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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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  • #5492
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,115 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    What time is the briefing today? 6pm again?


  • #5493
    piplip87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,213 ✭✭✭piplip87


    Lads Boris makes Leo look like a statesman


  • #5494
    NegativeCreep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    Not sure if this will help with mild symptoms but apparently a saltpipe inhaler helps the respiratory system.

    You should tell the Italians.


  • #5495
    Strazdas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,309 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    saabsaab wrote: »
    Hard to compare really but I'd say you're not far off .

    The same scientists are speculating that the 'real' death rate could be under 1%, as the likelihood is that many Cvd cases simply haven't been detected or identified


  • #5496
    limnam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,342 ✭✭✭limnam


    tuxy wrote: »
    Was it for people who had compromised immune systems?
    Because that would make sense.

    He didn't make a distinction. The topic was how long it could go on for and making the point that it cold be difficult as people can be infected more than once


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  • #5497
    PokeHerKing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,877 ✭✭✭PokeHerKing


    Jesus this is some mind bending bro science being spouted here.


  • #5498
    Knex*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,477 ✭✭✭✭Knex*


    youreadthat wrote: »
    UK approach is more sensible by far. Acknowledges reality and has plans in place rather than a premature lockdown that will have to be lifted before the virus is under control anyway.

    Sensible from what perspective?

    Sacrificing lives in the name of their economy?


  • #5499
    Ardillaun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,715 ✭✭✭Ardillaun


    yourdeadwright wrote: »
    How at the same time is England being told shutting schools and sports events won't make a difference ?

    I don't get how there is just a strak difference ,

    It’s a new virus so there are a lot of unknowns. Experts disagree on best practice.


  • #5500
    cloudatlas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,711 ✭✭✭cloudatlas


    niallo27 wrote: »
    Was nothing against you personally just it's about 7 thousand time it's been said.

    I’ll start saying ‘the cats out of the bag’ from now on.


  • #5501
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,765 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    I'm not sure.
    There's a huge amount of thought behind people's behavior and timing in their approach.
    Pull the trigger too early, and effectiveness of certain measures will be useless and even counter productive.

    They've clearly accepted this is coming, and its all about lessening the peak.
    They may have it right and we may have it wrong.
    Time, unfortunately, will tell all.

    Well they say moved to the next phase but nothing is changing and they're not doing what any other country in the world is doing.


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  • #5502
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    peddlelies wrote: »
    .

    I think the cases are grossly under reported, maybe 3 or 4x

    It's accepted that cases are probably x10 underreported according to UK press conference now.


  • #5503
    gabeeg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭gabeeg


    Ardillaun wrote: »
    North America was helped by geography at first. We haven’t made best use of the extra time we were given.

    Or the Macgillycuddy's Reeks


  • #5504
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,887 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    darjeeling wrote: »
    Bear in mind that it could take a week or more for the effects of the lockdown to translate into a levelling-off in new case detections, so we won't know for a few days if what Italy has done is working.

    In honestly think European style lockdowns are not up to much!

    25K people leaving Lombardy the evening the lock down was announced is not going to help reduce cases/deaths anytime soon!


  • #5505
    05eaftqbrs9jlh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭05eaftqbrs9jlh


    Strazdas wrote: »
    The same scientists are speculating that the 'real' death rate could be under 1%, as the likelihood is that many Cvd cases simply haven't been detected or identified
    It could be, but health systems around the world are being overwhelmed by this virus so we just can't know if that eventuality would ever have been possible.


  • #5506
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    Not sure if this will help with mild symptoms but apparently a saltpipe inhaler helps the respiratory system.

    Screenshot-2020-03-12-at-17-27-27.png


  • #5507
    Rjd2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,260 ✭✭✭✭Rjd2


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    I'm not sure.
    There's a huge amount of thought behind people's behavior and timing in their approach.
    Pull the trigger too early, and effectiveness of certain measures will be useless and even counter productive.

    They've clearly accepted this is coming, and its all about lessening the peak.
    They may have it right and we may have it wrong.
    Time, unfortunately, will tell all.

