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

Timevto mobilize the youth! Arm all the bored schoolkids with supersoakers full of warm water and washing up liquid, send them outside and let them at it! Fun, fresh air, exercise, and disinfected streets :-)

froog wrote: »

ireland 2 deaths 5 recovered officially.

Always good to see recoveries. Chinese numbers show nearly 68,000 recovered and just 22 cases today.

This explains UK approach in a way that makes a bit of sense to me....


I’m going to explain Boris’s method for anybody who doesn’t quite get it I’m not saying if I agree with his plan or not but here goes

His plan is to segregate all vulnerable people (older, illand at risk) let’s call this group A

Anyone looking after the older,ill and at risk can be group B

The general population generally healthy can be group C

Group C needs to go about it’s business keeping the country moving kids at school us at work

Group B looks after group A and avoids contact with C

Group C is allowed to contract the virus and because it’s generally healthy it can cope with it better than group A

Group A and B are almost self isolating without the virus to avoid putting strain on the NHS and reducing the risk of getting the virus and then needing the NHS

Group C (the generally healthy) go through the cycle of contracting the virus self isolating and being looked after by healthy family members, friends and the local community
Anyone who has complications gets looked after by the NHS while groups A and B are kept away The NHS are not strained by A and B while its looking after complicated cases in C

As group C comes full circle and recovers it divides in to groups that take group B’s position looking after group A allowing group B to go though the cycle

With B and C though the cycle
A is free to have NHS to itself because B and C are now clear from illness and infection and hopefully have a degree of immunity from getting it again this season.

Hope this helps

Everyone has a job to do for the above to work

Stay safe and keep washing those hands

Please feel free to share folks

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Where is the big announcement?

Waiting myself, or if u listened to morning ireland you would have a better idea, information overload to the public is a key word taking from it, also never denied the post circulating last night state seevices and gps wont be able to do this alone he says, it really is only a matter of time.

Jin luk wrote: »

Waiting myself, or if u listened to morning ireland you would have a better idea, information overload to the public is a key word taking from it, also never denied the post circulating last night state seevices and gps wont be able to do this alone he says, it really is only a matter of time.

The army will be asked to help but not in the way people are talking about now.

DOCARCH wrote: »

If only it were so simple! It works in theory (....but I suspect in theory only).

So your theory is that the UKs plan only works in theory?

paw patrol wrote: »

the government and the banks pretty much stated this , nobody will be forced out over non payments during the crisis.

even the revenue , the most heartless bastard of them all , is saying they'll work with businesses who cant make returns.


Of course you'll eventually have to pay but It's good to see , to a large degree we are all in this together.

With respect 'pretty much stated' isn't good enough.

Pascal Donohoe was on the radio yesterday morning waffling on about how the banks are 'aware' and 'some' banks have measures available for those who go talk to them.
Another poster wrote in the last thread about how they approached AIB and the 'help' was to to go interest only for a set period of time at the cost of their credit rating - and this apparently is down to govt legislation/central bank rules.

That's no fecking help at all.

We need a clear statement by government of exactly what measures are in place and that all banks are on board.

We also need a statement as to what measures will be there to help those who rent. Not 'pretty much saying'.

Pacing Mule wrote: »

This explains UK approach in a way that makes a bit of sense to me....


I’m going to explain Boris’s method for anybody who doesn’t quite get it I’m not saying if I agree with his plan or not but here goes

His plan is to segregate all vulnerable people (older, illand at risk) let’s call this group A

Anyone looking after the older,ill and at risk can be group B

The general population generally healthy can be group C

Group C needs to go about it’s business keeping the country moving kids at school us at work

Group B looks after group A and avoids contact with C

Group C is allowed to contract the virus and because it’s generally healthy it can cope with it better than group A

Group A and B are almost self isolating without the virus to avoid putting strain on the NHS and reducing the risk of getting the virus and then needing the NHS

Group C (the generally healthy) go through the cycle of contracting the virus self isolating and being looked after by healthy family members, friends and the local community
Anyone who has complications gets looked after by the NHS while groups A and B are kept away The NHS are not strained by A and B while its looking after complicated cases in C

As group C comes full circle and recovers it divides in to groups that take group B’s position looking after group A allowing group B to go though the cycle

With B and C though the cycle
A is free to have NHS to itself because B and C are now clear from illness and infection and hopefully have a degree of immunity from getting it again this season.

Hope this helps

Everyone has a job to do for the above to work

Stay safe and keep washing those hands

Please feel free to share folks

I see no flaws in this plan whatsoever

ChikiChiki wrote: »

It's ****ing weird. Eating fithy rodents that are not fit for human consumption is a perfect example of weird behaviour.

Not sure if anyone actually ate a bat. It appears that a bat bit an endangered animal called a pangolin, which is used in traditional Chinese medicine. The virus may have passed to humans that way. Measles, smallpox, influenza, HIV, diphtheria, the common cold and tuberculosis all originated in animals.

Pathogens have been making the jump from animals to humans for millennia. Wet markets and eating 'bush meat' definitely increases the risk, however poor hungry people have very few alternatives. Some instances of the start of epidemics and pandemics:-

The swine-origin influenza A (H1N1) virus appeared in 2009 and was first found in 2 children in Southern California. Influenza is quite common in pigs, with about half of breeding pigs having been exposed to the virus in the US. It infected around 700 million to 1.4 billion people, with about 150,000–575,000 fatalities.

A 60 year old man in Saudi Arabia got a coronavirus infection from his camel, which may have been bitten by a bat and started the (2012) MERS epidemic, which had a 36% mortality rate.

A two year old playing in a hollow tree with a bat colony started the recent (2013) Ebola epidemic infecting 28,616 people with 11,310 deaths in Africa.

A farm boy in Kansas was infected from pigs with swine flu. He then joined the army to fight in WW1 is thought to have started the 1918 ‘Spanish’ flu pandemic which killed 50 – 100 million people.

It's just a matter of chance where that happens and it could even happen here in Ireland. We even have an avian flu epidemic in some chicken farms at present.

Jenna James wrote: »

I try TV in the eve but invariably watch the news and it all starts up again. I know it’s self - sabotage but better to know. I think it’s the home alone factor.

It's hard, even when you're not alone. And it's even harder to put your phone down and not tune into the radio. When you're feeling low you get dragged into it and believe the worse that's been posted. Just stay away, escape into a book or a mindless TV show or movie.

Been following the developments like everyone else for the last few weeks, but have got really angry this last 24hrs with some of the nonsense I have had to listen to from people, work colleagues etc.

It was bad enough yesterday when I was told the Army were about to close the border....thats ok, but the latest stuff saying kids are sick in Cork and you'd need to stop giving your kids certain medicines, is downright dangerous and irresponsible. I don't know what possesses people to make these fake WhatsApp videos which will be taken onboard as gospel by a lot of people.

Its the reason we have people not getting their kids vaccinated any more and why mumps and measles numbers are increasing.

I wish they would catch themselves on, and give up trying to be famous.

Jin luk wrote: »

Conveney on morning ireland, never denied the post circulating last night

He did.