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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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  • #8252
    landofthetree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,462 ✭✭✭landofthetree


    Boggles wrote: »
    You'd be looking at a death rate that a society or country would take a long time to come back from.

    100s 1000s of loved ones left to choke to death on their own mucus would lead to the bringing down of society.

    Bojo would be hung from parliament.

    It's hilarious electing the likes of Trump and Boris.

    Not so funny now.



    Its Hobson's choice.

    If they went for the shutdown they will have a huge budget deficit. Public sector wages would have to be cut temporarily till a vaccine comes along at least,

    Ireland is facing huge austerity once again and eventually everyone will get the virus.


    We are screwed either way.

    People are dreaming if they think shutting down for a few weeks will stop it. We would have to shut down till a vaccine comes along.


  • #8253
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,031 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    The One Doctor wrote: »
    Closing the NI border would be a good idea right now.

    The British army tried that during the Troubles and failed hopelessly.


  • #8254
    Boggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,429 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Pope giving out about mass been canceled as he just IPTV'd his own.

    :rolleyes:


  • #8255
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    The One Doctor wrote: »
    Closing the NI border would be a good idea right now.

    How many crossings are there? Unofficial or lesser known ones? Commuters. Political sensitivities. Big operation.


  • #8256
    sterz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 528 ✭✭✭sterz


    spookwoman wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/echolivecork/status/1238441657093230592?s=20

    Use of the word 'alarming' isn't really that helpful, is it.


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  • #8257
    FutureGuy
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 15,255 Mod ✭✭✭✭FutureGuy


    The government needs to close pubs.

    The younger people clearly don’t give a ****.


  • #8258
    dummy_crusher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 114 ✭✭dummy_crusher


    Duke of Url wrote: »
    2

    One in Naas

    One in Cork

    Source?


  • #8259
    ArchXStanton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭ArchXStanton


    FutureGuy wrote: »
    The government needs to close pubs.

    The younger people clearly don’t give a ****.

    More shots...woop woop


  • #8260
    I Am The Law
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 657 ✭✭✭I Am The Law


    dummy_crusher wrote: »
    Source?

    Source?


  • #8261
    tobefrank321
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,527 ✭✭✭tobefrank321


    But its not just the elderly who are at risk in the UK, its anyone who is high risk.

    I can see thousands of cv infected people fleeing the UK for Ireland and the States. At some stage we will have to restrict travel.

    Leo needs to tell Johnson in the strongest possible terms his approach is wrong.


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  • #8262
    Boggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,429 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    If asking people to social distance is not working, they will be told soon enough.


  • #8263
    The One Doctor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,339 ✭✭✭The One Doctor


    niallo27 wrote: »
    Its going spike anyway. The death rate will be tiny though, you cant dispute that.

    If you assume a 65% infection rate, that means 110,000 will die in Ireland based on a 3.5% death rate.

    Tiny, you say.


  • #8264
    Tootsie_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 309 ✭✭Tootsie_1


    Gynoid wrote: »
    Who took the photo? ;)

    Earth cam


  • #8265
    Spook_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,896 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie


    Will Liverpool FC miss out on premiership title then? surely they can't be that ****in unlucky!

    https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-premier-league-and-all-other-english-football-fixtures-suspended-until-april-11956889


  • #8266
    jackboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,017 ✭✭✭jackboy


    FutureGuy wrote: »
    The government needs to close pubs.

    The younger people clearly don’t give a ****.

    Closing pubs and restaurants will lead to mass job losses.


  • #8267
    completedit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭completedit


    I love the way the media reports on the cases of those infected, as if it’s certain death. It’s probably my association with the word diagnosed. But even still.


  • #8268
    niallo27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,137 ✭✭✭✭niallo27


    If the amount of people who have it is probably ten fold the amount that tested positive, then does this also mean the 5% that need serious hospitalization should be closer to 0.5% unless there are people dieing at home which I very much doubt at this stage.


  • #8269
    dummy_crusher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 114 ✭✭dummy_crusher


    I Am The Law wrote: »
    Source?

    Do you have a problem with me requesting him to back up his claim of another death in the country?


  • #8270
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,388 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Gynoid wrote: »
    Who took the photo? ;)
    No one....it's from a webcam...it says in the corner lol


  • #8271
    tobefrank321
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,527 ✭✭✭tobefrank321


    facehugger99 wrote: »
    Apparently the social-media experts have more knowledge than the chief medical and scientific officers that advise Boris.

    Haven't you learned from this that scientific experts advising governments are wrong much of the time?

    Just look at the experts who advised our government to keep flights to Northern Italy open and that it was pointless to stop them. The WHO experts advised similar.

    A 5 year could tell you this was bad advice.


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  • #8272
    sparkle109
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 176 ✭✭sparkle109


    The One Doctor wrote: »
    Closing the NI border would be a good idea right now.

    What border is that? Flights still incoming too.would make zero sense. Plus around the border there are hospital agreements where patients in Donegal can be seen in Derry etc


  • #8273
    FutureGuy
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 15,255 Mod ✭✭✭✭FutureGuy


    jackboy wrote: »
    Closing pubs and restaurants will lead to mass job losses.

    Not closing them TEMPORARILY will result in mass deaths.


  • #8274
    Tacitus Kilgore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,128 ✭✭✭Tacitus Kilgore


    I Am The Law wrote: »
    Source?

    Sorcerer


  • #8275
    Naggdefy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,981 ✭✭✭Naggdefy


    No one wants to hear about some BS Liverpool/Man Utd etc rivalry.

    Anyone who thinks it's great because their rival English football team has an asterisk beside it's title win this year needs more than testing for the Corona virus.


  • #8276
    ShayNanigan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 295 ✭✭ShayNanigan


    Well looks like all the schools are not closed. Music schools and other similar educational places still open. You'd think they'd close thinking about the amount of students going in and out for their lessons all day but I guess it's about money.


  • #8277
    Class MayDresser
    Closed Accounts Posts: 395 ✭✭Class MayDresser


    Tacitus Kilgore wrote: »
    Sorcerer

    Yes please, your finest China.


  • #8278
    jackboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,017 ✭✭✭jackboy


    FutureGuy wrote: »
    Not closing them TEMPORARILY will result in mass deaths.

    Maybe. I wonder though would it be more realistic to isolate the over 60’s and everyone else carry on as normal.


  • #8279
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,445 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    facehugger99 wrote: »
    Apparently the social-media experts have more knowledge than the chief medical and scientific officers that advise Boris.

    Sporting organisations taking matters into their own hands is an indication they are not believing or listening to Boris.


  • #8280
    CIARAN_BOYLE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,599 ✭✭✭✭CIARAN_BOYLE


    dummy_crusher wrote: »
    Do you have a problem with me requesting him to back up his claim of another death in the country?

    It's a fast moving thread. Its pages ago. Dont expect an answer.

    He was wrong.

    If you cared to read you would note that it has been asked a few times and that it was on various online news sources last night including the independent and then later pulled .


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  • #8281
    Spook_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,896 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie


    Naggdefy wrote: »
    No one wants to hear about some BS Liverpool/Man Utd etc rivalry.

    Anyone who thinks it's great because their rival English football team has an asterisk beside it's title win this year needs more than testing for the Corona virus.

    If they don't win it then they don't win it, maybe another 30 years they'll get another chance :D


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