Coronavirus Part II - Its arrived - We're Doomed!!! See OP for Mod warnings

Fr_Dougal · 25-02-2020 07:57PM

Dotsie~tmp wrote: »

Do not despair. The government has just put our top man on it.

Jaysus...if they wheel him out we really are in the midst of a zombie apocalypse...

25-02-2020 07:57PM

cnocbui wrote: »

Aspirin is my favourite pain reliever. Paracetamol is meh.

Pretty useful to have on hand in the event of heart attack or stroke. Paracetamol - not so much.

https://www.drugs.com/compare/aspirin-vs-paracetamol

I am on 75mg daily aspirin for heart condition, but much of the time I my digestive system is unfortunately very sensitive to ibobrufen, which is anti-inflammatory. As I have an ileostomy I can lose an adult lot of fluid very rapidly when I get the brufen reaction.

saabsaab · 25-02-2020 07:57PM

Dotsie~tmp wrote: »

For yourself? Depends. Can you afford to avoid people? Wash hands a lot. Be disciplined about face touching. No kissing randomers. I blew that one hard in Galway already. Pull your kids from school for a week. They will probably close for a period soon anyway.

TBH I cant afford to dont anything bar the kids bit. So I am resigned to my zombie downfall.

I hear ye, hard not to kiss people in Galway. Must be the air or something, if it comes to Galway the city will be banjaxed.

tillyfilly · 25-02-2020 07:58PM

The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »

Its now a case of the cat being out of the bag. It hasnt been contained. Everyone is going to get it. Its just too late.
There is no point holding up the world further, so really, best just to continue business as normal, rather than also crash the world economy. Very sad for the 200 million unlucky ones and their families, but best that the world keeps working best to mitigate the damage.
Forget the face masks, confinements, hand gel. Just press on, and hope you arent one of the 2%.
Thats my view anyway.

the 1% won't be in the 2% that's for sure, it's a money racket as usual

joe40 · 25-02-2020 07:59PM

I wonder have the dept of education any contingency plans in place for state exams if there is a extended shutdown of schools.
For a country to function people still need to work and provide essential services but school closures would take 1000s of people away from close proximity to each other.
We all know how quickly regular colds and flus can spread in a school.

pjohnson · 25-02-2020 08:00PM

saabsaab wrote: »

I hear ye, hard not to kiss people in Galway. Must be the air or something, if it comes to Galway the city will be banjaxed.

The traffic will probably stop it reaching the city tbf.

saabsaab · 25-02-2020 08:01PM

tillyfilly wrote: »

the 1% won't be in the 2% that's for sure, it's a money racket as usual

I doubt you are right there. No money will protect you form this. Your employees your household staff etc etc. You won't be able to avoid other humans totally.

4068ac1elhodqr · 25-02-2020 08:01PM

Titclamp wrote: »

What should people be doing for prevention methods?

Bubbe football attire, and best of all can still play footie.

Actually prevention of human interaction in highly populated areas is the best. Other than that, if can't avoid e.g. public transport: Gloves, washable face mask with front splash screen of sorts, full length lightweight jacket.
The question is, how long/soon before such fashion that is very common in SE Asia, becomes normal in Eurolands.

tillyfilly · 25-02-2020 08:02PM

Titclamp wrote: »

What should people be doing for prevention methods?

Masks?
Alcohol hand sanitizer?

seems stay away from people

Ninthlife · 25-02-2020 08:02PM

Ah shyte i hope Euro 2020 isnt affected

A whole summer without football while quarantined isnt fun

fr336 · 25-02-2020 08:02PM

Not sure the comments about governments not being fussed if older people start dying off in high numbers are correct - they are the big voters at elections and tend to vote for the establishment centre right parties.

Titclamp · 25-02-2020 08:02PM

Dotsie~tmp wrote: »

For yourself? Depends. Can you afford to avoid people? Wash hands a lot. Be disciplined about face touching. No kissing randomers. I blew that one hard in Galway already. Pull your kids from school for a week. They will probably close for a period soon anyway.

TBH I cant afford to dont anything bar the kids bit. So I am resigned to my zombie downfall.

Have you pulled your kids from school yet?

Dotsie~tmp · 25-02-2020 08:03PM

The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »

There is no point holding up the world further, so really, best just to continue business as normal, rather than also crash the world economy. Very sad for the 200 million unlucky ones and their families

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bennyl10 · 25-02-2020 08:03PM

Ninthlife wrote: »

Ah shyte i hope Euro 2020 isnt affected

A whole summer without football while quarantined isnt fun

It should fade away in the summer.

And then re-emerge in the winter.

Ludo · 25-02-2020 08:03PM

saabsaab wrote: »

I doubt you are right there. No money will protect you form this. Your employees your household staff etc etc. You won't be able to avoid other humans totally.

But sure "the 1% won't be in the 2% that's for sure" makes a great cynical soundbite. Gotta be someone to blame.

Assetbacked · 25-02-2020 08:04PM

Teresa Muscular Mimicry wrote: »

Worse yesterday, negative 4%. About $1tr of global stock down the pan.
The plane people that like to charge you for looking the wrong way lost 14%c.

DON'T PANIC

It's not real money, just numbers and speculation which have no bearing on health and wellbeing. Not sure why inhuman markets are even being mentioned in the same context as a virus which is killing human beings.

tillyfilly · 25-02-2020 08:05PM

saabsaab wrote: »

I doubt you are right there. No money will protect you form this. Your employees your household staff etc etc. You won't be able to avoid other humans totally.

they will get the best of face masks etc

Dotsie~tmp · 25-02-2020 08:06PM

Titclamp wrote: »

Have you pulled your kids from school yet?

