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

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  • #4262
    smelly sock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭smelly sock


    EltonJohn69 wrote: »
    From the Trump press conference and other sources, a doctor mentioned a anti viral treatment that showed potential. I think that is the big hope before a vaccine is found/tested

    Hopefully we'll get a few weeks off work before they can get it working.


  • #4263
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    froog wrote: »
    it really is odd how it seems to act in different countries. it's been in thailand for nearly 2 months and they still only have 40 cases total. also the huge difference in mortality rate outside of the epicenter, and the unusually high death rate in iran. none of these things has been explained by the scientists.

    My guess is that current data is very inaccurate.


  • #4264
    Lord Trollington
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,419 ✭✭✭Lord Trollington


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    For now, its main purpose is for contact tracing.
    I think it has little clinical use beyond that, so the current emphasis on testing will change.

    The message will stay the same . Self isolate. Clean hands and take necessary precautions.

    Could you imagine the amount of testing we would be doing tying up resources in the coming days in false cases. I'd be more about using common sense and drilling home the message about being intelligent about gatherings etc . Whilst using potential testers to care for any extreme cases


  • #4265
    d51984
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 940 ✭✭✭d51984


    Person infected from the north traveled through Dublin airport apparently.

    Its a disgrace Joe!



  • #4266
    littlemac1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,073 ✭✭✭littlemac1980


    tillyfilly wrote: »
    Dow jones down another 900 points today by The end of trading , 700 at the moment , ftse down 3% , sh1ts getting real

    Toronto stock exchange halted trading today.


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  • #4267
    Blueshoe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    tillyfilly wrote: »
    Dow jones down another 900 points today by The end of trading , 700 at the moment , ftse down 3% , sh1ts getting real

    The bounce when the virus is eventually contained will be spectacular and immediate. You couldn't time it though. The Chinese New cases have dropped dramatically. 3 months is my guess


  • #4268
    littlemac1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,073 ✭✭✭littlemac1980


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    The bounce when the virus is eventually contained will be spectacular and immediate. You couldn't time it though. The Chinese New cases have dropped dramatically. 3 months is my guess

    Burst balls don’t bounce.


  • #4269
    celt262
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,719 ✭✭✭celt262


    d51984 wrote: »
    Person infected from the north traveled through Dublin airport apparently.

    That's about the 5th time you would imagine one time would be enough.


  • #4270
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,419 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    I'm sure if you live alone then food will be delivered to your door and you then take it in.
    Stockpiling for 2 weeks creates an unnecessary supply demand

    Food will be delivered to your door.
    Sure.
    Even if the people who work in supermarkets and deliveries have to self quarantine too...

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



  • #4271
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    froog wrote: »
    it really is odd how it seems to act in different countries. it's been in thailand for nearly 2 months and they still only have 40 cases total. also the huge difference in mortality rate outside of the epicenter, and the unusually high death rate in iran. none of these things has been explained by the scientists.


    This is not true about Thailand. Countries have been stopping flights to Thailand because their figures are nonsense and they kept flights open to China, no restrictions. They tried observing 10,000 in a village and couldn't even manage that.

    They literally just don't bother reporting.


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  • #4272
    enricoh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,263 ✭✭✭enricoh


    froog wrote: »
    it really is odd how it seems to act in different countries. it's been in thailand for nearly 2 months and they still only have 40 cases total. also the huge difference in mortality rate outside of the epicenter, and the unusually high death rate in iran. none of these things has been explained by the scientists.

    Would you trust the Thai authorities figures? It's fairly reliant on tourism n downplaying figures could be tempting.


  • #4273
    tillyfilly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 567 ✭✭✭tillyfilly


    littlemac1980 wrote: »
    Toronto stock exchange halted trading today.

    there will be a lot of modified trades toward the downside once it reopens


  • #4274
    FastFullBack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,478 ✭✭✭FastFullBack


    igCorcaigh wrote: »

    I'm an office worker, so have the resources to work from home if needed,but work for a large company.

    Has your company told you to work from home?

    I work for large multi national where work from home is heavily promoted. So far we've received no direction for corona virus.


  • #4275
    Blueshoe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    littlemac1980 wrote: »
    Burst balls don’t bounce.

    Yeah right.


  • #4276
    BloodBath
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,299 ✭✭✭✭BloodBath


    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    Our hospitals are full by over 100 beds and under resourced

    The advice of the government is to stay and home if you fell unwell and put a note on the door. Someone will come check you and probably leave you there if you have the virus.

    So if you have no food what do you do then to battle the virus. You'll probably take a chance and head to the shops.

    Stockpiling for at least 2 weeks is common sense

    You do realise it's 2020 and home food deliveries have been available for over a decade.


  • #4277
    d51984
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 940 ✭✭✭d51984


    Keep your g straing onn ffs, threads moving at a million posts a minute.

