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Coronavirus Part IV - 19 cases in ROI, 7 in NI (as of 7 March) *Read warnings in OP*

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  • #1592
    tillyfilly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 567 ✭✭✭tillyfilly


    The royal couple shaking a lot of hands in Galway today, a high profile case could be in the offing


  • #1593
    Necro
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 56,262 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    I don't actually care who goes into government at this point, we need one now it is that simple.

    Moderator: Current Affairs/IMHO, Soccer, Pro Wrestling



  • #1594
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    Need to get the parades done and out of the way first! According to HSE/DOH, parades are all go...no risks!

    No risks? With a group of people crammed together to watch a silly old parade. They put the parade of one year, they can do it again.


  • #1595
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,380 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    amadangomor wrote: »
    Public sector workers will be paid. As a private sector worker I will get sick leave rates from the gov which I couldn't live on. Two tier apartheid system in this country.
    Solution...join the public sector...


  • #1596
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,444 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    TomSweeney wrote: »
    Is it true that the 2009 H1N1 pandemic killed 150K people in the first year ???


    How come there wasn;t massive panic with that pandemic ??

    Don't you remember the mass vaccination centres set up?


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  • #1597
    Mic 1972
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,213 ✭✭✭Mic 1972


    Stheno wrote: »
    Fatality was originally estimated at 20% of the population
    I spent many days drawing up contingency plans for my company


    well, there are currently 16% of total open cases in critical conditions, while 6% have died


  • #1598
    martingriff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,339 ✭✭✭✭martingriff


    Bob24 wrote: »
    And btw there was an interview from the peekprosperity.com guy on a podcast I listen to which was recorded at the end of January - well worth listening to (it is a financial podcast but the podcast is about the virus): https://www.macrovoices.com/podcasts-collection/macrovoices-hot-topic-podcasts/795-hot-topic-6-covid-19-pandemic-update

    This gives him a lot of credibility as what is said a month ago is still very relevant and he had already seen it would become a global pandemic when everyone still thigh it was purely a Chinese issue.

    Except the masks do not protect your eyes ears and lets hope your not fidgeting with it and contaminate them


  • #1599
    Ohmeha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,176 ✭✭✭Ohmeha


    Necro wrote: »
    I don't actually care who goes into government at this point, we need one now it is that simple.
    Do you want the current incomptent lot and Simon Harris to continue their disastrous handling of this?


  • #1600
    Naggdefy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,981 ✭✭✭Naggdefy


    tillyfilly wrote: »
    The royal couple shaking a lot of hands in Galway today, a high profile case could be in the offing

    If we passed on corona virus to the Royal Family...oh the irony!


  • #1601
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,121 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    tillyfilly wrote: »
    Boards.ie will crash in 5, 4, 3, 2,1 ....

    Can't understand why it does like last night though. Someone who knows about these things might enlighten me.

    Is is bandwidth or something like that.

    Should never be the case that traffic shuts down the site. I'm on many very busy sites and this never happens. Not happening as we speak either and Corona V is top of the list and moving by the second.

    Just saying.


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  • #1602
    Ninthlife
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,458 ✭✭✭Ninthlife


    Where is the briefing on? Youtube?o


  • #1603
    jarvis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,499 ✭✭✭jarvis


    7 more cases in the republic. OMG


  • #1604
    cameramonkey
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    boetstark wrote: »
    Sorry but don't be such an ignoramus. That is 100% true. Do you live in this area. If not please stop rubbishing people's attempts to share information with the public


    the report said that a doctor with pneumonia was treating a patient.
    I dont believe that.


  • #1605
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    The country could be riddled with incumbents.


  • #1606
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    7 in one day. Surely they cant keep towing the paddys day is ok line.

    UK gov are telling anyone coming from anywhere in Italy to self isolate. We should be doing the same


  • #1607
    SteelyDanJalapeno
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,390 ✭✭✭✭SteelyDanJalapeno


    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/coronavirus-now-13-people-have-coronavirus-in-the-republic-1.4194376


  • #1608
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,111 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/coronavirus-now-13-people-have-coronavirus-in-the-republic-1.4194376


  • #1609
    frillyleaf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 801 ✭✭✭frillyleaf


    babybuilder wrote: »
    Please leave your China bashing of this thread. Focus on what steps could be introduced here to reduce the rate of contagion.

