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fritzelly · 21-02-2020 03:02PM

Italy in lock down

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1230869343778541568

Drumpot · 21-02-2020 03:07PM

tuxy wrote: »

Yes bad news is in very short supply, this is why we love it so much.

I think it’s a human trait to be interested in bad news (this is different from how individuals react to it). Read a paper or watch news in any country and you will have a disproportionate amount of bad stories to good, even in relative good times. It’s basic supply and demand principle. Most people want to read or hear bad news.

odyssey06 · 21-02-2020 03:11PM

Drumpot wrote: »

I think it’s a human trait to be interested in bad news (this is different from how individuals react to it). Read a paper or watch news in any country and you will have a disproportionate amount of bad stories to good, even in relative good times. It’s basic supply and demand principle. Most people want to read or hear bad news.

"If it bleeds it leads".
- From a New York Magazine article in 1989 titled "Grins, Gore, and Videotape - The Trouble with Local TV News"

If you want good news turn to the back pages, assuming your team is doing well

s7ryf3925pivug · 21-02-2020 03:13PM

Drumpot wrote: »

I think it’s a human trait to be interested in bad news (this is different from how individuals react to it). Read a paper or watch news in any country and you will have a disproportionate amount of bad stories to good, even in relative good times. It’s basic supply and demand principle. Most people want to read or hear bad news.

We're hardwired to pay attention to threats. We evolved that trait to help us survive. Bad news often involves things we perceive as threats.

wakka12 · 21-02-2020 03:13PM

https://twitter.com/PDChina/status/1230584909409878016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1230584909409878016&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.redditmedia.com%2Fmediaembed%2Ff7cab8%3Fresponsive%3Dtrue%26is_nightmode%3Dfalse

From the main newspaper of China

BanditLuke · 21-02-2020 03:15PM

Graces7 wrote: »

Amazes that people need to be told to self isolate when it is really just common sense.

We are a country of people that goes to the doctors and asks for an antibiotic for a cold.

Its not that amazing to me.

the butcher · 21-02-2020 03:17PM

Regards Africa, only 6 labs that can test for 54 countries.

1800_Ladladlad · 21-02-2020 03:18PM

Mic 1972 wrote: »

Italy is taking strong measures, 3 small cities are now on lock down, almost 40K people in total. Anybody who traveled in the area in the last 14 days is required to self quarantine too
I hope Ireland will be able to replicate this type of approach when the virus gets here

Im due to head to rome on March 1st. Do you think I'd be ok or should I take the tin foil hate off

BanditLuke · 21-02-2020 03:18PM

fritzelly wrote: »

Italy in lock down

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1230869343778541568

This will become widespread throughout the world within a few weeks now except security services in the western world won't be as decisive as the Chinese have been.

BanditLuke · 21-02-2020 03:19PM

1800_Ladladlad wrote: »

Im due to head to rome on March 1st. Do you think I'd be ok or should I take the tin foil hate off

Definitely take the hate off.

ZX7R · 21-02-2020 03:20PM

Parts of Iran are also experiencing a much colder than average winter this won't help with containing the spread of it.

Fr_Dougal · 21-02-2020 03:23PM

1800_Ladladlad wrote: »

Im due to head to rome on March 1st. Do you think I'd be ok or should I take the tin foil hate off

Should be ok, if it was a couple of weeks later there might possibly be an issue.

cnocbui · 21-02-2020 03:27PM

Lol!

SeaBreezes · 21-02-2020 03:42PM

It's just the flu, bro..

School shut and disinfected down after teacher dies of flu and pneumonia.
Her brother is still in hospital with the same flu and pneumonia..

https://mobile.twitter.com/QuakeFury/status/1230868233567318019

odyssey06 · 21-02-2020 03:44PM

Dublin Port faces 'huge cancellation of ships' as virus shutdowns bite ... Imports from China will plunge to next to nothing from next week, with disruptions potentially lasting for months, Irish shippers say.
https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/port-faces-huge-cancellation-of-ships-as-virus-shutdowns-bite-38966448.html

BanditLuke · 21-02-2020 03:52PM

SeaBreezes wrote: »

It's just the flu, bro..

School shut and disinfected down after teacher dies of flu and pneumonia.
Her brother is still in hospital with the same flu and pneumonia..

https://mobile.twitter.com/QuakeFury/status/1230868233567318019

Nothing to see here keep consuming.

wakka12 · 21-02-2020 03:52PM

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1230877734492082176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1230877734492082176&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.redditmedia.com%2Fmediaembed%2Ff7cql4%3Fresponsive%3Dtrue%26is_nightmode%3Dfalse

solidasarock · 21-02-2020 03:53PM

odyssey06 wrote: »

Dublin Port faces 'huge cancellation of ships' as virus shutdowns bite ... Imports from China will plunge to next to nothing from next week, with disruptions potentially lasting for months, Irish shippers say.
https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/port-faces-huge-cancellation-of-ships-as-virus-shutdowns-bite-38966448.html

Between this stuff and that freezer truck that slipped through to the UK last year. I feel like a dodges a bullet when I turned down that job offer at Dublin Port last summer.

wakka12 · 21-02-2020 04:00PM

https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Flu/comments/f7czxf/dutch_cdc_is_handling_the_return_of_39_westerdam/
Dutch government place 39 Dutch passengers from the Westerdam cruise on a public commercial airliner to Amsterdam after testing negative only once, passengers were not given any masks or monitored for symptoms and were not re-tested again

Considering how quickly it spread on the Princess Diamon and the fact that there have been many recorded false negatives it seems very irresponsible

BloodBath · 21-02-2020 04:01PM

Kaya Prehistoric Landlord wrote: »

We're hardwired to pay attention to threats. We evolved that trait to help us survive. Bad news often involves things we perceive as threats.

