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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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  • #6632
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,606 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    NIMAN wrote: »
    Is this the biggest news of the last couple of decades?

    Bigger than

    9/11?
    Brexit?
    Trump?

    Yes, it's the biggest health related event to happen since before I was born, (I'm in my 50s), thankfully Ebola & Sars never took off in any big "pandemic" way, because if they had we'd all be dead.

    This Flu like virus is not 100% deadly, but it is really unpredictable as to who it affects and what impact it has on each individual. Most people with very mild symptoms, others not so mild...

    Big pandemic news for sure.


  • #6633
    jim-mcdee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 373 ✭✭jim-mcdee


    daheff wrote: »
    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.

    No the cases will rise for next 2 or 3 weeks. Then if current measures are effective they will drop.


  • #6634
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    wylo wrote: »
    Not 9/11

    We have just left the starting blocks of this thing this will be a bigger event than the 9/11 attacks.


  • #6635
    Tippex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,958 ✭✭✭Tippex


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    Apparently the session is going ahead and no cars are going onto the track. Something to do with money.

    I heard F1 have said it is going ahead but all teams had a meeting and said they had agreed they would not participate.


  • #6636
    completedit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭completedit


    With the footballers, given their medical care and facilities, could it be argued they just exist in a bubble s d that calling off the leagues is a bit over the top?


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  • #6637
    martingriff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,342 ✭✭✭✭martingriff


    deisedevil wrote: »
    That's exactly what he just said alright. We are where we are because we were made abide by EU free movement rules. Christ. So we must all go down together.

    So what were his exact words


  • #6638
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,654 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Lord TSC wrote: »
    Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta tests positive.

    It’s insane the PL hasn’t shut down.

    This will be last weekend of epl games.

    You heard it here first!


  • #6639
    completedit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭completedit


    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    We have just left the starting blocks of this thing this will be a bigger event than the 9/11 attacks.

    Why would our situation not just mimic China where it is now winding down. Realistically that’s what will happen for the vast majority of countries.


  • #6640
    Tootsie_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 309 ✭✭Tootsie_1


    Well now ...


  • #6641
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    There is no doubt in my mind the likes of Facebook and whatsapp is a cancer on society.
    So far I've had shrill aulwans/aulfellas youngwans/youngfellas telling me (relayed via their feeds and phones):

    The local Aldi is on fire and people are killing each other to get an extra cheap pack of pasta
    Soap is no good YOU HAVE TO GET THE GOOD STUFF
    The govt has no money left, we're all f-u-cked
    Another (well no, the same) hotel in Dublin is teeming with zombie like covid-19 infected waiting to hop on the public (and do what?)

    People are animals in clothes and dumber than a big massive bag of dumbf-u-cks


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  • #6642
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,592 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    My hands are bollixed from washing them so much.


    Olive oil will help.


  • #6643
    d51984
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 940 ✭✭✭d51984


    If they were on the ball all flights in to Ireland from Italy should of been flown in to Baldonnell base instead of Dublin airport.

    On arrival, every one checked. Anyone showing symptoms, transport them up n7 to the Curragh camp for 2 weeks isolation.

    Bit late now i know, maybe we can do it for people flying back from Cheltenham.

    Its a disgrace Joe!



  • #6644
    paul71
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,367 ✭✭✭paul71


    Drumpot wrote: »
    I agree. I wonder if they might be able to use this as a way to position themselves as the worlds new superpower. Particularly with USA basically having an isolationist strategy, spoiling all relations around the world and probably about to make a massive balls of managing this themselves.

    If China have mass produced these sort of supplies and start medically bailing out countries, I really do think people will ignore it’s a dictatorship and the human rights abuses that go on there.

    US managed a sum total of 8 tests yesterday, I'd guess they are massively under-reporting.


  • #6645
    MonkstownHoop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,196 ✭✭✭MonkstownHoop


    completedit wrote: »
    With the footballers, given their medical care and facilities, could it be argued they just exist in a bubble s d that calling off the leagues is a bit over the top?

    They aren't superheroes, they are human and could still die, not to mention staff at clubs that games could not gohead without?


  • #6646
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Definitely bigger than brexit/Trump. Comparable to 9/11. IMO.

    I believe its at least 10 times 9/11


  • #6647
    coolshannagh28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭coolshannagh28


    Not a lot of pan European unity on display these days .


  • #6648
    martingriff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,342 ✭✭✭✭martingriff


    Assetbacked wrote: »
    The flight travel ban being pointless is a line the government mouthpieces have repeated for weeks. Utter bollox, it is clearly what other EU countries are saying. We are a fcuking island, of course it would help us!

