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

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  • #7592
    tillyfilly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 567 ✭✭✭tillyfilly


    EltonJohn69 wrote: »
    Watched outbreak last night... and all three male leads Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Spacey and Cuban Gooding Jr. have been accused of sexual assault..... make of that what you will.....

    An Outbreak causes abuse?


  • #7593
    fr336
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,179 ✭✭✭✭fr336


    Cupatae wrote: »
    Brace yourself.... lol having a realistic view like that is frowned upon in here:D

    The markets are being unrealistic eh


  • #7594
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,121 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    First death announced in US from the virus.

    What will Trump say now, with due respect to the deceased person. Source is news bulletin on LBC radio just now. And here too.... https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/29/health/us-coronavirus-saturday/index.html


  • #7595
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,375 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    spurious wrote: »
    Sigh.
    It is because it is an unknown version that they are taking the measures. Doesn't change what it is, a type of common cold virus.
    I can see now how some of the daft conspiracy theories suck people in.

    It's not a type of common cold virus. It is in the same family of viruses as the common cold. BIG difference. Would you say ebola is a type of common cold virus?

    https://www.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus
    Coronaviruses (CoV) are a large family of viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV). A novel coronavirus (nCoV) is a new strain that has not been previously identified in humans.

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



  • #7596
    Cupatae
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭Cupatae


    fr336 wrote: »
    The markets are being unrealistic eh

    maybe alot of people are panicking ? i wonder why ?? :pac::pac:


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  • #7597
    fr336
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,179 ✭✭✭✭fr336


    DrumSteve wrote: »
    Italys figures make sense in that they were hit with it first so didn't have anything ready when it hit 3 weeks ago so this is the fall out from that. I'd imagine they will actually stabilise over the next week or so (not go exponentially up)

    Irans figures make sense when you look at the massive blockaade they are under from the Americans. Also I read somewhere they were exclusively treating this with steroids which was causing complications.

    I'm not entirely surprised by any of this to be honest.

    This is one of the best posts I've read all week. Thank you! Not a post saying "Just the flu init haha you lot are fools" etc.


  • #7598
    owlbethere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭owlbethere


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Here is how it's gone for Italy in the space of a week

    Day1: 14cases/1dead
    Day2: 76/2
    Day3: 153/3
    Day4: 231/7
    Day5: 374/12
    Day6: 528/17
    Day7: 821/21
    Day8: 1128/29

    Picture that happening in this country. People would get their heads out of the backsides right quick!

    Joe Duffy will get a sore ear from anyone healthy enough to phone his liveline.


  • #7599
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    Cupatae wrote: »
    maybe alot of people are panicking ? i wonder why ?? :pac::pac:

    Yes they must be following boards.ie :rolleyes:


  • #7600
    Cupatae
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭Cupatae


    spurious wrote: »
    Sigh.
    It is because it is an unknown version that they are taking the measures. Doesn't change what it is, a type of common cold virus.

    I can see now how some of the daft conspiracy theories suck people in.

    The fact that most of the "experts" on this thread have to be told that and cant comprehend that on there own says it all really.

    They just love it the hysteria.


  • #7601
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    Cupatae wrote: »
    The fact that most of the "experts" on this thread have to be told that and cant comprehend that on there own says it all really.

    They just love it the hysteria.

    The only hysterical person is you.


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  • #7602
    Cupatae
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭Cupatae


    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    Yes they must be following boards.ie :rolleyes:

    or you know the media and statistics... :rolleyes::rolleyes: you know reporting case by case has an effect especially on those that are gullible enough to think its the end of days or close to the "spanish influenza" :rolleyes::rolleyes:


  • #7603
    Cupatae
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭Cupatae


    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    The only hysterical person is you.

    Really im fairly calm here... news to me lol


  • #7604
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    Cupatae wrote: »
    or you know the media and statistics... :rolleyes::rolleyes: you know reporting case by case has an effect especially on those that are gullible enough to think its the end of days or close to the "spanish influenza" :rolleyes::rolleyes:

    Is that you Vicky Pollard?:D


  • #7605
    owlbethere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭owlbethere


    gabeeg wrote: »
    Germany, France and Spain seem to be on the same trajectory

    Doubling roughly every 2 days

    Italy, Germany, France and Spain has cases doubling and so far Ireland only has one confirmed case that travelled up north. That doesn't sit well with me. How come other European countries have cases doubling and we still only have one case. Is the HSE even dealing with this at all?


  • #7606
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,854 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    EltonJohn69 wrote: »
    Watched outbreak last night... and all three male leads Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Spacey and Cuban Gooding Jr. have been accused of sexual assault..... make of that what you will.....

    So was your namesake.


  • #7607
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    Cupatae wrote: »
    or you know the media and statistics... :rolleyes::rolleyes: you know reporting case by case has an effect especially on those that are gullible enough to think its the end of days or close to the "spanish influenza" :rolleyes::rolleyes:

    Yes because during this outbreak the media should be focused on football or car racing or something.

    They could do that if all those events were not canceled for some strange reason.


