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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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    #812
    almostover
    Registered Users Posts: 1,985 ✭✭✭almostover


    Bunny Colvin wrote: »
    I just saw a Snapchat story, the picture has a pint with the caption reading: '**** your virus'.

    That lad who posted it is in his mid-thirties and in fairness, was never the sharpest so I actually don't think he 'gets it'. We don't care if the likes of him gets the virus, it's the issue of passing it on to other people that's the problem. That's why the government needs to step in and temporarily shut the pubs because you just can't legislate for people and a lot of them out there are real idiots.

    Very difficult to legislate for imbeciles


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    #813
    TTLF
    Registered Users Posts: 671 ✭✭✭TTLF
    save the trouble and jazz it up


    Finished my first "day?" of homeschool..

    From an LC students perspective my first thought is "This just ain't gonna work"

    But sure, it's only day 1, I should hopefully get into a routine....

    and now I can sleep longer too :D


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    #814
    Klonker
    Registered Users Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭Klonker


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    You know the way in the winter someone in the office gets the flu and before you know it most of the office have it. It's like that only you won't know you have it until you have passed it on to co-workers and family members. When you start to show symptoms it will be too late.

    How do you pass it on if not through coughing and sneezing?


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    #815
    Jinglejangle69
    Registered Users Posts: 7,278 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    PaybackPayroll wrote: »
    I believe the strategy is to get 60%? of people infected and (hopefully) recovered. Then we have herd immunity.

    However, it has to be done in a controlled way, hence the gradual closing of schools etc. Do it too quickly and panic sets in. Do it too slowly and in the infection rate increases too quickly.

    With this in mind, I wonder if a 'controlled infection' strategy would work? Deliberately infect the healthiest and let them recover. Then let the 60% for herd immunity be the healthiest ones? - saving the elderly?
    Its so ridiculous.

    Its basically let it spread and we see what happens.

    Madness


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    #816
    threeball
    Registered Users Posts: 8,005 ✭✭✭threeball


    SusieBlue wrote: »
    My best friend, who hand on heart worked me into such a state of anxiety with her hysteria & doomsday talk during the week that I came close to having a panic attack, is currently out for drinks with her new boyfriend after going for dinner earlier this evening.

    Another friend has a milestone birthday tomorrow, a party was planned but had to be cancelled for obvious reasons.
    A few of us were going to call to her house tomorrow afternoon with cake and balloons to take the sting out of the fact that we can’t celebrate but my other friend won’t come cause it’s too dangerous... (fair enough)
    But she’s currently out on the lash in town with her fella.
    So pissed off I can’t even put into words how angry I am. Raging isn’t the word, such selfish creatures out there.

    But will you say it to her. Far too many people in this country bitch on boards or other friends about actions that people take that piss them off yet say nothing to the person in question. She'll remain a hypocrite as long as shes let


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    #817
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    GolfNut33 wrote: »
    Anyone else gone from being scared of this bastard to wanting to beat the c*nt into oblivion?

    Corvid 19 or Trump? We have the blueprint for at last limiting Corvid 19's effects if enough people get on board. Trump is another matter:pac:


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    #818
    Indestructable
    Registered Users Posts: 1,373 ✭✭✭Indestructable


    WTF is the UK doing, I fear for them at the moment.


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    #819
    Spanish Eyes
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    faceman wrote: »
    I’m similar to you and I have a different view. If Ireland ends up like Spain then I’m going there. I’d rather be in isolation in a sunny climate with a better health service and a cheaper cost of living than, you know, Ireland.

    Fair enough, but the Spanish health service will be overrun if it is not already.

    Spain is slowly closing down now. Much as I love it have to desist now. Better to be here than either in quarantine or unable to return home.

    No brainer for me, but I get your point.


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    #820
    Jinglejangle69
    Registered Users Posts: 7,278 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    Indestructable wrote: »
    WTF is the UK doing, I fear for them at the moment.

    Makes zero sense


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    #821
    Ladybird18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 155 ✭✭Ladybird18


    MonsterCookie wrote: »
    Yeah; I did a double take. It sounded so stooopid.

    But maybe he meant big as in big implications rather than just loads of letters!

    I took it as loads of letters.


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    #822
    TTLF
    Registered Users Posts: 671 ✭✭✭TTLF
    save the trouble and jazz it up


    Indestructable wrote: »
    WTF is the UK doing, I fear for them at the moment.

    i fear for US because of them, remember Northern Ireland is effected by their decisions too :pac:


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    #823
    GM228
    Registered Users Posts: 8,925 ✭✭✭GM228


    fritzelly wrote: »
    Must have just updated

    Updated at 11.33.


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    #824
    MonsterCookie
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    Ladybird18 wrote: »
    I took it as loads of letters.

    You’re probably right :-D


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    #825
    Blueshoe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    Klonker wrote: »
    How do you pass it on if not through coughing and sneezing?

    Good point.


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    #826
    Jinglejangle69
    Registered Users Posts: 7,278 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    UK are looking at banning mass gatherings now.

    As long as Cheltenham happend.

    What has gone wrong with them in the last few years??


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    #827
    hurikane
    Registered Users Posts: 688 ✭✭✭hurikane


    PaybackPayroll wrote: »
    I believe the strategy is to get 60%? of people infected and (hopefully) recovered. Then we have herd immunity.

    However, it has to be done in a controlled way, hence the gradual closing of schools etc. Do it too quickly and panic sets in. Do it too slowly and in the infection rate increases too quickly.

