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

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  • #4592
    all about the mane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,401 ✭✭✭all about the mane


    Mods need to sort this out. Any claims should have a link to back it up. Thread is getting ridiculous at this stage.


  • #4593
    cnocbui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,006 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    skimpydoo wrote: »
    Agreed that alleged video of the Clayton Hotel was actually an office building on Sir John Rogersons Quay and we don't know when the video was shot.

    It could have just been in response to a guest thinking they had spotted a suspicious character with an asbestos vest.


  • #4594
    Reati
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,926 ✭✭✭Reati


    pad199207 wrote: »
    Mad idea and all that... But would it come to pass that social media could be curtailed or cut off to stop hysteria and panic setting in?

    hopefully they will start with boards...


  • #4595
    skimpydoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,074 ✭✭✭skimpydoo


    GiftofGab wrote: »
    Mater hospital has a confirmed case

    Link or GTF too much fake news on here.


  • #4596
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,385 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    pad199207 wrote: »
    Mad idea and all that... But would it come to pass that social media could be curtailed or cut off to stop hysteria and panic setting in?
    No we aren't in bloody north korea


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  • #4597
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,445 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    GiftofGab wrote: »
    Mater hospital has a confirmed case

    Please stop posting rumours without verified sources. This is why people panic.


  • #4598
    pad199207
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,310 ✭✭✭pad199207


    Sierra Oscar wrote: »
    Screening is a waste of time in most cases, infected people are symptom-less passing through airports. There's a reason health officials are trying to focus their efforts on identifying people with actual symptoms in the community and not focusing entirely on ports of entry.

    Begs the question then doesn’t it. What can we actually do to stop it?


  • #4599
    Poor_old_gill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭Poor_old_gill


    GiftofGab wrote: »
    Mater hospital has a confirmed case

    Who told you that?


  • #4600
    BanditLuke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭BanditLuke


    appledrop wrote: »
    There he is again on rte lying saying health service has capacity.

    What a load of crap. Yep I'm certain they are playing it down hoping that some slip through the net + dont get tested as we have no where to put them.

    It's very worrying when the head honcho from the HSE comes on the state broadcaster and plain out tells fibs about capacity.


  • #4601
    Duke of Url
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,662 ✭✭✭Duke of Url


    GiftofGab wrote: »
    Mater hospital has a confirmed case

    How do you know?


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  • #4602
    RocketRaccoon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,645 ✭✭✭RocketRaccoon


    Sabrina Strong Vomit wrote: »
    If you're separating your waste properly then that shouldn't really be a huge problem for a few months. Meat and fish waste goes to the pets. If you don't have a cat then you can usually aquire one these days by going outside your back garden with intent. Eggshells vegetation and degradable gets composted. Wash plastic, glass aluminum and use again or store. Flatten and pack down paper as best you can for easier storage. You're not really going to be able to accumulate as much waste if you're not shopping.

    I revoke my earlier statements about "everyone" working from home. It's definitely something to consider for those who can. Those who HAVE to go out would benefit from the quieter streets and there would be less chance of idle transmission of disease.

    I provide essential care for a relative with immunity issues regularly and I fear that going to work will expose me and, in turn, him. I'm weighing up my options quite seriously.

    I work in an airport daily, if we stopped going to work then no flights would leave.


  • #4603
    Doctors room ghost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,839 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    theballz wrote: »
    Question (possibly a silly one.)

    Why would there be a “media blackout” of these suspected cases in Clayton, Mater, Vincents etc?

    I could understand why these cases may not be reported on the basis that they may not have been confirmed infections, however, confused as to why a “blackout” by the media might be put in place (assuming these suspected cases are legit.)

    Can anyone help me understand this?

    Or is it purely WhatsApp b*llocks talk?






    Media ban wouldn’t work here.someones mother/father/neighbors etc would be working in one of them hotels if there was any truth in it and they would let everyone know it’s all boll1x.
    James Bond wouldn’t have a patch on paddy Irishman


  • #4604
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,121 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    cnocbui wrote: »
    Proceed with extreme caution.

    https://moneyandmarkets.com/mohamed-el-erian-dont-buy-coronavirus-dip-china/

    I would never buy stocks or shares. Feck that, if you make any decent profit 33% tax on gain + brokers fees. Anyway I'm not in that league, nor do I want to be. The tax returns would kill me for starters!

    Might be good for those who can afford to take a hit, and then a profit, but it's not for me. Was just laughing at the fella sorry can't remember his name now, US guy who was all for buying low and selling high. I think he made a mint during our debacle in 2008. Bet he wasn't the only one either.!


  • #4605
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,114 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Think it's time claims of new cases need backing up with links from recognised news channels - clayton hotel rubbish has been posted about 12 times in the past hour
    all about the mane wrote: »
    Mods need to sort this out. Any claims should have a link to back it up. Thread is getting ridiculous at this stage.

