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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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    #6392
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users Posts: 3,133 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Only 24 cases here, so far ....

    That we know of.


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    #6393
    Water John
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    Those German stats would make sense in that, the mortality rate there is low from the virus.


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    #6394
    gabeeg
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    The Czech Rep. has closed all schools. 40 cases there.


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    #6395
    niallo27
    Registered Users Posts: 16,010 ✭✭✭✭niallo27


    otnomart wrote: »
    Age profile of patients in Germany seems to be much, much younger
    Source: https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus/Situationsberichte/Gesamt.html

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    This probably explains why their death rate is so low.


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    #6396
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    The Late Late Show have POSTPONED going to Limerick.

    Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse...


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    #6397
    Daz_
    Registered Users Posts: 930 ✭✭✭Daz_


    Would love to know why Sean O Rourke calls its Cawvid 19 !


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    #6398
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    If your a smoker or into vaping, stop now. Apparently it increases the risk factor according to data analyzed in China over the last few months. I have one with a drink at night but Im done now after reading that info.


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    #6399
    is_that_so
    Registered Users Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    gabeeg wrote: »
    We could've closed some or all schools. We could have encouraged a degree of social distancing. We could have encouraged employers to allow their staff to work from home.
    There's an array of things, some relatively painless, that we could've employed early on to improve our condition.

    Instead they told us that the risk was low, and that Paddy's day would still go ahead. But wash your hands.
    Vallance, a top UK medical bod, yesterday suggested that handwashing can reduce the risk of infection by 54% so yeah wash your hands. As for the other measures Holohan too went on to explain the likely phased use of them. The possible risk as he sees it is public fatigue or resistance if they are introduced too early or for too long and ultimately ignoring it.


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    #6400
    Lord Trollington
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    Heard there is a confirmed case in Naas hospital this morning .


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    #6401
    tobefrank321
    Registered Users Posts: 4,467 ✭✭✭tobefrank321


    Hamsterchops wrote: »
    Only 24 cases here, so far ....

    That we know of.

    Italy was at that stage a mere 3 weeks ago. No time for complacence.


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    #6402
    Hector Savage
    Registered Users Posts: 8,810 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    Irish Stones wrote: »
    As an Italian, I can tell you that all employees can sign an autocertification where they say that they are travelling from home to work and back.
    All that are eligible for smart working/home working can ask their employers for it. Where I work most of colleagues are home as from today. There are those who can't do their job from home, like me.

    It's ridicolous that it is possible to move for going to work, but can't move for anything else, as if the virus could tell the difference.

    All gyms, schools, cinemas, theatres are closed.
    Hotels are going to close because they got nearly 100% of booking cancellations for nearly the whole year.
    Bar and restaurants should stay closed, not really sure about this.

    Buses and trains can travel, and this is ridicolous as well.

    All transfers outside one's town or city has to be motivated with an absolutely nececessary reason.

    Otherwise the advice is to stay home.
    Because we're Italians, these rules will be hardly observed, I fear... Despite the threat of 3 months jail for those who break the rules.

    Our government has been shy, they are applying the rules they should have applied two or three weeks ago, when they thought that locking down 12 towns would have been enough.

    That's a quick overview of our situation here.

    What about grocery shopping ?
    Are local supermarkets still open and allowed to enter ?


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    #6403
    cnbyz
    Registered Users Posts: 92 ✭✭cnbyz


    bekker wrote: »
    The other potential time bomb is Turkey, 0 cases despite being surrounded by countries reporting cases including Iran. They are flat out lying and now trying to force thousands into EU through Greek border.
    I dont think they are lying .Doctors or patients would have leaked it. They took really strict isolation measures early on that most others didnt bother to. They closed the border with Iran and stopped all flights to and from China and Italy. (Italy is especially a very busy route for Turkey) I remember reading about one incident where they diverted an inbound flight from Iran and isolated every single passenger because flight crew reported sick people on board. Minister of Health in Turkey doesnt shy away from the fact that there might be people carrying the virus in Turkey and new cases might appear . They are trying to prevent that from happening as long as they can into the summer. The minister of health asked people who return from abroad to go to the nearest health clinic and get a medical certificate for 14 days. All they need is to present their passports. Sorry but thats strict.