Done. Masks bought in January. Food stocked. Water stocked, gas stove stocked. Then masks sold for profit <was weak for the profit on ebay

> but if its all bollox im not out of pocket. If only I could have an AR-15. I hate this country.

Mr.Nice Guy · 25-02-2020 08:06PM

The HSE don't inspire one with confidence.

https://twitter.com/boucherhayes/status/1232373404524859403

https://twitter.com/boucherhayes/status/1232374439716827136

https://twitter.com/boucherhayes/status/1232376700027244546

How can they not be aware of the situation in Lombardy? It's been all over the news.

Ficheall · 25-02-2020 08:06PM

NUIG sent out an email asking which students and staff had been to the affected regions in Italy.

Mic 1972 · 25-02-2020 08:08PM

VinLieger wrote: »

They seriously need to start considering what to do about paddies weekend, we cant afford that many people arriving from god knows where

That includes banning everyone including local people from attending the parades, as far as we know the virus could be already here

gozunda · 25-02-2020 08:10PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

In general pneumonia can strike very suddenly. I had just returned home from a New Year party in the Algarve, where there was a very unwell looking man who was coughing incessantly, and I was literally sitting in front of my pc editing the holiday photos when in the course of 15 minutes I became extremely unwell, out of the blue. This was about 2012. Over a few minutes a fever overtook me and I started shivering and shaking, wondering what was wrong with me. I shut down the computer and retreated to my bed whereupon I suddenly started coughing thick red-brown gunge and found myself very short of breath. Next morning I got a taxi to the private hospital where I had been attending a gastro-enterologist for colitis. I was on two immune-suppressive drugs. The pulse oximeter showed sats of around 88% and I was admitted with lower lives on both lungs solidly affected by bacterial pneumonia. IV antibiotics and oxygen quickly dealt with it, but I was exhausted for weeks after. The sudden onset of symptoms took me completely by surprise, and similar had happened me about 9 years previously. One minute you could be writing a post here apparently y in the full if your health, and perhaps 15 posts later you could be in your bed with a shaking chill and coughing. You can be overcome by pneumonia that suddenly.

Something similar. I had been travelling abroad and returned here*. Came down with chills, massive migraine, shivering with non stop vomiting. Ended up on an endless queue in A&E. I later found out that my very vocal vomiting actually managed to help clear A&E that night. Eventually a bed came available after 24 hours in isolation with medical staff with full PPE (they had no idea what I'd came down with).

Lost about a third of my weight in about 10 days. Wouldn't wish the experienced on anyone tbh. Took about six months to fully recover.

Of note I was in my twenties, fit and very healthy.

VinLieger · 25-02-2020 08:11PM

Mic 1972 wrote: »

That includes banning everyone including local people from attending the parades, as far as we know the virus could be already here

Ohh I agree we need to cancel the parades and events, but stopping people simply coming here is a big step which im not sure anyone in power has the balls to take.

hotmail.com · 25-02-2020 08:11PM

fr336 wrote: »

Not sure the comments about governments not being fussed if older people start dying off in high numbers are correct - they are the big voters at elections and tend to vote for the establishment centre right parties.

Turnout among people aged 75 and over is actually quite low compared to other age groups.

tillyfilly · 25-02-2020 08:12PM

Dotsie~tmp wrote: »

Done. Masks bought in January. Food stocked. Water stocked, gas stove stocked. Then masks sold for profit <was weak for the profit on ebay > but if its all bollox im not out of pocket. If only I could have an AR-15. I hate this country.

should have joined the shinners

SEPT 23 1989 · 25-02-2020 08:12PM

bennyl10 wrote: »

It should fade away in the summer.

And then re-emerge in the winter.

the heat will make it stronger its victims more violent and hungry for flesh

wadacrack · 25-02-2020 08:12PM

VinLieger wrote: »

Ohh I agree we need to cancel the parades and events, but stopping people simply coming here is a big step which im not sure anyone in power has the balls to take.

Their will be confirmed cases here by then. Once this happens I expect panic to set in with alot of people.

KWAG2019 · 25-02-2020 08:12PM

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

The HSE don't inspire one with confidence.

https://twitter.com/boucherhayes/status/1232373404524859403

https://twitter.com/boucherhayes/status/1232374439716827136

https://twitter.com/boucherhayes/status/1232376700027244546

How can they not be aware of the situation in Lombardy? It's been all over the news.

You have to understand the bureaucratic political calcification of the HSE: unless they were informed officially through some designated channel they don’t know anything.

Ninthlife · 25-02-2020 08:13PM

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

The HSE don't inspire one with confidence.

https://twitter.com/boucherhayes/status/1232373404524859403

https://twitter.com/boucherhayes/status/1232374439716827136

https://twitter.com/boucherhayes/status/1232376700027244546

How can they not be aware of the situation in Lombardy? It's been all over the news.

If this is true then no doubt its here and if thats the attitude of the HSE then we are f*&ked

bennyl10 · 25-02-2020 08:13PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

the heat will make it stronger its victims more violent and hungry for flesh

While this is clearly a joke..
There has been more outlandish on this thread ðŸ˜‚

Coronavirus Part II - Its arrived - We're Doomed!!! See OP for Mod warnings

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