  • #7608
    gabeeg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭gabeeg


    Cupatae wrote: »
    The fact that most of the "experts" on this thread have to be told that and cant comprehend that on there own says it all really.

    They just love it the hysteria.

    You'd be scared too if you could do sums

    Ignorance is bliss, until you pick up a bad dose from licking windows


  • #7609
    bilston
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,996 ✭✭✭✭bilston


    France looks like it may be on the verge of becoming a problem similar to Italy in terms of numbers.

    I don't hold out much hope of the France v Ireland 6Ns match going ahead on the 14th March.


  • #7610
    cnocbui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,994 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Runaways wrote: »
    Will do.

    I’ve heard of it but never realized how serious or how many it killed. Scary man
    A woman died days after being pricked by a rose thorn, an inquest was told yesterday.

    Jeanne Harris, 61, pricked her left finger when pruning roses last June, her husband said in a statement to Cirencester magistrates' court.

    Two days later her left elbow had swollen, and he took her to the doctor.

    Mrs Harris, a part-time cleaner from South Cerney, Gloucestershire, vomited on the way there and was referred to Cirencester Hospital.

    Her condition deteriorated and she was taken to Cheltenham General Hospital for surgery. She died six days after being pricked.
    https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/woman-died-after-being-pricked-by-rose-thorn-9175388.html


  • #7611
    gabeeg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭gabeeg


    owlbethere wrote: »
    Italy, Germany, France and Spain has cases doubling and so far Ireland only has one confirmed case that travelled up north. That doesn't sit well with me. How come other European countries have cases doubling and we still only have one case. Is the HSE even dealing with this at all?

    It's conducted 100 tests or so over the last month

    Completely and utterly inadequate. We're flying blind.


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  • #7612
    fr336
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,179 ✭✭✭✭fr336


    owlbethere wrote: »
    Italy, Germany, France and Spain has cases doubling and so far Ireland only has one confirmed case that travelled up north. That doesn't sit well with me. How come other European countries have cases doubling and we still only have one case. Is the HSE even dealing with this at all?

    Well Ireland isn't on mainland Europe or anywhere near as big population wise as those countries. The UK cases are also quite low so far.


  • #7613
    Loafing Oaf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,798 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    DrumSteve wrote: »
    Italys figures make sense in that they were hit with it first so didn't have anything ready when it hit 3 weeks ago so this is the fall out from that. I'd imagine they will actually stabilise over the next week or so (not go exponentially up)

    Well if you'd imagine it that's good enough for me...


  • #7614
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1233821925551591424


  • #7615
    Runaways
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭Runaways


    owlbethere wrote: »
    Italy, Germany, France and Spain has cases doubling and so far Ireland only has one confirmed case that travelled up north. That doesn't sit well with me. How come other European countries have cases doubling and we still only have one case. Is the HSE even dealing with this at all?


    In my own experience not really at all despite ringing them 4 times now and with good cause having come from an at risk region and in a heap with flu last 5 or 6 days. ‘Well get back to you’ is all I’ve been told.

    I’m wondering will I actually get that call in a few days maybe but let’s see.

    Guaranteed there’s loads of people walking around wit it no symptoms yet. It’s probably mathematically impossible that there wouldn’t be.
    And then we’ll be running after it rather than out in front.


  • #7616
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    gabeeg wrote: »
    It's conducted 100 tests or so over the last month

    Completely and utterly inadequate. We're flying blind.

    Scotland alone has conducted 7 times more.


  • #7617
    Runaways
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭Runaways


    cnocbui wrote: »
    https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/woman-died-after-being-pricked-by-rose-thorn-9175388.html

    I’d be looking closely at the husband if I was the police in that case.


  • #7618
    Supercell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,641 ✭✭✭✭Supercell


    owlbethere wrote: »
    Italy, Germany, France and Spain has cases doubling and so far Ireland only has one confirmed case that travelled up north. That doesn't sit well with me. How come other European countries have cases doubling and we still only have one case. Is the HSE even dealing with this at all?

    The government are stifling any replying on the multiple cases being treated here. It reminds me of talking down the economy in 2007, our politicians think we are not able to handle the truth until it's totally undeniable.
    https://www.loughlinstown.ie/

    Have a weather station?, why not join the Ireland Weather Network - http://irelandweather.eu/



  • #7619
    eeepaulo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,432 ✭✭✭eeepaulo


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Trump's latest coronavirus press conference will be here.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv8vDZKAOCA


    Needless to say have the popcorn at the ready.

    Did i miss this? Or has it not started yet?

    All good, loaded


  • #7620
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,121 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    I heard that the cycling event in Abu Dhabi was cancelled. Is UAE an issue at all? Only asking because my sister who would go into the Amazon jungle without a hat or a bug spray is going to Dubai soon.

    But hey, if she's not worried, why should I be? But you know yourself.


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  • #7621
    Strazdas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,274 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    Loafing Oaf wrote: »
    Well if you'd imagine it that's good enough for me...

    It makes sense. It seems the virus may have been in Italy for weeks without anyone even being aware of it. You can't take preventative or containment measures against something you are not aware of.


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