    With this in mind, I wonder if a 'controlled infection' strategy would work? Deliberately infect the healthiest and let them recover. Then let the 60% for herd immunity be the healthiest ones? - saving the elderly?

    Is that you Boris, or is it Matt?


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    #828
    GM228
    Registered Users Posts: 8,925 ✭✭✭GM228


    Indestructable wrote: »
    WTF is the UK doing, I fear for them at the moment.

    The same as they did with Brexit, making a tits of things for themselves.


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    #829
    marina24
    Registered Users Posts: 24 ✭marina24


    EDIT: Start getting used to living with your mother in law :) The ban may last a good while[/quote]

    Pay whatever it takes for a flight tomorrow 😬


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    #830
    imfml
    Registered Users Posts: 466 ✭✭imfml


    Bunny Colvin wrote: »
    I just saw a Snapchat story, the picture has a pint with the caption reading: '**** your virus'.

    That lad who posted it is in his mid-thirties and in fairness, was never the sharpest so I actually don't think he 'gets it'. We don't care if the likes of him gets the virus, it's the issue of passing it on to other people that's the problem. That's why the government needs to step in and temporarily shut the pubs because you just can't legislate for people and a lot of them out there are real idiots.

    In a months time our health professionals will have guidelines on prioritising care to people in 30s vs people in 40s. This god****e will have helped spread it and also potentially take up a ventilator that could have saved a vulnerable person.


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    #831
    Nermal
    Registered Users Posts: 2,624 ✭✭✭Nermal


    Bunny Colvin wrote: »
    I just saw a Snapchat story, the picture has a pint with the caption reading: '**** your virus'.

    That lad who posted it is in his mid-thirties and in fairness, was never the sharpest so I actually don't think he 'gets it'. We don't care if the likes of him gets the virus, it's the issue of passing it on to other people that's the problem. That's why the government needs to step in and temporarily shut the pubs because you just can't legislate for people and a lot of them out there are real idiots.

    If he gets it, and doesn’t get hospitalised and doesn’t pass it on, he’s more useful than you are. He’ll be a barrier to further transmission.

    How is he going to get it, if not by social contact?


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    #832
    SusieBlue
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    threeball wrote: »
    But will you say it to her. Far too many people in this country bitch on boards or other friends about actions that people take that piss them off yet say nothing to the person in question. She'll remain a hypocrite as long as shes let

    Yeah I did, in fairness this is very out of character for her but I did tell her not to come near my house for the next 2 weeks and that she was being really reckless.
    She has elderly parents and an immunocompromised sister so I can only assume she’s having some sort of bizarre lapse of judgment due to being in a brand new relationship. Still doesn’t excuse it though.


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    #833
    fritzelly
    Registered Users Posts: 17,334 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    GM228 wrote: »
    Updated at 11.33.

    What timezone? 10 mins ago the left hand country list still had Ireland at 70 - changed now


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    #834
    An Ri rua
    Registered Users Posts: 4,485 ✭✭✭An Ri rua


    Downlinz wrote: »
    You can still be very sick spending weeks in hospital and suffer lifelong damage from this virus, even as a young person. Old people dying isn't the only issue.

    100%. There's so much control of the message by the authorities. The reality is that this virus has killed younger people, has killed healthy people (virus overload) and up to 16% of cases can suffer lifelong damage. 1 in 6.


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    #835
    RickDeckard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 254 ✭✭RickDeckard


    Ive not really paid much attention to Boards for a few years, but its been an invaluable resource on COVID19 since the beginning, as a country, I think we are very lucky to have a 'Meeting Square' kinda place like this to talk about it all.
    Stay safe
    Stay the **** indoors!


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    #836
    all about the mane
    Registered Users Posts: 1,401 ✭✭✭all about the mane


    Nermal wrote: »
    If he gets it, and doesn’t get hospitalised and doesn’t pass it on, he’s more useful than you are. He’ll be a barrier to further transmission.

    How is he going to get it, if not by social contact?

    Really...


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    #837
    imfml
    Registered Users Posts: 466 ✭✭imfml


    Indestructable wrote: »
    WTF is the UK doing, I fear for them at the moment.

    I fear for us living next door to them


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    #838
    threeball
    Registered Users Posts: 8,005 ✭✭✭threeball


    SusieBlue wrote: »
    Yeah I did, in fairness this is very out of character for her but I did tell her not to come near my house for the next 2 weeks and that she was being really reckless.
    She has elderly parents and an immunocompromised sister so I can only assume she’s having some sort of bizarre lapse of judgment due to being in a brand new relationship. Still doesn’t excuse it though.

    Good for you. People need to be more honest and call others out on bullsh1t especially in situations like this.


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    #839
    BorneTobyWilde
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    Boris tried to play it his way, but then others took it upon themselves to act, cancelling football, Rugby, gatherings. People over there are having to do it themselves.


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    #840
    Snow Garden
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Snow Garden


    Jinglejangle69 wrote: »
    UK are looking at banning mass gatherings now.

    As long as Cheltenham happend.

    What has gone wrong with them in the last few years??

    I just spent the week travelling on the Tube. It was fairly packed at times.
    Not sure if you can realistically shut it down.


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    #841
    wakka12
    Registered Users Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Klonker wrote: »
    How do you pass it on if not through coughing and sneezing?

    Touching your eyes,nose ,mouth then touching something somebody else uses, for example
    It's much harder to spread when asymptomatic but definitely still does occur


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