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CoVid-19 Part VIII - 292 cases ROI (2 deaths) 62 in NI (as of 17th March) *Read OP*

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  • #662
    Rjd2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,262 ✭✭✭✭Rjd2


    https://twitter.com/BrantlyWx/status/1239382230117634051


  • #663
    Lashes28
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    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    If this was a war I would pick up a gun, but the worst part is the sense of being powerless.

    And all you can do is sit around and watch the shît hit the fan in slow motion. It's surreal


  • #664
    Bowlardo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,390 ✭✭✭Bowlardo


    Does anyone know where we have an updated world went site with a map something like the have here
    https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/ae5dda8f86814ae99dde905d2a9070ae


  • #665
    Gynoid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭Gynoid


    otnomart wrote: »
    Yes.
    This post shows this very well.
    "Looking at the sequences from Ireland, the one from Cork is actually the same as the very earliest ones from Wuhan."
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=112826792&postcount=973

    Wow. I missed that post. Very interesting.


  • #666
    old_aussie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,410 ✭✭✭old_aussie


    Italy records 368 coronavirus deaths in 24 hours as hospitals pushed to the brink

    https://www.sbs.com.au/news/italy-records-368-coronavirus-deaths-in-24-hours-as-hospitals-pushed-to-the-brink

    This may only be the tip of the iceberg for Europe


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  • #667
    Xertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭Xertz


    I've some kind of cold now, so I'm going to have to self-isolate as I don't know what it is, but it seems very much like a cold.

    Just put a groceries order through online and I'm assuming that will arrive in 7 days, should have enough food to keep going until then, so that's pretty much me locked in the house now for 13 more days.


  • #668
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,032 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    otnomart wrote: »
    Yes.
    This post shows this very well.
    "Looking at the sequences from Ireland, the one from Cork is actually the same as the very earliest ones from Wuhan."
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=112826792&postcount=973

    Christ I hope that's not true as I had read a while ago the Italian version isn't as deadly but the Wuhan one is wicked.


  • #669
    OneEightSeven
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    Ireland sample size is too small to get an accurate representation of the situation here, but I included anyway. Despite Germany being the 3rd oldest country on the planet, they have the lowest CFR out of all of the countries that have over 1,000 cases. Unlike the last table where I arranged it by median age, this one is been arranged by CFR.

    Country | Median Age |Cases | Deaths | Case Fatality Rate
    Italy |45.5 | 24,747 | 1,809 | 7.30%
    Iran |30.3 | 13,938 | 724 | 5.19%
    China |37.4| 80,860 | 3,199 | 3.97%
    World | 30.4 | 169,719 | 6,518 | 3.84%
    Spain |42.7 | 7,845 | 292 | 3.72%
    UK | 40.5 | 1,391 | 35 | 2.51%
    France |41.4| 5,423 | 127 | 2.34%
    USA| 38.1 | 3,782 | 69 | 1.82%
    Netherlands | 42.6 | 1,135 | 20 | 1.76%
    Ireland | 36.8 | 169 | 2 | 1.18%
    South Korea | 41.8 | 8,236 | 75 | 0.91%
    Switzerland | 42.4 | 2,217 | 14 | 0.63%
    Sweden | 41.2 | 1,040 | 3 | 0.28%
    Norway| 39.2 | 1,256 | 3 | 0.23%
    Germany| 47.1 | 5,813 | 13 | 0.22%


  • #670
    Blueshoe
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    Supposedly the army are being deployed.

    Checking toilet paper quotas and checkpoints checking tax discs.

    The army lol


  • #671
    silverharp
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    this is a cool story

    https://twitter.com/ExponentialMed/status/1239409976617000960

    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



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  • #672
    Peregrinus
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    Xertz wrote: »
    I've some kind of cold now, so I'm going to have to self-isolate as I don't know what it is, but it seems very much like a cold.

    Just put a groceries order through online and I'm assuming that will arrive in 7 days, should have enough food to keep going until then, so that's pretty much me locked in the house now for 13 more days.
    Not that I would discourage you from taking any precautions you can take, but Covid-19 symptoms look a lot more like the flu than like a cold.


  • #673
    nullzero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,584 ✭✭✭✭nullzero
    °°°°°


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    Supposedly the army are being deployed.

    Checking toilet paper quotas and checkpoints checking tax discs.

    The army lol

    "When did you last wipe your arse"?

    Glazers Out!



  • #674
    Oafley Jones
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    otnomart wrote: »
    Yes.
    This post shows this very well.
    "Looking at the sequences from Ireland, the one from Cork is actually the same as the very earliest ones from Wuhan."
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=112826792&postcount=973

    A load of people I work with were sick from an extremely strong flu here at the start of the year here (Cork). Two in work thought they were going to die. I wonder about it now. If it was connected.


  • #675
    Xertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭Xertz


    Peregrinus wrote: »
    Not that I would discourage you from taking any precautions you can take, but Covid-19 symptoms look a lot more like the flu than like a cold.

    What I'm hearing is they can be rather asymptomatic / cold like if you either are in early stages of it or, luckily, don't develop anything too serious, but that it's still HIGHLY infectious.

    So, I think I'm going to take precautions rather than wipe out some random person.

    This is like a tickley somewhat dry cough and blocked nose, sore ear and a few other things.


  • #676
    [Deleted User]
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    I’m wondering what the end game here is? I understand the partial lockdown is to give the hospitals a fighting chance of dealing with this. But how long can we stay locked down? The government are implying the end of March but we all know it could be much longer. And what then?

    I feel we’re kind of living in hope at the moment. Hope of a vaccine or that the illness will mutate into a more mild strain.

    I think that we’re just gonna have to take the hit eventually.


