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

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  • #9422
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,868 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    From RTE News....

    The Department has been reassured by the fact that all the confirmed cases in the Republic have occurred in people who have travelled home from infected regions in Italy.

    Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Ronan Glynn said there is no evidence of widespread or sustained community transmission in Ireland, unlike some other European countries.

    How do they know if they are only testing people who are ill and who have traveled home from infected regions in Italy!

    I don't think they should be making any comment about community transmission as I believe it is inevitable! Cases of community transmission are on the rise now in the UK.


  • #9423
    Assetbacked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,969 ✭✭✭Assetbacked


    harr wrote: »
    Reading this thread I really don’t blame the HSE for drip feeding as little info as possible. If they gave details of where , who and what exact location the confirmed cases were people with the least little sniffle would be heading off the to the A&E convincing themselves they were dying.

    We should be going about our daily lives as it barely effects the vast majority of us. Even if we get it, so what. Talk of quarantining and cancelling major events seems OTT. The decision to cancel Ireland v Italy in isolation seems knee jerk at this stage.


  • #9424
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Assetbacked wrote: »
    It's not a quarantine if they have it, it's just a special waiting area for higher risk patients who are awaiting testing. Still, it looks funny.
    Unclean, unclean!


  • #9425
    MarkY91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,071 ✭✭✭MarkY91


    harr wrote: »
    Reading this thread I really don’t blame the HSE for drip feeding as little info as possible. If they gave details of where , who and what exact location the confirmed cases were people with the least little sniffle would be heading off the to the A&E convincing themselves they were dying.

    Yeah I agree with this too.

    My brother's GF works at tallaght hospital and she told us that people coming in saying they may have the virus are being told to go wait in the car park.
    It's been said countless times EVERYWHERE to self isolate and call your GP. How dumb do you have to be to suspect you may have the virus then turn up to a building littered with immunocompromised people?


  • #9426
    Assetbacked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,969 ✭✭✭Assetbacked


    MarkY91 wrote: »
    Yeah I agree with this too.

    My brother's GF works at tallaght hospital and she told us that people coming in saying they may have the virus are being told to go wait in the car park.
    It's been said countless times EVERYWHERE to self isolate and call your GP. How dumb do you have to be to suspect you may have the virus then turn up to a building littered with immunocompromised people?

    In Ireland, people queued for hours to buy donuts at a donut shop that opened a couple of years ago. This is who we're dealing with.


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  • #9427
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    MarkY91 wrote: »
    Surely a joke lol but knowing our Irish health system, I really don't know if it's a joke or real.

    Its just virus spillage, slip hazard


  • #9428
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Assetbacked wrote: »
    We should be going about our daily lives as it barely effects the vast majority of us. Even if we get it, so what. Talk of quarantining and cancelling major events seems OTT. The decision to cancel Ireland v Italy in isolation seems knee jerk at this stage.
    Given our 6 cases are directly linked to Italy, probably the only call. I think the caution on cancelling things like Paddy's Day are the right call for now.


  • #9429
    gifted
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,051 ✭✭✭gifted


    MarkY91 wrote: »
    Yeah I agree with this too.

    My brother's GF works at tallaght hospital and she told us that people coming in saying they may have the virus are being told to go wait in the car park.
    It's been said countless times EVERYWHERE to self isolate and call your GP. How dumb do you have to be to suspect you may have the virus then turn up to a building littered with immunocompromised people?

    Start charging them and that won't be long sending them packing


  • #9430
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    Assetbacked wrote: »
    In Ireland, people queued for hours to buy donuts at a donut shop that opened a couple of years ago. This is who we're dealing with.

    Hopefully they are the only ones that get the virus


  • #9431
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,868 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    Assetbacked wrote: »
    The decision to cancel Ireland v Italy in isolation seems knee jerk at this stage.

    There is an emergency meeting of the 6 nations (organising body) later....wouldn't be surprised if (all) remaining matches are postponed.


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  • #9432
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    He was coughing and sneezing... probably a cold ?

    What's the last part about ?

    You couldn’t make it up that this guy went home sick with symptoms of this disease a few hours before they closed his kids school because of it, knowing that he is almost certainly sick with another virus

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • #9433
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,370 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    Italy.

    Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Ronan Glynn said there is no evidence of widespread or sustained community transmission in Ireland, unlike some other European countries.[/I]

    How do they know if they are only testing people who are ill and who have traveled home from infected regions in Italy!

    How do they know there's no evidence? Because there's no evidence. They didn't say it won't happen.


  • #9434
    kingstevii
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 294 ✭✭kingstevii


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    There is an emergency meeting of the 6 nations (organising body) later....wouldn't be surprised if (all) remaining matches are postponed.

    Still won't stop them all from travelling..


  • #9435
    Bob24
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,905 ✭✭✭✭Bob24


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    From RTE News....

    The Department has been reassured by the fact that all the confirmed cases in the Republic have occurred in people who have travelled home from infected regions in Italy.

    Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Ronan Glynn said there is no evidence of widespread or sustained community transmission in Ireland, unlike some other European countries.

    How do they know if they are only testing people who are ill and who have traveled home from infected regions in Italy!

    I don't think they should be making any comment about community transmission as I believe it is inevitable! Cases of community transmission are on the rise now in the UK.

    Yeah their comments makes no sense.

    Community transmission has occurred in every single other country after a few tens of cases had been imported, and there is no reason it will be different here.

    They should explain in which way they find it reassuring that we are increasingly importing cases from Italy??

    They know and everyone who has been watching this knows that at this stage community transmission probably has happened already (undetected) and that in any case it will be happening in the coming days. So as you said they’d better say nothing about it than pretending it is all under control only to look like they have lost control in a few days time.


  • #9436
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    From RTE News....

    The Department has been reassured by the fact that all the confirmed cases in the Republic have occurred in people who have travelled home from infected regions in Italy.

    Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Ronan Glynn said there is no evidence of widespread or sustained community transmission in Ireland, unlike some other European countries.

    How do they know if they are only testing people who are ill and who have travelled home from infected regions in Italy!

    I don't think they should be making any comment about community transmission as I believe it is inevitable! Cases of community transmission are on the rise now in the UK.
    If they didn't some conspiracy nut will fill the space. It's a rational observation at this point. In two weeks it might be different. I'd also say it's best to stay away from what-ifs, that path leads to panic.


  • #9437
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,026 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Funsterdelux wrote: »
    Hopefully they are the only ones that get the virus

    The Walking Stupid will pass it on to everyone.


  • #9438
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Who will play Covid in the movie whenever it gets made? Matt Damon? The Blob?


  • #9439
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    There is an emergency meeting of the 6 nations (organising body) later....wouldn't be surprised if (all) remaining matches are postponed.

    England v Italy is going ahead behind closed doors. postponed
    WoollyRedHat wrote: »
    Who will play Covid in the movie whenever it gets made? Matt Damon? The Blob?

    Matt Damon


  • #9440
    DOCARCH
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    Hurrache wrote: »
    How do they know there's no evidence? Because there's no evidence. They didn't say it won't happen.

    Why say anything about it at all? That's all I am saying. In my opinion, statements like that reduce vigilance and people taking precautions.

    Joe Public : 'i have not recently traveled to Italy recently, therefore I'ii be grand'.


  • #9441
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,370 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    Bob24 wrote: »
    Yeah there comments makes no sense.

    They make perfect sense!


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  • #9442
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers Posts: 42,869 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    England v Italy is going ahead behind closed doors.

    No its not

    It's being postponed

    Edit :
    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/england-game-against-italy-could-be-played-behind-closed-doors-g03rf73hv


  • #9443
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,868 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    England v Italy is going ahead behind closed doors.

    Edit....as above/as Syd says.


  • #9444
    amber69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 989 ✭✭✭amber69


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    England v Italy is going ahead behind closed doors.



    Matt Damon

    Too old.. Has to be 19


  • #9445
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,370 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    Why say anything about it at all? That's all I am saying. In my opinion, statements like that reduce vigilance and people taking precautions.

    Joe Public : 'i have not recently traveled to Italy recently, therefore I'ii be grand'.

    Who'd deal with the public. You'd be complaining then they're not forthcoming with all the facts.


  • #9446
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    amber69 wrote: »
    Too old.. Has to be 19

    He can play one of the older strains.


  • #9447
    anewme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,139 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    amber69 wrote: »
    Too old.. Has to be 19

    Paul Hardcastle

    Nnnnnineteen.

    Could re issue that track now.


  • #9448
    Doctors room ghost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,839 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    sydthebeat wrote: »
    No its not

    It's being postponed

    Edit :
    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/england-game-against-italy-could-be-played-behind-closed-doors-g03rf73hv




    It was going ahead with no spectators according to the wireless last night.was this changed since?


  • #9449
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    I don't see how not reporting where the coronavirus cases are will stop people panicking. Let people know it's in Clare and a few hospitals there could be overrun. Say it's in 'the West' and people in about four counties will be rushing to the hospital. People are going to panic anyway so just let the public know what's happening.


  • #9450
    Bob24
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,905 ✭✭✭✭Bob24


    Hurrache wrote: »
    They make perfect sense!

    As I said, community transmission has occurred in every single other country after a few tens of cases had been imported, and there is no reason it will be different here.

    They could explain in which way they find it reassuring that we are increasingly importing cases from Italy.

    They also know and everyone who has been watching this knows that at this stage community transmission probably has happened already (undetected) and that in any case it will be happening in the coming days. So they’d better say nothing about it rather than pretending it is all under control only to look like they have lost control in a few days time.


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  • #9451
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers Posts: 42,869 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    Doctors room ghost wrote: »
    It was going ahead with no spectators according to the wireless last night.was this changed since?

    Link attached in post


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