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

Strazdas wrote: »

Very easy to say 'shut down everything' but that would wreak havoc on the country and the economy and there is simply not enough evidence Ireland is under that level of threat

Bologna is Bologna.....we just don't know if that will be replicated anywhere else in Europe

Shut everything down now or wait until we have tens of thousands dying and then shut everything down. Obvious choice really.

Twice a week meeting, yes that sounds important.

Strazdas wrote: »

Very easy to say 'shut down everything' but that would wreak havoc on the country and the economy and there is simply not enough evidence Ireland is under that level of threat

Bologna is Bologna.....we just don't know if that will be replicated anywhere else in Europe

You are completely clueless. If we double cases every week, we will have 10,000 cases in 8 weeks time. What will you be telling us then?

igCorcaigh wrote: »

That's a lot to read over, for tomorrow. Thanks.

She also did an interview with the podcast essentially saying the same thing as what is on the report if you have time to kill on public transport :-)

https://www.macrovoices.com/podcasts-collection/macrovoices-all-stars-podcasts/804-all-stars-96-juliette-declercq-how-to-trade-the-covid19-crisis

calgary bound wrote: »

Doc with glasses is a Virologist and Director of the NVRL. Very credible, worked with him for years. Blonde lady is an Obstetrician. He should be more knowledgeable!

Yeah blonde lady lost me when she started the old government bashing, this debate is for solutions not agendas

pearcider wrote: »

Shut everything down now or wait until we have tens of thousands dying and then shut everything down. Obvious choice really.

Where would you rather have the kids (who seem basically immune to its effects), in school and college or roaming around bored for months on end acting as superspreaders?

Who is this idiot with the yellow tie on Claire Byrne?


People will start dying and the situation will be out of control before Coveney and his cohorts make a bloody decision.


His justification for stopping flights from Italy would be laughable if the issue wasn't so serious.

pearcider wrote: »

Coveney did well to stay calm after the doctor said her piece. This government is a shambles and they’re literally going to kill tens of thousands down to this incompetence.

Literally?

Dots1982 wrote: »

Why is the virus only really badly affecting northern Italy as opposed to southern italy?

Snobbery I'd guess.

ITman88 wrote: »

Yeah blonde lady lost me when she started the old government bashing, this debate is for solutions not agendas

I agree. She's been on the media a lot lately about this.

Cillian is probably the best placed as Chair of the new advisory group and a Virologist to advise regarding what comes next in terms of numbers.

Taking over the private hospitals...now you are talking sense.

Just a back of the envelope calculation. If say 2.5% of the population are infected at one time, that's 120,000 infected. Of those, if 5% need ICU care, that's 6,000 people needing an ICU bed. We have 255 beds. That's worse than 1 ICU bed for every 20 people needing it. That's 19 out of 20 critically ill people not being treated.

I actually think those numbers are conservative if anything. Worst case scenarios could be 1 ICU bed for every hundreds of people needing it.

Tell me I'm missing something...

tobefrank321 wrote: »

You are completely clueless. If we double cases every week, we will have 10,000 cases in 8 weeks time. What will you be telling us then?

If you assume worst case scenario is a cert when doing risk assessment, you would never leave your house again.

errlloyd wrote: »

why the **** compare this to abortion.

Im not watching, aborting the elderly?