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

Blueshoe wrote: »

We may finally see the collapse of the parasite that is capitalism. The glorious dawn of communism is upon us.

What utter rubbish how is Venezuela getting on with socialism?

Computer Science Student wrote: »

Was Conor Mcgregors aunt the 1 Irish confirmed death thus far?

Why do people want to know this? Is it any of our business?

Rte news now link

https://www.rte.ie/news/player/live/7/

For the people who are sayong "Sure vulnerable people die every day" and "It's only a small percentage" what would you say if you heard there was a person going around killing only the old and vulnerable?

Am I seeing this right? Thousands of people attended citizenship ceremony today?

CinemaGuy45 wrote: »

This is not point scoring people who have been stupid from the start need to shut the hell up and listen to the people who have been correct from the start.

The scenes in supermarkets and pubs in the last few days shows the country if full of total fooking morons who get angry when smart people speak.

Your smartness is every present through all this at least. A quality poster of measured insightful tripe. Keep it up buddy.

I posted yesterday regarding South Korean testing data. I’ve just rerun the calculations on latest data published ion worldometers. As of 9th March they had run 210144 tests yielding 7500 cases, a prevalence of 3.6%. Translating to the population of 51.5 million yields an estimate of 1.86 million cases. The death count as of today is 71. This gives a refreshed estimate of 0.0038%, or 38 deaths per million cases. This translates to an Irish death count of 190. But that’s assuming a worst case scenario that we all get infected. Hopefully the measures we are taking re hand washing and social distancing will reduce the transmission and we will end up with a much reduced death count.

dominatinMC wrote: »

Where do you reckon we fit into this? I think the measures taken by Ireland have been fairly proactive so far. We are probably somewhere in-between Singapore/Taiwan (shut-up borders immediately, big response to contact tracing) and Italy/Spain ("wait-and-see" approach) in terms of measures taken?

I also think we are in between, but much closer to Spain/Italy than Asian countries.

We have pretty much zero containment measures in terms of preventing imported cases, whereas the developed Asian countries do have fairly serious ones.

We have limited measures within the country to limit human interactions (more than Italy at first but not super strict either). The Asian countries are only doing slightly more but this is because they have used other proactive ways to keep the numbers low.

We have some but limited contact tracking whereas Asian countries have very agressive tracking (they pretty much have a police inquiry to identify the people you were in contact with in the past 2 weeks and test all of them to isolate infected people).

We have no mobile phone warnings to the public when approaching areas with know cases, whereas Asian countries do.

We have a restricted testing policy whereas most Asian countries are testing en masse. Even people with no symptoms who just wish to be tested.

We are telling our population that masks and respirators are useless whereas the Asian countries are organising distributions and most of the public is wearing them.

We have a population which is not disciplined and not very aware of the risk (packed pubs are a good exemple). Asians are way more disciplined an acutely aware of the risk (they had SARS before). They will follow basic hygiene and social distancing measures perfectly and won’t do stupid things like “virus parties”.

There should be a large jump in today's briefing but before people go crazy - it is due to an acceleration in getting test results back.
It was taking nearly a day before but since yesterday they are getting results back in 4 hours.

So today's new cases figure will essentially be for 2 days and not 1