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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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  • #3422
    Duke of Url
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,662 ✭✭✭Duke of Url


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1235862053635543043

    OH SH!TE!

    NOT CAMEROON AND SERBIA TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!


  • #3423
    sudzs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,755 ✭✭✭sudzs


    How long before there's a test for antibodies?


  • #3424
    MadYaker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,335 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    You're crazy.

    I did not say it will happen - my premise is it "might" - something you seem to have missed.

    Moving the goalposts, nice. Your tone has been quite assertive and certain throughout the thread. We could cope with what the dutch are dealing with, italy not so much. But as things currently stand its just not logical to predict that it'll get that bad.


  • #3425
    blanch152
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,851 ✭✭✭✭blanch152


    piplip87 wrote: »
    "If in the right conditions virus can survive for a matter of days on surfaces. Chinese have burned money as a precaution". - Epidemic investigator CNN Town hall meeting.

    If anyone wants their money burned, please PM me and I will arrange to collect your money from your bunker/isolation chamber/hospital bed and dispose of it appropriately.


  • #3426
    Tacitus Kilgore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,128 ✭✭✭Tacitus Kilgore


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    You're crazy.

    I did not say it will happen - my premise is it "might" - something you seem to have missed.


    Sure an asteroid might hit us overnight and end it all,

    Or god might be real and come and kill us all for being heathens,

    Or swarms of super aids infested locusts might take over the world and kill us all,


    I now see your logic, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.


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  • #3427
    eeepaulo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,432 ✭✭✭eeepaulo


    Humberto Salazar wrote: »
    I read this this comment out to the wife. She smirked wryly. ��

    Cast-Away-1-700x394.png


  • #3428
    megabomberman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 131 ✭✭megabomberman


    The US response to this is simply the worst, many states still don't have testing equipment and the primary campaigns are rolling about the country. Other than lads not going licking the same wall they aren't exactly miles off from the Iranians.


  • #3429
    circadian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,430 ✭✭✭circadian


    Humberto Salazar wrote: »
    I read this this comment out to the wife. She smirked wryly. 🀔

    She's thinking it can't get any smaller.


  • #3430
    screamer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,193 ✭✭✭screamer


    FishOnABike wrote: »
    To put it in context Lombardy's population is slightly more than twice that of Ireland so proportionately we have twice the ICU capacity and are adding to it.

    Most of our ICU beds are already occupied, heard that this morning on the radio, which means the only extra capacity we’ll have is what is being added....and that’s if they’re not taken by people with other icu needs first....


  • #3431
    MadYaker
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    tobefrank321 wrote: »
    Nothing at all, but there is a big difference from hopping on a 19.99 flight down the road and having to travel 500 miles to another airport to get a flight. The point about containment and delay is making it difficult for people to travel from infected regions. The Chinese have done it really well. Personally I think only a Hubei style isolation of most of Northern Italy is going to solve this. If the Chinese can isolate a province of 50 million, it shouldn't be too hard to do the same in Northern Italy. Its proven to work.

    The EU need to take leadership.

    Yeah because Italy is a one party totalitarian communist state just like China, oh wait!


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  • #3432
    tillyfilly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 567 ✭✭✭tillyfilly


    Unfortunately I feel we are in a new normal, an endemic COVID 19 virus


  • #3433
    tobefrank321
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,527 ✭✭✭tobefrank321


    The Chinese have largely contained this with the isolation of a massive province, travel bans and so on.

    Meanwhile in Europe we are afraid to impose isolation and travel bans to inspection hotspots for fear of inconveniencing people. Because of this we've probably already lost the battle against Coronavirus and entire countries including probably our own will go into shutdown. Not scare mongering but the truth.


  • #3434
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    MadYaker wrote: »
    But as things currently stand its just not logical to predict that it'll get that bad.

    Why not?

    What makes you sure we won't have an Iran or an Italy here?

    We have had 13 cases, a bunch of monumental screw ups, and already community transmission...

    Yet you reject my opinion of what could well happen here.

    Go on then. Tell us why it won't happen here and it will all be grand.


  • #3435
    gabeeg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭gabeeg


    tobefrank321 wrote: »
    Nothing at all, but there is a big difference from hopping on a 19.99 flight down the road and having to travel 500 miles to another airport to get a flight. The point about containment and delay is making it difficult for people to travel from infected regions. The Chinese have done it really well. Personally I think only a Hubei style isolation of most of Northern Italy is going to solve this. If the Chinese can isolate a province of 50 million, it shouldn't be too hard to do the same in Northern Italy. Its proven to work.

    The EU need to take leadership.

    The EU do not have the authority or the people to impose a lockdown on a member state.

    It's also far too late for that. There are large outbreaks all over the EU.


  • #3436
    DrumSteve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,798 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    megabomberman wrote: »
    The US response to this is simply the worst, many states still don't have testing equipment and the primary campaigns are rolling about the country. Other than lads not going licking the same wall they aren't exactly miles off from the Iranians.

    Its almost like they want a reason to postpone the election...


  • #3437
    MadYaker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,335 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    screamer wrote: »
    Most of our ICU beds are already occupied, heard that this morning on the radio, which means the only extra capacity we’ll have is what is being added....and that’s if they’re not taken by people with other icu needs first....

    ICU beds and beds in general can be repurposed and freed up by cancelling or postponing non essential operations etc. There's more capacity in the HSE than people think, its not as simple as whats empty. But there is a limit obviously.


