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

Scotty # · 09-03-2020 02:41PM

Boggles wrote: »

100% schools will close.

The country will enter into phase 2 shortly.

Many schools are taking Monday and Tuesday off next week.

They could pull the trigger then, shut it down for a month a couple of weeks of that all ready being Easter.

If you read between the lines of no real information, it's all being setup for a shutdown.

And what happens after a month? Another month? then another? People have to get on with their lives, virus or no virus. Goods, food, etc still need to be produced. Shutting down the country will achieve nothing.

Cilldara_2000 · 09-03-2020 02:42PM

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

I’m a racing fan and I agree fully it should have been cancelled.80000 average attendance per day expected.huge amount of cash handled.
The staff in our local shop are wearing gloves at the tills the last few days.

I usually love Cheltenham week, take half days off work each day, and get all hyped up. I'm just not feeling it this week.

Hector Savage · 09-03-2020 02:42PM

What are the chances of the Tokyo Olympics going ahead ?

branie2 · 09-03-2020 02:42PM

Hopefully they will

caveat emptor · 09-03-2020 02:43PM

Snow Garden wrote: »

There are no problems with food supply in the shops and wholesalers. The panic stockpiling predicted here 2 weeks ago did not happen. The odd looper perhaps.

Who are you calling a looper? Mods please attack the post not the poster. I won't respond as I'm above that. haha sorry read this wrong

My bad.

Stockpiling has only occurred in countries who reported their actual case figures.
Wait for the quarantine then try do your shopping. Solid plan.

is_that_so · 09-03-2020 02:43PM

odyssey06 wrote: »

Nobody knows what will happen. It was described as a prediction based on modelling.

Irish health authorities predict 1.9m people will fall ill with coronavirus
Up to 50 per cent of cases projected in a three-week period,

https://www.businesspost.ie/health/irish-health-authorities-predict-19m-people-will-fall-ill-with-coronavirus-701e4838

So from 21 to 1.9m in 3 weeks?! Sigh, that is 50% of the expected cases, not 50% of the population! The model is incomplete as the HSE have pointed out.

Boggles · 09-03-2020 02:43PM

Scotty # wrote: »

And what happens after a month? Another month? then another? People have to get on with their lives, virus or no virus. Goods, food, etc still need to be produced. Shutting down the country will achieve nothing.

You hope it peaks and then is on the decline.

Phase 2 is designed not to overwhelm the hospitals.

Itssoeasy · 09-03-2020 02:43PM

Next circuit breaker on the NYSE is 13% and trading will be suspended for another 15 minutes like it now.

RandomName2 · 09-03-2020 02:43PM

Runaways wrote: »

How so?

They’ve been all over the radio and tv the last week and especially over the weekend raising awareness and talking facts

Sure I could fecking do that.

They needed to screen people coming from affected regions.

Everything else is waffle.

They needed to automatically test people with severe, unexplained fever and respiratory distress.

Their incompetence is the worst I have ever witnessed. I am actually gobsmacked. We have seen some pretty lousy behavior in Irish history but this takes the biscuit in terms of mismanagement.

Runaways wrote: »

They aren’t spreading the infection ffs

They are as good as. They specifically recommended that people coming from infected regions go into the community, go to school, and go to work. This was their specific recommendation.

Runaways wrote: »

People in this country would make you want to hang you head off a wall I swear

Ab-so-bloody-lutely

Dr. Bre · 09-03-2020 02:43PM

Funsterdelux wrote: »

Its gonna replace the angelus

A bong for each new case and the word East/West/North or South in the background.

The angelvirus

Tippex · 09-03-2020 02:43PM

Hector Savage wrote: »

What are the chances of the Tokyo Olympics going ahead ?

Too early to call but if things continue like this until end of April I cannot see it going ahead. Same as Euro 2020 I can see that being potentially played behind closed doors the fact it is across 12 countries this time will make it all the more challenging.

amadangomor · 09-03-2020 02:44PM

tbayers wrote: »

Good or bad time to start paying into a pension? Was literally just about to send of forms today

In my uneducated on it view. Best time to start is when it bottoms out. Will be in the same boat soon. Have an small old pension pot that I will add in but expect that to be pennies soon.

09-03-2020 02:44PM

Scotty # wrote: »

And what happens after a month? Another month? then another? People have to get on with their lives, virus or no virus. Goods, food, etc still need to be produced. Shutting down the country will achieve nothing.

I suppose it would help prevent us being where Italy is now, health system nearing collapse with an expected figure of 18,000 cases by 26th March. We can be proactive in preventing the spread, and to blazes with short term economics.

Cheerful Spring2 · 09-03-2020 02:44PM

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Trading at the NYSE has been halted after stocks on the S&P 500 dropped 7% after opening.

Treasury bond purchases is actually a red flashing light signal. Amazing Economists thought this was just a correction. Bonds are viewed as more secure and safe. Investors saw a recession as likely ( bailout and fed stimulas likely!)

bmcc10 · 09-03-2020 02:44PM

What benefit is there in closing schools really? They have done it here now there's just thousands of kids roaming the citys its a holiday virus will still be spread

DOCARCH · 09-03-2020 02:45PM

Deleted User wrote: »

What’s with the Cheltenham obsession? Why so obsessed about that one event?

The filthy animals (....and then you have to think about the horses).

RandomName2 · 09-03-2020 02:45PM

Boggles wrote: »

If you read between the lines of no real information, it's all being setup for a shutdown.

