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Covid-XIX Part VI - 90 cases ROI (1 death) 29 in NI (as of 13 March) *Read OP*

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  • #3842
    giveitholly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭giveitholly


    Friends going to a wedding in tenerife next week,I don't want them to go but they are going and don't seem to care,I presume the general consensus here is they would be mad to travel to the wedding,they have a very young family that are been left at home


  • #3843
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    They say society is 3 meals away from anarchy. Anyone with a stockpile needs to think about home defense.


  • #3844
    Pudsy33
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,873 ✭✭✭✭Pudsy33


    gmisk wrote: »
    Is his jolly to the US off?

    He's there now!


  • #3845
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,031 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    Lord TSC wrote: »

    Father is mid sixties, diabetic, overweight, asmatic and has other conditions. He’s terrified now,

    Have a look at a keto diet for him depending on what type he is, get medical advice but get him on it asap if it's got a chance of helping the diabeties. Not to panic you but he's ****ed if he gets this. He won't mind the food as it's good and fatty, he could drop a lot of weight, feel better and possibly halt the diabeties in a very short space of time. It's worth a go... download an app to help him track what's he's eating.


  • #3846
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,401 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Pudsy33 wrote: »
    He's there now!
    Ah brilliant is he announcing he is staying ?
    Great if so


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  • #3847
    sternn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 929 ✭✭✭sternn


    sternn wrote: »
    Funny! Been announced on RTE now, Leo is going to be making a statement.

    I'm hearing it's going to be school closures and asking offices to work from home...in line with what other countries are doing.


  • #3848
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    DrumSteve wrote: »
    Probably got it in Turkey

    Perhaps but given that 3 days is on the very low end of the incubation period that makes it less likely. She most likely contracted it in Belgium, Belgium also has the most known cases per capita out of those countries.


  • #3849
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    Varadkar at 11am
    Harris and HSE joint conference at 11.30am


  • #3850
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,401 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    They say society is 3 meals away from anarchy. Anyone with a stockpile needs to think about home defense.
    Honestly....is there really any need for this rubbish?
    I am not gonna home alone my own house.
    Little evidence of law and order breaking down in other countries even Italy (bar the jail break)


  • #3851
    LirW
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,825 ✭✭✭LirW


    Lillyfae wrote: »
    Again, it's to prevent them being sent to grandparents who are at a higher risk.

    It's a pretty bad chain reaction: schools are transmission nests, many of the staff have children themselves and while there is the recommendation to not send small children to creches, people have no choice, so schools and creches are open regardless and as long as it's open, irresponsible people (people who would have other options, not slamming working parents) will send their children. Yes, they won't be as affected but it's essentially said that the government doesn't care about the well-being of teachers and school workers and their own families.
    Again, it is a pretty horrible situation.


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  • #3852
    ThePopehimself
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 336 ✭✭ThePopehimself


    RTE are going to play the Special Bulletin live...


  • #3853
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    Funsterdelux wrote: »
    Getting married?

    Mike Pence is taking over and declaring the The Rep of Gilead


  • #3854
    Gods Gift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,713 ✭✭✭Gods Gift


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    They say society is 3 meals away from anarchy. Anyone with a stockpile needs to think about home defense.

    All I ever used my oven for was warming my socks.

    2mins at 60 degrees.

    Toasty.


  • #3855
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,039 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    HSE to close offices?


  • #3856
    leahyl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,425 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    Friend of mine works in a newspaper and said a reporter there said they are making an announcement to close schools with immediate effect.


  • #3857
    05eaftqbrs9jlh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭05eaftqbrs9jlh


    Pseudonym121 wrote: »
    All of the people talking about how it'll only be 0.9% mortality should consider the following:

    1. 20% of people will be hospitalised.

    2. Many of these will develop Bilateral Interstitial Pneumonia.

    3. Even if you survive this episode the long-term consequences can be devastating. There are many types of interstitial lung disease but mean survivals range from 2.5 to 7 years. Let's be optimistic and assume that with this it is 5 to 10 years.

    Well, reducing the life expectancy of a large number of people in Ireland to 5 to 10 years and having these years be very limited in terms of their ability to do anything active and maybe people will begin to realise that even if we only have a 1% death rate now having a 9% rate of long-term complications from interstitial Lung Disease reducing life expectancy for this cohort to 5 to 10 years would be utterly devastating to the country and really drop average life expectancy for the next couple of decades.

