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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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  • #1832
    Andrew00
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,484 ✭✭✭Andrew00


    The numbers are shooting up for a population of our size, compared to the numbers in England.

    Shocking


  • #1833
    Sierra Oscar
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,666 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sierra Oscar


    Crisis management team established in CUH after staff had sustained contact with the confirmed case there.

    Sounds like no precautions taken, I suppose there wouldn’t be if they hadn’t tested him.

    I’d say health workers will be wearing protective equipment routinely fairly sharpish.


  • #1834
    Blueshoe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    ricero wrote: »
    We're in trouble folks. The HSE are incompetent. I reckon we will be over 100 confirmed cases by a fortnight.

    Can't understand how some people believe a department that can't handle day to day running of the health service will suddenly be able to handle this.
    Fantasy land


  • #1835
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    50 cases in Australia too. It's a million degrees over there .

    We're up to 57, localised transmission too. But the interest rates were lowered here too and they are considering quantitative easings.


  • #1836
    SeaBreezes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭SeaBreezes


    antodeco wrote: »
    Why did the HSE need to wait to tell GPs (let alone anybody) to self isolate for 14 days when returning from an infected area. This should have been the first thing that was said. That's the only way you could have actually contained this. They are morons.

    In fairness, doctor him/herself should have known. Its the height of hubris..

    Of ALL people he would have known the situation in Italy, AND that he was endangering his patients who are only seeing him due to 'underlying issues' ..


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  • #1837
    Allinall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,264 ✭✭✭Allinall


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    regarding the community transmission: "this is just a single case"

    jesus christ....

    Fecking hell. If he’s got it then we’ve no chance.
    Really hope it’s not trrue.


  • #1838
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    little bess wrote: »
    I’ve to go to Beaumont, going to bring mine with me, Im not looking forward to sitting in an enclosed waiting room for two hours or more with coughing patients.
    There seems to be an isolation zone. You do have to be close to people to be at risk. Maybe a time to check with hospital as well?


  • #1839
    Mervyn Skidmore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,209 ✭✭✭Mervyn Skidmore


    ricero wrote: »
    We're in trouble folks. The HSE are incompetent. I reckon we will be over 100 confirmed cases by a fortnight.

    That's probably a given. So do you believe every European country has an incompetent health service? It's growing pretty much everywhere.


  • #1840
    expectationlost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,473 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    2 of the new people got it from previous identitifed cases


  • #1841
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,121 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Love it that Cork is the only place that wasn't given a Provincial name.

    Not East, not West, no it's Cork, CUH to be precise it seems. (Donegal is forgotten as always, god love them because they are North).

    Hope all will be well for those affected. We may be next, remember that. Who knows at this stage?


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  • #1842
    SleetAndSnow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,752 ✭✭✭SleetAndSnow


    Chances of Cork becoming our northern italy?


  • #1843
    Pseudonym121
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 309 ✭✭Pseudonym121


    harr wrote: »
    Still refusing to give details on location or what county the people are from ... Ireland is to small for saying roughly where the outbreaks are .

    This is really wrong-headed. Ireland is so small that you should simply assume you will be in contact with people with COVID19 as it is now circulating in the community. The idea that you’d be safe in Louth or Donegal if it was in CUH is incorrect.

    Containment is done, you need to assume it is circulating and that 12 months now roughly 2/3rd of the population will have had it with a commensurate death rate. That works out to roughly 40,000.

    If we are lucky and really socially isolate it’ll be much lower but I can’t see it being less than 2,000 over the course of the year.

    So there is no point obsessing over whether it is in Cork or Galway or Louth. It is in Ireland, it is in the community and you need to behave as though people you interact with on a daily basis have it no matter where you live.


  • #1844
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,683 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    Just isolate everyone who is coming from an infected region. That's stage 1 of containment.


  • #1845
    Corbin Gifted Scab
    Posts: 13,688 ✭✭✭✭ Corbin Gifted Scab


    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-51762074

    Child at Alder Hey tests positive.

    Very grim news given that particular facility.


  • #1846
    Dampsquid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 687 ✭✭✭Dampsquid


    The HSE don't give a **** about protecting the Irish public, its all about, we are doing the same as other countries. Well we can see other countries are having massive outbreaks, we will have the exact same thing happen here.

    All cases so far have come in from Italy,(with one exception) but they dont recommend a ban on travel as it would not be effective. Well if they put it in place 1 or 2 weeks ago, we would have probably zero cases to date.

    As long as they can point back to international best practice, they have got their backs covered.


