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Coronavirus Part III - 9 cases across the Island - 503 errors abound!! *read OP*

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  • #182
    Sundy
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    Michelinextra. wrote: »
    China just banned all flights from Ireland

    Source?


  • #183
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,647 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    GooglePlus wrote: »
    I never said he has it, I said it is quite likely.

    If you are genuinely working on the "frontlines", you'd be best opening your mind up a bit and allow for open discussion instead of shutting it down.

    I work on the frontlines. I've done so in Ireland and the UK. Open discussion does not allow somebody to be a pretend Sherlock about believing that the pope has the Corona virus. At Best, you are stupid, at worst, you are been malicious.


  • #184
    Michelinextra.
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    Sundy wrote: »
    Source?

    Newsweak reporting it


  • #185
    Monkeynut
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    I work on the frontlines. I've done so in Ireland and the UK. Open discussion does not allow somebody to be a pretend Sherlock about believing that the pope has the Corona virus. At Best, you are stupid, at worst, you are been malicious.




    Start a new thread guys Google vs Dazzler.
    Or just stop.


  • #186
    Ficheall
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    GooglePlus wrote: »
    The pope cancelling meetings because of an illness after greeting crowds of people in a region where the virus is spreading rapidly.
    It looks like he has sniffles, which supposedly present in about 4% of coronavirus sufferers. Do you not think it more likely that he has a cold, and being old and seemingly of compromised immunity, he decided to avoid meeting crowds of people who might have a highly infectious disease?


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  • #187
    Ficheall
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    Sundy wrote: »
    Michelinextra. wrote: »
    China just banned all flights from Ireland
    Source?
    There are no flights to China from Ireland...


  • #188
    Graces7
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    pc7 wrote: »
    Not seeing it anywhere else yet, but at 83 and meeting and greeting so many over the last month, he very well could. Would be very hard on his mostly elderly followers here, would scare a lot of them. Then a load of elderly men lock themselves in to pick the new one.

    Age used to be respected as a time of wisdom … Now being old is seen as? A burden? Invalid?


  • #189
    Kermit.de.frog
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    Thailand reports 42nd case.


    This time the victim's job "brought him in to contact with a lot of tourists"


  • #190
    Doctors room ghost
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    I may come across angry but the reality is that false accusations like these put increased pressures on A+E. So say somebody comes in with suspected with coronavirus (coming from a visit with pope Francis). Patient needs to be isolated with resp equipment (To cover if they deteriorate rapidly. Then next comes a 17 year old with an life threatening asthma attack, hard luck buddy, the resp equipment is tied up with the potential Covid-19 patient. The 17 year old died from a very treatable form of asthma attack. But due to fear mongering, loads of people present to A+E (with cough symptoms) blocking real emergency cases.




    There’s oxygen ports and tanks available on every bed and trolley in a and e and disposable nebs to administer medication with,so the 17 year old didn’t in fact die from an asthma attack.
    Unless they had a drama queen like yourself looking after them that is.then they probably would die and would in fact be probably better off being dead.
    The end.


  • #191
    GooglePlus
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    I work on the frontlines. I've done so in Ireland and the UK. Open discussion does not allow somebody to be a pretend Sherlock about believing that the pope has the Corona virus. At Best, you are stupid, at worst, you are been malicious.

    I've only ever said it's a likelihood, as it is.

    The man came into contact with numerous members of the public in a region with a spread of virus and takes ill after, so it's definitely not out of the realms of possibility and it is just as possible that he may have a cold.


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  • #192
    bb12
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    i dunno, my generation has had it rough...we grew up worrying about the red button being pressed between east germany and the west, chernobyl, ozone layer depletion, 9/11, bit of fun in the early 00s then global recession, climate change and now friggin coronavirus...


  • #193
    Graces7
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    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Not a credible source.

    re Pope Francis

    I just checked the Catholic Answers Forum, Catholic News and so far nothing positive there but they are very aware of the possibility. Will keep an eye

    phatmass phorum a little more involved as in " coronalike illness"

    See "open mic"

    They will know .


  • #194
    GooglePlus
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    Ficheall wrote: »
    It looks like he has sniffles, which supposedly present in about 4% of coronavirus sufferers. Do you not think it more likely that he has a cold, and being old and seemingly of compromised immunity, he decided to avoid meeting crowds of people who might have a highly infectious disease?

    Could very well be but a runny nose is a symptom of covid-19, where are you getting this 4% figure?


  • #195
    Tippex
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Because sometimes people idle gossip results in real life deaths and that is something I've no time for. There is no need to panic yet. I will be at the front line for this so I'm putting my life at risk more than the majority of posters here. But fear mongering doesn't help us.

    maybe you should leave boards if you don't like people gossiping


  • #196
    s7ryf3925pivug
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    How unusual is it for a disease to have an incubation period of two weeks or more?

    I've a cough and sore chest. Only time I've been around someone sick was two weeks ago.

