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

Tacitus Kilgore wrote: »

WHERE DOES BUREAUCRACY COME INTO IT?

What is bureaucratic about the decisions made?

For the 5th time - Why were flights , bar emergency, allowed fly in from effected region, if we are trying to control the spread - Thats it - not explaining it again.

https://twitter.com/jeremyfaust/status/1235732709416329217

silver2020 wrote: »

And like that medical professional, you are not understanding this.

If flights from Italy were stopped then those who wanted to travel would simply hop on a train and use any number of alternative airports within very easy traveling distance.

So stop flights from Italy and all those would simply get flights from other airports. Even Munich airport is just 5 hours away by train.

You are understanding it less.

I will ask for the umpteenth time - if the flights bringing Italian rugby fans to a game that doesn't exist were cancelled, would the same fans hop on a train in Italy all the way to Germany, France etc and then hop on a plane, to travel to a game that doesn't exist?

The same goes for St Patricks day by the way.

We are and I include you in this encouraging and facilitating easy and cheap travel from highly infected areas.

Easy and cheap are the optimal words here. The cheaper and easier something is, the more people use it. You know this right?

Utter Consternation wrote: »

That's no laughing matter. And they might have caught the Corona virus too.

Was Blindboy wearing the Centra plastic bag over his head? He should be ok then.

thebaz wrote: »

For the 5th time - Why were flights , bar emergency, allowed fly in from effected region, if we are trying to control the spread - Thats it - not explaining it again.

Okey dokey, I guess we just have a different understanding of what bureaucracy at its worst means.

industry accountant wrote: »

I've seen this argument over and over.
Simple, bring them home but straight into quarantine until it can be verified they are clear or not.
Don't let them in to wander freely, going to work/school etc.
This is common sense stuff

It would make more sense to not allow them onto the plane in the first place until they produce a certificate that they were tested for the virus in the previous 12 hours.

MOR316 wrote: »

Not arsed working. Keep hitting F5 reading this thread

Google image search Atari breakout and you will never work again

industry accountant wrote: »

If they chose to come from an infected area feck them into quarantine too. Enough of this pussy footing around crap. We nneded to protect ourselves, not worry about "Oh whatever will we do with the visitors".

Do they quarantine at your house or mine?

Okay, so two things.

I was thinking this morning that my whole family had this woejus cough over Christmas/start of January. Loads of people in work had it too. Two colleagues were told they had viral bronchitis, and had to take three weeks off work, or the doctor warned them it could turn into pneumonia. Having had it, it was really difficult to shake, and I deffo got a temperature on and off for a few days. My husband had to go and steroids.

Is there any chance that could have been the coronavirus? I'm guessing, unless we had a spike in pneumonia deaths, it couldn't possibly have been?

Secondly, I think we're all focusing on "oh Trinity has it" and "oh CUH is on lockdown" or whatever. At this stage, honestly we're way past containment. What I want to focus on now is how to prevent my elderly parents from getting it. Apart for the normal advice i.e. wash hands and avoid crowds, what advice would you be giving them right now? Should I be advising them to stay at home and get the groceries delivered? Stay away from cafe's/shops? They mind my kids on a Friday - should I be looking for alternative arrangements, just for a few weeks? I want to try to get ahead of this.

MOR316 wrote: »

Not arsed working. Keep hitting F5 reading this thread

My F5 key is f**ked

ThePopehimself wrote: »

Echo Live.ie 06.03.2020

Patient spent days in emergency department before diagnosis

https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/Coronavirus-latest-Deadly-virus-in-Cork-Patient-spent-days-in-emergency-department-before-diagnosis--0608fdbd-7e91-4440-bccf-f182dd8b1d6a-ds

A PATIENT had spent a number of days in the emergency department before the diagnosis was made.
The Cork man, aged in his 40s, became the first in the country to catch the infection through community transmission.

The patient had been taken to CUH by ambulance, complaining of pains in his head. He spent time in A&E before being discharged. He was readmitted in recent days and tested for the virus.

Unlike previous cases in Ireland, the man, aged in his 40s, had not travelled to northern Italy.

The patient was being cared for in an Intensive Care Unit last night.

(Hope the man is okay...seems they wasted days)

Does anyone see similarity here between Italian case which i believe led to the infection in a number of medical professionals and elderly patients in a hospital. I havent looked at the French cases too closely but believe something similar may have occurred - our tight approach to testing surely caused delay in this diagnosis; how is this containment

Lord TSC wrote: »

My take is that there's, I think, three weeks till Easter.

And there's a long weekend in there too, due to Patricks Day.

So I have a feeling they'll get to mid next week and shut the schools down. And say "It's two weeks till Easter, and ye were getting some of that off anyway, so now we're having a month long Easter holiday."

Not much help considering 3rd level won't be getting an Easter break tho?