    Its a disgrace Joe!



  • #4278
    cnocbui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,002 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    schmoo2k wrote: »
    Actually the smart move is to pop over to Italy, get infected and back here quick - you know the first couple of cases will get the best treatment - once everyone else gets it, you will be better of at home than in A&E on a trolley.

    After you...


  • #4279
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    Food will be delivered to your door.
    Sure.
    Even if the people who work in supermarkets and deliveries have to self quarantine too...

    Leave them on the doorstep what's the issue ?


  • #4280
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,384 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    FastFullBack wrote: »
    Has your company told you to work from home?

    I work for large multi national where work from home is heavily promoted. So far we've received no direction for corona virus.

    No not yet, just business travel restrictions to the affected region.

    But they have been giving us regular updates on the changing policy. They have been very good I must say.


  • #4281
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,121 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    billybonkers wrote: »
    It's up North now. Will be reported shortly. Will be in Dublin soon

    Close the Border, Brexit, mission accomplished.


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  • #4282
    Get Real
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 951 ✭✭✭Get Real


    BloodBath wrote: »
    Why do they seem quite high? You do realise flu kills 10% of people who end up in hospital with it right?

    Those figures seem quite high but we know the death toll is actually only around 0.1%

    I'm not in favour of overreaction, or blowing things out of proportion, but at the other end of the scale, I'm not in favour of downplaying either.

    82,781 cases at present, with 2,817 deaths.

    That's a death rate of 3.4 percent. 34 times higher than your 0.1% figure. Unless you meant 1 percent, in which case it's still 3.4 times that.

    When you apply that to the possibility of it reaching 100s of thousands of people -say 500,000- you could be talking about 500 deaths by your figure, or 17,000 deaths by the current actual figure. Which number wise, is a massive difference.


  • #4283
    Lord Trollington
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,419 ✭✭✭Lord Trollington


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    This is not true about Thailand. Countries have been stopping flights to Thailand because their figures are nonsense and they kept flights open to China, no restrictions. They tried observing 10,000 in a village and couldn't even manage that.

    They literally just don't bother reporting.

    Have you been to Thailand? It's a bat sh!t crazy house .
    Corona Virus isnt even in their minds one bit


  • #4284
    smelly sock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭smelly sock


    FastFullBack wrote: »
    Has your company told you to work from home?

    I work for large multi national where work from home is heavily promoted. So far we've received no direction for corona virus.

    A lot of people cant woth small houses and 3 or 4 kids. No practical.


  • #4285
    BanditLuke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭BanditLuke


    froog wrote: »
    its a tricky one, i know in my place if there was a deal like that, at least half the workforce would immediately call in sick.

    Ah yeah I suppose it depends on the workplace.


  • #4286
    Lord Trollington
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,419 ✭✭✭Lord Trollington


    Get Real wrote: »
    I'm not in favour of overreaction, or blowing things out if proportion, but at the other end of the scale, I'm not in favour of downplaying either.

    82,781 cases at present, with 2,817 deaths.

    That's a death rate of 3.4 percent. 34 times higher than your 0.1% figure. Unless you meant 1 percent, in which case it's still 3.4 times that.

    When you apply that to the possibility of it reaching 100s of thousands of people -say 500,000- you could be talking about 500 deaths by your figure, or 17,000 deaths by the current actual figure. Which number wise, is a massive difference.

    It may never reach to infect 500,000, but at the moment it's gotten to just under 83,000, so remains to be seen.

    Both the infected figures and death figures arent accurate . So we cant take nothing from them in my opinion.


  • #4287
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    I'll cover one of the NI bordercrossing points, just need 299 more and we are good!


  • #4288
    tillyfilly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 567 ✭✭✭tillyfilly


    If Europe is having these issues, god help Africa!


  • #4289
    SusieBlue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭SusieBlue


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    How many people here can work remotely?
    Is your employer informing you of updates and what to do in case you feel unwell?

    I'm an office worker, so have the resources to work from home if needed,but work for a large company.

    I'd like to know if smaller firms are being proactive now?

    My office opened during storm Ophelia and also for the duration of the snow in March 2018, despite red weather warnings and the government advising businesses to close.
    Anyone who didn’t make it in didn’t get paid and management were none too happy with them, I believe it was mentioned in some people’s yearly performance appraisals.
    Can’t see them taking this remotely seriously, and I can’t see them advising any unwell employees to self isolate either. They certainly won’t be paying anyone who becomes ill if past experience is anything to go by.


  • #4290
    LawBoy2018
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭LawBoy2018


    Do ye think the FE1 exams will be cancelled, or is it just wishful thinking by an unprepared ghernick?


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  • #4291
    Professor Moriarty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,393 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    tillyfilly wrote: »
    If Europe is having these issues, god help Africa!

    Absolutely.


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