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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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  • #902
    kevcos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 220 ✭✭kevcos


    Rjd2 wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/iandonald_psych/status/1238518371651649538

    Good thread there.

    Its very risky what they are doing, but ignore social media scare mongering , this is Boris listening to the experts, if wrong, well best not to think about it.

    The UKs approach may be seen as failing over the next few weeks, however in a years time what will the verdict be? Clearly no one can say with certainty.


  • #903
    extra gravy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,240 ✭✭✭✭extra gravy


    https://twitter.com/FergalBowers/status/1239470814665289728?s=19

    Is it possible for mods to ban these "lockdown" posts? This could be a useful thread if all the crap was filtered out.


  • #904
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    namloc1980 wrote: »
    11am you said wasn't it? Waiting here on tenterhooks!!

    Revised it to 8am last night but sure I dunno what to believe anymore.


  • #905
    munsterlegend
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,549 ✭✭✭munsterlegend


    walshb wrote: »
    A lot more testing will be going ahead according to reports. Are we looking at high 40s today, maybe high 50s for positives today?

    It would take time surely for the results to filter through? It wouldn’t be today anyway.


  • #906
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,032 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    kevcos wrote: »
    The UKs approach may be seen as failing over the next few weeks, however in a years time what will the verdict be? Clearly no one can say with certainty.

    It's an old fashioned exercise in Eugenics.

    Great for the economy.


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  • #907
    Gods Gift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,713 ✭✭✭Gods Gift


    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


    The winners of each group would then be drawn out of a bowl to play each other. Over the summer.

    The winners will receive a cup.

    #footballscominghome.


  • #908
    Boggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,457 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    I imagine we will be quietly withdrawing our legal case against the EU over the old 14 billion just resting in the account.

    :)


  • #909
    callaway92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,106 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    Why is Cheltenham being singled out??

    There are 70,000 people a day at Cheltenham, an outdoor event.

    There are around 70,000 people an hour on the tube, an enclosed area.

    Why aren't tourists who visited London getting shit???

    Ummm, because Cheltenham was completely avoidable.


  • #910
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,458 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    sideswipe wrote: »
    The winner of the Bath Half Marathon was Paul Pollock, an Irish Doctor and elite runner. You'd think he'd have more sense :mad:
    Not sure why you think someone who is "Irish" is in some way different than someone who is "British". We have more in common than separates us. This whole thing has escalated massively since Thursday morning over here. The same thing may happen later this week in the UK (and there were signs of a significant shift with the proposed recommendations for over-70s yesterday) - whether people believe it or not, it is being taken very seriously in the UK. People may think the handling of it at Government level has been less than ideal, but a glance over all of the threads here show many people have a similar view to the way the Irish government have handled the situation

    Only time will tell though, but in the meantime I think that doctor took best advice and I understand he ensured he was at least 2 meters ahead of the field throughout:pac:


  • #911
    [Deleted User]
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    weldoninhio wrote: »
    One who doesn't think the sky is falling down. FFS. What is the difference between a half empty pub, with the seats spaced out by a metre or so and the full bus I was on this morning, with people sitting right beside me and right in front and behind me??

    One is necessary. One isn’t.


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  • #912
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,494 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    munsterlegend wrote: »
    It would take time surely for the results to filter through? It wouldn’t be today anyway.

    I mean at 6 p.m.

    Can we expect 50+ positive tests for Covid...


  • #913
    GooglePlus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,010 ✭✭✭GooglePlus


    First day working from home today and can already see that this will not be sustainable for either me or the company.


  • #914
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    extra gravy wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/FergalBowers/status/1239470814665289728?s=19
    I reckon that message of looking after your mental health needs to be front and centre now more than ever.


  • #915
    callaway92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,106 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    walshb wrote: »
    A lot more testing will be going ahead according to reports. Are we looking at high 40s today, maybe high 50s for positives today?

    Why are you speculating on numbers like it’s some fun thing to do you oddball - same from you yesterday too


  • #916
    Widdensushi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,540 ✭✭✭Widdensushi


    walshb wrote: »
    I mean at 6 p.m.

    Can we expect 50+ positive tests for Covid...

    that would mean it was leveling out, doubling every three days was the trend ?


  • #917
    tom1ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,023 ✭✭✭✭tom1ie


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    One who doesn't think the sky is falling down. FFS. What is the difference between a half empty pub, with the seats spaced out by a metre or so and the full bus I was on this morning, with people sitting right beside me and right in front and behind me??

    There is no difference.
    You can catch the virus on the bus as much as in the pub, but that’s not the point as much you know.
    You were on the bus I presume to go to work which you are obliged to do.
    You were in the pub for your own selfish reasons.
    Both scenarios mean you could get the virus, one reason is valid, the other is just you being selfish.


