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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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  • #5132
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    Right course of action is for people to stay at home... Preventing movement other than for work?
    "Mr Conte said a new government decree will require all people in Italy to demonstrate a need to work, health conditions or other limited reasons to travel outside the areas where they live. “There won’t be just a red zone,” he told reporters, referring to a lockdown of areas in northern Italy instituted over the weekend. “There will be Italy” as a protected area, he said."
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/coronavirus-whole-of-italy-to-be-put-on-lockdown-pm-announces-1.4197780


  • #5133
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    Jinglejangle69 wrote: »
    All because some idiot ate a bat??

    The Chinese government need to compensate the rest of the world!!!

    I hate the Chinese government but there is zero evidence this came from some idiot eating a bat.


  • #5134
    tillyfilly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 567 ✭✭✭tillyfilly


    Those with social phobia and agoraphobia will not be made overly unhappy by the upcoming restrictions of movement?


  • #5135
    splinter65
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    Demonique wrote: »
    If the government can afford to increase sickness pay, then they can afford to reverse the cuts to disability related payments

    Which disability related payments do you mean?


  • #5136
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    Jinglejangle69 wrote: »
    That's pure hyperbole.

    That won't happen.

    Just the flu again, huh?


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  • #5137
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    Stop the world and let me off


  • #5138
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,098 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Ulysses Gaze wrote: »
    No, because it is not a full lockdown if people are allowed go to work. And unlike China, enough people in Italy will not listen to the Government so the lockdown will be futile.

    This was before the full lockdown. And if they involve the army with roadblocks and checkpoints, they may have to comply. I wouldn't exclude rioting, though.


  • #5139
    Yurt2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,381 ✭✭✭Yurt2


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Is population density a factor in mitigating spread? England’s average is 426 per sq km. Irelands is 70, as low as 32 in the west.


    Well, you're unlikely to get infected standing in the middle of a field on your own all day.


    Having said that, instinctively, I'd say that the average Irish person interacts with a similar amount of people to a British person an a regular day, so population density wouldn't make much of a difference. The exception being London commuters on the tube.


  • #5140
    Demonique
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,891 ✭✭✭Demonique


    splinter65 wrote: »
    Which disability related payments do you mean?

    Disability allowance, disability benefit, blind pension, etc


  • #5141
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,366 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    Cilldara_2000 wrote: »
    Can you name any other country of our size whose leader has a guaranteed annual meeting with the President of the United States?

    I just don't think a 30 minute meeting is that important. It is common for successive US presidents not to even know who the Irish "prime minister" even is. It's embarrassing for us.

    I have no doubt that if this meeting stopped, it would have absolutely zero consequences for anyone. It will save the state money.

    It's also interesting that the same people who criticise Trump the most are the ones who support this kind of stuff.


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  • #5142
    hawkwing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,927 ✭✭✭hawkwing


    When you turn the map of Italy upside down it's almost unrecognisable and the angle of the leg is surprising


  • #5143
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,096 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    Ninthlife wrote: »
    We are really witnessing historical events

    Historic certainly. Not historical for a while yet.


  • #5144
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,113 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    I'm sorted

    pile-of-toilet-paper-315x180.jpg


  • #5145
    Ninthlife
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,460 ✭✭✭Ninthlife


    Germany, Spain &, France will be watching Italy closely yo see if this has a positive impact


  • #5146
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    Stop the world and let me off

    From a lot of your posts I think that may have already happened.:p


  • #5147
    gabeeg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭gabeeg


    Ulysses Gaze wrote: »
    No, because it is not a full lockdown if people are allowed go to work. And unlike China, enough people in Italy will not listen to the Government so the lockdown will be futile.

    That's not fair - this is a huge move by the Italian gov. They're not going as far as China because they can't. It therefore won't be as effective or fast, but it will work if they can keep it up. It will delay the virus significantly.


  • #5148
    Johnny Drama_11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 280 ✭✭Johnny Drama_11


    If a person with the virus in Ireland dies can it be kept private from the public?


  • #5149
    Snowbiee21
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 798 ✭✭✭Snowbiee21


    Schools in north Dublin informing students to take home books day by day this week. They’re also setting up online learning on office 365 so students can’t communicate with teachers should schools close. Do schools know more info than we know?


  • #5150
    Millionaire only not
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,624 ✭✭✭Millionaire only not


    NIMAN wrote: »
    Jez, this is one fast moving thread.

    Leave it for an hour and you're 15 pages back.

    Actually what was the most popular thread ever on boards does anyone know!
    My god this one is at the top all day every day !


  • #5151
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,384 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    New Home wrote: »
    This was before the full lockdown. And if they involve the army with roadblocks and checkpoints, they may have to comply. I wouldn't exclude rioting, though.

    The Italians are an emotional and non compliant people at the best of times. It isn't China. Will be interesting to see how these measures play out in society.


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  • #5152
    tillyfilly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 567 ✭✭✭tillyfilly


    hawkwing wrote: »
    When you turn the map of Italy upside down it's almost unrecognisable and the angle of the leg is surprising

    do you think it looks like a leg on someone doing a handstand ?


  • #5153
    Gods Gift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,713 ✭✭✭Gods Gift


    May you live in interesting times.

    I miss the mundane.


  • #5154
    Logan Roy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 452 ✭✭Logan Roy


    Snowbiee21 wrote: »
    Schools in north Dublin informing students to take home books day by day this week. They’re also setting up online learning on office 365 so students can’t communicate with teachers should schools close. Do schools know more info than we know?

    It's called making contingency plans......


  • #5155
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    New Home wrote: »
    This was before the full lockdown. And if they involve the army with roadblocks and checkpoints, they may have to comply. I wouldn't exclude rioting, though.

    Westerners in the 21st Century will not put up with a curtailing of freedoms necessary to implement that.

    I would agree that we should expect rioting in Italy and then the implementation of Martial Law and curfews.


  • #5156
    c.p.w.g.w
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,998 ✭✭✭c.p.w.g.w


    Italian lockdown will lead to Eurozone recession, as their economy was already struggling...


  • #5157
    Yurt2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,381 ✭✭✭Yurt2


    Just spitballing here. Perhaps Europe and all the major countries of the world should all in tandem agree to a two or three week moratorium on air travel, and a similar work from home where you can policy. Evreyone does it together and tackles it head-on for a few short weeks.


  • #5158
    expectationlost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,475 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    stockshares wrote: »
    He did answer. He said he wasn't going to say anything that would lead to a person or persons getting blamed for spreading the virus.

    The reporter was fishing for a story , hoping to put the blame on one individual. It was a lousy question to ask.
    thats what I meant when he said he didn't answer, I thought it was notweworthy.


  • #5159
    Cilldara_2000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,189 ✭✭✭Cilldara_2000


    Eileen Dunne - "All Irish patients with covid19 are currently in isolation in hospital".

    One of them on now - prerecorded telephone call.


  • #5160
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,149 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    Your man on RTE News sounds grand, says he feels great, panic over, about time some sense came out of this mess.


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  • #5161
    otnomart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭otnomart


    Ninthlife wrote: »
    Germany, Spain &, France will be watching Italy closely yo see if this has a positive impact
    They should have already started taking measures, but so far their governments have shown no intention to do so.
    3800 cases in total for Germany, Spain & France today.


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