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

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  • #4292
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Call Me Jimmy wrote: »
    For the visual learners:
    https://www.flightradar24.com/44.31,0.21/5

    Interesting that large airplane of the south coast of Ireland and which departed Milan has no designated call sign. American Airbase evacuating personnel?

    https://i.imgflip.com/3qi7zu.jpg


  • #4293
    Indestructable
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,377 ✭✭✭Indestructable


    That sounds like an awful place to work


  • #4294
    jackboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,017 ✭✭✭jackboy


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

    Home delivery is no good. The delivery may be contaminated with the virus. Stockpiling before the virus arrives is the only way to be sure of avoiding infection.

    Also, ban the postman.


  • #4295
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,384 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    SusieBlue wrote: »
    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.

    Really, that's surprising to me Susie.
    I thought in those red warning events I thought that it was a legal requirement to compensate staff.


  • #4296
    Candamir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 531 ✭✭✭Candamir


    gozunda wrote: »
    Interesting that large airplane of the south coast of Ireland and which departed Milan has no designated call sign. American Airbase evacuating personnel?

    It’s an Ethihad cargo plane. Unlikely I’d say!


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  • #4297
    Blueshoe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    SusieBlue wrote: »
    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.

    They sound like a right miserable bunch.


  • #4298
    tom1ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,999 ✭✭✭✭tom1ie


    SusieBlue wrote: »
    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.

    Jaysus! Who the hell do you work for?!


  • #4299
    Marty Bird
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,193 ✭✭✭Marty Bird


    SusieBlue wrote: »
    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.

    What a horrible place to work for.

    🌞6.02kWp⚡️3.01kWp South/East⚡️3.01kWp West



  • #4300
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,215 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Professor Moriarty wrote: »
    It may be mutating.
    Death rate in South korea .1% in china 3 % in Iran 15 % ...dictatorships are not good for your health.


  • #4301
    SusieBlue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭SusieBlue


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    Really, that's surprising to me Susie.
    I thought in those red warning events I thought that it was a legal requirement to compensate staff.

    If the business chooses to close, they have to pay employees. If the business is open, but employees don’t make it in, they aren’t legally obliged to pay them.
    An unfortunate loophole they took full advantage of.


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  • #4302
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,384 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


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

    https://twitter.com/HelenBranswell/status/1233118606243876866?s=19

    I wonder how we would compare on an EU survey.


  • #4303
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,025 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    ****s just got very real in Dublin, current media blackout... expect some panic..


  • #4304
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,384 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    SusieBlue wrote: »
    If the business chooses to close, they have to pay employees. If the business is open, but employees don’t make it in, they aren’t legally obliged to pay them.
    An unfortunate loophole they took full advantage of.

    I didn't know that.
    That's terrible, what a shower.


  • #4305
    BloodBath
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,299 ✭✭✭✭BloodBath


    outsourced_ire wrote: »
    *screams into a pillow*

    Amazing insightful post. I bet you do a lot of that.
    Source? Or just pulling random numbers from a graph or somewhere else...

    Hospitalization - 1% - yeah that is a one compared to around 10-15% for coronavirus

    https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2017-2018.htm

    It's just the flu though

    Why did you delete this Fritz? You realised you were wrong?
    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.

    Oh good god, not this again. I'm not going to keep repeating it. The 0.1% figure for flu takes into account an estimate for undiagnosed cases which is more than double the confirmed cases. This has not been done for Corona yet. Where are you pulling 3.4% out of? It's in reality far below 1% but most likely still significantly higher than the Flu. Same dumbasses upvoting it despite me explaining this several times already.


  • #4306
    Lord Trollington
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,419 ✭✭✭Lord Trollington


    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    ****s just got very real in Dublin, current media blackout... expect some panic..

    What?


  • #4307
    Ludo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,015 ✭✭✭Ludo


    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    ****s just got very real in Dublin, current media blackout... expect some panic..

    Whats this about now?


  • #4308
    Blueshoe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    ****s just got very real in Dublin, current media blackout... expect some panic..

    Rte are normally a day or so behind the rest of the media. Nothing unusual


  • #4309
    RocketRaccoon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,645 ✭✭✭RocketRaccoon


    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    ****s just got very real in Dublin, current media blackout... expect some panic..

    How many are we talking?


  • #4310
    Poor_old_gill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭Poor_old_gill


    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    ****s just got very real in Dublin, current media blackout... expect some panic..

    Go on...
    I’m in Dublin and not much panic at the moment


  • #4311
    Lord Trollington
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,419 ✭✭✭Lord Trollington


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    I didn't know that.
    That's terrible, what a shower.

    If you're a small business owner with 5 employees you'd probably thank that loophole to be fair


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  • #4312
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,113 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    BloodBath wrote: »
    Why did you delete this Fritz? You realised you were wrong?

    Read it as 10% of cases are hospitalized


  • #4313
    cnocbui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,002 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/HelenBranswell/status/1233118606243876866?s=19

    I wonder how we would compare on an EU survey.

    White.


  • #4314
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,113 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Netherlands joins the party with their first case (another Italy export again)


  • #4315
    moonlighting_1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 135 ✭✭moonlighting_1


    It has spreed from Italy to Ireland. Currently one person up north confirmed. more to follow in dublin.

    This is going to be a real ****show. Funny thing is I predicted this a few days ago on a post in reddit.


  • #4316
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,384 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    https://twitter.com/andrewflood/status/1232949369114107905?s=19


  • #4317
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,025 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    Poor_old_gill wrote: »
    Go on...
    I’m in Dublin and not much panic at the moment

    Yea cause there's a media blackout...


  • #4318
    solidasarock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 363 ✭✭solidasarock


    Its really a **** time to have a lame duck government.

    Now having a snap election to get the gears moving again might pose too much of a public health risk.


  • #4319
    Cupatae
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭Cupatae


    Bambi wrote: »
    Arseholes wont self isolate themsevles, I can assure you there's Irish people on their way to Northern Italy as we speak

    Imagine if we'd had the foresight to turn back flights from Italy last week, would have bought us a lot of time.

    But sure, lookit, No else was doing it. We're part of the EU and such bollocks

    Airlines are worse for bringing em, but hey never miss a buck!


  • #4320
    eeepaulo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,432 ✭✭✭eeepaulo


    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    Yea cause there's a media blackout...

    Is your TV broken?


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  • #4321
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    My office have told everyone to bring their laptops home with them every day in case they need to work from home at some point


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