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

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  • #6452
    gabeeg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭gabeeg


    cnocbui wrote: »
    Preventing posts from accounts with a post count in 3 digits or less, would mostly sort it.

    I hope you get quarantined


  • #6453
    BanditLuke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭BanditLuke


    Must be another panic merchant

    https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/02/28/bill-gates-says-coronavirus-may-be-once-in-a-century-pathogen.html?__twitter_impression=true


  • #6454
    gabeeg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭gabeeg


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    what happens if the Pope dies? does the previous pope step back in, or whats the craic?

    only if the tag is made


  • #6455
    YFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    Mrcaramelchoc wrote: »
    You're here that long?boards is here that long?
    Bloody hell

    It was during the repeats. Bookies were still taken bets.


  • #6456
    pc7
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,274 Mod ✭✭✭✭pc7


    Stewball wrote: »
    Okay - so where are the HSE going to find the extra staff needed?

    They won't suddenly appear out of nowhere...

    Could they get the private hospitals on board? All hospitals now stop surgeries to prep wards, beds, staff and supplies.


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  • #6457
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    I'm eating a Chinese in solidarity with the people of China :)


    What will you sacrifice?

    To follow up I shall also be having an X-large 16 inch Domino's pepperoni pizza in solidarity with the people of Italy tomorrow night :)


  • #6458
    pc7
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,274 Mod ✭✭✭✭pc7


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    what happens if the Pope dies? does the previous pope step back in, or whats the craic?

    A load of frail old men meet in a locked room, what could possibly go wrong!


  • #6459
    Seamai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    theballz wrote: »
    Town quiet tonight. People opting to stay in doors, ultimately this is going to have a negative affect on our economy.

    Let’s hope it can be contained with the appropriate measures in the result of an outbreak in Ireland. Equally, let’s hope the citizens of this country take the necessary precautions related to minimising any potential fatal infections.

    Some will and plenty wont, I was on a bus this morning and saw someone sneezing into their hand and minutes later using the same hand to grip one of those straps that hangs down from the ceiling, yesterday I was buying a bar of chocolate and the woman who served me had just coughed into her hand. These are the ways these things spread how do we deal with this?


  • #6460
    Cody montana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,584 ✭✭✭Cody montana


    theballz wrote: »
    Town quiet tonight. People opting to stay in doors, ultimately this is going to have a negative affect on our economy.

    Let’s hope it can be contained with the appropriate measures in the result of an outbreak in Ireland. Equally, let’s hope the citizens of this country take the necessary precautions related to minimising any potential fatal infections.

    Weather and paddy’s day soon.
    Don’t be silly.
    This is Ireland.


  • #6461
    Ludo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,015 ✭✭✭Ludo


    Is it just me, or have things calmed down a bit? It just doesn't seem as direct a threat today as it did yesterday. Maybe apathy setting in though or I a just not paying enough attention today.


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  • #6462
    gabeeg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭gabeeg


    Ludo wrote: »
    Is it just me, or have things calmed down a bit? It just doesn't seem as direct a threat today as it did yesterday. Maybe apathy setting in though or I a just not paying enough attention today.

    Just you

    Everything is worse


  • #6463
    BanditLuke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭BanditLuke


    Reports of a massive fire at the main clinic in Iran where Covid19 patients are being treated.


  • #6464
    cnocbui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,003 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    pc7 wrote: »
    A load of frail old men meet in a locked room, what could possibly go wrong!

    I'd call that a win, not a wrong.


  • #6465
    gabeeg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭gabeeg


    It was a bad day for humans, but a great day for the coronavirus

    It's all about your outlook on life

    https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries


  • #6466
    Cody montana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,584 ✭✭✭Cody montana


    “Wall Street just suffered its worst week since the 2008 financial crisis, with all three major indices entering correction and the Dow Jones Industrial Average losing a staggering 3,500 points in just five days.“


  • #6467
    Cody montana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,584 ✭✭✭Cody montana


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    what happens if the Pope dies? does the previous pope step back in, or whats the craic?

    He goes to hell?


  • #6468
    Holly13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61 ✭✭Holly13


    brick tamland wrote: »
    No country will have hundreds of extra empty hospital beds or hundreds of extra nurses and docs sitting around just in case we get a bit of an epidemic. We're no worse than anywhere else and im guessing probably better than most

    I know someone who works in a large Dublin hospital, so was wrecking her head with questions about coronavirus. She said what she finds wierd is, in her department, a few years back, they set up an emergency group, ie list of volunteers who are contactable out of hours to come in, in event of some crisis situation. Sorry, not explaining this very well as second-hand information and was a casual conversation. She thinks the reasoning behind this was at the time, the possibility of terrorist attack etc.
    Of course nothing happened and since then the list is probably out of date etc due to staff turnover. But she’s thinks it’s odd something similar has not been done, considering the likelihood of coronavirus taking hold is probably higher than a terrorist attack/ major accident in Dublin


  • #6469
    YFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    Ludo wrote: »
    Is it just me, or have things calmed down a bit? It just doesn't seem as direct a threat today as it did yesterday. Maybe apathy setting in though or I a just not paying enough attention today.

