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

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  • #6212
    DrumSteve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,798 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    givyjoe wrote: »
    Was in Tesco last night and wouldn't know any different. Has there been a run on them today?!

    Literally just left a tesco and it was fully stocked.


  • #6213
    Ray Donovan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,030 ✭✭✭Ray Donovan


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    You would think that prayers could be organised via technology, eg video link, where the faithful could orient their prayer map in direction of Mecca and gave Imam on video leading the prayers. Like Sunday Mass & Services on the TV. Or radio. It would take sensible Imams like Dr Al-Qadhri to instigate this and appraise the faithful that it fulfills religious practice under the circumstances.

    But Allah trumps all!! 🙄🙄🙄


  • #6214
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    The good news is my turkey will be ready in just over an hour! It smells delish

    Who cooks a Turkey at this time of year?


  • #6215
    morebabies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 539 ✭✭✭morebabies


    Cupatae wrote: »
    just seen on the news there hospitals so overcrowded a child had to be treated on the floor, anyone that thinks our health care is up to this in for an awful shock.

    Sorry, where was this?


  • #6216
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    cameramonkey wrote: »
    covid-19-new-cases-graphic-feb-28.png

    Singapore seems to managing their outbreak so far. No deaths and 69 out of 98 cases have been discharged.

    Singapore is a good place to be sick, with its health & safety culture & societal discipline. The climate may be a factor too as it’s always warm & tropical; however it’s also very humid with high rainfall, and people spend a lot of time in air conditioning indoors.


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  • #6217
    tara73
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,358 ✭✭✭tara73


    BanditLuke wrote: »
    Wait hold on, they are charging people to be tested in Germany?


    no, not at all. you are tested (for free, your mandatory health insurance is paying it) if you have symptoms of covid-19 and been in one of the regions of the biggest outbreaks like China, Italy etc.
    If you have no typical symptoms, havn't been in the regions but want to get tested, you would have to pay it for yourself.


    but the hospitals in germany are so understaffed too, nobodies doing tests for people showing no typical symptoms, especially not now. maybe private laboratories. hmm, think I'm just on to some business idea here...wouldn't be wondering if there popping up private covid-19 testing laboratories everywhere soon..:o


  • #6218
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    DrumSteve wrote: »
    Literally just left a tesco and it was fully stocked.

    Same here did a big shop in Supervalu last night and it was fully stocked

    The oh doesn't know himself with all the food in the house


  • #6219
    blade1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,767 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    Doesn't anybody read this thread before they post the link that's being posted several times already!
    No,most of us have lifes to live.....well for the moment anyway.


  • #6220
    Rob A. Bank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭Rob A. Bank


    Deleted User wrote: »
    You would think that prayers could be organised via technology, eg video link, where the faithful could orient their prayer map in direction of Mecca and gave Imam on video leading the prayers. Like Sunday Mass & Services on the TV. Or radio. It would take sensible Imams like Dr Al-Qadhri to instigate this and appraise the faithful that it fulfills religious practice under the circumstances.

    Same could be said about the yanks.... with Mike Pence in charge expect a lot of prayer.

    ;-)


  • #6221
    Snake Plisken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,950 ✭✭✭✭Snake Plisken


    froog wrote: »
    the only positive i can take right now is that the inevitable comical mismanagement of this thing in the US will massively hurt Trump's election chances.

    Back to the Trump derangement syndrome thread with yourself and Boggles!
    Sad that all you both can think of is the virus damaging Trump's chances!


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  • #6222
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,610 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    wakka12 wrote: »
    Havnt been to a supermarket in a few days but are they actually all cleared out? Thats unbelievable

    I was in Supervalu this morning and it was packed with people, asked one of the lads stacking shelves was it usually this busy, he said 'yeah, friday, everyone doing their weekly shop'


  • #6223
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    When the experts speak of a mild illness, their definition may be different to a patient’s. Mild, of course, means you don’t require hospital admission, but got anybody who has suffered an Influenza virus illness and weathered it out at home, it has taken a few weeks out of their lives, it has rendered them unfit for anything but bed for up to a week, it had probably caused a post-acute-phase depression, it has taken them out of work for at least two weeks or more if job involves caring for vulnerable people, being a pilot, and other jobs where concentration is critical.

    Going on past experience of influenza and what I’m hearing, even a “mild” episode of Covid-19 will render you rather unwell, and unable to work or do many of your normal responsibilities for up to a month. Between falling ill, going through the phase of being rather unwell, self-isolation, and recovering strength, it will take a minimum of 3 and probably more weeks before re-participating in society. That’s a month out of life for up to half the population, if it does its worst on society, which is no joke. Quite apart from those who will not survive and those who survive with damage to vital organs.

    What does this type of scaremongering achieve? because personally that's all it is. Other than follow the guidelines from the HSE and government there is nothing people can do.
    Also you are offering a definition of what you claim is medical terminology, can you back up your claim?


  • #6224
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    morebabies wrote: »
    Sorry, where was this?

    On the RTÉ 1 TV news now.


  • #6225
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    There's also a good chance that North Korea has been hit hard, supposedly there were a few parades cancelled a while back that may have been due to Moon boys reaction to an outbreak.


