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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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  • #6182
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54,123 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    bekker wrote: »
    Why is nobody bothering to do the most elementary fact checking before posting?
    google Irish Army

    about 5 hours ago.
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/coronavirus-defence-forces-personnel-told-to-report-to-barracks-1.4201172

    Must be a big delivery of bread coming.


  • #6183
    davetherave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,504 ✭✭✭davetherave


    paul71 wrote: »
    My first impression was why call the entire army into 1 barracks?
    nullzero wrote: »
    So this single page A4 letter was posted out and was never folded?


    Lets not worry about why the confidential is in red and yet the branding of the DF logo in the top right, and the strengthen the nation in the top right are in greyscale and not gold.

    I'm not sure what is with the alignment either...

    Or the fact that it is addressed to "all members of the defence force" when it is the Defence Forces,

    Or the fact that there is generally no colon used in the 24 hour clock.

    Or that it is a roll mat and not a roll mate, unless it's time to cosy up to your battle buddy. :)

    As a final note Mark Mellett usually goes by COS (Chief of Staff) not COF (Commander of Forces? Captain of Firefights? Controller of Firearms? Chief-Dicky-Duh-Dah of the Order of Freemasons? )


    Definitely seems legit to me.... :pac:


  • #6184
    lfen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 196 ✭✭lfen


    Rjd2 wrote: »
    Can't justify that your employer. The morale will be terrible and imagine if someone who could work remote infected everyone.

    I think a lot of employers won't get it until it hits closer to home sadly.

    Feels like they are nearly waiting for a staff member to get it before they pull the trigger and let staff work remotely.

    Morale ain’t good and I don’t blame them.


  • #6185
    dan786
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,341 ✭✭✭dan786


    BT CEO Philip Jansen tests positive for coronavirus

    Mr Jansen said in a statement: "Having felt slightly unwell I decided as a precaution to be tested.

    "As soon as the test results were known I isolated myself at home."


  • #6186
    martingriff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,342 ✭✭✭✭martingriff


    spookwoman wrote: »
    My generation has seen CJD, Foot and mouth, and now this. There are probably a few more from mid 70's to now but was there anything before

    Might want to look up a little thing called The Spanish Flu


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  • #6187
    spookwoman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,059 ✭✭✭✭spookwoman


    owlbethere wrote: »
    TB

    But none that I can remember that brought to county to a stop nearly.
    BDE /CJD and foot and mouth was terrible but most folk it did not affect. This is like something out of a movie


  • #6188
    snailsong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,140 ✭✭✭snailsong


    tayto lover wrote: »
    Anyone know if dogs or cats can carry this virus?

    World Healt Organisation says no need to quarantine domestic animals.

    WHO let the dogs out.


  • #6189
    Blud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 424 ✭✭Blud


    retro:electro wrote: »
    Why did you have to show this to me when I’ve about seven wines in me. Not able

    I know, right?

    I mean, a Maltesers Easter egg. ****ing hell.


  • #6190
    facehugger99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,825 ✭✭✭facehugger99


    the butcher wrote: »
    Just remember who can be left with nothing when they need it the most...

    ES74OynXQA4lUEN?format=jpg&name=small

    Feckin right - can't believe that awl biddy is taking the last of the stuff!


  • #6191
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,400 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Sittingpretty wrote: »
    You’re same generation as me so.

    This is BY FAR the worst of all the ones you’ve mentioned.

    I was in Lidl today (I normally shop on Thursday) and I was trolley 12 all checkouts a go go. I found my eyes filling with tears watching all the old people, alone, wandering round with one loaf of bread in a basket looking bewildered and they’ve all lived through worse than we have.
    Ok that last part....it would bring a tear to a glass eye!


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  • #6192
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,116 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    the butcher wrote: »
    Just remember who can be left with nothing when they need it the most...

    What if it's her seventh shop that day...


