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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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  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,410 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    Steve F wrote: »
    Apparently the madness has started again in the Supermarkets

    Selfish or wha?

    Couple in front of me in Tesco this morning had around 20 2 ltr bottles of milk, pretty much all the meat (mince, steaks etc...) they could fit in their trolley, and around 40 easter eggs.

    Good thing they are sticking to the essentials.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,031 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    namloc1980 wrote: »
    If I ever hear anyone ever talk again about the great Irish community spirit, they can fcuk right off. When the chips are down we're just a bunch of mé féiners, needlessly making a bad situation worse.

    Me Feiners alright, the same sort of people that think its ok to hoard property and keep it intentionally vacant, or pull up the ladder on younger people in their own profession so they can have all the nice things themselves.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    niallo27 wrote: »
    Man you got to get over any issues you have with me over football. I think this is a little more important. And no I dont think 80 euro for a family shop who are stockpiling is a lot no.

    It was a lighthearted joke lad. Relax. I don't care about you and your football.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 353 ✭✭IQO


    cjmc wrote: »
    Where do you go/ring to get tested
    https://www2.hse.ie/conditions/coronavirus/coronavirus.html#Testing


    Also having a bit of cough and a slight headache myself for the last three days. Still working from home (I was already since the beginning of the week). It's not very severe - and if I would have had the same around this time last year, before Corona, I would probably just have gone to work.

    Not sure if I have the virus now, but there is a chance - and probably the same applies for many other people at the moment, who won't call their GP but are risking the spread of the virus.

    I'm now staying at home and intending to call the GP for testing when the situation would get worse (if it would get) - but at the same time I'm then also realising that the numbers of infections we're currently seeing are a bit skewed. Only the more severe cases with visible symptoms (who call their GP for testing and to double check) are currently being counted.


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


    Adiboo wrote: »
    It was your whole "Hang on" judgemental comment. Maybe it's not a lot for you or your family, but it is a lot for others. Don't make people feel ****ty about their financial situation for no reason.

    Fair enough that wasnt my intention. Apologies if I came across as a dick.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,401 ✭✭✭all about the mane


    I reckon a lot of people who normally shop at weekends, but who are off work today, or have to be off work because their children aren't at school, will do their shopping today. Hopefully by next Monday things will be far more normal, as regards supplies on the shelves.

    Of course they will. Its the panic that kills us. Sooner or later it will dawn on people that things continue to be re-stocked. There is going to be some amount of waste though...


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,431 ✭✭✭Stateofyou


    Yea, probably....


    - I'd say we need a better education system, lest we end up like the Brits & yanks (we're not quite there yet, there's still time)

    Says the Irish person who (most likely) can't speak their own language despite having gone through the school system. :rolleyes:


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


    Kiith wrote: »
    Couple in front of me in Tesco this morning had around 20 2 ltr bottles of milk, pretty much all the meat (mince, steaks etc...) they could fit in their trolley, and around 40 easter eggs.

    Good thing they are sticking to the essentials.

    Thats a lot of protein


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


    Cuckoo7 wrote: »
    Nostradamus did, it went something like “ The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches...“

    Hi all.

    Sorry I’m late.


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


    Omackeral wrote: »
    It was a lighthearted joke lad. Relax. I don't care about you and your football.

    Fair enough. Apologies.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 176 ✭✭Carbon125


    I’m reposting this. What a woman. Thought the guy was going to keep equivocating and dodging but she got him. Coronavirus testing and other things will be free to all Americans independent of health insurance status.

    https://twitter.com/adamparkhomenko/status/1238228599087513602?s=21
    I wish more journalists had her skills and wouldn't accept evasive waffle from politicians as answers!


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 9,705 Mod ✭✭✭✭mayordenis


    Carbon125 wrote: »
    I wish more journalists had her skills and wouldn't accept evasive waffle from politicians as answers!

    What would be even better is if more politicians were like her.


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


    Stateofyou wrote: »
    Says the Irish person who (most likely) can't speak their own language despite having gone through the school system. :rolleyes:


    I have a cupla focail, but language is not the only indicator of a successful education system..