Which is why the media mainly reports bad news and scaremongering storylines with half truths or outright lies. Many have been pointed out in this thread already.

Yet people are still linking completely unverified **** from randomers on reddit and twatter. The absolute bottom of the barrel for reliable news stories.

tillyfilly · 21-02-2020 04:02PM

wakka12 wrote: »

https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Flu/comments/f7czxf/dutch_cdc_is_handling_the_return_of_39_westerdam/
Dutch government place 39 Dutch passengers from the Westerdam cruise on a public commercial airliner to Amsterdam after testing negative only once, passengers were not given any masks or monitored for symptoms and were not re-tested again

few bong hits will sort them out once home

4068ac1elhodqr · 21-02-2020 04:10PM

No chance of ever getting bat-crazy soup in Ireland, you might get served bits of mouse tail over in UHG however.
https://www.rte.ie/news/connacht/2020/0221/1116735-university-hospital-galway/

Mic 1972 · 21-02-2020 04:11PM

BloodBath wrote: »

Which is why the media mainly reports bad news and scaremongering storylines with half truths or outright lies. Many have been pointed out in this thread already.

Yet people are still linking completely unverified **** from randomers on reddit and twatter. The absolute bottom of the barrel for reliable news stories.

Yet a lot of people are also linking official/reliable sources and stats/trends and the picture is starting to become clearer

tillyfilly · 21-02-2020 04:13PM

Solid confirmation of what everyone already has known for months: artificial, hap-hazard, and selective number juggling in China that acted too late and only when a Doc alerted the world. Considering the drastic confinement measures China has taken of course makes it abundantly clear that the situation is exponentially worse than depicted

laurah591 · 21-02-2020 04:18PM

Mic 1972 wrote: »

Yet a lot of people are also linking official/reliable sources and stats/trends and the picture is starting to become clearer

I just hope we don't see SK figures double tomorrow. Will see stats tomorrow

givyjoe · 21-02-2020 04:21PM

BloodBath wrote: »

Which is why the media mainly reports bad news and scaremongering storylines with half truths or outright lies. Many have been pointed out in this thread already.

Yet people are still linking completely unverified **** from randomers on reddit and twatter. The absolute bottom of the barrel for reliable news stories.

This scaremongering nonsense again. Are you that easily terrified of facts? Some Twitter stuff is fake or misrepresented but it's often a good source of timely info, often considerably quicker than traditional news mediums (TV, radio etc).

You obviously don't use it very often or are looking in the wrong places.

Drumpot · 21-02-2020 04:23PM

wakka12 wrote: »

https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Flu/comments/f7czxf/dutch_cdc_is_handling_the_return_of_39_westerdam/
Dutch government place 39 Dutch passengers from the Westerdam cruise on a public commercial airliner to Amsterdam after testing negative only once, passengers were not given any masks or monitored for symptoms and were not re-tested again

Considering how quickly it spread on the Princess Diamon and the fact that there have been many recorded false negatives it seems very irresponsible

I’m just finished up with a client who is setting up a company with a friend who returned from China 2 weeks ago. Went through Amsterdam and was surprised he wasn’t quarantined or stopped. It’s not overly surprising as it wasn’t on as many radars back then but it shows how easily it would be for many many more people to be all over the place before the authorities react.

ZX7R · 21-02-2020 04:35PM

SeaBreezes wrote: »

It's just the flu, bro..

School shut and disinfected down after teacher dies of flu and pneumonia.
Her brother is still in hospital with the same flu and pneumonia..

https://mobile.twitter.com/QuakeFury/status/1230868233567318019

Two years ago my son was diagnosed with a strain of influenza .
For two weeks we had to stay at home.
Everyone had to take medication and at the end of two weeks we all had bloods taken and we're giving the all clear.
My son's school was contacted and told to disinfect counter tops tables chairs and play area's.
Measures like this already in place in Ireland and have been for a long time for certain strains of influenza.
Sadly everything is now going to be blamed on the new virus

BloodBath · 21-02-2020 04:37PM

Mic 1972 wrote: »

Yet a lot of people are also linking official/reliable sources and stats/trends and the picture is starting to become clearer

Yes and I didn't comment on those people did I?

You certainly aren't 1 of them though.

Several times you have completely misrepresented the stats.

givyjoe wrote: »

This scaremongering nonsense again. Are you that easily terrified of facts? Some Twitter stuff is fake or misrepresented but it's often a good source of timely info, often considerably quicker than traditional news mediums (TV, radio etc).

You obviously don't use it very often or are looking in the wrong places.

Why are you defending this crap? Do you want me to go back and link some of the bull**** people have been linking? I have no problem with factual sources.

I'm calling out bull**** on a thread with a lot of bull**** on it over a very serious matter.

MD1990 · 21-02-2020 04:43PM

SeaBreezes wrote: »

It's just the flu, bro..

School shut and disinfected down after teacher dies of flu and pneumonia.
Her brother is still in hospital with the same flu and pneumonia..

https://mobile.twitter.com/QuakeFury/status/1230868233567318019

no comformation that as Covid-19

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