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

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

I gave it a thanks.

You happy?

YOU HAPPY!?

moderately...will be happier come 7am tomorrow and i'm finished work for the weekend:D

fr336 wrote: »

I know people are worried but putting the boot into the Irish government and health service in particular may be anger just for the sake of it. Which major countries aren't having cases? Daily the rates are going up everywhere. It's not the Irish government's fault for this, I lay the blame squarely at China's door.

I don't think anyone is even remotely implying that the Irish Government had anything to do with the virus :pac:

mojesius wrote: »

Can you catch coronavirus in a swimming pool?

guidance received from the HPSC/HSE with regard to chlorinated swimming pools and drinking water. Extract below:



If drinking water supplies or swimming pools are being chlorinated in accordance with current recommendations / best practice is this sufficient to inactivate COVID-19 virus?

For Drinking Water chlorination, ‘current recommendations’ is taken to mean a Ct value of at least 15 mg.min/litre (for example exposure to 0.5 mg/l free chlorine for at least 30 minutes).1

For Swimming Pool chlorination, operating to ‘current recommendations / best practice’ means maintenance of a free chlorine residual of at least 1.0 mg/l (depending on pool type and disinfectant used).2, 6

Answer:

Yes - adherence to current recommended disinfection practice is sufficient to inactivate COVID-19 virus in chlorinated drinking water and swimming pools.

frillyleaf wrote: »

What do you think of how Ireland is handling this? I’m not nervous, I’m just interested in disease etc

Very ineffective. You can expect the government to say we are no longer in the containment phase within a matter of two weeks (or less). Then they’ll increase restrictions on social contact etc but the delay will have caused a lot more spread with long term consequences.

What we are seeing is information management to stop panic. You can’t tell people how bad things will get immediately. You break it in stages so people can adapt to the new reality.

CinemaGuy45 wrote: »

And yet we still have total braindead morons saying this is just a flu and people are scaremongering.

And we have morons not know what preconditions these deaths had, or what age they were. Scaremongering.

Great news, we are still in the containment stage :rolleyes: .

tuxy wrote: »

She did not say she would be self isolation.
Her kids had to stay at home from school so she would be making changes to her schedule as someone would have to be at home to care for them.

I said that too. Read my post. :P

amadangomor wrote: »

Will ring the manager in the morning and see what he thinks. The fact there is community dissemination has changed my outlook. HSE should have been telling us that there was a risk of it happening not ruling it out as they have been doing.

I'm a manager and we're not doctors, all he'll do is refer you to HR or recently created self isolation policy. Get yourself checked by a doctor is my advice.

On a side note, managers are in a very bad position with this as some companies won't pay for the time the team member misses which make them show up to work (because they need the money). It's going to lead to further spread.

skimpydoo wrote: »

Great news, we are still in the containment stage :rolleyes: .

Contain the information, but let the virus spread!

Phil.x wrote: »

What's the odds, that from everday now at 7pm or 8pm the hse release a statement with new cases and ireland quickly becomes an epicentre for the virus in western Europe. The HSE CEO looks very worried.

I hating this, but the government are doing nothing of note, we are going to overtake Italy in the next few weeks.

is_that_so wrote: »

Anything credible is far better than a diet of rising stats and social media panic!

Just listened myself, well worth the 20 mins

its great for Amazon

hawkwing wrote: »

If you see faeces in the pool more than likely i'd say but it's one for the experts

From my experience in pool plant I’d imagine from a chemical aspect it’s unlikely. You have free chlorine and active chlorine in a pool. The chlorine reading is then a total reading of all that. Once chlorine is in a pool it’s present to do it’s job which is to neutralise harmful agents. If for example a poo is present chlorine goes to work to break it down. While that’s happening there is more chlorine ready in waiting for anything else that becomes present. Besides that the filtration systems ensure most pools circulate all their water within a few hours. In a nutshell I’d suspect it’s not a bad place to be.