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

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  • #4652
    Abel Ruiz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 887 ✭✭✭Abel Ruiz


    Andre Spoiled Lacrosse wrote: »
    Your posts are a combination of condescending insults and stupidity. A couple of other people have already explained the very simple maths that you got wrong. I hope you aren't really a doctor.

    You are just a cnut.
    Fuk you and Luke, two clowns!


  • #4653
    Blueshoe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    Spanish Eyes wrote: »
    I don't want a ban, and I don't want anymore people to die from this in the US, but I have to say if this means Trump has to answer for cutting CDC funding, I'll take that.

    Petty. Very petty


  • #4654
    Pseudonym121
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 309 ✭✭Pseudonym121


    Of course there are far more cases in Ireland than are presently diagnosed. There’s a lag between infection and symptoms.

    If that child came back from Italy a week ago we should start seeing the numbers climb in 7 to 14 days from now. By Paddy’s Day we’ll look back on today as a period of calm. People will exaggerate and panic irrespective of scientific evidence and knowledge because many people think with their hindbrains. It is sad but it is what people do.

    The US military has lots of interesting research about what happens in societies in crisis. Once the third straight meal is missed order and the veneer of civilisation are lost. There’s lots of interesting reading about what actually happened during Katherina.

    By the end of March the sorts of people who are losing the plot here will be losing it in the meat world too because they’ll find every predictable increase in infected numbers to be more proof of conspiracy etc and they’ll be increasingly less rational and societally minded.

    Of course, I hope I’m wrong...


  • #4655
    skimpydoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,074 ✭✭✭skimpydoo


    Just seen this. https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/steve-wozniak-tweets-wife-may-be-patient-zero-coronavirus-usa/?utm_source=OneSignal&utm_medium=Push&utm_campaign=2020


  • #4656
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,611 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Ninthlife wrote: »
    Any update from the poster who has a child in the school on lockdown.

    Be interested to know more of the meeting

    Mary Lou is on Boards?


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  • #4657
    Blueshoe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    Pseudonym121 wrote: »
    Of course there are far more cases in Ireland than are presently diagnosed. There’s a lag between infection and symptoms.

    If that child came back from Italy a week ago we should start seeing the numbers climb in 7 to 14 days from now. By Paddy’s Day we’ll look back on today as a period of calm. People will exaggerate and panic irrespective of scientific evidence and knowledge because many people think with their hindbrains. It is sad but it is what people do.

    The US military has lots of interesting research about what happens in societies in crisis. Once the third straight meal is missed order and the veneer of civilisation are lost. There’s lots of interesting reading about what actually happened during Katherina.

    By the end of March the sorts of people who are losing the plot here will be losing it in the meat world too because they’ll find every predictable increase in infected numbers to be more proof of conspiracy etc and they’ll be increasingly less rational and societally minded.

    Of course, I hope I’m wrong...

    Many of us country folk have licenced firearms. Shotguns and rifles with ammunition.
    Just saying


  • #4658
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,313 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Pseudonym121 wrote: »
    P.s. As regards the ‘listen to the man posts” referring to me. Ladies can be Consultants too boys. 😎
    Funny enough, because I grew up being dragged to women docs who were relatives, the point in my childhood when I found out men could be doctors too came as quite the shock to me. :D Even today there's a tiny part of me associates doctor with the feminine. Shows how we can be so easily influenced.
    Re: immunity. Coronaviruses mutate so rapidly that frequently catching it once doesn’t confer immunity.
    The yearly common cold being a perfect example. Though IIRC people tend to get more when younger and as they age tend to get fewer "common colds"?

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



  • #4659
    Ninthlife
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,460 ✭✭✭Ninthlife


    Abel Ruiz wrote: »
    You are just a cnut.
    Fuk you and Luke, two clowns!

    You should tell him what you really think of him


  • #4660
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Any word from D<insert various numbers> and the parent meeting in Croke Park?


  • #4661
    froog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,784 ✭✭✭froog


    there seems to be a lot of "medical professionals" coming out of the woodwork on anonymous internet forums the last week. even if they are genuine, when it comes to something like this, i'd only value the opinion of virologists or epidemiologists or similar tbh. most GPs here really don't have a clue about pandemic stuff. and the few nurses i've spoken to still seem to think this is the same as the swine flu.


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  • #4662
    Lord Trollington
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,419 ✭✭✭Lord Trollington


    gozunda wrote: »
    I really cannot understand the logic not including those who have tested positive for the virus (but who may not have gotten sick) in case totals.

    For an accurate picture of the rate of infection - it is necessary to include all those diagnosed with the disease.

    Tbh the change in calculation is little better than the extremly proscriptive criteria for testing here - which effectively rules out anyone who has not visited an area with an outbreak or been in close contact with someone known to have been Infected.

    God help anyone who gets infected but doesn't meet thse specific criteria - as the logic appears to be that it simply couldn't happen ...

    Surely for a more accurate death rate it would paint a clearer picture.

    We've built up immunity and developed vaccines for the flu, there must be thousands of people that get it that goes unreported every year. And yet the death rate for the flu is relatively high.

    Are we blowing this out of all proportions and over reacting


  • #4663
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    Pretty sure, given the recent locust plague(s) this Pandemic is the start of the actual Tribulation.

    Might drive about when it kicks off and throw single slices of bread through front house windows when it kicks off
    - Of the unprepared obese, poor-health riddled majority (you lot), in order to acheive eternal glory and salavation.


  • #4664
    Pseudonym121
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 309 ✭✭Pseudonym121


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    What about those ECMO machines?

