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Covid 19 Part XX-26,644 in ROI (1,772 deaths) 6,064 in NI (556 deaths) (08/08)Read OP

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    #272
    Icantthinkof1
    Registered Users Posts: 410 ✭✭Icantthinkof1


    rusty cole wrote: »
    am I going mad here or what's the story with driving lessons. They cannot practice social distancing, the geometry doesn't favor it!

    I saw two cars in my area last night and neither instructor nor customer had so much as a mask.. are they taking temperatures at the beginning of the lesson or something?

    seems very odd

    That is definitely not the usual practice. I live in an estate where driving instructors regularly bring the learner drivers and on any given day there would be around 10 of these lessons if not more
    All the instructors and students I see are both masked up and usually have driver and passenger windows open.
    This was the practice even before Monday


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    #273
    GooglePlus
    Registered Users Posts: 2,010 ✭✭✭GooglePlus


    is_that_so wrote: »
    Where exactly is this "shunning" happening? I don't see much shunning or people being shunned except on social media and that is a heaving cesspit.

    It may be a cesspit but it's the primary source of information and socialising for many, so if you're seeing shunning there, it's shunning nonetheless.


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    #274
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    Sofa King Great wrote: »
    What makes you think it will be a sizeable cluster? Reports at the moment are that one person tested positive

    The bookies have odds on it being greater than 1.
    I'm not privy to how the calculate odds but I'd guess it's something to do with it being an infectious disease and the fact it always starts with 1?


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    #275
    Icantthinkof1
    Registered Users Posts: 410 ✭✭Icantthinkof1


    is_that_so wrote: »
    Why do people spend so much time reflecting on the actions of people they don't know and will never get to know? Life is far too short to indulge in such pointless judgemental exercises. It's a lot more beneficial for everyone if you try to be a better version of yourself.

    If I could thank this post 100 times I would!!
    We can’t control what others do and despite people’s actions/ inactions we’re all just trying to get through this as best we can.


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    #276
    is_that_so
    Registered Users Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    GooglePlus wrote: »
    It may be a cesspit but it's the primary source of information and socialising for many, so if you're seeing shunning there, it's shunning nonetheless.
    If your view of the world is driven by what's on social media , it's time for a reset when the opinions of total strangers set your moral compass.


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    #277
    Duke of Url
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,662 ✭✭✭Duke of Url


    caveat emptor wrote: »
    The bookies have odds on it being greater than 1.
    I'm not privy to how the calculate odds but I'd guess it's something to do with it being an infectious disease and the fact it always starts with 1?

    Bookies?


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    #278
    is_that_so
    Registered Users Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    caveat emptor wrote: »
    The bookies have odds on it being greater than 1.
    I'm not privy to how the calculate odds but I'd guess it's something to do with it being an infectious disease and the fact it always starts with 1?
    Bookies and diseases, eh? There really is no low ...


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    #279
    Widdensushi
    Registered Users Posts: 5,185 ✭✭✭Widdensushi


    thelad95 wrote: »
    Second building site in Dublin has been shut after what looks like it could be another sizable cluster. I've said it already, seems to be a certain culture amongst the construction sector of simply laughing at this, there is a site near me and many workers go for lunch together with zero social distancing and sit outside talking for up to an hour. Many similar stories across Dublin.

    Those dirty construction workers, you seem like a lovely person yourself


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    #280
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    is_that_so wrote: »
    Bookies and diseases, eh? There really is no low ...

    I was trying to explain probability and likelihood in everyday language.
    i.e chances are it's more than one.

    I'm so fake outraged right now.

    What are your thoughts on what's actually happening in the world as opposed to fake outraging random poster on the internet.

    We now know it's airborne.
    We now know masks work
    We now know that asymptomatic spread is real.

    Let me guess we'll have to live with it.
    We did great.



    https://twitter.com/GarethOCal/status/1286070039402119169?s=20


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    #281
    Sofa King Great
    Registered Users Posts: 870 ✭✭✭Sofa King Great


    caveat emptor wrote: »
    I was trying to explain probability and likelihood in everyday language.
    i.e chances are it's more than one.

    I'm so fake outraged right now.

    What are your thoughts on what's actually happening in the world as opposed to fake outraging random poster on the internet.

