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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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  • #6872
    Cazale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,908 ✭✭✭Cazale


    Gaspode wrote:
    I assume there are bathrooms? Wash your hands with soap and water, what's the biggie?

    Actually there wasn't any public toilets on the floor I was on. If you have to take a detour people won't bother. The Costa down the road wouldn't let you through the door without hand sanitizing.


  • #6873
    D.Q
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,054 ✭✭✭D.Q


    facehugger99 wrote: »
    Any good novels that have most of the world getting wiped out by a superbug as the premise?

    Obviously The Stand is one - any other good ones?

    The opening chapters of the Stand detailing the spread are absolutely sensational. Chilling stuff.


  • #6874
    Tacitus Kilgore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,128 ✭✭✭Tacitus Kilgore


    tobefrank321 wrote: »
    Unlikely.
    They continued to put their own staff, passengers and those on the ground at risk. Highly irresponsible.

    Spreading CV was always going to undermine the rest of their business. The more infections in places like Ireland, the less people will travel here.

    They scored a massive own goal and because they delayed taking action they put the whole airline industry at risk throughout Europe. Foolish to say the least.


    Were ryanair the only airline operating out of Italy?


  • #6875
    YFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    Pudsy33 wrote: »
    This isn't really the point though. He's a potential carrier and has been going around for 10 days potentially infecting others. That's why we need the test results. Self-isolation without test is l well and good if you've just arrived from Italy, not so much if you've been back for weeks.

    Fair enough. Anyone come down with flu or coronavirus symptoms should now self isolate. Anyone with influenza shouldn't be at work anyway


  • #6876
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    facehugger99 wrote: »
    Any good novels that have most of the world getting wiped out by a superbug as the premise?

    Obviously The Stand is one - any other good ones?

    Earth Abides


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  • #6877
    Tacitus Kilgore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,128 ✭✭✭Tacitus Kilgore


    Eliana Uptight Caterpillar wrote: »
    Yes.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=505189&d=1583845037]
    Significant

    They have made an absolute cock-up of this, I'm sorry to say. Can we act unilaterally yet or is it still business as usual, jetting off for a few München brewskies?



    I haven't decided yet, it will depend on what happens and what advices are issued over the coming days, I do suspect I will not be travelling though if it helps.




    Find any posts to back up your false claim yet btw?


  • #6878
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    LuckyGent88 wrote: »
    **** is really hitting the fan now. Sport events cancelled or behind closed door everywhere, schools closing, airlines stopping routes and everyone asked to work from home.

    It’s all a bit surreal really and I’m supposed to fly back to Ireland with our baby for the first time in 3 weeks!!!

    Deep breath now, 3 weeks is a long time!


  • #6879
    timmyntc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,609 ✭✭✭timmyntc


    Deleted User wrote: »
    It was 5G and Bill Gates the whole time. Jim Corr has fully lost the plot

    My favourite by far is that Bill Gates is some kind of Mr Burns style villain trying to block out the sun


  • #6880
    otnomart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭otnomart


    New measure in France:
    Local elections are going ahead but Interior minister tells voters to bring their own pen
    https://www.bfmtv.com/politique/pour-eviter-le-coronavirus-ramenez-votre-propre-stylo-castaner-devoile-ses-instructions-pour-les-municipales-1872531.html


  • #6881
    Naggdefy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,981 ✭✭✭Naggdefy


    New Home wrote: »
    Does anyone remember the BBC series "Survivors" from the mid/late '70s? :/

    I do. Great watch. It's all on YouTube.


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  • #6882
    Jakey Rolling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,011 ✭✭✭Jakey Rolling


    As an aside - I can't believe there's only 56 cases declared in India. Covid-19 was first confirmed there on Jan 30th. With a population of 1.3billion and a large proportion of the them in squalid living conditions I'd expect it to be a hotbed for spread of this virus.

    100412.2526@compuserve.com



  • #6883
    lainey_d_123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,385 ✭✭✭lainey_d_123


    is_that_so wrote: »
    Deep breath now, 3 weeks is a long time!

    Not really, though. Can't see it getting any better in 3 weeks, only worse.


  • #6884
    saabsaab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,718 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    Eliana Uptight Caterpillar wrote: »
    Yes.

    505189.jpg
    Significant

    They have made an absolute cock-up of this, I'm sorry to say. Can we act unilaterally yet or is it still business as usual, jetting off for a few München brewskies?


    Cork are acting "unilaterally" and going over the head of the HSE. We saw it first at CUH (not just "a man in the South of Ireland" but a patient at CUH) because from a health standpoint it's irresponsible not to warn people that they may have had contact (like the doctor in Clare). Then The Bons private hospital made the announcement themselves, probably for the very same reason, as a private hospital with a litany of settlements they've had to pay people due to negligence and other issues (Google "Bons Secours court settlements). Apple, I know two bosses there and I haven't spoken to them in a while but the kind of people they are, I know that their attitude would be "I am in my f*ck risking that". It doesn't explain why only some divisions of Apple are closed, but I guess "best practice" is having to be adhered to at the moment. It could wind up being something that puts employees hugely at risk, but I hope it isn't.


    Cork as usual leading the way here. As Kington Mills said on radio today it makes common sense to stop importing cases from hot spots too. This is going to change our ways the like of which we can't even imagine yet.


  • #6885
    joe40
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,813 ✭✭✭joe40


    facehugger99 wrote: »
    Any good novels that have most of the world getting wiped out by a superbug as the premise?

    Obviously The Stand is one - any other good ones?
    "
    Station eleven" no zombies or even that much fighting, but I really enjoyed it


  • #6886
    Naggdefy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,981 ✭✭✭Naggdefy


    Cw85 wrote: »
    Yes from Carlow. Haven't heard any reports of anyone around here with it, not even gossip. Is your friend in quarantine as a precautionary measure?