    Great but limited numbers. The reality is a pandemic means there won’t be enough medical resources to go around anywhere in the world and people who could have been saved will die for lack of these and other resources.

    It is unfortunate but it is the objective reality of this situation in every country of the world.


  • #4665
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Spanish Eyes wrote: »
    I don't want a ban, and I don't want anymore people to die from this in the US, but I have to say if this means Trump has to answer for cutting CDC funding, I'll take that.

    How progressive of you.


  • #4666
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    When did the number of cases in the US get to 99? Seems like a big jump


  • #4667
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,382 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Nolan live did a story about a family being quarantined in norn ireland....if you fancy being shouted at for half an hour


  • #4668
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Pseudonym121 wrote: »
    Of course there are far more cases in Ireland than are presently diagnosed. There’s a lag between infection and symptoms.

    If that child came back from Italy a week ago we should start seeing the numbers climb in 7 to 14 days from now. By Paddy’s Day we’ll look back on today as a period of calm. People will exaggerate and panic irrespective of scientific evidence and knowledge because many people think with their hindbrains. It is sad but it is what people do.

    The US military has lots of interesting research about what happens in societies in crisis. Once the third straight meal is missed order and the veneer of civilisation are lost. There’s lots of interesting reading about what actually happened during Katherina.

    By the end of March the sorts of people who are losing the plot here will be losing it in the meat world too because they’ll find every predictable increase in infected numbers to be more proof of conspiracy etc and they’ll be increasingly less rational and societally minded.

    Of course, I hope I’m wrong...

    All the more reason for setting up quarantine protocols as has been done in the UK.

    The response here to people returning from known areas who may have been infected is a very sad joke tbh.


  • #4669
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Cases outside China has now passed 10,000


  • #4670
    gabeeg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭gabeeg


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    Many of us country folk have licenced firearms. Shotguns and rifles with ammunition.
    Just saying

    What are you saying?


  • #4671
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,372 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    These guys are working on the solution as we speak, wonder how long it'll take to get a reply
    https://twitter.com/thomaschattwill/status/1234252762055090176?s=19


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  • #4672
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    gmisk wrote: »
    Nolan live did a story about a family being quarantined in norn ireland....if you fancy being shouted at for half an hour

    Who? What?


  • #4673
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    froog wrote: »
    there seems to be a lot of "medical professionals" coming out of the woodwork on anonymous internet forums the last week. even if they are genuine, when it comes to something like this, i'd only value the opinion of virologists or epidemiologists or similar tbh. most GPs here really don't have a clue about pandemic stuff. and the few nurses i've spoken to still seem to think this is the same as the swine flu.

    I like reading Martina’s posts.


  • #4674
    Blueshoe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    gabeeg wrote: »
    What are you saying?

    In the event of the break down of law and order don't come down from the cities looking for food or water.

    You'll be shot


  • #4675
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Hurrache wrote: »
    These guys are working on the solution as we speak, wonder how long it'll take to get a reply
    https://twitter.com/thomaschattwill/status/1234252762055090176?s=19

    It's a photo, why are we screwed.


  • #4676
    Drumpot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭Drumpot


    Pseudonym121 wrote: »
    Of course there are far more cases in Ireland than are presently diagnosed. There’s a lag between infection and symptoms.

    If that child came back from Italy a week ago we should start seeing the numbers climb in 7 to 14 days from now. By Paddy’s Day we’ll look back on today as a period of calm. People will exaggerate and panic irrespective of scientific evidence and knowledge because many people think with their hindbrains. It is sad but it is what people do.

    The US military has lots of interesting research about what happens in societies in crisis. Once the third straight meal is missed order and the veneer of civilisation are lost. There’s lots of interesting reading about what actually happened during Katherina.

    By the end of March the sorts of people who are losing the plot here will be losing it in the meat world too because they’ll find every predictable increase in infected numbers to be more proof of conspiracy etc and they’ll be increasingly less rational and societally minded.

    Of course, I hope I’m wrong...

    Do you anticipate things falling apart for awhile here? I mean I thought things could get bad , but not necessarily society breaking bad bad.

    Surely with a bit of organization, once people have access to Food, water, electricity and broadband (communication and distraction), there is much less likely to be any post apocalyptic mad max situation developing?

    Sometimes I struggle to differentiate between sarcasm and serious on here.


  • #4677
    gabeeg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭gabeeg


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    In the event of the break down of law and order don't come down from the cities looking for food or water.

    You'll be shot

    Right. Nice one. Thanks.


  • #4678
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    gabeeg wrote: »
    What are you saying?

    It's a joke.


  • #4679
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    wakka12 wrote: »
    When did the number of cases in the US get to 99? Seems like a big jump
    100.

    Cases:
    S.Kor 4k
    Italy 2k
    Irn 1.5k
    Japan 272
    France 200 [this is a bit of a shocker, was 20 last time looked)
    Spain 120
    Singp 108
    US 100
    HK 98
    Kuwait 50
    Bahrain 50
    Thai 43,
    Tia 41
    Uk 40
    Aussie 30
    Malay 29
    Can 27
    Swiss 27
    Irq 27
    Norway 25
    uae 21
    Netherl 18
    Aus 18
    Swe 15…etc
    Anyone doing a wee flight down to Antartica?


  • #4680
    Blueshoe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    Ipso wrote: »
    It's a photo, why are we screwed.

    Because Christians praying is to be mocked. Other religions are ok though. God love if someone ended up hebdoed again


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  • #4681
    Cupatae
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭Cupatae


    Trump just banned the coronavirus


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