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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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  • #2462
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    girl on the street being interviewed on Prime Time

    Anyone else disappointed RTE presenters don't follow their Romanian counterparts?

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  • #2463
    tillyfilly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 567 ✭✭✭tillyfilly


    Westernyelp wrote: »
    Are you one of those random phrase generators?

    I am not , I am expressing myself


  • #2464
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    namloc1980 wrote: »
    It's 30 degrees in Singapore and they've had over 100 cases.

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  • #2465
    xabi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,029 ✭✭✭xabi


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    Who wants to rent a holiday home on Valentina Island and spend the next few months riding
    this thing out until it blows over.

    Have you any pictures of “this thing”? Been stung too many times on blind dates.


  • #2466
    Sober Crappy Chemis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 461 ✭✭Sober Crappy Chemis


    namloc1980 wrote: »
    What's the eircode?
    COVID19


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  • #2467
    Beanybabog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,455 ✭✭✭Beanybabog


    Has anyone else tried to follow the hygiene advice and found it weirdly difficult? I already have two toddlers and an irrational fear of vomiting so my hands look like an 80 year olds with the washing I do already. Thought the hygiene advice would be a breeze to follow because I’m expert already... but the last few days has been me every 10 minutes going “wtf if wrong with me, I can’t stop touching my own face!”.


  • #2468
    solidasarock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 363 ✭✭solidasarock


    joe40 wrote: »
    What was the testing capacity. I don't know, how many people could be tested per day. Maybe someone knows.

    Its nothing to do with capacity. Simply telling everyone who return from Italy / wherever to stay at home for 2 weeks doesn't take up any HSE resources.

    If anything it could have saved resources in the long run and reduce the spread.


    But **** that. Tell betty to get back to work at the till in Dunnes until she cant breath.


  • #2469
    babybuilder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,111 ✭✭✭babybuilder


    RandomName2 wrote: »
    I genuinely couldn't believe it when I initially heard it.

    They couldn't even be arsed testing kids coming back from the skiing trips. They said 'let them go back to school'. Utterly, utterly baffling. The only thing I can think is that they must have thought that containment was never going to work, so why bother?

    Agree. So what if it takes a few octogenarians and ill people with it. I think it's the economy and ibec types that are dictating policy on this issue. Add in to the mix a barrel load of department of health incompetence and we are where we are.


  • #2470
    Klonker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,669 ✭✭✭Klonker


    I'm ready for tomorrow's commute.


  • #2471
    Thingymebob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 115 ✭✭Thingymebob


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    girl on the street being interviewed on Prime Time saying it doesn't survive over 27 degrees, so hopefully by the summer it'll be gone,

    summer, in ireland


    Oh dear. She knows that it’s summer in Australia, that place where they’ve got 64 infections. Or Malaysia- 50 infections, daily temperature 34 degrees.


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  • #2472
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,325 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    I make sure to wash my hands after I come home from town or wherever I've been.


  • #2473
    Sober Crappy Chemis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 461 ✭✭Sober Crappy Chemis


    Klonker wrote: »
    I'm ready for tomorrow's commute.

    Dcikhead


  • #2474
    SeaBreezes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭SeaBreezes


    SeaBreezes wrote: »
    It's a nasty bug. Found in the brain too :-( butcher linked to it yesterday.
    fritzelly wrote: »
    There is zero evidence there is any difference in the strains (the difference between the two is minute) and now you are talking about different levels of care needed for the different strains

    You want to be taken seriously??? FFS
    Apparently there are? L and S strains? One more lethal than the other?


  • #2475
    RandomName2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭RandomName2


    joe40 wrote: »
    What was the testing capacity. I don't know, how many people could be tested per day. Maybe someone knows.

    Let's suppose it is a maximum of 200 a day.

    I can't imagine that you would have had many more than that returning from Italy in a given day.

    I am just guessing at numbers, but reason would suggest that they would have been manageable. One health care working in Cork University Hospital is apparently infected with it. Tracking down everyone they may have come into contact with seems a lot less manageable than a bunch of people coming off a plane.


  • #2476
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    RandomName2 wrote: »
    You are literally in the at risk group. You should be very, very concerned

    Well, I’m not. And I’m sorry, do you know more than my oncologist? Person who has spent over a decade training or some internet randomer - who to listen to? The state of people on this thread.


  • #2477
    Jin luk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 389 ✭✭Jin luk


    Developed a bit of a cough this evening,

    Not the best time to get this 😅


  • #2478
    skimpydoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,074 ✭✭✭skimpydoo


    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    Yes, swine flu hysteria. Tell me - what do you know about the health status pre-infection of the half a million people who died from it? People get truly bamboozled by numbers and analyse little else.

    I know a lot of cancer patients and am one. Most of us are immunocompromised and we’re all currently suffering from a severe case of eye rolling because we simply can’t get it up for an virus whose symptoms seem much more manageable than anything we’ve been through in the last few years AND we also recognise that we can’t stop living our lives because of this virus.
    I am in the same boat as you.


  • #2479
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,108 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    SeaBreezes wrote: »
    Apparently there are? L and S strains? One more lethal than the other?

    There is no evidence - preliminary non peer reviewed paper by some Chinese scientists

    Along the same lines as the Chinese scientists saying it didn't even start in China due to their findings because they "didn't find" all the other variations in their sample cases but they all exist in the USA cases


  • #2480
    RandomName2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭RandomName2


    babybuilder wrote: »
    Agree. So what if it takes a few octogenarians and ill people with it. I think it's the economy and ibec types that are dictating policy on this issue. Add in to the mix a barrel load of department of health incompetence and we are where we are.

