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Ironicname · 13-03-2020 10:59AM

MOR316 wrote:

I'm a hypocrite

Yup

GreeBo · 13-03-2020 11:00AM

dontpanic wrote: »

That's only 50 confirmed cases - there could have been, say, one carrier in the shop today, and now 50 other people are carriers because they all decided to crowd themselves into the same place to panic buy, which completely defeats the plan to contain this.

Going to the shop next week with thousands of cases would probably be safer than today's mess as at least people would be on high hygiene alert.

Indeed, all of which goes to reinforce the idea that going now rather than in a weeks time makes sense.

tanko · 13-03-2020 11:00AM

PhilOssophy wrote: »

I went to Aldi last night and I honestly have no idea how I am going to eat the angle grinder which I bought as it was the only thing left.

I can't believe that you didn't buy any of the tents that were on special offer.
You're going to need somewhere to live when the starving hordes looking for food and toilet roll kick you out of your house.

corner of hells · 13-03-2020 11:01AM

Wanderer78 wrote: »

Oh ffs, I'm after buying a **** load of baskets!

Feckin dyslexia has urined my life.

FFVII · 13-03-2020 11:01AM

Scarlet42 wrote: »

LIDL in Sligo packed this morning .. people with full shopping trolleys at 9am! I got 4 fruit scones and 2 Pain Au chocolate .. not my usual Friday morning order .. but need to stock up on the essentials

What's with the I didn't really buy anything brigade in here.

GreeBo · 13-03-2020 11:01AM

Gamer Bhoy 89 wrote: »

20 something year olds who are healthy, have a great immune system and can work from home,

You mean the people who are perfect carriers of the virus and wont show symptoms? Yeah, we deffo want them out and about over the next 2 weeks.

Wanderer78 · 13-03-2020 11:02AM

corner of hells wrote:

Feckin dyslexia has urined my life.

I'm dism8exic as well

Jimbob1977 · 13-03-2020 11:02AM

For anyone trying to call an airline or hotel:

Toto - Hold the Line

d51984 · 13-03-2020 11:03AM

Theres currently a que of about 100 waiting to get in to Aldi in Coolock. Half of these c**nts will end up in the funeral home next door if they keep this crap up!

corner of hells · 13-03-2020 11:03AM

tanko wrote: »

I can't believe that you didn't buy any of the tents that were on special offer.
You're going to need somewhere to live when the starving hordes looking for food and toilet roll kick you out of your house.

What are you talking about ? Bobby Sands survived for 60 days with no food and he had no arse roll either.

MOR316 · 13-03-2020 11:05AM

Ironicname wrote: »

Yup

Aren't we all though? I'm using that as my saving grace

Plus, I hope by June it'll be under control(ish)

Hoop66 · 13-03-2020 11:07AM

fryup wrote: »

wonder will the phone scam boys from Delhi be up to their old tricks....."your computer has coronavirus you must act immediately"

Bangalore, more likely.

Anyway, BOT. Guy in front of me in my local Centra buying 72 bogrolls...we did laugh. In fact the staff were still laughing when I went back an hour later as I had actually run out.

Deebles McBeebles · 13-03-2020 11:08AM

corner of hells wrote: »

What are you talking about ? Bobby Sands survived for 60 days with no food and he had no arse roll either.

His walls were a mess though.

Lonesomerhodes · 13-03-2020 11:09AM

d51984 wrote: »

Theres currently a que of about 100 waiting to get in to Aldi in Coolock. Half of these c**nts will end up in the funeral home next door if they keep this crap up!

Ahh don't say that.

If they die poor South coastal Dublin folk and RTE presenters will have to go elsewhere for their coke!.

CrankyHaus · 13-03-2020 11:11AM

The Tetrarch wrote: »

As I said, there was no recommendation from either government. It was continue as usual.
The UK moved from the "contain" to the "delay" phase in its fight against the spread of the coronavirus outbreak on 12 March i.e. yesterday.

I gamble. I am not an addict.
You are assuming people who go horse racing are gambling addicts. Based on what evidence?
Gambling can be useful in teaching risk assessment, a quality absent from much of the population as shown in the last financial crisis.
Nothing was learned, and since then the US stock market increased in value in the last ten years to 4.5 times its 2009 value, and 50% above the value of their economy.

Obviously gambling's not much use in teaching risk assessment or nobody would have gone, but enjoy your word salad.

Day Lewin · 13-03-2020 11:11AM

Starting that huge jigsaw puzzle that I got for Christmas.

Also planning to melt down the ends of scented soap that I've been collecting in a jam-jar for literally years.

And ends of candle-wax, I'm sure we could make our own candles if we had to. Why, I'm not sure...but it would demonstrate that wartime spirit of self-sufficiency and independance!

