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

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  • #7262
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Another case in South America with Ecuador reporting it's first.


  • #7263
    billybonkers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,293 ✭✭✭billybonkers


    3 more in the Uk


  • #7264
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    tillyfilly wrote: »
    storm Jorge is here!!

    Tell me! I am out on an island and HOR HAY as they say it is pronounced is battering my roof and taking the base out of my insides as these fierce gales terrify me! Shudders!


  • #7265
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    62 countries have now reported cases


  • #7266
    fr336
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,179 ✭✭✭✭fr336


    The people telling others to calm down is fine, totally fine, good advice. But in the same sentence they then go on to say "it's only a "2% death rate you know" lol


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  • #7267
    all about the mane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,401 ✭✭✭all about the mane


    amadangomor wrote: »
    Nah, that's just your silly interpretation

    Read...the...thread


  • #7268
    coolshannagh28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭coolshannagh28


    fr336 wrote: »
    The people telling others to calm down is fine, totally fine, good advice. But in the same sentence they then go on to say "it's only a "2% death rate you know" lol

    So just 100000 in Ireland then.....


  • #7269
    Mwengwe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 454 ✭✭Mwengwe


    lainey_d_123 wrote: »
    Exactly. Add to that the prevalence of touch screens everywhere, which are almost never disinfected. My friend went to the doctor's in London last week and was told to use a touch screen to check in for her appointment. So there's a global coronavirus pandemic, all this advice about hand gels, masks and staying at home when possible, and someone just trying to see their GP to get some medication is forced to touch a screen touched by God knows how many people with God knows what germs and viruses on their fingers?

    It's just baffling, honestly.

    I'd just use my sleeve.


  • #7270
    bb12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 888 ✭✭✭bb12


    fr336 wrote: »
    The people telling others to calm down is fine, totally fine, good advice. But in the same sentence they then go on to say "it's only a "2% death rate you know" lol

    absolutely...this whole outbreak has shown me that very many people have pretty bad comprehension of statistics and maths


  • #7271
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,850 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    fr336 wrote: »
    I need positivity. So all those people who might have annoyed me a week ago, please post a list about why we will be fine.

    Go to Gig and Events and join some of the music festival threads, some nice lineups been announced for Body&Soul Festival, Forbidden Fruit, Dun Laoghaire Harbour Festival and All Together Now. Looking at the lineups and the excitement for acts makes you look forward to the summer and I think it helps with taking a break from the Covid thread.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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  • #7272
    scotchy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,232 ✭✭✭scotchy


    wakka12 wrote: »
    62 countries have now reported cases

    Are we going to be the last man standing???

    .

    💙 💛 💙 💛 💙 💛



  • #7273
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    Itssoeasy wrote: »
    First case of community infection in the U.K. Not surprising really and how we in the Republic of Ireland haven't had a confirmed case yet is amazing.

    I think there are cases here but for some reason it is being ignored or suppressed.


  • #7274
    joe_99
    Closed Accounts Posts: 763 ✭✭✭joe_99


    fr336 wrote: »
    The people telling others to calm down is fine, totally fine, good advice. But in the same sentence they then go on to say "it's only a "2% death rate you know" lol

    What % of people will actually get it the virus? Less than 1%?


  • #7275
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    embraer170 wrote: »
    Very much an Irish thing these days. I travel a fair bit and I am struggling to think of another European country where shops have fully uncovered/unprotected baked goods.

    And eg apples and other fruit that have been handled and pummelled... Thankful for bananas and oranges


  • #7276
    Cupatae
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭Cupatae


    fr336 wrote: »
    The people telling others to calm down is fine, totally fine, good advice. But in the same sentence they then go on to say "it's only a "2% death rate you know" lol

    Could be worse could be watching trolleys and combing thru the internet for any slight case to report!!


  • #7277
    Drumpot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭Drumpot


    Rob A. Bank wrote: »
    The expert team from the World Health organization found that asymptomatic infection appears to be relatively rare.

    So the present figures for mortality etc. can be accepted at face value.

    https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/who-china-joint-mission-on-covid-19-final-report.pdf

    That may be the case but if you are not testing most of the people who may only have mild symptoms then you are only providing statistics on those tested. As far as I can tell, unless you are showing considerable symptoms, you are more likely to not be tested. Limitations of testing capacity may play a factor in different countries.


