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

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  • #6062
    Rob A. Bank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭Rob A. Bank


    fritzelly wrote: »
    They disinfected it

    How do you know ?

    And what about the bus from the airport to Connolly Station ?


  • #6063
    ardinn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,246 ✭✭✭ardinn


    2lazytogetup wrote: »
    anyone know where to get face masks. i cant find any in any pharmacies

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  • #6064
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,113 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Rob A. Bank wrote: »
    How do you know ?

    And what about the bus from the airport to Connolly Station ?

    https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2020/0228/1118104-coronavirus-ireland/


  • #6065
    citysights
    Closed Accounts Posts: 288 ✭✭citysights


    seamus wrote: »
    The US numbers will start to explode.
    Their shambles of a health system means that the majority of people won't go near a doctor unless they're dragged to it in an ambulance.

    About a third of Americans either have no health insurance or only have very basic/specific cover, which means that in order to get tested for coronavirus will be a trip to the hospital and several hundred dollars out of pocket. Plus they probably won't have sick leave/sick pay.

    So they'll have a lot of infected walking the streets, going to work and trying to get on with their lives, spreading the infection around. They'll hit a tipping point and go from a few hundred cases to tens of thousands inside a couple of weeks.
    Read that the test for the virus can cost three thousand dollars ( saw it on Twitter)fake news I’d say. But you are right people without medical insurance in trouble. Anyone know how much the test for the virus costs in US just out of interest?


  • #6066
    fr336
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,179 ✭✭✭✭fr336


    So almost 700 people in Italy have tested positive for coronavirus. On the plus side 60 million people in Italy are still okay.


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  • #6067
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,041 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    Can you imagine the germs on shopping trolleys, and door handles, and coins and cash. It will spread so easily in Ireland if it takes hold.
    Would the same germ logic not apply everywhere? Do other countries not use doors?


  • #6068
    circadian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,436 ✭✭✭circadian


    Rob A. Bank wrote: »
    How do you know ?

    And what about the bus from the airport to Connolly Station ?

    Translink and Irish Rail confirmed they disinfected all enterprise carriages last night.


  • #6069
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,355 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    https://twitter.com/Sharon_Gaffney/status/1233437549886132225?s=20

    This is connected. I don't know how, I don't know why, but this is connected!

    Follow the money people.


  • #6070
    josip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,739 ✭✭✭✭josip


    loveall wrote: »
    I'm thinking about releasing a mail to clients saying all work will be done remotely for the foreseeable . My husband thinks I'm being over the top and has no intention of stopping visits. I'm immune compromised, work from home whilst he's on the road making visits.

    I'll have the mail drafted over the weekend and if he still doesn't hear me I'll make up a bed in the shed for him!


    Just going on what you've posted above, it'd be a pliers, car battery and chainsaw I'd be setting up for his shed visit, not a bed.


  • #6071
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,113 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    citysights wrote: »
    Read that the test for the virus can cost three thousand dollars ( saw it on Twitter)fake news I’d say. But you are right people without medical insurance in trouble. Anyone know how much the test for the virus costs in US just out of interest?

    More fake news - they cost about 5 euro, depending on supplier


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  • #6072
    Dave0301
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,718 ✭✭✭Dave0301


    FTSE 100 closing at its lowest since the 2008 crash.

    Hopefully Western economics can avoid having to do what China has to halt the outbreak.

    I doubt London would take as well to a 6 week quarantine as Wuhan.


  • #6073
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,355 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    fr336 wrote: »
    So almost 700 people in Italy have tested positive for coronavirus. On the plus side 60 million people in Italy are still okay.

    Yeah but the thing to watch is when those numbers start going up and the Italians decide they're going to switch sides and start fighting for coronavirus.


  • #6074
    Mr.Nice Guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,643 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Nice Guy


    Was listening to RTE's podcast on the coronavirus earlier (available here) and found this comment about smoking interesting:
    Ray Walley: The one I’d like to throw in is cigarette smoking. We don’t know from the data in China how smoking history affects [susceptibility to coronavirus]. We have data about other coronaviruses. So, when we did the smoking ban here 10 or so years ago, the rate of respiratory infections, many of which are coronaviruses actually dropped dramatically in workers in restaurants, hotels and bars after the smoking ban. So without having solid data from China, I would be very surprised if it’s not cigarette smoking over many years that has an impact. There’s people with chronic lung disease that are dying from this. So I would put out an anti-smoking message quite strongly.

