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Corona virus in waterford

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  • #92
    jimbojazz
    Registered Users Posts: 827 ✭✭✭jimbojazz


    debok wrote: »
    Really don't understand the toilet paper. Oh t doesn't even make sense. Ya can wipe your arse with anything. Surely there's better things to be stock piling. 3 Easter eggs for a fiver

    It's cos people are ****ting themselves over it


  • #93
    jopax
    Registered Users Posts: 451 ✭✭jopax


    https://twitter.com/Deisesupes/status/1237455860395323392?s=19

    In Waterford now


  • #94
    Picky owner
    Registered Users Posts: 138 ✭✭Picky owner


    I am not surprised,it's going to hit everywhere.


  • #95
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Not sure how it's official when it's not official!.


  • #96
    BBM77
    Registered Users Posts: 1,874 ✭✭✭BBM77


    jopax wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/Deisesupes/status/1237455860395323392?s=19

    In Waterford now

    What a prick! The medical advice is not to be publishing specifics of case locations, which Skelton well knows. He is doing nothing more than stirring up fear.


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  • #97
    Banana Republic.
    Registered Users Posts: 1,906 ✭✭✭Banana Republic.


    BBM77 wrote: »
    What a prick! The medical advice is not to be publishing specifics of case locations, which Skelton well knows. He is doing nothing more than stirring up fear.

    The master stirrer of the South East.


  • #98
    DLS_75
    Registered Users Posts: 188 ✭✭DLS_75


    The rumour mill certainly increased in the last couple of days so I’m not surprised that we now have a confirmed one.

    What specifics are in that tweet by the way? That it’s in Waterford? Sure we already know it’s in Galway, Cork and Dublin.

    I have doubts about the information that’s being released publicly tbh.


  • #99
    Quigs Snr
    Registered Users Posts: 4,128 ✭✭✭Quigs Snr


    Finally we got something before Kilkenny.

    I am surprised that Mary Butler and Michael Martin have not staged a photo op and claimed credit for it.

    In all seriousness though.. it didnt take long to get here if true. I would say the schools will be shut down within the next 10 days.


  • #100
    gobo99
    Registered Users Posts: 565 ✭✭✭gobo99


    I'd say he's going mad the papers were out this morning. He missed out on the front page splash.


  • #101
    debok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 814 ✭✭✭debok


    What he says doesn't match with the news reports of the 10 cases and the how the contracted it . It's inevitable anyway


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  • #102
    DLS_75
    Registered Users Posts: 188 ✭✭DLS_75


    WLR reporting it too.


  • #103
    mooseknunkle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,427 ✭✭✭mooseknunkle


    debok wrote: »
    What he says doesn't match with the news reports of the 10 cases and the how the contracted it . It's inevitable anyway

    WLR reporting it now too

    https://www.wlrfm.com/2020/03/10/coronavirus-first-case-confirmed-in-waterford/?fbclid=IwAR0BgdlRBND7sbqkRZitbup4XhG2At6xboJY8YDqZE1wSkSvIQIiWEBYnNc


  • #104
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    As a semi regular out patient visitor I wonder how quickly this will result in cancelled appointments.

    Edit, already happened.


  • #105
    DLS_75
    Registered Users Posts: 188 ✭✭DLS_75


    https://waterford-news.ie/2020/03/10/corona-virus-case-confirmed-at-uhw/


  • #106
    Chiparus
    Registered Users Posts: 2,254 ✭✭✭Chiparus


    DLS_75 wrote: »
    https://waterford-news.ie/2020/03/10/corona-virus-case-confirmed-at-uhw/

    Interesting as the patient was an inpatient , so many members of staff may have been exposed .


  • #107
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    As the person in question caught it off someone else locally that someone needs to be traced pronto as they are a vector potentially running riot (best thing to hope for it that he/she has also fallen ill and is now isolated)


  • #108
    mooseknunkle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,427 ✭✭✭mooseknunkle


    Chiparus wrote: »
    Interesting as the patient was an inpatient , so many members of staff may have been exposed .

    https://twitter.com/FergalBowers/status/1237514335288725504


  • #109
    Aquos76
    Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 9,026 Mod ✭✭✭✭Aquos76


    BBM77 wrote: »
    What a prick! The medical advice is not to be publishing specifics of case locations, which Skelton well knows. He is doing nothing more than stirring up fear.

    So tell me, is he still a prick now that WLR and RTE's health correspondent are reporting it? Maybe he just broke the story early, maybe give him some credit....


  • #110
    mooseknunkle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,427 ✭✭✭mooseknunkle


    Chiparus wrote: »
    Interesting as the patient was an inpatient , so many members of staff may have been exposed .

    Supposedly a nurse out there has it now too


  • #111
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    he was a "prick" for jumping the gun. Leave the breaking news to people who are in white coats and name tags.