If they are going to do it they should get on with it. It would be much better if this was coordinated with our neighbors though (particularly Northern Ireland).

caveat emptor · 09-03-2020 02:45PM

Cilldara_2000 wrote: »

I usually love Cheltenham week, take half days off work each day, and get all hyped up. I'm just not feeling it this week.

Just bring your own pen and beer. Sorted. Wear a mask etc. Don't let this virus wreck the greatest sporting event in the world.

Itssoeasy · 09-03-2020 02:45PM

Deleted User wrote: »

What’s with the Cheltenham obsession? English football went ahead all weekend all over the country. Liverpool are playing Madrid on Wednesday evening!

Why so obsessed about that one event?

At least one Europa league game may be played behind closed doors involving wolves so Liverpool may play but it may not be in front of fans.

namloc1980 · 09-03-2020 02:46PM

Comfortably the single worst single day points fall in US stock market history (eclipsing 1929 / Black Monday / 2008 financial crisis) and we're only 10 minutes into the trading day. :eek: Stock market history in the making today.

otnomart · 09-03-2020 02:46PM

auspicious wrote: »

Flights are still going in and out of locked regions in Italy, including Ryan Air. One Irish tourist spoke on RTEnews now earlier saying how he drove through three of the regions without being stopped. Videos on Twitter show no checkpoints etc.
Maybe it'll change soon.

Police stopped people from lockdown Parma who were heading to Bologna airport
https://parma.repubblica.it/cronaca/2020/03/09/news/da_parma_all_aeroporto_di_bologna_per_una_vacanza_fermati_dai_carabinieri-250720476/?refresh_ce

Not in Kansas · 09-03-2020 02:46PM

Boggles wrote: »

100% schools will close.

They could pull the trigger then, shut it down for a month a couple of weeks of that all ready being Easter.

That's a really good point and definitely should be done.

PaybackPayroll · 09-03-2020 02:46PM

Scotty # wrote: »

And what happens after a month? Another month? then another? People have to get on with their lives, virus or no virus. Goods, food, etc still need to be produced. Shutting down the country will achieve nothing.

Shutting down seemed to work for China.

I read somewhere that slowing down spread is key, so the health service does not collapse. A bed can be occupied for 3-6 weeks, so we need a steady stream rather than everyone at once.

odyssey06 · 09-03-2020 02:46PM

Scotty # wrote: »

And what happens after a month? Another month? then another? People have to get on with their lives, virus or no virus. Goods, food, etc still need to be produced. Shutting down the country will achieve nothing.

Schools are reservoirs for viruses.
It's one of the reasons there's a break in viruses in circulation during summer holidays, and one of the reasons the first places to be shut down are schools and universities.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/s-korea-schools-to-stay-shut-for-two-more-weeks

This is about buying time to 'flatten the curve' of infections to spread out the peak cases over months rather than weeks.

grazer · 09-03-2020 02:46PM

RTE radio news at 1: Leo Varadkar reducing duration of his US St Patrick's Day trip.
Why is he going at all? I honestly think all the individual ministerial parades abroad should be ditched. (As well as the parades around the country which should be postponed, and I believe will be, after this endless dithering.). Ministers/politicians need to demonstrate a bit of maturity and attention to the situation, as well as emotional intelligence. A jolly to the US or wherever else is not necessary and gives out a really bad message to the general public who are dealing with warnings, precautions and being told to be personally responsible in our behaviours.

ArchXStanton · 09-03-2020 02:46PM

Assetbacked wrote: »

S&P500 has tanked this morning, triggering circuit breakers as investors dump stocks. Panic in markets is a symptom of a bubble - unlike a bubble, it does not go "pop" but unravels as the markets correct. Watch this space.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/08/dow-futures-drop-700-points-as-all-out-oil-price-war-adds-to-coronavirus-stress.html

Enjoy the decline...

*takes long drag off joint

ThePopehimself · 09-03-2020 02:47PM

Scotty # wrote: »

:D:D:D

https://twitter.com/olivercallan/status/1236996590914744321

Coronavirus latest: Builders working around-the-clock to create northside isolation unit.

St Mary’s Health Campus, Gurranabraher, which is currently being converted into an isolation building for coronavirus patients.

CONTRACTORS are working around-the-clock to convert a disused building on the northside of the city into an isolation unit for coronavirus patients.

The HSE has stepped up preparations for an expected increase in Covid-19 cases, following further confirmation today of the virus spreading through the community.

Builders have been on-site at the St Mary's health campus in Gurranabraher all weekend.

The building was formerly used to provide services for people with intellectual disabilities but was shut several years ago.

https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/Coronavirus-latest-Builders-working-around-the-clock-to-create-northside-isolation-unit-e61d7e76-99f8-40b0-8db9-1d23e148f5c2-ds

kowloon · 09-03-2020 02:47PM

Ipso wrote: »

Computer science guys can diagnose, now?

They get rid of viruses on a daily basis.

is_that_so · 09-03-2020 02:47PM

Scotty # wrote: »

And what happens after a month? Another month? then another? People have to get on with their lives, virus or no virus. Goods, food, etc still need to be produced. Shutting down the country will achieve nothing.

Apparently China expects no further cases after the end of March. It will pass when it's done.

gozunda · 09-03-2020 02:47PM

namloc1980 wrote: »

Ryanair flight from Milan due to land in Dublin in about 20 mins.

https://youtu.be/cUFJ1yVhJ6g?t=10s

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