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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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  • #932
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,611 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Someone I know has been trying since Thursday to get tested and the latest is he "should" get a test by Wednesday. Who knows where the figures are really at.


  • #933
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,714 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    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??

    Breath can travel more than a metre. It also lands on surfaces and water droplets can last for some time. Like the flu, this virus is carried primarily on the the breath and you shouldn't be in the vicinity of an infected person for more than 15 minutes.

    Spacing isn't really going to work in something like a pub, where people are constantly yapping.


  • #934
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    Gods Gift wrote: »
    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.

    Group A, group of death


  • #935
    Axfrderr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 82 ✭✭Axfrderr


    Just something to reasure people with pets.
    I just rang my local vet and he confirmed emergency services will continue as normal for small animals.


  • #936
    kevcos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 220 ✭✭kevcos


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    It's an old fashioned exercise in Eugenics.

    Great for the economy.

    A Eugenics exercise would require has a targeted demographic.
    Who is, (presumably you are referring to the British Government) specifically targeting to sacrifice in this exercise?


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  • #937
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,483 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    wadacrack wrote: »
    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.

    Thanks. I better refrain from any more numbers speculation. Don't want to be seen as an oddball.......


  • #938
    UrbanFret
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,051 ✭✭✭UrbanFret


    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.

    Have we recruited a couple of hundred thousand military overnight? Tell me how logistically this could work if it were true.


  • #939
    dundalkfc10
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,719 ✭✭✭dundalkfc10


    DSP in Dundalk not letting public inside. This is going to get messy. The ques are as long as ive seen in a long time, handing out forms asking people post them in


  • #940
    NSAman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,481 ✭✭✭NSAman


    Bob24 wrote: »
    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.

    Not everyone, this weekend was a massive wake-up call for many people. Yet I see people saying this is ridiculous and over-hyping the situation.

    Until this weekend, very few people had actually thought about their living situations here.


  • #941
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,032 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    kevcos wrote: »
    A Eugenics exercise would require has a targeted demographic.
    Who is, (presumably you are referring to the British Government) specifically targeting to sacrifice in this exercise?

    Use your imagination.


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  • #942
    tom1ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,023 ✭✭✭✭tom1ie


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

    Yes, but remember you don’t have to touch people either. As people become infected they expel the virus through breathing.
    There are reports of people being infected within a 5m radius in China.


  • #943
    Jin luk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 389 ✭✭Jin luk


    namloc1980 wrote: »
    And that didn't happen.

    All our women are lying to us!!!


  • #944
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    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.
    This is what some stores are doing the the UK where they are staggering entry, more to allow those who can't fight with gen pop for toilet rolls and pasta, a time to shop.


  • #945
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Jin luk wrote: »
    All our women are lying to us!!!

    Or else they’re just regurgitating misinformation and it’s being passed on and around purple monkey dishwasher.


  • #946
    callaway92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,104 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    walshb wrote: »
    Just concerned

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

    We have to be oddballs to be?:rolleyes:

    It’s so so weird


  • #947
    martingriff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,342 ✭✭✭✭martingriff


    Beasty wrote: »
    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:

    Also if he is a doctor here in Ireland (just because he is an Irish doctor does not mean her works here) he will undergo isolation for 2 weeks he may have had those 2 weeks also booked off


  • #948
    kevcos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 220 ✭✭kevcos


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Use your imagination.

    Well I dont imagine they are trageting anyone.

    This is your opinion so what dont you tell me?


  • #949
    Rob A. Bank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭Rob A. Bank


    kevcos wrote: »
    A Eugenics exercise would require has a targeted demographic.
    Who is, (presumably you are referring to the British Government) specifically targeting to sacrifice in this exercise?

    boris-johnson-lets-kill-old-people-uk-coronavirus-strategy.jpg


  • #950
    Nermal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,836 ✭✭✭Nermal


    Funsterdelux wrote: »
    I see no flaws in this plan whatsoever

    And our plan? Complete lockdown until what, exactly? Until a vaccine is available at an unspecified future date? Until we have no cases, and then start all over again when new ones appear?

    The UK plan has an end date and won’t lead to a deflationary spiral. That alone makes it better than ours.


  • #951
    Reati
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,926 ✭✭✭Reati


    Went to Tesco for the essentials at 8am. It was packed to the rafters. I've never seen it as full. Even at Xmas.

    Carpark full and overflowing. Was pretty bare inside. Not a pack of meat left. No soaps. No bread. Lots of toilet paper though!

    Could not get over the trolley after trolley rimmed with stuff. Do people know something I don't?


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  • #952
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    Will I cut a Facebook friend that reckons that it as all caused by 5G. The amount of likes they got for it :eek:


  • #953
    Maxpfizer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 496 ✭✭Maxpfizer


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Someone I know has been trying since Thursday to get tested and the latest is he "should" get a test by Wednesday. Who knows where the figures are really at.

    Can I ask why?

    Surely the only reason to test someone now is to treat any severe cases?

    Anyone who is not in serious condition just needs to self-isolate.

    Wouldn't thousands of unnecessary tests just put even more strain on health systems?

    People who's time could be better spent elsewhere are wasting resources testing 1000s of people and getting mostly negative results anyway.


  • #954
    UrbanFret
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,051 ✭✭✭UrbanFret


    Nermal wrote: »
    And our plan? Complete lockdown until what, exactly? Until a vaccine is available at an unspecified future date? Until we have no cases, and then start all over again when new ones appear?

    The UK plan has an end date and won’t lead to a deflationary spiral. That alone makes it better than ours.

    There's always a plan B.;)


  • #955
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,483 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    callaway92 wrote: »
    It’s so so weird

    Ok..

    Just interested on how this is going to work out...

    Stop making it out like I am sitting back, grinning and laughing as I wonder....

    That is what is weird, and it's you who are thinking it.


  • #956
    ninebeanrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,780 ✭✭✭✭ninebeanrows


    People might actually save tonnes of cash over next few months if salaried as will be fook all to spend it on


  • #957
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Most people probably aren’t intentionally or maliciously lying by passing these stories and messages around btw but it’s still so unreliable and that’s just not good. That’s the issue more so.


  • #958
    kevcos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 220 ✭✭kevcos


    Rob A. Bank wrote: »
    boris-johnson-lets-kill-old-people-uk-coronavirus-strategy.jpg

    Emmm, didn't see that notification on .gov.uk but great photo!


  • #959
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Growth outside Europe is increasing
    75 new cases in Australia
    100 more in Brazil
    130 more in Malaysia
    45 more in Pakistan
    Almost 40 more in Israel


  • #960
    UrbanFret
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,051 ✭✭✭UrbanFret


    Reati wrote: »
    Went to Tesco for the essentials at 8am. It was packed to the rafters. I've never seen it as full. Even at Xmas.

    Carpark full and overflowing. Was pretty bare inside. Not a pack of meat left. No soaps. No bread. Lots of toilet paper though!

    Could get over the trolley after trolley rimmed with stuff. Do people know something I don't?
    No just been panicked by nonsense about an invading military power from outer space taking over the running of the country.


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  • #961
    FastFullBack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭FastFullBack


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

    What are the issues?


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