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

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


    YFlyer wrote: »
    Doctor on The Tonight Show is that the coronavirus is quite similar to the common cold and that no vaccine may be found.

    Important to carry out proper hygiene practice and keep the immune system healthy.

    He's right - we have no vaccines for any human based coronaviruses


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 409 ✭✭Titclamp


    Corona virus porn now on Porn hub.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,548 ✭✭✭Martina1991


    YFlyer wrote:
    The adding of reagent to the samples.
    I dont think you know what you're talking about.

    DNA testing is time consuming, complicated and very expensive.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,611 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Titclamp wrote: »
    Corona virus porn now on Porn hub.

    I hope they're using appropriate protection...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,537 ✭✭✭ldy4mxonucwsq6


    fr336 wrote: »
    Was the panic like this during swine flu? I was convinced it wasn't but maybe my memory is playing tricks or I was simply still a teenager and therefore things didn't phase me like this.

    No actually, if you search for swine flu even here on boards you'll find nothing like the two threads we've had here.

    I don't remember there being much panic, though I do recall having to send hand sanitiser and individual towels into school with kids (they asked for all parents to do this).

    Swine flu was a bit of a thing for a while, a colleague of mine was the only person I knew who actually got it (she was very ill but recovered) it more or less disappeared gradually. Definitely don't remember any talk of stocking up and isolating at home etc.

    It's still here during flu season and a few scattered outbreaks since 2009 in other countries but of course the vaccine is there for those who want it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,038 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    Titclamp wrote: »
    Corona virus porn now on Porn hub.
    Source?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,578 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Is no one else thinking....its actually not even that bad?!


    But come next week we will all be like this





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


    Post on facebook saying 5G is to blame
    This virus is every crackpots dream!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,393 ✭✭✭ZX7R


    During the 2009 swine flu pandemic 700+ million people contracted the virus, figures of 1 in 5 getting it worldwide .

    CDC estimate range of 150,000–575,000 deaths and the pandemic officially lasted about 16 months total, although vaccine was becoming available within 6 months and cases began to decline from there on.

    27 deaths in Ireland from swine flu during the pandemic period.

    Great information.
    I didn't realize there was 27 deaths in Ireland


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 409 ✭✭Titclamp


    I say its a bio weapon war. Sure its Iran and China that's ****ed.
    USA Russia and north Korea are sound.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    tuxy wrote: »
    Post on facebook saying 5G is to blame
    This virus is every crackpots dream!

    It might be a good idea to change the password on the WIFI just to be sure.:D


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


    Is there anything to be said for, like in the weather forum, a thread for actual facts (verifiable cases and such weird stuff) and another for all loons to post all the crap they want from whatsapp and their friend of a friend


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 312 ✭✭Abba987


    Ficheall wrote: »
    Source?

    OR GTFO


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,440 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    tuxy wrote: »
    Post on facebook saying 5G is to blame
    This virus is every crackpots dream!

    Facebook never refuses a crackpot neither TBF


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


    I dont think you know what you're talking about.

    DNA testing is time consuming, complicated and very expensive.

    So you're not familiar with the procedure used.


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


    fritzelly wrote: »
    Is there anything to be said for, like in the weather forum, a thread for actual facts (verifiable cases and such weird stuff) and another for all loons to post all the crap they want from whatsapp and their friend of a friend

    I would hope that this would be the sensible thread and the crazy stuff would be posted in the conspiriciy theoiries thread.
    But that doesn't work because the crazy people want to be taken seriously.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,440 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Big difference between conspiracy theories and some bullsh1t your mate's wife heard at work off someone's slimming world whatsapp group.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,851 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


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

    You forgot Scotland and Wales too.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 409 ✭✭Titclamp


    You forgot Scotland and Wales too.

    Iceland and the faroe islands, Liechtenstein, andorra


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


    Hubei update

    318 new cases
    41 new deaths
    7630 serious/critical cases

    32,878 still in hospital


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,071 ✭✭✭MarkY91


    Titclamp wrote: »
    Iceland and the faroe islands, Liechtenstein, andorra

    You're stretching it a bit including last 3 in any statistics. They hardly count.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,179 ✭✭✭✭fr336


    For those who think Ireland isn't prepared and the UK is a beacon of excellence showing their neighbours up - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/27/they-have-no-idea-government-failing-on-coronavirus-say-gps


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    fr336 wrote: »
    For those who think Ireland isn't prepared and the UK is a beacon of excellence showing their neighbours up - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/27/they-have-no-idea-government-failing-on-coronavirus-say-gps

    As per WHO man fresh out of Wuhan nobody is ready. Ok Doomer.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 362 ✭✭Die Hard 2019


    Panic is happening before any cases are announced I dread to think what will happen when there is one. We sell face masks, decent ones and really cheap ones. Normally we sell 100- 500 a week.
    This week we have sold 50,000 and only because we only had that many. Could have sold 5 times that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,387 ✭✭✭Charles Babbage


    I was in my late teens/early twenties at the time and I recall seeing a lot of panic in the media and was very worked up about it myself. My girlfriend at the time got very sick with it and we had to go to hospital in the end thanks to it.

    It's a big part of why I'm so calm at the moment, to be honest. People seek to like making a fuss and it often ends up being much less of a thing than expected.


    from wikipedia

    Unlike most strains of influenza, H1N1 (Swine flu) does not disproportionately infect adults older than 60 years; this was an unusual and characteristic feature of the H1N1 pandemic.


    The present pox is more typical of flu in this respect. If your girlfriend in her early 20s gets this one then when she goes to the hospital it will already be full.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭laurah591


    fritzelly wrote: »
    Hubei update

    318 new cases
    41 new deaths
    7630 serious/critical cases

    32,878 still in hospital

    Another significant drop in that serious/critical number. Hats off to China if they are reporting accurately.... which I hope they are


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 312 ✭✭Abba987


    Panic is happening before any cases are announced I dread to think what will happen when there is one. We sell face masks, decent ones and really cheap ones. Normally we sell 100- 500 a week.
    This week we have sold 50,000 and only because we only had that many. Could have sold 5 times that.

    Because of a more serious infection or because of social media?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,147 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    What I find most concerning about this virus is the reported 14% reinfection rate among those who have survived initial infection.
    A 14% re infection rate a mere couple of months into the outbreak has to be a concern.

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,643 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Nice Guy


    Useful interview here with Professor David Heymann, who led the WHO's response to Sars, and who is advising on the Coronavirus. Begins about 5 minutes in:

    https://www.chathamhouse.org/file/how-concerning-new-coronavirus-outbreak?CMP=share_btn_tw


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,684 ✭✭✭Kaisr Sose


    laurah591 wrote: »
    Another significant drop in that serious/critical number. Hats off to China if they are reporting accurately.... which I hope they are

    It came from an official Chinese Government news briefing, it must be true


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