Raconteuse · 13-03-2020 11:12AM

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

I know lots of people who have cancelled holidays and lost lots of money. None of them really care because they’re not, ya know, cunts. My husband and I have both cancelled holidays and we don’t care about the money.

The people who travelled deserve all the ire they are receiving. No sympathy for them.

I'd say the operator of the "Nox" account will be using this to ham up their schtick big style.

Deleted User wrote: »

I'd say the lowest of the low is people who come on a message board and call a large range of people the lowest of the low, "Societies losers"

Grow up and stop panicking and wetting the bed.

Nnnno, I'd say actively helping spread this virus is worse than words on the internet.

JoChervil · 13-03-2020 11:13AM

See flu-update-christmas-4949955-Dec2019 on journal.ie page (I am a new user, so not allowed to post links).

From this article:
"There has been a significant increase in the number of over 75s attending emergency departments, up 25% year on year."

I really believe it was Covid-19 running around then and people were not aware of it. 25% is too much of coincident.

I think it was alraedy here only not tested. This first british guy from China, had it there in three hits. First was like a regular cold, then it was like a flu and the third hit was a pneumonia.

And it was the same in my case. I had a strange illness, which hit me twice.

In China they have very polluted air, so in big city people have damaged lungs, so it was easier spotted there with more severe cases. Also they are additionally more vigilant with SARS and MERS history.

So what, if all this panic is unnecessary?

cj maxx · 13-03-2020 11:16AM

Scarlet42 wrote: »

LIDL in Sligo packed this morning .. people with full shopping trolleys at 9am! I got 4 fruit scones and 2 Pain Au chocolate .. not my usual Friday morning order .. but need to stock up on the essentials

I got 24 Guinness:) essentials essentials A

Raconteuse · 13-03-2020 11:17AM

This has been wondered all right.

Any virology heads here?

Deebles McBeebles · 13-03-2020 11:20AM

Raconteuse wrote: »

Any virology heads here?

There's a terrible amount of sh*t heads if thats any good to you.

thejuggler · 13-03-2020 11:20AM

Some Eurodance seems appropriate....

https://youtu.be/z0XcpmUFD-Y

gct · 13-03-2020 11:23AM

I had what I thought was a cold/flu just before Christmas. I felt Ok for a few days then just after Christmas was hit again with a really bad dry cough that took me about 3 weeks to get rid of. Could this have been covid-19? I know the first cases were reported in China in November.

Yurt2 · 13-03-2020 11:25AM

gct wrote: »

I had what I thought was a cold/flu just before Christmas. I felt Ok for a few days then just after Christmas was hit again with a really bad dry cough that took me about 3 weeks to get rid of. Could this have been covid-19? I know the first cases were reported in China in November.

It's possible but surely the health services here or elsewhere would have twigged something was amiss.

Stark · 13-03-2020 11:25AM

I'm not a virology expert, but the impression I got from reports is they were able to identify the strain of flu (a H3N2 strain) responsible for the increase in cases and it was one that wasn't well covered by this season's vaccine.

In spite of popular opinion, I don't think our health service are that incompetent that they would fail to miss an entirely new virus that represented 25% of cases.

JoChervil · 13-03-2020 11:26AM

Also there were few death cases reported in recent months worldwide of young people, who died because their lungs were damaged. Experts blamed vapping for it. But what if Covid-19 did it to them?

Yurt2 · 13-03-2020 11:29AM

JoChervil wrote: »

Also there were few death cases reported in recent months worldwide of young people, who died because their lungs were damaged. Experts blamed vapping for it. But what if Covid-19 did it to them?

First rule of hip-hop: never spit rhymes if you're running a high temperature. Every corner boy MC knows this.

JoChervil · 13-03-2020 11:30AM

Stark wrote: »

I'm not a virology expert, but the impression I got from reports is they were able to identify the strain of flu (a H3N2 strain) responsible for the increase in cases and it was one that wasn't well covered by this season's vaccine.

In spite of popular opinion, I don't think our health service are that incompetent that they would fail to miss an entirely new virus that represented 25% of cases.

Actually this year vaccine was widely considered as well prepared.

un5byh7sqpd2x0 · 13-03-2020 11:32AM

gct wrote: »

I had what I thought was a cold/flu just before Christmas. I felt Ok for a few days then just after Christmas was hit again with a really bad dry cough that took me about 3 weeks to get rid of. Could this have been covid-19? I know the first cases were reported in China in November.

You're going to die!!

Stark · 13-03-2020 11:35AM

JoChervil wrote: »

Actually this year vaccine was widely considered as well prepared.

Do you have a source?

Flu vaccine is least effective against H3N2 strains which is was the dominant strain in Ireland this year: https://www.hse.ie/eng/health/immunisation/pubinfo/flu-vaccination/about-the-vaccine/

Only figures I could find were from the CDC which had a good season, but they had very few H3N2 cases compared to us https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6907a1.htm

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