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CoVid-19 Part VII - 169 cases ROI (2 deaths) 45 in NI (as of 15 March) *Read OP*

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    #302
    Strazdas
    Registered Users Posts: 18,088 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    Dept of Foreign Affairs advises a 'high degree of caution' before deciding to travel to other EU states


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    #303
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    Shn99 wrote: »
    Do people think that schools will be closed further if the situation doesnt get better? Arlene Foster in the north is saying schools will close eventually but when they do itll be the end of the academic year. Could that be repeated here?

    Unless theres a dramatic improvement in ireland and abroad i cant seeing schools opening until september at the earliest.


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    #304
    neonsofa
    Registered Users Posts: 5,476 ✭✭✭neonsofa


    scudzilla wrote: »
    last night, between 17:00 and 20:00 i had 3 door to door salespeople, first was for vodafone, second bord gais, never even found out who the third was before i told him to fcuk off.

    The mind boggles, highly contagious virus and you're knocking door to door selling shite

    In fairness, and i agree with your sentiment, its not like the individuals are choosing themselves to do it for the craic.


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    #305
    Yurt2
    Registered Users Posts: 9,381 ✭✭✭Yurt2


    Pubs really should be put on early closing hours at the very least, and people should know better.


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    #306
    syngindub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,798 ✭✭✭syngindub


    Loughc wrote: »
    Work keeps telling me it’s safe to go to work surrounded by 100 people even though my job can be done easily from home. Go figure.

    same boat here dude.


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    #307
    skimpydoo
    Registered Users Posts: 4,867 ✭✭✭skimpydoo


    autumnbelle wrote: »
    The late late In the empty studio looks so strange
    One for everyone in the audience.


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    #308
    darjeeling
    Registered Users Posts: 962 ✭✭✭darjeeling


    SuperTortoise wrote: »
    I read several weeks ago on the BBC website of reports from Wuhan of thousands of patients being discharged from the hospitals and having to be re-submitted due to being infected a second time, if those reports are true then surely there is no such thing as herd immunity?

    I don't think that's the reality. Most of the media stories on this a couple of weeks ago were blown up from a misinterpreted media briefing by CDC in S China (14% 'reinfection' was actually 13 patients who tested -ve & later +ve using a different test, but didn't redevelop symptoms).

    More recent studies have shown 100% of recovering patients developing antibodies as expected, meaning they will have immunity for some time. Antibody testing is now part of the Chinese diagnosis & treatment guidelines, so we'd hear if anything strange was happening.


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    #309
    wakka12
    Registered Users Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    completedit wrote: »
    Where are the horror stories from Spain? Doesn’t seem to be a thing.

    What are you on about? Spain declared a state of emergency today and almost 100 people have died


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    #310
    Mezcita
    Registered Users Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭Mezcita


    randomjohnson wrote: »
    The terrifying supervirus that only kills already half dead 80+ year olds is losing some of it's fear factor.

    Welcome new troll friend.


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    #311
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,899 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Off licenses will be buzzing.

    Stay at home, fk the vintners. Chickens can come home to roost.


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    #312
    pah
    Registered Users Posts: 3,402 ✭✭✭pah


    randomjohnson wrote: »
    The terrifying supervirus that only kills already half dead 80+ year olds is losing some of it's fear factor.

    You're a gowl.


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    #313
    whiskeyman
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    Yurt! wrote: »
    Pubs really should be put on early closing hours at the very least, and people should know better.

    Closed by Tuesday.
    Have to be.


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    #314
    LRNM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 164 ✭✭LRNM


    Just back from a day on the ambo.


    It's weird, earlier this week it was mostly preparation. Training on how to put on gowns facemask and goggles, dribs and drabs of information and new guidelines being put out every day.
    Very hard to keep up but in general it was business as usual.

    Things changed a fair bit since yesterday evening shít has hit the fan. The hospitals are in panic mode and are shipping out everybody they can.

    We know that the moment a hospital is infected, it's locked down. Nobody leaves as the nursing homes and community hospitals will not take them.
    So the hospitals that are clear are trying their hardest to empty bed spaces.

    The wards have dozens of empty beds. A&E's are deserted bar a couple of people. I've never in my career seen them so quiet. Last week the trolley crisis was business as usual and today its eerily empty.

    Talking to the nurses on the wards they say while theres less patients, there are also a lot less staff. They're struggling big time to get the numbers.

    It was 1 nurse to 10 patients. The nurses were told a few days ago it's going to be 1 to 1 nursing when the virus arrives but all the nurses think thats pie in the sky stuff.
    1 HCA for an entire ward.
    Cleaners were in overdrive.

    There are a lot of elderly patients who are totally confused and do not understand whats going on and their behaviors can be very difficult to manage. No visitors allowed period which they can't wrap their head around.

    Seems to be less 999 emergency calls but swabbing and suspected cases of covid19 are huge. There are hundreds of calls stacked for swabbing, most sitting there longer than 24 hours at this stage.

    The 999 call takers are inundated. Don't be surprised if you have to hold for a while if you need to call them.


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    #315
    limnam
    Registered Users Posts: 9,152 ✭✭✭limnam


    threeball wrote: »
    Nope you're correct. Survival of the fittest. Boris is Hitler minus a dodgy tash.

    Why are people only referring to Boris

    Aren't the Dutch doing the same thing?