    Was thinking this might help to explain why younger people appear to be less susceptible to the worst effects of it?


  • #6075
    mlem123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 220 ✭✭mlem123


    fritzelly wrote: »
    More fake news - they cost about 5 euro, depending on supplier

    Yeah but American companies inflate prices for insurance


  • #6076
    circadian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,436 ✭✭✭circadian


    fritzelly wrote: »
    More fake news - they cost about 5 euro, depending on supplier

    You'd need to apply the Freedom Markup for America.


  • #6077
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1233438108319875073?s=20
    Jaysus


  • #6078
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,113 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    mlem123 wrote: »
    Yeah but American companies inflate prices for insurance

    This is not an insurance issue


  • #6079
    otnomart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭otnomart


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    Do you have information on how Italy ignored the proper response, and let's say France did not?
    Italian government stated that they banned all flights to/from China because they had no National Airline that flew there, which they could give instructions to.
    While other Countries such as UK and Germany have a National Airline that flew there and therefore they could instruct their BA, Lufthansa and so on.


    So the Chinese people that travelled to Italy since then, flew via other airports such as Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Paris, London...
    Is it possible that they infected people on those flights, though.


  • #6080
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,372 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    fritzelly wrote: »
    More fake news - they cost about 5 euro, depending on supplier

    Not necessarily in America, it's a ridiculously profiteering industry there.


  • #6081
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,372 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    super_furry wrote: »
    Yeah but the thing to watch is when those numbers start going up and the Italians decide they're going to switch sides and start fighting for coronavirus.

    I get that reference.


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  • #6082
    ceadaoin.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,620 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    citysights wrote: »
    Read that the test for the virus can cost three thousand dollars ( saw it on Twitter)fake news I’d say. But you are right people without medical insurance in trouble. Anyone know how much the test for the virus costs in US just out of interest?

    I dont think the test itself costs anything for the patient, given that it is provided by the CDC and is in the interests of public health. Treatment however is a different story and would probably run into the thousands depending on insurance coverage.


  • #6083
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,113 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    wakka12 wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1233438108319875073?s=20
    Jaysus

    You mean this?

    https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1233438301786443779


  • #6084
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Flu/comments/faxw4q/cbc_canada_dropping_the_ball_empty_streets/

    Health Officials in Vancouver say containment measures will actually be relaxed if coronavirus begins to spread widely within the province


  • #6085
    Peatys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,881 ✭✭✭Peatys


    cameramonkey wrote: »
    It is not Christchurch.Unless they changed the front recently.

    I know it's bollox. I was replying to a poster who had been told the hotel was on pearse st. So far I've gotten the video and was told it was Christchurch and parnell st


  • #6086
    citysights
    Closed Accounts Posts: 288 ✭✭citysights


    fritzelly wrote: »
    More fake news - they cost about 5 euro, depending on supplier

    Yeah but how much do Americans have to pay to take the test if they don’t have health insurance cover?


  • #6087
    ceadaoin.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,620 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    Hurrache wrote: »
    Not necessarily in America, it's a ridiculously profiteering industry there.
    citysights wrote: »
    Yeah but how much do Americans have to pay to take the test if they don’t have health insurance cover?

    Testing is provided by the CDC, not private medical facilities, theres no way they charge for it


  • #6088
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,113 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    fritzelly wrote: »
    You mean this?

    https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1233438301786443779

    Crazy numbers - must be at least 10,000 infected


  • #6089
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,372 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    ceadaoin. wrote: »
    Testing is provided by the CDC, theres no way they charge for it

    Good point.


  • #6090
    recyclebin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,536 ✭✭✭recyclebin


    Code red in the weather Forum. Evacuate evacuate evacuate........


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  • #6091
    otnomart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭otnomart


    France has two epicentres now:
    one in the Oise (town of Creil) with no known links to China nor Italy,
    and another one in Haute-Savoie where they registered two new cases (in addition to the earlier cases in the skying lodge, linked to the British 'super - spreader".


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