    Snap!


  • #4606
    mirrorwall14
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,751 ✭✭✭mirrorwall14


    GiftofGab wrote: »
    Mater hospital has a confirmed case

    Source?


  • #4607
    The Rape of Lucretia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭The Rape of Lucretia


    all about the mane wrote: »
    Mods need to sort this out. Any claims should have a link to back it up.

    The earth is flat.

    Link :

    https://www.tfes.org


  • #4608
    Reati
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,926 ✭✭✭Reati


    pad199207 wrote: »
    Begs the question then doesn’t it. What can we actually do to stop it?

    Nothing. It's too expenses to shut down global travel. A vaccine or treatment is the best case to hope for. In fact this outbreak will likely down down into summer and flare back up next year around flu season. It's not going to disappear now until its vaccinated out.


  • #4609
    Cupatae
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭Cupatae


    BanditLuke wrote: »
    Good point made there by a doctor on RTE, Chinese people take a tremendous pride in their country and protecting it and have all rowed in the same direction to stop the virus

    Here we are still making father ted jokes and moaning about a cancelled game of rugbyball.

    What do you want people to do ? howld on there till i go out and rally the troops.


  • #4610
    cnocbui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,006 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    josip wrote: »
    Is JohnnyFlash with ye?

    Hopefully he is and came straight from that now quarantined brothel in Spain.


  • #4611
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,385 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    GiftofGab wrote: »
    Mater hospital has a confirmed case
    Do you have a link?


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  • #4612
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    Sabrina Strong Vomit wrote: »
    If you're separating your waste properly then that shouldn't really be a huge problem for a few months. Meat and fish waste goes to the pets. If you don't have a cat then you can usually aquire one these days by going outside your back garden with intent. Eggshells vegetation and degradable gets composted. Wash plastic, glass aluminum and use again or store. Flatten and pack down paper as best you can for easier storage. You're not really going to be able to accumulate as much waste if you're not shopping.

    I revoke my earlier statements about "everyone" working from home. It's definitely something to consider for those who can. Those who HAVE to go out would benefit from the quieter streets and there would be less chance of idle transmission of disease.

    I provide essential care for a relative with immunity issues regularly and I fear that going to work will expose me and, in turn, him. I'm weighing up my options quite seriously.

    You lost me when you talked about cats as being a solution to waste meat etc. My one is on a feckin hunger strike because I picked up her usual high quality brand of cat food but not her usual flavour.


  • #4613
    gabeeg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭gabeeg


    pad199207 wrote: »
    Begs the question then doesn’t it. What can we actually do to stop it?

    I don't think we can. We can only slow it.

    And that's going to be a massive pain in the gee


  • #4614
    Lucy8080
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,980 ✭✭✭Lucy8080


    Ferm001 wrote: »
    First case in NI confirmed. Woman travelled from Italy through Dublin.

    Even the Corona virus won't use Belfast international airport.


  • #4615
    statesaver
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,084 ✭✭✭statesaver


    Most cases coming from northern Italy, border controls need to be imposed now ffs


  • #4616
    Pintman Paddy Losty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,913 ✭✭✭Pintman Paddy Losty


    Anyone else getting the group message on the plan to head to the Aviva for the game even if it's cancelled? As a sort of protest/pissup. Apparently lots of Italian fans are planning on coming over. Got it forwarded from a few lads in the club. Would probably be a bit of craic to get dressed in the jerseys and all and head on the beer in slaterrys anyway.


  • #4617
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Time for a 24 hour ban for claims made without a plausible source to back it up.


  • #4618
    GiftofGab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,490 ✭✭✭GiftofGab


    skimpydoo wrote: »
    Link or GTF too much fake news on here.

    Just wait and see


  • #4619
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,612 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Fireball81 wrote: »
    Unconfirmed and can't see anything official anywhere..could be rubbish, could be true.

    :rolleyes:


  • #4620
    Micky 32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,623 ✭✭✭Micky 32


    After reading this thread it’s nice to see someone post up a photo on facebook of a drink on a table in the Clayton Dublin airport hotel looking forward to their trip tomorrow morning to Lanzorote. People in the background all looking relaxed reading papers etc.


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  • #4621
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,422 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Pintman Paddy Losty wrote: »
    Anyone else getting the group message on the plan to head to the Aviva for the game even if it's cancelled? As a sort of protest/pissup. Apparently lots of Italian fans are planning on coming over. Got it forwarded from a few lads in the club. Would probably be a bit of craic to get dressed in the jerseys and all and head on the beer in slaterrys anyway.

    Lock yourselves into the Aviva for three weeks and we will see how many of ye come out alive. Bring much beer.

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



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