  • #7278
    joe_99
    Closed Accounts Posts: 763 ✭✭✭joe_99


    bb12 wrote: »
    absolutely...this whole outbreak has shown me that very many people have pretty bad comprehension of statistics and maths

    The stats are so massively in our favour this virus is effectively irrelevant to the human race


  • #7279
    Poor_old_gill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭Poor_old_gill


    bb12 wrote: »
    absolutely...this whole outbreak has shown me that very many people have pretty bad comprehension of statistics and maths

    I think you'll find about 102% of people do


  • #7280
    givyjoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,287 ✭✭✭givyjoe


    Cupatae wrote: »
    Thats prob not exciting enough a result for ya joe, imagine it pitters out and is a storm in a tea cup which tbh it most likely will. it has like a 2.% kill rate and most people recover.

    It most likely will.. based on no evidence whatsoever other than hope. I'm more interested in facts, supported by statistics and science. Not wish upon a star nonsense.


  • #7281
    Professor Moriarty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,393 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    wakka12 wrote: »
    62 countries have now reported cases

    Given the incubation period is 2-14 days, I'd place a large bet that there are people walking around Ireland with Coronavirus.


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  • #7282
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    expectationlost wrote: »
    his mother and grandmother sick but not tested...?

    In the early days of the outbreaks in Wuhan - tests were limited to those who were exhibiting advanced symptoms only. This was one of the major criticisms of the Chinese figures of those infected. Medically diagnosed cases were not included in the totals with many of those who were infected not being recorded.


  • #7283
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Wibbs wrote: »
    Maybe, but at the other extreme there are the clean freaks and germophobes. Now I get that if you're chronically ill, or immune suppressed, but if you're neither more exposure to pathogens is better for you. Going around doused in dettol and necking antibiotics for every little sniffle, especially from childhood, is a recipe for sickly adults and a host of allergies.

    I’m very much on for sparing antibiotics. Far, far too many get them for viral chest infections (vast majority are harmless but impressively audible viral ones) which are self-limiting and take up to a month or even more for the coughing to clear with it without antibiotics. On the other hand, I do get vaccines, eg against influenza cholera, rabies, tetanus, hepatitis. These things could be either miserable or deadly when travelling etc.


  • #7284
    Cupatae
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭Cupatae


    bb12 wrote: »
    absolutely...this whole outbreak has shown me that very many people have pretty bad comprehension of statistics and maths

    Tbh its shown me how ridiculously over the top most people are. And jump straight to the worst case scenario.. if people werent told to self isolate these sort of people would prob have hospitals over ran already.


  • #7285
    cnocbui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,999 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Snow Garden wrote: »
    One lad predicted 45,000,000 deaths and people were fine to let it slide ;) Go figure.

    The 'lad' is an epidemiologist https://sph.hku.hk/en/about-us/faculty-and-staff/academic-staff/leung,-gabriel-m

    I'm sure snow garden will provide a link to their CV so we can see why they think their opinion is superior.


  • #7286
    BarryD2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,732 ✭✭✭BarryD2


    fr336 wrote: »
    The people telling others to calm down is fine, totally fine, good advice. But in the same sentence they then go on to say "it's only a "2% death rate you know" lol

    And 2% seemingly skewed towards both immune suppressed and people over 50. So if you're in one of these groups, clearly you've a higher chance of developing a more severe dose and either recovering slowly or dying...


  • #7287
    Tootsie_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 309 ✭✭Tootsie_1


    Professor Moriarty wrote: »
    Given the incubation period is 2-14 days, I'd place a large bet that there are people walking around Ireland with Coronavirus.

    For sure it’s here just not confirmed yet I would think . I know of one company someone came back from northern Italy last week went into work feeling sick and HR sent them home no update as to if they have been tested .


  • #7288
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    I have the sniffles, but how do I know if I have the Corona virus. I've had worse colds than these sniffles.


  • #7289
    Drumpot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭Drumpot


    gozunda wrote: »
    In the early days of the outbreaks in Wuhan ......

    When I read that I immediately imagined me telling “the Coronavirus history” story to my future grandchild in maybe 30 years....

    1.jpg


  • #7290
    Mwengwe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 454 ✭✭Mwengwe


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    Go to Gig and Events and join some of the music festival threads, some nice lineups been announced for Body&Soul Festival, Forbidden Fruit, Dun Laoghaire Harbour Festival and All Together Now. Looking at the lineups and the excitement for acts makes you look forward to the summer and I think it helps with taking a break from the Covid thread.

    If they go ahead


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  • #7291
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Runaways wrote: »
    Crazy part is if you forced all the people who abandon their elderly parents in hospitals all around the country you’d free up hundreds of beds. People do this as they can’t afford nursing homes. It’s rife throughout the entire system an it’s never addressed.

    Agree totally. Last time I was in hospital , on an acute surgical ward, 2 of the 6 beds were actually surgical. Myself and one other. The other 4 were old folk needing some care but not acute care. There is also a lack "step down " facilities ie community hospitals.


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