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

Stevieluvsye · 16-03-2020 05:31PM

jimwallace197 wrote: »

Cop yourself on Stevie

I'm not blaming the CMO. The numbers are and have been inaccurate to date

BarryD2 · 16-03-2020 05:31PM

An Ri rua wrote: »

We can't just have a border when it suits us.

Oh yes we can! - it suited us nicely to have 'No Border' last year, but maybe not so now. All things can change.

bb12 · 16-03-2020 05:31PM

Creed pays tribute to ‘those who put food on our tables’

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/creed-pays-tribute-to-those-who-put-food-on-our-tables/

DisneyLover · 16-03-2020 05:31PM

is_that_so wrote: »

They are ours.

So? They are the worst off after Italy they should be sending them some money instead of bringing them home

walshb · 16-03-2020 05:31PM

SleetAndSnow wrote: »

https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/fjkspq/fack_off_paddy_you_dont_even_have_a_health_service/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

''Ireland doesn't have a health service''

Jesus christ the UK are thicker then i thought

Than I thought!

neonsofa · 16-03-2020 05:32PM

Lashes28 wrote: »

The guards have a post up on Facebook about the car rental cars being used to help the community. It's true for all those who said it was photo shopped ðŸ™ˆ

Stopped clock is right twice a day as they say :pac:

Stevieluvsye · 16-03-2020 05:32PM

Lashes28 wrote: »

The guards have a post up on Facebook about the car rental cars being used to help the community. It's true for all those who said it was photo shopped &#55357;&#56904;

It is true. Wife's friend is a gaurd and confirmed it

fritzelly · 16-03-2020 05:33PM

Stevieluvsye wrote: »

I know, and i was told seperately 10 minutes ago

Still playing the numbers again while being mortally ill

Give it up

BarryD2 · 16-03-2020 05:33PM

Snow Garden wrote: »

And rightly so. Most are Irish..

Many of who went off in full knowledge of what was going on in Tenerife and Italy etc...... There is the issue of personal responsibility.

Professor Moriarty · 16-03-2020 05:34PM

SleetAndSnow wrote: »

https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/fjkspq/fack_off_paddy_you_dont_even_have_a_health_service/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

''Ireland doesn't have a health service''

Jesus christ the UK are thicker then i thought

Health Service Executive doesn't exist after all. Knew it.

dan786 · 16-03-2020 05:34PM

Tesco Ireland has announced it is offering over 65-year olds and family carers a dedicated time for them to do their shopping, in its 151 stores nationwide.

Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, starting this Wednesday 18 March, these customers will have dedicated access to all Tesco stores up to 9am.

Tesco stores open at 7am or 8am, every morning, depending on location.

amadangomor · 16-03-2020 05:34PM

kfrp wrote: »

You would think that the shops would put away produce that people can touch and cough on

I was in Tesco this morning in Limerick and saw a woman pick up two freshly baked rolls and leave them back for whatever reason and then pick up some others which she kept.

Some other person will end up eating the paw'd rolls.

Yep, companies need to stop selling open products. I know we are all anti plastic now but maybe for next few months we need to wrap all foods.

Long term maybe biodegradable plastics to become widespread.

Thelonious Monk · 16-03-2020 05:34PM

SleetAndSnow wrote: »

https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/fjkspq/fack_off_paddy_you_dont_even_have_a_health_service/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

''Ireland doesn't have a health service''

Jesus christ the UK are thicker then i thought

He worded it poorly but I think he just meant a free one like they have.
Reddit Ireland will be loving all this as it gives them chance to post anti-Brit memes.

Snow Garden · 16-03-2020 05:35PM

BarryD2 wrote: »

Many of who went off in full knowledge of what was going on in Tenerife and Italy etc...... There is the issue of personal responsibility.

Nobody has full knowledge of anything.

I imagine flights will be closed from Friday onwards.

Stheno · 16-03-2020 05:35PM

Lyanna Some Gut wrote: »

V

When did he say that? Sorry edited because you said when... Why did he say that and was it during the briefing?

Is that when they expect the testing to have caught up with the new measures? And the Cheltenham cases will only be starting to show then. Then the week after that we'll have the ones from all the contact with people coming home from abroad so it'll be astronomical. Wow I really wish someone would do a petition to show public support for the government to introduce a two week quarantine for those returning from abroad.

Saturday evening briefing

The Cillian chap too said non hospital test results may take up to four day

Tony H and him both said they expect a big rose this week due to more testing

dan786 · 16-03-2020 05:36PM

Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be giving an update at 4.45pm on the coronavirus outbreak.

What are the chances of him being replaced this year?

Professor Moriarty · 16-03-2020 05:36PM

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

He worded it poorly but I think he just meant a free one like they have.
Reddit Ireland will be loving all this as it gives them chance to post anti-Brit memes.

He talked sh1te you mean.

TheAsYLuMkeY · 16-03-2020 05:37PM

TheAsYLuMkeY wrote: »

Guys,

this may sound like a stupid question but i need to ask it,

Is this a ban on travel within the EU (meaning no one can travel from Germany to Austria for example) or just externally to EU you cannot get in?

Hi All,

didnt see a reply to my question above, i would guess because the thread is moving so fast.

Anyone clear this up for me?

Stevieluvsye · 16-03-2020 05:37PM

fritzelly wrote: »

Still playing the numbers again while being mortally ill

Give it up

Mortally ill?

