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

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  • #5192
    Be right back
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭Be right back


    Weepsie wrote: »
    No, of course I'm fecking not, but there was stuff put in place to prevent the spread of foot and mouth by humans.

    Sterilised entrances, screening, very visible and vocal public information campaign, event cancellations and such.

    Yes, we could do with someone like Joe Walsh now.


  • #5193
    BanditLuke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭BanditLuke


    Yurt! wrote: »
    Numbers at 2337 in South Korea. So a further 600 since yesterday.

    Astounding. Was really worried about the numbers there


  • #5194
    Doff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 736 ✭✭✭Doff


    Love how people try wind this Coronavirus back to Trump. The man is living rent free in some peoples heads and its pathetic.


  • #5195
    macwal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 148 ✭✭macwal


    Del Griffith wrote: »
    Everyone can relax, the HSE have set up an emergency info desk at Dublin Airport

    q5qzR4O.jpg


    Are they reusing the signs they had from the swine flu days...?


  • #5196
    Runaways
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭Runaways


    Love the way people always try make it about trump. It’s almost like they’re being paid to do it.


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  • #5197
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,190 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Weepsie wrote: »
    No, of course I'm fecking not, but there was stuff put in place to prevent the spread of foot and mouth by humans.

    Sterilised entrances, screening, very visible and vocal public information campaign, event cancellations and such.
    All of these things started after the culling had already begun. Ultimately it's a fundamentally different issue.

    Sterilised entrances will do feck all to reduce coronavirus spread. The public information campaign has been ramping up for a week and we've only had a confirmed case yesterday.

    Events will be cancelled, but haven't yet because this has all been "what if" up to now.

    The primary work now really needs to go into infection control and funding vaccine research. The incubation period of this means that it's basically impossible to contain, so it's going to continue spreading. One day it'll have reached every country, we can say "tada", and then life will move on with coronavirus being just another every day illness like 'flu or norovirus.


  • #5198
    Duke of Url
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,662 ✭✭✭Duke of Url


    Out of Closed Cases ( Closed Cases are confirmed cases with an outcome , Either Fully recovered or Died ) the % of people who died has dropped to 7% today from 8 % yesterday


  • #5199
    macwal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 148 ✭✭macwal


    imfml wrote: »
    Don't worry, I'm sure he has the necessary qualifications to hand out leaflets.


    He looks like he was born within the last 20 years, so I doubt it.


  • #5200
    timmyntc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,609 ✭✭✭timmyntc


    Why aren't airport staff given masks or other PPE?


  • #5201
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,419 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    seamus wrote: »
    Sterilised entrances will do feck all to reduce coronavirus spread. The public information campaign has been ramping up for a week and we've only had a confirmed case yesterday.

    Handgel dispensers at entrances would help, both in terms of disinfecting hands AND a psychological message to people that this is something to take precautions against.
    I know we already have them in hospitals and some officesrsities but it needs to be ramped up.

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



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  • #5202
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    Duke of Url wrote: »
    Out of Closed Cases ( Closed Cases are confirmed cases with an outcome , Either Fully recovered or Died ) the % of people who died has dropped to 7% today from 8 % yesterday

    That’s good news. Is there an overall figure of those closed cases that became infected again?


  • #5203
    tillyfilly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 567 ✭✭✭tillyfilly


    A village in Ireland is to make 2.7 million face masks next week, 1000 euro a pop probably if they are smart


  • #5204
    wadacrack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,172 ✭✭✭wadacrack


    https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1233318106967216128


  • #5205
    old_aussie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,410 ✭✭✭old_aussie


    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    Serious question IF this thing gets really bad and we go onto lockdown for a bit how many of us will not have jobs to go back to?

    The real question is...... how many jobs will have no one to go back to them?


  • #5206
    Macy0161
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,660 ✭✭✭Macy0161


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    Handgel dispensers at entrances would help, both in terms of disinfecting hands AND a psychological message to people that this is something to take precautions against.
    I know we already have them in hospitals and some officesrsities but it needs to be ramped up.
    I would've said these have remained in place since Swine Flu? Certainly my workplaces since then have always had them, and any (admittedly all offices) that I have visited through my work.


  • #5207
    SharpshooterTom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭SharpshooterTom


    Runaways wrote: »
    Love the way people always try make it about trump. It’s almost like they’re being paid to do it.

    CNN are talking about Trump and Coronavirus non stop.

    NYT had an article yesterday calling it Trumpvirus and how it will become a hashtag.

    Either way the US press clearly see this as opening to get the democrats back into power.

    I think Trumps election chances are in trouble here personally. Its the story the democrats were looking for this year.


  • #5208
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    From the Independent this morning
    Dr Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer in the Dept of Health, said: “The HSE is well-prepared and is working to inform any contacts the patient had in order to prevent transmission...

