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

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    #9752
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    gmisk wrote: »
    I have a holiday to lake Garda in April....feeling a tad worried now...should I be?
    Will travel insurance cover refund on flights and hotel etc I wonder?

    Worried about the money you spent or the virus?


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    #9753
    wadacrack
    Registered Users Posts: 4,172 ✭✭✭wadacrack


    gmisk wrote: »
    I have a holiday to lake Garda in April....feeling a tad worried now...should I be?
    Will travel insurance cover refund on flights and hotel etc I wonder?

    Id be amazed if you are let in the country at that stage


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    #9754
    gmisk
    Registered Users Posts: 32,217 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    Worried about the money you spent or the virus?
    Both...


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    #9755
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    You forgot MIC 1972;)

    I remembered mic but couldn’t remember EVERONE that’s arguing with him though so didn’t want it to appear like I’m taking sides lol


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    #9756
    RebelButtMunch
    Registered Users Posts: 2,378 ✭✭✭RebelButtMunch


    Nijmegen wrote: »
    So the DFA are saying "Citizens are advised not to travel to affected areas," re Italy.

    Why are flights still going, so?


    It's a long shot... but maybe there are people on the plane that are Italian going home..


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    #9757
    gmisk
    Registered Users Posts: 32,217 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    wadacrack wrote: »
    Id be amazed if you are let in the country at that stage
    Mama Mia!
    I best call the travel insurance people


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    #9758
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 13,449 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    Jaysus, these "will it be ok to travel to X in May 2023" posts are just like the "WIll i be safe to drive to killarney at EXACTLY 6:43am during the orange weather warning next Saturday, whilst wearing a beret that was borrowed from a french neighbours cat?"


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    #9759
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,240 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Nijmegen wrote: »
    So the DFA are saying "Citizens are advised not to travel to affected areas," re Italy.

    Why are flights still going, so?

    It is advice. It is not a ban on travel.


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    #9760
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    wadacrack wrote: »
    Id be amazed if you are let in the country at that stage

    And I would be even more amazed if you get a single cent back.

    Not making fun I am due to travel soon also.:(


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    #9761
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 28,354 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Nijmegen wrote: »
    So the DFA are saying "Citizens are advised not to travel to affected areas," re Italy. Why are flights still going, so?

    The DFA are being very specific, affected areas doesn't mean the entire region. So Milan and Venice are NOT classed as affected even though parts of the hinterland they serve are.
    I guess that Austrians stopped the trains because they went though the affected areas.

    (not saying DFA are right or wrong, just I think that's what they mean)

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



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    #9762
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Mic 1972 wrote: »
    I'm in the Analyst Team! :-)

    100% you are!

    ;)


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    #9763
    babybuilder
    Registered Users Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭babybuilder


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    It is advice. It is not a ban on travel.

    Like advising people not to run into a burning building


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    #9764
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    100% you are!

    ;)

    I could undertake a wide scale study into the least amount of toilet paper a family of four needs in order to survive a three month quarantine.


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    #9765
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Jenna James wrote: »
    I’m really worried and been so for a bit. Anyone I say it to just plays it down.

    Jenna sit over there in the eeyore doom and gloom corner. Bodhrandude will get you a camomile tea

    ;D


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    #9766
    Ficheall
    Registered Users Posts: 9,024 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    20 minutes in - finally a journalist gives the first mention of Italy.


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    #9767
    MD1990
    Registered Users Posts: 11,740 ✭✭✭✭MD1990


    good press conference from WHO

    peaked in Wuhan Jan 26-Feb 2nd. Feeling bit more optimistic.
    Should hopefully give countries more time to prepare as best they can.

    Slow it down next 2 months & we will be ok imo.


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    #9768
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    Jenna James wrote: »
    I’m really worried and been so for a bit. Anyone I say it to just plays it down.

    The people who play it down are just morons but why worry?

    There is noting we can do about it what will happen will happen either way.:)


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    #9769
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    MD1990 wrote: »
    good press conference from WHO

    peaked in Wuhan Jan 26-Feb 2nd. Feeling bit more optimistic.
    Should hopefully give countries more time to prepare as best they can.

    Slow it down next 2 months & we will be ok imo.


    Watch the stock markets for all you need to know not that bunch of jokers.


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    #9770
    Ficheall
    Registered Users Posts: 9,024 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    MD1990 wrote: »
    good press conference from WHO

    peaked in Wuhan Jan 26-Feb 2nd. Feeling bit more optimistic.
    Should hopefully give countries more time to prepare as best they can.

