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

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  • #9392
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,842 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


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    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    Why are you scoffing?

    This is RTE the national broadcaster they got some doctor or something he says Ireland has a plan something or nothing is this not good enough for you?:confused:


  • #9393
    cmac2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,744 ✭✭✭cmac2009


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    There is no reason for panic whatsoever.

    It is an interesting story to follow and speculate on but I don't feel concerned myself.

    Tell that to the markets! This is going to have a enormous impact on economies around the world.


  • #9394
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,636 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    Hector Savage wrote: »
    Just listened to RTE Sean O Rourke talking to some doctor - we're ok, Ireland has a plan if it gets here..

    phew....

    mods can we close the thread now ?

    They have a plan alright, 20,000 dead here if it arrives going by the Sunday business post yesterday. We're are 96% capacity in ICU as it is and we've only a couple of proper oxygen ventelators. We're pretty much screwed was the theme of the report.


  • #9395
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    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    Awwww Googly is bored. He’s been told to stay away from work for weeks now.

    Any update on the work situation?

    Just an email every Friday saying another week off.


  • #9396
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    They have a plan alright, 20,000 dead here if it arrives going by the Sunday business post yesterday. We're are 96% capacity in ICU as it is and we've only a couple of proper oxygen ventelators. We're pretty much screwed was the theme of the report.

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  • #9397
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,266 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    cmac2009 wrote: »
    Tell that to the markets! This is going to have a enormous impact on economies around the world.

    Invest in toilet roll companies and you'll be grand. ;)


  • #9398
    Candamir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 531 ✭✭✭Candamir


    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    They have a plan alright, 20,000 dead here if it arrives going by the Sunday business post yesterday. We're are 96% capacity in ICU as it is and we've only a couple of proper oxygen ventelators. We're pretty much screwed was the theme of the report.

    A couple of ‘proper oxygen ventilators’? How many of the other ones do we have?
    (I didn’t see the business post yesterday, can you link/copy the article)


  • #9399
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    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    They have a plan alright, 20,000 dead here if it arrives going by the Sunday business post yesterday. We're are 96% capacity in ICU as it is and we've only a couple of proper oxygen ventelators. We're pretty much screwed was the theme of the report.

    In 2017, the amount of people who died in Ireland was around 30000. So the SBP reckons that if coronavirus arrives in Ireland, that it would increase the death rate by 66%.

    Is it if one case arrives in Ireland or is there a minimum number of cases to arrive to activate the guaranteed 20000 deaths?

    Also, what is a "proper oxygen ventilator"??


  • #9400
    Hector Savage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


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  • #9401
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    Deleted User wrote: »
    In 2017, the amount of people who died in Ireland was around 30000. So the SBP reckons that if coronavirus arrives in Ireland, that it would increase the death rate by 66%.

    Is it if one case arrives in Ireland or is there a minimum number of cases to arrive to activate the guaranteed 20000 deaths?

    Also, what is a "proper oxygen ventilator"??

    Don't forget this whole thing started with one case.

    One case becomes two and that becomes four eight and so on.


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  • #9402
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    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    tara73 wrote: »
    good lord, you should have along hard think about yourself. what age are you? yours is the behaviour of a puberscent 13 year old boy!

    Hardly. Posting some nonsense and immediately pointing out that it's nonsense a few posts later is just a hungover attempt to bring attention to what posters are doing here, as hamfisted as it is.


  • #9403
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Hardly. Posting some nonsense and immediately pointing out that it's nonsense a few posts later is just a hungover attempt to bring attention to what posters are doing here, as hamfisted as it is.


    Do you mean drunk?

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  • #9404
    Space Dog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 665 ✭✭✭Space Dog


    Just leaving this here...
    https://twitter.com/peta/status/1230224794991419397?s=20


  • #9405
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    Do you mean drunk?

    Half hungover, half drunk. It's easy to spend a Sunday drinking between the fight and the rugby when you can't go to work because of the virus.


  • #9406
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Deleted User wrote: »
    In 2017, the amount of people who died in Ireland was around 30000. So the SBP reckons that if coronavirus arrives in Ireland, that it would increase the death rate by 66%.

    Is it if one case arrives in Ireland or is there a minimum number of cases to arrive to activate the guaranteed 20000 deaths?


    Those figures are based on their 'worst case scenario' where up to 1m people get infected, so based upon a 2% fatality rate.


  • #9407
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    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    Don't forget this whole thing started with one case.

    One case becomes two and that becomes four eight and so on.

    So what you are saying is that the coronavirus respects the two times table?


