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

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  • #7352
    gabeeg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭gabeeg


    omega man wrote: »
    If I’m not scared I should be? Nonsense.

    Well then give us your prediction, oh calm one

    Where do you see this all going and why?


  • #7353
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    omega man wrote: »
    If I’m not scared I should be? Nonsense.

    I think its fair to say everyone here is paying attention, Im not scared either.
    Im concerned though, I think concrened is a rational response.

    Does living in a rural location help not feeling scared I wonder?


  • #7354
    stevek93
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,097 ✭✭✭stevek93


    Cuckoo7 wrote: »
    Aren’t you self-isolating?

    I have two way door bell CCTV.


  • #7355
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    joe40 wrote: »
    I can see cancellation of events becoming more common.

    My daughter had managed to get a place on a 3 day transition year programme, in the royal college of surgeons, to get a taster of doing medicine in college.

    Needless to say she was very excited, but e-mail came through yesterday that it had been cancelled.

    Obviously understandable, especially by the RCSI but still disappointing.

    I imagine lots of this sort of thing happening in the coming weeks.

    I'm fully aware of the really dangerous consequences of this outbreak, but still I want my wee minor moan.

    Ah that's very disappointed for her. It would have been an incredible experience. Hopefully when things calm down there will still be an opportunity for her to do a placement.


  • #7356
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,392 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    SusanC10 wrote: »
    Only able to log in now so have missed a 100 pages or so !
    Anyone summarise ?
    Any idea where Case #2 is located here ?
    Also how is Italy doing ?

    No news on Case #2 as least that I saw.

    A school in Meath has closed... but HSE says it did not ask it to:
    https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/hse-says-it-did-not-ask-meath-school-to-close-over-coronavirus-fears-985697.html

    Italy has closed all schools and universities for 2 weeks.
    ps DFA issued a avoid non-essential travel for 4 regions in N Italy e.g. Lombardy, Piedmont

    Countries are stopping export of medicines (China, India) and medical protection gear (Germany).

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



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  • #7357
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,578 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Gynoid wrote: »
    :)

    https://twitter.com/William_Blake/status/1234966077123284993?s=19




    Life before internet


  • #7358
    Cuckoo7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 235 ✭✭Cuckoo7


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    Why can't you tell your colleagues??
    It seems he can only talk to Chinese nationals.


  • #7359
    TTLF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 742 ✭✭✭TTLF
    save the trouble and jazz it up


    why did italy only decide to close schools etc now.

    it's too late at this point


  • #7360
    gabeeg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭gabeeg


    TTLF wrote: »
    why did italy only decide to close schools etc now.

    it's too late at this point

    They had closed them in the affected regions already. They've now gone country wide.


  • #7361
    solidasarock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 363 ✭✭solidasarock


    TTLF wrote: »
    why did italy only decide to close schools etc now.

    it's too late at this point

    "ah sure look it will be grand"

    But in Italian.


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  • #7362
    Fireball81
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 412 ✭✭Fireball81


    What's with Australians rushing out to buy all the toilet paper in supermarkets because of the virus?

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/coronavirus-panic-buying-toilet-paper-australia-a9374096.html%3famp


  • #7363
    omega man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,144 ✭✭✭omega man


    gabeeg wrote: »
    Well then give us your prediction, oh calm one

    Where do you see this all going and why?

    Are you 12 or something?
    All we can do is follow the expert advice provided to us and try to maintain our usual lives as normal as we possibly can under the circumstances.
    You seem keen to spread panic based on assumptions.


  • #7364
    Cuckoo7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 235 ✭✭Cuckoo7


    solidasarock wrote: »
    "ah sure look it will be grand"

    But in Italian.
    Chef’s kiss


  • #7365
    touts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,667 ✭✭✭touts


    Hey lads! Don't worry. Simon Harris just announced that Leo will chair a special cabinet subcommittee to discuss the crisis. They are meeting for the first time next Monday.

    Jesus wept.


  • #7366
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    Fireball81 wrote: »
    What's with Australians rushing out to buy all the toilet paper in supermarkets because of the virus?

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/coronavirus-panic-buying-toilet-paper-australia-a9374096.html%3famp

    Theres a down under joke there somewhere


  • #7367
    1641
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭1641


    New Home wrote: »
    Couldn't agree more. If I were paranoid I'd be thinking that the powers-that-be don't care too much about this particularly because it seems to affect the weak, the vulnerable and the old, e.g. all the categories of population that are expensive to maintain, so they'd save money in the long run. If I were paranoid, mind you.

    One final thing: it is now believed that this virus has been present in Italy since October last year, so go figure.




    Yes, if you were paranoid. But just to confirm that you are not, have you a source for the claim about Italy?


