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

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  • #2912
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    is_that_so wrote: »
    Just being in contact does not mean people will contract the virus, many do not.

    On the other hand many do get it. Specifically for every 1 they on average rough estimate they infect 2. (repo number of 2) This an average. could be composed of the following numbers, say 6 people have it and pass on in the following way. [2,3,1,0,0,6]. average = 2

    I'd hazard a guess that kids being kids this is going to be on the high side. :mad:

    Hence need for infection control. Nursing homes and hospitals understand this. You do not it seems.


  • #2913
    cloudatlas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,711 ✭✭✭cloudatlas


    Will petrol supplies run low?


  • #2914
    HalloweenJack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,406 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    A few mad stories that stood out from the BBC feed this morning:

    - Foreigners from infected countries that were going to attend a conference in Uganda refused to be quarantined on arrival and were sent home. Two things to take from that: 1, Uganda should have informed them of the quarantine before the visit as apparently they were only informed once they got there. 2, people need to cop on to the impact this will have on their daily activities and accept it. There seems to be staggering levels of arrogance out there.

    - An Indian patient with suspected cornoavrus escaped from hospital.

    - Six people died in a prison riot in northern Italy because they had their visits cancelled.


  • #2915
    Hector Savage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    +237 new cases in Spain, and it's only 11.50 in the AM ....

    :(


  • #2916
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Lord TSC wrote: »
    Oh, it's going to be fun seeing how Ireland gets on if the pubs have to close for a few weeks. :pac:

    People will start to panic buy booze now!


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  • #2917
    Rob A. Bank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭Rob A. Bank


    To quote the surgeon dealing with terrible conditions in a northern Italy's hospital, referring to people who still insist on gathering in large crowds (Paddy's Day ?) and ignoring advice about limiting spread of this virus.

    " Try to have mercy on that myriad of older people you could exterminate."


  • #2918
    Boggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,419 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    cloudatlas wrote: »
    Will petrol supplies run low?

    Not at the moment, Saudi are flooding the market. Demand is well down.


  • #2919
    RandomName2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭RandomName2


    HalloweenJack wrote: »
    Six people died in a prison riot in northern Italy because they had their visits cancelled.

    Remember when covid-19 had only killed 6 people in total, globally?

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=112321359&postcount=24

    Those were the days


  • #2920
    Volthar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭Volthar


    Eliana Uptight Caterpillar wrote: »
    Hello, a friend is looking for some advice.

    Tell him Volthar says he is a greedy and selfish kunt.


  • #2921
    Boggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,419 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    People will start to panic buy booze now!

    Will be absolutely no different to the run up of any other Patricks Day.


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  • #2922
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Hector Savage wrote: »
    +237 new cases in Spain, and it's only 11.50 in the AM ....

    :(

    Oh dear


  • #2923
    wadacrack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,172 ✭✭✭wadacrack


    Netherlands could have a very serious outbreak

    https://twitter.com/NaomiOhReally/status/1236738156667559946


  • #2924
    cloudatlas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,711 ✭✭✭cloudatlas


    Boggles wrote: »
    Not at the moment, Saudi are flooding the market. Demand is well down.

    Yes but will supplies continue to get through.


  • #2925
    errlloyd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,633 ✭✭✭✭errlloyd


    Can someone do a sentiment analysis graph on the last 43 thousand posts in these threads to show the mood changing over time? I think it'd be class.


  • #2926
    tobefrank321
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,527 ✭✭✭tobefrank321


    Interesting to see those who said this was just a mild flu, nothing to worry about and it would easily be contained no longer post on here, or post less and less. Some of them were probably government ministers!


  • #2927
    Snow Garden
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Snow Garden


    Eliana Uptight Caterpillar wrote: »
    Hello, a friend is looking for some advice.

    This may be an option....



  • #2928
    Drumpot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭Drumpot


    Rob A. Bank wrote: »
    To quote the surgeon dealing with terrible conditions in a northern Italy's hospital, referring to people who still insist on gathering in large crowds (Paddy's Day ?) and ignoring advice about limiting spread of this virus.

    " Try to have mercy on that myriad of older people you could exterminate."

    This is a real problem. If this was reversed and it was effecting kids, then teens, then mid 20s etc proportionately more then older people the world wouid Of prob already ground to a halt.

    It’s sad that most people can’t see how our tiered response (well they aren’t that important so let’s not be too hasty) is putting old , vulnerable and healthcare staff at the bottom of our priority’s. Don’t care if this sounds dramatic, it’s 100% true, it’s just the vast majority of people don’t like the truth when it’s dirty but if we are going to sacrifice so many for “the greater good” of our economy, the least people can do is own it.


  • #2929
    Tacitus Kilgore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,128 ✭✭✭Tacitus Kilgore


    tobefrank321 wrote: »
    Interesting to see those who said this was just a mild flu, nothing to worry about and it would easily be contained no longer post on here, or post less and less. Some of them were probably government ministers!

    Feck masks & bog roll, there'll be a run on tinfoil yet


  • #2930
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Hector Savage wrote: »
    +237 new cases in Spain, and it's only 11.50 in the AM ....