  • #677
    Darc19
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,817 ✭✭✭Darc19


    Oafley Jones wrote: »
    A load of people I work with were sick from an extremely strong flu here at the start of the year here (Cork). Two in work thought they were going to die. I wonder about it now. If it was connected.

    NO


  • #678
    lawrencesummers
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    One of the biggest things that could come out of this is the capacity the country has for testing.


  • #679
    Blueshoe
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    I’m wondering what the end game here is? I understand the partial lockdown is to give the hospitals a fighting chance of dealing with this. But how long can we stay locked down? The government are implying the end of March but we all know it could be much longer. And what then?

    I feel we’re kind of living in hope at the moment. Hope of a vaccine or that the illness will mutate into a more mild strain.

    I think that we’re just gonna have to take the hit eventually.

    China is getting back to normal.


  • #680
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,489 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I’m wondering what the end game here is? I understand the partial lockdown is to give the hospitals a fighting chance of dealing with this. But how long can we stay locked down? The government are implying the end of March but we all know it could be much longer. And what then?

    I feel we’re kind of living in hope at the moment. Hope of a vaccine or that the illness will mutate into a more mild strain.

    I think that we’re just gonna have to take the hit eventually.
    The basic plan is to spread out the hit, so that the chance of the health service being overwhelmed by demand is reduced. Or failing that, so the the degree to which the health service is overwhelmed by demand is diminished.

    Retarding infection in the hope that, when people do become infected, more of them will get a milder strain is also something that would be hoped for, but it's less of a factor.

    A vaccine has no relevance to the current outbreak. Even on the most optimistic assumptions, by the time a vaccine is developed, tested, produced and administered, the current wave of infections will have passed through the population, no matter how much we manage to retard it. Which is not to say that in the long term a vaccine might not be important and beneficial. But it's not a response to the present emergency.


  • #681
    Darc19
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    I’m wondering what the end game here is? I understand the partial lockdown is to give the hospitals a fighting chance of dealing with this. But how long can we stay locked down? The government are implying the end of March but we all know it could be much longer. And what then?

    I feel we’re kind of living in hope at the moment. Hope of a vaccine or that the illness will mutate into a more mild strain.

    I think that we’re just gonna have to take the hit eventually.
    As people recover they become immune. So the trick is to get more and more carriers to recover and to social seperation to slow down the spread.

    With a vaccine probably 6-9 months away from being available (they hope to start testing one within weeks), this is the best way forward.

    Remember, for the vast majority, it's a two week mild virus. Not even as bad as flu.

    The big problem is people with some respiratory issues, especially elderly, find it difficult to survive it and it is very contagious at close contact.


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  • #682
    Antares35
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    Whats the deal with those mercy flights from Spain? Are those passengers not going to be at risk if they all flock to the airport at the same time? Especially in the case of elderly people who likely will not get an ICU bed if things get bad here. Would these people be better staying put? Genuine question.


  • #683
    pc7
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,274 Mod ✭✭✭✭pc7


    Also if we can slow it it allows time for treatments to be tested and found (sooner than vaccine). There have been a number of drugs showing good signs. Not looking back for source but been mentioned a few times in previous threads, think Remdesivir is one.


  • #684
    kenmc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,283 ✭✭✭kenmc


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    China is getting back to normal.

    Is it really though? Or is that what we're being told? I'd love to believe it's true, but I'm sceptical. I'd be surprised if it can be so virulent yet suddenly stop and people can go back to work without a resurgence


  • #685
    Carbon125
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 176 ✭✭Carbon125


    Bowlardo wrote: »
    Does anyone know where we have an updated world went site with a map something like the have here
    https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/ae5dda8f86814ae99dde905d2a9070ae


    Yes:

    https://ncov2019.live/


  • #686
    Cork Boy 53
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    China is getting back to normal.

    Maybe so but only after a severe lockdown after the first outbreak in Wuhan. No way does the same situation apply here.


  • #687
    Rob A. Bank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭Rob A. Bank


    UK yesterday.

    Castleford UK … score Castleford Tigers 28 : St Helens 14, attendance approx 8,000

    NINTCHDBPICT000571053814-e1584304319117.jpg?strip=all&w=960&quality=100

    Bath, UK :- Half marathon… 6.200 participants + many spectators

    47dd529f44dcad82f4cd.jpg

    All these potential ‘Typhoid Marys’ will spread out all around the UK to add to the Crufts, football, concert and Cheltenham potentially infected crowds. And let’s not mention the Northern Ireland ‘Typhoid Marys’ crossing the border !

    Seems like the totally irresponsible UK Tory Government strategy of ‘Herd Immunity’ by letting 60% of the British population, or 45 Million people be infected, was still ongoing yesterday.

    :-(


  • #688
    Xertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭Xertz


    Is there a significant possibility we may have to quarantine the island from Britain?

    Seems a lot of NI businesses and events are closing voluntarily anyway and seem to be following the more conservative approach.


  • #689
    DOCARCH
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    Blueshoe wrote: »
    China is getting back to normal.

    It's a big country! They still have tens of millions on total lockdown (probably until mid-April at least).


  • #690
    Blueshoe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    kenmc wrote: »
    Is it really though? Or is that what we're being told? I'd love to believe it's true, but I'm sceptical. I'd be surprised if it can be so virulent yet suddenly stop and people can go back to work without a resurgence

    Yes it is. 30 of the 31 provinces are slowly getting back to normal. That famous hospital that was thrown up is now empty.

    China had 22 new cases yesterday. They have won. Some people will be disappointed


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  • #691
    Xertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭Xertz


    Where's the safest place in the world to be right now? Here's not looking or feeling like it nor is anywhere else in the EU or the US or Canada.

    I'm almost wondering would we be better off ensuring we don't have it, testing quarantining and going to some part of China that's got it fully under control and just teaching English or something for a few years...


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