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

Kermit.de.frog · 09-03-2020 07:26PM

Cilldara_2000 wrote: »

I haven't watch the press conference but there's photos with Dr Holohan beside Leo and in the meetings earlier so hopefully it's just because he needs time to prepare rather time for them to count up extra cases.

Last time there was a delay there were multiple new cases.

Funsterdelux · 09-03-2020 07:26PM

Id wish theyd stop showing that person getting swobbed in the nose on RTE

Strazdas · 09-03-2020 07:26PM

OneColdHand wrote: »

Yeah that's what I was assuming, but it's still a bit scary looking at the figures.

The one good thing is that the numbers of deaths worldwide (4000) is still very low.

We cannot just assume this will soon become 40,000......it might never happen.

amadangomor · 09-03-2020 07:27PM

otnomart wrote: »

Meanwhile in France
3500 people gather (outdoors) dressed as Smurfs the break the Guinness World Record
If this is real, it's like the orchestra on the Titanic

https://twitter.com/Europeisnotdead/status/1237074221999759360

If I had a booze bottle to hand it would have gone flying Fr Jack style at the laptop there. I still said the "fecking gob****es" bit

neil_hosey · 09-03-2020 07:27PM

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

muppets...

no, smurfs...

CinemaGuy45 · 09-03-2020 07:27PM

niallo27 wrote: »

Well it's not deadly if you under 40, the chances of getting it and dieing are probably 1 in 10000.

I and fed up reading this ****e.:mad:

Mic 1972 · 09-03-2020 07:27PM

Strazdas wrote: »

If it levelled off at say 40k-50k, I'd say they'd be very happy and relieved.

The great unknown is the rate at which the virus grows or if it starts to slow down.

That looks very optimistic to me
China reached 80k - still counting - with one single epicenter. Europe is a combination of many cities and different countries, there may be multiple outbreaks

Itssoeasy · 09-03-2020 07:27PM

Any announcement from the department of health yet ?

Fics · 09-03-2020 07:28PM

My partner is working in a Dublin Hospital, hand sanitizer is being robbed daily so they've resorted to keeping it hidden from public.

Why would you;

1. Rob from a hospital
2. Rob something that could limit the spread to the sick and frontline workers...

Beggars belief.

banie01 · 09-03-2020 07:28PM

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

muppets...

They're smurfs...
It's a different kind of stupid :P

CinemaGuy45 · 09-03-2020 07:28PM

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Any announcement from the department of health yet ?

7PM

Downlinz · 09-03-2020 07:28PM

Eliana Uptight Caterpillar wrote: »

With the revelations from Italy today that containment has failed utterly (1800 new cases)

It'll surely take a few days before we see if their containment efforts are effective as the virus can take days before symptoms and it takes time for results and reporting.

dan786 · 09-03-2020 07:29PM

Everyone is a suspect....

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced a two-week quarantine for all new arrivals into the country

Funsterdelux · 09-03-2020 07:29PM

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Any announcement from the department of health yet ?

Hold your horses, 7pm

The White Wolf · 09-03-2020 07:29PM

Fics wrote: »

My partner is working in a Dublin Hospital, hand sanitizer is being robbed daily so they've resorted to keeping it hidden from public.

Why would you;

1. Rob from a hospital
2. Rob something that could limit the spread to the sick and frontline workers...

Beggars belief.

Because there are always arseholes to take advantage of an emergency such as this.

chicorytip · 09-03-2020 07:30PM

What a grossly irresponsible statement by that Professor from the RCSI that this has the potential to kill up to 120,000 in Ireland. If the entire population end up infected the vast majority, including over seventies with underlying problems, will experience mild flu-like symptoms, at worst. Corona is a virus which dies and leaves the body after five days. Take paracetemol and plenty of hot drinks.

Itssoeasy · 09-03-2020 07:30PM

Funsterdelux wrote: »

Hold your horses, 7pm

It was meant to 6pm which is why I asked.

Empty_Space · 09-03-2020 07:30PM

Eliana Uptight Caterpillar wrote: »

Covid-19 does damage to the lungs even in mild cases and can come back again, resulting in lung failure.

Source?

2Mad2BeMad · 09-03-2020 07:31PM

Fics wrote: »

My partner is working in a Dublin Hospital, hand sanitizer is being robbed daily so they've resorted to keeping it hidden from public.

Why would you;

1. Rob from a hospital
2. Rob something that could limit the spread to the sick and frontline workers...

Beggars belief.

Because people are selfish arseholes who only care about themselves and immediate family members screw everyone else basically.

