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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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  • #5312
    Juwwi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,266 ✭✭✭Juwwi


    With regards to the masks advice , Dr Tony Holohan saying again tonight we aren't advising that people wear masks as they don't work .

    they only stop people passing the virus on but doesn't stop people getting it .

    Surely if everybody wore the masks it would stop those that don't know they have it passing it on .


  • #5313
    Professor Moriarty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,393 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    VinLieger wrote: »
    Hes a ****ing moron

    https://www.businessinsider.com/south-korea-coronavirus-testing-death-rate-2020-3

    Well, I wouldn't call him a moron TBF. He's a highly qualified epidemiologist. I posted a link earlier to a very good article that discusses South Korea low mortality rate. Here it is - worth a read.


  • #5314
    daheff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,025 ✭✭✭daheff


    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.

    Nothing stopping you from pulling your child out of the trip.


  • #5315
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,215 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Rob A. Bank wrote: »
    When all this is over, there will be some hard questions to be answered about why the HSE thought that temperature screening at the airports, of people coming from known hotspots, was not worthwhile!!

    If it only picked up one of those who were already at the stage of shedding virus, It would have saved our stretched public health services a contact tracing wild goose chase.

    Their excuse… it would not have picked all of the cases and something about taking paracetamol !

    I don’t know of any biological test which is 100% accurate !

    The Chinese check temperatures everywhere… and they have slowed the disease.


    A lot of Drs are being complacent they are thinking on the micro not the macro level. They are thinking of the majority of patients as individuals.

    The virus is for most going to be a really bad flu /pneumonia. Its not going to be that serious.

    But on a global scale its going to be devastating. They are not thinking of the herd.

    They think we are panicking. Humans as a species have to work together to slow and halt this for vulnerable populations and individuals.

    Drs aren't seeing the bigger picture. They are smart people but near sighted.


  • #5316
    autumnbelle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭autumnbelle


    There will be updates at the weekend


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  • #5317
    skimpydoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,074 ✭✭✭skimpydoo


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


  • #5318
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    You can’t catch coronavirus on a Saturday or Sunday. Pass it on.


  • #5319
    Sober Crappy Chemis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 461 ✭✭Sober Crappy Chemis


    retro:electro wrote: »
    No coronavirus on the weekends wahhey
    Even COVID needs to ‘Covid’ ...... knowwhatimean :cool:


  • #5320
    dmc17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,830 ✭✭✭dmc17


    Saying they will release updated numbers throughout the weekend. Just no live press conferences


  • #5321
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,440 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    skimpydoo wrote: »
    Are you surprised?

    There will be briefings over the weekend


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  • #5322
    tillyfilly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 567 ✭✭✭tillyfilly


    Monday morning HSE update -1000 cases of COVID 19 in Ireland while the executive were partying


  • #5323
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,105 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Tripping over his words there
    Reporter: So the group of 4 yesterday have infected another person in the west
    Dr: I didn't say that
    Reporter: But they contracted it in the west and there's only 4 people confirmed by you there
    Dr: I'm not saying they caught it there
    Reporter: :confused:


  • #5324
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    skimpydoo wrote: »
    Are you surprised?

    Not in the least. I’ve enough personal and professional experience with them to know this is exactly the way they would handle it. Inept to the core.


  • #5325
    bottlebrush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,215 ✭✭✭bottlebrush


    namloc1980 wrote: »
    In fairness the executive of the HSE going into a media blackout over the weekend in the middle of a developing public health issue is classic HSE, and another reason why public confidence in the HSE is rock bottom.

    Ah he could do with a break. Skiing maybe, I know a place where the slopes would be nice and quiet


  • #5326
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    retro:electro wrote: »
    No coronavirus on the weekends wahhey

    The hse arent going to fork out time and a half and double time to pay the virus.


  • #5327
    no.8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 810 ✭✭✭no.8


    namloc1980 wrote:
    In fairness the executive of the HSE going into a media blackout over the weekend in the middle of a developing public health issue is classic HSE, and another reason why public confidence in the HSE is rock bottom.


