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Galway COVID-19, local news and discussion

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  • #32
    beardybrewer
    Registered Users Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭beardybrewer


    All parades cancelled country-wide now:
    https://www.thejournal.ie/st-patricks-day-celebrations-postponed-5029661-Mar2020/?utm_source=shortlink

    Glad they made the right call.

    @youngrun you might want to educate yourself a bit on it. If we take the Italian death rate of 3% against the predicted 1.9 million estimated to contract the virus that's a death toll of 57,000 which is a pretty big deal.

    https://www.irishcentral.com/news/19-million-irish-coronavirus

    This guy predicts way more than that. I guess his opinion of Ireland's health service isn't up to much: https://extra.ie/2020/03/09/news/irish-news/doctor-coronavirus-society-ireland-lives


  • #33
    Storm 10
    Registered Users Posts: 5,871 ✭✭✭Storm 10


    youngrun wrote: »
    Totally disagree

    The whole thing is blown out of proportion

    What about the flu 44 dead this winter

    https://www.rte.ie/news/health/2020/0116/1107907-flu-hse-winter-season/

    Why is flu jab not madatory why no outcry

    How many dead this winter from driving. Ban cars and solve the traffic

    May as well lock oneself away and wither away . isolating and cutting people off only leads to more issues depression mental health etc

    Panic by media and government

    I agree with you on this I was reading last night about the Swine Flu in 2009. It killed 570 thousand people worldwide, 13 thousand in the US, 30 in Ireland and over 1000 thousand Irish were in ICU, there was no non stop news at the time on Sky or anywhere else, the was no nightly medical updates in Ireland etc life just went on, this is definitely being led by the media we need to calm down on this .


  • #34
    youngrun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,477 ✭✭✭youngrun


    beardybrewer wrote: »
    All parades cancelled country-wide now:
    https://www.thejournal.ie/st-patricks-day-celebrations-postponed-5029661-Mar2020/?utm_source=shortlink

    Glad they made the right call.

    @youngrun you might want to educate yourself a bit on it. If we take the Italian death rate of 3% against the predicted 1.9 million estimated to contract the virus that's a death toll of 57,000 which is a pretty big deal.

    https://www.irishcentral.com/news/19-million-irish-coronavirus

    This guy predicts way more than that. I guess his opinion of Ireland's health service isn't up to much: https://extra.ie/2020/03/09/news/irish-news/doctor-coronavirus-society-ireland-lives

    Anyone can say any amount of numbers. Whats the basis ?? Id like to see the model. 33 cases so far how does that equate to 1.9 m and when

    Panic Panic Panic AAAGH and its working!

    Same with all the other ones Zika in 2016 anyone,. Swine Flu etc etc .

    There are reasons behind it all but not for us to know.


  • #35
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users Posts: 25,659 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    inisboffin wrote: »
    Genuine question. I don't see the logic in selective isolation. Perhaps it is limiting but to me it is actually prolonging?

    It's about stopping hospitals, undertakers and cemeteries getting overwhelmed if everyone gets sick at the same time. Same number of deaths, just slower.


  • #36
    ceatharloch
    Registered Users Posts: 210 ✭✭ceatharloch


    I find https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
    https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
    a very good updated source for CoVid-19 information worldwide (but also locally).:)


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  • #37
    inisboffin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,385 ✭✭✭inisboffin


    Mrs OBumble wrote: »
    It's about stopping hospitals, undertakers and cemeteries getting overwhelmed if everyone gets sick at the same time. Same number of deaths, just slower.

    Jesus. Yep it's prolonging I agree.

    People seem to think it's protecting but yep. So many thinking it will be 'grand'. Only sensible comment is from a friend who said 'I'd rather get it now as I'm busier later in the year'. But then again they haven't decided if we can catch it multiple times or not have they?


  • #38
    timmyntc
    Registered Users Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭timmyntc


    Mrs OBumble wrote: »
    It's about stopping hospitals, undertakers and cemeteries getting overwhelmed if everyone gets sick at the same time. Same number of deaths, just slower.

