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

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  • #7772
    cnocbui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,002 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    YFlyer wrote: »
    He got rid of the snakes. Surely that was a good thing?

    No, snakes control pests far more than they harm humans.


  • #7773
    fr336
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,179 ✭✭✭✭fr336


    I see China's ambassador to Ireland has urged the Irish authorities to think carefully about mass gathering events.


  • #7774
    the butcher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 591 ✭✭✭the butcher


    This is turning into a goddamn black comedy....wait till the end...

    https://twitter.com/FactcheckingCon/status/1235043647038443523


  • #7775
    Naggdefy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,981 ✭✭✭Naggdefy


    BloodBath wrote: »
    I could do with an education? You're a moron who supports the RCC. I suggest you start with studying the history of the RCC and not from the RCC.

    You see a little learning is a dangerous thing. You know a bit about the modern church and have it in your head that pre christianity was a brilliant time. Seriously go to your local library. You're a poorly educated idiot.


  • #7776
    BloodBath
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,299 ✭✭✭✭BloodBath


    YFlyer wrote: »
    He got rid of the snakes. Surely that was a good thing?

    That's an allegory for removing the Irish culture represented by the triple spiral.


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  • #7777
    jam_mac_jam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,733 ✭✭✭jam_mac_jam


    Is anything about snakes, st patrick or paganism relevant to anything.


  • #7778
    scotchy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,232 ✭✭✭scotchy


    https://www.thejournal.ie/covid-19-northern-ireland-2-5030885-Mar2020/

    What Irish sites are people finding best for Irish updates?

    💙 💛 💙 💛 💙 💛



  • #7779
    BloodBath
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,299 ✭✭✭✭BloodBath


    Naggdefy wrote: »
    You see a little learning is a dangerous thing. You know a bit about the modern church and have it in your head that pre christianity was a brilliant time. Seriously go to your local library. You're a poorly educated idiot.

    I know a lot about the RCC right throughout history and the world which is why I despise them and their supporters. You clearly don't.

    Not going to take this thread any further off topic.


  • #7780
    Naggdefy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,981 ✭✭✭Naggdefy


    BloodBath wrote: »
    That's an allegory for removing the Irish culture represented by the triple spiral.

    What was this culture?


  • #7781
    Rob A. Bank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭Rob A. Bank


    owlbethere wrote: »
    Some of the stuff from the HSE is pie in the sky stuff. Many of us here were casting doubts on their recommendations long before thls professor from trinity. I'm glad there's someone stepping up and talking out.

    In fairness to the HSE - the British MOH are using the 15 minute in close contact safety notion too.

    Sounds random to me too


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  • #7782
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Ah NI are beating us again. 3-2


  • #7783
    Naggdefy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,981 ✭✭✭Naggdefy


    BloodBath wrote: »
    I know a lot about the RCC right throughout history and the world which is why I despise them and their supporters. You clearly don't.

    Do you now.

    Well what was this great culture you refer to pre Christianity?? I know a lot about that aswell as church history.


  • #7784
    Cuckoo7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 235 ✭✭Cuckoo7


    the butcher wrote: »
    This is turning into a goddamn black comedy....wait till the end...

    https://twitter.com/FactcheckingCon/status/1235043647038443523


    :D:D


  • #7785
    Tippex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,958 ✭✭✭Tippex


    gabeeg wrote: »
    5 on the island. We may as well consider NI cases our own.

    does that mean that all of continental europe, most of Asia and middle east be lumped together as they are just one big landmass too (africa is only saved due to the Suez canal) ;) (yes I am being facetious)


  • #7786
    the butcher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 591 ✭✭✭the butcher


    https://twitter.com/samyarwood89/status/1235246209842978817


  • #7787
    Loafing Oaf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,811 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    the butcher wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/Deborah_utv/status/1235242937124032513

    One patient recently travelled from Northern Italy.

    Oh FFS:mad:


  • #7788
    owlbethere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭owlbethere


    the butcher wrote: »
    This is turning into a goddamn black comedy....wait till the end...

    https://twitter.com/FactcheckingCon/status/1235043647038443523
    How do people stop touching their faces?

    Foil, arms and hog had a balaclava shop running in one of their sketches. It's not too far stretched now.


