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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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  • #5252
    Scrabbles38
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29 ✭Scrabbles38


    pjohnson wrote: »
    That doctor is responsible for a lot of this spread. Surely he'll be struck off or will HSE just tighten up more to protect their own?

    Why? When he got back he spoke to his bosses about what to do even though he did not return from an area that was black listed... got tested was negative and cleared for work.....


  • #5253
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Re Todays increase in diagnosed cases
    DrumSteve wrote: »
    5?

    Hmmm not bad.

    True. Good news

    however ...

    According to newspaper reports - testing of suspect cases is now taking more than 48 hours as opposed to the original 12 hours turnaround

    That's one way of slowing the curve ....


  • #5254
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,727 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Have to say it does seem like people are disappointed, just the overall tone over the last few pages.

    You’d be hysterical if the number was high. And also hysterical about why the number is so low.


  • #5255
    banie01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,805 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    DrumSteve wrote: »
    They can't win can they.

    Big numbers, they are doing ****e.

    Low numbers, they are lying.

    Well it flies in the face of what the Irish Times were alluding to numbers wise in their earlier headline.

    The whole numbers being released by HSE while not lagging, does seem to very much predicated on confirmed test result rather than the "presumptive" results that NHS share.

    I have had a number of contacts whom I'd trust confirm cases known to them and their tally and that announced are at a wild variance.

    That said, I'm not a medic nor have I had any contact with a confirmed case.
    Colleagues in academic circles however are telling me the current public number is as reliable as a 70's Fiat.


  • #5256
    tillyfilly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 567 ✭✭✭tillyfilly


    Considering its the weekend be safe out there folks, use protection


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  • #5257
    Professor Moriarty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,393 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    retro:electro wrote: »
    No more updates until Monday. HSE are an absolute embarrassment.

    Is that true? Madness.


  • #5258
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    SteelyDanJalapeno wrote: »
    This thread is ridiculous! How do people have so much free time

    The longer you spend here, the less likely you are to catch the virus


  • #5259
    thecretinhop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,699 ✭✭✭thecretinhop


    i don't trust hse as far as i could throw them
    dad in 2012 was in icu in bad way. got through it, then 2 days later in ward our travelling salesman ethnic group started fighting, i went down to admin, noone there.... 2pm on a friday. i have many stories.
    i used work in pr marketing, the plan is to not lie but massage or ahem manage the figures.
    next week it will rise rise exponentially like rest of EU.
    the cases have a lag, but then explosive growth.
    tbh i prefer every bit of data i can use to protect me and my wife and little baby, rather than powers that be no better..


  • #5260
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    gozunda wrote: »
    Dr Colin Henry, HSE clinical officer on the RTE News - advises people to move 2 metres away if another person sneezes or coughs when beside them

    So the question is - how fast would you need to move to get 2 metres away before you are plastered with snot or phlegm? - given the spread of sneezing is estimated at about 150 kilometers per hour or more -

    Answers on a postcard please - addressed to Dr Colin Henry, HSE Head Office

    We should all just presume everybody is infected and look after ourselves.

    If somebody sneezes or coughs on you, are we allowed to be rude with these people and tell them off?


  • #5261
    Cuckoo7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 235 ✭✭Cuckoo7


    skepticalme wrote: »
    It is infuriating that our government won't do this. My son's school is booked for Italy in mid April. The school checked with HSE and no advice to cancel it. All the money will be lost in any case as flights are still going to Italy. I'm assuming they won't go but no confirmation that it's cancelled.

    I thought aerlingus had cancelled flights to hotspot in Italy?


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  • #5262
    lawred2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,741 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    skepticalme wrote: »
    It is infuriating that our government won't do this. My son's school is booked for Italy in mid April. The school checked with HSE and no advice to cancel it. All the money will be lost in any case as flights are still going to Italy. I'm assuming they won't go but no confirmation that it's cancelled.

    Serious epidemic of kids going on ski trips alright.


  • #5263
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,022 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    tillyfilly wrote: »
    Considering its the weekend be safe out there folks, use protection

    Don't bother go bareback were all doomed anyway..


  • #5264
    babybuilder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,111 ✭✭✭babybuilder


    Professor Moriarty wrote: »
    There was an epidemiologist on Channel 4 just now. He said this will probably become endemic worldwide which means it will be perpetual like the flu. He also said that, because of its lethality and its high transmission rate, this is the worst virus since the Spanish Flu. He also said that a vaccine won't be available anytime this year. Worth listening to the interview but pessimistic stuff.
    Hard to convince some lesser qualified around here.


  • #5265
    VinLieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,933 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Have to say it does seem like people are disappointed, just the overall tone over the last few pages.

    You’d be hysterical if the number was high. And also hysterical about why the number is so low.

