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

d51984 wrote: »

School are been brilliant getting back to us straight away.

From The WHO China report

Data on individuals aged 18 years old and under suggest that there is a relatively low attack rate in this age group (2.4% of all reported cases)...

The Joint Mission learned that infected children have largely been identified through contact tracing in households of adults.

Of note, people interviewed by the Joint Mission Team could not recall episodes in which transmission occurred from a child to an adult.

This is good news for the families of isolated children.

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

givyjoe wrote: »

Not in Italy, South Korea or Iran.

Or anywhere else

GoneHome wrote: »

Report on Journal.ie now of a second school in Dublin closing for 14 days

Try reading that again - seriously some people

Brenden Agreeable Rabble-rouser wrote: »

https://www.contagionlive.com/news/covid19-sarscov2-and-pregnancy-does-the-past-predict-the-present

My pregnant friend is taking leave from school for two weeks. I think she's dead right.

But why two weeks this thing might be only getting started proper in two weeks time and could last months.

Elessar wrote: »

Came here to post this. The doomsdayers need to be banned from this thread. Everybody needs to relax. Yes, take precautions especially if you have an underlying condition. But this isn't the end of the world like some here seem to think it will be.

There is even some evidence that the 2% rate is not accurate and this virus is not anymore dangerous than severe seasonal infuenza:



Still dangerous for certain areas of the population of course, but not world endingly fatal that some seem to think it is.

There's been literally zero people who've suggested it is.

You're having an argument with an internet persona you invented. What's that like?

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Literally the exact same as what you could do with the flu. People weren't this scared with ebola ffs. Bit of cop on is needed.

There weren't over a thousand cases of ebola in Italy, and hundreds in Germany and France.

CinemaGuy45 wrote: »

Brains.

Most people on here safe enough then..

A 2% fatality rate sounds pretty f**king high to me. Anyone saying “relax it’s only a 2% mortality rate” is gone too far down the opposite side of scaremongering and actually isn’t taking the situation as seriously as it should be.

baldbear wrote: »

You need to move quick and rob that freezer whilst they are in Aldi. The end is nigh.

Or hide in it and jack in the box when they get back scaring the sh1te out of the greedy guts.

*please ensure freezer is plugged out during jack in the box phase to avoid freezing/death.

Hyzepher wrote: »

It is closing

Yeah the secondary school not a second school

There was a lad on Claire Byrne Show who came back from Korea or somewhere where his colleague had coronavirus and he asked the HSE to test him

They told him "you'll be grand"......

Absolute state of them

Wibbs wrote: »

+1000. This kinda thing really brings out the blithering idiocy in too damned many. It does show how close the modern civilised world is to crapping itself over little enough. Can you imagine if something like the Plague was on our shores?

For what exactly? In locked down Wuhan, a city of many millions nobody starved to death and the shops still had supplies. Do you really think people are going to run out here? Jesus Christ, there's preparation and there's atomic powered hysterical overreaction.

I do agree, but in London everywhere is out of hand gel, which is a basic enough way to try to stay safe without overreacting. My friend hasn't been able to get any at all because it's all sold out, so is planning to get several bottles, at least, if she finds a place selling it. If a huge capital city like London can be out of hand gel, it isn't that much of a stretch to think that in a true crisis (because currently in London there have barely been any cases at all), it could be out of milk, bread or other essentials. It would only take a small fraction of the population to start panic buying to clear all the shelves.

And this is how it starts. My friend didn't rush out and buy hand gel because she's laid back and wasn't too worried. Now she'd like to have some (because it's been advised by the NHS), she's likely to buy several bottles, because if she doesn't buy them, someone else will, and she doesn't know when it will be back in stock.