CoVid-19 Part VII - 169 cases ROI (2 deaths) 45 in NI (as of 15 March) *Read OP*

paddythere

spookwoman wrote: »

Todays Total New Cases 48,213 Total Deaths 1,796

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VnTtGtEGyzDr1sAdoFieLpUeUUP0mbzryebHGUbISj4/edit?usp=sharing

Staggering difference in cases/death ratio between Germany and Italy

is_that_so

BarryD2 wrote: »

True, maybe the 'containment phase' lingo was all bollix - and what the HSE etc were really at was trying to control the inevitable spread of the virus?

Briefings now constantly reference the annual flu' season so it must be largely based around the management of that with of course the latest WHO/ECDC protocols tacked on.

Syncpolice

Thrashssacre wrote: »

And the good news???

The last sentence

Strazdas

Cheerful Spring2 wrote: »

Someone online posted this.

Britain's approach has three core elements: enact social distancing measures much more slowly than other countries; shield at-risk groups like the elderly and sick from contact with the general population; and then let COVID-19 slowly sweep through everybody else.


Frankly this is culling of the old in the UK as you can't protect the old when you have no government measures of isolation. Letting the virus spread to everyone is a nutty strategy. We need to think about closing our border to the UK soon probably next few days. We can't have people coming here from the UK, when they like.

Totally in defiance of WHO advice. The organisation is saying attack the virus from every possible angle (as Ireland is doing). No piecemeal efforts or halfway house.

Clarence Boddiker

alastair wrote: »

There’s no greater risk from someone crossing a border, than there is from travelling any other equivalent distance. You planning on cutting Cork off from Limerick too?

A few weeks ago several thousand people flew into Dublin from European epicentre of the virus. Do you think this posed a risk? It did and probably massively contributed to the spread. If flights from Italy were halted it may have slowed the spread.
It really seems like some people have an ideological commitment to open borders and this supercedes health, safety, logic and pragmatism.

Necro

revelman wrote: »

Not every policy decision has to be taken quite so literally. “Closing borders” has an important symbolic effect so that people will take even more seriously the message to stay at home and not make unnecessary journeys

lfen

All pubs in Temple Bar closing

https://www.thejournal.ie/pub-closure-temple-bar-5047010-Mar2020/

Multipass

spookwoman wrote: »

https://twitter.com/FergalBowers/status/1239207144513318913?s=20
https://twitter.com/FergalBowers/status/1239203943449800704?s=20

Hmm, are people going to want to go near community testing sites?

Blueshoe

Necro wrote: »

That woman. Talk about a one hit wonder. One trick pony

omerin

To alleviate boredom and to keep people indoors, surely the TV providers and the online subscriptions could provide a full free service for an indefinite period. In addition the broadband providers should top up the speeds to all their subscribers. Most if not all cinemas have closed and film companies have delayed the release of new films, maybe they too could sell those films at a reduced cost worldwide to terrestrial TV to reduce the hit they are taking on it now …. saving millions on their marketing

Axfrderr

Cheerful Spring2 wrote: »

Frankly this is culling of the old in the UK as you can't protect the old when you have no government measures of isolation. Letting the virus spread to everyone is a nutty strategy. We need to think about closing our border to the UK soon probably next few days. We can't have people coming here from the UK, when they like.

Quote:
"I’m an epidemiologist. When I heard about Britain’s ‘herd immunity’ coronavirus plan, I thought it was satire"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/15/epidemiologist-britain-herd-immunity-coronavirus-covid-19

is_that_so

US & UK nationals now being advised to leave Argentina "quickly" while there are flights!

Duke of Url

Live music at The Temple Bar

https://www.earthcam.com/world/ireland/dublin/?cam=templebar

Logan Roy

omerin wrote: »

To alleviate boredom and to keep people indoors, surely the TV providers and the online subscriptions could provide a full free service for an indefinite period. In addition the broadband providers should top up the speeds to all their subscribers. Most if not all cinemas have closed and film companies have delayed the release of new films, maybe they too could sell those films at a reduced cost worldwide to terrestrial TV to reduce the hit they are taking on it now …. saving millions on their marketing

Or read a bloody book :pac: the sense of entitlement.

Strazdas

is_that_so wrote: »

US & UK nationals now being advised to leave Argentina "quickly" while there are flights!

