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

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  • #5642
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,316 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Titclamp wrote: »
    Does anyone believe this came from some clown eating bats?

    Nope! Too much of a coincidence for me that it first started infecting people in the vicinity of the viral lab.
    Then coupled with the virus is a mutation from bats, snakes and pangolin with maybe a smattering of HIV makes it more likely in my books that it's an engineered virus.
    Probably tested on some convicts that in fairness the regime has a poor record on. Organ harvesting, etc, etc.

    https://qz.com/1805422/wuhan-virology-lab-unable-to-quell-china-coronavirus-conspiracies/amp/


  • #5643
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Mass-Corona.png


  • #5644
    solidasarock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 363 ✭✭solidasarock


    That Cruise Ship sounds like a nightmare.


  • #5645
    Loafing Oaf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,809 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1233373902279233536

    Given the high percentage of Italians travelling testing positive, I'm starting to wonder if the figures coming out of the country itself are a serious underestimate


  • #5646
    Doctors room ghost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,839 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    Runaways wrote: »
    I rang the HSE helpline last night did I basically have all the symptoms and have come back from a high risk area a week ago and they said a doctor would call back within 24 hours.
    Still waiting.

    Can’t help but feel they’re just ignoring this.





    They’re flat out making posters.


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  • #5647
    Jin luk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 389 ✭✭Jin luk


    Case in castlepollard


  • #5648
    gabeeg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭gabeeg


    Runaways wrote: »
    I rang the HSE helpline last night did I basically have all the symptoms and have come back from a high risk area a week ago and they said a doctor would call back within 24 hours.
    Still waiting.

    Can’t help but feel they’re just ignoring this.

    Yikes. Good luck with it.

    How are you feeling? Are you in a safe enough age bracket?


  • #5649
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Runaways wrote: »
    I rang the HSE helpline last night did I basically have all the symptoms and have come back from a high risk area a week ago and they said a doctor would call back within 24 hours.
    Still waiting.

    Can’t help but feel they’re just ignoring this.

    Are you still posting from the jacks?


  • #5650
    BanditLuke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭BanditLuke


    Runaways wrote: »
    I rang the HSE helpline last night did I basically have all the symptoms and have come back from a high risk area a week ago and they said a doctor would call back within 24 hours.
    Still waiting.

    Can’t help but feel they’re just ignoring this.

    No tests no numbers. All is good come to Ireland greatest little country on the planet.


  • #5651
    Peatys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,881 ✭✭✭Peatys


    BanditLuke wrote: »
    Hello Miss Bailey.

    Sean.. Sean........ SEAN!!


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  • #5652
    carq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 871 ✭✭✭carq


    Jin luk wrote: »
    Case in castlepollard

    confirmed ?


  • #5653
    BanditLuke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭BanditLuke


    Jin luk wrote: »
    Case in castlepollard

    Suitcase or case of beer?


  • #5654
    BanditLuke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭BanditLuke


    solidasarock wrote: »
    That Cruise Ship sounds like a nightmare.

    And that's before the virus


  • #5655
    2Mad2BeMad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,792 ✭✭✭2Mad2BeMad


    BanditLuke wrote: »
    Suitcase or case of beer?

    Nutcase


  • #5656
    blanch152
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,851 ✭✭✭✭blanch152


    gabeeg wrote: »
    Mate, they've done roughly 100 tests over the last month or so.
    They managed to do 10 tests yesterday. That's your ramp.

    Perhaps I'm wrong, as you say I'm no risk management expert (are you?), but 100 tests over the period of a month seems wholly inadequate to me.

    I'm not bashing their entire response to this crisis. Much of it has been as good as you could expect. It's just that I fear they're flying blind and I expect they're scrambling to catch up.


    There are too elements to being a risk management expert on a particular issue. One is to understand the concept of risks, mitigation, costs, alternatives etc. The second is to be an expert in the subject area.

    I understand enough about a risk management approach to see that is what they are doing, but don't have a clue about medical issues to be able to know whether they are right, but they are the experts.


