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

Ok so the FEMA /mass round up/ theyre coming to take our guns conspiracies have started on reddit. Now I know for sure this will all come to nothing. Some people will get sick, the vast majority will recover just fine and life will go on.

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Will there be a presidential address to the people on the 9 O'clock news?

Yoda will be on wearing a mask
GO ON THE YODA

odyssey06 wrote: »

It's not a static risk.
What was the risk in Italy 6 weeks ago? What is it today?

Measurement of the risk of an infectious disease by current count in this country is neither here nor there. Why was the rugby match cancelled if the risk was only 0.00001%?
Why take any measures whatsoever for 0.00001%?

Which is why the Irish authorities are monitoring everything closely on a day to day basis.

They can't start shutting down everything on the basis that things 'might possibly' worsen in coming weeks. Btw, a doctor said yesterday on RTE Radio that he thought the decision to cancel the Italy rugby game was very premature : he says they should have waited a week at least to see what was actually happening, there was no need for a rushed decision.

Professor Moriarty wrote: »

Currently, the best estimate of mortality rate for coronavirus is about 2.3% which is much greater than the flu. It could be more or it could be less given time but nobody doubts it is much deadlier than the flu. Its infection rate is 2.2 which is greater than the flu. If governments were to treat it like the flu then it would cause havoc. That's why governments are so stringent in their reaction.

Mortality will likely be alot less than 2.3%; I think less than 1% is currently quoted.

Mild and minimally symptomatic cases will or may not be included in the current total estimates

Peatys wrote: »

Is it legit?

Yep seems to be

CinemaGuy45 wrote: »

To Hell with this I am going to pop out to Xtravision and rent a film.

Will you pick me up a cd from HMV while your out?

BanditLuke wrote: »

Yeah i'm in the same boat. Have followed it with great interest and a lot of the same people who scoffed at the outbreak in Wuhan posting stupid insulting pictures of Chinese people on Whatapp etc.. at the beginning are now bitching about Cheltenham maybe being cancelled as if like that's an issue here.

Some of the slow ones are finally grasping the gravity of the disaster we are now facing.

The worst part is that now people are beginning to take me seriously and heed my advice, they can't act on it because the supermarkets are getting panic run'd and the pharmacies are well out of stock.

cryptocurrency wrote: »

Why is Italy and Iran handling the virus so badly? outside of the epicentre in Wuhan these two have shot into 2nd and 3rd place on the death tolls in a week.

They both do that double kissy greeting thing.
Well probably not now. The damage is done.