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

gmisk · 02-03-2020 09:54AM

splinter65 wrote: »

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.

I would think you will get a fairly generic email covering HSE advice I did (non customer facing in government department).

If you have returned from a covid-19 affected region in the last 14 days or have been in close contact with a confirmed or probable case in the last 14 days, and have symptoms etc etc.

HopsAndJumps · 02-03-2020 09:55AM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

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

Otherwise it is pointless.

It will help you to stop touching your own face. This is a very hard thing to keep conscious of.

Phoebas · 02-03-2020 09:56AM

splinter65 wrote: »

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.

Why would you expect any instructions apart from the general HSE instructions about hand washing and sneezing etiquette?

JohnnyFlash · 02-03-2020 09:56AM

Wearing a mask is a good way of signalling to the world that you are as thick as two short planks, and haven’t even been able to read and digest simple advice about the virus - wearing a face mask won’t protect you from catching it.

gmisk · 02-03-2020 09:56AM

Oh a woman on the bus did ask me for a squirt of my hand gel though lol

is_that_so · 02-03-2020 09:56AM

jam83 wrote: »

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?

The idea of the school closing is not to present a scenario where it could be spread through a large group. Otherwise instructions for self isolation, if required, apply.

CFlat · 02-03-2020 09:56AM

Darwin wrote: »

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.

Coronavirus or no Coronavirus you'd think people would do that anyway.

gmisk · 02-03-2020 09:57AM

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Wearing a mask is a good way of signalling to the world that you are as thick as two short planks, and haven’t even been able to read and digest simple advice about the virus - wearing a face mask won’t protect you from catching it.

But it can help to stop you from spreading it no?
It will likely also encourage you to stop touching your face

I have no issue with people wearing one of they want,why would you care?

tara73 · 02-03-2020 09:57AM

any news about Runaways? sorry but couldn't catch up with the whole thread. just read yesterday evening he's in hospital?:eek::eek:

if you read it Runaways, hoping it's not too bad and all the best!!

Drumpot · 02-03-2020 09:57AM

Rob A. Bank wrote: »

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJRJ7qc6Af8

Dr John talks about the containment phase here. Supposedly contact tracing can be hard in itself but is even harder with such a transmissible virus like covid19.

I was thinking about this and can’t understand the logic. If you shut down an entire school because one child tests positive surely the family of the child told to self isolate? A lot of that school would not of necessarily been in close contact with the child but the family of that child most certainly were close to them.

I think a lot of mistakes are going to be made , certainly at the start. That wouid not be unique to us either as most countries are not prepared to deal with this and will be learning as they go along.

If the numbers are spiking everywhere but Ireland , my concern would be that we simply can’t test enough or keep up with potential cases. Does anybody actually know what the official figure in Ireland of tested people actually is?

02-03-2020 09:58AM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

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

What is going on over there

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe The British/Iranian citizen who was jailed over there in 2016 because Iran says she was attempting to topple the government has told her family she has symptoms.

She’s been unwell before and was denied medical treatment.

Phoebas · 02-03-2020 09:58AM

gozunda wrote: »

Do we?

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

No. What I'm saying is don't take advice from randomers on the internet over the advice of the competent health authorities.

solidasarock · 02-03-2020 09:58AM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

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

Otherwise it is pointless.

Time to stay away from doctors.

Those guys must be super sick.

is_that_so · 02-03-2020 09:58AM

Darwin wrote: »

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.

If it's a habit why would they suddenly decide to change it now?

Talisman · 02-03-2020 09:59AM

vladmydad wrote: »

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

In terms of climate change, Covid-19 is nothing to worry about. It's the microbes that have been in a dormant state for thousands and in some cases millions of years that are the apocalyptic scenario.

There are diseases hidden in ice, and they are waking up (BBC, May 2017)

Mrcaramelchoc · 02-03-2020 10:01AM

is_that_so wrote: »

If it's a habit why would they suddenly decide to change it now?