  • #918
    Xertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭Xertz


    GooglePlus wrote: »
    First day working from home today and can already see that this will not be sustainable for either me or the company.

    Give it a while though - takes time to get things to work.


  • #919
    Syncpolice
    Closed Accounts Posts: 245 ✭✭Syncpolice


    callaway92 wrote: »
    Why are you speculating on numbers like it’s some fun thing to do you oddball - same from you yesterday too

    He was looking.for posters to guess the count yesterday


  • #920
    Bob24
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,905 ✭✭✭✭Bob24


    NSAman wrote: »

    Talking to neighbours they say it is ridiculous that everything is closing, where are we going to eat?

    Is that the general feeling of the man on the street there?

    I know health is the number one worry at the moment. But If that is the situation in the US, the cynical person in me things it is not too late to short the S&P500 and make some money. If the realisation if what’s coming still hasn’t hit the population, we are still lined up for more sell-offs.


  • #921
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,494 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    callaway92 wrote: »
    Why are you speculating on numbers like it’s some fun thing to do you oddball - same from you yesterday too

    Just concerned

    Are we not allowed be concerned, interested on how more will be infected...

    We have to be oddballs to be?:rolleyes:


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  • #922
    Xertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭Xertz


    tom1ie wrote: »
    There is no difference.
    You can catch the virus on the bus as much as in the pub, but that’s not the point as much you know.
    You were on the bus I presume to go to work which you are obliged to do.
    You were in the pub for your own selfish reasons.
    Both scenarios mean you could get the virus, one reason is valid, the other is just you being selfish.

    You're rarely drunk, singing, with low inhibitions going around hugging people on the bus. Whereas in the pub, that's pretty normal.


  • #923
    jackboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,021 ✭✭✭jackboy


    pjohnson wrote: »
    The fact you cant distinguish between the need to work and the want of a pint.

    As I said before, the virus can’t distinguish. By all means leave public transport open for the economy, but this spreads the virus and kills every bit as much as drinking in a pub.


  • #924
    Maxpfizer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 496 ✭✭Maxpfizer


    Griffin Tasteless Floor wrote: »
    Anyone who travelled while this was unfolding deserves to be left there.

    Compassion only extends so far, I see.

    So they've just to be homeless or go to a shelter or something for the duration?
    Or would we consider the circumstances of each case?

    Anyone who traveled when this was unfolding did so because they thought it would be OK.

    Their punishment should just be "stay there then"? Even for families with kids etc?

    The problem with "stop the spread at any cost" is that "any cost" part.
    Leaving people stranded far from home is a cost we shouldn't really be willing to pay.

    It's a lose-lose situation so let's not pretend that leaving people stranded because we don't want them back here isn't equally self-centered.

    Bring them back, test them at the airport or tell them to self-isolate.

    "They deserve to be left there." Nice. Real nice.


  • #925
    SeaBreezes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭SeaBreezes


    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

    There you are Dominic!! Was wondering where you went..


    So I guess we are assuming people in groups A and B have no kids, or live/love with people from group C, right?

    And, your are essentially describing a lockdown, which is what the EU are doing. People still go to work, they just cant socialise in pubs and large entertainment gatherings.

    Something too hard for people in group C to do in the UK apparently..


  • #926
    solidasarock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 363 ✭✭solidasarock


    Hey lads. Its past 8am.

    Is the army marching on the streets dragging people back indoors yet?


  • #927
    Jin luk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 389 ✭✭Jin luk


    namloc1980 wrote: »
    11am you said wasn't it? Waiting here on tenterhooks!!

    Nope 11am was the post on fb my missus was told by management their would be an annoucment regarding customer numbers and opening hours also state services enforcing it at 8am a poster whos othee half works in tesco was also told the same.


  • #928
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,458 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    twomonkeys wrote: »
    It’s the average age of the population of the country.

    It states median though. That is very different from the mean (weighted) age

    The median age is basically half of expected lifespan. There are in most cases a hell of a lot more below the median than above it when it comes to age


  • #929
    wadacrack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,172 ✭✭✭wadacrack


    walshb wrote: »
    I mean at 6 p.m.

    Can we expect 50+ positive tests for Covid...

    I expect 100, don't see how we have done much better than Italy in containment tbh. The low numbers atm due to a lack of testing. 3% of test have been positive so that would be a worry. An 85 year-old woman tested positive despite only being in contact with 5 family members.


  • #930
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    Boggles wrote: »
    I imagine we will be quietly withdrawing our legal case against the EU over the old 14 billion just resting in the account.

    :)

    :D

    Pity only 2 or 3 billion of this would be due to us in any case :(


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  • #931
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,447 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    Jin luk wrote: »
    Nope 11am was the post on fb my missus was told by management their would be an annoucment regarding customer numbers and opening hours also state services enforcing it at 8am a poster whos othee half works in tesco was also told the same.

    And that didn't happen.


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