    You're f**kin joining me. I can't believe that. So long as they are well and fit they should be in battle mode. Not taking the weekend off to catch the rugby


  • #5328
    Call Me Jimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    Juwwi wrote: »
    With regards to the masks advice , Dr Tony Holohan saying again tonight we aren't advising that people wear masks as they don't work .

    they only stop people passing the virus on but doesn't stop people getting it .

    Surely if everybody wore the masks it would stop those that don't know they have it passing it on .

    Careful now.

    Anyway all they have to say is that it's for everyone's benefit that medical professionals get first dibs. Grand.


  • #5329
    piplip87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,213 ✭✭✭piplip87


    fritzelly wrote: »
    Tripping over his words there
    Reporter: So the group of 4 yesterday have infected another person in the west
    Dr: I didn't say that
    Reporter: But they contracted it in the west and there's only 4 people confirmed by you there
    Dr: I'm not saying they caught it there
    Reporter: :confused:


    Covering their own arses there. Sure didn't they tell the doctor he was grand to work


  • #5330
    cloudatlas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,711 ✭✭✭cloudatlas


    khalessi wrote: »
    Thank for allowing me use it. I didnt say he was better or worse then who scientist. But he is not just an a&e nurse as you so patronisingly put it. He has a doctorate/PhD and is learned in his area and if you understood anything you would know how much work goes into obtaining a PhD. I just find your attitude to academic study ignorant and dismissive. Use him dont use him but there was no need to be so rude about his qualifications, he is a university lecturer

    People have assumed that he is a medical doctor. His phd is in nurse training and education and good for him but he isn’t a doctor or a scientist. Nothing wrong what I said, no call for you to insult me.


  • #5331
    Happy4all
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,089 ✭✭✭Happy4all


    BLIZZARD7 wrote: »
    France @ 653
    +230 today


    Germany @ 670
    +125 today

    Spain @ 400
    +118

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

    Would be interesting to know how many each country tested


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  • #5332
    skepticalme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 229 ✭✭skepticalme


    daheff wrote: »
    Nothing stopping you from pulling your child out of the trip.


    He's not going. Parents are losing all the money for these trips though because the flights are still going.


  • #5333
    fits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,042 ✭✭✭✭fits


    woohoo!!! wrote: »
    Source for Wexford?

    I can confirm that. It’s a confirmed case of a family member of a student in Wexford campus


  • #5334
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    Can I play the piano anymore?


  • #5335
    05eaftqbrs9jlh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭05eaftqbrs9jlh


    At the end of that briefing
    "End days"
    "I know!"


  • #5336
    Cuckoo7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 235 ✭✭Cuckoo7


    skepticalme wrote: »
    They're going to Venice. Dept of foreign affairs said flights still going to Venice so it's up to the school.
    If they are flying mid April there’s time still for that to change.
    Who knows, by them it may be us having more cases than them.


  • #5337
    Gods Gift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,713 ✭✭✭Gods Gift


    It’s a 9 to 5 virus.
    Gone back to Italy for the weekend.
    On the piste.


  • #5338
    deise08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,330 ✭✭✭deise08


    hawkelady wrote: »
    So you agree that it appropriate for no more updates until Monday from our health dept. Does the virus only spread Monday -Friday.

    Kinda like heart attacks in the South East so.

    It's shocking alright. You wouldn't get it anywhere else,
    But maybe a break from the info will be good for some people's minds.

    Not that there is a lot of info coming from our side, but in general.


  • #5339
    TheMilkyPirate
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,108 ✭✭✭TheMilkyPirate


    First case in Ibiza now for **** sake that's what I was dreading. Chances of getting over this year are getting smaller and smaller


  • #5340
    Totally Tropical
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 408 ✭✭Totally Tropical


    Sober Crappy Chemis wrote: »
    I think the virus only exists on this thread.

    I’ve been in the real world since 7 this morning and nobody is bothered.

    You might change your tune and lose the flippant nonchalant attitude, if yourself or an elderly relative get infected with it.:) ;)


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  • #5341
    Mr.Crinklewood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,700 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Crinklewood


    Funsterdelux wrote: »
    Can I play the piano?

    Not the one in Connolly Station!!

    Imagine the germs...


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