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

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  • #6242
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Cupatae wrote: »
    People are dumb as f**k, panic is as dangerous.

    Don't feed the bridge dweller


  • #6243
    thebaz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,842 ✭✭✭✭thebaz


    wakka12 wrote: »
    The numbers only went down to thatbecause nobody in China went outside for two months

    In the effected epi-centre of virus - Wuhan - they did lockdown , the rest of China continued on , people need to be aware , but doomsday fear and panic will make situation worse - increase anxiety / depression etc.


  • #6244
    Peatys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,881 ✭✭✭Peatys


    Cupatae wrote: »
    People are dumb as f**k, panic is as dangerous.

    You can't possibly believe that? Kale??


  • #6245
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    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 -

    Look at the measures they took to achieve this.


  • #6246
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,683 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    Peatys wrote: »
    You can't possibly believe that? Kale??

    I know. I had to make my smoked salmon toast without avocado. Very disappointed


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  • #6247
    Peatys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,881 ✭✭✭Peatys


    Doctor Jimbob wrote: »
    Even by your standards this is extremely unsubtle.

    In fairness, he hooked one.


  • #6248
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    thebaz wrote: »
    In the effected epi-centre of virus - Wuhan - they did lockdown , the rest of China continued on , people need to be aware , but doomsday fear and panic will make situation worse - increase anxiety / depression etc.

    Well you could say that the WHO are fuelling that by giving their highest possible level of alert for this virus.


  • #6249
    thebaz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,842 ✭✭✭✭thebaz


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Look at the measures they took to achieve this.

    yes , but amidst all the hysteria of the past week , it is good news , that has got drowned out by the Panic inducing headlines


  • #6250
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    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.
    You claimed doctors used the term 'mild' but then proceeded to give your own definition as to what 'mild' means. That is why I asked you to back up your claim.
    So you experienced life threatening illness and you feel it is your duty to inform others that is what awaits them from Covid 19 eventhough you say 'it maybe a walk in the park'
    Your post is the very essence of scaremongering based on your own 'personal' experience .
    Many how contract it won't even know they have it. I listened to an expert on the radio yesterday who stated 80% who contact it won't even know they have it. 14% will fall ill and 6% will suffer serious illness and a smaller percentage of the 6% it may prove terminal.
    One thing posts such as yours prove is just how dangerous the internet can be in terms of providing false and hysterical information.


  • #6251
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,392 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    wakka12 wrote: »
    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

    And did someone post earlier in the thread that they moved 40,000 medical staff into a province of 11 million.
    No other country could do that.

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



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  • #6252
    Cupatae
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭Cupatae


    Peatys wrote: »
    In fairness, he hooked one.

    he did... i didnt read it fully, and tried to delete it as quick as i could but alas...was too late..:mad: lmao


  • #6253
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Since this is the end who would like to confess all their sins? Just give us your name, address and occupation, spill the beans and you'll go to heaven feeling a great weight has been lifted.

    Who'd like to go first? :)


  • #6254
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,392 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Many how contract it won't even know they have it. I listened to an expert on the radio yesterday who stated 80% who contact it won't even know they have it. 14% will fall ill and 6% will suffer serious illness and a smaller percentage of the 6% it may prove terminal.
    One thing posts such as yours prove is just how dangerous the internet can be in terms of providing false and hysterical information.

    Your expert is talking nonsense if they are stating 80% of infected symptomatic patients won't even know they have it.
    You just proved your own point.

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



  • #6255
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »
    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.

    Hi T.R.O.L. I was wondering how long it would take for you to pen a piece of fantasy.
    Poor effort tbh, to be effective it has to me more subtle.
    However fair play for the attempt.


  • #6256
    tillyfilly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 567 ✭✭✭tillyfilly


    When will a pandemic be declared??? Me and my mates are going to throw a party, pandemonium


  • #6257
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    How does someone self isolate themselves if they have the Corona virus?

    I don't have it but surely any more people in the house will catch it as well and self isolating won't do much?


  • #6258
    citysights
    Closed Accounts Posts: 288 ✭✭citysights


    Why doesn’t boards do an ask me anything question thread on a person who recovered from corona virus. Might give some perspective good or bad.Just an idea.


  • #6259
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    And did someone post earlier in the thread that they moved 40,000 medical staff into a province of 11 million.
    No other country could do that.