ITman88 · 09-03-2020 07:31PM

Strazdas wrote: »

The one good thing is that the numbers of deaths worldwide (4000) is still very low.

We cannot just assume this will soon become 40,000......it might never happen.

Drop in the ocean overall of deaths overall, any predictions are based on nothingness.
Ireland and Italy are extremely different with how this disease may affect us, mainly due to age profile and Italy’s relationship with Wuhan.

namloc1980 · 09-03-2020 07:31PM

chicorytip wrote: »

What a grossly irresponsible statement by that Professor from the RCSI that this has the potential to kill up to 120,000 in Ireland. If the entire population end up infected the vast majority, including over seventies with underlying problems, will experience mild flu-like symptoms, at worst. Corona is a virus which dies and leaves the body after five days. Take paracetemol and plenty of hot drinks.

Where are you getting your info from?? Corona is a virus which dies and leaves the body after five days.......wtf?

Cilldara_2000 · 09-03-2020 07:31PM

00benski wrote: »

Again I agree with your point and I am not dismissing points made by people who are qualified to make them. I think that's who it should be left to, the rest of us should try get on with our daily lives as best as possible and to avoid to much panic.

I sort of agree but there's no chance of me seeing numbers of any sort going on and not trying to amateur analyse them. I can produce all sorts of pointless averages, totals, charts, per capitas etc with no context whatsoever. EG based on European totals from last Sunday to yesterday, the doubling time is 2.57 days, although marginally longer in the more impacted countries. There's no doubt that the hockey stick curve exists and even the government are now preparing people for a very bad scenario with many tragedies for an awful lot of people.

Volthar · 09-03-2020 07:32PM

I realise that the impact of below on economy can be substantial but would not stopping the country for 1- 2 weeks be a solution to the problem? Only essential services (gas, water, electricity), emergency and core social services operating. Everyone staying at home and isolating. You can give an advanced warning so everyone stocks up sufficiently. Maybe we need a beast from the east to snow us all in for couple of days.

CinemaGuy45 · 09-03-2020 07:32PM

chicorytip wrote: »

What a grossly irresponsible statement by that Professor from the RCSI that this has the potential to kill up to 120,000 in Ireland. If the entire population end up infected the vast majority, including over seventies with underlying problems, will experience mild flu-like symptoms, at worst. Corona is a virus which dies and leaves the body after five days. Take paracetemol and plenty of hot drinks.

mcgucc22 · 09-03-2020 07:32PM

namloc1980 wrote: »

Where are you getting your info from?? Corona is a virus which dies and leaves the body after five days.......wtf?

Facebook.

Downlinz · 09-03-2020 07:32PM

chicorytip wrote: »

What a grossly irresponsible statement by that Professor from the RCSI that this has the potential to kill up to 120,000 in Ireland. If the entire population end up infected the vast majority, including over seventies with underlying problems, will experience mild flu-like symptoms, at worst. Corona is a virus which dies and leaves the body after five days. Take paracetemol and plenty of hot drinks.

Those are exactly the sort of numbers we're looking at if 1.9m get infected and we have a similar death rate to Italy, particularly given our lack of ICU beds.

05eaftqbrs9jlh · 09-03-2020 07:32PM

dan786 wrote: »

Everyone is a suspect....

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced a two-week quarantine for all new arrivals into the country

We should have done this two weeks ago.

Empty_Space wrote: »

Source?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-08/coronavirus-nears-fatal-tipping-point-when-lungs-are-inflamed

Funsterdelux · 09-03-2020 07:33PM

Itssoeasy wrote: »

It was meant to 6pm which is why I asked.

Sorry, Im just odd because i have to look at Pascal's mug for a few minutes

BLIZZARD7 · 09-03-2020 07:33PM

chicorytip wrote: »

What a grossly irresponsible statement by that Professor from the RCSI that this has the potential to kill up to 120,000 in Ireland. If the entire population end up infected the vast majority, including over seventies with underlying problems, will experience mild flu-like symptoms, at worst. Corona is a virus which dies and leaves the body after five days. Take paracetemol and plenty of hot drinks.

This post is grossly irresponsible.

Quantum Erasure · 09-03-2020 07:33PM

chicorytip wrote: »

What a grossly irresponsible statement by that Professor from the RCSI that this has the potential to kill up to 120,000 in Ireland. If the entire population end up infected the vast majority, including over seventies with underlying problems, will experience mild flu-like symptoms, at worst. Corona is a virus which dies and leaves the body after five days. Take paracetemol and plenty of hot drinks.

jesus, youre worse than the doomsayers

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