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

BanditLuke wrote: »

That interview was frankly ridiculous. 6 Trillion wiped off the markets, the virus spreading to more countries every day including now Mexico City and Lagos, governments around the world warning people to prepare for the worst and yet the good old back slapping Irish establishment rounding the wagons and sending out one of their puppets on RTE for some good old PR.

That interview reminded me of the day before the bank bailout when the government goons stood on the steps of Leinster House and told us everything was alright. The Irish never change

froog wrote: »

well if keeps some old wans from panicking even for a few days at least i have no problem with it. what do you want exactly, for him to say "there's a good chance 10s of millions will die and there's nothing we can do about it" ?

wakka12 wrote: »

https://mobile.twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1233550314286047232?s=20
And another one..this is happening a lot

Deleted User wrote: »

It sure sounds like dodgy numbers but if actually do get rid of it and the rest of the world doesnt then China will isolate on the world stage. Wouldnt blame them, after all they locked down half their population. 780 million plus.

Those are the extremes we`d need to go to. Limiting the spread now (if that can still be done) would help and since we`ll need to lock down anyway.........the sooner the better really.

Deleted User wrote: »

https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/1582902733-third-israeli-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-in-israel-after-recovering-at-japan-hospital




So eh if you never truly get rid of this virus then mankind just made a huge mistake not locking down borders for a few weeks or even months after Wuhan was isolated. We may have just dropped our life expectancy quite a bit in combination with increasing the number of infertile men all while damaging our lung capacity, & kidneys. (round glass pneumonic changes - https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/health-wellbeing/coronavirus-update-boy-with-no-symptoms-suffers-lung-irregularities-c-669975 , "SCIENTISTS RAISE CONCERNS OVER POTENTIAL LINK BETWEEN CORONAVIRUS AND MALE FERTILITY" - https://www.newsweek.com/chinese-scientists-coronavirus-male-fertility-1488235 , acute kidney injury - https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/02/here-is-what-coronavirus-does-to-the-body/ , cardiac injury and arrest, lung scarring - this can reduce your lung capacity permanently - https://metro.co.uk/2020/01/28/coronavirus-lungs-affects-body-12136009/ )

Even Kids without symptoms or with barely any symptoms are still getting damage to their lungs. All of this has already been posted on the thread with links.
A few months lockdown and the economic damage would have been worth avoiding a potential world changer.
If only a few people relapse and maintain the virus in their bodies then, if this is ever eradicated, those people need to be shipping off to modern day leper colonies.

Of course if you dont mind having no retirement none of this matters.

ps the advice now from the HSE about self isolation if you get flu symptoms means you should have a couple of weeks worth of food to hand pretty much all the time.

Sabrina Strong Vomit wrote: »

I'm blue in the face from saying this to people who have been telling me since January that I'm obsessed with preparedness. I've always stockpiled food and supplies because I just like knowing I would be ready if anything kicked off. I replenished and actually overstocked our cupboards the last three weeks and I'm actually quite surprised other people may have started to do it as well. I really just feel that it's a sensible way to live where you can feel like you're secure.

You're absolutely right about the life expectancy issue. If this, combined with poor quality air, is what my kids lungs are going to have to contend with before they splutter their dying breaths, I'm just not going to bother sadistically bringing life into the world to put them through that suffering. There's absolute global carnage at the moment.

fritzelly wrote: »

Leo was on the phone to Xi - psst don't test and you have no cases, heard it here first

It really is just unbelievable that there is only 4 new cases in the rest of China while Italy is the pariah of Europe

Cilldara_2000 wrote: »

There's an awful lot of mights and maybes in your links. For good reason. Nobody has any reliable idea of the long term effects of this virus yet. Which is not surprising, as nobody has any idea what's going to happen tomorrow either. Idle speculation is unhelpful.



This is not an over reaction at all.

Incidentally, bar some pockets of anomalies over a few years here and there, every single long term trend, on a whole world basis, for every conceivable quality of life measure is positive and has been since the end of WWII. The bad things are all reducing: poverty, famine, starvation. The good and "good" increasing: access to clean drinking water, obesity, life expectancy, electricity connections, access to pointless technology which allows for the posting of hysteria on teh interwebs, etc.

Although perhaps it's better for the rest of us and our children when the tin-foil hat brigade decide not to procreate.