  • #7789
    tillyfilly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 567 ✭✭✭tillyfilly


    gabeeg wrote: »
    5 on the island. We may as well consider NI cases our own.

    have to take the bad with the bad


  • #7790
    saabsaab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,718 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    RugbyLad11 wrote: »
    They have a completely different mentality than the "sure it will be grand" Irish mentality.
    • Everyone in china wear a mask so even if someone has the virus its much moredifficult to spread it
    • They literally shut the entire province of Wuhan down, with temperature checks when entering your own apartment...this will never happen in Ireland
    Yes nobody knows who might have it so if everyone wears one it gives protection. It would be possible to restrict travel here if necessary but might require mobilization the territorials and civil defense too.


  • #7791
    Scarinae
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 11,362 ✭✭✭✭Scarinae


    It does seem odd to me that there has been no move to cancel the St Patrick's day parade yet. As other have noted, it was cancelled in 2001 and postponed to May due to the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease which doesn't affect humans. Presumably that decision was made because while it affected the tourism industry, the effect of a wider outbreak would have had a much bigger impact on livestock farming.

    I'm not sure what the delay is this year - is it that nobody wants to stick their neck out and make the decision? If so they're basically acting like the mayor from Jaws.


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  • #7792
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Naggdefy wrote: »
    What was this culture?

    You forgot to say "boss".


  • #7793
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Loafing Oaf wrote: »
    Oh FFS:mad:

    Italy is the distributor of Chinas gift to the world


  • #7794
    Nijmegen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,086 ✭✭✭Nijmegen


    scotchy wrote: »
    https://www.thejournal.ie/covid-19-northern-ireland-2-5030885-Mar2020/

    What Irish sites are people finding best for Irish updates?

    The Guardian, tbh. Found both the Chinese ambassador statement and NI news there first on their liveblog.


  • #7795
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,683 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    Scarinae wrote: »
    It does seem odd to me that there has been no move to cancel the St Patrick's day parade yet. As other have noted, it was cancelled in 2001 and postponed to May due to the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease which doesn't affect humans. Presumably that decision was made because while it affected the tourism industry, the effect of a wider outbreak would have had a much bigger impact on livestock farming.

    I'm not sure what the delay is this year - is it that nobody wants to stick their neck out and make the decision? If so they're basically acting like the mayor from Jaws.

    Its because most of the politicians are sulking. "You didnt vote for us, so Im not going to bother to do anything".

    My assumption is that its FG who are still in power and still, ultimately call all the shots? This is 100% showing their inability to manage anything.


  • #7796
    BloodBath
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,299 ✭✭✭✭BloodBath


    Naggdefy wrote: »
    Do you now.

    Well what was this great culture you refer to pre Christianity?? I know a lot about that aswell as church history.

    If you want to discuss it make a thread in another forum.

    We'll get booted out of here for it.


  • #7797
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,041 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    What's the availability of testing kits and turnaround time on the tests like? It's all well and good looking to test loads of people but there's a limit to how many, both in the physical kit, the person to perform the test and the throughput capacity of an accredited lab.


  • #7798
    josip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,739 ✭✭✭✭josip


    owlbethere wrote: »
    How do people stop touching their faces?


    Non stop Irish dancing


  • #7799
    expectationlost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,475 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    sure the parade was put off during the foot and mouth thingy https://www.rte.ie/archives/2016/0418/782638-st-patricks-day-in-may/


  • #7800
    05eaftqbrs9jlh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭05eaftqbrs9jlh


    Naggdefy wrote: »
    What was this culture?
    The pagan worship done by rural communities in hope they'd have good harvests. With the RCC came civilisation and 'progress'. Google Palladius (probably who St Patrick East based off and Gerald of Wales the 'researcher'.

    5 on the island, we're well and truly fooked.


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  • #7801
    1641
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭1641


    New Home wrote: »

    I stand corrected. The RAI newsreader mentioned that virologists were able to date it to as far back as October in Italy. Although they've isolated it, they're in fact still trying to date the Italian strain, their publication on the Journal of Virology referred to the Chinese strain.
    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmv.25723


    Thanks for getting back. So the RAI newsreader was incorrect and there is no evidence of this:

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



    Also, your link references mathematical evidence that the virus originated in Oct/Nov in Wuhan, several weeks before the first weeks were described.It refers to this as being consistent with a previous investigation (linked in the report) which found:


    "Most estimates since the first data was produced have produced a date that is consistent with the epidemiological reports of a first cluster of cases in December at a seafood market in Wuhan City. As more genomes have been generated, this is looking increasingly supported by the timing of the MRCA of the sampled genomes."http://virological.org/t/phylodynamic-analysis-129-genomes-24-feb-2020/356


    So we are back to where we started as to the origin of the virus.


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