Coronavirus Part V - 34 cases in ROI, 16 in NI (as of 10 March) Read warnings in OP

blanch152 · 08-03-2020 07:34PM

owlbethere wrote: »

Facebook. Writing and sending a letter will be too slow

Better still, tag the Taoiseach in your Instagram photos of people dying in the streets.

2ygb4cmqetsjhx · 08-03-2020 07:34PM

Italy with +1492 new infections today. Think its's fair to Germany France and Germany will explode next.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

CIARAN_BOYLE · 08-03-2020 07:35PM

little bess wrote: »

Is the Hse update the only one for today, or will there a further one later on? I thought it was later in the evening.

Yesterday there was just the one earlier on. I'm guessing the weekends ones are earlier.

RandomName2 · 08-03-2020 07:35PM

tillyfilly wrote: »

the test is not very effective as the person being tested may not be showing symptoms

First off. What.

Second, are you saying that not testing is more effective than testing?

givyjoe · 08-03-2020 07:36PM

Jim_Hodge wrote: »

More misinformation. Two weeks ago Italy had 137 cases and 3 deaths,

Source? If I'm wrong, I'll be out by what, one week? Much better...

saabsaab · 08-03-2020 07:36PM

blanch152 wrote: »

I was asked in an interview once what was the hardest decision I ever took. My answer was that the hardest decision was to do nothing while all around me people were panicking and calling for contradictory and counter-productive actions.

I got the job.

HSE DoH, by any chance?

noodler · 08-03-2020 07:36PM

Mrcaramelchoc wrote: »

I think whoever released or allowed that figure of 1.9 million to be released is a scaremongering MotherFr AND should be jailed.they are projections and Are without merit and cannot at this time be proved.
Shame on you whoever you are.

They are the HSE's.

Can't please everyone here tbh.

Some want more info, some want less.

08-03-2020 07:37PM

givyjoe wrote: »

Why would you need to trust me? Yet another pathetic personal attack.

It's not really a personal attack. I just feel you are been emotive rather than rational. Look, I'm not saying you don't believe in what you are saying. I just believe what you are saying is wrong.

cnocbui · 08-03-2020 07:37PM

Snow Garden wrote:

Objective reasoning? You are comparing having a fire extinguisher in your house to being adequately prepared for the corona virus to somehow validate that it's perfectly reasonable for Irish people to stockpile food and medical supplies when there is a negligible chance of it ever becoming a major issue here. It's loose lips like this thread that causes a panic and a run on the shops for no reason.

Snow Garden wrote: »

Not this again.

NOBODY HAS SAID IT'S ONLY THE FLU.

Only idiots and panic merchants who have a very short attention span were interpretting any reference to the flu as 'It's only the flu'. You deserve to be insulted because you are not making any sense.

People were using historic flu number as a gauge. Simple as that. A virus comparison if you will. And it still remains to be seen if Covid19 will be a deadly as the seasonal flu in actual numbers.

People used other non-virus gauges too (e.g. road deaths) and there was outrage.

Read the posts before you interpret them. Fcuking hell, the modern world has made people awful thick.

The rest of you anxiety aunties need to calm down too.

Such a firm grasp of the situation and uncanny powers of prediction. :rolleyes:

regedit · 08-03-2020 07:37PM

Italy has 366 confirmed deaths due to COVID-19 an of those, 133 were recorded today. They must be peaking. Numbers in China dropping to levels similar to many European countries.
I wonder if the flights out of Milan are to only repatriate Irish citizens or is the airport acting as a hub to allow other tourists to enter the State?

the butcher · 08-03-2020 07:37PM

khalessi wrote: »

Apparently it takes being in the company of someone with covid19 for 15 minutes to catch the virus.

Ah now, you don't believe that really? So 14 minutes 59 seconds is ok? If a person sneezes on your face in the first minute you are at the mercy of the infection!! The 15 minute nonsense has been squashed.

JJJackal wrote: »

Slowing spread would be useful. Allows more time to prepare etc

Yes, we need all the extra days we can get to slow the spread and not overwhelm our health system, it's so important.

Strazdas · 08-03-2020 07:37PM

Coen Delightful Thumbscrew wrote: »

Italy with +1492 new infections today. Think its's fair to Germany France and Germany will explode next.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

No two countries are alike : lots of different variables at play

twirlagig · 08-03-2020 07:38PM

little bess wrote: »

Is the Hse update the only one for today, or will there a further one later on? I thought it was later in the evening.

I was just going to ask the same

RandomName2 · 08-03-2020 07:38PM

twirlagig wrote: »

I was just going to ask the same

We need an update to know if there will be an update.

SlowBlowin · 08-03-2020 07:39PM

Sierra Oscar wrote: »

The figures are based on what the HSE is expected to confirm later this week.

They will have three scenarios, one of them being 40% population infection rate as quoted by the SBP. The HSE are expected to predict that this is the most likely outcome and what they are preparing for.

Just listen back to the This Week interview today on Radio 1.

As you are interested in the figures look at the link I posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kas0tIxDvrg

2ygb4cmqetsjhx · 08-03-2020 07:39PM

Strazdas wrote: »

No two countries are alike : lots of different variables at play

Yes. I am in Germany. Trust me. Nobody is taking this seriously. Was out last night. Place was hopping as usual. It'll be everywhere next week.

