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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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  • #5222
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,855 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    Pubs closing isn't scary.
    The reports some of us are hearing from ICUs in Italy and now even the Mater are scary.

    The imminent lockdown / restriction measures should be welcomed by any sane person.
    This will be great news if we want to save lives as best we can.
    I'm not saying it won't be easy, but it has to do done.

    I'm afraid though that we'll see a rise in house parties probably, the youth treating like an extended Good Friday when the pubs used to shut.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #5223
    mick987
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 141 ✭✭mick987


    fritzelly wrote: »
    Don't be looking at Italy's figures or you'll go into meltdown - over 6% and not over yet
    See how it progresses in Spain
    I think the true figures are coming out now and we can safely assume the Chinese were lying about their own figures.


  • #5224
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    https://twitter.com/alexsalvinews/status/1238880487663263747


  • #5225
    dockysher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 417 ✭✭dockysher


    Sausage_blaa wrote: »
    I think our government are taking the right steps (for once in my lifetime anyway) the only thing they did wrong was let the pubs stay open! Otherwise a good job is being done..

    Pubs, niteclubs and restaurants restrictions should have being implemented with school closures. Everyone knows Ireland is a different case and pubs especially will be packd over next few days.


  • #5226
    Stevieluvsye
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭Stevieluvsye


    Listen, everyone needs to not give a fcuk about recessions and just make sure we can get through this pandemic. The economy will look after its self afterwards


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  • #5227
    Cork Boy 53
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    Is this the reason why there has not been any new announcement from Leo and the boys? They know it`s already too late and we are going to be obliterated?


  • #5228
    Xertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭Xertz


    mick987 wrote: »
    I think the true figures are coming out now and we can safely assume the Chinese were lying about their own figures.

    I'm extremely dubious about China's honesty in this. There's no track record of anything other than wanting to control narratives and manipulate to ensure political stability.

    If it were most other countries, i'd be fine, but China just does not have a great history on this kind of transparency.

    Even with the US, Trump may be all spin, but the federal and state agencies and others are pretty up front and transparent.


  • #5229
    Sierra Oscar
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,666 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sierra Oscar


    Loads of reports on Twitter of pubs being closed by Gardaí. Anyone shed any light?


  • #5230
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,778 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    fritzelly wrote: »
    That's very disingenuous - every country in the world has been taken by surprise
    Making this a political thing is not on

    Taken by surprise, certainly. But you can be taken by surprise but have the savvy, intelligence, aptitude and leadership to act and react. It’s nothing to do with politics, I have no allegiance for any political party but I’d go a lifetime easily without wanting to vote for this shower.


  • #5231
    Stevieluvsye
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭Stevieluvsye


    Sierra Oscar wrote: »
    Loads of reports on Twitter of pubs being closed by Gardaí. Anyone shed any light?

    Roger


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  • #5232
    bmcc10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,762 ✭✭✭bmcc10


    dockysher wrote: »
    Pubs, niteclubs and restaurants restrictions should have being implemented with school closures. Everyone knows Ireland is a different case and pubs especially will be packd over next few days.

    As they are in Asia this doesn't fall on the goverment


  • #5233
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


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


  • #5234
    citysights
    Closed Accounts Posts: 288 ✭✭citysights


    Hobgoblin11 wrote: »
    I expect taxes will go through the roof after this crisis in order to fund the relief

    What’s the point in bringing that up now. Some people are so worried they can only get through day to day, banks are going to give people a three month reprieve on their mortgages, sick pay arrangements have been put in place so people don’t have to wait the six days. I’ll be delighted to be back working paying tax and being able to please God when all this is over. We’ll cope with the money stuff if our population is well. I don’t mean to have a rant but it’s very hard to project months down the road from now, People just need to mind their mental health, having the experience of the last recession some of us are very sober but for the young people in their teens twenties this is very hard for them.


  • #5235
    Sierra Oscar
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,666 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sierra Oscar


    Stevieluvsye wrote: »
    Roger

    You witness any of it happening? Details seem sketchy, hard to know if its true or not.


  • #5236
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,778 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Sierra Oscar wrote: »
    Loads of reports on Twitter of pubs being closed by Gardaí. Anyone shed any light?

    Closed at 3am or as in before closing time ? If pubs were open after closing and though with everything thinking they’d chance their arm with a late session to take advantage of things and get more euros in the till their licenses should be ripped up in front of em....


  • #5237
    Stevieluvsye
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭Stevieluvsye


    Sierra Oscar wrote: »
    You witness any of it happening? Details seem sketchy, hard to know if its true or not.

