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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,609 ✭✭✭timmyntc


    Mad that there are still no confirmed cases in Ireland - it's almost certainly here already. The fact that it's not reported means sick people could be spreading it all over.

    Any bets on what day/time we get first confirmed case?
    My bet is 11am tomorrow.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 424 ✭✭Blud


    sjb25 wrote: »
    I’m all for being prepared but FFS an axe a bloody axe :)


    https://twitter.com/rteliveline/status/1232994960452079619?s=20

    What in the name of **** would you need an axe for.

    People going mental


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    timmyntc wrote: »
    Mad that there are still no confirmed cases in Ireland - it's almost certainly here already. The fact that it's not reported means sick people could be spreading it all over.

    Any bets on what day/time we get first confirmed case?
    My bet is 11am tomorrow.

    Ireland too strong for the virus! :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,420 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    This might be helpful; You must bear in mind that this is advice being given by Dr Kim Roberts, virology lecturer and leader of the Influenza Research Group at Trinity College Dublin on The Flu Virus last year and NOT Covid-19.

    So with that in mind:

    The Irish Times Mon, Oct 14, 2019, 06:01

    “The flu virus is released through the air droplets we generate when we breathe and talk, so about a day before symptoms start we can be spreading the virus to others. Later on in the infection we may be coughing or sneezing, which can also spread the virus.”

    https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/health-family/flu-season-is-upon-us-here-s-everything-you-need-to-know-1.4039201

    Is it possible though that the virus in air droplets due to 'viral load' is less infectious than via coughing v sneezing?

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



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Do you think Italy will extend the shut down of those villages beyond the week or is it w waste of time now?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,015 ✭✭✭Ludo


    Blud wrote: »
    What in the name of **** would you need an axe for.

    People going mental

    Chopping wood for fire?
    It is a bug out bag...i.e. going it alone in the countryside to avoid the looting and pillaging when society breaks down.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,627 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    And rope and a tarpaulin?

    LL listeners are mostly old folk, this is going to scare them to death if Joe talks about needing all this kinda gear.

    He loves death though, probably can't wait til the virus hits.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    3 cases now confirmed in Greece.

    All festival activities in the country being cancelled

    https://thetimes.gr/2020/02/greece-rocked-by-surge-in-coronavirus-cases/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,627 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    As for people talking about getting 2 weeks of food in, who exactly is going to police lockdowns?

    If you feel a bit iffy, who is going to stop you driving to your nearest supermarket and picking up dinner?
    There won't be armed guards at your driveway.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    NIMAN wrote: »
    As for people talking about getting 2 weeks of food in, who exactly is going to police lockdowns?

    If you feel a bit iffy, who is going to stop you driving to your nearest supermarket and picking up dinner?
    There won't be armed guards at your driveway.

    It’s more to do with deliveries of food. Would a lorry driver deliver to lockdown area. What about shop employees?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,232 ✭✭✭scotchy


    Am guessing an announcement being timed for the 1 o'clock news.

    💙 💛 💙 💛 💙 💛



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,015 ✭✭✭Ludo


    NIMAN wrote: »
    As for people talking about getting 2 weeks of food in, who exactly is going to police lockdowns?

    If you feel a bit iffy, who is going to stop you driving to your nearest supermarket and picking up dinner?
    There won't be armed guards at your driveway.

    True...but there might not be much left on the supermarket shelves if a real panic sets in.
    I don't agree with all the panic here myself and havent rushed off to stock up but no harm in buying the odd extra non-perishible item or two when shopping now just in case you need them later.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,609 ✭✭✭timmyntc


    NIMAN wrote: »
    As for people talking about getting 2 weeks of food in, who exactly is going to police lockdowns?

    If you feel a bit iffy, who is going to stop you driving to your nearest supermarket and picking up dinner?
    There won't be armed guards at your driveway.

    I imagine it's more for your own safety - don't want to have to go to a supermarket full of potentially sick people - so stock up now while most of the country is (relatively) healthy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,854 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    We are going to be heading into April soon, its not fkn Armageddon . the funny thing I have seen people stock up in the US is bottled water? one guy even said, "why am I doing this?"

    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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 424 ✭✭Blud


    Ludo wrote: »
    Chopping wood for fire?
    It is a bug out bag...i.e. going it alone in the countryside to avoid the looting and pillaging when society breaks down.

    Catmaniac's diary:

    Friday 28 February.

    Still no coronavirus in Ireland. That said, Maevis sneezed in Lidl and then paid in cash, so I killed her with my axe.


