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

10-03-2020 01:51AM

Are flights still leaving Italy or stopped???
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/coronavirus-covid-19-italy-travel-ban-easyjet-british-airways-foreign-office-a9385801.html

Cork Boy 53 · 10-03-2020 01:51AM

With a positive case of the virus confirmed in the town of Cheltenham yesterday and with the racing festival about to get underway is there a realistic estimate of the number of Irish who have travelled or will travel there over the next few days. What measures are likely to be taken to test them when they arrive home at the airports and ferryports? I think very little or none.

thenightman · 10-03-2020 01:51AM

Rob A. Bank wrote: »

They are doing the courts by video link in the UK I understand... I imagine it would be the same here.

Wouldn't have the capacity or staff to video link every criminal arrested in one Garda district in Dublin daily nevermind the country. Garda station cells would fill up, (quickly) if prisoners weren't being brought before the court every day. Every person arrested on a warrant has to be brought before a court. Every person arrested for a serious offence has to be brought before a court. Add in that every person remanded in custody has to be brought before the court every 8, 15 or 30 days depending on what stage remand is at too.

Could probably close the courts to the public with just court staff, legal staff, gardai and prison service allowed attend. Potentially pause any new jury trials and selections.

05eaftqbrs9jlh · 10-03-2020 01:54AM

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Shows the fear out there if nothing else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sukVEDGYi1I

I mean, they don't KNOW for sure that he doesn't have it, even after he says he doesn't. He doesn't even know if he has it. He couldn't know for certain unless he was tested.

Cork Boy 53 wrote: »

With a positive case of the virus confirmed in the town of Cheltenham yesterday and with the racing festival about to get underway is there a realistic estimate of the number of Irish who have travelled or will travel there over the next few days. What measures are likely to be taken to test them when they arrive home at the airports and ferryports? I think very little or none.

You can be sure of that. Do you think if there was a disease killing horses confirmed over that they'd be all bringing their horses? And yet this isn't a deterrent. Gambling is a pox.

ArchXStanton · 10-03-2020 01:54AM

ArchXStanton wrote: »

Just read an interview with an English guy that lives in wutan, he got the virus before it was officially announced and was describing his ordeal, he was saying he regularly goes to that market and has never seen bat's, live koalas or anything like that

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8075633/amp/First-British-victim-25-describes-coronavirus.html

tillyfilly · 10-03-2020 01:55AM

lainey_d_123 wrote: »

Devastating.

I wonder now do the Chinese think they're so clever with their live animal markets which flout international regulations, now they have thousands of people's blood on their hands and disrupted people's lives all around the world.

I wonder now will they stop to think that there's a reason these regulations exist.

At many wet markets, meat, poultry, and seafood are sold alongside live animals for consumption.

bekker · 10-03-2020 01:55AM

Mwengwe wrote: »

OK but this really doesn't have much to do with the post I was replying to.
If anything it reinforces the fact that the authorities/experts should be putting the ****s up people.

My response was to sentiments you expressed, not Strazdas' usual comments.

nocoverart · 10-03-2020 01:57AM

lainey_d_123 wrote: »

Devastating.

I wonder now do the Chinese think they're so clever with their live animal markets which flout international regulations, now they have thousands of people's blood on their hands and disrupted people's lives all around the world.

I wonder now will they stop to think that there's a reason these regulations exist.

Honestly, fook the Chinese Government and fook their culture for this sh1t show! how more people aren’t disgusted by their ways is beyond me. I’ll probably get more hate for this comment than they will for compromising the Globe.

tobefrank321 · 10-03-2020 01:59AM

joe40 wrote: »

Yeah, I agree with slowing it down, I just feel that the more extreme measures will be impossible to enforce over a long time period. There would be economic collapse and possibly crowd trouble.
I'm all for better hygiene, stopping large crowds such as parades and even banning flights from infected areas, but I would prefer things which could be done over an extended period of several months/years. I feel the virus isn't going away so things like school closures for several weeks just aren't sustainable and may be ineffective in the long run.

There's going to be economic collapse either way. That's a given.

lainey_d_123 · 10-03-2020 02:00AM

nocoverart wrote: »

Honestly, fook the Chinese Government and fook their culture for this sh1t show! how more people aren’t disgusted by their ways is beyond me. I’ll probably get more hate for this comment than they will for compromising the Globe.

I feel the same way. It's literally all their fault. If they had not flouted regulations and refused to do as they were asked after SARS, none of this would be happening. We'd all be going about our lives as normal, people in Italy wouldn't be dying in their homes because there aren't enough hospital beds.

And how are they going to be punished for all this? They won't be.

tobefrank321 · 10-03-2020 02:01AM

bekker wrote: »

Hopefully that is incorrect and they are obtaining a range of view from diverse sources, otherwise group think and confirmation bias could have serious effects.

Whoever they are getting it from is hopeless.

DVDM93 · 10-03-2020 02:03AM

the latest doing the rounds; NUIG.

Ursabear · 10-03-2020 02:03AM

nocoverart wrote: »

Honestly, fook the Chinese Government and fook their culture for this sh1t show! how more people aren’t disgusted by their ways is beyond me. I’ll probably get more hate for this comment than they will for compromising the Globe.

