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

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  • #2822
    Nonoperational
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭Nonoperational


    BanditLuke wrote: »
    They won't even cancel Cheltenham in the UK ffs

    There are thousands of mass gatherings daily. Premier league soccer, champions league, rugby, cricket, horse racing every day. Why would you randomly cancel one thing? There needs to be a policy on mass gatherings not just randomly choosing things that catch your interest.

    Clueless.


  • #2823
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    Noticeable a lot more people on foot today.


  • #2824
    Darwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,727 ✭✭✭Darwin


    Just back on a flight from France last night, lots of people coughing, sneezing and spluttering on the seats behind me and from the noises being made I could tell they were not covering their mouths. It really beggers belief that people don't have any proper etiquette given the current situation. Saw a bunch of Irish kids with face masks on going out, on the return leg only saw one person wearing one.


  • #2825
    The Nal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,796 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    Just heading to work now. Haven't seen one person, one bus, one car. The streets are totally empty. Everyone is dead.


  • #2826
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1234393051776323585

    What is going on over there


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  • #2827
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Darwin wrote: »
    Just back on a flight from France last night, lots of people coughing, sneezing and spluttering on the seats behind me and from the noises being made I could tell they were not covering their mouths. It really beggers belief that people don't have any proper etiquette given the current situation. Saw a bunch of Irish kids with face masks on going out, on the return leg only saw one person wearing one.
    It's winter, people get colds and flu and they sneeze everywhere, life goes on.


  • #2828
    Gavlor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,201 ✭✭✭Gavlor


    The Nal wrote: »
    Just heading to work now. Haven't seen one person, one bus, one car. The streets are totally empty. Everyone is dead.

    You must mate with the next female that you see in order to save mankind.


  • #2829
    solidasarock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 363 ✭✭solidasarock


    Bus is packed.

    Guy behind me wont stop sneezing.


    Tell my family i Ioved them


  • #2830
    pc7
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,274 Mod ✭✭✭✭pc7


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1234393051776323585

    What is going on over there

    It’s riddled, maybe also lack of health care (I don’t know anything about Iran really).


  • #2831
    vladmydad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 786 ✭✭✭vladmydad


    Have you seen any people wearing face masks ? Are any of you wearing them ?


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  • #2832
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,422 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    The Nal wrote: »
    Just heading to work now. Haven't seen one person, one bus, one car. The streets are totally empty. Everyone is dead.

    Isn't that everyday in Leitrim?

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #2833
    Xertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭Xertz


    Phil.x wrote: »
    There's a nervous tension on irishrails overcrowded trains.

    Oddly very little tension on the tube, even though it’s it’s usual “nose to armpit” level of sardine like packed.

    All you can really do is use hand sanitiser and observe feasible and reasonable levels of caution.


  • #2834
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    https://twitter.com/tegmark/status/1234332247236501506


    How does Ireland compare??


  • #2835
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Gavlor wrote: »
    You must mate with the next female that you see in order to save mankind.
    TBH it all just sounds like a bad Scyfy movie plot!


  • #2836
    vladmydad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 786 ✭✭✭vladmydad


    I’m surprised some of those climate change freaks aren’t saying this is a good thing, depopulation etc


  • #2837
    Rob A. Bank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭Rob A. Bank


    gmisk wrote: »
    I wouldnt exactly be taking the numbers in China as totally accurate.
    Plus what other country is realistically going to implement the measures they have to control this? (Especially in Europe)

    The World Health Organization international expert group which visited China are happy that the Chinese figures are real.

    The trouble is... that it is the same virus which infected China... expecting it to behave differently as it spreads around the community here, is unfortunately a false hope.

    Rigorous case finding with immediate testing and isolation followed by painstaking contact tracing and quarantine of close contacts is all we have to stop the spread.


  • #2838
    Xertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭Xertz


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/tegmark/status/1234332247236501506


    How does Ireland compare??

    Tbh that’s probably over the top, given that there are various levels of cardiovascular disease. Someone with mild hypertension could be in that category as could someone with a major heart issue.

    I would speculate that there are a lot more people both diagnosed with and being treated for minor cardiovascular issues in the USA and here than there are in China and I’m saying that with some degree of familiarity with China.


  • #2839
    megatron989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 207 ✭✭megatron989


    vladmydad wrote: »
    Have you seen any people wearing face masks ? Are any of you wearing them ?

    Staff at Tara Street station in Dublin wearing masks, I'm sure it's personal preference and not by direction.


  • #2840
    sonofenoch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,496 ✭✭✭sonofenoch


    The Nal wrote: »
    Just heading to work now. Haven't seen one person, one bus, one car. The streets are totally empty. Everyone is dead.

    They don't come out in the light


  • #2841
    Fakediamond
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,055 ✭✭✭Fakediamond


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1234393051776323585

    What is going on over there

    His mother also died of the disease before him, although in fairness she must have been very old.


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  • #2842
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    vladmydad wrote: »
    Have you seen any people wearing face masks ? Are any of you wearing them ?

    Good few people around Harcourt St. are wearing them this morning.


  • #2843
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,727 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Please note that not everyone that coughs, sneezes or sniffles has the virus. We’ve had weeks of bad weather, it’s normal that people will be a little sick but grand enough for work.

    While this thing is serious, there is way too many getting hysterical. You don’t need 6 months of supplies.


  • #2844
    jam83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 341 ✭✭jam83


    Why aren't parents of students in that school in Dublin told to stay at home? Couldn't they have been infected within hours of their kids?


  • #2845
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    You only wear a mask if you are infected wanting to avoid passing the disease.

    Otherwise it is pointless.


  • #2846
    Hector Savage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    The Nal wrote: »
    Just heading to work now. Haven't seen one person, one bus, one car. The streets are totally empty. Everyone is dead.

    I don't want to alarm people, but we are conservatively best case scenario in Ireland alone looking at about 450 MILLION dead ...


    God help us all.


  • #2847
    splinter65
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    I work in a non urgent public service office and have very close contact with the public all day. It will be interesting this morning to see if there are any instructions from head office about the Coronavirus. They would be typically very slow about these things.


  • #2848
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,385 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Lots of posters in my work with instructions about coronavirus.
    Also got an email about it fairly standard HSE advice inside (this is a government department btw).


  • #2849
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,422 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Please note that not everyone that coughs, sneezes or sniffles has the virus. We’ve had weeks of bad weather, it’s normal that people will be a little sick but grand enough for work.
    While this thing is serious, there is way too many getting hysterical. You don’t need 6 months of supplies.

    And it's more lower respiratory (cough) than upper respiratory (sneezing, runny nose).

    6 months no; but 2-4 weeks is prudent though, especially if you have to self isolate.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #2850
    Darwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,727 ✭✭✭Darwin


    is_that_so wrote: »
    It's winter, people get colds and flu and they sneeze everywhere, life goes on.

    Yes, but you would have to be pretty ignorant not to make some effort to cover your mouth in a confined space given the current possibilities.


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  • #2851
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Phoebas wrote: »
    We've got a lot of people saying that on this thread, and the very same people actively sowing mistrust.

    Do we?

    So what you are saying where someone states x - it means they automatically believe y?

    Hasty generalisations?


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