That's only because of the impending lockdown, otherwise they will be trapped in the country.

patnor1011

ShooterSF wrote: »

Yes because we're not selfish aholes. People in other countries need them too.

Are you serious? Every country is and will be looking after their own first. That is absolute priority for every government. Only we should be looking after someone else?

lobbylad

In relation to the ban on passengers from Ireland to the US, I presume the checks will be happening in Dublin and Shannon?

Unlike other EU flights, flights from Ireland arrive into domestic terminals in the US, and don't get routed through normal Customs and Homeland Security on arrival.

I know in Charlotte you just disembark straight into the area where the next passengers are waiting to board. SFO you can go straight to the baggage carousels and out the door to a taxi rank (and just straight out if you've no baggage!)

revelman

omerin wrote: »

To alleviate boredom and to keep people indoors, surely the TV providers and the online subscriptions could provide a full free service for an indefinite period. In addition the broadband providers should top up the speeds to all their subscribers. Most if not all cinemas have closed and film companies have delayed the release of new films, maybe they too could sell those films at a reduced cost worldwide to terrestrial TV to reduce the hit they are taking on it now …. saving millions on their marketing

You know there is a certain logic to this. Government paying Netflix subscriptions for people might be a more effective way of ensuring social isolation than pouring billions into other measures!

1800_Ladladlad

Brilliant

https://twitter.com/nialloloughlin/status/1239190710294904832

Atlantic Dawn

Matt Hancock, the UK Health Secretary asking for urgent supplies of ventilators that they would buy them all, he was talking about them as if they could be lashed together with 2 sheets of plywood and some screws in a garden shed.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Tootsie_1 wrote: »

Correct me if I am wrong but a ventilator is where someone has tubes down into the lungs and it breaths for them , are you sure what you have is the same thing ? Not just a nebuliser with a mask ?

"A medical ventilator is a machine designed to provide mechanical ventilation by moving breathable air into and out of the lungs, to deliver breaths to a patient who is physically unable to breathe, or breathing insufficiently"

It’s probably a nebuliser that I have. It’s buried somewhere.

Tootsie_1

Just announced they are closing but still packed ... ffs.

https://www.earthcam.com/world/ireland/dublin/?cam=dublinpub

alastair

Clarence Boddiker wrote: »

A few weeks ago several thousand people flew into Dublin from European epicentre of the virus. Do you think this posed a risk? It did and probably massively contributed to the spread. If flights from Italy were halted it may have slowed the spread.
It really seems like some people have an ideological commitment to open borders and this supercedes health, safety, logic and pragmatism.

There is no health benefit to the farcical suggestion of closing a border that can’t be closed. People flew in with infections before any of those infections were detectable. Virus’s spread from person to person, so they don’t care about border closures - particularly ineffective ones.

dermob

The temple bar is closed

Blanco100

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

This is a very disturbing tweet by Philip Boucher Hayes. It's a worrying reminder no one is immune here. A Dr on RTE radio this morning briefly discussed WHO stats until she was rudely cut off. One interesting point she made was that the median age of death is 57 years old. That means half of deaths occur above this age and half below.
That's worrying for everyone. If you're in your 20s and out in pubs, thats your parents you're very likely putting at risk, not just your grandparents, it's also you, albeit at less risk.


https://twitter.com/boucherhayes/status/1238904532039589889

If that is not legitimate PBH should be in bother over that kind of scrare mongering.

fritzelly

Everyone taking pics The Temple Bar door/sign lol

rossie1977

paddythere wrote: »

Staggering difference in cases/death ratio between Germany and Italy

Yes wondering why that is. Germany looks to be a week/10 days behind Italy but still mortality rate is far lower in Germany now than in Italy a week ago.

Also strange considering both countries have an elderly population with approx 22% of both countries over 65

fits

niallo27 wrote: »

Well that is just plain out bull****.

Which part. Sister’s friend is anaesthetist in UK. Many ICU patients are younger. This is not an older persons illness.

wakka12

3 separate new cases in Vietnam, a german tourist, a latvian tourist, and an English tourist. Europe must have exported up to 1000 cases to the rest of the world in the last two weeks, Europe must have millions of cases in total

Duke of Url

Tootsie_1 wrote: »

Just announced they are closing but still packed ... ffs.

https://www.earthcam.com/world/ireland/dublin/?cam=dublinpub

What pub is that?