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

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  • #4532
    Gods Gift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,713 ✭✭✭Gods Gift


    It’s taken down google.
    We’re fooked.


  • #4533
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,422 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    tillyfilly wrote: »
    scrambling parts actually !

    Scrambling jets sounds so much more dramatic... but we're not at that point yet. If anything we need to do the opposite :)

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



  • #4534
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    People working outside of Google who went for meetings and stuff being contacted via their own organisations.

    You mean for tracing? Not sure what you mean.


  • #4535
    cnocbui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,004 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    tillyfilly wrote: »
    US scrambling jets to combat the spread of the Corona virus :

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/world/coronavirus-news.html
    https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/29/automakes-scramble-for-parts-prepare-war-rooms-as-coronavirus-spreads.html

    You might as well have claimed they were line dancing in the Mojave desert in order to combat the spread for all the relevance your nonsense had to those links.


  • #4536
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,422 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Gods Gift wrote: »
    It’s taken down google.
    We’re fooked.

    During this emergency you will be limited to 1 google search per hour. Use it wisely!

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



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  • #4537
    Andrew00
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,484 ✭✭✭Andrew00


    I've had a mild flu the last week and a half. From galway haven't been anywhere bar work.

    Is there a common flu going around anyway at the moment?


  • #4538
    tillyfilly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 567 ✭✭✭tillyfilly


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    Scrambling jets sounds so much more dramatic... but we're not at that point yet. If anything we need to do the opposite :)

    I can see Trump blanket bombing the virus !!


  • #4539
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    You mean tracing?

    Think the poster means companies who's staff visited google have their own companies contacting them.

    Seems like complete overkill


  • #4540
    cloudatlas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,711 ✭✭✭cloudatlas


    Two British students coming back from holiday in Cambodia were put into quarantine after one asked for paracetamol and an upgrade because she was hungover on the flight from Singapore to London. I'm sure they've recovered by now.


  • #4541
    bennyl10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,591 ✭✭✭bennyl10


    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    People working outside of Google who went for meetings and stuff being contacted via their own organisations.

    Seeing as there isn’t any confirmed case of corona this seems unnecessary.
    Google are having a drill. Simply


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  • #4542
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    You mean for tracing? Not sure what you mean.

    Just precautionary to stay at home. I will clarify.


  • #4543
    Gods Gift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,713 ✭✭✭Gods Gift


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    During this emergency you will be limited to 1 google search per hour. Use it wisely!

    Probably be something to do with MILFS.


  • #4544
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    Think the poster means companies who's staff visited google have their own companies contacting them.

    Seems like complete overkill

    That makes no sense unless it's a confirmed case.

    Or the poster means they are just contacting them to stay at home?

    I don't know what he means.


  • #4545
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    Andrew00 wrote: »
    I've had a mild flu the last week and a half. From galway haven't been anywhere bar work.

    Is there a common flu going around anyway at the moment?

    Seems to be alot of head colds doing the rounds. Probably to do with our bipolar weather recently


  • #4546
    Cuckoo7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 235 ✭✭Cuckoo7


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    Think the poster means companies who's staff visited google have their own companies contacting them.

    Seems like complete overkill
    That’s tracing, innit?


  • #4547
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Naggdefy wrote: »
    Very sorry to read this. I don't really know what to say.. Hope you're not in pain.

    No pain.* I’ve been pretty lucky in general on that score.

    But I wouldn’t be devastated if I caught coronavirus.

    *comparatively speaking. Bone weakness and soreness is ever present though because of permanent damage


  • #4548
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    Think the poster means companies who's staff visited google have their own companies contacting them.

    Seems like complete overkill

    This is what I meant.


  • #4549
    saabsaab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,722 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    Professor Moriarty wrote: »
    Could be a hangover.


    Caused by Corona?


  • #4550
    tillyfilly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 567 ✭✭✭tillyfilly


    I just sneezed and have a headache since last night


  • #4551
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    That makes no sense unless it's a confirmed case.

    Or the poster means they are just contacting them to stay at home?

    I don't know what he means.

    I see they've clarified above.
    Told people to stay at home who've been into google for meetings etc.

    Makes absolutely no sense given its being reported they dont think its covid and google saying it's being used as a business continuity test


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  • #4552
    Cilldara_2000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,189 ✭✭✭Cilldara_2000


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    Ireland's health care system is just above bottom placed Ukraine according to the HealthCare Index. The index is an estimation of the overall quality of the health care system, health care professionals, equipment, staff, doctors, cost etc.

    Worst or second worst in many categories.
    That's not an attack on your goodself now mind.

    That's the reality. Spin doesn't cut it. Aren't we all complaining about it 52 weeks of the year. All of a sudden under potential pandemic conditions what exactly will change.

    This is the HealthCare Index published by Numbeo?

    Their website states:

    "This section is based on surveys from visitors of this website. Questions for these surveys are similar to many similar scientific and government surveys."

    Questions may be similar but how similar are the various polling quality procedures such as weighting. And self selected sampling is not a method by used by any reliable research organisation.

