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

Ulysses Gaze

Mr.S wrote: »

IMO if employers can have staff work remote, it’s a good thing to enforce unless really needed onsite. The less close contact and having staff deal with public transport etc the better.

Same with schools, they should ideally close as a precautionary measure. If schools close, employers will need to react anyway.

I am the last person to over react, and I’m still really skeptical about how bad this could get in Ireland - but simple measures like the above are non-brainers.

I'd have to ask why you are so skeptical.

gabeeg

Mr.S wrote: »

IMO if employers can have staff work remote, it’s a good thing to enforce unless really needed onsite. The less close contact and having staff deal with public transport etc the better.

Same with schools, they should ideally close as a precautionary measure. If schools close, employers will need to react anyway.

I am the last person to over react, and I’m still really skeptical about how bad this could get in Ireland - but simple measures like the above are non-brainers.

I work for a large multi-national here in Dublin. We're basically just waiting on the nod from the gov to work from home. Have been for some time.

viewfromtheuk

https://imgur.com/a/XZXy0C9
Don't know if its another bus or one of the two from yesterday

Steve F

Posts that begin with:-
"Just heard....
"Don't quote me on this....
"Someone said....
"Someone told me...
Really?

brevity

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/worker-at-apples-european-hq-in-cork-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-986953.html

Worker at Apple in Cork tests positive...

pad199207

Tacitus Kilgore wrote: »

Heard? Where? Source?

They are stopping all going in now to the hospital

Funsterdelux

nthclare wrote: »

Self sufiency again.
I went out there the other evening to a fishing spot which I don't publicise , caught plenty of whiting, cod and have them cleaned out frozen and hopefully I'll catch a few bass over the next few days.

Only one bass a day within size per person, but flounders are plentiful enough.

You know that they say:

A bass a day.....

gabeeg

Wow. Italy are suspending mortgage payments

https://in.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-italy-mortgages/payments-on-mortgages-to-be-suspended-across-italy-after-coronavirus-outbreak-idINR1N2A900G

Micky 32

viewfromtheuk wrote: »

https://imgur.com/a/XZXy0C9
Don't know if its another bus or one of the two from yesterday

You gotta love the dramatic “KEEP OUT” signs , why not just lock the bus

Irish Stones

gabeeg wrote: »

Wow. Italy are suspending mortgage payments

https://in.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-italy-mortgages/payments-on-mortgages-to-be-suspended-across-italy-after-coronavirus-outbreak-idINR1N2A900G

Proposals are to stop the payment of taxes and excises for those self employed that will prove to have suffered a loss above 25% of last year income.
Many more suspensions are on the way.

05eaftqbrs9jlh

Drumpot wrote: »

I think I remember that news conference from Dr Aylward and he said they couldn’t find a direct link to smoking and severe cases. Now smoking will automatically increase your chances of dieing regardless of virus but I think what he was saying that they weren’t sure smoking explained the higer male issues. Around the world you have different levels of smokers and it seems to still equate to higher male patients.

I read (can't find source) that because of the cilia on bronchioles being contaminated by tar etc from smoking, the virus has a more difficult time attaching and gaining footing in the lungs, so although more smokers will get it (because of regular hand/face contact), they are less likely to reach the second phase of infection where the viral and bacterial pneumonia infects the lungs at the same time.

But I doubt that information will be widely publicised, because telling people to take up smoking would lead to another massive public health issue down the line

Tomrota

Cork Boy 53 wrote: »

Maybe close the schools this week and make up for lost classes by teaching online as much as possible and/or shortening the summer holidays which are probably too long anyway when compared to the UK for example. Assuming the virus outbreak has subsided by the summer of course.

Why would they shorten the summer holidays? People will have already done their Leaving Cert by then. As for primary school and junior cert/TY students, the lost time makes absolutely no difference.

Tacitus Kilgore

pad199207 wrote: »

They are stopping all going in now to the hospital

They stopped visiting before today, as a preventative measure, applied to all hospitals within the Dublin Midlands Hospital group.



wuhan whispers out there already though

MrsDoyl3

My sons school got back to me this morning, and i have been advised to keep my son off school, poor principal was very annoyed the parents that travelled back from Disneyland had not informed the school as the school had requested, although he did remind me that no quarantine rules were put in place by the HSE but my husbands employer are asking all their lorry drivers returning from the eu to self quarantine for 2 weeks

ITman88

facehugger99 wrote: »

The UKs Deputy Chief Medical Officer has noted that cancelling large outdoor events will have fcuk all effect on the spread of the coronavirus, noting that most outdoor events will be quite safe.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51812326

Nice to see a bit of non-hysterical reporting.

No doubt the armchair experts of Boards know better though.

Your a brave man putting that in here, that doesn’t suit the agenda here!!!

QueenMTBee

Micky 32 wrote: »

You gotta love the dramatic “KEEP OUT” signs , why not just lock the bus

It's because an animal or person soiled the bus and it needs to be cleaned/sterilised before it goes back into service. Nothing to do with Covid 19 as Dublin Bus announced themselves on the radio yesterday morning.

