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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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  • #4232
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    niallo27 wrote: »
    Still up from 5 days ago.

    You gotta get up to get down


  • #4233
    leahyl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,425 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    pjohnson wrote: »
    Musta been while he was kissing you.

    :D:D sang that to myself when I saw that post :pac:


  • #4234
    1641
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭1641


    Assetbacked wrote: »
    Stock market panic = boomer panic.




    No, we are not in the least bothered - AS WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!


  • #4235
    jojofizzio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,287 ✭✭✭jojofizzio


    bronkobilly wrote: »
    news paper

    Liverpool jerseys??


  • #4236
    gabeeg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭gabeeg


    My girlfriend is from Trento, Northern Italy, but has also lived in a couple of other towns in Lombardy

    One such town is Romano about an hours drive from Milan. We were talking to her best friend from the town yesterday evening. It's like a ghost town. Shops, bars and restaurants shut. A lot of people are visibly sick, including her parents, her boyfriend and many within her wider group of friends. They don't know for sure if it's Coronavirus and they won't be tested unless they get really, really sick. They don't meet the criteria she says.

    Her feeling was that Romano was probably going to be locked down as there was clearly some sort of outbreak.
    They're all living in a deeply boring kind of terror.

    Some schools have been shut. A friend of hers has to go to work but the only person who can mind her kid is her mother, who is in the high risk bracket. These are the kinds of things they're grappling with over there - do I risk the health and possibly life of my mother, or do I lose my job?


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  • #4237
    KaneToad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,661 ✭✭✭KaneToad


    purple hands wrote: »
    Does it boost the immune system or something?

    SHOULD WE ALL BUY HONEYCOMB?!

    😂


  • #4238
    dan786
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,341 ✭✭✭dan786


    Another British Airways news.

    Two British Airways baggage handlers have tested positive for Covid-19, the airline has confirmed.

    The men are based at Heathrow Airport, west London.

    A spokesman for the airline said: "Public Health England has confirmed that two members of our staff have tested positive for the Covid-19 virus.

    "The colleagues have been isolated and are recovering at home."


  • #4239
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    I see sheep wrote: »
    You seem to be getting a huge buzz out of human suffering, I bet your your browser history is disturbing.

    Very disturbing, you wouldn't want to see it. But a virgin like you?...here is a pic for you to whack off to

    07a624b7e5b76e6e83a76f32dc08db2e.jpg

    Enjoy :)


  • #4240
    Assetbacked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,969 ✭✭✭Assetbacked


    niallo27 wrote: »
    I don't know who said what anymore this thread is moving too fast.

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  • #4241
    tobefrank321
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,527 ✭✭✭tobefrank321


    joe40 wrote: »
    These were Irish people coming home. They went out before Italy became a major hotspot. Are you suggesting we should have prevented these people coming home.

    They could have been brought home in a controlled manner such as charter flight and then 2 week isolation as happened in the UK and the outbreak in Wuhan. And once that was completed, ban flights to and from the region.

    As it stands, people continue to be put at risk including unfortunately flight crew. Madness.


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  • #4242
    Somedaythefire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 758 ✭✭✭Somedaythefire


    str8talkingguy wrote: »
    Unfortunately a lack of brain usage is the norm these days,but have at your share prices,and not use a bit of critical thinking,tech companies are having a field day with this,you might see some short term massaging of the figures for useful idiots like yourself to parrot around to everyone and say its not the tech companies.

    But they are making massive gains from this absolutely massive,might not show on the share price in the short term but the gains will eventually hit the share price when the initial furore of this blows over so people don't realise who is really making the most profit from this.
    This is genuinely the stupidest post in this thread.


  • #4243
    KaneToad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,661 ✭✭✭KaneToad


    sjb25 wrote: »
    Did you get the honeycomb we all need to know

    No. No I did not.
    /close thread


  • #4244
    sjb25
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,416 ✭✭✭sjb25


    purple hands wrote: »
    Does it boost the immune system or something?

    SHOULD WE ALL BUY HONEYCOMB?!

    I can’t handle all this uncertainty aggghh


  • #4245
    Bob24
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,905 ✭✭✭✭Bob24


    Ivo Cilesi, renown doctor in Italy who recently commented in Italian media that he wasn’t too worried about the coronavirus as it was only a “slightly more severe flue”, has died from the virus: https://www.lastampa.it/cronaca/2020/03/03/news/morto-di-coronavirus-ivo-cilesi-fra-massimi-esperti-di-alzheimer-1.38545327

    May he rest in peace, and hopefully this can get Italians and Europeans to take it more seriously.


  • #4246
    Assetbacked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,969 ✭✭✭Assetbacked


    jam_mac_jam wrote: »
    Everything is panic

    There will be no economic effects to this at all.

    All panic

    The drop in the stock market is knee jerk reactions to things that may not even come to fruition. This happens in a bubble scenario. Everyone has one eye on the exit and are contemplating leaving at the first sign that the game is up.


  • #4247
    PixelTrawler
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    Swiss numbers are rocketing, now 214 cases


  • #4248
    jam_mac_jam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,733 ✭✭✭jam_mac_jam


    KaneToad wrote: »
    No. No I did not.
    /close thread

    Is there some sort of shortage...