    They did

    Very selfless of those people

    BBC had an interview with one them in one night he lost 5 patients


  • #6260
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    thebaz wrote: »
    yes , but amidst all the hysteria of the past week , it is good news , that has got drowned out by the Panic inducing headlines

    Hysteria implies irrational concern. WHO are the ones who today raised the risk assessment of the disease to the highest possible level, its not the daily mail or the journal making it up.


  • #6261
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    How does someone self isolate themselves if they have the Corona virus?

    One poster suggested locking yourself (somehow) in a green wheelie bin which would appear to have some merit.


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  • #6262
    Tesla3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 57 ✭✭Tesla3


    Doctor Jimbob wrote: »
    Would a black bin suffice?

    No the black ones will be for bringing out the dead!!


  • #6263
    Cupatae
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭Cupatae


    One poster suggested locking yourself (somehow) in a green wheelie bin which would appear to have some merit.[/QUOTE]

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  • #6264
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,121 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Any update on the very ill poster who came back from Far East recently. I can’t remember his user name but something like runoff or that.. he was awaiting call back from HSE.


  • #6265
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Spanish Eyes wrote: »
    Any update on the very ill poster who came back from Far East recently. I can’t remember his user name but something like runoff or that.. he was awaiting call back from HSE.

    Runaways he/she hasn't posted for a few hours


  • #6266
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Spanish Eyes wrote: »
    Any update on the very ill poster who came back from Far East recently. I can’t remember his user name but something like runoff or that.. he was awaiting call back from HSE.

    Runaway. He was posting an hour ago. Still sick as a dog. Someone thought he may have sepsis. Haven’t heard from him since but said he was ringing hse again.


  • #6267
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,355 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    citysights wrote: »
    Why doesn’t boards do an ask me anything question thread on a person who recovered from corona virus. Might give some perspective good or bad.Just an idea.

    Who?


  • #6268
    thebaz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,842 ✭✭✭✭thebaz


    wakka12 wrote: »
    Hysteria implies irrational concern. WHO are the ones who today raised the risk assessment of the disease to the highest possible level, its not the daily mail or the journal making it up.

    surely the epi-centre releasing results that the figure of new infections decreasing daily , is good news ?

    WHO need to raise peoples awareness , self isolate if sick , avoid hubs of the illness etc , - but panic/anxiety is not good for society , I think we will ride this out - life can be unpredictable though.


  • #6269
    [Deleted User]
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    odyssey06 wrote: »
    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.

    Another thing about getting a dose the Covid-19, however far from being a Code Blue Emergency the bout turns out to be, is the concern I and responsible others would have in passing it on to the more vulnerable, especially as we start to recover and again start to feel like stepping outside the door. Thinking about the scenario may help form a strategy of coping and resilience. When I’ve had to face illness in the past and almost worst-case scenario complications of major surgery, I coped by having taken fully on board what might happen in the first place, and when the SHTF I was far more resilient mentally and dealt with it well, psychologically. One thing that brought me into Boards in the first place was being confined to hospital and periods of rehabilitation where I really couldn’t do much else. People cope much better if they can’t get past the hysteria phase and into being more philosophical when the SHTF.


  • #6270
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Runaways wrote: »
    Gotcha. I cut my leg really badly over there and was eaten alive by sandflies. I got antibiotics for both and completed the course. Came home last week and about three days ago got really sick.
    It’s flu. It’s dogsh*t awful I’m feeling. Throat is freaking me out. It’s tight and feels like a crush on it and I’m coughing randomly and lengthily no phlegm anymore tho which I think is good?

    Don’t open this pic if you’re squeamish
    It was pure green seeping next morning

    Here Spanish.

    Ps: did anyone look at pic?


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  • #6271
    lainey_d_123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,385 ✭✭✭lainey_d_123


    In London working and can't get over the situation caused by the panic and media hysteria. Absolutely everywhere is out of hand gel. Literally can't get it anywhere. Just watched the local news and some stupid bint was on showing all her stockpiled supplies. She admitted she wasn't in an at-risk group but still thought it was ethical to go and buy the entire section of hand gels and other products, leaving everyone else to go without.

    Seems like Britain is full of me feiners who are out for themselves 100% and can't comprehend the concept of not taking more than their fair share. I just wanted to buy one hand gel today so I could clean my hands after using the airport trays and so on - couldn't get that cos of the selfish f*ckers buying 20+ at a time. So now the people who actually ARE at risk and the people who actually DO have symptoms are unable to buy things which would help to reduce the spread.

    Yeah, nice one.


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