    Not same number of deaths, less.
    If everyone gets sick at the same time - hospitals are overwhelmed and more people die.


  • #39
    beardybrewer
    Registered Users Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭beardybrewer


    ceatharloch wrote: »
    I find https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
    https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
    a very good updated source for CoVid-19 information worldwide (but also locally).:)

    My favourite is this
    https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

    and this
    https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1yCPR-ukAgE55sROnmBUFmtLN6riVLTu3&ll=51.34610992100265%2C-5.325938585551967&z=6

    Regarding reinfection you won't be immune for life but you shouldn't catch it again in a few weeks. You should have some immunity for a while (few years) based on other coronaviruses.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/health/coronavirus-reinfection.html

    Also head of the WHO said unlike influenza the coronavirus isn't seasonal and can continue at the same rate through the warmer summer months.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/06/its-a-false-hope-coronavirus-will-disappear-in-the-summer-like-the-flu-who-says.html


  • #40
    Zzippy
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 14,166 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zzippy


    Mrs OBumble wrote: »
    It's about stopping hospitals, undertakers and cemeteries getting overwhelmed if everyone gets sick at the same time. Same number of deaths, just slower.

    It's actually not the same number of deaths. Slowing the spread means a longer period but less intense pressure on health services, so there is more capacity to cope. Therefore less deaths.


  • #41
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Guys, please try to keep things somewhat local in this thread.
    There are plenty threads elsewhere for general discussion. Thanks.


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  • #42
    Whereisgalway
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,470 ✭✭✭Whereisgalway


    biko wrote: »
    Guys, please try to keep things somewhat local in this thread.
    There are plenty threads elsewhere for general discussion. Thanks.

    If the mods put in rules of the form like they do with most threads of nature it would help reduced the scaremongering and rumours


  • #43
    zell12
    Registered Users Posts: 23,301 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    Council meeting moved from City Hall to Galmont hotel to allow more space so people were not sitting next to one another..
    Yet it's ok for students, schoolkids, workers, patients, train users, bus users, etc, to be next to each other.
    Ridiculous. No accountability in City Hall
    https://twitter.com/OwenHanleyLives/status/1237000527021518848?s=20


  • #44
    ChewyLouie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 511 ✭✭✭ChewyLouie


    Zzippy wrote: »
    So eh, anyone know where someone could get hand sanitiser in Galway these days?

    Anyone got an answer to this?...


  • #45
    ben.schlomo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,968 ✭✭✭✭ben.schlomo


    ChewyLouie wrote: »
    Anyone got an answer to this?...

    Flanagan's opposite Anthony Ryan's had small bottles last Thursday, 3.50 and 2 per person.


  • #46
    flazio
    Registered Users Posts: 12,783 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    Make some out of that awful booze you got for Christmas that you have no intention of drinking.
    Alcohol is a great disinfectant.


  • #47
    beardybrewer
    Registered Users Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭beardybrewer


    Most spirits top out around 80 proof so aren't above the 60% required to kill the virus.

    Leo Walsh Pharmacy had small bottles for a price gouging €5 (i still bought 2).


  • #48
    Whereisgalway
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,470 ✭✭✭Whereisgalway


    Soap and water is the most effective way of killing the virus, there is so much wrong and miss information in this thread it’s comical.


  • #49
    ChewyLouie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 511 ✭✭✭ChewyLouie


    Whereisgalway wrote: »
    Soap and water is the most effective way of killing the virus, there is so much wrong and miss information in this thread it’s comical.

    I've looked into it and you're right soap and water seems to do the trick, sorted so.


  • #50
    Whereisgalway
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,470 ✭✭✭Whereisgalway


    Soap and water is the most effective way of killing the virus, there is so much wrong and miss information in this thread it’s comical.


  • #51
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Whereisgalway wrote: »
    Soap and water is the most effective way of killing the virus, there is so much wrong and miss information in this thread it’s comical.