  • #7368
    gabeeg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭gabeeg


    omega man wrote: »
    Are you 12 or something?
    All we can do is follow the expert advise provided to us and try to maintain our usual lives as normal as we possibly can under the circumstances.
    You seem keen to spread panic based on assumptions.

    Right, well stay away from the news mate

    You're in for a bit of a shock


  • #7369
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    stevek93 wrote: »
    Wait until you have to self isolate and the HSE refuse to test you see how fun it is.

    I’m dying to get the call to self isolate. 2 weeks off.


  • #7370
    Tippex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,958 ✭✭✭Tippex


    mlem123 wrote: »
    Technically the figure for last week was 397 so you'd be better rounding up than down

    That was the cumulative figure. there was 307 tests performed last week


  • #7371
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    Why can't you tell your colleagues??
    My guess is that any other year it would just be flu' or a cold, this year half a cough would automatically be the virus and they'd all be self-isolating! Listening to people in the gym this AM, quite a few saying they just want to get to the middle of August and hear no more about it.


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  • #7372
    tillyfilly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 567 ✭✭✭tillyfilly


    Apparently this is news--

    Coronavirus Live Updates: Fatality Rate of Covid-19 Is Higher Than the Flu


  • #7373
    TomSweeney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,249 ✭✭✭TomSweeney


    Closing all schools for 2 weeks ? I mean what do they think the situation will be like in 2 weeks ?
    Try 2 months maybe it will be stabilized by then, not 2 weeks...


  • #7374
    Bob24
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,905 ✭✭✭✭Bob24


    Fireball81 wrote: »
    What's with Australians rushing out to buy all the toilet paper in supermarkets because of the virus?

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/coronavirus-panic-buying-toilet-paper-australia-a9374096.html%3famp

    It is a useful thing to have at home if supply chains freeze for a fee days/weeks. Lower priority than rice and pasta but not that far off, so the same reasons makes people stockpile it.


  • #7375
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,392 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    fast moving thread, likely has already been posted but bumping that the Italian coronavirus strain may have been in circulation since mid-January:
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/28/coronavirus-may-have-been-in-italy-for-weeks-before-it-was-detected

    The claim follows laboratory tests that isolated a strain of the virus from an Italian patient, which showed genetic differences compared with the original strain isolated in China and two Chinese tourists who became sick in Rome.

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



  • #7376
    Snow Garden
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Snow Garden


    is_that_so wrote: »
    My guess is that any other year it would just be flu' or a cold, this year half a cough would automatically be the virus and they'd all be self-isolating! Listening to people in the gym this AM, quite a few saying they just want to get to the middle of August and hear no more about it.

    The only thing people will be talking about in August is the Galway All Ireland double in hurling and football.


  • #7377
    Fireball81
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 412 ✭✭Fireball81


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    I’m dying to get the call to self isolate. 2 weeks off.

    Assume if you can work from home you'd have to do that for the 2 weeks.


  • #7378
    gabeeg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭gabeeg


    TomSweeney wrote: »
    Closing all schools for 2 weeks ? I mean what do they think the situation will be like in 2 weeks ?
    Try 2 months maybe it will be stabilized by then, not 2 weeks...

    People would freak out if they said they were closing them for two months. For loads of families it will mean losing half their income for a period of time while one parents stays home, and businesses will really struggle to keep going.

    I'd say it's likely that they'll close for far longer than two weeks. They just don't know it yet.


  • #7379
    Bob24
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,905 ✭✭✭✭Bob24


    TomSweeney wrote: »
    Closing all schools for 2 weeks ? I mean what do they think the situation will be like in 2 weeks ?
    Try 2 months maybe it will be stabilized by then, not 2 weeks...

    I’d say they haven’t realised yet but summer holidays have just started for pupils in Northern Italy!

    And on a more serious note, indeed they are unlikely to reopen anytime soon and I would expect remote teaching to be introduced once there is acceptance schools will be closed for a while. Of course whether you can remotely teach to Italian kids in the same way you can remotely teach to Chinese kids is another story, but I won’t go into this :-)


  • #7380
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Snow Garden wrote: »
    The only thing people will be talking about in August is the Galway All Ireland double in hurling and football.
    Only if they are on high dosage drugs for De Virus!


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  • #7381
    omega man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,144 ✭✭✭omega man


    gabeeg wrote: »
    Right, well stay away from the news mate

    You're in for a bit of a shock

    My job involves daily interaction with flight and cabin crew whom are operating to/from affected areas like Italy.
    We receive ongoing HSE updates and make our decisions based on this, international / EU recommendations and risk assessments, not social media thankfully.


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