    I get the outrage but also to play devil's advocate do random internet people know more than Chief Medical Officer and Chief Scientific Advisor of the UK?

    They are pretty qualified tbf.


  • #5508
    niallo27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,137 ✭✭✭✭niallo27


    cloudatlas wrote: »
    I’ll start saying ‘the cats out of the bag’ from now on.

    Thanks, appreciate it.


  • #5509
    tobefrank321
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,527 ✭✭✭tobefrank321


    wakka12 wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/MohamadAhwaze/status/1238149287168663553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1238149287168663553&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.redditmedia.com%2Fmediaembed%2Ffhjqcb%3Fresponsive%3Dtrue%26is_nightmode%3Dfalse
    Sattletite images of Qom cemeteries being enlarged in Iran.

    This could devastate Iran. Its unlikely they have the testing, isolation or medical facilities of the West.


  • #5510
    Mango Joe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,178 ✭✭✭Mango Joe


    The Nal wrote: »
    Everything about that video is sickening. The fact its in portrait mode, the horizontal filming, everything.

    I was in Lahinch County Clare last Summer and saw a tourist standing in an incredibly dangerous place, on a really slippy rock, with massive waves crashing just by their feet.....all to take a vertical video......

    Back on topic, there is a guaranteed baby boom coming out of this....Mark my words.


  • #5511
    ArchXStanton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭ArchXStanton


    niallo27 wrote: »
    Can we ban the phrases, the horse has bolted and do people still think it's a flu please. They should be immediately banned.

    That ship has sailed..


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  • #5512
    Knex*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,477 ✭✭✭✭Knex*


    murpho999 wrote: »
    Well they say moved to the next phase but nothing is changing and they're not doing what any other country in the world is doing.

    It's like when you're waiting for a gif to load and you realise it just a still image.


  • #5513
    Strazdas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,309 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    It's accepted that cases are probably x10 underreported according to UK press conference now.

    Which would suggest the real death rate may be much lower (but that doesn't mean the current draconian steps are wrong......even one death is one death too many)


  • #5514
    Still waters
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭Still waters


    5 positive tests in kinvara south galway according to the clare echo


  • #5515
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,113 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Italy: Of the total people dead, 98% were over 68 years of age (so much for this being something that affects mostly old people), and 67% had pre-existing conditions (so much for this being something that affects mostly frail people).


  • #5516
    gabeeg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭gabeeg


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    In honestly think European style lockdowns are not up to much!

    25K people leaving Lombardy the evening the lock down was announced is not going to help reduce cases/deaths anytime soon!

    True, but this time there's nowhere to hide


  • #5517
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    New Home wrote: »
    Italy: Of the total people dead, 98% were over 68 years of age (so much for this being something that affects mostly old people), and 67% had pre-existing conditions (so much for this being something that affects mostly frail people).

    what?


  • #5518
    littlemac1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,073 ✭✭✭littlemac1980


    Lots of reports of people being left locked in their homes with dead family members coming from a Italy.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/03/12/coronavirus-bodies-italy-quarantine/

    Horrific situation.

    Also news reports from Ireland now of supermarkets pleading for people to stop stockpiling. Total non-sense! People have every right to get prepared. And some comments on those articles are still suggesting these people are “ruining it for everyone”... ruining what? Your misguided sense of entitlement to normality in these circumstances. Wake up people if haven’t already! Get prepared now if it’s not too late already.


  • #5519
    otnomart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭otnomart


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    Total deaths in Italy now stands at 1,016. Give it a week and it may surpass China!
    I don't think so.
    Lockdown does work,

    we just don't see the effects overnight


  • #5520
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,765 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    So the UK delay phase means they simply delay taking any positive action.


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  • #5521
    cloudatlas
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    Knex. wrote: »
    Sensible from what perspective?

    Sacrificing lives in the name of their economy?

    They are being advised by a committee which comprises the best minds/ professors/ professionals across the board in the u.k. boris isn’t going against their advice and pulling anything out of his arse. They will act soon.


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