    Got some messages an hour ago! But that was just around town!!! I heard the army are shining their boots as we speak too;)


  • #5238
    jamesf85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 206 ✭✭jamesf85


    joeguevara wrote: »
    There could be many reasons for small contamination though. If a person was sick they might have stayed in their cabin and not had contact with many people. They might have contracted the virus on a stop near the end of the trip.

    It may be calming that it might not be as bad as predicted but a doctor, who has admitted that he has no expert in the area and probably has no first hand evidence of the cruise ship he is basing his assumption on should not be relied upon. It is also dangerous for him to publish this as people may drop their guard or disregard instructions based on his assertion.

    Generally 5 days before you realise you have the virus. Even if the initial person left the following day after being infected then next person would have passed it on. It should have infected well over half of those on board...I can't imagine a worse environment to be in with those circumstances and still only 20%.

    This is a disaster no matter what way you look at it, and there should be a complete lockdown...but something like this could be a Godsend


  • #5239
    spookwoman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,059 ✭✭✭✭spookwoman


    The spread sheet I do is there another with specific country anyone wants me to do up? pm me the details


  • #5240
    Andrew00
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,484 ✭✭✭Andrew00


    dockysher wrote: »
    Source? Lot of pubs in galway and only heard of a handful of closing so far

    Type in the tuam pubs on Facebook most have announced they're closing. Brogue, Bridge, Gettingans, Rustic Vaults


  • #5241
    Hobgoblin11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Hobgoblin11


    citysights wrote: »
    What’s the point in bringing that up now. Some people are so worried they can only get through day to day, banks are going to give people a three month reprieve on their mortgages, sick pay arrangements have been put in place so people don’t have to wait the six days. I’ll be delighted to be back working paying tax and being able to please God when all this is over. We’ll cope with the money stuff if our population is well. I don’t mean to have a rant but it’s very hard to project months down the road from now, People just need to mind their mental health, having the experience of the last recession some of us are very sober but for the young people in their teens twenties this is very hard for them.

    Why not ? We might have a functioning health system after this passes , it will pass! But our taxes will be through the roof to maintain a proper health care system

    Dundalk, Co. Louth



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  • #5242
    Sam Quentin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,237 ✭✭✭Sam Quentin


    Cork Boy 53 wrote: »
    Is this the reason why there has not been any new announcement from Leo and the boys? They know it`s already too late and we are going to be obliterated?

    Obliterated me h#@e,.I will confidently say that Ireland will come out the far end of this better than anywhere in mainland Europe.. Also remember only a small percentage of the population will get the virus and an even smaller percentage of those people will die..


  • #5243
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    spookwoman wrote: »
    The spread sheet I do is there another with specific country anyone wants me to do up? pm me the details

    Togo


  • #5244
    Stevieluvsye
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭Stevieluvsye


    Hobgoblin11 wrote: »
    Why not ? We might have a functioning health system after this passes , it will pass! But our taxes will be through the roof to maintain a proper health care system

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  • #5245
    Cork Boy 53
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    Hobgoblin11 wrote: »
    I expect taxes will go through the roof after this crisis in order to fund the relief

    You think there is going to be a relief effort? This country will be like Mad Max Thunderdome territory in a few months.


  • #5246
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    Cork Boy 53 wrote: »
    You think there is going to be a relief effort? This country will be like Mad Max Thunderdome territory in a few months.

    Some of it already is.


  • #5247
    Stevieluvsye
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭Stevieluvsye


    Cork Boy 53 wrote: »
    You think there is going to be a relief effort? This country will be like Mad Max Thunderdome territory in a few months.

    god_damn_right_breaking_bad.gif


  • #5248
    Sausage_blaa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40 ✭Sausage_blaa


    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    And the flights that poured in from Italy and now Spain.

    Are you a Government shill?


    Like I said in a previous post I think the only thing that government could have done sooner was close our borders and ports.


  • #5249
    jamesf85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 206 ✭✭jamesf85


    Cork Boy 53 wrote: »
    You think there is going to be a relief effort? This country will be like Mad Max Thunderdome territory in a few months.

    What are you talking about? Mad Max?

    Even if there was a 20% mortality rate (there won't be) it wouldn't result in a doomsday scenario.

    There will be a lot of pain in the coming weeks, but we will come out the other side, maybe not as well off, the world will be a different place...but there will be a functioning society


  • #5250
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,778 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    there is not a functional functioning health system in this country, trust me. Not remotely close, many great and well intentioned frontline people but as a system it’s completely fûcked. Take it from someone who had to find out the hard way.


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  • #5251
    Cork Boy 53
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    Look on the bright side. At least the Dubs won`t get to do the 6 in a row.


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