    They are. Tested this morning. I'm being truthful and don't want to be alarming. Male mid 40s a job that entails traveling within Ireland a lot. If we get 2 or 3 more days of small increase I'd be getting more optimistic. I just don't think we can be too sure yet. I feel we still have a lot of cases in the incubation stage.

    Sincerely hope I'm wrong.


  • #6887
    Cork Boy 53
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    D.Q wrote: »
    The opening chapters of the Stand detailing the spread are absolutely sensational. Chilling stuff.

    I have never read this novel but have ordered it from Amazon today.


  • #6888
    Irish Stones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,308 ✭✭✭Irish Stones


    Weepsie wrote: »
    Yup and some cvnt robbed masks from St Luke's cancer hospital.


    That's good.
    I was thinking that only in Italy certain things could happen :D


  • #6889
    jos28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,246 ✭✭✭jos28


    I haven't engaged with the scaremongering and have been carrying on going to work etc as normal but plenty of handwashing etc. I am concerned over Cheltenham though. Hundreds of Irish people heading over for the week and coming straight back without screening :eek:
    Gold Cup day on Friday and the pubs here will be packed. Punters running between the bookies and the pubs - can't see a lot of handwashing/sanitizing being carried out that day. I'm going to have to hose my OH down before allowing him back into the house on Friday evening.


  • #6890
    bekker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 912 ✭✭✭bekker


    North, South, East, West - and there was I believing we were citizens, not subjects. Those paid by us to administer the country on our behalf believe that they have some divine right to treat us as mushrooms - keep in dark and apply ****.


  • #6891
    Christy42
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,106 ✭✭✭Christy42


    Mic 1972 wrote: »
    Exaclty! very good point
    We are comparing Ireland with virtually no restrictions in place to countries that have basically been locked down for a month due to proximity with China

    I mean Singapore have 160 cases and q population similar to our own.


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  • #6892
    jam_mac_jam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,733 ✭✭✭jam_mac_jam


    Strazdas wrote: »
    No two countries are alike.

    Ireland is not Bologna or Wuhan - there can be all sorts of environmental reasons why a virus might transmit quickly in one region but not in another.

    Like what? Why is Ireland different?

    Are we magic


  • #6893
    Boggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,418 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    jos28 wrote: »
    I haven't engaged with the scaremongering and have been carrying on going to work etc as normal but plenty of handwashing etc. I am concerned over Cheltenham though. Hundreds of Irish people heading over for the week and coming straight back without screening :eek:
    Gold Cup day on Friday and the pubs here will be packed. Punters running between the bookies and the pubs - can't see a lot of handwashing/sanitizing being carried out that day. I'm going to have to hose my OH down before allowing him back into the house on Friday evening.

    Use the time you have to change the locks.


  • #6894
    saabsaab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,718 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    D.Q wrote: »
    The opening chapters of the Stand detailing the spread are absolutely sensational. Chilling stuff.


    Dan Brown Inferno.


    see below


    https://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjo1dKe_I_oAhVlUBUIHX3ADT8QFjABegQICRAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fblogs.plos.org%2Fdnascience%2F2014%2F01%2F09%2Fdan-browns-inferno-good-plot-bad-science%2F&usg=AOvVaw3pdhzDCIV5INp6F0muL5Nd


  • #6895
    blanch152
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,851 ✭✭✭✭blanch152


    Boggles wrote: »
    Coveney said this morning they will be discussing and issuing advice on "gatherings".

    Rumours all over the place they are going to pull the trigger on the schools Monday.

    I pointed out a day or two ago that schools are closed on Monday and Tuesday for the 17th. Closing from Friday means losing only 13 days schooling in a five-week period as the Easter holidays kick in. Makes sense to do that.

    Will only happen earlier if numbers go bananas.


  • #6896
    jackal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 785 ✭✭✭jackal


    tobefrank321 wrote: »
    I think its shameful that Ryanair, an Irish company, is now leading the spread of coronavirus throughout Europe.

    With Italy in lockdown the only way to exit the country is by Ryanair flights elsewhere to Europe. Ryanair have put financial gain above the health and wellbeing of the vast majority of the population, putting countless lives at risk.

    If you feel strongly enough about this, contact your local TD or else the following:

    fod@iaa.ie

    webmaster@taoiseach.gov.ie

    https://contactform.ryanair.com/

    Would you give it a rest? Ryanair are not the government or a charity. If and when the government deem flights to be a risk they will tell them to stop. Enough about it already.


  • #6897
    blanch152
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,851 ✭✭✭✭blanch152


    Ulysses Gaze wrote: »
    Earth Abides

    An excellent old standard sci-fi novel.


  • #6898
    Mic 1972
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,213 ✭✭✭Mic 1972


    Christy42 wrote: »
    I mean Singapore have 160 cases and q population similar to our own.


    Singapore was locked down immediately. And Singapore is a "lock-down' kind of city pretty much all year round


  • #6899
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,392 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    jackal wrote: »
    Would you give it a rest? Ryanair are not the government or a charity. If and when the government deem flights to be a risk they will tell them to stop. Enough about it already.

    Multiple other governments have deemed the flights to be a risk and stopped all fights from Italy... e.g. Denmark, Austria etc

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #6900
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,371 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    joe40 wrote: »
    "
    Station eleven" no zombies or even that much fighting, but I really enjoyed it

    Yeah, a unique take in a way on a virus. Not happy if our society goes the same way.


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  • #6901
    beans
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,886 ✭✭✭beans


    Weepsie wrote: »
    Yup and some cvnt robbed masks from St Luke's cancer hospital.

    Hospital in Galway had their hand sanitiser stocks and masks stolen also.


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