  • #6226
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,647 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Cupatae wrote: »
    just seen on the news there hospitals so overcrowded a child had to be treated on the floor, anyone that thinks our health care is up to this in for an awful shock.

    Link? How do you mean treated?


  • #6227
    laurah591
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭laurah591


    FionnK86 wrote: »
    I've had to sign legal document that I've not got virus or travelled to afflicted areas, for meeting in France next week. Warning on document that I could be prosecuted under French law for lying.

    I think i would be seeking to postpone that meeting....


  • #6228
    BanditLuke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭BanditLuke


    tara73 wrote: »
    no, not at all. you are tested (for free, your mandatory health insurance is paying it) if you have symptoms of covid-19 and been in one of the regions of the biggest outbreaks like China, Italy etc.
    If you have no typical symptoms, havn't been in the regions but want to get tested, you would have to pay it for yourself.


    but the hospitals in germany are so understaffed too, nobodies doing tests for people showing no typical symptoms, especially not now. maybe private laboratories. hmm, think I'm just on to some business idea here...wouldn't be wondering if there popping up private covid-19 testing laboratories everywhere soon..:o

    Ah I realise that sorry I thought you meant people with symptoms where being charged.


  • #6229
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,610 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Link? How do you mean treated?

    RTE news just this second, having seisures, 'supposotries administered to reduce the babys temperature'


  • #6230
    cnocbui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,002 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Who cooks a Turkey at this time of year?

    Someone who doesn't want to cook for the rest of the week?


  • #6231
    tillyfilly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 567 ✭✭✭tillyfilly


    Paddigol wrote: »
    By what measurement is the world economy on the brink of collapsing?

    demand is going to be way more than supply for all things!


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  • #6232
    Acosta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,689 ✭✭✭Acosta


    If the Irish aviation sector is just going to follow the lead of the HSE on this then we're probably ****ed


  • #6233
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Who cooks a Turkey at this time of year?

    <sigh>

    Someone whose mother won 7 of them playing 25 before Christmas and there were 5 still in the freezer!

    At least I’m using my noggin and not grabbing all the tins in tesco


  • #6234
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    What does this type of scaremongering achieve? because personally that's all it is. Other than follow the guidelines from the HSE and government there is nothing people can do.
    Also you are offering a definition of what you claim is medical terminology, can you back up your claim?

    What exactly are you referring to by definition of medical definition?

    The doctors, eg Tony Holohan, refer to mild cases as those not needing hospital admission. What I am saying is simply that when you are in the moment of feeling very sick with Influenza virus you do not perceive it to be mild even though you are not at all seriously ill. But I haven’t had Covid-19, maybe it really is a walk in the park and you can just go on your merry way to work, shops, etc.

    I know how illness feels, having suffered extremely serious life-threatening bouts of illness myself on four to five occasions. I have also suffered benign episodes of influenza during pandemics including 1968 Hong Kong, and felt just as miserably unwell as when I got the serious stuff. Some are fortunate not to have experienced these things in life, or haven’t reached an age where they be one more likely.


  • #6235
    Peatys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,881 ✭✭✭Peatys


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    What does this type of scaremongering achieve? because personally that's all it is. Other than follow the guidelines from the HSE and government there is nothing people can do.
    Also you are offering a definition of what you claim is medical terminology, can you back up your claim?
    I'm a Man flu survivor. 4 weeks out of work seems mild.


  • #6236
    thebaz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,842 ✭✭✭✭thebaz


    Professor Moriarty wrote: »
    In the past 24 hours, China reported 329 new cases - the lowest for a month.

    Amidst all the end of the world panic , this piece of good news gets drowned out - its quite significant , but the internet and media like to fan mass panic/hysteria -


  • #6237
    Kivaro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,105 ✭✭✭Kivaro


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Who cooks a Turkey at this time of year?
    Didn't Jesus and the boys have it for the Last Supper?


  • #6238
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,392 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Does being floored by regular flu and then facing walking pneumonia count as mild?
    Cos I've had that... and it's not what most people would consider a mild illness. From an A&E perspective it is.

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



  • #6239
    Cupatae
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭Cupatae


    morebabies wrote: »
    Sorry, where was this?

    Cork


  • #6240
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    thebaz wrote: »
    Amidst all the end of the world panic , this piece of good news gets drowned out - its quite significant , but the internet and media like to fan mass panic/hysteria -

    Yeh its good but pretty irrelevant to the rest of the world who will not implement measures like China did. The numbers only went down to thatbecause nobody in China went outside for two months


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  • #6241
    The Rape of Lucretia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭The Rape of Lucretia


    I tried to get some groceries in a Tesco this evening but was turned back. Panic buying does not describe the scene there.
    Hardly anything on the shelves. Security had been overcome a short while earlier apparently. People litterally climbing over each other to get the last of the pasta and rice. Loads of Gorzonzala still there but it was cordoned of with biohazard signs, as if people were going to go near it anyway. Saw two ladies playing tug of war over a tub of baby formula, it split open, scattering the contents all over the floor, and the two ladies just collapsed in each others arms sobbing. People were even buying kale. Or would have had there been any staff left at the checkouts. Someone screamed 'hand gel' and there was a stampede. I am sure children were being trampled, as the crowd rushed the length of an aisle. I left. I have never seen the like.


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