Cork Boy 53

Sierra Oscar wrote: »

Cheltenham starting today. 15,000 Irish people expected to make the journey over. I hope I'm wrong, but I reckon the UK Government will get hammered in two weeks time for allowing it to proceed.

You`re not wrong. Same as allowing football and rugby matches etc to carry on as normal with only token restrictions in place. But then Boris and his buddies have been getting hammered for a long time now and it hasn`t bothered them too much. Hopefully this time they will get the message from the ****storm that is coming down the tracks at them.

SusanC10

brevity wrote: »

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/worker-at-apples-european-hq-in-cork-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-986953.html

Worker at Apple in Cork tests positive...

Wonder if this Case is already oncluder in the 24 confirmed Cases ?

Gods Gift

viewfromtheuk wrote: »

https://imgur.com/a/XZXy0C9
Don't know if its another bus or one of the two from yesterday

That monkey one brought a tear to my eye

ITman88

Cork Boy 53 wrote: »

If the will is there it can be done in the national interest Worry about the unions when this crisis has eased assuming it does.

If the crisis doesn’t cease . . . Is this the apocalypse???

wakka12

Another French export..France becoming Italy II? New case in Morocco, a french tourist hospitalised in Marrakesch

quokula

Hamsterchops wrote: »

Yeah, I get that now, but only after Googling.

I didn't get your 35 cases post, but I'm also thrilled that it's peaked, and is now slowing down and reducing (hopefully).

Yep as seen in Asia, every country that's reached an advanced stage has seen it peak, and start to reduce, long before it gets close to infecting 0.1% of the population. The reports that it's going to infect 60%+ are wildly out of line with the data to date. It's only exponential until it's not.

From the Guardian this morning:

“In the province of Lodi, and even more so, in Codogno, there’s a net reduction in the number of positive cases,” said Giulio Galleria, the welfare councillor for Lombardy, the region worst affected.

Italy will have peaked and started dropping soon, just like every other hard hit country so far.

murphaph

Sierra Oscar wrote: »

Cheltenham starting today. 15,000 Irish people expected to make the journey over. I hope I'm wrong, but I reckon the UK Government will get hammered in two weeks time for allowing it to proceed.

Yep. The festival itself is not the risk (outdoor, good separation at a racecourse) but the socialising afterwards in the evenings are.

Drumpot

viewfromtheuk wrote: »

https://imgur.com/a/XZXy0C9
Don't know if its another bus or one of the two from yesterday

Can you not just sterilise a bus? Maybe they have to shut it down until it gets a proper scrub.

gabeeg

quokula wrote: »

Yep as seen in Asia, every country that's reached an advanced stage has seen it peak, and start to reduce, long before it gets close to infecting 0.1% of the population. The reports that it's going to infect 60%+ are wildly out of line with the data to date. It's only exponential until it's not.

From the Guardian this morning:



Italy will have peaked and started dropping soon, just like every other hard hit country so far.

That is wildly off the mark

You could not be more wrong

PhiloCypher

Hamsterchops wrote: »

The right way?

How, why, what?

Outside of China they are the most proactive with testing. They have set up drive through test labs. 35 is fewer new cases then the day before which is a positive trend relatively speaking.

gabeeg

Drumpot wrote: »

Can you not just sterilise a bus? Maybe they have to shut it down until it gets a proper scrub.

They're going to shoot it and dump it in a mass grave

wakka12

quokula wrote: »

Yep as seen in Asia, every country that's reached an advanced stage has seen it peak, and start to reduce, long before it gets close to infecting 0.1% of the population. The reports that it's going to infect 60%+ are wildly out of line with the data to date. It's only exponential until it's not.

From the Guardian this morning:



Italy will have peaked and started dropping soon, just like every other hard hit country so far.

Not a large sample is it? China, which ended normal life for months in order to stop it and then South Korea, half of whom had cases directly related to a cult..and so was much easier contain than community transmission. Italy and Iran are the only other two'hard hit' places and so far show no sign of slowing

Rob A. Bank

brevity wrote: »

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/worker-at-apples-european-hq-in-cork-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-986953.html

Worker at Apple in Cork tests positive...

Apple is a huge employer in Cork... I hope the contact tracing is successful and complete.

Otherwise BIG trouble ahead in Cork

Mic 1972

quokula wrote: »

Yep as seen in Asia, every country that's reached an advanced stage has seen it peak, and start to reduce, long before it gets close to infecting 0.1% of the population. The reports that it's going to infect 60%+ are wildly out of line with the data to date. It's only exponential until it's not.

From the Guardian this morning:



Italy will have peaked and started dropping soon, just like every other hard hit country so far.

italy Codogno has been in lock down for almost 2 weeks now, that's how they reduced the number of new infected. Without lock down there is not a chance