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    #6404
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Assetbacked wrote: »
    This is pure scaremongering nonsense. A national paper should not be publishing this on its home page, people will read that and become extremely upset. In Ireland a decision has been made to not go down the lockdown route, otherwise (without extreme incompetence) we would already be doing it. Therefore, life will be going on as normal as possible.

    Funerals being discussed on RTE radio right now.


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    #6405
    Midnight Sundance
    Registered Users Posts: 798 ✭✭✭Midnight Sundance


    What exactly are the general symptoms of Corona? Hubby sent home cos he has a sore throat n runny nose. I've checked his temp, it's normal. We haven't travelled anywhere foreign or more than 10 miles from home. No confirmed cases in our part of country..yet.. but who's to say that half the country have it now n dont know about it?
    I've heard symptoms can be mild. Chances r hes a little head cold he caught from our son but of course now my mind is going Into overdrive.
    I'm pregnant n starting to worry.


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    #6406
    is_that_so
    Registered Users Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    South Korea - 35 cases today. Going the right way.


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    #6407
    eviltimeban
    Registered Users Posts: 5,088 ✭✭✭eviltimeban


    Deleted User wrote: »
    If your a smoker or into vaping, stop now. Apparently it increases the risk factor according to data analyzed in China over the last few months. I have one with a drink at night but Im done now after reading that info.

    Tobacco or something else?

    If it's something else, I read that that isn't as bad as it doesn't decrease your lung capacity. It just depends on how much you smoke. One joint in the evening probably isn't that bad. Joints all day long however, might be.


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    #6408
    LuckyLloyd
    Registered Users Posts: 36,191 ✭✭✭✭LuckyLloyd


    Midnight Sundance wrote: »
    What exactly are the general symptoms of Corona? Hubby sent home cos he has a sore throat n runny nose. I've checked his temp, it's normal. We haven't travelled anywhere foreign or more than 10 miles from home. No confirmed cases in our part of country..yet.. but who's to say that half the country have it now n dont know about it?
    I've heard symptoms can be mild. Chances r hes a little head cold he caught from our son but of course now my mind is going Into overdrive.
    I'm pregnant n starting to worry.

    Runny nose not normally one or the symptoms

    Cough
    Fever
    Shortness of breath
    Muscular pain
    Fatigue

    Seem to be the main symptoms. Runny nose, headache, diarrhoea, vomitus are present in a small amount of cases.


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    #6409
    gabeeg
    Registered Users Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭gabeeg


    is_that_so wrote: »
    Vallance, a top UK medical bod, yesterday suggested that handwashing can reduce the risk of infection by 54% so yeah wash your hands. As for the other measures Holohan too went on to explain the likely phased use of them. The possible risk as he sees it is public fatigue or resistance if they are introduced too early or for too long and ultimately ignoring it.

    I'm not arguing against handwashing.

    They've messed up in a multitude of ways. Here's another.

    Imagine for a second that you've just gotten back from Madrid and you've got symptoms of the virus. You, like many people, haven't been paying much attention until quite recently. You go to the HSE website for info, and it tells you not to bother unless you've been to China, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Iran, Japan or the following regions in Italy - Lombardy, Veneto, Emilia-Romagna or Piedmont.

    Do you ring? Probably not. You might well go to work if you're feeling up to it.

    And this also would explain why all of the explained cases we have are linked with Northern Italy

    https://www2.hse.ie/conditions/coronavirus/advice-for-people-returning-from-affected-areas.html


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    #6410
    Lord TSC
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    Finally convinced my parents to do some level of prep (though still don't see the point of utter panic). Four of us banding together to get a chest freezer, going to grab things we'd usually buy anyway (meat, etc).

    Brother is a teacher, father a taxi driver. Can see brother getting off work for a while soon, and father has said if that happens, he's going to take a few weeks off too.


