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

igCorcaigh wrote: »

The customer ahead of me in Aldi is buying literally shelves of pasta and cans

Make sure they tap. Pay in batches.

scamalert wrote: »

Area: 8,494 km²
Population: 11.08 million


Dublin:115 km²
population:
1.361 million


if its portrayed as killing spree mad then those two comparisons should be valid point that its not like it seems if its spreading like wild fire, then those 3k deaths seems way to low, as flu would be 10 times that as far as infection rates go.

I've never portrayed it as a killing spree. The main problem is its effects on the health system and the measures required to to contain it. The Dr who was in Wuhan said that their drastic measures killed the exponential growth and got it under control.

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

Which is why I said for others to have a look. See what they think. Without looking how can you have an opinion?

Because they were posted in the first tread and we're disproved

MadYaker wrote: »

Not really. If you think you have this virus you ring the HSE. They will take you to hospital in an ambulance and if you test positive hospital is where you'll stay. So nobody should be self isolating at home unless they just came back from an effected area, if this is the case you can get someone else to buy food for you because you shouldn't be going anywhere anyway. I'm exactly as prepared as I need to be.

Ha, who told you that? Did you miss the chap on Claire Byrne who was in Seol? Literally there with people who had symptoms and one who diagnosed as infected and they STILL wouldn't test him.

You're not prepared at all if your posts are anything to go by! What do people who can't ask others do?! I'm not sure people would be lining up to shop for potential carriers.

You do realise that multiple countries Germany for example, are now finding it impossible to trace the source of infection in many new cases.

Stateofyou wrote: »

Why do you say that? The US is planning a big scale response, and has said it's a matter of 'when' and not 'if.' Why wouldn't we be affected here, closer to all the European hot spots?

Will be affected. There are likely cases here already. But it'll be similar to germany or the UK imo. Small numbers with not much spread.

Stateofyou wrote: »

Why do you say that? The US is planning a big scale response, and has said it's a matter of 'when' and not 'if.' Why wouldn't we be affected here, closer to all the European hot spots?

Nothing but blind belief and hope id say. How anyone can make such a statement in the absence of anything to back it up is mind boggling. What exactly is going to stop the spread?!

MadYaker wrote: »

Will be affected. There are likely cases here already. But it'll be similar to germany or the UK imo. Small numbers with not much spread.

I bet you were saying/thinking that same about Italy last week.

megatron989 wrote: »

Amazing that people here still rattle on how it's all grand and completely ignore the capacity issues we'd face in the hospitals if even a handful of cases needed care.
Yes we know your hopelessly ignorant, stop trying to convince us not to prepare. God it's like those people who drive into the mountains to look at snow, then get stuck. Do us all a favour and just go back to bed.

Nobody is saying it's all grand. We're pushing back against the doom and gloomers who are posting constant nonsense in here.

https://twitter.com/KellyBonner/status/1233101258401230854

Exploding everywhere now - armageddon incoming

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1233098575774670853

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

https://twitter.com/KellyBonner/status/1233101258401230854

We're screwed

megatron989 wrote: »

Amazing that people here still rattle on how it's all grand and completely ignore the capacity issues we'd face in the hospitals if even a handful of cases needed care.
Yes we know your hopelessly ignorant, stop trying to convince us not to prepare. God it's like those people who drive into the mountains to look at snow, then get stuck. Do us all a favour and just go back to bed.

seriously such crap should be moved to conspiracy or whatever extremist survivalist group there is on boards. handful people die each week of flu and your still above ground :cool::pac:

fr336 wrote: »

What do you base this on other than blind hope? I'm the same, I hope it to be the case. But why is Italy such a hot spot and now potentially Germany ticking up the numbers? Everything's great until it isn't.

Were an island nation like the UK with less connections to europe than they have. We have a similar health system setup and a lower pop density which will help but thats slightly moot as any cases that appear here will likely be in dublin. Logic would suggest that it will play out here similar to how it has in most of europe. I think we'd handle it a lot better than the italians tbh. Ireland is a lot better organised and pro active at government level (hard to believe but true)

BloodBath wrote: »

11 new cases is exploding?

New cases being confirmed every hour. 14 new cases just confirmed in northwest Germany bordering the Netherlands.