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

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Tough call, I'm sure it cost a lot of money.

I would be more concerned about earthquakes and tsunamis in Japan TBH. I'd say their health service is ace, given they are so efficient in most things, just an educated guess.

The bigger concern is going through multiple airports or even one! But frequent hand washing and those hand gels will help. It seems that airplane air is actually not that bad judging by what I've read.

The thing to do is watch the stats from Japan. If cases are receding I would go.

But really, the call is hers and her future husband isn't it?

I think it's hard to even tell what the situation is, as the Japanese are apparently under testing and under reporting. But what can you do other than trust their figures? 300 out of a population of 126 million is very little, if that is accurate.

She has a direct flight from Heathrow to Tokyo, but ofc that's sitting on a plane for 12 hours or whatever. She has pointed out that she's currently sitting in an open plan office with hundreds of people, and travelling on the tube every day with strangers, many of whom have flown in from all over the world recently, so is the risk really much bigger?

It's hard to know. I can see myself looking online that there are dozens of flights landing in London from Asia every single day, and there's no way those people are all quarantining themselves.

I really feel for her...this is stressful on top of all the wedding preparations, and it's a dream trip they've been saving for for several years, loads of things booked and probably can't be refunded. If it were just Asia affected, I'd definitely say she should switch the destination to Greece or something, but sure everywhere might be as bad as everywhere else, a month from now!

wakka12 wrote: »

He is right, the total is 100 but by domestic he means people who werent infected on the boat which is about 45 or so people if I recall correctly

the total is most likely thousands. the first batch of testing kits didn't work and they are badly short of the second batch.

Computer Science Student wrote: »

Why would this end Trump? People say this all the time and he just proves to be a class act again and again, completely resilient to the liberal media agenda.

Until a couple of years ago, Trump believed that vaccinations caused autism and tweeted repeatedly against vaccinations. He's pure class.

Professor Moriarty wrote: »

1% of the population is 48,000. That's a lot of healthcare and/or deaths!

The whole population is going to get it? Yeah

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

on Claire Byrne RTE one now

The Virus itself?

tuxy wrote: »

Major lack of test kits and facilities like many other countries?

True but why do the HSE state they will be testing people who have been in a place that is rampant with Covid 19, when it looks like they are not..

I wouldn't mind self isolating with Claire for 14 days.

Rule No. 1 for self isolation - make sure your Netflix account is fully paid up and your credit card is not about to expire.

My kids self isolate all the time in their bedrooms, never mind the dishwasher, under the bed will do for the dirty mugs.

Any word on how the Popes getting on? Should make a full recovery with the medical care he has.

Lord Trollington wrote: »

Not really that big a deal for them to shut bar the fact that it will effect several hundred thousand households who work amongst other things whilst their kids are in school.

Probably sounded better as the hamster suggested it when the wheel slowed down .

It really won't have an effect its basically bringing there holidays forward by 2 weeks. Most kindergartens and daycares are still open too so no impact at all really.

Gods Gift wrote: »

Claire shitting in a shower

:rolleyes:

Professor Moriarty wrote: »

1% of the population is 48,000. That's a lot of healthcare and/or deaths!

Yes, with pandemics numbers get large very fast but that’s assuming 100% of the population gets infected which won’t happen. It is a rough estimate but less than 20% of people in Ireland in 1918 seem to have caught the Spanish flu so even if you went with that figure and ignored the effects of rationing/malnutrition and 100 years of medical advancement you wouldn’t hit 10,000.

Plus most people died from superimposed bacterial infections in 1918-1920 cause they didn’t have antibiotics. We have antibiotics now. That’ll reduce death rates even further.