    Unless it was ever flight then yes it be pointless. Would have lessened the probability for a while but not stop it


  • #6649
    Gods Gift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,713 ✭✭✭Gods Gift


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    Olive oil will help.

    She’s busy with Popeye.


  • #6650
    Icepick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,456 ✭✭✭Icepick


    banie01 wrote: »
    The Chinese response to Covid and the speed at which they have shared aid and expertise with some regions is going to buy them an awful lot of diplomatic good will and soft power.

    Contrast Chinese aid to Italy, with Trump's blaming of the EU for seeding the virus stateside.
    The Chinese reacted too late and concealed a lot of information at the beginning.
    And now:
    Chinese officials push conspiracy theory coronavirus originated abroad
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/12/conspiracy-theory-that-coronavirus-originated-in-us-gaining-traction-in-china


  • #6651
    jos28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,246 ✭✭✭jos28


    JDD wrote: »
    I was in Dunnes this evening.

    I’m normally a calm person. It was at 8.30, so the madness had passed. The bread, milk (?!!), flour, fresh food, soap, pasta, and nappies shelves were decimated. All shelves were being restocked.

    You know, there’s older people who only get paid their pensions on certain days of the week. There’s coeliacs who need the gluten free food. People need formula for their infants. As if this whole pandemic wasn’t stressful enough you are causing additional panic and distress.

    Stop. Fukking. Panic. Buying. You. Utter. Fukking. Cretins.

    This should be the mantra for this entire debacle. It should be circulated, printed and stamped permanently on those gobsh1tes that cleared the shelves today


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  • #6652
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,654 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    martingriff wrote: »
    So what were his exact words

    He basically said israel are allowed to force visitors into quarantine because they aren't in the eu.

    But because we are, we can't. People can fly in and dander around temple bar.

    Sometimes things are bigger than the eu. This virus is one of them.


  • #6653
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,614 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    Could hand gel dispensers be added to all public transport?

    or replace the grab rails with these things,

    Pure-Hold-handle.png


  • #6654
    bilston
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,997 ✭✭✭✭bilston


    Drumpot wrote: »
    Could part of that be down to testing? If The amount of testIng increases over time then it would somewhat explain theses sort of patterns.

    I would say it's down to testing.

    The UK Chief Medical Officer said today that they estimate up to 10,000 people have it in the UK at the minute even though the official figure is about 600.

    It will be the same everywhere. It's why the mortality rates you see are probably exaggerated.

    The one thing that I assume is roughly accurate (in European countries anyway) is the number of deaths.


  • #6655
    ACitizenErased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,750 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    The Brits are a different breed. First letting Cheltenham go ahead, then Boris saying there's nothing he can do, and now the premier league going ahead with one team virtually entirely contaminated. Incredible.


  • #6656
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,042 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    el Fenomeno wrote: »
    Probably nothing that can be done, but if you have work from home access but your employer is insisting you still come in to the office, I'm guessing you just have to shut up and get on with it?
    That's exactly what's happening to me. I'm not happy about it but I don't see a choice right now. They're going to re-assess on a daily basis but I don't get the logic of this. It's not even so much the workplace as the journey to get there on packed public transport!


  • #6657
    daheff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,030 ✭✭✭daheff


    banie01 wrote: »
    The Chinese response to Covid and the speed at which they have shared aid and expertise with some regions is going to buy them an awful lot of diplomatic good will and soft power.

    Contrast Chinese aid to Italy, with Trump's blaming of the EU for seeding the virus stateside.

    Well maybe it's guilty conscience?? After all the virus did originate in China and was spread by Chinese people travelling around the world while infected.


  • #6658
    owlbethere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭owlbethere


    I find a heated pad is good when I'm not well. Like a heated pad on my tummy or on my chest. Can I recommend a heat pad if anyone is interested? Is might come in useful. It's called SnuggleSafe. It's a heatpad designed for pets but people can use it too. A few minutes in the microwave according to the instructions and it stays warm for a few hours. It stays it stays warm for 10 hours. Maybe that would happen if a warm furry arse sat on it for 10 hours. I get about 6/7/8 hours heat. It's a large, hardshell disc and I think it's filled with candlewax. Its heavy. Weighs around about a bottle of 2 litre milk.


  • #6659
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,592 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Usually the troops are on the full line, but I think with this it's the world leaders who are on the front line with all their interactions constantly with 100's of people every day. Trump will get it, as will Boris, could kill em both too.


  • #6660
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,112 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


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  • #6661
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    completedit wrote: »
    Why would our situation not just mimic China where it is now winding down. Realistically that’s what will happen for the vast majority of countries.

    I hate the Chinese Government but their Iron Fist with the lockdowns was just what the doctor ordered.

    We live in a country with people walking around with hundreds of convictions and lets not talk about the good old USA.


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