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

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  • #8642
    babybuilder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,111 ✭✭✭babybuilder


    Sinister Coveney says not effective to restrict flights from parts of Italy. Is he following the epidemiological history of the virus? Getting advice probably from the halfwits in the HSE or maybe IBEC


  • #8643
    Cilldara_2000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,189 ✭✭✭Cilldara_2000


    Arghus wrote: »
    People claiming that this thread is a great resource and informative - two different Western locations have been claimed here by different posters as being where the latest cases have occurred. Both instances providing no evidence, but being read and thanked by many. Totally unsubstantiated.

    Your point is?

    A few nonsense posts doesn't mean the whole thing is useless.


  • #8644
    Jin luk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 389 ✭✭Jin luk


    irishgeo wrote: »
    Yeah but you said it would be worse than italy. China numbers have decreased.

    Chinas numbers hasnt decreased, new cases per day has dropped, but the total keeps rising, the reasoning to that could be everyone in lockdown isolating and not testing as many as before in china.


  • #8645
    saabsaab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,718 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    gabeeg wrote: »
    I think that's right, but I can't help worrying about potential long term consequences that we just don't know about yet.

    This is not an invitation to spam me with horror stories


    It would be helpful to know what town/school the western cases refer to. It may not be yours?


  • #8646
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,458 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Arghus wrote: »
    People claiming that this thread is a great resource and informative - two different Western locations have been claimed here by different posters as being where the latest cases have occurred. Both instances providing no evidence, but being read and thanked by many. Totally unsubstantiated.
    and that's a useful reminder for people to check the warnings in the OP again


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  • #8647
    Ninthlife
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,460 ✭✭✭Ninthlife


    Beasty wrote: »
    The thing that's starting to bother me is what if we get through thread IV before the crack of dawn. I could be fast asleep while that thread destroys the site....

    Thread IV - It's here, smoke 'em if you got 'em


  • #8648
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    Ray Donovan wrote: »
    Lanzarote for 5 nights from next Tuesday. Opinions?

    Have it booked since Christmas.
    Roll the dice! Get a tan and worse case scenario you get an extra two weeks free! Happy days.


  • #8649
    Wheety
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,522 ✭✭✭Wheety


    Arghus wrote: »
    I don't really understand what people suggest they do. There's somebody from the HSE talking about the virus anytime I turn on the news.

    We've 6 cases in the country at the moment. Six. The subject is all over the media 24/7. Should we just get on with it and declare martial law and call in the army. People need to get a grip.
    Do you think it'll stop at 6? This morning they said that the number was 2 and they didn't believe there were anymore cases. Just seems like they haven't seen how the numbers have been multiplying in every other country.


  • #8650
    joe40
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,813 ✭✭✭joe40


    ArchXStanton wrote: »
    Probably because if they have symptoms and live in that area they're less likely to ignore it

    My understanding is that if you have symptoms ie regular cold/flu symptoms, but haven't been to an affected country you won't get tested.
    Plenty of people with flu symptoms, they're not all getting tested for covid 19


  • #8651
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,647 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The furthest I think I ever got was the Omagh folk park. There was like a Us mock bank there and one of my classmates said to the actor "stick your hands up. It's the IRA" messing. Anyway, the police were called got a police escort back to the Irish border and school banned from the park. We were 9 years old


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  • #8652
    10000maniacs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,583 ✭✭✭10000maniacs


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    That is a worry! I am asthmatic (but otherwise healthy), so it worries me too.

    Self isolate for two or three weeks if possible.


  • #8653
    Strazdas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,287 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    Beasty wrote: »
    I've not seen anything confirming this is a single family. Possibly 2 couples which could make tracing contacts even more of a nightmare. If they were sat together on a plane those around them must have increased exposure with 4 of them potentially contagious (still better than 2 pairs on different parts of the plane I guess)

    No, the latest is that they travelled together but might not be family members.

    There doesn't seem to be any anecdotal reports of people on planes contracting the virus though


  • #8654
    Professor Moriarty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,393 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    Beasty wrote: »
    The thing that's starting to bother me is what if we get through thread IV before the crack of dawn. I could be fast asleep while that thread destroys the site....

    Does the site keep crashing because of a virus? Only asking.


  • #8655
    Seamai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    sudzs wrote: »
    Lucky you. My school trips were to Drogheda to see Oliver Plunket's head. :rolleyes:

    We ended up in a cheese factory in Mitchelstown after we had been promised Cadbury's chocolate factory in Rathmore, there was nearly a riot on the bus.


  • #8656
    tillyfilly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 567 ✭✭✭tillyfilly


    Arghus wrote: »
    People claiming that this thread is a great resource and informative - two different Western locations have been claimed here by different posters as being where the latest cases have occurred. Both instances providing no evidence, but being read and thanked by many. Totally unsubstantiated.

    any one taking what they read as gospel in a post-fakenews world makes me sigh


  • #8657
    brianregan09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,499 ✭✭✭brianregan09


    Ray Donovan wrote: »
    Lanzarote for 5 nights from next Tuesday. Opinions?

    Have it booked since Christmas.

    Go go go , nothing wrong over there get out of this ****storm


  • #8658
    LaFuton
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 784 ✭✭✭LaFuton


    well at least its still called Hysteria, the woke feminazis will surely be calling for a rebrand our collective yet lax panic to HERsteria

    madness is the real winner these days


  • #8659
    Cuckoo7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 235 ✭✭Cuckoo7


    Ray Donovan wrote: »
    Lanzarote for 5 nights from next Tuesday. Opinions?

    Have it booked since Christmas.
    I think Lanzarote has no active cases, go and enjoy.