  • #3438
    Cody montana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,582 ✭✭✭Cody montana


    megabomberman wrote: »
    The US response to this is simply the worst, many states still don't have testing equipment and the primary campaigns are rolling about the country. Other than lads not going licking the same wall they aren't exactly miles off from the Iranians.

    This is what the governor of Missouri tweeted.

    Missouri specific:
    • ZERO confirmed cases
    • Nearly 17 people have been tested
    • Testing CAN be done in Missouri
    • Prisons, nursing homes & mental health facilities are a concern
    • Schools are always a concern, but young people to not appear to be as prone #COVID19


  • #3439
    ArchXStanton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭ArchXStanton


    tobefrank321 wrote: »
    Nothing at all, but there is a big difference from hopping on a 19.99 flight down the road and having to travel 500 miles to another airport to get a flight. The point about containment and delay is making it difficult for people to travel from infected regions. The Chinese have done it really well. Personally I think only a Hubei style isolation of most of Northern Italy is going to solve this. If the Chinese can isolate a province of 50 million, it shouldn't be too hard to do the same in Northern Italy. Its proven to work.

    The EU need to take leadership.

    The EU couldn't run a boyscout troop was just over on their Facebook pages and they're waffling on about the gender paygap and Gretas visit...


  • #3440
    harr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,511 ✭✭✭harr


    I was in a gym class last night and some lad started coughing and you could see people instinctively moving away from him and looking nervous. First time I noticed this reaction. I have myself have started to notice when people start sneezing and spluttering out of them.


  • #3441
    hawkwing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,927 ✭✭✭hawkwing


    Beecher's brook again today on the markets,Oil has fallen,FTSE has fallen,DAX has fallen,CAC has fallen,etc etc.Missing the Micheál O'Hehir commentary for it..


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  • #3442
    megabomberman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 131 ✭✭megabomberman


    The shifting of the Overton window on this thing has been amazing across the four threads. The definition of doom mongering has transitioned from mild flu season to Mad Max.


  • #3443
    Duke of Url
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,662 ✭✭✭Duke of Url


    tillyfilly wrote: »
    Unfortunately I feel we are in a new normal, an endemic COVID 19 virus

    And the more people who see it this way the better. Its simply too late globally to taken action.

    Next step is Treatments and Vaccines.


  • #3444
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    harr wrote: »
    I was in a gym class last night and some lad started coughing and you could see people instinctively moving away from him and looking nervous. First time I noticed this reaction. I have myself have started to notice when people start sneezing and spluttering out of them.

    Ive always noticed people sneezing and spluttering


  • #3445
    Candamir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 531 ✭✭✭Candamir


    screamer wrote: »
    Most of our ICU beds are already occupied, heard that this morning on the radio, which means the only extra capacity we’ll have is what is being added....and that’s if they’re not taken by people with other icu needs first....

    As has been said before, ICU beds will be freed up by cancelling major elective surgery. That will free up beds immediately.


  • #3446
    GeorgeBailey
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    Wibbs wrote: »
    Reading through this thread there's the very real feeling of some actually getting off on the hysteria, with a few pullin the skeleton outa themselves over it. It's like their lives are so fcuking boring that any excitement ramps them up and this "plague" is a beaut for it. Then again remember when that Garth Brookes fella cancelled his gigs here? Boards went nuts for a while over that non event. The Mob in full flow.

    "The Mob is in full flow", that would be an apt title for part V of this thread


  • #3447
    screamer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,193 ✭✭✭screamer


    harr wrote: »
    I was in a gym class last night and some lad started coughing and you could see people instinctively moving away from him and looking nervous. First time I noticed this reaction. I have myself have started to notice when people start sneezing and spluttering out of them.

    Yes we all need to be more aware. I run from coughers or sneezers and I’m not on bit apologetic for that. People would want to cop on with their filthy coughing everywhere, it’s not acceptable anymore. Times are changing.


  • #3448
    timmyntc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,608 ✭✭✭timmyntc


    Cody montana wrote: »
    This is what the governor of Missouri tweeted.

    Missouri specific:
    • ZERO confirmed cases
    • Nearly 17 people have been tested
    • Testing CAN be done in Missouri
    • Prisons, nursing homes & mental health facilities are a concern
    • Schools are always a concern, but young people to not appear to be as prone #COVID19

    Nearly 17 people have been tested? Lol
    So is it 16 and a half people? Does the 4/5ths rule still apply in Missouri?


  • #3449
    tillyfilly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 567 ✭✭✭tillyfilly


    harr wrote: »
    I was in a gym class last night and some lad started coughing and you could see people instinctively moving away from him and looking nervous. First time I noticed this reaction. I have myself have started to notice when people start sneezing and spluttering out of them.

    picture this, you live in ebola soaked Congo and some farts


  • #3450
    tobefrank321
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,527 ✭✭✭tobefrank321


    megabomberman wrote: »
    The US response to this is simply the worst, many states still don't have testing equipment and the primary campaigns are rolling about the country. Other than lads not going licking the same wall they aren't exactly miles off from the Iranians.

    Agreed, and Trump is not helping - we know denial that it could be a serious problem doesn't work. It didn't work at the start in China or later in Iran nor did it work in Ireland.


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  • #3451
    MarkY91
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    screamer wrote: »
    Yes we all need to be more aware. I run from coughers or sneezers and I’m not on bit apologetic for that. People would want to cop on with their filthy coughing everywhere, it’s not acceptable anymore. Times are changing.

    What about the dirt bags who cough phlem into their hands and wipe it on the bus seat then touch the hand rails all through the upper deck and stairs :( there's no educating some people..let's hope none of these scruffs become a "super spreader"


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