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

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Yeah but according to the cork independent they didn't return to the company after travelling to an affected area, which was very goood thinking on the part of the employees as it stops the spread to their colleagues and their families.

One would have to ask why risk heading over in the first place? Not quite good thinking on their part

What's all this PM stuff?

Boris Johnson is the UK PM.

YFlyer wrote: »

Can someone explain this 15 minute of close contact please?


Martina?..lol

I think its horse****. Doesn't make logical sense

normanoffside wrote: »

DM for me, I’m on Twitter.

PM me your Twitter handle and I’ll DM you the PM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

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Poor_old_gill wrote: »

PM me your Twitter handle and I’ll DM you the PM

Check pms

Shelga wrote: »

I know this is a thread of random boardsies, and I'm already tired of people on Twitter asking about things that only affect them, because I think it's selfish, but hey, it's not like I'm stockpiling all the loo roll for just myself, so here goes...

If someone was in a position where they could buy a property in the next couple of months, would the coronavirus outbreak be cause for delay?

I guess the answer is, no one knows at this stage.

However, does it seem like recession is all but guaranteed? Is that even going to matter much in Ireland, when the housing situation is so dire?

What sort of property? Agricultural land for example will hold its value IMO.

The PM is spreading faster thsn the bl00dy virus!

It’s amazing anytime anything significant occurs in the world and you watch those with PHDs in the arts of armchair warrior, internet expert, doomsdayer, serial scaremonger and general **** stirrer all come out to play.

What’s even more amazing is the constant slamming of each side against the other, those who say “yea it’s a great big fuss for nothing”, versus those who are genuinely worried and of course both sides get a new arse ripped for expressing their concerns, and obviously in the middle of the two with genuine beliefs there are those who simply enjoy the scaremongering and putting out false information, I even remember someone apparently giving the thumps up to false information early on in the threads because that was what social media was for.

For me I’m not too concerned as things stand* due to the fact that currently the vast majority of people have relatively minor symptoms and make a full recovery, but, I also acknowledge that there are those who are really worried about the situation, even to the extent of panic buying masks, food, toilet rolls or whatever – why do people slam those who feel this way? Fear is objective, but unfortunately we often stand back and judge someone else’s fear subjectively, why can’t we remember that some people naturally think the worst, some people home in on the worst case scenarios, some people unfortunately fall victim of the hoax’s and scaremongers, some people need a little more reassurances than simply “get over it”, unfortunately some people can’t help but feel this way, and you never know perhaps in time their fears may be justified if the virus situation gets worse*. We should respect both sides opinions rather than outright reject them.

*Remember the virus is still in it’s infancy and has already mutated at least once, as I understand it the second strain is weaker than the first, but, that is not to say it couldn’t mutate further, now don’t get me wrong, I don’t mean to sound like one of those scaremongers, but that is simply a very real possibility which could potentially happen, it is probably too early to say with any degree of certainty that it won’t adapt further. It is entirely possible the financial consequences of all this is going to be the biggest long term symptom - Brent Crude Oil dropping to 1991 prices with the lowest overnight drop in history, world stock markets crumbling, airlines going bust or cancelling routes and grounding fleets, the tourist, food and hotelier industry in trouble, millions of people in lock down on a scale possibly not seen since WW2 and potentially a general global recession, it is all unprecedented, never has there been such sweeping changes globally on such a scale at such a rate even for example after 9/11, the Gulf Wars or other globe trotting illnesses, it is these issues which worry me more than SARS-CoV-2.

With such a fast moving thread I’ve missed a lot of posts and no doubt both sides have had some strong views on the cancellations of the St. Patricks Day parades, lack of broadened general testing, clarity from the HSE, red zoning all of Italy and why flights continue to Italy until Friday etc, but I really don’t get why people are often convinced the HSE are withholding information as has been claimed more than once over the few threads, or why the WHO are supposedly incompetent at what they do….but yet for example some quote the likes of the Guardian or the Sun or WhatsApp messages as reliable sources of information?

Isn’t is better to be proactive rather than reactive? Whilst we may all look back some day and say yea it was all a big fuss for nothing, what if that is not the case, isn’t it better to be safe than sorry, as the WHOs Director General stated yesterday It’s not about containment or mitigation – which is a false dichotomy, it’s about both. Hindsight is wonderful, I’d rather look back and say “thank god we did X, Y or Z”, rather than “****, we should have done X, Y or Z”

Rant over (for now)

P.S.

A further pedantic little rant, why on earth does the media the world over keep reporting about the deadly COVID-19 virus? There’s no such virus, the virus infecting people is the new SARS-CoV-2 virus, the resulting disease it can cause is the new COVID-19 disease.