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

SafeSurfer wrote: »

Chatter is used to gather information during peacetime as well as war time and is usually a pretty accurate reflection of events. I’m not talking about hashtags here.

He's probably referring to Miles Guo "Kwok" the chinese dissident, I remember he claimed numbers like that were infected in China.

Louise O Reilly needs to make a statement right now. She is the next Min for Health under SF if they can form a Government.

Bet they are exhaling slowly now with relief that the cannot.

Sorry for derailing, back to the Covid19. Are we safe?

For everyone who has been looking for antibac/antivirus cleaning stuff, you can pick up Zoflora everywhere at the min even when dettol etc is sold out. Dilute it to use it & get an empty spray bottle for it. They state that they haven't been able to test it's effectiveness with coronavirus yet but state it's likely that it does due to the structure of the virus. Just thought it might come in handy!

rob316 wrote: »

I lived through the swine flu outbreak 10 years ago. That infected 20% of the global population. The same hysteria didn't go with it like this and it's easy to see why, we have become absolutely addicted to the media pumping fear into us. This, storm warnings about a bit of wind.

End of the day it's only another flu virus, your average healthy person will recover fully.

Swine flu has a .01% death rate

rob316 wrote: »

I lived through the swine flu outbreak 10 years ago. That infected 20% of the global population. The same hysteria didn't go with it like this and it's easy to see why, we have become absolutely addicted to the media pumping fear into us. This, storm warnings about a bit of wind.

End of the day it's only another flu virus, your average healthy person will recover fully.

Shure it's all grand then. What a about all the people with conditions and are elderly?

antodeco wrote: »

And they're not going to give information as to where it was. Seriously, they need to just come out and say where it is, where they were and get people who may come in contact to self isolate. Theres a choice of voluntarily locking down places as oppose to having to do it because it's gotten out of hand

Plus they still seem to be insisting that it is off low risk transmission risk, where are they getting this info from, do they they not realise the disease is spreading because of transmission.

rob316 wrote: »

I lived through the swine flu outbreak 10 years ago. That infected 20% of the global population. The same hysteria didn't go with it like this and it's easy to see why, we have become absolutely addicted to the media pumping fear into us. This, storm warnings about a bit of wind.
End of the day it's only another flu virus, your average healthy person will recover fully.

First off it's not a flu virus. If you are saying that I don't know where you are getting your information from but it's completely wrong.

Did any country react to swine flu the way China reacted to the breakout in Wuhan?
Do you think China reacted in that way because of a media hysteria?
Why, therefore do you think the higher level of global reaction to this virus is because of media hysteria?

Dept of Health Press Briefing going on now, might give out more details.

rob316 wrote: »

I lived through the swine flu outbreak 10 years ago. That infected 20% of the global population. The same hysteria didn't go with it like this and it's easy to see why, we have become absolutely addicted to the media pumping fear into us. This, storm warnings about a bit of wind.

End of the day it's only another flu virus, your average healthy person will recover fully.

Might be something to do with the 20× plus death rate that Covid-19 has vs Swine Flu...

dan786 wrote: »

Dept of Health Press Briefing going on now, might give out more details.

Is that live somewhere?

dan786 wrote: »

Dept of Health Press Briefing going on now, might give out more details.

If it's anything like the last few we'll be playing cluedo again

PhantomHat wrote: »

Shure it's all grand then. What a about all the people with conditions and are elderly?

Yes, this.

laurah591 wrote: »

Is that live somewhere?

Not sure. RTE posted about it.

Right, so it’s here. Let’s deal with it.
What are other governments responses to it?
Japan, all schools closed till end of March.
Italy schools closed until end of next week at the earliest.
Uk, emergency legislation to be brought in to deal with c19.

What will the Irish government do? In fact my understanding is our outgoing government IS our government at the moment, which makes Leo’s silence unbelievable on this really.
What measures will they bring in, cause there’s no way this won’t spread, its spread in every other country in the world, bar north Korea “ahem.”