  • #4249
    cloudatlas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,711 ✭✭✭cloudatlas


    sjb25 wrote: »
    I can’t handle all this uncertainty aggghh

    Vitamin D and good sleep boost the immune system.


  • #4250
    Cupatae
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭Cupatae


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Very distrubing, you wouldn't want to see it. But a virgin like you?...here is a pic for you to whack off to

    07a624b7e5b76e6e83a76f32dc08db2e.jpg

    Enjoy :)

    it-was-the-spooky-ghost-spooktober-ectoplasm-64332003.png


  • #4251
    circadian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,430 ✭✭✭circadian


    Juwwi wrote: »
    In Dublin city centre at the moment just saw a group of about 15 Italians going into a hostel type accommodation off Talbot Street ..

    Absolutely madness letting them come over .

    The same feckers clogging up the path at the bus stop outside the Polish shop. People walking on the road to pass them, some things never change.


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  • #4252
    Dotsie~tmp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭Dotsie~tmp


    cameramonkey wrote: »
    Was in two Aldi's and two Lidl's this morning there was no shortage of any products that I could see except hand sanatisers and disinfectants.
    Plenty of toilet roll. I dont understand the toilet roll thing, its as if the worst thing that can happen to you in the outbreak is having a dirty hole. Surely we can find other ways of cleaning are arse?

    3rmgni.jpg


  • #4253
    cameramonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,220 ✭✭✭cameramonkey


    KaneToad wrote: »
    I'll better that. I was in 2 Lidls, 2 Aldis, a Dunnes and a Tesco. No apparent shortage of anything...although I didn't go looking for hand sanitizer.

    (Before you ask, I was looking for honeycomb!)


    Funny enough now that I remember there was a shortage of another product. Very few chocolate chip cookies, I was wondering about that.


  • #4254
    beggars_bush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,896 ✭✭✭beggars_bush


    Primary school in Galway told to keep 6th class at home today and for next 2 weeks due to contact with a confirmed case
    Other children in school recommended to be kept at home too


  • #4255
    KaneToad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,661 ✭✭✭KaneToad


    jam_mac_jam wrote: »
    Is there some sort of shortage...

    I did see Jacinta from Cabra wheeling out 2 trollies full of the stuff...


  • #4256
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,727 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'm still very relaxed about this, although I have a feeling our numbers may double or even more later tonight when they announce and there will be a lot of hysterical people this weekend.

    We've obviously failed to contain this. We actually didn't even really try did we? One rugby match cancelled. People told to self isolate only if they had symptoms.

    We also have basically no actions in place to slow this thing down.
    The reality is though, most of us will be fine. It will be fairly mild for probably 80 - 85% of people. Another 10% will be more serious. Maybe 5% or less will actually die.

    When all is said and done, our world leaders should really sit down together and review this. Put actions in place to stop it from happening again. Wishful thinking on my part!


  • #4257
    tobefrank321
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,527 ✭✭✭tobefrank321


    PixelTrawler wrote: »
    Swiss numbers are rocketing, now 214 cases

    I'd be fairly sure the source of most of these are directly or indirectly Italy.


  • #4258
    spookwoman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,057 ✭✭✭✭spookwoman


    Dont know if posted already went back an couldn't see it

    2 more confirmed in UHL making it 6

    https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/523140/update-six-cases-of-coronavirus-currently-in-isolation-university-hospital-limerick.html?fbclid=IwAR33N4FHQ6mNcxIdHi2k6PXK2KrVvdnS7jYJ-OynKUPFrfDcwbO-oOCpb_A


  • #4259
    McGiver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,492 ✭✭✭McGiver


    DrumSteve wrote: »
    I'd tend to agree; I think the real issue at the moment is the long recovery time (median recovery is 32 days; mild versions of the virus take up to 2 weeks) and also testing to make sure it's gone. So people can be ok; but it's hard to confirm it if all the energy is going into diagnostic of peopl with symptoms.

    Question is what is "mild"? The mantra of "80% is mild" in media/TV/radio makes me uneasy. It will likely generate complacency in the overall population here "ah sure it's grand it's just mild in 4/5 cases". I believe latest papers from Italy shown only 30% of mild symptoms.


  • #4260
    Bob24
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    Assetbacked wrote: »
    The drop in the stock market is knee jerk reactions to things that may not even come to fruition. This happens in a bubble scenario. Everyone has one eye on the exit and are contemplating leaving at the first sign that the game is up.

    It is a bit of both I’d say.

    Clearly there was a bubble largely creates by central banks (particularly in the US) and some investors were waiting to press the button and take profits.

    But it doesn’t mean economic consequences won’t be significant. For know we only have some figures on what the impact is for the Chinese side of the epidemics and it is already significant. And the rest of the world still is to take the hit.


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  • #4261
    Vudgie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 869 ✭✭✭Vudgie


    tobefrank321 wrote: »
    I'd be fairly sure the source of most of these are directly or indirectly Italy.

    There was a very interesting statistic in the previous thread whereby someone outlined the huge numbers Italians that cross the border into Switzerland for work every day.


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