GP saying you have the symptoms, chances are unless you meet there strict criteria you are not getting tested.

Obviously the main reason for that is to stop time wasting at this point.

Make no mistake the HSE have a figure in their head and it's not 24, the real question is what is the number where they move into phase 2.

At 24 cases, we have the same number of cases per capita as the UK, 4.8 per million population

Enter name here

Cuckoo7 wrote: »

Sadly, if we ever get to “crunch” time, I don’t think that will be the case.

Nor should it be, save those who contribute most to society, cull the herd.

rayfitzharris

owlbethere wrote: »

When you say agressive measures what do you mean by that? Lockdown similar to China and Italy?

I don't know if that will be happening here. Not yet anyways. With the new sick pay regulations it looks as if the government will be letting this virus pass through Irish society.

Sorry, thread is moving at a rate of knots!

Yeah I think the Chinese are starting to get a handle on it. Optimisticly that required all sorts of horrible measures;

A city the size of London locked down completely.
Strict penalties for breaking the quarantine.
Disinfection cannons on the streets, public areas and even private buildings.
Scrubbing of all contact surfaces.
Removal of currency from circulation.
Food deliveries.
Mandatory wearing of face masks for the few occasions you are allowed out.
Hospital building on a massive scale.
Incredible supply of respirators to all hospitals, orders of magnitude more than what's available in all our hospitals combined.
Very possibly more unsavoury measures we may never hear about.

It looks half arsed measures like what Italy are trying, are a complete failure. (Huge number of new cases today).
They are probably too late anyway.
It seems like once there is community spread it's starts to explode. And it seems they have gaping holes in their lockdown with the airport's open and the mass exodus before it kicked in.

Maybe some where in between Italy and China will do, but doing nothing certainly won't work.

I fear you are right; it's possible our powers that be have done a little economic equation and decided they are just going to let everyone get it and deal with the fall out after. Hope I'm wrong on that though, And we're just ascribing malice to gross incompetence. They're more likely to be idiots than murdering capitalist psychopaths.

CinemaGuy45

Absoluvely wrote: »

I didn't know we had a Minister for French Culture

We have a Minister for silly walks also.

skimpydoo

aloevera33 wrote: »

According to the briefing there this evening testing turnaround time is 12 hours

But who is being tested? People who have been in certain countries are not being tested? is this so that we don't overstretch our health service?