    I'm perplexed, do you think my post was a general dig at Irish people?

    Or are you one of the gaggle of gobshites that went panic buying yesterday so you could put it on your insta,?and now you feel offended that I think those people are dangerous idiots?


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


    Of course they will. Its the panic that kills us. Sooner or later it will dawn on people that things continue to be re-stocked. There is going to be some amount of waste though...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,858 ✭✭✭Steve F


    Late 2020


    Originally Posted by expectationlost View Post
    whats the ETA on a vaccine?


    Late 2020

    Any source for THIS please?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,122 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    Isn't there 3 million refugees in camps?

    Imagine the breathing ground for the virus there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    jester77 wrote: »
    The US is so f*cked, it's scary reading this, people with obvious symptoms are being refused tests

    The US and the UK are fecked. Their response has been disgraceful.

    We’re miles ahead of them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,031 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Stateofyou wrote: »
    Says the Irish person who (most likely) can't speak their own language despite having gone through the school system. :rolleyes:

    Most of us get along fine not speaking a language that hardly anyone speaks on a daily basis.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭Kilboor


    Wish I owned a supermarket lads


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 816 ✭✭✭Macdarack


    dougm1970 wrote: »
    my wife is in dunnes in sligo presently...just spoke to her on phone...she said its busy..but not too busy...nothing like xmas and no sign of panic buying or anything out of stock.

    Quick! Everybody to dunnes sligo, go go go


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


    Isn't there 3 million refugees in camps?

    Imagine the breathing ground for the virus there.

    Hopefully none of them went skiing in italy




  • Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    The US and the UK are fecked. Their response has been disgraceful.

    We’re miles ahead of them.

    The fundamental issue with the UK is we have people freely coming in and out of the country with no restrictions from my understanding

    Said it elsewhere but Cheltenham alone will cause a massive spike in cases for people in direct contact and community transmissions with lads being rattled from beer and immune systems down because of the booze

    In essence the government here are taking the correct action but the UK government are ****ing it up for us


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭Adiboo


    Most of us get along fine not speaking a language that hardly anyone speaks on a daily basis.

    Do you not find that sad?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,177 ✭✭✭Ironicname


    Adiboo wrote:
    Do you not find that sad?

    No.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Steve F wrote: »
    Originally Posted by expectationlost View Post
    whats the ETA on a vaccine?


    Late 2020

    Any source for THIS please?

    This is very positive if true (coronavirus cancels hockey, canada hold my beer)

    https://www.narcity.com/news/ca/sk/coronavirus-vaccine-made-in-saskatchewan-is-now-in-the-testing-stages

    Just shows how important it is to crack on with socially responsible behaviour for the next while, because by doing so lives will be saved.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 624 ✭✭✭Humberto Salazar


    Macdarack wrote: »
    Quick! Everybody to dunnes sligo, go go go

    Two hour drive there, two back, ten mins in there, fill up car with toilet rolls, I think it's worth it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,031 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Adiboo wrote: »
    Do you not find that sad?

    I couldn't care less. I'll conduct my business in whatever the medium most people use, in this case here that would be English. I have no sentimental attachment to a language.


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


    All major sporting events in America are cancelled.
    Tv chat shows going out without an audience from Monday. Meanwhile Uk ditters.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    MarkY91 wrote: »
    Looks like normal milk. He must plan on him and his family eating nothing but cereal for the next week or so.

    I'm so angry. Imagine all the elderly people collecting their pension today..many of which are completely alone having to go in and try deal with these bastards and choosing what's leftover on empty shelves :(

    Has to be for a business , maybe hotel/restaurant or something. Nobody could need that much or be that stupid surely?


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


    The fundamental issue with the UK is we have people freely coming in and out of the country with no restrictions from my understanding

    Said it elsewhere but Cheltenham alone will cause a massive spike in cases for people in direct contact and community transmissions with lads being rattled from beer and immune systems down because of the booze

    In essence the government here are taking the correct action but the UK government are ****ing it up for us

    Countries will just keep reinfecting each other until theres real travel restrictions/quarrantine


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