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new coronavirus outbreak China, Korea, USA - mod warnings in OP (updated 24/02/20)

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  • #7862
    tillyfilly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 567 ✭✭✭tillyfilly


    givyjoe wrote: »
    Start of the video says the Chinese have confirmed it's airborne. Didn't hear that being mentioned again anywhere else today.

    Yes while on aeroplanes


  • #7863
    givyjoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,286 ✭✭✭givyjoe


    tillyfilly wrote: »
    Yes while on aeroplanes

    Eh, no, that isn't the case https://youtu.be/pshp3uZzHTw or not just planes.


  • #7864
    BanditLuke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭BanditLuke


    tillyfilly wrote: »
    Yes while on aeroplanes

    Nope not just on aeroplanes.


  • #7865
    givyjoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,286 ✭✭✭givyjoe


    Two trains in Italy stopped with suspected cases on board https://twitter.com/tancredipalmeri/status/1230975686338392069?s=19


  • #7866
    tillyfilly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 567 ✭✭✭tillyfilly


    givyjoe wrote: »
    Two trains in Italy stopped with suspected cases on board https://twitter.com/tancredipalmeri/status/1230975686338392069?s=19

    It’s trainborne now


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  • #7867
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,268 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Must be bad when Italy stops the trains running on time...


  • #7868
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,268 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    If you tilt the map a nudge to the right it kind of looks like an outline of mickey mouse over the Asia Pacific which is kind of apt really

    2020.02.21map.PNG?itok=aMBTT1JK


  • #7869
    Nonoperational
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,400 ✭✭✭Nonoperational


    Dr John the nurse is making a mint from this. Fair play.


  • #7870
    givyjoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,286 ✭✭✭givyjoe


    Twitter is the gift that keeps giving this evening. This absolute bell end of a woman lied about about clear on their test to get off her cruise ship.

    https://twitter.com/livecrisisnews/status/1230975076322902022?s=19


  • #7871
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,192 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    givyjoe wrote: »
    Twitter is the gift that keeps giving this evening. This absolute bell end of a woman lied about about clear on their test to get off her cruise ship.

    https://twitter.com/livecrisisnews/status/1230975076322902022?s=19

    They're just taking people's word they're clear? That should be the story
    Anyway they haven't tested positive - yet...


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  • #7872
    BanditLuke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭BanditLuke


    givyjoe wrote: »
    Twitter is the gift that keeps giving this evening. This absolute bell end of a woman lied about about clear on their test to get off her cruise ship.

    https://twitter.com/livecrisisnews/status/1230975076322902022?s=19

    She'll be one of many.


  • #7873
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    First death in Italy


  • #7874
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,445 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    wakka12 wrote: »
    First death in Italy

    50,000 now under quarantine in Italy

    https://milano.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/20_febbraio_21/coronavirus-castiglione-d-adda-codogno-isolamento-non-uscite-casa-non-andate-pronto-soccorso-4b0597ee-548e-11ea-9196-da7d305401b7.shtml


  • #7875
    givyjoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,286 ✭✭✭givyjoe


    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    50,000 now under quarantine in Italy

    https://milano.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/20_febbraio_21/coronavirus-castiglione-d-adda-codogno-isolamento-non-uscite-casa-non-andate-pronto-soccorso-4b0597ee-548e-11ea-9196-da7d305401b7.shtml

    Presumably for two weeks. Which came out of the blue. I hope these folks have been "stockpiling" enough supplies for two weeks of self quarantine.


  • #7876
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    No it was the elderly man in his 70s in the Veneto region


  • #7877
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,445 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    givyjoe wrote: »
    Presumably for two weeks. Which came out of the blue. I hope these folks have been "stockpiling" enough supplies for two weeks of self quarantine.

    Poor sods are only getting a week off. "for a week the inhabitants will have to stay at home ".


  • #7878
    hmmm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,202 ✭✭✭✭hmmm


    givyjoe wrote: »
    Presumably for two weeks. Which came out of the blue. I hope these folks have been "stockpiling" enough supplies for two weeks of self quarantine.
    One week per the article. Incubation for most people seems to be 3 to 5 days, so that makes sense.

