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

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  • #6812
    The_Mac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 426 ✭✭The_Mac


    tillyfilly wrote: »
    I’m not sure people didn’t always eat everything including bats but I do I agree , this is nature’s cull of us

    Considering the low mortality rate of the virus... In terms of a plague to wipe out humanity well sure, in the words of Donald Trump, nature isn't sending their best.


  • #6813
    skimpydoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,074 ✭✭✭skimpydoo


    Brenden Agreeable Rabble-rouser wrote: »
    Sauce?
    I believe leads me to believe its something they got from WhatsApp.


  • #6814
    1800_Ladladlad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,452 ✭✭✭1800_Ladladlad


    *Plane lands from northern Italy*

    Off the plane yee come now. One more shtep.

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  • #6815
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,610 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Heat_Wave wrote: »
    The latest case is a student on DCU campus I believe
    Brenden Agreeable Rabble-rouser wrote: »
    Sauce?

    DCU released a statement officially denying that the FIRST case was a student there,
    could be the same rumor re-circulating


  • #6816
    tillyfilly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 567 ✭✭✭tillyfilly


    The_Mac wrote: »
    Considering the low mortality rate of the virus... In terms of a plague to wipe out humanity well sure, in the words of Donald Trump, nature isn't sending their best.

    2-3% of 7 billion could get nasty


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  • #6817
    solidasarock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 363 ✭✭solidasarock


    So .... why cant they just say "in Dublin".

    It doesnt take a spy to narrow down what "east side of the country" means.


  • #6818
    SeaBreezes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭SeaBreezes


    tuxy wrote: »
    They are in the clear for MERS also.

    Spanish flu started in the states..
    I think bird flu might have too? Not sure on that one.
    Smallpox was Egypt?
    Scarlet fever England I think


  • #6819
    Glenbhoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭Glenbhoy


    expectationlost wrote: »
    read this guardian article https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/26/coronavirus-inquiry-opens-into-hospitals-at-centre-of-italy-outbreak 1 guy was sick a couple of weeks back and went to 4 different medical facilities and each time they asked him if he had been to China he said no, until the 4th one when his wife remembered he was in contact with somebody who was in China. He infected atleast 13 people during that time including medical staff.

    Except that the person who had been in China was negative, which then give further credence to the probability that the transmission was community based and that the virus was present, unchecked and unsuspected for a period of time over the last 2-3 weeks.


  • #6820
    tillyfilly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 567 ✭✭✭tillyfilly


    solidasarock wrote: »
    So .... why cant they just say "in Dublin".

    It doesnt take a spy to narrow down what "east side of the country" means.

    Because they are trying to copy the Chinese regime of secrecy


  • #6821
    gabeeg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭gabeeg


    Loafing Oaf wrote: »
    Brits seem to be contemplating some pretty drastic measures like cancelling public transport. If they did it it might give our guys cover...

    Yeah, it sounds nuts - shutting down your public transport system.
    I mean it'd cripple cities and make working impossible for millions for god knows how long.

    And it's only one of a range of things being considered. If all were deployed you'd be looking at just incredible disruption to lives, a gigantic recession and it probably wouldn't work.
    It'd slow down the rate of transmission and give the NHS a fighting chance of coping, but ultimately it's not gonna stop the virus.


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  • #6822
    the butcher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 591 ✭✭✭the butcher


    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/district-court/court-case-adjourned-in-kerry-due-to-suspected-coronavirus-1.4191863?fbclid=IwAR2K7cyJlTkggdYw568DjjWhMtYxYyr2yj7dNROqt_-uSwbE_5uqn2KkYvA

    Court case adjourned in Kerry due to ‘suspected’ coronavirus


  • #6823
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    I don't understand the need to protect the persons identity.
    If I had it I wouldn't have a problem with it being known.
    It's not like people would be angry at me for being unfortunate.
    And even if someone was I would just dismiss them as a stupid,irrational person.


  • #6824
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,038 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    tillyfilly wrote: »
    Because they are trying to copy the Chinese regime of secrecy
    Without the Chinese willingness to actually do anything.