  • #6193
    Mic 1972
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,213 ✭✭✭Mic 1972


    milhous wrote: »
    Sauce? Seems unlikely but I can't see figures per region.


    It is true
    Lock down is the only way and it works, and thank god for that
    it worked in Wuhan, it worked in the first Italian cluster Codogno (0 new infections). Once people stops transmitting the virus to one another the count of new infected decreases and it eventually stops


  • #6194
    martingriff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,342 ✭✭✭✭martingriff


    sterz wrote: »
    Bumping this as it's only bit of positive news I've read all day and others might have missed it. That's if the claims made by Di Maio are indeed true.

    The problem is yes indeed as no one could enter of leave yes there should be no more cases the problem starts if they go to a place where there is the virus and bring it back to the town


  • #6195
    spookwoman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,059 ✭✭✭✭spookwoman


    gmisk wrote: »
    Ok that last part....it would bring a tear to a glass eye!

    Haven't heard that one in years


  • #6196
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,115 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Mic 1972 wrote: »
    The food supply chain is not going to stop. There is an emergency model already tested in China and Italy where everything stops except Hospitals, power plants, food supply chain and very few other essential things.

    Food didnt run out in Wuhan as shown in many videos.
    If anything there will be restrictions on how many people can go out shopping per household


    None of those places are completely surrounded by water and relying on ships or planes to restock their supplies.


  • #6197
    sterz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 528 ✭✭✭sterz


    lfen wrote: »
    I work in an office with 200 people. We are to go to work as normal even though they are probably 60-80 people who could work from home. Thoughts on this?

    Doesn't make any sense. What's the point in those people having remote access if they're not being told to use it in these circumstances?

    We've been told that where possible, we should work from home.


  • #6198
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    Vivienne23 wrote: »
    Do we know what P3 & p4 will be ? Or is it a case to see how Italy fairs out ?
    Best advice for the moment would be to gradually adjust to P2, isolate and gradually prepare for other likely outcomes towards peak conditions later during mid-late April.

    Simply means normal society would be on hold for a couple of weeks either side of peak, but by July it will be mostly over, August may even see a rebirth of markets, industry and society.

    At no stage will water or electricty go off, and essential food items will always be available for collection even from smallest of towns. Any sort of panic won't be required, simply a very temporary adjustment of normality.

    No harm in contacting relatives and getting to know neighbours in the coming weeks, community will be the most important, and benefical factor for the short time when things are at their very worst.

    Once slightly tricky thing to consider, is that anyone of the very few 'falling' to this virus, won't have the normal traditional send-off or services available, due to high risk of contanimation.


  • #6199
    Abba987
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 312 ✭✭Abba987


    eviltimeban wrote: »
    That was me today, I had to get veggie stuff which sold out everywhere, was in and out in 15 minutes and it was at around 11.15am so just as the announcement was made. I used the self service desk to minimise any other exposure.

    Luckily had done a big shop yesterday. Will be hitting up my local Maxol for milk and bread when needed so as to avoid the large shops. And doing either a late night or early morning shop for other things like fresh veg and fruit.

    Genuine question. Any point in going at night??


  • #6200
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    retro:electro wrote: »
    Why did you have to show this to me when I’ve about seven wines in me. Not able

    Wine gums?


  • #6201
    tobefrank321
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,527 ✭✭✭tobefrank321


    lfen wrote: »
    I work in an office with 200 people. We are to go to work as normal even though they are probably 60-80 people who could work from home. Thoughts on this?

    Tell your boss and cc HR that you are working from home and its their business if they want to fire you.

    10 minutes later watch your HR department advise anyone who can work from home.

    There should be legislation to protect anyone who wants to work from home.