    :(

    Also 9 new deaths in Spain
    https://elpais.com/sociedad/2020-03-09/ultimas-noticias-del-coronavirus-en-directo.html


  • #2931
    Dave0301
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,718 ✭✭✭Dave0301


    China has an area of 9.6 million square kilometers, compared to Europe's 10.2.

    When you think about how much more spread out Europe's cases of COVID-19 are, and how only Italy are starting to put in proper restrictions it could get a lot worse in Europe before it gets better.

    There needs to be an agreed Europe wide plan to address the spread if they are to slow it down like China did.


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  • #2932
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,397 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Minister for Health Simon Harris has said there is a moderate-to-high risk that Ireland will follow a pattern seen in other EU countries in regard to the Covid-19 outbreak such as Italy, France and Germany.
    https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/0309/1121035-cabinet-virus-committee/

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



  • #2933
    Mellor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,377 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    JDD wrote: »
    Am I right in saying that flu bugs reduce in the summer because people are more likely to be outside and therefore not stuck in some damp bus or tram or pub? And that people's immune systems are generally a bit healthier and stronger because we eat better, fresher, food and are not getting regularly soaked/frozen to the bone?
    No that's not correct. You don't "catch a cold" from being out in the cold or rain. That's just something your granny says with no basis in reality.
    The flu and cold virus is more stable low humidity of winter. Australia has a flu season, even though Australian winter is nothing like irish winter temps.

    If that's the case, I can't really see how numbers won't naturally reduce over the summer. I know Australia is the anomaly here, but they have 75 cases in a population of 25 million - or, for ease of comparison, if they had a 5 million population like us, that's 15 infected persons, less than what we have.
    Ireland has 21 cases. Or about 4 cases per million people.
    Australia has 100 cases. Which is also 4 cases per million people.

    The climate of Wuhan, Iran, Italy and Korea are all I warmer than Ireland. I wouldn't be holding out for the Irish summer to defeat the virus.


  • #2934
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    New Home wrote: »
    With that username? Good idea! :D

    Nobody turns my witty remarks against me. :p

    You're on the list 'New Home'.

    Revenge shall be in a forum, thread and at a time of my choosing.


  • #2935
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Madrid has one of the highest concentration of cases of any city in the world with almost 500 cases there


  • #2936
    05eaftqbrs9jlh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭05eaftqbrs9jlh


    From a friend :

    My boss is back from a weekend in France. He won't self-isolate, there are many people I interact with who who are immunocompromised (wife, mother, father, brother in law, grandfather). When I asked him if he might wait a few days to see if any symptoms crop up, he said I'm being hysterical and to take two weeks holidays myself if it's that big of a deal. What do you think I should do?
    Volthar wrote: »
    Tell him Volthar says he is a greedy and selfish kunt.

    He is, or his boss? He's wondering if he should take a holiday from work because his boss won't self-isolate.


  • #2937
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,817 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Boggles wrote: »
    Not at the moment, Saudi are flooding the market. Demand is well down.

    But don’t worry, the price at the “pump” won’t be effected.

    Pat Kenny had a lad on from some petroleum “group” and it turns out the pricing is in an incredibly complicated.

    Even though the price per “barrel” is dropping dramatically it won’t change the price at the garage. No one is “gouging”, nothing to see here.

    EmmetSpiceland: Oft imitated but never bettered.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #2938
    RandomName2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭RandomName2


    Incidentally if, as a species, we couldn't do something simple like shutting down air travel to china for a couple of weeks because of the effect on the world economy, what hope do we have to tackle even larger issues like climate change? The response the these collective issues requires a collective response.


  • #2939
    Cilldara_2000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,189 ✭✭✭Cilldara_2000


    HalloweenJack wrote: »
    A few mad stories that stood out from the BBC feed this morning:

    ...
    - An Indian patient with suspected cornoavrus escaped from hospital.

    ...

    That was Paddy: https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/irishman-suspected-coronavirus-escapes-isolation-21644227


  • #2940
    otnomart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭otnomart


    France and Germany with 1000 cases each have not taken any significant measures
    France is publishing the number of tests but I can not find Germany's number anywhere.
    75% of French people surveyed are still shaking hands
    https://rmc.bfmtv.com/emission/il-ne-faut-pas-devenir-fou-et-arreter-sa-vie-face-au-coronavirus-les-francais-ont-peu-change-leurs-habitudes-d-hygiene-1871663.html
    One employee of Disneyland Paris has tested positive
    https://www.bfmtv.com/sante/coronavirus-france-cas-carte-symptome-mort-bilan-paris-oise-mulhouse-morbihan-corse-ajaccio-stade-3-ecoles/


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  • #2941
    dan786
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,341 ✭✭✭dan786


    Iran has reported 43 new deaths from the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, bringing the overall toll to 237 dead.

    "In the past 24 hours, 595 new cases infected with coronavirus were identified in the country and the overall number of those infected rose to 7,167," an adviser to the health minister said in a tweet.

    "So far, 2,394 of the confirmed cases have recovered," he added.


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