    Agreed. We can learn a lot from how China managed this virus. Despite it originating there they have slowed it down hugely which gave other countries weeks to prepare.


  • #1610
    scotchy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,232 ✭✭✭scotchy


    Naggdefy wrote: »
    The 'Doomsday Clock' was 100 seconds to midnight in January, I wonder where it's at now :D

    About 20 past ...

    💙 💛 💙 💛 💙 💛



  • #1611
    05eaftqbrs9jlh
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    My young relative, who I've seen three times this week, is in Glasheen school where many, many of his classmates' parents are staff in CUH. I have a persistent cough since Wed morning. I'm also asthmatic. I cared for elderly parents and immunocompromised stickingduring the week, I just hope I didn't transmit to them. I was so careful.

    Not going to into work tomorrow, I work with special needs children. Went to the doctor on Wed but I'm going to ring her again in the morning to check if I should self isolate.


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  • #1612
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Also this piece on possible projections.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/coronavirus-hundreds-of-irish-cases-expected-within-fortnight-1.4194401


  • #1613
    CFlat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,878 ✭✭✭CFlat


    Naggdefy wrote: »
    If we passed on corona virus to the Royal Family...oh the irony!

    Coronation Virus:pac:


  • #1614
    Ger Roe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,193 ✭✭✭Ger Roe


    saabsaab wrote: »
    Government may also need to leave the Capital to protect themselves as well as keep functioning.

    They will have to clear the cobwebs out of the nuclear fallout bunker in Athlone.

    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/in-pictures-inside-irelands-secret-vip-nuclear-bunker-36285102.html

    I remember when they tested it during a civil defense exercise in the 1980's and they couldn't communicate with it from the RTE TV studio when they were explaining to the general public how it would be the communications command centre for the country in the case of a nuclear attack or accident at Windscale (now Sellafield).

    The last I saw of the bunker was a report about a year ago from John Creedon when he paid a visit on one of his 'round the country travel programmes. It didn't look in great shape then.


  • #1615
    BLIZZARD7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,002 ✭✭✭BLIZZARD7


    Irish times have the figures before the official HSE briefing... A case study in how NOT to do PR from the HSE.


  • #1616
    BarryD2
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    Mic 1972 wrote: »
    what about people returning from other EU countries, you don't think that is risky too? The virus doesn't recognize borders, it spreads in big cities, airports, small vil;ages. You can catch it anywhere in Europe now

    That's the way it seems to be heading but most/all of our confirmed cases have an Italian connection so far? The Italians haven't had the gumption to strictly enforce restrictions and it seems neither have/ will we. Despite the fact that as an island, we were in a far better position to do so, albeit at significant cost.


  • #1617
    CiarraiAbu2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 584 ✭✭✭CiarraiAbu2


    The guy in Cork hadn't left the country, so had to have caught through someone who is a carrier but not have them made themselves known to HSE, might not even know they are a carrier


  • #1618
    Necro
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    Ohmeha wrote: »
    Do you want the current incomptent lot and Simon Harris to continue their disastrous handling of this?

    We need more than a caretaker government who can make the hard decisions.

    It's that simple.

    Moderator: Current Affairs/IMHO, Soccer, Pro Wrestling



  • #1619
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,444 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    7 in one day. Surely they cant keep towing the paddys day is ok line.

    UK gov are telling anyone coming from anywhere in Italy to self isolate. We should be doing the same

    It's gone from 1 to 4 to 7 in consecutive days.


  • #1620
    GM228
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,922 ✭✭✭GM228


    wadacrack wrote: »
    https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(08)01008-4/fulltext

    That 2008 study had a very small amount of participants, later studies have not had the same results, an excellent 2012 study by the University of Michigan which was CDC funded and the first to examine wearing masks before there was an infected person in the household found no reduction in symptoms for mask use alone.

    It had a much larger group of participants spread across 5 different areas.

    https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0029744


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  • #1621
    Bob24
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    martingriff wrote: »
    Except the masks do not protect your eyes ears and lets hope your not fidgeting with it and contaminate them

    Yes that is pretty obvious (I have actually mentioned it in previous posts) and no-one said wearing a mask alone is providing 100% protection.

    But it doesn't make them useless by any stretch of imagination, and they greatly reduce chances of infection.


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