    With them taking the weekend off to play golf Mondays numbers will sky rocket.


  • #5266
    Naggdefy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,981 ✭✭✭Naggdefy


    Professor Moriarty wrote: »
    101 mph. Sneeze droplets travel at 100 mph.

    Usain Bolt wouldn't get out of the way in time.


  • #5267
    tillyfilly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 567 ✭✭✭tillyfilly


    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    Don't bother go bareback were all doomed anyway..

    with a name like that I think you throw caution to the wind, at least use hand sanitizer


  • #5268
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Much lower new cases than I would have thought.

    Just the 5.

    Good news for once :)

    "flatten the curve"


  • #5269
    twirlagig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,374 ✭✭✭twirlagig


    Can’t believe there’ll be no further updates until Monday evening.... fcukin joke!
    If there was an election or some sh1te going on, there be updates every few minutes :(


  • #5270
    lawrencesummers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,786 ✭✭✭lawrencesummers


    SteelyDanJalapeno wrote: »
    This thread is ridiculous! How do people have so much free time

    We all work for the HSE.


  • #5271
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Have to say it does seem like people are disappointed, just the overall tone over the last few pages.

    You’d be hysterical if the number was high. And also hysterical about why the number is so low.

    Or maybe,just maybe you are making it all up in your little head/


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  • #5272
    BLIZZARD7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,002 ✭✭✭BLIZZARD7


    France @ 653
    +230 today


    Germany @ 670
    +125 today

    Spain @ 400
    +118

    Ireland @ 18
    +5 new cases is good news, expected it to be worse.


  • #5273
    juno10353
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 629 ✭✭✭juno10353


    pjohnson wrote: »
    That doctor is responsible for a lot of this spread. Surely he'll be struck off or will HSE just tighten up more to protect their

    He was skiing in a part of Italy which was not listed as at risk when he returned and this meant he was not obliged to isolate himself for 14 days unless he had symptoms.

    The parents, their daughter and son are being treated in a hospital in the west of Ireland.

    It is understood that while all are positive it is just the one of the children who has symptoms

    This doctor did nothing wrong. .


  • #5274
    kathryn1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28 ✭kathryn1985


    I know this is a fast moving tread but posts are being removed as quick as I am reading them- hse letter on Galway school and 6 th years (google- widely reported elsewhere) and now that place in Wexford currently being deep cleaned.


  • #5275
    RugbyLad11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 547 ✭✭✭RugbyLad11


    We are in the middle of a virus crisis and the HSE decide to take the weekend off??

    wtf no other country is doing this


  • #5276
    Professor Moriarty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,393 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    babybuilder wrote: »
    Hard to convince some lesser qualified around here.

    He also said that contact tracing is the best defence until a vaccine is developed.


  • #5277
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    https://www.novinky.cz/domaci/clanek/ministerstvo-potvrdilo-dalsi-pripad-koronaviru-mezi-nakazenymi-je-i-kojenec-40315860
    17 of 19 of the cases in Czech Rep related to travel to Northern Italy


  • #5278
    BarryD2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,732 ✭✭✭BarryD2


    gozunda wrote: »
    Dr Colin Henry, HSE clinical officer on the RTE News - advises people to move 2 metres away if another person sneezes or coughs when beside them

    So the question is - how fast would you need to move to get 2 metres away before you are plastered with snot or phlegm?

    I suppose you could do an empirical test by lining up the HSE top brass along and Leo and his war committee. Then get an infected patient to cough or sneeze in front of them. Be interesting to see how speedily they would react and could anyone hold out for 14.5 minutes?


  • #5279
    woohoo!!!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 803 ✭✭✭woohoo!!!


    kathryn1985 wrote: »
    I know this is a fast moving tread but posts are being removed as quick as I am reading them- hse letter on Galway school and 6 th years (google- widely reported elsewhere) and now that place in Wexford currently being deep cleaned.
    Source for Wexford?


  • #5280
    babybuilder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,111 ✭✭✭babybuilder


    juno10353 wrote: »
    pjohnson wrote: »
    That doctor is responsible for a lot of this spread. Surely he'll be struck off or will HSE just tighten up more to protect their

    He was skiing in a part of Italy which was not listed as at risk when he returned and this meant he was not obliged to isolate himself for 14 days unless he had symptoms.

    The parents, their daughter and son are being treated in a hospital in the west of Ireland.

    It is understood that while all are positive it is just the one of the children who has symptoms

    This doctor did nothing wrong. .

    Salient point here is the area not at risk. Hundreds of Irish skiers were in so called areas of no risk. Unbelievable stupidity


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  • #5281
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    48 more cases in the UK
    https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-47-new-cases-confirmed-taking-uk-total-to-163-11950718


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