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    #316
    Queasy Tadpole
    Registered Users Posts: 219 ✭✭Queasy Tadpole


    Yurt! wrote: »
    Pubs really should be put on early closing hours at the very least, and people should know better.
    This is Ireland. We're talking about the Irish. Absolute bunch of idiots collectively.


    Wait one or two weeks till their parents/grandparents end up in the ICU. Idiots.


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    #317
    Sober Crappy Chemis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 461 ✭✭Sober Crappy Chemis


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    Closed by Tuesday.
    Have to be.

    Username does NOT check out.


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    #318
    YFlyer
    Registered Users Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    Loughc wrote: »
    Work keeps telling me it’s safe to go to work surrounded by 100 people even though my job can be done easily from home. Go figure.

    The boss and HR personnel on site as well?


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    #319
    daheff
    Registered Users Posts: 5,837 ✭✭✭daheff


    Cw85 wrote: »
    Anyone else here have friends or family on the Guards and Army that are hearing what I'm hearing?

    Depends..what are you hearing ...


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    #320
    JJayoo
    Registered Users Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭JJayoo


    I am getting loads of Snapchat pics of people out in wedged pubs drinking bottles of Corina.


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    #321
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,899 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    LRNM wrote: »
    Just back from a day on the ambo.


    It's weird, earlier this week it was mostly preparation. Training on how to put on gowns facemask and goggles, dribs and drabs of information and new guidelines being put out every day.
    Very hard to keep up but in general it was business as usual.

    Things changed a fair bit since yesterday evening shít has hit the fan. The hospitals are in panic mode and are shipping out everybody they can.

    We know that the moment a hospital is infected, it's locked down. Nobody leaves as the nursing homes and community hospitals will not take them.
    So the hospitals that are clear are trying their hardest to empty bed spaces.

    The wards have dozens of empty beds. A&E's are deserted bar a couple of people. I've never in my career seen them so quiet. Last week the trolley crisis was business as usual and today its eerily empty.

    Talking to the nurses on the wards they say while theres less patients, there are also a lot less staff. They're struggling big time to get the numbers.

    It was 1 nurse to 10 patients. The nurses were told a few days ago it's going to be 1 to 1 nursing when the virus arrives but all the nurses think thats pie in the sky stuff.
    1 HCA for an entire ward.
    Cleaners were in overdrive.

    There are a lot of elderly patients who are totally confused and do not understand whats going on and their behaviors can be very difficult to manage. No visitors allowed period which they can't wrap their head around.

    Seems to be less 999 emergency calls but swabbing and suspected cases of covid19 are huge. There are hundreds of calls stacked for swabbing, most sitting there longer than 24 hours at this stage.

    The 999 call takers are inundated. Don't be surprised if you have to hold for a while if you need to call them.

    I don't know what to say except you and the medics are doing a great service to the country, and take a bow.


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    #322
    Kaisr Sose
    Registered Users Posts: 3,151 ✭✭✭Kaisr Sose


    Sober Crappy Chemis wrote: »
    Fcuk you and yer stats.... there’s panic to be doin’ here. Jog on.

    A post every 14.9secs now...

    PS, be is a BBM (Big Beasty Mod)


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    #323
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    syngindub wrote: »
    same boat here dude.

    Hard to work from home, if youre on a boat

    Unless its a house boat


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    #324
    Loughc
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    YFlyer wrote: »
    The boss and HR personnel on site as well?

    The boss is. HR conveniently working from home.


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    #325
    threeball
    Registered Users Posts: 7,963 ✭✭✭threeball


    limnam wrote: »
    Why are people only referring to Boris

    Aren't the Dutch doing the same thing?

    I'm not as familiar with how thick the Dutch PM is.


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    #326
    skimpydoo
    Registered Users Posts: 4,867 ✭✭✭skimpydoo


    I know of a Dublin restaurant that will be closed by next Wednesday or sooner if the government decrees it. They are letting their staff go as they are not sure if they will open again.


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    #327
    voluntary
    Registered Users Posts: 871 ✭✭✭voluntary


    randomjohnson wrote: »
    The terrifying supervirus that only kills already half dead 80+ year olds is losing some of it's fear factor.

    People as young as 20+ are plugged in to air tubes in Italy.


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    #328
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,264 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Shn99 wrote: »
    Do people think that schools will be closed further if the situation doesnt get better? Arlene Foster in the north is saying schools will close eventually but when they do itll be the end of the academic year. Could that be repeated here?

    Well they'll be go back for a week and will be off for another two. So, they might just extend it.


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    #329
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users Posts: 10,484 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    Shn99 wrote: »
    Do people think that schools will be closed further if the situation doesnt get better? Arlene Foster in the north is saying schools will close eventually but when they do itll be the end of the academic year. Could that be repeated here?

    I'd bet the house on it being until September. Start with a couple of weeks and settle people into the idea and a routine.


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    #330
    mick987
    Registered Users Posts: 141 ✭✭mick987


    beggars_bush wrote: »
    Nothing wrong with going for a drink

    Pubs and restaurants need the business

    I presume you are trolling?


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    #331
    sunshinew
    Registered Users Posts: 111 ✭✭sunshinew


    It's just so utterly disrespectful to our healthcare workers to be sitting in a pub right now...I'm sitting at home anxious enough about this but with the luxury of being able to WFH for the foreseeable. Imagine knowing that this sh*tstorm is going to come to your workplace and you've got to get up every day to face it, putting yourself in danger every day and knowing you could get infected and infect your own family with it - and then seeing these absolute a*holes not being able to give up a couple of pints on a Friday.


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