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

cloudatlas wrote: »

Yeah lets organise a large public gathering for when he gets out to celebrate.

By the sounds of things your place is where it should happen!

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?

Sensible contingency/continuity planning.

tillyfilly wrote: »

Looking at Italy on the map they are a peninsula and surrounded by the alps both geographical traits which could protect the countries around them , unlikely though !

Didn't keep Hannibal out did it?

The means of transmission nowadays are far more rapid than a ship, or a line of march.
People on the French Cote commute to Italy daily and vice versa, same on the Swiss and Austrian borders.

Think of the N.I border and how people living in the area have ties on both sides and regularly cross back and forth?

Multiply that by an order of magnitude for many of the border areas of mainland Europe west of Austria.

It's not just closing a border, after 50yrs of integration and 25yrs of Schengen borderless travel...

Mainland Europeans are in for a serious culture shock with restricted border crossings, particularly the under 30s who've never known anything but hopping across and back as they please.

ArchXStanton wrote: »

Heard the local Secondary school were sent home today, I'm in North Co. Dublin

Where in North Co. Dublin?

Away With The Fairies wrote: »

How's Poland doing in all this?

They're more concerned about catching the GAY than covid-19. 'a third of poland declared ‘lgbt-free zone’' https://balkaninsight.com/2020/02/25/a-third-of-poland-declared-lgbt-free-zone/

Dravokivich wrote: »

They dont want students to potentially lose a third of the year. Especially those in 3rd/6th year.

Especially at this vital time leading up to exams. The potential disruption must be worrying for leaving cert students.

Beginning to try and map the cases on this in Ireland on the site linked yesterday, will try and add some county/province breakdowns as more information is released. If anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear them.

Main website

is_that_so wrote: »

It won't be.

How long would the public have to wait? I don't think the govt would try and hide it more so perhaps the family would want to try and keep it private or maybe an autopsy has to be performed?

joe40 wrote: »

Especially at this vital time leading up to exams. The potential disruption must be worrying for leaving cert students.

Would be disastrous : they can't just postpone doing their Leaving Cert for a few months and being out of school in the run up to it would be very stressful.

This article was published last month (15 Feb 2020) and written by Laurie Garrett, a former senior fellow on global health for the Council on Foreign Relations.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/02/15/coronavirus-xi-jinping-chinas-incompetence-endangered-the-world/

During the week of this article's publication, some 440 experts in infectious diseases gathered in Geneva to help WHO solve the mysteries that surround the virus.

One of them was Hong Kong University’s Gabriel Leung, who does not think China’s strategy will succeed and fears that as schools reopen and millions of people return to Wuhan and other locked-down cities, the virus could, once again, surge. And it could spread far beyond China’s borders, possibly infecting more than 60 percent of the world population.

Even if the coronavirus disease kills only 1 percent of its victims, 1 percent of 60 percent of 7 billion people is a staggering death toll, placing the coronavirus alongside the three biggest pandemics of human history—the 14th-century plague, the 1918 influenza, and the current HIV/AIDS toll.

It would be over two-thirds of the death toll of World War Two.