  • #6825
    05eaftqbrs9jlh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭05eaftqbrs9jlh


    YFlyer wrote: »
    Why do you want to know?
    I work with immunocompromised children and have three immunocompromised relatives for whom I care daily.


  • #6826
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    tillyfilly wrote: »
    Because they are trying to copy the Chinese regime of secrecy

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  • #6827
    gabeeg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭gabeeg


    tuxy wrote: »
    I don't understand the need to protect the persons identity.
    If I had it I wouldn't have a problem with it being known.
    It's not like people would be angry at me for being unfortunate.
    And even if someone was I would just dismiss them as a stupid,irrational person.

    Actually, I am angry at you for being unfortunate.


  • #6828
    piplip87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,213 ✭✭✭piplip87


    The people I see on my social media screaming about shutting down the country, stopping flights all together and closing schools are the people who the last recession didn't affect at all. It's grand to shut the schools so you can don't have to get up for an hour to get the kids out the door before heading back to bed until half two in the afternoon.


  • #6829
    tillyfilly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 567 ✭✭✭tillyfilly


    piplip87 wrote: »
    The people I see on my social media screaming about shutting down the country, stopping flights all together and closing schools are the people who the last recession didn't affect at all. It's grand to shut the schools so you can don't have to get up for an hour to get the kids out the door before heading back to bed until half two in the afternoon.

    You need more classy friends on Facebook


  • #6830
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    China's latest figures coming up...just a bit delayed while they are massaged appropriately

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  • #6831
    Loafing Oaf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,803 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    tuxy wrote: »
    I don't understand the need to protect the persons identity.
    If I had it I wouldn't have a problem with it being known.
    It's not like people would be angry at me for being unfortunate.
    And even if someone was I would just dismiss them as a stupid,irrational person.

    I wouldn't be angry at you for being unfortunate but for being feckless and irresponsible if you made the choice to fly out there in the last ten days without a very good reason. Not sure if that makes me stupid and irrational...


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  • #6832
    nocoverart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,354 ✭✭✭nocoverart


    tillyfilly wrote: »
    It shows how reliant and intrinsically interconnected we really are though, they are a thousand years behind us but we suffer because of it

    This is a great post. This whole thing is mad to me on what I can only describe as on a philosophical level, for example, my elderly mother has been through hell and back these past few years health wise but we got through it! and now this virus could potentially end it for her because of outdated practices in a wet market in China. We are all globally connected for better or worse.


  • #6833
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,038 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    I wonder how many of the posters on this thread could be trusted to self-isolate if the HSE asked them to do so.


  • #6834
    tillyfilly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 567 ✭✭✭tillyfilly


    Could you ?


  • #6835
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Ficheall wrote: »
    I wonder how many of the posters on this thread could be trusted to self-isolate if the HSE asked them to do so.

    Presumably the ones that stocked up. Those other naysayers will have to pop to the shops first. :D:D:D


  • #6836
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    Loafing Oaf wrote: »
    I wouldn't be angry at you for being unfortunate but for being feckless and irresponsible if you made the choice to fly out there in the last ten days without a very good reason. Not sure if that makes me stupid and irrational...

    We don't know when the person flew out, they had to return at some point.


  • #6837
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    https://twitter.com/nycHealthy/status/1234970099787890694


  • #6838
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    tillyfilly wrote: »
    Could you ?

    I could


  • #6839
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,038 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Presumably the ones that stocked up. Those other naysayers will have to pop to the shops first. :D:D:D
    Stocks and rations requirements aside, I still reckon there are folks who would claim everything was fine and go about their daily business. And that will be a problem.


  • #6840
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    Lets say you are in a very serious financial situations just about keeping your head above water with your mortgage.
    You have very mild symptoms(not uncommon with COVID-19) it probably isn't Covid-19 but there is a chance. HSE are unwilling to test. What do you do, call in sick or go to work?


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  • #6841
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    43 countries reported new cases today, 22 reported more than 5..almost 2500 new cases in the last 24 hours worldwide excluding China..with active epidemics in Central Europe, West Asia, East Asia and potentially the Western United States , Northeast Africa and Japan..but not a pandemic...??


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