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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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  • #1622
    niallo27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,137 ✭✭✭✭niallo27


    Any case for italy being no longer in exponential growth phase after 3 days of stagnant growth or is the time scale too small.


  • #1623
    silverharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,854 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    retro:electro wrote: »
    Anyone else mentally replacing the planes with the image of the virus

    no, just wondering is that to scale :pac:

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • #1624
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Scotty # wrote: »
    No shortage of flights over Europe at the minute, or to the US.

    flights.png

    Going to look very different in a few days!


  • #1625
    20silkcut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,734 ✭✭✭20silkcut


    Drumpot wrote: »
    When you consider what’s been going on in Syria and other genocides or ethnic clensings that have happened over the last 30 years , it really does show how USA centric we think.

    It was a seismic event , just as much for USAs unfortunate response as anything else.

    I’m not getting involved in an ideological back and forth here. And I certainly do not approve of America’s cack handed response to 9/11.
    Just pointing out the historical significance of that event. The poster was wrong to downplay it.
    It did occur in a peaceful period in a relatively peaceful country that’s why it stands out.

    When you think about it an average of 80,000 plus people were being slaughtered every day during world war 2. And there are only certain dates from that war that are really remembered.


  • #1626
    Gynoid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭Gynoid


    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    Look forget about tests just assume this thing is everywhere at this stage.

    I think testing is needed for epidemiological reasons. Going forward we need numbers so we can have good research. It helps now for us to know re past pandemics, doesn't it?


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  • #1627
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,031 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Chardee MacDennis wrote: »
    is the polish bread much better?

    Anything's better than Brennans play-dough.


  • #1628
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    perrito caliente wrote: »
    Anybody else out last night? Pubs were absolutely throbbing.

    We heard, yeh lots of selfish bollixes around.

    If I was Taoiseach I would make sure they were shot with a ball of their own Guinness infused ****e.


  • #1629
    billybonkers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,293 ✭✭✭billybonkers


    I wonder what the anit vaxxers think of all that is happening


  • #1630
    Multipass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,678 ✭✭✭Multipass


    Corkgirl20 wrote: »
    I hope the pubs close down soon, also flights need to be restricted. We’re lucky to be an island , we can contain this easier than other counties. I know it will be a financial hit but .. health before wealth!

    Our health system isn’t strong enough for this. We need to minimise the amount of people getting this virus all at once or else the health care workers will be put into terrible scenarios and making difficult choices like in Italy.

    If our hospitals are over run with cases from the virus, it leaves less beds and healthcare workers to deal with people who are coming in with ailments such as appendix , heart attacks , strokes etc.

    I hope the government takes action before it’s not too late.

    The island part would only be of benefit before thevirus got here. It’s too late, completely irrelevant now.


  • #1631
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    amadangomor wrote: »
    So people with very bad/dangerous symptoms shouldn't get tested!!!:confused:

    I did not say that.

    I mean don't let positive test numbers guide your judgement.

    Our official number is 90 the reality is we have no idea of the true number best to say in if you can.


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  • #1632
    CIARAN_BOYLE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,599 ✭✭✭✭CIARAN_BOYLE


    niallo27 wrote: »
    Any case for italy being no longer in exponential growth phase after 3 days of stagnant growth or is the time scale too small.

    Two days of stagnant growth.

    March 11 had 600 cases that should have been included the previous day.


  • #1633
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    PRAISE THE LORD!

    https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1238110096334479364


  • #1634
    Gynoid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭Gynoid


    amadangomor wrote: »

    If I was Taoiseach I would make sure they were shot with a ball of their own Guinness infused ****e.
    Haha
    :) novel viruses require novel punishments


  • #1635
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,599 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    perrito caliente wrote: »
    Anybody else out last night? Pubs were absolutely throbbing.

    So school children can't meet for fear of passing on the virus, yet the pubs are throbbing with adults (who can also pass on the virus) :cool:

    Don't forget, as Nicola Sturgeon was saying, the kids will still meet up, in a less formal way, hence they won't be made to wash/ sanitize their hands ..... as they would do in school.


  • #1636
    PhantomHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 151 ✭✭PhantomHat


    perrito caliente wrote: »
    Anybody else out last night? Pubs were absolutely throbbing.

    Pinters gotta pint


  • #1637
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Hamsterchops wrote: »
    Yet, post #1588

    This is no good without an actual link for people on mobile.


  • #1638
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    Hamsterchops wrote: »
    So school children can't meet for fear of passing on the virus, yet the pubs are throbbing with adults (who will also pass on the virus) :cool:

    Don't forget, as Nicola Sturgeon was saying, the kids will still meet up anyway, in a less formal way, hence they won't be made to wash/ sanitize their hands ..... as they would do in school.

