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

brick tamland wrote: »

How long before we start dealing with this as just another virus that people can catch and everything is back to normal? Anyone want to hazard a guess. This wont be going away.

by April id say ,It seems to be already on the decrease in China

KWAG2019 wrote: »

People need to reach their own decision too. Just because an event is going ahead does not mean you have to go.

Of course, but the sheep mentality kicks it,
And if it goes ahead there’ll be a presumption that everything is okay

Rob A. Bank wrote: »

Looks like the Italy numbers (yellow) have more than doubled overnight !

https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/cases-2019-ncov-eueea

:-(

France and Germany is fairly climbing as well. I wonder are they next.

Christy42 wrote: »

The jump seems to be all Italy. Obviously we need to make sure we don't follow the same path but so far it has been largely contained to one region in the EU with only a few cases elsewhere.

There are hundreds of cases elsewhere, 530 cases now outside Italy in other EU states

Dial Hard wrote: »

Well, we’ve just been put on work-from-home notice. From today on we need to go home every evening prepared not to come back in if the call is made, so basically bring laptop, charger, notes etc. home with us every evening, make sure everyone has the video conference app installed, etc. No client meetings to be held in the office until further notice. Boss said it’s ‘inevitable’ that the instruction will come but that they’ll delay it for as long as possible just so people don’t crack up if the crisis ends up going on for longer than we might assume. Our Hong Kong office has been closed for seven weeks and they’re all going stir crazy, apparently.


Very strange atmosphere around town today, it feels like everyone is just waiting on something to happen.

Are you in Dublin?

Dial Hard wrote: »

Well, we’ve just been put on work-from-home notice. From today on we need to go home every evening prepared not to come back in if the call is made, so basically bring laptop, charger, notes etc. home with us every evening, make sure everyone has the video conference app installed, etc. No client meetings to be held in the office until further notice. Boss said it’s ‘inevitable’ that the instruction will come but that they’ll delay it for as long as possible just so people don’t crack up if the crisis ends up going on for longer than we might assume. Our Hong Kong office has been closed for seven weeks and they’re all going stir crazy, apparently.

Very strange atmosphere around town today, it feels like everyone is just waiting on something to happen.

Where are you based?

Strazdas wrote: »

But if you go down the route of cancelling Cheltenham and St. Patrick's, you have no choice but to shut down everything else as well. Who is to say that spending a week in a classroom or office is any safer than watching a race meeting or a parade?

I don't see any such shutdown happening at the moment.

No you don't. St Patricks festival was postponed before and everything else wasn't shut down. For the foot and mouth crisis.

Its just money ffs, shut it down. The risk is too high now.

cnocbui wrote: »

Well when you can show credible proof that social media has caused over 3,000 deaths and caused multiple companies to go bankrupt and hundreds of thousands of people made unemployed (perhaps millions), I'll upvote you.

There's ongoing research into the relationship between social media and suicide rates. For every one person who's died of coronavirus in the last year, about 350 people have died of suicide. This study suggests ~20% of suicides were related to Social Media. Which means it's killed 70 times as many people as Coronavirus, through this vector alone.

As for economic impacts, where does this figure of hundreds of thousands of people made unemployed come from? I don't have any data but I'd hazard a guess that the rise of social media as a means of spreading misinformation and fake news that has lead to people like Trump, Salvini and Bolsonaro get to power has cost a lot more. Not to mention these type of populist's disregard for environmental policies contributing to the 7 million pollution related deaths per year.

Bit of a leap to say social media 'caused' the suicides, a contributing factor, at most

bennyl10 wrote: »

Italy is very strange in all this, it hasn’t spread outside of the north, yet the numbers are sky rocketing at a rate so far and above the rest of Europe

I'm on the dont panic, it will be ok side - but, I would cancel all but high priority flights from North Italy , from Wednesday , ther will be loads coming in due to the rugby , that has now been cancelled , I would think you would have a greater chance of becoming infected in a crowded pubs and bars.

cnocbui wrote: »

Someone with the virus sneezing without covering up, could be firing 40,000 virus laden droplets traveling 360 kph up to 8m. Being outdoors is pretty irrelevant to that sort of spread.

If we take what you are saying to its logical conclusion, you would have to cancel literally everything outdoors including public transport and confine everyone to their houses. Doesn't matter if it's a football match or parade or just a meeting attended by 30 people : supposedly the risk of infection would be everywhere.

Strazdas wrote: »

If we take what you are saying to its logical conclusion, you would have to cancel literally everything outdoors including public transport and confine everyone to their houses. Doesn't matter if it's a football match or parade or just a meeting attended by 30 people : supposedly the risk of infection would be everywhere.

Is that not what China did?

Strazdas wrote: »

If we take what you are saying to its logical conclusion, you would have to cancel literally everything outdoors including public transport and confine everyone to their houses. Doesn't matter if it's a football match or parade or just a meeting attended by 30 people : supposedly the risk of infection would be everywhere.

That is more or less what's happening in China and parts of South Korea, Japan and Italy. Transport is still operational but people are asked to confine themselves at home for a period of days or weeks.