  • #9408
    Unearthly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,147 ✭✭✭Unearthly


    38 new cases in Italy. Total 193. Source BNO news


  • #9409
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,953 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Space Dog wrote: »
    Just leaving this here...
    https://twitter.com/peta/status/1230224794991419397?s=20

    well of course PETA dont think it is a coincidence but they're nutters and best ignored. coronavirus is not a term specific to this virus. it describes a class of viruses not all of which came from animals.


  • #9410
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    Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    Those figures are based on their 'worst case scenario' where up to 1m people get infected, so based upon a 2% fatality rate.

    Well, drunkmonkey seemed pretty definitive that if it arrived, then bam 20000 gone.


  • #9411
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Half hungover, half drunk. It's easy to spend a Sunday drinking between the fight and the rugby when you can't go to work because of the virus.

    Just as easy to spend a Sunday wacking off with porn or going for a walk in the park.


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  • #9412
    Indestructable
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,380 ✭✭✭Indestructable


    It seems the death toll in Iran is about 50, according to a health official there.

    Dr. John looks to have reliable sources in Iran and he was saying it's very bleak there.


  • #9413
    SeaBreezes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭SeaBreezes


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Just an email every Friday saying another week off.

    What about the town near you, was quarantine lifted yet?


  • #9414
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,226 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    Those figures are based on their 'worst case scenario' where up to 1m people get infected, so based upon a 2% fatality rate.

    If 1 million people get infected in Ireland, I would expect that the fatality rate here will be higher as medical capacity to deal with severe cases will be overwhelmed.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #9415
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,183 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    CinemaGuy45 wrote:
    Just as easy to spend a Sunday wacking off with porn or going for a walk in the park.


    A Sunday walk in the park wacking off, sounds like a plan


  • #9416
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    odyssey06 wrote: »
    If 1 million people get infected in Ireland, I would expect that the fatality rate here will be higher as medical capacity to deal with severe cases will be overwhelmed.

    So you are saying that the worst case scenario would actually be worse than the worst case scenario outlined in the SBP?

    It's all getting inception-y.


  • #9417
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    SeaBreezes wrote: »
    What about the town near you, was quarantine lifted yet?

    Don't think so. Been following the news and haven't seen any word of it. If Vietnam's numbers are legit, it's remarkable they only got 16 cases with 15 recovered. Like they were building field hospitals for thousands at the start..

    Schools look like they'll probably be closed till the end of March so I guess they're not taking many chances. They're looking at quarantining people flying from Japan and Korea.


    Edit: I believe it's lifted. See it now.


  • #9418
    Nijmegen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,086 ✭✭✭Nijmegen


    Speaking with a colleague from one of the affected regions of Italy. Family are getting briefed in great detail on how and what to clean and how to maintain separation to help prevent spread. Government handling food distribution and distribution of materials to people like cleaning solutions. Sounds really together, to be honest, even if delivering on the promises will obviously be a logistical challenge they seem to have it together at the beginning based on what I'm told. One does wonder if authorities here would have the wherewithal. Hopefully they can surprise us.

    As for an outbreak here, what we've seen now in a few countries is a cluster of "super spreaders" going to the gym, to work, to their church. So really if one of them arrives in country for any reason, you're off at the races and you will get many cases. And once you have 50 or 100 cases you pretty much have to kick into quarantine mode, as with the incubation period you can guarantee you have a multiple of that waiting to become symptomatic and it's time to shut down.


  • #9419
    ZX7R
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,393 ✭✭✭ZX7R


    pc7 wrote: »
    This, this, this, this all day long is why I’m worried, our hospitals are bursting at the seams as it is, we do not have the facilities for an increase in people on ventilators or ICU requirements here https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1231817781643038721?s=21

    This is the type of tweet that annoys me, kinda true but wrong at the same time, the make shift hospitals are only for use in moderate case's.
    Severe are in one real hospital, all other cases of sivere illness were moved to other hospitals.
    Does not take from the fact that we probably don't have enough respirators.


  • #9420
    wellwhynot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 280 ✭✭wellwhynot


    Surely the government are ordering and purchasing more oxygen ventilators. If not, why not?

    If people die due to lack of available care and the HSE being woefully unprepared their families can sue.

    It will hit here soon. It is not a case of if but when. The people who tested negative so far I am assuming had connections to China. Are they being re-tested and quarantined? If not, why not?


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  • #9421
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,464 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Deleted User wrote: »
    We're allowed to post lies and bullshlt. Just take everything I say with a pinch of salt.

    My thread about this fearmongering in feedback:

    https://touch.boards.ie/thread/2058055420/1/#post112585000

    Reply from an admin:




    If boards.ie policy is to allow fake news in 2020, I will continue to make a mockery of it and the posters here doing it.

    Do not post in this thread again


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