    If Trump's attitude is anything to go by that is exactly the case.

    Stop saying things that affect the Dow Jones. Get on with life. It will impact the economy but taking out old people and people with chronic conditions will be a silver lining.


  • #2481
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    skimpydoo wrote: »
    I am in the same boat as you.

    Interested to hear your perspective. Are you worried or not?


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  • #2482
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    namloc1980 wrote: »
    It's 30 degrees in Singapore and they've had over 100 cases.

    A heavily populated city state with strong business links to China.
    It would seem the weather is helping them greatly. Those numbers are low given the circumstances.


  • #2483
    Pseudonym121
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 309 ✭✭Pseudonym121


    owlbethere wrote: »
    I have a question for you if you don't mind.


    Some people wrote here or in the previous thread that they got a bad dose of a heavy cold or flu already. Earlier on this year. Would it have been possible it would have been this Covid-19 doing the rounds already in Ireland? Back in January.


    Ok. Defensive Medicine Hat on.

    I cannot prove this one way or the other as obviously only repeated testing ( due to the fact that testing kits have a false negative rate ) could prove this one way or the other.

    However I think what you are suggesting is highly unlikely and if it had happened we’d have a lot more very ill people now.

    You can be absolutely certain that testing of people still
    In morgues etc who werent thought to have died from COVID19 has been going on quietly behind the scenes and if positive results were being generated we would know about them. Since we’ve heard nothing I think that probably rules out the December/January theory.

    In future if the HSE will fund RNA analysis we will be able to do an analysis which can reasonably accurately trace even community acquired infections back and see roughly when they entered Ireland. This could prove it one way or the other.

    Disclaimer. Just an opinion based on science and experience. You are welcome to hold a different view.


  • #2484
    Assetbacked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,969 ✭✭✭Assetbacked


    RandomName2 wrote: »
    I genuinely couldn't believe it when I initially heard it.

    They couldn't even be arsed testing kids coming back from the skiing trips. They said 'let them go back to school'. Utterly, utterly baffling. The only thing I can think is that they must have thought that containment was never going to work, so why bother?

    To be honest I think it makes sense because health workers are far more likely to be working with the most vulnerable people to the coronavirus whereas Joe Soap is just touching and licking other Joe Soaps.


  • #2485
    Le Bruise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,342 ✭✭✭Le Bruise


    RandomName2 wrote: »
    You are literally in the at risk group. You should be very, very concerned

    Absolutely no need for that!


  • #2486
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Le Bruise wrote: »
    Absolutely no need for that!

    be grand shur


  • #2487
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    The leaderboard of shame

    China 80,430
    S. Korea 6,088
    Italy 3,858
    Iran 3,513
    Diamond Princess 696
    Germany 545
    France 423
    Japan 361
    Spain 282
    USA 209
    Switzerland 118
    Singapore 117
    UK 116
    Hong Kong 105
    Sweden 94
    Norway 91
    Netherlands 82
    Kuwait 58
    Bahrain 55
    Malaysia 55
    Australia 53
    Belgium 50
    Thailand 47
    Taiwan 44
    Austria 43
    Canada 37
    Iraq 35
    Iceland 35
    Greece 31
    India 30
    UAE 28
    San Marino 21
    Denmark 20
    Algeria 17
    Israel 17
    Lebanon 16
    Oman 16
    Vietnam 16
    Ecuador 13
    Ireland 13
    Czechia 12
    Finland 12
    Macao 10
    Croatia 10
    Georgia 9
    Portugal 9
    Brazil 8
    Qatar 8
    Palestine 7
    Azerbaijan 6
    Belarus 6
    Mexico 6
    Romania 6
    Slovenia 6
    Estonia 5
    Pakistan 5
    Saudi Arabia 5
    New Zealand 4
    Russia 4


    A real tussle between France and Germany. The country of bread and wine versus the country of iron and steel.


  • #2488
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,378 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    tuxy wrote: »
    A heavily populated city state with strong business links to China.
    It would seem the weather is helping them greatly. Those numbers are low given the circumstances.

    It seems so, regarding the temperature.
    Would be a terrible thing if this virus moved through regions like India or Africa.

    Let's hope for now it doesn't.


  • #2489
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    jam_mac_jam wrote: »
    What did your oncologist say...just a flu

    Practice good hand hygiene, avoid snotty, snuffly people but otherwise live your life. Solid advice, IMO.


  • #2490
    Andrew00
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,484 ✭✭✭Andrew00


    branie2 wrote: »
    I make sure to wash my hands after I come home from town or wherever I've been.

    Do people not do this regardless of coronavirus???!


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  • #2491
    RandomName2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭RandomName2


    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    Well, I’m not. And I’m sorry, do you know more than my oncologist? Person who has spent over a decade training or some internet randomer - who to listen to? The state of people on this thread.

    https://www.thelancet.com/
    https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(20)30149-2/fulltext
    https://www.cancer.ie/about-us/news/irish-cancer-society-advice-for-cancer-patients-on-covid-19-coronavirus
    https://www.cancerhealth.com/article/who-is-most-susceptible-new-coronavirus
    https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/03/who-is-getting-sick-and-how-sick-a-breakdown-of-coronavirus-risk-by-demographic-factors/


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