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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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    #1832
    Achasanai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 730 ✭✭✭Achasanai


    elperello wrote: »
    Might sound a bit gross but if you have to use paper that won't flush you can put it in a bin beside the loo and dispose in black bin or compost.


    When I was in Greece, this was drilled into us wherever we stayed (as in 'don't flush any type of paper down the loo'). When we eventually started doing it, I was surprised at how the bin didn't stink at all.


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    #1833
    Standman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Standman


    Re the user "Pseudonym121" claiming to be a health worker, I may have missed it but has it been confirmed by mods/admins that this person is who they say they are?


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    #1834
    skimpydoo
    Registered Users Posts: 4,872 ✭✭✭skimpydoo


    Widdensushi wrote: »
    you tested negative last week ?
    Testing negative once does not mean you don't have it. Look at the number of people who test positive after doing 2 or more tests after their negative result.


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    #1835
    Dyr
    Registered Users Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    Well at least this is promising, if true of course:



    https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/health-wellbeing/australian-researchers-within-reach-of-coronavirus-cure-c-746655


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    #1836
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,297 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    skimpydoo wrote: »
    If you won't name the pub at least name where they are. Give us an idea so that we can do what we we are going to do with the Molly Malone. Never darken its doors.

    i too would like to know the location of this establishment, ...


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    #1837
    DOCARCH
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    iguana wrote: »
    They aren't testing huge amounts of people with likely symptoms. They are just telling them to stay home for 7 days but that it's ok for the people who live with them to head off about their normal lives. It's part of their new plan.

    Would appear to be! Causes less public anxiety. Carry on and get infected!


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    #1838
    spookwoman
    Registered Users Posts: 9,922 ✭✭✭spookwoman


    Ref anti inflams
    https://twitter.com/FergalBowers/status/1239565919300530177?s=20
    https://twitter.com/FergalBowers/status/1239566072979881984?s=20


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    #1839
    Cork Boy 53
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    Hobgoblin11 wrote: »
    Good news, the Sun is creeping through the clouds, spring is coming

    Don`t think too many care that much about the weather now.


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    #1840
    lawred2
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    Hobgoblin11 wrote: »
    Imagine being in jail now, at least we can go out to pick up groceries

    huh?


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    #1841
    Stevieluvsye
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭Stevieluvsye


    nthclare wrote: »
    Hope you get good results, and are going to be ok this is the first hand I've hear of someone getting tested.

    My thoughts are with you, nothing I can really say but good luck with it

    Yep! Thanks for your kind post!!!

    People just need to cop on. IT IS THIS SERIOUS


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    #1842
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    elperello wrote: »
    Well personally I'd still prefer to see a bit of social responsibility at a time like this.

    Maybe it's too much to ask though.

    Big difference in the price of houses and hand sanitiser.

    There isn't in a market based economy. Supply and demand. Google it.

    Granted the difference is that the majority of people have houses so we don't care so much about the supply of housing / homeless people.

    This is different in that the majority don't have the commodity.


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    #1843
    expectationlost
    Registered Users Posts: 11,775 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    good explanation of why you delay (or graduate) the shutdown
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl6tTwxzCi8


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    #1844
    Widdensushi
    Registered Users Posts: 5,182 ✭✭✭Widdensushi


    skimpydoo wrote: »
    Testing negative once does not mean you don't have it. Look at the number of people who test positive after doing 2 or more tests after their negative result.

    he is winding people up about something that is no joking matter, he has a history of it


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    #1845
    [Deleted User]
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    Achasanai wrote: »
    If there's nothing wrong with what they're doing, why aren't you telling everyone the name of the pub?


    Adults* worried about being a 'rat' when they could be helping to prevent the spread of a disease that kills old people. The priorities that some people have.


    *I'm just assuming you're an adult.

    It's not true. That's why he won't name it


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    #1846
    macnug
    Registered Users Posts: 619 ✭✭✭macnug


    wadacrack wrote: »
    Obesity and overall mass seems to play a massive role. Women/children obviously much less mass and aren't getting hit as much. South Korea obesity rates much lower than Italy also. Seen this mentioned in an Italian source that its the biggest factor. But doesn't seem to mainstream probably to avoid fat shaming etc.

    Makes sense really more mass = more oxygen requirement and unfit people usually have less lung capacity.


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    #1847
    wakka12
    Registered Users Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    16 deaths in countries other than Spain/France/Italy/Germany/UK today

    +4 in Sweden
    +2 Austria
    +4 Switzerland
    +2 Denmark
    +4Netherlands


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    #1848
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,785 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    Greenland reporting its first case.


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    #1849
    elperello
    Registered Users Posts: 14,504 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    spookwoman wrote: »
    What about using cloth, washing it like they did in the old days with babies before wetwipes

    That will work too.