    There's a reason China is doing full lung transplants on survivors already.

    People are just far too blase about this.
    Thank you for posting this reality. On the radio now, they're talking about traffic. I don't think they realise wtf is coming. Or I just think they don't care enough to let it disrupt their lives because it's so far outside the realms of what their imagination can fathom.

    https://www.change.org/Covid-19IE
    Sign this petition please to encourage IMMEDIATE actions to save lives.


  • #3858
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,401 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    sternn wrote: »
    I'm hearing it's going to be school closures and asking offices to work from home...in line with what other countries are doing.
    It could well be as I said here I talked to friend in department of education and school closures just waiting to be stamped by the government


  • #3859
    jam_mac_jam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,733 ✭✭✭jam_mac_jam


    gmisk wrote: »
    Honestly....is there really any need for this rubbish?
    I am not gonna home alone my own house.
    Little evidence of law and order breaking down in other countries even Italy (bar the jail break)

    Absolutely insane. Italy is having huge problems and nobody is raiding each other's houses.


  • #3860
    Gods Gift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,713 ✭✭✭Gods Gift


    ThePopehimself wrote: »
    RTE are going to play the Special Bulletin live...
    Live
    Okey doke


  • #3861
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    Deleted User wrote: »
    They say society is 3 meals away from anarchy. Anyone with a stockpile needs to think about home defense.

    In the event of a Mad Max scenario?

    I remember reading somewhere that you should throw all your major electronic valuables (TV etc) out on the front lawn and smash in a downstairs front window.

    Makes it look like your place has already been looted.

    Not that I think this is going to get anywhere near that bad!


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  • #3862
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,888 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    1075 additional cases confirmed in Iran and 75 additional deaths.


  • #3863
    MonkstownHoop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,196 ✭✭✭MonkstownHoop


    Funsterdelux wrote: »
    Mike Pence is taking over and declaring the The Rep of Gilead

    Blessed be the fruit


  • #3864
    Tacitus Kilgore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,128 ✭✭✭Tacitus Kilgore


    Deleted User wrote: »
    They say society is 3 meals away from anarchy. Anyone with a stockpile needs to think about home defense.

    Seems like someone got to your brain already hoss :pac:


  • #3865
    lawred2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,749 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Ulysses Gaze wrote: »
    In the event of a Mad Max scenario?

    I remember reading somewhere that you should throw all your major electronic valuables (TV etc) out on the front lawn and smash in a downstairs front window.

    Makes it look like your place has already been looted.

    Not that I think this is going to get anywhere near that bad!

    jesus


  • #3866
    Call Me Jimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    Ulysses Gaze wrote: »
    It's the same here.

    Both my parents are in their 70's, one with underlying health issues. I have a sibling that has an auto-immune disease who lives with them.

    People may mock those stockpiling food over the last few weeks, but my folks have been because neither wants to go anywhere near a shop or supermarket if a mass panic happens. Particularly if there are going to be sick, or potentially sick, people there.

    Easy to mock those that are "hysterical", as some posters here have called people who are being prudent. But to those people, I would say this - Unless you know the circumstances of each "hysteric", kindly fcuk off.

    This. Absolutely this. Question the toilet roll thing all you want, I thought it was a bit 'trendy' but the bottom line is, if everyone is doing it *for whatever reason* it means if you don't do it you'll have to go out during the rush or be without. Or if you are in an at risk group or afraid of spreading it to someone in such, you obviously will just want to steer clear of shops for a good while.


  • #3867
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    MonkstownHoop wrote: »
    Blessed be the fruit

    May the lord open?


  • #3868
    Gods Gift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,713 ✭✭✭Gods Gift


    Ulysses Gaze wrote: »
    In the event of a Mad Max scenario?

    I remember reading somewhere that you should throw all your major electronic valuables (TV etc) out on the front lawn and smash in a downstairs front window.

    Makes it look like your place has already been looted.

    Not that I think this is going to get anywhere near that bad!

    Like Clondalkin


  • #3869
    iguana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭iguana


    Schools and universities to close presumably. I wonder if kids/teens leisure facilities will also be closed?


  • #3870
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,888 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    leahyl wrote: »
    Friend of mine works in a newspaper and said a reporter there said they are making an announcement to close schools with immediate effect.

    What happens if kids are already in school? Leave them there?


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  • #3871
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    lawred2 wrote: »
    jesus

    LOL....I know right?

    Mad stuff you find online sometimes.

    :pac:


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