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

Listen to this shíte on prime time. They can't tell the truth about the testing. They are saying everyone can have the testing. Bullsh1t. I know people who are at home with all the symptoms with days now and they are being told they don't need testing. I know of someone in a nursing home who was told no testing until they had developed pneumonia. I know for certain that nurses are being told in hospitals not to bother testing some people because they don't think there's any point and that it will take ages anyways. There's fcek all testing being done so how on Earth can they know about community transmission and therefore ensure these people don't spread it.

LeineGlas wrote: »

O'Callaghan is a disgrace. Minister giving important advice and clarifications but she's too desperate for attention to let him speak.

Agree totally. She's trying to ratchet up the drama. Good to see the experts keep their cool and not react to her. Appalling journalism

Ninthlife wrote: »

Cant stand Miriam as an interviewer.

How she earns 1/2 million per year is beyond me

And morons claim RTÉ and FG are in some sort of cahoots!!

Seriously can these nut jobs just self isolate forever along Mirium.

She can't take Margaret Cash with her aswell.

retro:electro wrote: »

Miriam: Final question, should we go to the pub, lol

It's a fair point... a lot of people will still think it's grand.

Look at the arguments every year when Good Friday rolled around, and that was only for a day.

bb12 wrote: »

most pathetic cretin of a human for posting such a comment about an elderly lady out shopping...especially on such a momentous day as today in our society.

did that make you feel better about yourself?

are you the kind of person who watches action movies or plays games all day in your underwear, getting your adrenalin up, thinking you're the big hero and yet would probably baulk if someone said boo to you in real life?

disgusted.

Was in bad taste alright. Just saw it and it looked like such a staged expose the “vulnerable” old lady while shes our minding her own business in a fake attempt to come across empathetic.

My hands are bollixed from washing them so much.

Bannasidhe wrote: »

My parents got married in '56 and loved to tell the story of how they hopped on my Dad's motorbike to go to Tramore for their honeymoon but got turned back at the Cork/Waterford border due to a TB outbreak in Cork.
They ended up in Crosshaven - and to add to their misery my grandmother sent my Mother's two youngest sisters down so she wouldn't get lonely.

Whether the story is true or not I don't know but somehow I ended up with a natural immunity to TB.

My Dad's grandfather, G-Grandparents, and 7 grand aunts all died of TB in the Channel Isles in a 5 year period.

Often spoke with my grandfather about tb etc.
Ireland was a sh€&hole up until about the 1970s.
Death was normalised then.
The last 40 or so years we have been very privileged

A flight carrying aid from China has just landed in Italy tonight
https://www.rainews.it/dl/rainews/articoli/Atterrato-a-Roma-aereo-con-aiuti-dalla-Cina-3c28efb6-d69c-4103-ad8f-a7854bd38db5.html

It would good if a confirmed postive carrier case person could do an AMA on here, does any poster have it?

That Cillian da Gascun has said a couple of times that this isn't going to be over in 2 weeks....and that the severity of lockdown is going to get worse.


Let's all hope the next 3 weeks means a small number of cases daily.