    We now know it's airborne.
    We now know masks work
    We now know that asymptomatic spread is real.

    Let me guess we'll have to live with it.
    We did great.



    https://twitter.com/GarethOCal/status/1286070039402119169?s=20

    You said it looks like it could be a sizeable cluster. More than one is not sizeable. You have no basis for assuming it is sizeable at this stage.

    Sure for all we know it could be a crane driver perched a couple of hundred foot above everyone else in his own cabin


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    #282
    Boggles
    Registered Users Posts: 39,745 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    WTF?

    Are the bookies taking bets on Covid?


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    #283
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    Sofa King Great wrote: »
    You said it looks like it could be a sizeable cluster. More than one is not sizeable. You have no basis for assuming it is sizeable at this stage.

    Sure for all we know it could be a crane driver perched a couple of hundred foot above everyone else in his own cabin

    haha, I didn't say that.
    I responded to a poster who asked how do we know it's more than one?

    I answered:
    We don't.
    But we have quite a bit of information on clusters now.
    The site was closed as a precaution.
    The incubation period and asymptomatic spread means chances are it's more than one.
    I have no information if they went to the bookies or not.


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    #284
    Professor Moriarty
    Registered Users Posts: 14,365 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    is_that_so wrote: »
    Why do people spend so much time reflecting on the actions of people they don't know and will never get to know? Life is far too short to indulge in such pointless judgemental exercises. It's a lot more beneficial for everyone if you try to be a better version of yourself.

    There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

    Ernest Hemingway


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    #285
    Hulk Hands
    Registered Users Posts: 6,014 ✭✭✭Hulk Hands


    caveat emptor wrote: »
    The bookies have odds on it being greater than 1.
    I'm not privy to how the calculate odds but I'd guess it's something to do with it being an infectious disease and the fact it always starts with 1?
    is_that_so wrote: »
    Bookies and diseases, eh? There really is no low ...

    No 'they' (multiple different companies) Dont.


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    #286
    Boggles
    Registered Users Posts: 39,745 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    is_that_so wrote: »
    Why do people spend so much time reflecting on the actions of people they don't know

    During a once in a generation global? What if NPHET took the same stance?

    Maybe you need to do a bit of reflecting on that comment.


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    #287
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    Wow, we are second to only the US on this. (Peak)

    Doing much better now but for how long?

    520874.jpg


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    #288
    polesheep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,950 ✭✭✭polesheep


    caveat emptor wrote: »
    I was trying to explain probability and likelihood in everyday language.
    i.e chances are it's more than one.

    I'm so fake outraged right now.

    What are your thoughts on what's actually happening in the world as opposed to fake outraging random poster on the internet.

    We now know it's airborne.
    We now know masks work
    We now know that asymptomatic spread is real.

    Let me guess we'll have to live with it.
    We did great.



    https://twitter.com/GarethOCal/status/1286070039402119169?s=20

    Man with serious health issues wants us all to stay at home. As I've said before, people with skin in the game.


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    #289
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    polesheep wrote: »
    Man with serious health issues wants us all to stay at home. As I've said before, people with skin in the game.

    I've no serious health issues. I've a bit of asthma.
    Young and healthy, never really get sick. I was working in an office were multiple people got it whom I'd be in close contact with daily.
    With any luck I was asymptomatic.

    Doesn't change the situation.

    Man who's.....
    • bank balance
    • way of life
    • status in the community affected by the pandemic
    • can't or won't read a scientific paper
    • listen to nurses and doctors.

    says "go back to normal now".......nothing to do with my bank balance.

    That's a man with skin in the game.
    Not one who is essentially independent to either outcome.


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    #290
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Place I work for has taken the view that you are making yourself unavailable for work unless you can show it’s essential. I do know of someone who has been approved to go visit sick parent and will be on paid leave when they return, but others who are going abroad and have been told they wont

    How will that work when, eventually, the virus is gone and they've the entire company trying to use up annual leave??
    Arghus wrote: »
    Same where I work as well. Anyone who travels abroad is taking a two weeks without pay sabbatical when they return.

    Why would you tell your company your plans, especially if you were going to a green list country, if that was the case.
    Santy2015 wrote: »
    My company will enforce annual leave to quarantine on anyone that leaves the country green list or no green list.

