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

Syncpolice · 15-03-2020 11:24PM

quartz1 wrote: »

Can Ireland do anything to make use of the Hospital Ventilators been manufactured here by Multinational Companies ......are there Staff capable of using them if they had the machines ..... perhaps I am been simplistic

Up the price of them

JRant · 15-03-2020 11:24PM

I think in general we are in a good place as a country right now. No sense of overall panic and the vast majority of people keeping their distance from others. A couple of pubs full of Yahoo's does not a country make.

There is absolutely no need to close everything down right now. People who can't work from home should use their own common sense and kept going about their business as carefully as possible.

ChikiChiki · 15-03-2020 11:24PM

Stheno wrote: »

Is anyone else a bit scared?

I'm accepting of the situation. Was far more worried two weeks ago when most of the public were none the wiser of this impending threat. Think I'm resilient having had a pretty tough 32 years so far.

What will be will be, its out of our control for the most of us.

gifted · 15-03-2020 11:24PM

Stheno wrote: »

Is anyone else a bit scared?

Scared of catching it?

Scared of the economy?

Scared of losing your job?

Scared of no food on the shelves?

I'm scared of 3 of the 4 above...

Taking the right precautions so confident of not catching it..

15-03-2020 11:24PM

Andrew00 wrote: »

Very skeptical. Visited my grandmother this evening but left after 10 mins when I normally stay an hour. I have a runny nose as well

runny nose not a normal symptom afaik

dry cough and elevated temperature (fever)

Dr. Bre · 15-03-2020 11:25PM

Achasanai wrote: »

Which is a bit rich from C4 News as they've been having feckin marathons over there.

The UK are screwed . They acted way too late

Harry Palmr · 15-03-2020 11:25PM

Irish_peppa wrote: »

Are standard dust masks of any use or a waste of time if going down the shops?

Quite useless

JRant · 15-03-2020 11:25PM

I think in general we are in a good place as a country right now. No sense of overall panic and the vast majority of people keeping their distance from others. A couple of pubs full of Yahoo's does not a country make.

There is absolutely no need to close everything down right now. People who can't work from home should use their own common sense and kept going about their business as carefully as possible.

caveat emptor · 15-03-2020 11:25PM

defrule wrote: »

Anyone know how resilient supply chains are?

If drivers start falling sick etc... and Tesco can no longer efficiently get food and supplies to the city. Then we truly will be screwed.

Army have plenty of truck drivers although not sure. We have lots of supermarkets, not so many soldiers.

Spanish Eyes · 15-03-2020 11:25PM

Stheno wrote: »

Is anyone else a bit scared?

Yep, and not ashamed to admit it, given what is going on before us in Italy,Spain and many other countries now.

Hopefully tomorrow things will ramp up here. We really do have a head start and need to work on that.

aligator_am · 15-03-2020 11:25PM

WhiteMemento9 wrote: »

I have been told that if three woobles it isn't something they can cope with the medium term fixing and will continue to happen due to capcity issues.

Their network was generally quite good (for me at least) until they merged with O2, then it turned into pure scutter.

Telpis once a rake of people start working from home at the same time (expect a lot of people to have the same idea at the same time about hotspotting their mobiles as their DSL is super slow).

CiarraiAbu2 · 15-03-2020 11:26PM

There will be some ques outside the social welfare office tomorrow, how are they going to deal with 50k approx people arriving at their doors tomorrow.

Jurgen Klopp · 15-03-2020 11:26PM

A few people mentioned why is Italy getting hit with some many deaths.

Approx 23% of Italy's entire population is aged 65+ years, the vast majority of deaths have been people in their 70s and 80s

There's plenty of articles from reputable sources for anyone that wondered if like I did.

The long and the short of it nations are panicking as simply put even if an elderly person has a 20% chance of dying from this, many more will still need hospital treatment.

No nation would be able to manage that amount of patients at once it just isn't feasible. The lockdowns are a way of trying to slow it in such a way that they can get recovered patients out the door to accommodate those coming in

As someone working in healthcare until recently, what worries me is this lockdown is well and good but unless one of the various vaccines and medications we're hearing daily of is deployed and works, as soon as a lockdown finishes within a couple weeks we'll be back to square one with it flourishing again.

