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

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  • #4652
    BanditLuke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭BanditLuke


    Runaways wrote: »
    I’ve a funny feeling you won’t be happy unless this is worst most damaging outbreak possible.

    Give it and yourself a rest.

    No thanks. I'm enjoying keeping up to date on here.

    Yeah i'll be happy when my elderly parents and friend with medical issues catch it :rolleyes:

    Go have a rest will ya, your heads wobbling a tad.


  • #4653
    Pintman Paddy Losty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,913 ✭✭✭Pintman Paddy Losty


    wadacrack wrote: »
    Having a bit of craic wont be on many people's agenda's at that stage. We will be in the middle of an epidemic. Certain people still seem jovial about this. This isint like a the snow and it just melts away. Its going to be a very difficult few months.

    It's going to be absolutely fine.


  • #4654
    scotchy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,232 ✭✭✭scotchy


    Slow down guys, Im only up to 21.05 on this Thread. Ill never get to the top.

    💙 💛 💙 💛 💙 💛



  • #4655
    To Alcohol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 526 ✭✭✭To Alcohol


    Apparently its in Vincents and Beaumont. Announcement imminent.


  • #4656
    Runaways
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭Runaways


    Duke of Url wrote: »
    Are you still focked?

    Coughing my guts up and basically resorted to sitting on the toilet. Sh!ts haven’t stopped since I got home. It’s freezing but I don’t care.


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  • #4657
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,385 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Are we going to ban hordes of Spanish and Italian students coming over? Every cloud and all that...


  • #4658
    Suckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,211 ✭✭✭✭Suckit


    wakka12 wrote: »
    Rep Ireland and portugal are the only west european countries that havnt announced a case as yet


    There'll be thousands tomorrow after that woman getting the train :pac:


  • #4659
    DellyBelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,486 ✭✭✭DellyBelly


    Very scary I must say. Was supposed to be going out on Saturday night to an Italian restaurant but we decided to cancel. You just never know who might have just come back from Italy in there.


  • #4660
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,121 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Snow Garden wrote: »
    It is the most amazing thread on Boards ever imho. It will provide superb analysis for some PhD in years to come.
    It does make me think that humanity has run it's course on this earth though.

    Calm down right now and try the rational approach.


  • #4661
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,384 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    rdwight wrote: »
    I worked with some Italians a few years ago and found them extremely irritating. I've avoided Italians ever since.

    They are. Semi dated one once, utterly dramatic, and the hotness is overrated.

    Avoid like the plague.


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  • #4662
    Snow Garden
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Snow Garden


    scotchy wrote: »
    Slow down guys, Im only up to 21.05 on this Thread. Ill never get to the top.

    Wipe that chocolate from your face you pig.


  • #4663
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    To Alcohol wrote: »
    Apparently its in Vincents and Beaumont. Announcement imminent.

    Link/source or GTFO


  • #4664
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,027 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    To Alcohol wrote: »
    Apparently its in Vincents and Beaumont. Announcement imminent.

    Cases at the airport as well.


  • #4665
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    To Alcohol wrote: »
    Apparently its in Vincents and Beaumont. Announcement imminent.

    Of course it is


  • #4666
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,385 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    To Alcohol wrote: »
    Apparently its in Vincents and Beaumont. Announcement imminent.
    I would take that with a pinch of salt...how many unsubstantiated stories about cases have been posted here ffs...it's just silly at this stage


  • #4667
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,041 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    I just can't help myself refreshing this thread - it's oddly addictive.


  • #4668
    Suckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,211 ✭✭✭✭Suckit


    amadangomor wrote: »
    Link/source or GTFO


    I got texted that yesterday the 26th, so either they kept it very under wraps for a day, or it's horsecrap.


  • #4669
    wylo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,214 ✭✭✭wylo


    Spanish Eyes wrote: »
    Be thankful for that, very thankful :P

    What you probably miss every 30 posts

    - I can’t believe they are not screening people at airports
    - I cannot believe how unprepared the HSE is and what a balls they made of this
    - it’s 2% death rate
    - no it’s .01%
    - More people die from the flu
    - someone then will follow up with flu infection rate vs Coronavirus infection rate to counter this point
    - someone making a joke about it
    - someone make a big deal about x new infections in country x
    - someone giving out because it’s not being taken seriously enough here
    - someone giving out because it’s being taken too seriously


  • #4670
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,445 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    They are. Semi dated one once, utterly dramatic, and the hotness is overrated.