    The HSE also conceded there is a risk of an outbreak in overcrowded hospitals which continue to battle the trolley crisis...

    Suspect cases who need to be brought to hospital for a swab test can no longer be routinely brought by ambulance...

    They will have to arrange their own transport with a relative.

    This is because of the rising number of suspect cases due to more countries being added to the at risk list.

    https://m.independent.ie/world-news/coronavirus/first-coronavirus-case-confirmed-woman-travelled-to-north-by-train-after-arriving-at-dublin-airport-from-italy-38997601.html


  • #5209
    the butcher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 591 ✭✭✭the butcher


    Those suspected cases, are we only doing one test on them? Cases elsewhere it took 2-4 tests to confirm it.


  • #5210
    BanditLuke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭BanditLuke


    ThomasFlynn wrote: »
    CNN are talking about Trump and Coronavirus non stop.

    NYT had an article yesterday calling it Trumpvirus and how it will become a hashtag.

    Either way the US press clearly see this as opening to get the democrats back into power.

    I think Trumps election chances are in trouble here personally. Its the story the democrats were looking for this year.

    You'd want to be a right sad eejit to listen to what CNN are churning out. Makes Fox seem balanced and unbiased.


  • #5211
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    ThomasFlynn wrote: »
    CNN are talking about Trump and Coronavirus non stop.

    NYT had an article yesterday calling it Trumpvirus and how it will become a hashtag.

    Either way the US press clearly see this as opening to get the democrats back into power.

    I think Trumps election chances are in trouble here personally. Its the story the democrats were looking for this year.

    How will this help the Democrats exactly?


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  • #5212
    RebelButtMunch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭RebelButtMunch


    First case in Nigeria... it's going to be chaos once it gets embedded in Africa


  • #5213
    s7ryf3925pivug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,007 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    40% to 70% of the world were predicted to catch the virus by Harvard Epidemology Professor Lipsitch. That figure was since revised to 40% to 70% of adults without effective controls.
    The population of earth is 7.5 billion. About 26% of people are under 15.
    If 40% of people over 15 were infected with a 2% fatality rate about 45 million people would die. Obviously these figures are pretty arbitrary.


  • #5214
    Drumpot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭Drumpot


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQwfuJgJ9lo


    This is a really good source for information for those who want to actually understand how things are changing. This was highlighted on Tuesdays talk from

    https://youtu.be/XF6AZv8P3i4

    What this video, it’s really turning out to be so important to our understanding of the virus. It seems the reason china’s way of diagnosing cases changed was because they realised that CT scans were most reliable in diagnosis.

    It seems like there are variable methods being used around the world to diagnose the Corona and they can be as unreliable as 30%. Blood tests I think he said are only 70% reliable.


  • #5215
    bennyineire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭bennyineire


    Any news on the media blackout this morning :P


  • #5216
    BanditLuke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭BanditLuke


    Doff wrote: »
    Love how people try wind this Coronavirus back to Trump. The man is living rent free in some peoples heads and its pathetic.

    Some of the frankly batsh1t crazy conspiracy theory stuff out on forums the ilk of Reddit etc..about Trump and the virus are insane.


  • #5217
    old_aussie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,410 ✭✭✭old_aussie


    tillyfilly wrote: »
    A village in Ireland is to make 2.7 million face masks next week, 1000 euro a pop probably if they are smart

    Long may the rich live :(


  • #5218
    SharpshooterTom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭SharpshooterTom


    Ulysses Gaze wrote: »
    How will this help the Democrats exactly?

    If the economy crashes he's finished.

    Trump lives or dies by the economy.

    Democrats got into power in both 1992 and 2008 by tanking economies.


  • #5219
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,419 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    ThomasFlynn wrote: »
    If the economy crashes he's finished.
    Trump lives or dies by the economy.
    Democrats got into power in both 1992 and 2008 by tanking economies.

    Plus his cuts to funding of federal health \ science programmes won't look good if this hits the US seriously.

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



  • #5220
    Runaways
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭Runaways


    ThomasFlynn wrote: »
    CNN are talking about Trump and Coronavirus non stop.

    NYT had an article yesterday calling it Trumpvirus and how it will become a hashtag.

    Either way the US press clearly see this as opening to get the democrats back into power.

    I think Trumps election chances are in trouble here personally. Its the story the democrats were looking for this year.



    Well he gutted the CDC budget so if this breaks out in America it’s directly on him.

    Mad the there’s mass shootings they get thoughts and prayers

    Outbreak of a deadly virus? Gets 6 billion


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  • #5221
    BanditLuke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭BanditLuke


    RebelButtMunch wrote: »
    First case in Nigeria... it's going to be chaos once it gets embedded in Africa

    In fairness they handled Ebola alright when they had an outbreak okay they got help from the outside world and that may not be available now due to the virus putting health services the world over under immediate and immense pressue. Let's wait and see i'd be more worried about our health service right now.


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