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    #1850
    meath4sam
    Registered Users Posts: 605 ✭✭✭meath4sam


    Cupatae wrote: »
    Is the country going into complete shut down for two weeks or is that all nonsense ?

    IMO no not yet, if we stick to HSE government advise, but if we don’t it would obviously be the the next step.


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    #1851
    Hobgoblin11
    Registered Users Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Hobgoblin11


    Cork Boy 53 wrote: »
    Don`t think too many care that much about the weather now.

    as the weather improves , the hospitals will be less busy cos there will be less winter flu cases , freeing up space for covid patients, its very relevant

    Dundalk, Co. Louth



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    #1852
    brianregan09
    Registered Users Posts: 8,478 ✭✭✭brianregan09


    Hopefully some people will take away from this situation is not to believe social media the amount of bull**** scaremongering and absolute ignorance going around on Twitter,Facebook etc there's little wonder people are panic buying and doing stupid ****

    Had someone argue with me on facebook that there was over a thousand people in dunnes last night and I in there myself and it was dead in there


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    #1853
    joe40
    Registered Users Posts: 3,811 ✭✭✭joe40


    rossie1977 wrote: »
    Considering 3,000 have died in China which has 27 times Irelands population 10k dead would result in health system collapsing in this country and complete panic among the population

    I agree but I just wonder what do authorities HSE, WHO etc consider the realistic best case scenario for infection rates over the next 12 months.


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    #1854
    spookwoman
    Registered Users Posts: 9,922 ✭✭✭spookwoman


    https://twitter.com/franmcnulty/status/1239566465860276224?s=20


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    #1855
    skimpydoo
    Registered Users Posts: 4,872 ✭✭✭skimpydoo


    statesaver wrote: »
    Any idea why ?
    Herd mentality.


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    #1856
    Funkfield
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    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    i too would like to know the location of this establishment, ...

    There is absolutely no reason why they won't name it, yet...here we are.

    Possibly bull$h1t, possibly just trying to get a reaction.

    Its difficult to understand


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    #1857
    rossie1977
    Registered Users Posts: 11,342 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    Bambi wrote: »
    Well at least this is promising, if true of course:



    https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/health-wellbeing/australian-researchers-within-reach-of-coronavirus-cure-c-746655

    They haven't even begun clinical trials on humans. Looking at minimum 18 months to 2 years before that would be available publicly

    You read a dozen of these claims daily.

    Nearly 20 years on we have no cure for SARS which should tell you everything


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    #1858
    SuperTortoise
    Registered Users Posts: 2,955 ✭✭✭SuperTortoise


    Bambi wrote: »
    Well at least this is promising, if true of course:



    https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/health-wellbeing/australian-researchers-within-reach-of-coronavirus-cure-c-746655


    Johnson&Johnson have apparently said there is no evidence that those treatments work, i also find it odd they are looking for funding for clinical trials, i mean, it they were that close you'd think funding would'nt be a problem?


    Hope i'm wrong on that BTW.


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    #1859
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,106 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    wakka12 wrote: »
    Are there any theories as to why this is hitting developed countries so much harder? Even in Asia it is the most develoeped countries that seem to be taking the hardest hit Singpoare,Japan, korea, China and less so in Indonesia and the south east

    Travel more internationally? Older populations?
    I'd reckon more mask wearing, less obesity and diabetes(though more smokers) and faster reactions to threats from authorities, with less reticence to shut things down and more social compliance with orders from authority and community.
    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Which mask are you referring to? A bog standard lightweight mouth/nose mask is of little to no medical value unless you have symptoms (in which case you should be at home anyway). The virus enters the eyes and will get around the pretty flimsy masks most people are wearing as they do not contour around the face tightly enough and they have no actual filter effect
    While I mostly agree with the paper mask efficacy actually the eye route is still highly debatable. This study into SARS and Covid19 found the likelihood low. Though they advised eye protection for healthcare workers as a precaution.

    I mostly agree regarding the usefulness of masks though I'd be willing to bet quite a bit that if everyone was wearing even the flimsy paper type transmission would go down. Problem is we don't have enough to go around and health workers need them more. If a majority were wearing the proper half face with pp3 filter respirators I have no doubt transmission would go down. But that would cost a fortune to dole out to the population, especially now. I got mine ages ago way before Covid and it cost under 20 quid, now **** on ebay and amazon are looking nigh on a hundred quid each and more for the same model.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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    #1860
    ShayNanigan
    Registered Users Posts: 278 ✭✭ShayNanigan


    In unrelated news... St. Patrick seen in Temple Bar a few minutes ago

    https://pasteboard.co/IZn9Irx.png


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    #1861
    joe_99
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    rossie1977 wrote: »
    Considering 3,000 have died in China which has 27 times Irelands population 10k dead would result in health system collapsing in this country and complete panic among the population

    270 times not 27


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