    Why would you tell your company your plans, especially if you were going to a green list country, if that was the case.


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    #291
    AdamD
    Registered Users Posts: 12,473 ✭✭✭✭AdamD


    caveat emptor wrote: »
    Wow, we are second to only the US on this. (Peak)

    Doing much better now but for how long?

    520874.jpg

    So you're worried about the position we were in on a graph 90 days ago?

    **** me


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    #292
    polesheep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,950 ✭✭✭polesheep


    caveat emptor wrote: »
    I've no serious health issues. I've a bit of asthma.
    Young and healthy, never really get sick. I was working in an office were multiple people got it whom I'd be in close contact with daily.
    With any luck I was asymptomatic.

    Doesn't change the situation.

    Man who's.....
    • bank balance
    • way of life
    • status in the community affected by the pandemic
    • can't or won't read a scientific paper
    • listen to nurses and doctors.

    says "go back to normal now".......nothing to do with my bank balance.

    That's a man with skin in the game.
    Not one who is essentially independent to either outcome.

    I was referring to your link to Gareth O'Callaghan. I wasn't referring to your good self, of whom I know nothing. I'm pleased to hear that you enjoy good health.


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    #293
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    AdamD wrote: »
    So you're worried about the position we were in on a graph 90 days ago?

    **** me

    Nah just putting there for posterity.
    We love ****ting on America and UK when in fact the US has only just passed us!

    UK probably never will.
    Sometimes it's good to put things in perspective.


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    #294
    [Deleted User]
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    caveat emptor wrote: »
    Wow, we are second to only the US on this. (Peak)

    Doing much better now but for how long?

    520874.jpg

    The peak is irrelevant. One thing that this does illustrate is the nonsense of many here who equate the UK with the US when it comes to travel into Ireland


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    #295
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    polesheep wrote: »
    I was referring to your link to Gareth O'Callaghan. I wasn't referring to your good self, of whom I know nothing. I'm pleased to hear that you enjoy good health.

    Sorry about that. Gotcha.

    Yeah I don't know him. I just saw the figures and thought it interesting.
    Italy, spain and France have large parts of their society dependent on tourism so they need to reopen.

    That has consequences though. It should be noted balkans in general have an issue. More so than Western Europe (Spain is slightly dodgy at the moment).


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    #296
    [Deleted User]
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    weldoninhio wrote: »
    How will that work when, eventually, the virus is gone and they've the entire company trying to use up annual leave??



    Why would you tell your company your plans, especially if you were going to a green list country, if that was the case.



    Why would you tell your company your plans, especially if you were going to a green list country, if that was the case.

    Requirement is leave balances are below 78 hours at year end every year. Does not change because you cant go overseas


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    #297
    AdamD
    Registered Users Posts: 12,473 ✭✭✭✭AdamD


    caveat emptor wrote: »
    Nah just putting there for posterity.
    We love ****ting on America and UK when in fact the US has only just passed us!

    UK probably never will.
    Sometimes it's good to put things in perspective.

    The UK's was lower because they never tested. They have over twice our deaths per capita.


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    #298
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    AdamD wrote: »
    So you're worried about the position we were in on a graph 90 days ago?

    **** me

    Nice misrepresentation.

    I'm not worried.

    Thanks for your concern.

    I'm also not interested in doing any 4 letter word to you.


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    #299
    pad199207
    Registered Users Posts: 7,140 ✭✭✭pad199207


    Has anyone gotten this notification on their phone? I got it this morning

    BC638783-C279-4485-9435-7-F01-ACD96112.png


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    #300
    D.Q
    Registered Users Posts: 6,054 ✭✭✭D.Q


    Not an asteroid too. Just gets worse and worse.


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    #301
    ChelseaRentBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 474 ✭✭ChelseaRentBoy


    caveat emptor wrote: »
    Nah just putting there for posterity.
    We love ****ting on America and UK when in fact the US has only just passed us!

    UK probably never will.
    Sometimes it's good to put things in perspective.

    Orange man bad. Boris man bad. Varadkar (yes I know he's not at the helm anymore) guy good.

    Guess which one is the liberal.


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