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    scotchy wrote: »
    Am guessing an announcement being timed for the 1 o'clock news.

    6:1 scotch, wait till we’re sitting down to din dins.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,002 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    sjb25 wrote: »
    I’m all for being prepared but FFS an axe a bloody axe :)


    https://twitter.com/rteliveline/status/1232994960452079619?s=20

    The axe is for when someone behind you complains about you not tapping a card and using cash instead.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,745 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Graces7 wrote: »
    Not at all; go for a quiet walk but avoid people. Probably very easy now as everyone will be wary of everyone else now.

    sure that's grand when you're retired to an offshore island.

    but let's be serious here - that lifestyle is in the extreme minority.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,179 ✭✭✭✭fr336


    joe_99 wrote: »
    It's also due to old people dying of very minor conditions all the time e.g. a heatwave in summer kills tens of thousands of elderly across Europe

    Difference is that if this spreads and spreads old people are hugely more likely to succumb to it. You can't take precautions as you can with things like the heat. It don't be a few individual cases it'll be widespread. The sad conclusion I'm coming to is that people's parents and grandparents are so unimportant that minor prevention methods such as not gathering in huge crowds in one month in the year 2020 are too much of an inconvience for the pampered me me me generations. You know that if this thing was killing young people in the same numbers they'd literally be rioting about it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,854 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    NIMAN wrote: »
    As for people talking about getting 2 weeks of food in, who exactly is going to police lockdowns?

    If you feel a bit iffy, who is going to stop you driving to your nearest supermarket and picking up dinner?
    There won't be armed guards at your driveway.

    The main reason is that you don’t have to do it if everybody starts panic buying, people can get bad tempered and possibly violent. Better to be at home feet up and a nice glass of Malbec wine in hand

    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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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,321 ✭✭✭dinorebel


    timmyntc wrote: »
    Mad that there are still no confirmed cases in Ireland - it's almost certainly here already. The fact that it's not reported means sick people could be spreading it all over.

    Any bets on what day/time we get first confirmed case?
    My bet is 11am tomorrow.

    Is that the time of your Dr's Appointment?


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    :D

    Sorry for laughing catamanic but I can’t get the vision of you, a debit card and an axe out of my head now!

    Oh, now I know what the tarpaulin is for.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,390 ✭✭✭UsBus


    NIMAN wrote: »
    As for people talking about getting 2 weeks of food in, who exactly is going to police lockdowns?

    If you feel a bit iffy, who is going to stop you driving to your nearest supermarket and picking up dinner?
    There won't be armed guards at your driveway.

    No point going there if the shelves are empty. You saw what happened with the bread during a 2 days storm...1st case hits, watch people go mental...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,798 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    I wonder what would happen if they never announced any cases?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 834 ✭✭✭KWAG2019


    timmyntc wrote: »
    Mad that there are still no confirmed cases in Ireland - it's almost certainly here already. The fact that it's not reported means sick people could be spreading it all over.

    Any bets on what day/time we get first confirmed case?
    My bet is 11am tomorrow.

    When do most discharges from hospitals take place? The pragmatic thing is to start freeing up capacity and ICU places.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    It’s more to do with deliveries of food. Would a lorry driver deliver to lockdown area. What about shop employees?

    What if the supermarket is closed because the workers are in quarantine/lockdown?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,627 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2020/0227/1117879-coronavirus-ireland/

    No harm, but this guy is hardly making a wild prediction.
    I would put my house on cases arriving in Ireland, and I'm not a microbiologist.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    People could still shop during some of the lockdown s in China. It's about limiting exposure especially with limited masks

    About being sensible rather than panic. Remember to wear eye protection too


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    lawred2 wrote: »
    fear the zombie hordes[/QUOTE

    I s it true they cannot cross salt water? if so I am safe! :D:pac::p


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭iguana


    NIMAN wrote: »
    As for people talking about getting 2 weeks of food in, who exactly is going to police lockdowns?

    If you feel a bit iffy, who is going to stop you driving to your nearest supermarket and picking up dinner?
    There won't be armed guards at your driveway.

    If you are sick you might not feel up to driving to your nearest supermarket. I had the flu at the end of January and I wasn't safe to drive anywhere. Getting from my bed to the kitchen for tea and toast was a such a major expedition that after I got back to bed I had to have a rest before I had the energy to actually eat or drink it (and I live in a bungalow). It took 5 days for me to be well enough to be out of bed for any length of time. Having a couple of weeks worth of food in the house is very handy if you are sick.


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