Not only that but the panic is that various meds have been waved through without appropriate testing and I'd worry if this will also backfire as who knows what some of these untested meds could result in

Ger Roe · 15-03-2020 11:26PM

gifted wrote: »

Scared of catching it?

Scared of the economy?

Scared of losing your job?

Scared of no food on the shelves?

I'm scared of 3 of the 4 above...

Taking the right precautions so confident of not catching it..

I am also taking the right precautions, but of all the scares on your list, catching it is still number 1. I can survive the economy crashing, losing my job and I am pretty sure I won't starve... but I don't know if I would survive a new and challenging disease.

Shn99 · 15-03-2020 11:26PM

Is there any breakdown of the 79 new cases over the weekend. Like how many are related to travel. local transmission and community transmission or have they just stopped publishing that? Curious to know about the community transmissions and preferably where its occurring

hawkwing · 15-03-2020 11:26PM

A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »

This thread is moving so fast, I went for a shower for 15 minutes and came back to over 100 new posts! :eek:

It's all just a bad dream Bobby

Beasty · 15-03-2020 11:27PM

walshb wrote: »

What figures are we thinking tomorrow at 6 p.m? ROI.

Panrich wrote: »

At least 50 more.

Don't think speculation like this serves any purpose other than to raise concerns/panic or indeed possibly encourage people to pat themselves on the back if they get somewhere near the figure

Let's wait and see rather than speculate

Any questions, PM me

Sober Crappy Chemis · 15-03-2020 11:27PM

Stheno wrote: »

Is anyone else a bit scared?

Absolutely.

So, one positive step that I took today up until about 8 o clock, was not reading scaremongering and speculation from armchair experts and statisticians.

It worked wonders for my brain and I shall do the same again tomorrow.

Renjit · 15-03-2020 11:27PM

Irish_peppa wrote: »

Are standard dust masks of any use or a waste of time if going down the shops?

To some level, yes, but not entirely virusproof.

Gods Gift · 15-03-2020 11:27PM

Stheno wrote: »

Is anyone else a bit scared?

Yes but I’m assured the pubs will reopen.

skimpydoo · 15-03-2020 11:27PM

Has anyone got a source regarding the Dublin Bus drive from Ringsend garage having Covid-19?

Hobgoblin11 · 15-03-2020 11:27PM

Black Monday tomorrow?

Cork Boy 53 · 15-03-2020 11:27PM

Stheno wrote: »

Is anyone else a bit scared?

Yes the infection rate from this thing is going to be far higher than we were led to believe. I think the death toll will be too. Europe in particular and most likely all of the world outside China and Taiwan is going to be hammered.

Syncpolice · 15-03-2020 11:28PM

CiarraiAbu2 wrote: »

There will be some ques outside the social welfare office tomorrow, how are they going to deal with 50k approx people arriving at their doors tomorrow.

They need to make an announcement stop this happening

paul71 · 15-03-2020 11:28PM

Stheno wrote: »

Is anyone else a bit scared?

Yes, for 2 reasons. I discovered today that epilepsy is one of the underlying conditions that has led to fatalities, and I have have well controlled epilepsy.

Secondly I honestly cannot see my employer lasting another 10 days and I will be the one charged with telling 135 people that news.

Sittingpretty · 15-03-2020 11:28PM

Stheno wrote: »

Is anyone else a bit scared?

I am, absolutely. I have a knot in my chest since last Thursday’s announcement.

I’m a very anxious person anyway.

Achasanai · 15-03-2020 11:28PM

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Well I said in my post I tried and well it didn't work past the four ads.

Yeah, oddly enough (for me) the ads will work grand, but I've never actually managed to watch a whole programme on the Player.

ninebeanrows · 15-03-2020 11:28PM

Our numbers were ok today. Steady lockdown now and most of us shall number ok

Happy4all · 15-03-2020 11:28PM

Stheno wrote: »

Is anyone else a bit scared?

Having been calm, the last few days have me anxious.

Worried about family. Feel we are just coming out the other end of a recession I never expected. And maybe about to slide back into an even bigger recession.

Hopefully my fear proves unfounded.

BattleCorp · 15-03-2020 11:28PM

JRant wrote: »

A couple of pubs full of Yahoo's does not a country make.

should use their own common sense and kept going about their business as carefully as possible.

No such thing as common sense and a couple of pubs full of Yahoo's is all it takes to fcuk the country.

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