  • #1847
    martingriff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,339 ✭✭✭✭martingriff


    Andrew00 wrote: »
    "ah sure be grand wash your hands" has been the Irish and HSE mentality for the past 4 weeks. Absolute scum of the earth

    That's been the message for most countries not the HSE. I forget which of these threads it was but someone but the HSE message up and the the NHS and said at least there telling us what to do and guess what it was the same message maybe worded differently. Sneeze/cough in to your shoulder and wash or yous anti bacterial on your hands. But no because its our guys it can not be trusted. People need to stop take a breath calm down and actually think and not lose the heed


  • #1848
    Chong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,680 ✭✭✭Chong


    the butcher wrote: »
    There is an air about him that I absolutely detest.

    This briefing isn't a briefing when there is zero information.

    No travel ban either.

    I do believe though his hands are tied here and he is being hung out here to dry as a scapegoat.


  • #1849
    pc7
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,272 Mod ✭✭✭✭pc7


    Right I’ll say night now, as thread will melt when this breaks on 9 o’clock news.


  • #1850
    lawrencesummers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,786 ✭✭✭lawrencesummers


    I would like for a journalist to ask them for details on testing.

    How many tests a day are being done?
    How long do the results take?
    What is the max capacity that the labs in Ireland have for daily testing? Ie what’s the most amount of tests a day that can be done?


  • #1851
    SleetAndSnow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,752 ✭✭✭SleetAndSnow


    Spanish Eyes wrote: »
    Love it that Cork is the only place that wasn't given a Provincial name.

    Not East, not West, no it's Cork, CUH to be precise it seems. (Donegal is forgotten as always, god love them because they are North).

    Hope all will be well for those affected. We may be next, remember that. Who knows at this stage?

    Its because they don't know where it came from or how people got it


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  • #1852
    tillyfilly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 567 ✭✭✭tillyfilly


    Bob24 wrote: »
    Shocker, central banks cutting interest rates can't stop a pandemic :-)

    you can't fake health! Humanity is now sick and obviously less productive, the central banks think pumping in liquidity will fix us


  • #1853
    Darc19
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,817 ✭✭✭Darc19


    Pseudonym121 wrote: »
    This is really wrong-headed. Ireland is so small that you should simply assume you will be in contact with people with COVID19 as it is now circulating in the community. The idea that you’d be safe in Louth or Donegal if it was in CUH is incorrect.

    Containment is done, you need to assume it is circulating and that 12 months now roughly 2/3rd of the population will have had it with a commensurate death rate. That works out to roughly 40,000.

    If we are lucky and really socially isolate it’ll be much lower but I can’t see it being less than 2,000 over the course of the year.

    So there is no point obsessing over whether it is in Cork or Galway or Louth. It is in Ireland, it is in the community and you need to behave as though people you interact with on a daily basis have it no matter where you live.

    OH fucc, the crazy posts are getting crazier


  • #1854
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    Andrew00 wrote: »
    Cannot stand the HSE

    Too many jobsworths in there with no clue what they are doing, drawing down six figure salaries.

    Should have been gutted when the Troika were here over a decade ago.


  • #1855
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Andrew00 wrote: »
    The numbers are shooting up for a population of our size, compared to the numbers in England.

    Shocking

    Iceland has 36 in 48 hours! That is huge for a nation of 360,000


  • #1856
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    ricero wrote: »
    We're in trouble folks. The HSE are incompetent. I reckon we will be over 100 confirmed cases by a fortnight.

    Will be 100 surely sooner than that.


  • #1857
    05eaftqbrs9jlh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭05eaftqbrs9jlh


    The number of cases quadrupled yesterday and doubled today and is still too small to gear up our plans with regards to travel in spite of the fact that there will likely be a flood of Italians coming in tomorrow.

    Community transmission is now different to local transmission? He's right that ordinary people will take issues with his definition.


  • #1858
    Scuid Mhór
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,326 ✭✭✭Scuid Mhór


    Say what you want about the impending horrors of covid19, but I can't deny it's done wonders for my post-to-thanked-posts ratio.


  • #1859
    skimpydoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,074 ✭✭✭skimpydoo


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Oh we can't stop flights from N Italy because Schengen this and peoples rights that.

    We aren't in Schengen.


  • #1860
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    Are we going to need a TD to stand up in the Dáil to read out where these cases are actually happening instead of this the east -the west

    Absolute clowns.


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  • #1861
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91,033 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    Is this a pisstake, won't say where they are, expected it to happen, everything is grand wash your hands...

    I'll have no skin left from washing and scrubbing :(
    https://forumofgames.com/




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