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

the butcher · 09-03-2020 04:31PM

DrumSteve wrote: »

Looks like they are all cancelled now:

https://www.thejournal.ie/st-patricks-day-celebrations-postponed-5029661-Mar2020/

Success! Now we can sit back and everything will be....ah b****cks.

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09-03-2020 04:31PM

Duke of Url wrote: »

Is there any update on upcoming Treatments for COVID19.

Im not talking about Vaccines which I know is due to be ready next year.

I repeat......

Im not talking about Vaccines which I know is due to be ready next year.

There are reports echoing around.

sjb25 · 09-03-2020 04:31PM

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

How long until rioting and martial law in a European country?

https://twitter.com/ISCResearch/status/1237036351045992448?s=20

Chong · 09-03-2020 04:32PM

Stupid and inane question, how clean are Barbers and Hairdressers? Id imagine during all of this we should stay away from them? I am a guy and I know the barber I go to does not particularly was their clippers.

Beanybabog · 09-03-2020 04:32PM

gabeeg wrote: »

It is. Many don't get one, but it's a listed symptom.

I’ve read a few times it’s symptom in children

09-03-2020 04:32PM

Strazdas wrote: »

But you cannot extrapolate that what happened in Bologna will happen everywhere else as well.

It could well be that a freak set of favourable environmental circumstances and conditions allowed the virus to rapidly escalate in Bologna (and Wuhan). We simply don't know if that will happen anywhere else (and it might well not).

Here’s hoping it remains low then

tobefrank321 · 09-03-2020 04:32PM

Strazdas wrote: »

But you cannot extrapolate that what happened in Bologna will happen everywhere else as well.

It could well be that a freak set of favourable environmental circumstances and conditions allowed the virus to rapidly escalate in Bologna (and Wuhan). We simply don't know if that will happen anywhere else (and it might well not).

The only favourable circumstances this virus requires is close contact of human beings as well as sharing of contacts and surfaces. We are no different to Italian or Chinese people. If it could happen to them it can happen to us. The only chance was to learn from their mistakes and successes. And our government and HSE chose not to. This complacence will cost us big time.

RandomName2 · 09-03-2020 04:32PM

ITman88 wrote: »

How was it going to be halted in its tracks?

If nobody went in or out of China from 1st January to March 1st it is guaranteed that the disease would now have gone the way that SARS went.

SARS didn't just disappear. It was contained. You have idiots laugh about SARS as if it was some joke. It wasn't. There was a policy to actively stop the spread, without which it would have become a pandemic. Perhaps the fact that younger (more productive) people were particularly affected by SARS meant that more efforts were made.

There have been no active efforts at containment in Europe of covid-19. Travel from infected regions to non-infected regions continued as normal. No screening of people coming from infected regions has been conducted. The policy has been to allow the spread of the disease as an economic expedient.

Mic 1972 · 09-03-2020 04:33PM

cloudatlas wrote: »

I’m prepared to stay indoors for over a month, don’t think my housemates are though so they will compromise my effort to isolate. All one of them ever makes is hot pot and tomato stews.

i'm in the same boat, I have tenants in the house who go to work everyday and go out most evenings. I work from home and take all possible precautions but i cant control what they do. Looking forward to a lock down, the sooner then better

Tenzor07 · 09-03-2020 04:33PM

Patrick's day parades cancelled.

Government to have a press conference.

Cancelling of mass gatherings are usually accompanied by an increase in the level of caution, and further restrictions to be brought in nationally...

https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/0309/1121035-cabinet-virus-committee/

Strazdas · 09-03-2020 04:33PM

Runaways wrote: »

Paddy’s is cancelled? Just on LBC

True?

The actual Dublin parade, yes.

It's unclear what will happen with the four day St Patrick's festival, which is effectively a different event to the parade

jarvis · 09-03-2020 04:34PM

Typical Dublin bus. You wait and wait for one bus to get covid-19 then 2 come along together!!!

dan786 · 09-03-2020 04:34PM

Fourth Death in UK

Fourth death over coronavirus confirmed

Health Secretary Matt Hancock says coronavirus is continuing to "advance" - particularly in France and Germany.

As of this morning there were 319 confirmed cases, this now includes a fourth confirmed death, he announces in the House of Commons.

BorneTobyWilde · 09-03-2020 04:34PM

Are these common flu deaths real? 100s of 1000s of people dying left right and centre every day? Where are these people, I know of none? Where do all these people go, vanish into thin air?
How come we never see morgues over run if this is the case. How come these ''few'' Covid 19 cases has caused such a back log, when 100's of 1000's of people die from the common flu? Doesn't add up.

ITman88 · 09-03-2020 04:34PM

1641 wrote: »

Nah that just "business". An economic shutdown has no impact in people.
You must be a "neo liberal" capitalist.

Spot on.
By your comments on no impact on people I take it you were a government artist during 2008.

Cw85 · 09-03-2020 04:34PM

Chong wrote: »

Stupid and inane question, how clean are Barbers and Hairdressers? Id imagine during all of this we should stay away from them? I am a guy and I know the barber I go to does not particularly was their clippers.