Some people here. I am waiting to be tested, brother works in HSE and just said to expect it and to look after myself. I worry about a lot of people on this island

Lashes28 · 16-03-2020 05:38PM

Stevieluvsye wrote: »

It is true. Wife's friend is a gaurd and confirmed it

Ah here if we believed every wifes friends sisters donkey, we would be on lockdown with a soldier standing at the door so we couldn't leave. ðŸ™ˆ

Spanish Eyes · 16-03-2020 05:38PM

dan786 wrote: »

Tesco Ireland has announced it is offering over 65-year olds and family carers a dedicated time for them to do their shopping, in its 151 stores nationwide.

Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, starting this Wednesday 18 March, these customers will have dedicated access to all Tesco stores up to 9am.

Tesco stores open at 7am or 8am, every morning, depending on location.

Can’t buy booze at that hour. Feck that.

iamwhoiam · 16-03-2020 05:38PM

kmart6 wrote: »

Literally on the previous page!!

Thank you I just found it . I don’t know how to use twitter.

https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.thejournal.ie/lidl-priority-shopping-elderly-5048008-Mar2020/%3famp=1

Jpmarn · 16-03-2020 05:40PM

We have this Coronavirus problem because certain regional and national governments stuffed up.
Apparently so called wet markets in China are banned since the SARS epidemic but officials turned a bling eye in Whuhan where there was a market there.
The Italian government stopped flights from China but didn’t watch people coming in through mainly Germany on the so called Silk Road.
Is the (UK) government stuffing up?
But I have praise for the Chinese national government on the issue.
Best of luck for the Irish government efforts and everybody that works in healthcare.

DOCARCH · 16-03-2020 05:40PM

dan786 wrote: »

Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be giving an update at 4.45pm on the coronavirus outbreak.

What are the chances of him being replaced this year?

I presume this is aimed at UK (and some other countries).

"Countries must test. They can't fight this blindly. They need to find cases and isolate them. So my message to the Health Ministers today was to invest in testing. They must be able to test all suspected cases. We advise countries to stick to testing and continue with containment strategies, because we believe this virus is controllable if the right measures are taken."

Dr. Tedros Adhanom, Director of WHO.

Kermit.de.frog · 16-03-2020 05:41PM

dan786 wrote: »

Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be giving an update at 4.45pm on the coronavirus outbreak.

What are the chances of him being replaced this year?

NHS staff depleting rapidly and they are not being tested.

Testing in the UK is a major scandal.

They are trying massage the figures but they can't massage the consequences.

cj maxx · 16-03-2020 05:41PM

TheAsYLuMkeY wrote: »

Hi All,

didnt see a reply to my question above, i would guess because the thread is moving so fast.

Anyone clear this up for me?

Internal too. Germany/Denmark/Czech Republic etc have closed their borders to non essential travel

ThePopehimself · 16-03-2020 05:41PM

CIARAN_BOYLE wrote: »

Was trying to figure out the toilet paper shortages myself last week. I came to the following conclusions.

1. The toilet paper shortages are happening mainly because of Australia.
2. People see Australian shortages and try to get ahead of that.
3. Australia had reasons (not good reasons) to believe there would be a shortage (importing from China) so people stockpiled.
4. There are people for whom stocking up on toilet paper makes sense (my parents want to avoid public transport during the crisis so are going to walk to and from a local shop {instead of getting a bus to a bigger shop}. Toilet paper is very annoying to carry when doing a large shop).
5. People are idiots.
6. If my shop is out of toilet paper I will find a shop selling toilet paper and stockpile because I don't want hassle of looking for it.

I posted this earlier in the thread, it is an interesting psychological explanation for the TP Rush.

Dr. Stephen Taylor, professor and clinical psychology at the University of British Columbia. ('The Psychology of Pandemics' 2009)

“Why toilet paper?”

“One thing that happens during pandemics, when people are threatened with infection, is that their sensitivity to disgust increases. They are more likely to experience the emotion of disgust and are motivated to avoid that,” …

“...Disgust is like an alarm mechanism that warns you to avoid some contamination. So if I see a hand railing covered in saliva I’m not gonna touch it, I’m gonna feel disgust. And that keeps us safe.

“So there is a very tight connection between fear of getting infected and disgust. And what better tool for eliminating disgusting material than toilet paper. I think this is how it became a conditioned symbol of safety,” he said.

Stockpiling of general items can be partly explained by people’s need to feel like they are prepared.

“When you’re presented with a pandemic, a big new, scary thing, and the government is telling us that we don’t need to do anything special to deal with it — just wash your hands and so on — people feel the need to do something to prepare. So people are stocking up as a way of preparing themselves. When people do that, it's inevitable that some people are going to over shop.”

Cork Boy 53 · 16-03-2020 05:41PM

dan786 wrote: »

Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be giving an update at 4.45pm on the coronavirus outbreak.

What are the chances of him being replaced this year?/QUOTE]

Yep. Jacob Rees Mogg to be the next PM. From the frying pan into the fire.

Snow Garden · 16-03-2020 05:41PM

We all need to learn how to grow our own vegetables.

jobeenfitz · 16-03-2020 05:42PM

DisneyLover wrote: »

Are they seriously bringing people home from Spain !!

And there's Spanish people going back to Spain. Shoot the planes down. Wtf is wrong with people?

I know this virus is very serious but some people need to calm down.

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