    And it's not like Paddy isn't noted for a "grass is greener" attitude.


  • #4553
    BanditLuke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭BanditLuke


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    Think the poster means companies who's staff visited google have their own companies contacting them.

    Seems like complete overkill

    Yeah let's do nothing and end up like Wuhan then the (supposed) front line worker will be working 18 hour shifts instead of 13 and never see his kid instead of for an hour.

    Sure it'll be grand.


  • #4554
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,385 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    During this emergency you will be limited to 1 google search per hour. Use it wisely!
    Bing is back in the game!!!


  • #4555
    cnocbui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,004 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Cilldara_2000 wrote: »
    Hmmm. First result when on a google search "Ireland health service ranking". https://www.joe.ie/fitness-health/ireland-placed-pretty-high-new-global-healthcare-system-ranking-588830

    Here was me expecting to see nothing but bad news.

    Here, you might like to see how our health system is rated by the customers: https://www.numbeo.com/health-care/rankings_by_country.jsp


  • #4556
    s7ryf3925pivug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,007 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    Pseudonym121 wrote: »
    It seems that epidemiology and statistics are not strong points here. I’ll explain the maths and conclusions in fuller detail going from USA to Ireland and then vice versa.

    The US has approx 300 million people and has 36,000 deaths per year from flu. This equates to 120 deaths from flu per million people. So for 5 million Americans there are 600 deaths from flu.

    Ireland has roughly 5 million people and has 120 deaths per year from flu.

    The difference in those two numbers, 480 dead people per 5 million citizens is the number of people who die in America for that population size per year from flu vs Ireland.

    The reason, I believe, and there is much evidence to support this on pubmed ( a database of published research) is that those 480 people die largely due to limited access to quality healthcare by people who are without or with only poor quality healthcare in America.


    This confusion over some very simple statistics and maths is also part of the reason why information flow is managed and presented in manageable chunks. Most people are simply not trained or experienced to manipulate epidemiological data and draw the correct conclusions. Sending out the raw data ASAP would lead to people doing the sums wrong, drawing the wrongs conclusions and great problems.

    I am not posting this to have conflict with any posters but simply to elucidate the maths behind the statements I made.

    As a country Ireland will do better than the vast majority of the world due to our healthcare system. Also when we count the death toll at the end there will be a significant portion of doctors and nurses there because they stayed at their posts to care for people with Coronavirus instead of scaremongering. If necessary I’ll be one of them.

    You might consider thinking about that, calming down and allowing us to do our jobs and help you and those you care about if and when you become ill.

    With respect.
    You said if Ireland had the same population as the USA we would have 600 deaths per year, which is five times the number you gave as our flu deaths, so it implies Ireland has one fifth the population of the USA.

    You then revised that to say 600 was the number of deaths the USA would have if it had the population of Ireland. Which would be ok but you did it in the guise of explaining something to people who didn't understand, instead of acknowledging your error.


  • #4557
    Duke of Url
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,662 ✭✭✭Duke of Url


    Google are simply running their contingency plan as a drill. Nothing more nothing less.


  • #4558
    Cilldara_2000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,189 ✭✭✭Cilldara_2000


    cnocbui wrote: »
    Here, you might like to see how our health system is rated by the customers: https://www.numbeo.com/health-care/rankings_by_country.jsp

    Ranked by a self selected sample of "customers" who happened upon that website.


  • #4559
    blanch152
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,851 ✭✭✭✭blanch152


    givyjoe wrote: »
    To be fair, a significant proportion of the "doom and gloom" as you put it, was the concern that we won't have enough ventilation equipment to cope, resulting in a spike of deaths. We have a HSE consultant confirming that this is likely. Seems the concern was justified and highlights the need to do absolutely everything we can to slow this down.


    No country has enough ventilation to cope with a widespread epidemic. Expecting it is just typical Irish entitlement.


  • #4560
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,458 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    BanditLuke wrote: »
    I do respect them. Aren't I allowed argue my side of the issue?
    You have "strongly argued" your side throughout

    I am instructing you to respect the rights of others to express their views. We can all see what you are saying, but please do not dismiss others who have the same rights to express their views. If you continue to do so I will stop you posting in the thread

    Any questions PM me - do not respond to any mod warnings in-thread


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  • #4561
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,313 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Andrew00 wrote: »
    I've had a mild flu the last week and a half. From galway haven't been anywhere bar work.

    Is there a common flu going around anyway at the moment?
    From what I've seen there seems to be a couple of "bugs" going around since Christmas. There was the one around Christmas/New year which for the people I knew who had it would have them crapping themselves now as far as symptoms go; fever, headache, no upper respiratory involvement(no snotters out the nose) and a cough which took ages to feck off. Actually one mate of mine and his family who had it, have in the last ten days got another dose that's similar. That dose didn't seem to affect all. So in the above family of five three got it, one quite bad, but two appeared to get nada. Like I say if it were this week... I know a couple of others with common cold type doses too and one with what defo appears to be flu(rapid onset, utterly fecked take to the bed).

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



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