If you know the barbers you go to doesn't wash the clippers I'd find a new barber

Cilldara_2000 · 09-03-2020 04:34PM

Drumpot wrote: »

No they won’t, just like Iceland was a basket case for letting their banks fail...

F**king economic horsesh*t scaremongering bollox. I’m sick of financial markets/institutions going full dictator propaganda bullsh*t on us when it suits. I can see how it’s going to be a problem but it won’t be the end. If this global system can’t survive a few weeks of shutdown I really think it needs to be scraped and replaced.

The western financial system knows how to save itself at the expense of everybody else , better then anything in the world. I’m not sure there is anything more effective at self preservation.

Your post is all well and good but you haven't in the least bit rebutted the point that old, sick and vulnerable people will be the groups who suffer the most from a recession.

jarvis · 09-03-2020 04:34PM

€2B package put aside for dealing with the virus impacts according to Irish times.

Somedaythefire · 09-03-2020 04:34PM

Chong wrote: »

Stupid and inane question, how clean are Barbers and Hairdressers? Id imagine during all of this we should stay away from them? I am a guy and I know the barber I go to does not particularly was their clippers.

Whatever happens with COVID-19, you should probably go to a barbers that practices basic hygiene.

Seamai · 09-03-2020 04:34PM

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Italy has one of the best healthcare systems in the world, and they're struggling. I have no experience with Irish healthcare but if the media is to believed it's an absolute mess, so we better hope this doesn't hit us hard.

I've had some experience of it and I wouldn't say it is "one in the best in the world" but then everything is better in other countries than here.

I have a lot of time for Italians but their Achilles heels are their poor ability to organise and corruption, the latter on a scale that makes Ireland look utopian.

gabeeg · 09-03-2020 04:34PM

Strazdas wrote: »

But you cannot extrapolate that what happened in Bologna will happen everywhere else as well.

It could well be that a freak set of favourable environmental circumstances and conditions allowed the virus to rapidly escalate in Bologna (and Wuhan). We simply don't know if that will happen anywhere else (and it might well not).

Yeah. Just because it happened in China, S Korea, Italy, Iran, France Germany, Spain, the USA, Japan, Switzerland, Netherlands, the UK, Sweden, Belgium, Norway, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Austria, Bahrain and dozens of other countries - doesn't mean it will happen here.

Kermit.de.frog · 09-03-2020 04:35PM

First death reported in Germany.

RedXIV · 09-03-2020 04:35PM

Bet Disney+ are loving the thoughts of getting a new streaming service out in time for the schools to be on lock down

D9Male · 09-03-2020 04:35PM

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Are these common flu deaths real? 100s of 1000s of people dying left right and centre every day? Where are these people, I know of none? Where do all these people go, vanish into thin air?
How come we never see morgues over run if this is the case. How come these ''few'' Covid 19 cases has caused such a back log, when 100's of 1000's of people die from the common flu? Doesn't add up.

Read this:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-03-05/how-bad-is-the-coronavirus-let-s-compare-with-sars-ebola-flu

Boggles · 09-03-2020 04:36PM

Duke of Url wrote: »

Is there any update on upcoming Treatments for COVID19.

Im not talking about Vaccines which I know is due to be ready next year.

I repeat......

Im not talking about Vaccines which I know is due to be ready next year.

Clinical trials of a couple of treatments have started AFAIK.

As for a vaccine, it wouldn't surprise me China are all ready doing clinical trials on humans with their one.

gabeeg · 09-03-2020 04:36PM

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Are these common flu deaths real? 100s of 1000s of people dying left right and centre every day? Where are these people, I know of none? Where do all these people go, vanish into thin air?
How come we never see morgues over run if this is the case. How come these ''few'' Covid 19 cases has caused such a back log, when 100's of 1000's of people die from the common flu? Doesn't add up.

Because flu outbreaks are priced in. Hospitals plan extra capacity for the flu season.

RandomName2 · 09-03-2020 04:36PM

Actually I have just realized that the success in containing SARS or MERS is used as a weapon by people. People don't laud the efforts made to contain previous outbreaks, they mock the 'hysteria' that led to successful containment.

Chong · 09-03-2020 04:36PM

Cw85 wrote: »

If you know the barbers you go to doesn't wash the clippers I'd find a new barber

I have always thought that, I know they sterilise their scissors but they move from 1 customer to another with same clippers, infact I dont think clippers can be cleaend / sterilised.

Cilldara_2000 · 09-03-2020 04:37PM

Tenzor07 wrote: »

Patrick's day parades cancelled.

Government to have a press conference.

Cancelling of mass gatherings are usually accompanied by an increase in the level of caution, and further restrictions to be brought in nationally...

https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/0309/1121035-cabinet-virus-committee/

Thanks for letting us know. In the hour since this news broke nobody had posted it yet.

Tenzor07 · 09-03-2020 04:37PM

I expect a recommendation to shut down businesses will be approved shortly:

Employer and union representatives have been summoned to Government Buildings for a meeting at 4 pm.

It's expected that they will be briefed on proposals on sick pay arrangements to address the coronavirus.

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