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  • #112
    Aquos76
    Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 9,026 Mod ✭✭✭✭Aquos76


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    he was a "prick" for jumping the gun. Leave the breaking news to people who are in white coats and name tags.

    I can guarantee you if WLR or DT had it first they would have run it immediately also, unfortunately that's what journalists and news outlets do.


  • #113
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Sure they would!

    People are on edge about this stuff and I think media needs to be careful how it intervenes in the dissemination of important information.


  • #114
    Aquos76
    Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 9,026 Mod ✭✭✭✭Aquos76


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Sure they would!

    People are on edge about this stuff and I think media needs to be careful how it intervenes in the dissemination of important information.

    The fact that this person had been an in patient in one of the medical wards for the last few days in very worrying, and in fairness to the local paper and WLR, the national media are also jumping on every single case also, so they aren't alone.


  • #115
    DLS_75
    Registered Users Posts: 188 ✭✭DLS_75


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Sure they would!

    People are on edge about this stuff and I think media needs to be careful how it intervenes in the dissemination of important information.

    I’m curious as to what all the media outlets did wrong here. Genuine question. What are people so annoyed about? Don’t we have a right to know if we have a case here? Don’t we also have a right to know what our health service, which we alll know to be flawed already, is doing to prepare for these eventualities?

    News of a confirmed case was tweeted about. It was accurate. The same is happening all over the country. Am I missing something or is this just anti media hysteria?


  • #116
    DLS_75
    Registered Users Posts: 188 ✭✭DLS_75


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    he was a "prick" for jumping the gun. Leave the breaking news to people who are in white coats and name tags.

    Another question. The hospital management were informed by the manager. I assume what happened here is that one of those hospital staff told a journalist because if they broke the news themselves they’d be suspended or fired. So who should we rely on for the news? I genuinely think this is a case of people picking on the media because they have nobody else to take their frustrations out on.

    We have a meeting in the GAA club today btw. I assume it’s about matches and training being cancelled.


  • #117
    BBM77
    Registered Users Posts: 1,874 ✭✭✭BBM77


    Aquos76 wrote: »
    So tell me, is he still a prick now that WLR and RTE's health correspondent are reporting it? Maybe he just broke the story early, maybe give him some credit....

    The media is causing unnecessary panic. The media are trying to say they are keeping people informed, they are not they are trying to create sensational content to boost viewership/readership and revenue.

    In a time of crisis when things like St Patricks Day parades are cancelled and whole countries are on lockdown regardless of the economic cost. The media should tone things down and not be knowingly creating unnecessary fear for financial gain. The reality is bad enough.


  • #118
    Banana Republic.
    Registered Users Posts: 1,906 ✭✭✭Banana Republic.


    Quigs Snr wrote: »
    Finally we got something before Kilkenny.

    I am surprised that Mary Butler and Michael Martin have not staged a photo op and claimed credit for it.

    In all seriousness though.. it didnt take long to get here if true. I would say the schools will be shut down within the next 10 days.
    With Easter holidays and Patrick's Day if it closed for a month It would need only 8 school days missed.


  • #119
    DLS_75
    Registered Users Posts: 188 ✭✭DLS_75


    BBM77 wrote: »
    The media is causing unnecessary panic. The media are trying to say they are keeping people informed, they are not they are trying to create sensational content to boost viewership/readership and revenue.

    In a time of crisis when things like St Patricks Day parades are cancelled and whole countries are on lockdown regardless of the economic cost. The media should tone things down and not be knowingly creating unnecessary fear for financial gain. The reality is bad enough.

    So, by telling people that there is a confirmed case in UHW, they’re creating unnecessary panic. Are you having a laugh? Apparently this patient came through the emergency department, spent time in medical 7 and you think we shouldn’t be informed of this.

    You’re wrong and I for one am grateful to our media for keeping us informed because the HSE certainly aren’t.


  • #120
    Gardner
    Registered Users Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭Gardner


    Skelton shouldn't have opened is big mouth until the hospital announced it. there should a complete ban on media announcing anything before Hospitals, HSE etc.
    BTW it didn't take long for his brother to come on here and mouth off also.


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  • #121
    BBM77
    Registered Users Posts: 1,874 ✭✭✭BBM77


    DLS_75 wrote: »
    So, by telling people that there is a confirmed case in UHW, they’re creating unnecessary panic. Are you having a laugh? Apparently this patient came through the emergency department, spent time in medical 7 and you think we shouldn’t be informed of this.

    You’re wrong and I for one am grateful to our media for keeping us informed because the HSE certainly aren’t.

    Sure that is the point. The HSE is following an international researched based approach to dealing with this. Not to be highlighting specific locations of cases because it spreads fear and can stops people coming forward.

    “I for one am grateful...” Christ, you sound like a subservient underling.

    And by the way I’m not wrong, it’s my opinion which is as valid as anybody else’s. Who the are you to say what is right or wrong.


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