  • #5657
    Loafing Oaf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,809 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    Jin luk wrote: »
    Case in castlepollard

    Seemingly in a pupil back from a trip to Italy. Why are these still going on?:mad:


  • #5658
    BanditLuke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭BanditLuke


    Say my name wrote: »
    Nope! Too much of a coincidence for me that it first started infecting people in the vicinity of the viral lab.
    Then coupled with the virus is a mutation from bats, snakes and pangolin with maybe a smattering of HIV makes it more likely in my books that it's an engineered virus.
    Probably tested on some convicts that in fairness the regime has a poor record on. Organ harvesting, etc, etc.

    https://qz.com/1805422/wuhan-virology-lab-unable-to-quell-china-coronavirus-conspiracies/amp/

    Ah come on do we have to have the thread "infected" with this guff.


  • #5659
    dan786
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,341 ✭✭✭dan786


    Another country on list

    https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1233381436977225729?s=20


  • #5660
    Sierra Oscar
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,666 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sierra Oscar


    Runaways wrote: »
    I rang the HSE helpline last night did I basically have all the symptoms and have come back from a high risk area a week ago and they said a doctor would call back within 24 hours.
    Still waiting.

    Can’t help but feel they’re just ignoring this.

    Talk to Joe, 1850715815. You'll get a callback fairly sharpish!


  • #5661
    khalessi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,216 ✭✭✭khalessi


    Jin luk wrote: »
    Case in castlepollard

    https://www.northernsound.ie/north-confirms-first-coronavirus-case-castlepollard-teen-tested/


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  • #5662
    Snow Garden
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Snow Garden


    cnocbui wrote: »
    What percentage of the recommended daily intake of omega-3 is in a turnip?

    It depends on how much of the turnip you eat.


  • #5663
    Duke of Url
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,662 ✭✭✭Duke of Url


    3qpl7d.jpg


  • #5664
    BanditLuke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭BanditLuke


    khalessi wrote: »
    https://www.northernsound.ie/north-confirms-first-coronavirus-case-castlepollard-teen-tested/

    All that says is they are being tested.


  • #5665
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,408 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    khalessi wrote: »
    https://www.northernsound.ie/north-confirms-first-coronavirus-case-castlepollard-teen-tested/

    A Westmeath teenager has been tested for COVID-19 after arriving home from Italy.
    The Castlepollard Community College student had been on a school ski trip to the north of the country.
    The individual was tested last night after displaying some symptoms of the infection.

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



  • #5666
    BanditLuke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭BanditLuke


    Sierra Oscar wrote: »
    Talk to Joe, 1850715815. You'll get a callback fairly sharpish!

    You knew that off by heart didn't you :(


  • #5667
    khalessi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,216 ✭✭✭khalessi


    i know that theyre just being tested was just providing background to the previous comment


  • #5668
    Doctors room ghost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,839 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    Instead of face masks some people would be better off with focusing on acquiring a double lined tin foil hat for themselves and a few Valium.
    Surf it out lads,surf it out.


  • #5669
    Runaways
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭Runaways


    gabeeg wrote: »
    Yikes. Good luck with it.

    How are you feeling? Are you in a safe enough age bracket?

    Ish. Smoker too though. Feel like I Been hit by a bus and running to the toilet every few minutes. But whatever’s going on in my throat n where it meets me chest is what’s freaking me out.
    See if they call tho.


  • #5670
    gabeeg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭gabeeg


    blanch152 wrote: »
    There are too elements to being a risk management expert on a particular issue. One is to understand the concept of risks, mitigation, costs, alternatives etc. The second is to be an expert in the subject area.

    I understand enough about a risk management approach to see that is what they are doing, but don't have a clue about medical issues to be able to know whether they are right, but they are the experts.

    Yes, and they're taking a significantly different approach to testing to experts from other countries.

    Our approach is more akin to the USA's, which has been heavily criticised


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  • #5671
    Snow Garden
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Snow Garden


    No panic buying in the local Supervalu today. Good to see. The shelves are already heavily stocked with Easter eggs.


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