    It's the start of the weekend. The UCD team are gone back home to chill.


  • #6470
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    Seamai wrote: »
    Some will and plenty wont, I was on a bus this morning and saw someone sneezing into their hand and minutes later using the same hand to grip one of those straps that hangs down from the ceiling, yesterday I was buying a bar of chocolate and the woman who served me had just coughed into her hand. These are the ways these things spread how do we deal with this?

    And people wonder why people want to drive their cars to work. Go on a bus occasionally and scarred after the last experience of assorted nutters and people with little knowledge of hygiene.


  • #6471
    cnocbui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,003 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    BanditLuke wrote: »
    Reports of a massive fire at the main clinic in Iran where Covid19 patients are being treated.

    The DM doesn't mention it so possibly fake. How about a link?


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  • #6472
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    what happens if the Pope dies? does the previous pope step back in, or whats the craic?
    That's a bit tricky, as St.Malachy suggests this may be the last pope before tribulation (pandemics, plagues etc) gets underway (if he is Peter the Roman) as per 'The Prophecy of the Popes'

    You wouldn't want the last one he was a creepy looking fella, and Francie seems decent enough fella (so far) compared to all the previous ones.


  • #6473
    YFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    Cody montana wrote: »
    He goes to hell?

    He could argue that the Barvarian fellow was the Pope the whole time.


  • #6474
    hmmm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,203 ✭✭✭✭hmmm


    Ludo wrote: »
    Is it just me, or have things calmed down a bit? It just doesn't seem as direct a threat today as it did yesterday. Maybe apathy setting in though or I a just not paying enough attention today.
    For many of us, it's felt like going through the stages of grief with this virus - it'll be an interesting topic for psychologists in future years.

    Sounds like you've reached acceptance and are further along than most. I'm expecting a bit of panic here if we get a proper outbreak, but it should all calm down quite quickly.


  • #6475
    BanditLuke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭BanditLuke


    cnocbui wrote: »
    The DM doesn't mention it so possibly fake. How about a link?

    https://twitter.com/HeshmatAlavi/status/1233498389884604417?s=19


  • #6476
    pc7
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,274 Mod ✭✭✭✭pc7


    I think if any major figure head that people believe in like the Pope or other religions ‘head’ it could cause trouble. Loons will love it, those that might get ill or need their faith could be very rattled.


  • #6477
    Seamai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    amadangomor wrote: »
    And people wonder why people want to drive their cars to work. Go on a bus occasionally and scarred after the last experience of assorted nutters and people with little knowledge of hygiene.

    I'll be cutting the bus back as much as possible for the duration of this thing.


  • #6478
    ZX7R
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,393 ✭✭✭ZX7R


    Teresa Muscular Mimicry wrote: »
    That's a bit tricky, as St.Malachy suggests this may be the last pope before tribulation (pandemics, plagues etc) gets underway (if he is Peter the Roman) as per 'The Prophecy of the Popes'

    You wouldn't want the last one he was a creepy looking fella, and Francie seems decent enough fella (so far) compared to all the previous ones.

    st malacy said the last pope would also be black i believe


  • #6479
    YFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    Cody montana wrote: »
    “Wall Street just suffered its worst week since the 2008 financial crisis, with all three major indices entering correction and the Dow Jones Industrial Average losing a staggering 3,500 points in just five days.“

    The Trumpster thought that Trump solely enhance the Stock market.


  • #6480
    givyjoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,287 ✭✭✭givyjoe


    cnocbui wrote: »
    The DM doesn't mention it so possibly fake. How about a link?

    https://twitter.com/HeshmatAlavi/status/1233498389884604417?s=19


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  • #6481
    Goldengirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,852 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    Runaways wrote: »
    You hadn’t read the posts from poster I was replying to evidently.
    I am taking it seriously. Back from Cambodia a week and sick in bed with a mystery flu bored off my face.

    Hope you are ok and get better soon.
    Replied a while ago and went out to stock pile...not!
    Just getting pissed off with people downplaying this. I am in an at risk category, and starting to get worried about myself and my family.
    And to be honest having seen it from the inside have little or no faith in the " risk management " of that overblown white elephant called the HSE.

    Take care of yourself , Runaways ..don't wait for them to get back to you..ring and ring again until you get the answers.


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