    Avoid like the plague.

    Avoid like the coronavirus surely.


  • #4671
    dark crystal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    amadangomor wrote: »
    Link/source or GTFO

    You won't get any of those from the scaremongers on here. Come on now!


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  • #4672
    YFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


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

    Have a nurse on each incoming flight taken saliva samples of all passengers. Test samples and then notify any positive confirmed passenger.


  • #4673
    Runaways
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭Runaways


    BanditLuke wrote: »
    No thanks. I'm enjoying keeping up to date on here.

    Yeah i'll be happy when my elderly parents and friend with medical issues catch it :rolleyes:

    Go have a rest will ya, your heads wobbling a tad.

    Go look after them rather than this.
    It would do more good. For them at least


  • #4674
    ITman88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 876 ✭✭✭ITman88


    Jenbach110 wrote: »
    The only ones talking common sense are the trolls on this thread. Put airports on lockdown for a virus with a mortality rate similar to the flu, made up cases in hotels that dont exist. No regard for the economy.
    I think in years to come this thread will be legendary and will provide psychology lectures with great material on population control.
    God help us, not for the virus but the general population who exist and have a platform to communicate total horse@##$
    I’m guilty of trolling myself which is a childish reaction to the thread in general, but this thread is ridiculous.
    Is it actually social media that causes this type of reaction to a problem that hasn’t actually arisen in this country? If 200 people had died in the ROI this thread would still be an overreaction, as of yet no confirmed case!!!
    Although that brother of mine isn’t well . .


  • #4675
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,385 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    Cases at the airport as well.
    Any of evidence at all?
    Or absolutely none like your other posts of cases in Ireland?


  • #4676
    Doctors room ghost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,839 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    DellyBelly wrote: »
    Very scary I must say. Was supposed to be going out on Saturday night to an Italian restaurant but we decided to cancel. You just never know who might have just come back from Italy in there.




    Can’t be serious.
    You may as well steer clear of the Chinese aswell if that’s the case


  • #4677
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Snow Garden wrote: »
    It is the most amazing thread on Boards ever imho. It will provide superb analysis for some PhD student in years to come.
    It does make me think that humanity has run it's course on this earth though. I would really love to know the ages of some of the posters

    Have you looked at the coronavirus sub reddit? It makes this thread look like an extremely tame and mature discussion by comparison


  • #4678
    The Rape of Lucretia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭The Rape of Lucretia


    Some good news for those who were worried about this :

    "WORLD RUGBY HAS confirmed that if the Ireland-Italy game is never played then it will have no impact on their ranking points system, which determines the seedings for the 2023 World Cup."

    This is NOT fake news. Link and all :

    https://www.the42.ie/ireland-italy-3-5024409-Feb2020/


  • #4679
    Suckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,211 ✭✭✭✭Suckit


    gmisk wrote: »
    Any of evidence at all?
    Or absolutely none like your other posts of cases in Ireland?
    A load of cases at the airport

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  • #4680
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,727 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Just for a bit of perspective, even when the disease is confirmed in ROI, the probability of you actually getting it are very low. Even if you do get it, the probability of actually dying is also very low.


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  • #4681
    cnocbui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,004 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Jenbach110 wrote: »
    The only ones talking common sense are the trolls on this thread. Put airports on lockdown for a virus with a mortality rate similar to the flu, made up cases in hotels that dont exist. No regard for the economy.
    I think in years to come this thread will be legendary and will provide psychology lectures with great material on population control.
    God help us, not for the virus but the general population who exist and have a platform to communicate total horse@##$

    You think you and the trolls are talking sense? You think you are the one with a handle on it?
    A case fatality rate of between 2% to 4% rivals and even exceeds that of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, which is estimated to have killed upwards of 50 million people. Even a case fatality rate of 0.7% — which means 7 out of every 1,000 infected people would die — is sobering. It is seven times the fatality rate for seasonal flu, which is estimated to kill between 290,000 and 650,000 people a year globally.
    https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/25/new-data-from-china-buttress-fears-about-high-coronavirus-fatality-rate-who-expert-says/


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