It's a virus, a virus could start here next year. They have started in Europe before and we spread them to the Americas etc. An ancient virus could release from the melting permafrost. I don't think it's helpful to blame an entire country or culture .

Loafing Oaf · 10-03-2020 02:04AM

tobefrank321 wrote: »

Whoever they are getting it from is hopeless.

I wonder are the experts too reluctant too recommend radical, disruptive measures out of political/economic concerns. The government should be saying to them "You tell us what is the best course of action from a purely public health perspective, let us worry about the other aspects."

Mwengwe · 10-03-2020 02:04AM

bekker wrote: »

My response was to sentiments you expressed, not Strazdas' usual comments.

And my sentiments in response to that post are being misinterpreted by you as a 'don't panic, carry on as normal' thing which they aren't.
It's no big deal, just clarifying.

cnocbui · 10-03-2020 02:07AM

Hah!

Trump administration bases coronavirus advice on Australian research

https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/trump-administration-bases-coronavirus-advice-on-australian-research-20200310-p548ib.html

un5byh7sqpd2x0 · 10-03-2020 02:08AM

lainey_d_123 wrote: »

Devastating.

I wonder now do the Chinese think they're so clever with their live animal markets which flout international regulations, now they have thousands of people's blood on their hands and disrupted people's lives all around the world.

I wonder now will they stop to think that there's a reason these regulations exist.

What international regulations are these???

fritzelly · 10-03-2020 02:10AM

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Shows the fear out there if nothing else.

I laughed at that too much, especially the woman in red

igCorcaigh · 10-03-2020 02:11AM

Worth a watch from C4

https://youtu.be/n6TOlFfe-zI

dwayneshintzy · 10-03-2020 02:11AM

"F**k the Chinese government" is fair enough. "F**k Chinese culture" is out and out racism, nocoverart and lainey_d_123 .

nocoverart · 10-03-2020 02:14AM

Ursabear wrote: »

It's a virus, a virus could start here next year. They have started in Europe before and we spread them to the Americas etc. An ancient virus could release from the melting permafrost. I don't think it's helpful to blame an entire country or culture .

How? perhaps from drinking Guinness too quickly. Come on! they need to be held accountable for this. Third pathogen from them this Century BTW. Nothing against the everyday Chinese folk but the Government and the culture in general needs addressing. Wake up!

dwayneshintzy · 10-03-2020 02:15AM

nocoverart wrote: »

How? perhaps from drinking Guinness too quickly. Come on! they need to be held accountable for this. Third pathogen from them this Century BTW. Nothing against the everyday Chinese folk but the Government and the culture in general needs addressing. Wake up!

Which culture, nocoverart? Since you seem such an expert on Chinese "culture".

What do you suggest the world does with "them" (Chinese people)?

Mwengwe · 10-03-2020 02:16AM

dwayneshintzy wrote: »

Which culture, nocoverart? Since you seem such an expert on Chinese "culture".

I think these posters are being overly blunt, sweeping etc ... probably borderline xenophobic about it but there are deeply-rooted issues that have no easy solution

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/25/coronavirus-closures-reveal-vast-scale-of-chinas-secretive-wildlife-farm-industry

Cork Boy 53 · 10-03-2020 02:17AM

nocoverart wrote: »

How? perhaps from drinking Guinness too quickly. Come on! they need to be held accountable for this. Third pathogen from them this Century BTW. Nothing against the everyday Chinese folk but the Government and the culture in general needs addressing. Wake up!

Exactly who is going to hold them accountable do you reckon?

igCorcaigh · 10-03-2020 02:19AM

Every country with industrialised animal farming increases our risk of zoonotic transmission, just look at Big Farma in USA, probably not so much different in EU regarding pigs

Pigs can be a huge vector risk.

dwayneshintzy · 10-03-2020 02:20AM

Mwengwe wrote: »

I think these posters are being overly blunt, sweeping etc about it but there are deeply-rooted issues that have no easy solution

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/25/coronavirus-closures-reveal-vast-scale-of-chinas-secretive-wildlife-farm-industry

Yes, but there's a difference between acknowledging that there's a major problem with wet markets in many areas of China, and simply saying "fook their culture" and that something needs to be done about them as a people.

owlbethere · 10-03-2020 02:20AM

Thingymebob wrote: »

My sister In law works in a university, admin role. They were told today that academics have laptops so can work from home. Students can learn from home. Admin staff have desktops so must be in the office. She can’t roll her chair back without hitting someone so no social distancing for her. Those with children will possibly be exempt. So she will have to work and she’ll have to cover her colleagues workloads

The taps in our work loos are all screw handles and only hand dryers so you wash your hands, but as soon as you turn the water off, you’re contaminated again. :

Is there a sink plug!

Mwengwe · 10-03-2020 02:21AM

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Every country with industrialised animal farming increases our risk of zoonotic transmission, just look at big farma in USA, probably not so much different in EU regarding pigs

Pigs can be a huge vector risk.

This is true, but the risk is tenfold when you throw exotic animals and lax regulations into the equation.

Mwengwe · 10-03-2020 02:21AM

dwayneshintzy wrote: »

Yes, but there's a difference between acknowledging that there's a major problem with wet markets in many areas of China, and simply saying "fook their culture" and that something needs to be done about them as a people.

Agreed.

10-03-2020 02:21AM

Pretty disgusting comments.

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