    I know I didn't be we should ignore the troll:)


  • #1639
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Guy whinging in the New York Times that he has no place to sell the hand sanitiser he amassed and was selling at inflated price on Amazon now that they have cracked down on it. :rolleyes: Meanwhile, these items can’t be found in shops.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/technology/coronavirus-purell-wipes-amazon-sellers.html#click=https://t.co/4YBemz56ua
    On March 1, the day after the first coronavirus death in the United States, brothers Matt and Noah Colvin set out in a silver S.U.V. to pick up some hand sanitizer. Driving around Chattanooga, Tenn., they hit a Dollar Tree, then a Walmart, a Staples and a Home Depot. At each store, they cleaned out the shelves.

    Over the next three days, Noah Colvin took a 1,300-mile road trip across Tennessee and into Kentucky, filling a U-Haul truck with thousands of bottles of hand sanitizer and thousands of packs of antibacterial wipes, mostly from “little hole-in-the-wall dollar stores in the backwoods,” his brother said. “The major metro areas were cleaned out.”

    Matt Colvin stayed home near Chattanooga, preparing for pallets of even more wipes and sanitizer he had ordered, and starting to list them on Amazon. Mr. Colvin said he had posted 300 bottles of hand sanitizer and immediately sold them all for between $8 and $70 each, multiples higher than what he had bought them for. To him, “it was crazy money.” To many others, it was profiteering from a pandemic.

    The next day, Amazon pulled his items and thousands of other listings for sanitizer, wipes and face masks. The company suspended some of the sellers behind the listings and warned many others that if they kept running up prices, they’d lose their accounts. EBay soon followed with even stricter measures, prohibiting any U.S. sales of masks or sanitizer.
    Now, while millions of people across the country search in vain for hand sanitizer to protect themselves from the spread of the coronavirus, Mr. Colvin is sitting on 17,700 bottles of the stuff with little idea where to sell them.

    “It’s been a huge amount of whiplash,” he said. “From being in a situation where what I’ve got coming and going could potentially put my family in a really good place financially to ‘What the heck am I going to do with all of this?’


  • #1640
    Denisoftus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 757 ✭✭✭Denisoftus


    Lads, has anyone been to Lidl/Aldi this morning?, what is the situation, need a few things, but don't fancy waiting in lines.


  • #1641
    ArchXStanton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭ArchXStanton


    Scotty # wrote: »
    No shortage of flights over Europe at the minute, or to the US.

    flights.png

    How dare you...


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  • #1642
    screamer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,193 ✭✭✭screamer


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    You might think things are bad here but in Italy it's far worse - from the guardian

    Italians sing patriotic songs from their balconies during coronavirus lockdown

    Neighbours from Naples to Tuscany make harmonies across empty streets to lift spirits and pass the time during quarantine

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q734VN0N7hw


    Oh boy....

    I think that’s amazing compared to the screaming in wuhan. I feel so sorry for Italy no matter what they are suffering and dying, and there seems to be nothing we can do to help them.


  • #1643
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Iran - 1,365 new cases and 97 new deaths today


  • #1644
    Lord TSC
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 42,936 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lord TSC


    Denisoftus wrote: »
    Lads, has anyone been to Lidl/Aldi this morning?, what is the situation, need a few things, but don't fancy waiting in lines.

    Seems to be varying from town to town.

    But I’ve ears way, way more people say local and smaller shops are well stocked and significantly less busy.


  • #1645
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,719 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Denisoftus wrote: »
    Lads, has anyone been to Lidl/Aldi this morning?, what is the situation, need a few things, but don't fancy waiting in lines.

    Where are you based?


  • #1646
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    Gynoid wrote: »
    I think testing is needed for epidemiological reasons. Going forward we need numbers so we can have good research. It helps now for us to know re past pandemics, doesn't it?

    Likely they will test a sample of the population for the antibodies when we are over this.

    Will give an accurate picture of numbers infected and actual death rate etc.


  • #1647
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Denisoftus wrote: »
    Lads, has anyone been to Lidl/Aldi this morning?, what is the situation, need a few things, but don't fancy waiting in lines.

    Send one of the servants.


  • #1648
    Nibs05
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 699 ✭✭✭Nibs05


    New born baby and mother test positive in the uk

    https://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-newborn-baby-mother-infected-covid19-a4387361.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1584184437


  • #1649
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,818 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    The patterns of panic buying are weird. In my Centra yesterday, all the Irish sliced pans were gone but the Polish ones were piled high. They’re a bit more expensive but if you want bread, they’re exactly the same. But they weren’t being bought, except by moi.

    Ha, was the same in my local Spar during the “big snow”. They had shelves of it. Polish bread made in Balbriggan.

    Just goes to show, no matter what the “crisis” the morons stay the same.

    EmmetSpiceland: Oft imitated but never bettered.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #1650
    Denisoftus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 757 ✭✭✭Denisoftus


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    Where are you based?

    Shankill


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  • #1651
    coolshannagh28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭coolshannagh28


    lawrencesummers wrote: »
    The government should put in place supports for private sector WORKERS. You can be sure that the ordinary hospitality worker whose hours vary depending on demand isn’t going to be paid by the vast vast majority of pubs and restaurants.

    The government support of €305 will in many cases equate to their wages ,it is inevitable that the economy will halt but without proper measures prior to that there will be nothing left after .


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