    Difficult to carry soap and water around with you or have it at your desk at work etc for regular disinfecting everything you arrive back etc.

    Also alcohol will kill the virus of that there is no doubt, you don’t see soap and water being used for disinfecting you see alcohol.


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  • #52
    Whereisgalway
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,470 ✭✭✭Whereisgalway


    Fernando Muscular Sibilant wrote: »
    Difficult to carry soap and water around with you or have it at your desk at work etc for regular disinfecting everything you arrive back etc.

    Also alcohol will kill the virus of that there is no doubt, you don’t see soap and water being used for disinfecting you see alcohol.

    Surgeons use soap and water
    All workplaces even building sites have access to running water


  • #53
    Arghus
    Registered Users Posts: 14,320 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Whereisgalway wrote: »
    Surgeons use soap and water
    All workplaces even building sites have access to running water

    Nope. I've worked in places that did not have access to running water.


  • #54
    ArtyC
    Registered Users Posts: 1,504 ✭✭✭ArtyC


    Whereisgalway wrote: »
    Surgeons use soap and water
    All workplaces even building sites have access to running water

    I’ve always carried anti bac , definitely soap and water but I deal with the public & money ... can’t be running off to wash my hands every min.


  • #55
    rambunctious1
    Registered Users Posts: 58 ✭✭rambunctious1


    Soap is effective because it destroys the virus's fat membrane and it basically falls apart. This is why washing with soap is the recommended solution. For most people, in most situations, this is the recommended method of keeping the virus at bay. Go mad with the hand sanitiser all you like but wash your hands as often as you can.


    Also, someone might post the following gif. Illustrates why we should try and stop the spread as quickly as possible and why "it'll be grand" will endanger us all.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019#/media/File:Covid-19-curves-graphic-social-v3.gif


  • #56
    Zzippy
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 14,166 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zzippy


    Whereisgalway wrote: »
    Surgeons use soap and water
    All workplaces even building sites have access to running water

    You do realise a lot of people work outdoors, right? Some even work in - get this - remote locations!


  • #57
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Whereisgalway wrote: »
    Surgeons use soap and water
    All workplaces even building sites have access to running water

    Not all places have but even if they do I don't have a sink at my desk, I have to handle doors, my swipe cards, light switches etc etc on my way to my desk so when I get there I would like to have hand sanitiser to disinfect. I can't get any though as its all sold out.

    Also alcohol is one of the oldest and most widely used disinfectants so you surely aren't trying to claim it doesn't work?


  • #58
    cal naughton
    Registered Users Posts: 378 ✭✭cal naughton


    Zzippy wrote: »
    You do realise a lot of people work outdoors, right? Some even work in - get this - remote locations!

    What is to stop anyone bringing a water bottle to a remote location?


  • #59
    Kingp35
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 12,244 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kingp35


    Fernando Muscular Sibilant wrote: »
    Also alcohol is one of the oldest and most widely used disinfectants so you surely aren't trying to claim it doesn't work?

    A bottle of vodka doesn't work. 70% isopropyl rubbing alcohol does.

    However as already stated, soap is by far the most effective.


  • #60
    timmyntc
    Registered Users Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭timmyntc


    Zzippy wrote: »
    You do realise a lot of people work outdoors, right? Some even work in - get this - remote locations!

    Who are you going to contract the virus from in a remote location?


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  • #61
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Kingp35 wrote: »
    A bottle of vodka doesn't work. 70% isopropyl rubbing alcohol does.

    However as already stated, soap is by far the most effective.

    I didn't think it was necessary to point out alcohol was in reference to very high purity disinfectant grade alcohol not to drinking alcohol.

    Though if you have absintine or poitin lying around it would be strong enough, best kept for drinking though.

    A few people appear to have a real issue with using alcohol and hand sanitisers as a disinfectant its bizarre, it's bordering on an agenda against them. Must be a lot of shareholders in soap companies around here....


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