Tordelback · 08-03-2020 07:39PM

regedit wrote: »

Italy has 366 confirmed deaths due to COVID-19 an of those, 133 were recorded today. They must be peaking. Numbers in China dropping to levels similar to many European countries.

No European country has acted remotely like China. We're not in the foothills of mortality yet, the peak still hidden from view.

US2 · 08-03-2020 07:40PM

So it seems Ireland is the only country in the whole world with less cases each day after 1 week of first confirmed case hahahahahaha

TimeToShine · 08-03-2020 07:40PM

regedit wrote: »

Italy has 366 confirmed deaths due to COVID-19 an of those, 133 were recorded today. They must be peaking. Numbers in China dropping to levels similar to many European countries.
I wonder if the flights out of Milan are to only repatriate Irish citizens or is the airport acting as a hub to allow other tourists to enter the State?

The measures China imposed were only possible in an centralised autocracy and would be virtually impossible to replicate in Europe. Unless Italy suddenly lock everyone into their homes and apartments for two weeks we can't say that their numbers are peaking.

spookwoman · 08-03-2020 07:40PM

29th Feb we got our first confirmed case and its not listed on the Notifiable Diseases report done on the 4 march from the HSPC https://www.hpsc.ie/notifiablediseases/weeklyidreports/ID%20Week%209.pdf

Technocentral · 08-03-2020 07:40PM

amadangomor wrote: »

You sound like you are really living life there, wow beer and TV :P

I also said live life which covers everything else, just saying online obsessions like these are bad for your mental health.

08-03-2020 07:41PM

twirlagig wrote: »

I was just going to ask the same

I always thought it was around 8/9. But I wasn't paying particularly close attention.

dxhound2005 · 08-03-2020 07:41PM

If 20% of Chinese get infected, and 2% of that number die, that will be 277 million and 5.5 million. The number of new deaths today, would make that unlikely.

whisky_galore · 08-03-2020 07:42PM

US2 wrote: »

So it seems Ireland is the only country in the whole world with less cases each day after 1 week of first confirmed case hahahahahaha

Sheer jammy luck...so far.

DrumSteve · 08-03-2020 07:42PM

regedit wrote: »

Italy has 366 confirmed deaths due to COVID-19 an of those, 133 were recorded today. They must be peaking. Numbers in China dropping to levels similar to many European countries.
I wonder if the flights out of Milan are to only repatriate Irish citizens or is the airport acting as a hub to allow other tourists to enter the State?

Peaking? Wasn't that in China?

US2 · 08-03-2020 07:42PM

whisky_galore wrote: »

Sheer jammy luck...so far.

Ah stop

Wibbs · 08-03-2020 07:43PM

Deleted User wrote: »

This is correct.

Well it is and it isn't. The body excretes pretty much everything once it goes above a certain level. It doesn't mean the body doesn't need it on the way through. Take water. You've had tea/coffee/other liquids today and then you went to the loo and excreted mostly water. It doesn't mean water is kinda pointless. Now if you were dropped in a desert your body would slow excretion of water right down, because it needs it much more. Given it's been shown infections deplete vitamin C, one could argue that your body requires more than it usually does to help fight same. Plus more than one study(like I linked earlier) has shown a positive effect with vitamin C in cases of pneumonia and other respiratory illness and many studies have shown it reduces both the duration and severity of the common cold(s). It can't hurt anyway.

The main issue being most vitamin C supplements are chock full of other crap like sweeteners, colourings and flavourings. Best bet is to source the stuff in pharmaceutical grade powder form. TBH I only have some knowledge of this because of reading some studies when the swine flu was about. Which I caught and thought feck it and added the C into the mix.

givyjoe · 08-03-2020 07:43PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

It's not really a personal attack. I just feel you are been emotive rather than rational. Look, I'm not saying you don't believe in what you are saying. I just believe what you are saying is wrong.

I didn't say it FFS! I'm asking what someone who dismissed the stats, was basing their statement on. Nothing to do with emotion. So you've either mistaken my post for someone else, or you're deliberately on the wind up. I didn't come up with the model that was put that to the HSE Today.

dxhound2005 · 08-03-2020 07:43PM

US2 wrote: »

So it seems Ireland is the only country in the whole world with less cases each day after 1 week of first confirmed case hahahahahaha

I see some countries with no cases, and some with one case.

RandomName2 · 08-03-2020 07:43PM

Coen Delightful Thumbscrew wrote: »

Yes. I am in Germany. Trust me. Nobody is taking this seriously. Was out last night. Place was hopping as usual. It'll be everywhere next week.

If what some of the posters here say is correct: if Germany had taken it more seriously to begin with, Italy wouldn't have got the outbreak which has currently claimed 366 lives.

Germany basically dictates EU policy. With the EU not taking this seriously all Irish efforts are probably eventually doomed.

Coronavirus Part V - 34 cases in ROI, 16 in NI (as of 10 March) *Read warnings in OP*

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Coronavirus Part V - 34 cases in ROI, 16 in NI (as of 10 March) Read warnings in OP