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  • #6202
    pookiesboo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭pookiesboo


    Guys a bit of advice or your opinion needed here. I'm a carer for my mother. ,She has COPD. She's in a wheelchair and I need to hoist her in and out of bed every day, make her meals,wash,change nappy etc. I do it 7 days a week and I have a home help helping me in the morning and takes over in evening. I told my parents (my elderly father also has his health issues) that for the next couple of weeks I wanted to take over the duties on my own and stop the homehelps coming in. There's six of them in rotation , just to be on the safe side,my parents are against it and said no because the women will lose their pay but I'm more concerned about them. What should I do here? What would ye do?


  • #6203
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,647 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    New Home wrote: »
    None of those places are completely surrounded by water and relying on ships or planes to restock their supplies.
    Do we not produce any food of our own in Ireland?


  • #6204
    jos28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,246 ✭✭✭jos28


    This fella could make a fortune over the next few weeks

    https://www.manna.aero/


  • #6205
    Notdeco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 470 ✭✭Notdeco


    davetherave wrote: »
    Lets not worry about why the confidential is in red and yet the branding of the DF logo in the top right, and the strengthen the nation in the top right are in greyscale and not gold.

    I'm not sure what is with the alignment either...

    Or the fact that it is addressed to "all members of the defence force" when it is the Defence Forces,

    Or the fact that there is generally no colon used in the 24 hour clock.

    Or that it is a roll mat and not a roll mate, unless it's time to cosy up to your battle buddy. :)

    As a final note Mark Mellett usually goes by COS (Chief of Staff) not COF (Commander of Forces? Captain of Firefights? Controller of Firearms? Chief-Dicky-Duh-Dah of the Order of Freemasons? )


    Definitely seems legit to me.... :pac:
    Is this a fake too?


  • #6206
    yasmina
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46 ✭yasmina


    dan786 wrote: »
    BT CEO Philip Jansen tests positive for coronavirus

    Mr Jansen said in a statement: "Having felt slightly unwell I decided as a precaution to be tested.

    "As soon as the test results were known I isolated myself at home."

    Just curious, in the UK can you just decide you want to be tested if you are feeling unwell?


  • #6207
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,458 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    paul71 wrote: »
    Most people here are too young to get the reference ;)
    Those from My Generation will though...


  • #6208
    martingriff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,342 ✭✭✭✭martingriff


    spookwoman wrote: »
    But none that I can remember that brought to county to a stop nearly.
    BDE /CJD and foot and mouth was terrible but most folk it did not affect. This is like something out of a movie

    I can tell you I know people who got TB & Polio and suffered right up to death.


  • #6209
    utyh2ikcq9z76b
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭utyh2ikcq9z76b


    gmisk wrote: »
    Can we stop with this Clayton hotel gossip it's been going on for weeks....it's seriously boring at this stage

    The video and pictures are going round,it's legit


  • #6210
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    New Home wrote: »
    None of those places are completely surrounded by water and relying on ships or planes to restock their supplies.

    Too right we have feck all in Ireland no beef trees or chicken nugget bushes.5250886496_e4cba93735.jpg


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  • #6211
    banie01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,817 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    spookwoman wrote: »
    My generation has seen CJD, Foot and mouth, and now this. There are probably a few more from mid 70's to now but was there anything before

    CJD and F&M were agricultural diseases with huge action taken to limit economic damage.
    Neither were or are human epidemics, particularly CJD.

    Pertussis in the early 80's, would be the 1st of the epidemic outbreaks I have memory of.

    My younger sister making awful sounds whilst in isolation in the city home in Limerick.
    My Mam would bring her to the window so we could see her.

    She spent 6 weeks in there.

    Being 40, the vaccines of my youth weren't the best ;)
    I had mumps, measles and bloody Rubella!

    I'm immunocompromised and in a high risk group.
    Even higher risk because I've gone back to Uni and was until today, surrounded by teenage germbags ;)

    The flu outbreaks are the closest many of us have been to an actual outbreak.
    Some of our older posters will remember polio trolleys and TB sanitoria.

    Very few of us posting here have knowledge of the actual outright novelty this pandemic will wreak and comparing it CJD or F&M is a bit facile.


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