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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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  • #4712
    fr336
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,179 ✭✭✭✭fr336


    Gintonious wrote: »
    This thread is like a comments section under a news article on Facebook.

    Oh we have a long way down to go before that.


  • #4713
    greencoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25 ✭greencoat


    portugal in may for the family,balance has to be payed next friday,makes me wonder??


  • #4714
    Pudsy33
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,867 ✭✭✭✭Pudsy33


    Significant numbers increase coming according to IT.


  • #4715
    jmayo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,224 ✭✭✭✭jmayo


    Major events should be cancelled at this stage.

    Yes of course some can argue more people will probably die form alcohol poisoning, car accidents, the flu this year, but it is very dangerous for elderly people and anyone with existing health complications and it is relatively easily transmitted.

    And the best way of avoiding transmission is to stop fooking putting loads of people together in close proximity.

    And our health care infrastructure is already inadequate.

    It is not rocket science, but fooking cop on.


    And also why are some people around here seeing it as somehow being a great achievement that our health service is better than some former third world shytehole that has been riddled by war for the last half century.

    Why not compare ourselves with the best and not be content with being better than the worst ?

    I am not allowed discuss …



  • #4716
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,365 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Larbre34 wrote: »
    I agree with the acting Taoiseach fully. Even the public health professionals on TV every night were saying setting off an economic bomb would hurt more people indirectly than the virus itself.

    When public health professionals start pronouncing on economic effects I doubt their advice on both fronts. Sure let's ask some economists about the health risks.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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  • #4717
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,107 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Pudsy33 wrote: »
    Significant numbers increase coming according to IT.

    Link?


  • #4718
    boege
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 469 ✭✭boege


    I spoke with people just off duty at HSE site.

    Expect significant jump in positives over next few days. Anyone who skied in Italy recently is now a probably positive, based on what I am hearing. Italy's own published data today is showing infection rates (on those tested) above 15%.

    University managers now asked to contingency plan for partial or full shutdown.

    Insurance is a key factor in delaying decision-making around event cancellation but I expect decisions will be made.


  • #4719
    Yurt2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,381 ✭✭✭Yurt2


    Strazdas wrote: »
    These organisers seems to be cancelling parades without even listening to Govt or medical advice (which seems a bizarre way of going about things).


    These people have their head screwed on. There is no public health downside that I can really think of to cancelling large gatherings at a time like this.


  • #4720
    frillyleaf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 801 ✭✭✭frillyleaf


    I haven’t heard of any new cases today so maybe what the government is recommending if actually working ?


  • #4721
    babybuilder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,111 ✭✭✭babybuilder


    Leo et al doubling down on their laissez-faire liberal agenda. Confirms my initial thoughts some weeks ago that they've decided, like their European counterparts, that it's more cost effective and efficient to let any epidemic run its course. I don't think they are too concerned about the most vulnerable and ill. They've demonstrated this re health long before this.


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  • #4722
    Unearthly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,092 ✭✭✭Unearthly


    Yeah count me in with saying what a stupid idea it will be to not cancel the parade.

    Leo Varadkar is a shambles


  • #4723
    lawrencesummers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,786 ✭✭✭lawrencesummers


    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    Ah, are they not cancelling elective procedures just to stop people coming into hospital where there can be crowds? I doubt it’s because they don’t have the capacity to treat them. Rather that it just makes sense to hold off for now on anything not urgent. People can be vulnerable to infection after any kind of procedure including electives.

    The decision to still have the paddy’s parade still going ahead rules out the possibility that decision is based on stopping people being in crowds.


  • #4724
    Pudsy33
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,867 ✭✭✭✭Pudsy33


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Link?

    Article hasn't updated yet, this was a notification. I'll get it up ASAP.


  • #4725
    Cuckoo7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 235 ✭✭Cuckoo7


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Link?

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/coronavirus-substantial-increase-in-irish-cases-expected-this-evening-1.4195050


  • #4726
    MD1990
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,740 ✭✭✭✭MD1990


    I know it is a serious issue.