Its a habit to cough splutter and sneeze without even attempting to cover it up?who has a habit like that.who does that ffs.

is_that_so · 02-03-2020 10:01AM

Talisman wrote: »

In terms of climate change, Covid-19 is nothing to worry about. It's the microbes that have been in a dormant state for thousands and in some cases millions of years that are the apocalyptic scenario.

There are diseases hidden in ice, and they are waking up (BBC, May 2017)

There are also aliens watching us with their cold unblinking eyes!

DOCARCH · 02-03-2020 10:01AM

Drumpot wrote: »

Does anybody actually know what the official figure in Ireland of tested people actually is?

According to the HSE yesterday, up to Monday 24th of February, only 90 tests carried out.

HSE said they will release stats tomorrow on number of tests carried out between
last Monday and today.

Drumpot · 02-03-2020 10:02AM

DOCARCH wrote: »

According to the HSE yesterday, up to Monday 24th of February, only 90 tests carried out.

HSE said they will release stats tomorrow on number of tests carried out between
last Monday and today.

Thanks, that will really be interesting to read.

is_that_so · 02-03-2020 10:03AM

Mrcaramelchoc wrote: »

Its a habit to cough splutter and sneeze without even attempting to cover it up?who has a habit like that.who does that ffs.

Sadly, quite a lot of people. Spend enough time on public transport and you could stock a lab full of petri dish cultures for a year!

Kermit.de.frog · 02-03-2020 10:03AM

123 new confirmed cases in South Korea on top of 476 new confirmed cases earlier and 4 new deaths.

599 new cases for the day

Quantum Erasure · 02-03-2020 10:03AM

If the numbers are spiking everywhere but Ireland , my concern would be that we simply can’t test enough or keep up with potential cases. Does anybody actually know what the official figure in Ireland of tested people actually is?

It had to get here first, once it's on the island the numbers will start rising sharply in a couple weeks

vladmydad · 02-03-2020 10:03AM

Should I still go on my trip to the costa del sol later this week ?

YFlyer · 02-03-2020 10:04AM

gmisk wrote: »

But it can help to stop you from spreading it no?
It will likely also encourage you to stop touching your face

I have no issue with people wearing one of they want,why would you care?

Should be self isolating then.

2ygb4cmqetsjhx · 02-03-2020 10:04AM

vladmydad wrote: »

Should I still go on my trip to the costa del sol later this week ?

I'd say yes.

Beanybabog · 02-03-2020 10:05AM

DOCARCH wrote: »

According to the HSE yesterday, up to Monday 24th of February, only 90 tests carried out.

HSE said they will release stats tomorrow on number of tests carried out between
last Monday and today.

It’ll spike today- the parent who posted here whose child goes to the school said all third years to be tested

02-03-2020 10:05AM

Phoebas wrote: »

No. What I'm saying is don't take advice from randomers on the internet over the advice of the competent health authorities.

In fairness the advice with regards to hand washing and coughing into your sleeve or a tissue was given in the first thread here. That was long before the HSE pulled their finger out.

I was reading and taking advice there from the onset.

ZX7R · 02-03-2020 10:05AM

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe The British/Iranian citizen who was jailed over there in 2016 because Iran says she was attempting to topple the government has told her family she has symptoms.

She’s been unwell before and was denied medical treatment.

There healthcare system doesn't even register on the WHO table.
War is more important to them.

circadian · 02-03-2020 10:06AM

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Wearing a mask is a good way of signalling to the world that you are as thick as two short planks, and haven’t even been able to read and digest simple advice about the virus - wearing a face mask won’t protect you from catching it.

N95/P3 masks are effective against the virus. Other behaviours have to change along with this otherwise its pointless. Anyone wearing a mask and is willing to be absolutely conscious of washing hands, not touching face etc greatly reduces their chances of getting infected in public at least. If I were at risk I would be wearing one and taking these measures.

Not listening to some try hard on boards.ie suggesting everyone is thick as two planks.

02-03-2020 10:07AM

DOCARCH wrote: »

According to the HSE yesterday, up to Monday 24th of February, only 90 tests carried out.

HSE said they will release stats tomorrow on number of tests carried out between
last Monday and today.

Did the spokesman yesterday say that that info with be released every Tuesday on a weekly basis covering the previous week?

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