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

hotmail.com · 10-03-2020 12:26AM

Jinglejangle69 wrote: »

Replaced my who?

More senior members of the cabinet. Perhaps Charlie Flanagan or Richard Bruton.

all about the mane · 10-03-2020 12:26AM

hotmail.com wrote: »

Harris should be replaced immediately.

This is too serious to allow such an incompetent person stay in charge.

Replaced by who?

jammiedodgers · 10-03-2020 12:26AM

Stheno wrote: »

I thought Coveney actually came across well

Calm, clear and concise but still relaying how serious the situation is.

Mental Mickey · 10-03-2020 12:26AM

Stheno wrote: »

I thought Coveney actually came across well

I think he's an idiot. We need to shut airports now!!

tobefrank321 · 10-03-2020 12:27AM

Strazdas wrote: »

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

This is not worst case scenario. This is the realistic scenario. I hope I'm wrong. But based on current trends that's where its heading.

Containment and contact tracing have been an abysmal failure. It only works when you limit the initial cases. Instead we are importing them in by the day with no checks or self isolation.

Strazdas · 10-03-2020 12:27AM

theballz wrote: »

Coveney is visibly shook by this. He came across (despite his best efforts) incredibly concerned earlier in the show.

The level of panic talk and alarmist stuff is off the scale though. Since yesterday morning RTE is wheeling out supposed experts claiming it's a fact that millions of Irish people will have the virus within 8 weeks.

all about the mane · 10-03-2020 12:27AM

Mental Mickey wrote: »

I think he's an idiot. We need to shut airports now!!

What about the ferries?

MD1990 · 10-03-2020 12:27AM

I actually think they gone too pesimistic now.

Follow what China & Korea have done & it can greatly reduced.

The worry is will people have the discipline to live in lockdown possibly for months

Cilldara_2000 · 10-03-2020 12:28AM

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Every place the public interacts with should now have mandatory sanitising gel on entry and exit or be shut down.

Supplied by whom?

all about the mane · 10-03-2020 12:28AM

MD1990 wrote: »

I actually think they gone too pesimistic now.

Follow what China & Korea have done & it can greatly reduced.

The worry is will people have the discipline to live in lockdown possibly for months

I just can’t see

Funsterdelux · 10-03-2020 12:28AM

Garda reserve should be doing the rounds making sure people are self isolating, if they get any jib then call in the Guards proper.

STB. · 10-03-2020 12:28AM

tillyfilly wrote: »

Are we all doomed or can we manage?

We are doomed if Coveney doesn't change his tune about the economic impacts. Its creeping into all his answers.

We are an Island. We can do what France couldn't. Stop the flights.

Clearly these eejits running the country are determined to mirror what happened in Italy. Have they not seen the photos ??

We don't have the health infrastructure to sustain everyday care never mind a pandemic.

The only way to slow the spread is to stop people coming in and out freely from heavily affected regions. All the lobby groups, including the tourism and small business firms can feck off. The public health of this country is the first priority. These decisions are not hard and fast, they are simple.

hurikane · 10-03-2020 12:28AM

Pseudonym121 wrote: »

You know, after tonight what I got pilloried for saying might happen almost a week ago is beginning to look like an optimistic scenario.

Still now some action is happening and no matter what that’ll help. I’m with the Prof though, the quicker and more severe the restrictions the better for us all
And the more lives will be saved.

You know, you struggled to articulate your point. You fudged the numbers and then argued when you were clearly wrong. Couldn’t admit your post didn’t add up. That’s what people took issue with.

ChikiChiki · 10-03-2020 12:28AM

Strazdas wrote: »

The level of panic talk and alarmist stuff is off the scale though. Since yesterday morning RTE is wheeling out supposed experts claiming it's a fact that millions of Irish people will have the virus within 8 weeks.

This is what's confusing me.

It went from 0-100 very quickly from their message. Nothing in between.

