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

Jinglejangle69 · 29-02-2020 10:19PM

tom1ie wrote: »

To be fair, the experience a family member of mine has had on multiple occasions with the hse is once your in the care is excellent, the problem is getting in, aka the a+e departments aren’t fit for purpose.

Thanks.

new2tri19 · 29-02-2020 10:19PM

Don't have time to read the whole thread but does anyone know why the secrecy ? Why can they not just say what flight the person was on , what hospital they are in , where they work etc ? No need to give names but it would help people decide if they are at risk . I feel like we are been treated like children in all this with the withholding of information.

Tootsie_1 · 29-02-2020 10:20PM

https://time.com/5791543/pope-francis-cancels-slight-illness/

I wonder ... ?

d51984 · 29-02-2020 10:20PM

****ing joke were still accepting flights from Italy anyway.

Charles Babbage · 29-02-2020 10:20PM

tillyfilly wrote: »

newsflash - ireland has its first case of COVId

I think you mean the 26 counties has its first case, Ireland already had one.

You have to wonder what was going on in Italy, as it really spread there .

Unfortunately, the same could happen here or anywhere.

Babooshka · 29-02-2020 10:20PM

eeepaulo wrote: »

Someone answered yesterday.

A sliced pan-demic

you're welcome

Dank Janniels · 29-02-2020 10:21PM

My auld pair care more bout Winning Streak than this!

fritzelly · 29-02-2020 10:21PM

new2tri19 wrote: »

Don't have time to read the whole thread but does anyone know why the secrecy ? Why can they not just say what flight the person was on , what hospital they are in , where they work etc ? No need to give names but it would help people decide if they are at risk . I feel like we are been treated like children in all this with the withholding of information.

If you were on the plane expect a call

tom1ie · 29-02-2020 10:22PM

d51984 wrote: »

****ing joke were still accepting flights from Italy anyway.

Doesn’t matter c19 is pretty much everywhere now anyway. Unless you live in Antarctica or North Korea.

Jim_Hodge · 29-02-2020 10:22PM

BanditLuke wrote: »

Its not Ebola you know right :pac:

It was a joke you know right:pac:

Ninthlife · 29-02-2020 10:22PM

new2tri19 wrote: »

Don't have time to read the whole thread but does anyone know why the secrecy ? Why can they not just say what flight the person was on , what hospital they are in , where they work etc ? No need to give names but it would help people decide if they are at risk . I feel like we are been treated like children in all this with the withholding of information.

Theyll be on the Late Late Show next weel and probably on the irish Strictly Come Dancing next year

tillyfilly · 29-02-2020 10:23PM

Charles Babbage wrote: »

I think you mean the 26 counties has its first case, Ireland already had one.

You have to wonder what was going on in Italy, as it really spread there .

Unfortunately, the same could happen here or anywhere.

this one is a keeper

Spanish Eyes · 29-02-2020 10:23PM

d51984 wrote: »

****ing joke were still accepting flights from Italy anyway.

Yes that is an issue for sure, but flights are arriving in Dub from many sources now. I can't keep up there are so many.

tillyfilly · 29-02-2020 10:24PM

Charles Babbage wrote: »

I think you mean the 26 counties has its first case, Ireland already had one.

You have to wonder what was going on in Italy, as it really spread there .

Unfortunately, the same could happen here or anywhere.

this one is a keeper

Spanish Eyes · 29-02-2020 10:24PM

d51984 wrote: »

****ing joke were still accepting flights from Italy anyway.

Yes that is an issue for sure, but flights are arriving in Dub from many sources now. I can't keep up there are so many.

darjeeling · 29-02-2020 10:26PM

ceadaoin. wrote: »

I'd say it's because these arent really the first cases, just the ones that got severe enough to be noticed

Yes, and they would have taken some time to get to that point.

The people who are going to develop pneumonia seem to start showing symptoms ~5 days after first symptoms of disease, which are more flu-like.

For the sub-group of pneumonia cases that progress to severe pneumonia or respiratory distress, this can be 2-3 weeks or more from first symptoms.

If doctors are waiting that long before suspecting / being able to test for covid19, then that means there's been more time for transmission.
And with doubling times of ~5-7 days, a lot of new people could have been infected before anyone knew there was an outbreak.

fritzelly · 29-02-2020 10:26PM

First case in Ireland - boards going down - media blackout...hmmm...

Beasty · 29-02-2020 10:27PM

Around 1,500 currently on this forum - that may explain the site slowing down a bit

tillyfilly · 29-02-2020 10:27PM

503 error

TheValeyard · 29-02-2020 10:27PM

fritzelly wrote: »

First case in Ireland - boards going down - media blackout...hmmm...

um7y1h83ge06nx · 29-02-2020 10:27PM

I hope the HSE start implementing proper infection controls in hospitals, normally they are pretty poor according to HSE staff in the family.

BanditLuke · 29-02-2020 10:27PM

Best of luck to all the wonderful (front line) staff in the HSE these next few difficult weeks and months. The country is 100% behind you.

Pinch Flat · 29-02-2020 10:27PM

Guy working with me, his uncle is a taxi man. Dropped the NI victim. Gardai have contacted him and he's in quarantine

gabeeg · 29-02-2020 10:28PM

fritzelly wrote: »

First case in Ireland - boards going down - media blackout...hmmm...

Rumour has it that it was the Clayton hotel after all. Media blackout

29-02-2020 10:28PM

screamer wrote: »

I think the levels of ignorance and “as long as I’m alright jack, stuff you” around coronavirus are frightening. It kills 2% if we’re to believe the official figures, but it’s not a flat 2%, with immunity compromised and elderly at highest risk and a greater death rate than 2%. Seeing the stuff you attitude that a lot of people have, I’ve no faith that we in Ireland will do anything to protect other people or prevent the spread unless we’re forcibly quarantined. Either way I’m stock piling because I will have to look after myself and those in my family who are chronic asthmatics and at serious risk. Each to their own, but I do think people in high risk groups should prepare as well as they can and ignore the childish and ignorant remarks of others.

It's mad, wait until people are angry about it afterwards.

el Fenomeno · 29-02-2020 10:28PM

Glebee wrote: »

Say your goodbyes mate, your screwed.:(

It's not me I'd be worried about, it's a family member with an underlying illness (hypertension) so I'm not travelling home in case.

Plenty of people have raised it in the office this week - we're working alongside quite a few people who were in Milan and Northern Italy in general the week before last.

HR are following the HSE guidelines (for what they're worth).

There's also an employee out sick with flu symptoms. :rolleyes:

tillyfilly · 29-02-2020 10:28PM

I certainly think I have the Corona virus now

Blueshoe · 29-02-2020 10:29PM

Pinch Flat wrote: »

Guy working with me, his uncle is a taxi man. Dropped the NI victim. Gardai have contacted him and he's in quarantine

He didn't drop me. I decided to walk. He's winding you up.

Kunkka · 29-02-2020 10:29PM

Why the hell am I reading the Stand by Stephen King again? Just past the part when the army guy quotes Yeats's poem the Second Coming too, quite apt...

Unearthly · 29-02-2020 10:29PM

One thing I learned from reddit is that so many foreigners don't know there is a difference between Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland.

They are confused and think it's old news

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

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