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    #6411
    circadian
    Registered Users Posts: 6,918 ✭✭✭circadian


    Midnight Sundance wrote: »
    What exactly are the general symptoms of Corona? Hubby sent home cos he has a sore throat n runny nose. I've checked his temp, it's normal. We haven't travelled anywhere foreign or more than 10 miles from home. No confirmed cases in our part of country..yet.. but who's to say that half the country have it now n dont know about it?
    I've heard symptoms can be mild. Chances r hes a little head cold he caught from our son but of course now my mind is going Into overdrive.
    I'm pregnant n starting to worry.

    Sore throat is a symptom but from what I can tell a runny nose is extremely rare (around 4% of cases reported it in a study). It's a lower respiratory illness so if he develops a fever and a harsh dry cough then I'd be contacting GP, but it's probably a head cold. I think I'm on my 4th or 5th cold this season since the two kids bring literally everything home.


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    #6412
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users Posts: 3,133 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    is_that_so wrote: »
    South Korea - 35 cases today. Going the right way.

    The right way?

    How, why, what?


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    #6413
    Irish Stones
    Registered Users Posts: 2,307 ✭✭✭Irish Stones


    Hector Savage wrote: »
    What about grocery shopping ?
    Are local supermarkets still open and allowed to enter ?


    Very good question, thanks, I forgot to say.

    All shops and supermarkets are open, provided that people do not gather in large groups and they keep distance.
    At the beginning of the crisis, people would stock large amounts of everything and the shelves were empty, but now things appear to be quieter.
    It is possible to ask for a home delivery of shopping. Many shops and pharmacies offer this solution for free.


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    #6414
    05eaftqbrs9jlh
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    If your a smoker or into vaping, stop now. Apparently it increases the risk factor according to data analyzed in China over the last few months. I have one with a drink at night but Im done now after reading that info.
    I've seen evidence to suggest that smokers were not a higher risk factor so you're going to have to post a link. The article I read made sense to me and it was Bruce Aylward so I will need evidence to change my mind.

    Newstalk has Cathal Friel from the OpenOrphan vaccine company saying that Spring's arrival will see us all naturally immunised. But then if we're all naturally saved by the good weather, who will be getting their product? Agenda-driven nonsense, I hope I'm around to tell my grandchildren (or more likely, grand nieces and nephews) about the propaganda we've been subjected to over the last week.


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    #6415
    silverharp
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    otnomart wrote: »
    Age profile of patients in Germany seems to be much, much younger

    maybe just reflects more testing, once they aren't getting critical with it.

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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    #6416
    is_that_so
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    Hamsterchops wrote: »
    The right way?

    How, why, what?
    Downward trend.


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    #6417
    Monkeynut
    Registered Users Posts: 590 ✭✭✭Monkeynut


    Funsterdelux wrote: »
    You know its the logical thing to do.

    Ive a shed full of loo roll, but I never poop :rolleyes:


    I went down to the river and collected hundreds of doc leaves, I brought them home and stuck them in the freezer.


    If anyone needs to go, pop a couple in the microwave at defrost for 16 seconds.


    Ahh nice and leafy on the backside. Just as nature intended.


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    #6418
    Kaisr Sose
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    Hamsterchops wrote: »
    Only 24 cases here, so far ....

    That we know of.

    So 24 confirmed cases then.


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    #6419
    Tacitus Kilgore
    Registered Users Posts: 2,128 ✭✭✭Tacitus Kilgore


    Lord Trollington wrote: »
    Heard there is a confirmed case in Naas hospital this morning .


    Heard? Where? Source?


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    #6420
    rebeve
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    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    The Late Late Show have POSTPONED going to Limerick.

    Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse...

    Coventry is available .


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    #6421
    [Deleted User]
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    eviltimeban wrote: »
    Tobacco or something else?

    If it's something else, I read that that isn't as bad as it doesn't decrease your lung capacity. It just depends on how much you smoke. One joint in the evening probably isn't that bad. Joints all day long however, might be.

    Tobacco / cigarettes. It stated that men were more likely to have contracted coronavirus than women in China, and on average a lot more men smoke than women.


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