I think most people here were worried last week about how much it was being downplayed. Almost overnight the pendulum has swung as far as possible in the opposite direction.

igCorcaigh · 10-03-2020 12:28AM

the butcher wrote: »

https://twitter.com/davidasinclair/status/1237156953928892419

With many people washing their hands, good, but an oily barrier on the skin too is essential.

The natural oil, sebum, acts as a natural barrier.
Good to use an oil on the skin after soap and water.

uck51js9zml2yt · 10-03-2020 12:28AM

all about the mane wrote: »

Who are going to run them?

Those who run them currently..
Great idea bye the way

kowloon · 10-03-2020 12:29AM

Funsterdelux wrote: »

Im not watching, aborting the elderly?

The seldom performed 300th-trimester abortion.

Mellor · 10-03-2020 12:29AM

eclipsechaser wrote: »

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 people 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...

Italy is currently has the highest infection rate. It's 0.015%, 2.5% is a long way away from there

owlbethere · 10-03-2020 12:29AM

expectationlost wrote: »

wtf vicky phelan? why is she on?

random non-experts this is why i don't usually watch the CB show

She's in isolation I think. I presume from a trip to the Limerick hospital.

leahyl · 10-03-2020 12:29AM

Christ, watching Claire Byrne Live is not good for your health tonight, never mind the corona virus :-(

all about the mane · 10-03-2020 12:29AM

Lydia Gigantic Prisoner wrote: »

Those who run them currently..
Great idea bye the way

What about the people who normally attend those facilities?

Cilldara_2000 · 10-03-2020 12:29AM

hotmail.com wrote: »

More senior members of the cabinet. Perhaps Charlie Flanagan or Richard Bruton.

Ah Jaysus. Bruton is competent but Flanagan! You do recall January?

Mervyn Skidmore · 10-03-2020 12:30AM

I work in the public sector. We are a mix of essential and non essential service. Basically, we're been told it's business as usual. At the veey least i was expecting a reduction in opening hours or a complete shut down of public office service as many of our customers can be dealt with through correspondence. There's one laptop to every 10 staff so working from home will be near impossible.

Larbre34 · 10-03-2020 12:30AM

There will be a Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Green Party government in place by the end of this week.

There will be a war committee of all the party leaders and appointed spokespersons established for opposition input and consent.

Micheal Martin will be Taoiseach and conceivably Leo may be Tánaiste with an emergency management portfolio. I don't think we'll see Harris back in a combined cabinet, but you will be looking at a very experienced government. Hopefully.

cnocbui · 10-03-2020 12:30AM

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Trumpy Wumpy talking lying through his teeth now,

Fixed the technical inaccuracy.

Strazdas · 10-03-2020 12:30AM

MD1990 wrote: »

I actually think they gone too pesimistic now.

Follow what China & Korea have done & it can greatly reduced.

The worry is will people have the discipline to live in lockdown possibly for months

Pessimistic? They practically have Ireland as like something out of a post-apocalypse disaster movie with deserted streets and half a million people dead.

owlbethere · 10-03-2020 12:30AM

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Every place the public interacts with should now have mandatory sanitising gel on entry and exit or be shut down.

That would be great if there wasn't such a run on them

Call Me Jimmy · 10-03-2020 12:30AM

all about the mane wrote: »

I just can’t see

Once they see the problems they will but I wish they could just watch and read about Italy's health system right now.

We're talking 3 weeks from a couple of cases to the health system is ****ed and the society is in lockdown. Obviously that's the first place in Europe but it's unlikely to be the last.

PaybackPayroll · 10-03-2020 12:30AM

eclipsechaser wrote: »

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...

Yes. How many ICU beds are already occupied, or are normally occupied?

I wonder where those ventilators are made? - A doctor in Italy said they were like gold.

CinemaGuy45 · 10-03-2020 12:30AM

all about the mane wrote: »

What about the ferries?

They are too big for airports and they don't have wings.

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