    But some in here may want to take some time off searching new cases etc,

    We may under qurantine soon enough. Some people may need to get a new hobby.


  • #4727
    Talisman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,611 ✭✭✭Talisman


    Computer says NO!

    https://donottouchyourface.com


  • #4728
    Larbre34
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,429 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    When public health professionals start pronouncing on economic effects I doubt their advice on both fronts. Sure let's ask some economists about the health risks.

    Scientists in public health medicine do study economic and societal effects. This history of diseases informs as much of the study in the field as the pathology.

    They were making their expert opinions on the balance of risk. If that changes I'm sure they'll be out to talk about it.


  • #4729
    SleetAndSnow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,752 ✭✭✭SleetAndSnow


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Link?

    Not the OP but it’s here
    https://twitter.com/irishtimes/status/1235984477404479488?s=21

    Doesn’t actually say anything about a substantial increase in the article though :confused:


  • #4730
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,375 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    frillyleaf wrote: »
    I haven’t heard of any new cases today so maybe what the government is recommending if actually working ?

    Nah.

    What time will the news update be?


  • #4731
    Yurt2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,381 ✭✭✭Yurt2


    frillyleaf wrote: »
    I haven’t heard of any new cases today so maybe what the government is recommending if actually working ?


    The best they've come out with is wash your hands while singing happy birthday. Thanks a million lads.


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  • #4732
    Ninthlife
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,457 ✭✭✭Ninthlife


    Unearthly wrote: »
    Yeah count me in with saying what a stupid idea it will be to not cancel the parade.

    Leo Varadkar is a shambles

    If it goes ahead I hope he leads the thing and shakes every idiots hand that also attends as a show to the public 'look nothing to be worried about'


  • #4733
    lawrencesummers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,786 ✭✭✭lawrencesummers


    babybuilder wrote: »
    Leo et al doubling down on their laissez-faire liberal agenda. Confirms my initial thoughts some weeks ago that they've decided, like their European counterparts, that it's more cost effective and efficient to let any epidemic run its course. I don't think they are too concerned about the most vulnerable and ill. They've demonstrated this re health long before this.

    Are you suggesting they are operating along the lines of a cost benefit analysis of damaging the economy versus a cull of the infirm being of benefit to the ongoing costs of running the health service?


    Very cynical.


  • #4734
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,444 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    Pudsy33 wrote: »
    Significant numbers increase coming according to IT.

    Shocker


  • #4735
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,849 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Confirmed on BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51761294

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #4736
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,107 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Cuckoo7 wrote: »
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/coronavirus-substantial-increase-in-irish-cases-expected-this-evening-1.4195050

    Ok looks like possibly double figure tonight?

    Don't know.

    We'll see.


  • #4737
    bottlebrush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,215 ✭✭✭bottlebrush


    A lot could happen between now and paddy's day. The parade might go ahead but the crowd might stay away


  • #4738
    KWAG2019
    Closed Accounts Posts: 834 ✭✭✭KWAG2019


    Strazdas wrote: »
    These organisers seems to be cancelling parades without even listening to Govt or medical advice (which seems a bizarre way of going about things).

    Medical advice outside the national committee is divided. I heard medical advice on RTE radio 1 asked if he would cancel and the answer was instantly, yes. What you are seeing is a govt and a HSE that lost the people years ago over ongoing incompetence and disregard for people being ignored. People will make up their own minds and many will think of the elderly and vulnerable who can be the main demographics badly impacted by this virus.


  • #4739
    boege
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 469 ✭✭boege


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Ok looks like possibly double figure tonight?

    Don't know.

    We'll see.

    More


  • #4740
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,107 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    Confirmed on BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51761294

    That's yesterday


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  • #4741
    cnocbui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,993 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Strazdas wrote: »
    These organisers seems to be cancelling parades without even listening to Govt or medical advice (which seems a bizarre way of going about things).

    It's not bizarre at all, it's common sense, which the government is entirely bereft of.


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