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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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  • #5762
    RandomName2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭RandomName2


    tillyfilly wrote: »
    These lot running the show remind me of cowen n lenihan back in 2009

    Remember when Hurricane Katrina happened and you had the governor of Louisiana just start crying on stage (before the hurricane struck) and people were just dumbfounded saying 'Hey. Please do something about this. This is your job'


  • #5763
    Tootsie_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 309 ✭✭Tootsie_1


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

    I agree , he knows way more than we do and he definitely knows our health system can’t cope with this if we do end up having thousands of cases.


  • #5764
    nocoverart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,354 ✭✭✭nocoverart


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    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.

    What the fook is an oily barrier and are Tesco sold out of oily barriers already?


  • #5765
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,147 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    Cilldara_2000 wrote: »
    Supplied by whom?
    Same people who supplied the foot and mouth accessories.


  • #5766
    Downlinz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭Downlinz


    MD1990 wrote: »
    I actually think they gone too pesimistic now.

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

    That means upsetting businesses which is something FG are eternally reluctant to do.

    It was always easy to contain this when China showed the way. Cancel mass gatherings, close the schools, ban flights from outbreak areas and encourage those that can to work from home.
    It's a matter of political will to do those things before it gets out of control like in Italy.


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  • #5767
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


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

    Up 60 of the population infected with a 2 to 3% death rate is nowhere near half a million dead nobody ever said that.


  • #5768
    Sam Quentin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,237 ✭✭✭Sam Quentin


    Mental Mickey wrote: »
    I think he's an idiot. We need to shut airports now!!
    all about the mane wrote: »
    What about the ferries?


    Jaysizzzzzz Creeeeest between the two of yis we'll have another famine....


  • #5769
    tobefrank321
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,527 ✭✭✭tobefrank321


    Hamsterchops wrote: »
    Current trends?

    We've only notched up three cases since last Friday, with a total of 24, hardly a dramatic trend?

    Read my earlier post. 20 cases by end of week 1. 40 by end of week 2. 10,000 by end of week 10 based on cases doubling every week.
    Suppose I'll have to do the maths too.
    W1 - 20
    W2 - 40
    W3 - 80
    W4 - 160
    W5 - 320
    W6 - 640
    W7 - 1280
    W8 - 2560
    W9 - 5120
    W10 - 10240

    Italy probably followed a similar trend.


  • #5770
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    all about the mane wrote: »
    What about the ferries?

    Its a well known fact, the coronavirus gets sea sick.


  • #5771
    all about the mane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,401 ✭✭✭all about the mane


    Call Me Jimmy wrote: »
    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.
    Problem is, by the time the problems are evident to everyone it will be too late


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  • #5772
    expectationlost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,475 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    owlbethere wrote: »
    She's in isolation I think. I presume from a trip to the Limerick hospital.
    offering herself as contact tracer , f off, she can speak to her personal circumstances and her professional knowledge of education but thats it.


  • #5773
    uck51js9zml2yt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    all about the mane wrote: »
    What about the people who normally attend those facilities?

    Most are elective...not all I admit.


  • #5774
    Lord Trollington
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,419 ✭✭✭Lord Trollington


    Anyone else think the mood and vibe has changed on the Claire Byrne show since last week.

    It has become a lot more serious and the talking is a lot more straight from everyone.


  • #5775
    all about the mane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,401 ✭✭✭all about the mane


    Lydia Gigantic Prisoner wrote: »
    Most are elective...not all I admit.

    Have you figures for that? What about the ones that are not elective?


  • #5776
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,384 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Mervyn Skidmore wrote: »
    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.

    That sounds totally unprepared.

    One of my friends works in the University sector, and can work from home, but uses their own laptop.

    Seems that most staff in public have desktops rather than laptops?

    Hard to work from home then.


  • #5777
    Larbre34
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,438 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


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

    No, 90,000 dead at upper estimates.

    3 million ill but not all at once and mild symptoms for the most part.


  • #5778
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,113 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Can't keep up with this - blink and 10 pages have gone by


  • #5779
    theguzman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,084 ✭✭✭theguzman


    I wonder how many thousands will have to die in Ireland before people wake up and see the disgrace that is socialised medicine in our country!


  • #5780
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,598 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Just to remind people ......

    We only have 24 cases to date!

    It's not like we're dropping like flies. Only three new cases since last Friday, while many predicted that we'd hit thirty or forty cases by this evening.


  • #5781
    tillyfilly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 567 ✭✭✭tillyfilly


    Is the virus bio luminescent?


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  • #5782
    Strazdas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,285 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    Up 60 of the population infected with a 2 to 3% death rate is nowhere near half a million dead nobody ever said that.

    The vibe of this show is disgraceful. I'd say any OAP watching it is absolutely freaked.

    Telling people that 50-60% of the population will have the virus soon is outrageous stuff. It can do no good.


  • #5783
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    Lord Trollington wrote: »
    Anyone else think the mood and vibe has changed on the Claire Byrne show since last week.

    It has become a lot more serious and the talking is a lot more straight from everyone.

    About time the media and Government today are giving out a much more grim message than any of us here ever did.


  • #5784
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,384 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Larbre34 wrote: »
    No, 90,000 dead at upper estimates.

    3 million ill but not all at once and mild symptoms for the most part.

    Not at all at once, which will mean interventions.


  • #5785
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    Any word on the 177 medical staff in isolation?


  • #5786
    all about the mane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,401 ✭✭✭all about the mane


    Hamsterchops wrote: »
    Just to remind people ......

    We only have 24 cases to date!

    It's not like we're dropping like flies. Only three new cases since last Friday, while many predicted that we'd hit thirty or forty cases by this evening.

    I’d still prefer to be proactive rather than reactive


  • #5787
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    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.

    Because of what is happen in Italy and Spain and how quickly its evolved in those countries is terrifying to governments around the world.


  • #5788
    Moomoomacshoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 104 ✭✭Moomoomacshoe


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

    None in schools


  • #5789
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,147 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    This is like soft porn on Claire Byrne Live.


  • #5790
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,610 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    soap disolves the fat in the virus...

    honestly haven't heard that from anywhere before


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  • #5791
    expectationlost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,475 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    Hamsterchops wrote: »
    Just to remind people ......

    We only have 24 cases to date!

    It's not like we're dropping like flies. Only three new cases since last Friday, while many predicted that we'd hit thirty or forty cases by this evening.
    more then that since friday


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