    NHS site says flu normally has an incubation period of between one and four days.


  • #197
    Ficheall
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    Doctors room ghost wrote: »
    There’s oxygen ports and tanks available on every bed and trolley in a and e and disposable nebs to administer medication with,so the 17 year old didn’t in fact die from an asthma attack.
    Unless they had a drama queen like yourself looking after them that is.then they probably would die and would in fact be probably better off being dead.
    The end.
    I think the point is that the kid wouldn't get into A&E.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/less-than-third-of-patients-in-a-e-admitted-to-ward-within-six-hours-survey-1.4094156


    Also, I disagree with The_Dazzler on the coutry's general level of preparedness, but you need to cop on to yourself.


  • #198
    [Deleted User]
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    Still on Australia, and on Sunday, the country’s Home Affairs minister, Peter Dutton, said it was not possible to extend travel bans to all countries affected by the coronavirus outbreak, but he defended Australia’s decision to restrict entry to people who had travelled from Iran, but not South Korea, which has many more cases.
    Australia recorded its first Covid-19 death on Sunday – a 78-year-old man who had been a passenger on the Diamond Princess cruise ship. He died in Perth and his wife is infected with the virus.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/mar/01/coronavirus-latest-updates-coronavirus-live-updates-latest-news-china-wuhan-stock-markets-update-china-iran-us-australia-south-korea-japan
    Australia:
    Ventilator beds: 1314
    https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0310057X1003800124


  • #199
    GooglePlus
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    Andre Spoiled Lacrosse wrote: »
    How unusual is it for a disease to have an incubation period of two weeks or more?

    I've a cough and sore chest. Only time I've been around someone sick was two weeks ago.

    Rare enough, the likes of West Nile has a similar period but coronavirus incubation for the common cold is about 2-3 days, like influenza also.

    SARS 2 could potentially be 14 days and there's been reports over 20 days.

    You probably just have a chest infection. See if it clears over the next few days and if not, a doc might give you an antibiotic but hopefully you can clear it without the need for one.

    Living on a damp rock in the north Atlantic really has its charms, we're lucky we don't have moss in our lungs.


  • #200
    solidasarock
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/mar/01/coronavirus-latest-updates-coronavirus-live-updates-latest-news-china-wuhan-stock-markets-update-china-iran-us-australia-south-korea-japan

    The Australian cronavirus travel restriction strategy

    2oxj8k.jpg


  • #201
    tuxy
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    Still on Australia, and on Sunday, the country’s Home Affairs minister, Peter Dutton, said it was not possible to extend travel bans to all countries affected by the coronavirus outbreak, but he defended Australia’s decision to restrict entry to people who had travelled from Iran, but not South Korea, which has many more cases.

    It's an easy to restrict travel on a country with few economic ties to your own.
    Restricted travel with South Korea could have serious negative consequences to Australian companies.
    I assume they have weighted up the odd and are taking a chance on this working out best.


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  • #202
    Ficheall
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    GooglePlus wrote: »
    Could very well be but a runny nose is a symptom of covid-19, where are you getting this 4% figure?
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058056799


  • #203
    tuxy
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    Ficheall wrote: »
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058056799

    Yes it's been make clear from that start that excessive mucus is not usually a symptom of this virus.


  • #204
    Graces7
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    tuxy wrote: »
    Yes it's been make clear from that start that excessive mucus is not usually a symptom of this virus.

    also although bad weather the hay fever season has started; various grass and tree pollens.


  • #205
    Beanybabog
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    Downlinz wrote: »
    Anyone going to the supermarket tomorrow to stock up? Be honest.

    There’s not a single delivery slot on Tesco app for Monday.


  • #206
    Kermit.de.frog
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    Thailand reports 1st death off 42 cases.


  • #207
    darjeeling
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    https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1233970271318503426

    The same rare mutation was shared by viral genomes isolated from a Wuhan returnee to Washington state on Jan 19 and yesterday's community transmission case from Seattle.

    This means that covid19 has likely been circulating undetected in WA since that first case 6 weeks ago.

    Tweet comes from a lead scientist behind the work & creator of nextstrain.org, where the phylogenetic tree of all covid19 sequences to date is viewable.

    Reports of up to 50 symptomatic people in a nursing home there as the governor declares a state of emergency.
    https://apnews.com/f175d89567a26d59cab27725c9e8a0d7


  • #208
    megabomberman
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    Could our moronic representatives now get together and form a national government to deal with this crisis. We will need to commit at least a billion into this right away to try and prevent thousands of preventable deaths.


  • #209
    Kermit.de.frog
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    Death in Thailand was 35 years old.


  • #210
    Ficheall
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    megabomberman wrote: »
    We will need to commit at least a billion into this right away to try and prevent thousands of preventable deaths.
    How much do you reckon it would cost to prevent the unpreventable ones?


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  • #211
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1233971005107785728


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