  • #8660
    munster87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,381 ✭✭✭munster87


    Ray Donovan wrote: »
    Lanzarote for 5 nights from next Tuesday. Opinions?

    Have it booked since Christmas.

    Fine I’ll go, but we need separate beds.


  • #8661
    Nonoperational
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭Nonoperational


    Arghus wrote: »
    I don't really understand what people suggest they do. There's somebody from the HSE talking about the virus anytime I turn on the news.

    We've 6 cases in the country at the moment. Six. The subject is all over the media 24/7. Should we just get on with it and declare martial law and call in the army. People need to get a grip.

    No point attempting rational discussion. Not capable of understanding or engaging in it.

    If you look at Kegan's stages of Adult development, 58% of the adult population are incapable of progressing passed stage 3 the socialised mind.

    "In Stage 3, external sources shape our sense of self and understanding of the world"

    This is ideal for certain people. Be experts on their laptops in their bedrooms having a cut at people that are doing their jobs. Pointless engaging them, you will be shot down with conspiracy theory and sarcastic "jokes".

    It really is akin to a social experiment, and it reads pretty poorly.

    There are lads here who are on 24/7 obviously with nothing better to do and all they do is criticise and think they are smart. It's incredibly sad.


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  • #8662
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,445 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    Ray Donovan wrote: »
    Lanzarote for 5 nights from next Tuesday. Opinions?

    Have it booked since Christmas.

    Ask for a room with a decent view, it'll be nice to have a decent view during your 2 week quarantine.


  • #8663
    Necro
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 56,284 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Arghus wrote: »
    I don't really understand what people suggest they do. There's somebody from the HSE talking about the virus anytime I turn on the news.

    We've 6 cases in the country at the moment. Six. The subject is all over the media 24/7. Should we just get on with it and declare martial law and call in the army. People need to get a grip.

    Yeah I agree with this, not disputing we are likely to have a large growth in cases based on trends in other countries, but we aren't even close to epidemic stages here yet.

    I work for another government department and they've been in planning mode for weeks about this, but they're not going to blather it all out to people because what will that cause? Mass panic.

    And that's exactly what we don't need right now.

    I understand people are afraid for relatives or even themselves but there is a tendency on these topics for the extreme opinions to be the loudest voices in the room and thus that's what everyone hears. Such as...

    "Tis only a mild cold, twill be grand"

    "lock down the borders and cancel all air travel"


    There is a happy medium, I think we'll be fine. It will be a rough few months but people just need to keep calm.

    Moderator: Current Affairs/IMHO, Soccer, Pro Wrestling



  • #8664
    thecretinhop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,699 ✭✭✭thecretinhop


    id swear there are hse bots on here.. anyway in law ould lad broke hip in hospital 2 nights now has infection..
    yes the hse will be up to this... ffs.


  • #8665
    Professor Moriarty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,393 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    Wheety wrote: »
    Do you think it'll stop at 6? This morning they said that the number was 2 and they didn't think believe there were anymore cases. Just seems like they haven't seen how the numbers have been multiplying in every other country.

    You think the HSE hasn't been monitoring the situation in other countries? You might be on to something. You should contact them immediately.


  • #8666
    wadacrack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,172 ✭✭✭wadacrack


    RugbyLad11 wrote: »
    As I said earlier, the Chinese numbers decreased because of their drastic action.

    1) Quarantined 70+ million people
    2) Shut the entire country down for over a month
    3) Everyone wear face masks so the virus can't be spread while they are pre symptomatic
    4) Temperature checks everywhere in china (yes I know not everyone infected will have a high temperature but it can catch some)
    5) China built a bloody fully functional hospital in a couple of days

    ...I could go on all night

    The government have everyone using an App with their health status colour coded.If you are red are break quarantine. The authorities track that person down


  • #8667
    Cilldara_2000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,189 ✭✭✭Cilldara_2000


    10000maniacs wrote: »
    Self isolate for two or three weeks if possible.

    What are your qualifications?


  • #8668
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    ****e. You figured out that we spend 1 hour every day discussing how to undermine the pinnacle of truth that this thread is.
    Just today I read:
    The virus was in Italy since October.
    Anybody flying from Italy would need to go into 14 day isolation
    Somebody linking the homeless crisis to COVID 19
    And on and on.

    Well you did turn up in the guise of a wise HSE guru :pac:

    That said - this is boards and if anyone expects anything other than the good, the bad and the ugly - then probably they are are in the wrong place.

    But yeah - knowing we dont have the resources to cope with a significant increase in demand on emergency services and resources in the event of an epidemic and that people are going to die because of that - but being told we'll get over it / isn't the EOTW - isnt the news that most people want to hear for sure ...


  • #8669
    kevthegaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,084 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    https://www.google.com/amp/s/fortune.com/2020/03/04/coronavirus-mutating-second-strain-covid-19-wuhan-china/amp/


  • #8670
    ArchXStanton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭ArchXStanton


    wadacrack wrote: »
    The government have everyone using an App with their health status colour coded.If you are red are break quarantine. The authorities track that person down

    Some dudes the Chinese..


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  • #8671
    Cilldara_2000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,189 ✭✭✭Cilldara_2000


    RugbyLad11 wrote: »
    As I said earlier, the Chinese numbers decreased because of their drastic action.

    1) Quarantined 70+ million people
    2) Shut the entire country down for over a month
    3) Everyone wear face masks so the virus can't be spread while they are pre symptomatic
    4) Temperature checks everywhere in china (yes I know not everyone infected will have a high temperature but it can catch some)
    5) China built a bloody fully functional hospital in a couple of days

    ...I could go on all night

    So we should all go "communist"? I'd love to live in an authoritarian state with a command and obey economy.


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