    Cases in Italy are jumping up now, but that's to be expected as they test close contacts of known carriers. A lot of countries are going to have similar outbreaks which need to be tackled.


  • #7879
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,578 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    wakka12 wrote: »
    First death in Italy

    Cases 21
    First fatality :(

    This is looking like a bad thing :(


  • #7880
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,578 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Given the cfr in new countries over the last few days, I'm wondering if this thing could be pretty bad.

    Hope I'm wrong, but I just get bad feels recently.


  • #7881
    Mic 1972
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,213 ✭✭✭Mic 1972


    givyjoe wrote: »
    Presumably for two weeks. Which came out of the blue. I hope these folks have been "stockpiling" enough supplies for two weeks of self quarantine.


    they can still go to the shops and buy food, even in Wuhan people could still go food shopping and food was plenty in the shelves


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  • #7882
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,578 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    2019, all is forgiven.

    This decade has had a very bad start :(


  • #7883
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,980 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    Mic 1972 wrote: »
    they can still go to the shops and buy food, even in Wuhan people could still go food shopping and food was plenty in the shelves

    Why do people think that two weeks would require a vast stockpile of supplies?
    A healthy person wouldn't even die from 2 weeks with no food.
    (not that the Italian services would let that happen.)
    Anyone who contracts the virus will be moved to hospital.


  • #7884
    Mic 1972
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,213 ✭✭✭Mic 1972


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    2019, all is forgiven.

    This decade has had a very bad start :(


    Let's hope we see the end of it!


  • #7885
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    Given the cfr in new countries over the last few days, I'm wondering if this thing could be pretty bad.

    Hope I'm wrong, but I just get bad feels recently.

    There is likely many milder cases undetected but it does appear to be a dangerous disease going by the outcome of patients on the cruise liner and how many more deaths that have occurred in wuhan than you'd expect from seasonal flu in that timeframe


  • #7886
    pc7
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭pc7


    Feck I really thought things were slowing down. Also booked flights to Paris, for March. Thinking iff italy spreads I’ll be staying home.


  • #7887
    Call Me Jimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    tuxy wrote: »
    Why do people think that two weeks would require a vast stockpile of supplies?
    A healthy person wouldn't even die from 2 weeks with no food. Anyone who contracts the virus will be moved to hospital.

    In fairness has a quarantine lasted the time it was initially announced? They keep getting revised each week 'quarantine is extended another week' etc.

    Anyway for now they can go to the shop it's not a full lockdown.


  • #7888
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,980 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    Call Me Jimmy wrote: »
    In fairness has a quarantine lasted the time it was initially announced? They keep getting revised each week 'quarantine is extended another week' etc.

    Anyway for now they can go to the shop it's not a full lockdown.

    I think the one in the Wirral lasted about as long as expected.
    I can't see the Italian services letting people go without food and medical supplies, so I just wonder what these people should be stockpiling?


  • #7889
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,445 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    pc7 wrote: »
    Feck I really thought things were slowing down. Also booked flights to Paris, for March. Thinking iff italy spreads I’ll be staying home.

    The number of ethnic Chinese in Ireland is estimated at 60,000. The group is potentially the largest (and if not the second largest) Minority Ethnic Community in the Irish State.

    I can't believe it's not here.


  • #7890
    s7ryf3925pivug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,999 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    It's not going to be contained then. It's going to permanently establish itself as a seasonal disease. A counterpart of flu that is more infectious and kills a decent portion of people who are infected.

    As an island with a food surplus we technically could avoid exposure. But realistically we're not going to close our borders to infected countries. I'm not even sure we legally can close our borders to EU countries.


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  • #7891
    littlemac1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,073 ✭✭✭littlemac1980


    tuxy wrote: »
    I can't see the Italian services letting people go without food and medical supplies, so so I just wonder what these people should be stockpiling?

    Spaghetti?


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