    Slow it down next 2 months & we will be ok imo.
    Is this another satirical poster? :confused:


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    #9771
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 28,354 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Does boards.ie have a contingency plan to keep up operations of this vital service should we get hit a pandemic here?

    The people demand answers.

    Please route my request to appropriate resource.

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



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    #9772
    Call Me Jimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    WHO Chief was asked a great question by a reporter 'when the virus arrives in a new place, should countries use the same lockdown approach that China is using?'

    Didn't answer, said there'll be a statement on it tomorrow apparently.


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    #9773
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    Ficheall wrote: »
    Is this another satirical poster? :confused:

    I think the poster is being serious,:eek:


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    #9774
    DrumSteve
    Registered Users Posts: 10,799 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    MD1990 wrote: »
    good press conference from WHO

    peaked in Wuhan Jan 26-Feb 2nd. Feeling bit more optimistic.
    Should hopefully give countries more time to prepare as best they can.

    Slow it down next 2 months & we will be ok imo.

    That's great, but it seems to now be on the rise everywhere else.


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    #9775
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    Call Me Jimmy wrote: »
    WHO Chief was asked a great question by a reporter 'when the virus arrives in a new place, should countries use the same lockdown approach that China is using?'

    Didn't answer, said there'll be a statement on it tomorrow apparently.

    Like Disney Star Wars
    a good question for another time
    I hope it has a more satisfying ending.:)


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    #9776
    Nijmegen
    Registered Users Posts: 3,086 ✭✭✭Nijmegen


    RebelButtMunch wrote: »
    It's a long shot... but maybe there are people on the plane that are Italian going home..
    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    It is advice. It is not a ban on travel.

    And likely still plenty of people going out on the jolliers. To both these points, I'd remark that advice not to go somewhere tends to be because there's something occurring that you don't want to run into - a local civil war or similar. This is something you can catch and bring home. If the advice is not to go in case you catch it, they should IMO be enforcing 1-way travel for the duration or just shutting down the flights.


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    #9777
    FishOnABike
    Registered Users Posts: 4,395 ✭✭✭FishOnABike


    Doctor Jimbob wrote: »
    Ebola has a fatality rate of up to 90% by the way, for anyone who thinks comparing the two in terms of impact to human life is remotely comparable.
    That 90% and the relatively short incubation period tends to make Ebola self limiting as it incapacitates and kills carriers quickly. Outbreaks tend to burn themselves out relatively quickly once mobility is restricted.

    The novel corona virus is slower acting, appears to be transmissible in asymptomatic carriers so is likely to spread farther and remain active in the community for longer, possibly becoming seasonally endemic worldwide and infecting far more people. This is were it is a higher risk.


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    #9778
    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 17,849 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    gmisk wrote: »
    I have a holiday to lake Garda in April....feeling a tad worried now...should I be?
    Will travel insurance cover refund on flights and hotel etc I wonder?

    Act of God, bet you wish they were Atheists :pac:

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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    #9779
    drkpower
    Registered Users Posts: 5,475 ✭✭✭drkpower


    Nijmegen wrote: »
    So the DFA are saying "Citizens are advised not to travel to affected areas," re Italy.

    Why are flights still going, so?

    There is a pretty big difference between advice and a ban.

    DFA advises against travel to various areas in the world from time to time; you can still go there though.


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    #9780
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,240 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Nijmegen wrote: »
    And likely still plenty of people going out on the jolliers. To both these points, I'd remark that advice not to go somewhere tends to be because there's something occurring that you don't want to run into - a local civil war or similar. This is something you can catch and bring home. If the advice is not to go in case you catch it, they should IMO be enforcing 1-way travel for the duration or just shutting down the flights.

    I made no comment on what the dfa should do, merely on what they have done. You seemed to think that advice on not travelling was the same as a ban. It isn't.


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    #9781
    SeaBreezes
    Registered Users Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭SeaBreezes


    MD1990 wrote: »
    good press conference from WHO

    peaked in Wuhan Jan 26-Feb 2nd. Feeling bit more optimistic.
    Should hopefully give countries more time to prepare as best they can.

    Slow it down next 2 months & we will be ok imo.

    Peaked in Wuhan cause NOBODY HAS LEFT THEIR HOUSE IN OVER A MONTH.. and most CANT Get to hospital anyway...

    Funny how it 'peaked' 2 days after everyone was confined to their houses..


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