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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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  • #3212
    20silkcut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,734 ✭✭✭20silkcut


    Just watched a YouTube video on the 2014 Ebola epidemic in west Africa. Frightening stuff the WHO and MSF were over it like a rash and managed to contain it to three countries. 28000 cases 11000 deaths.
    Only Africa is so isolated from the rest of the world we dodged that bullet.


  • #3213
    mcmoustache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,237 ✭✭✭mcmoustache


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    Wow

    https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1239643758171500545?s=19


    Maybe the US president should address the nation and calm the markets.


  • #3214
    Mervyn Skidmore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,210 ✭✭✭Mervyn Skidmore


    RugbyLad11 wrote: »
    I heard on RTE news that they were only looking for nursing students to do contact tracing?

    No, Harris said pretty much anyone.


  • #3215
    threeball
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,780 ✭✭✭threeball


    touts wrote: »
    Trinity have solved the problem. They will be virus free by Wednesday night. They are evicting all Irish students from their college accommodation tomorrow. Anyone from outside Ireland has been given an extra day, presumably to book flights etc before they are kicked out on the street on Wednesday.

    I suspect that will be a major PR disaster for them.

    Making room for the HSE I'd imagine


  • #3216
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    RugbyLad11 wrote: »
    I heard on RTE news that they were only looking for nursing students to do contact tracing?
    It sounded like they'll take anyone with free time, plenty of them now, and a skill they can use. Rolls out from tomorrow.


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  • #3217
    RugbyLad11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 547 ✭✭✭RugbyLad11


    Trinity is making all student leave their accommodation by tomorrow or Wednesday for international students.

    It seems like a really scummy move to make everyone move at such short notice, and potentially spreading the disease further across Dublin and the wordl


  • #3218
    Widdensushi
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    Jaylee Faint Rival wrote: »
    I drive a van and I average about 600km a day. One thing I've noticed in the past week is no speed vans. Haven't seen one..

    all the new zones mean they might be in other areas, I have seen them


  • #3219
    Naked Lepper
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    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    Wow

    https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1239643758171500545?s=19

    stock markets based on speculation
    issue here with speculators is there is no end in sight and this is so unpredictable

    if things peak and decline then gains will return to stock prices gradually

    the stock market crashing is a serious issue but should not be used independently as an indicator of anything other than market speculation by traders


  • #3220
    ldy4mxonucwsq6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,537 ✭✭✭ldy4mxonucwsq6


    Shelga wrote: »
    Accidentally watched Nuacht for 20 minutes before realising the press conference is pushed back to 9pm. And what's more, I kinda liked it. Most amount of Irish I've listened to since my LC in 2006. Maybe I can learn more Irish during this fecking pandemic.

    Just the latest surprising thing in the most bizarre week I can remember in my 32 years.

    I think we will be returning to simpler times, if it was for the damned virus and the economic repercussions it might be a good thing.


  • #3221
    mcmoustache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,237 ✭✭✭mcmoustache


    Jaylee Faint Rival wrote: »
    I drive a van and I average about 600km a day. One thing I've noticed in the past week is no speed vans. Haven't seen one..


    I saw one on the Phibsboro road a bit to the south of the Back Page today on my way to work.


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  • #3222
    Reckless Abandonment
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭Reckless Abandonment


    Global deaths have doubled in the last 10 day. Over 7k now.


  • #3223
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    kerrycork13 wrote: »
    He more or less admitted that stopping the virus was impossible at this stage. The social distancing will hopefully make it more manageable but also will prolong how long we have to deal with it. Its almost inevitable that almost half the population will have it. The question is how long it takes. Longer the better for people who need hospitalisation.

    Yes, that is the point and why I pointed him in the direction of how to get some information that might inform him.


  • #3224
    Achasanai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 730 ✭✭✭Achasanai


    Shelga wrote: »
    Accidentally watched Nuacht for 20 minutes before realising the press conference is pushed back to 9pm. And what's more, I kinda liked it. Most amount of Irish I've listened to since my LC in 2006. Maybe I can learn more Irish during this fecking pandemic.

    Just the latest surprising thing in the most bizarre week I can remember in my 32 years.


    Set up an account with DuoLingo and you'll have the basics back in no time. Then move on to something more difficult.


  • #3225
    hellyeah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 464 ✭✭hellyeah


    Jaylee Faint Rival wrote: »
    I drive a van and I average about 600km a day. One thing I've noticed in the past week is no speed vans. Haven't seen one..

    Yeah agreed. I drive for a living doing similar mileage, not seen one.


  • #3226
    Cuckoo7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 235 ✭✭Cuckoo7


    pH wrote: »
    Yes and this was 3 days ago in Cheltenham
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8108673/Cheltenham-2020-outfits.html

    Which included many people from both the UK and Ireland drinking at the track in large groups and then partying on until the wee hours in the town.

    Is your point that you look down on this 'type of person', who looked like they were having a few drinks and complying fully with Spanish authorities when asked? 2 Nights ago there were packed pubs in this country ffs
    There have been police patrolling cars with loud speakers announcing in both Spanish and English all through the streets of Benidorm not to go out but for the essentials. So what the heck you mean complying fully with Spanish authorities?
    And that’s nor even taking into account all the videos of those **** heckling the police when told to F off to their accommodation.


  • #3227
    Blanco100
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    Mervyn Skidmore wrote: »
    No, Harris said pretty much anyone.

    How would one apply for these tracing positions?


  • #3228
    05eaftqbrs9jlh
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    threeball wrote: »
    Yes, that's the whole point and the only way to stop it returning over and over.
    Oh my god you're so wrong that I can't even begin with this. Please just don't say this kind of stuff because clearly you're clueless and we already have enough ridiculous, spurious and useless claims, rumours and nonsense posts stacking up here already without these dangerous, bizarre assertions

    We don't know if we can stop it returning over and over because it's unprecedented.

    It is highly likely that allowing many people to become infected will result in a massively reduced quality of life for those that survive due to permanent lung damage. https://www.medicaldevice-network.com/news/coronavirus-ct-scans/

    There isn't any known permanent immunity to this and even people who have built up the antibodies to recover once may not be able to recover from it again (they said as much in the UK press conference today).

    Just stop.


  • #3229
    Tootsie_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 309 ✭✭Tootsie_1


    Just Re working from home and Volunteering it won’t happen I’m in the HSE we aren’t allowed work from home even though we technically could we have to go in probably GDPR And sensitive information and all that goes with that. Im being redeployed to help out in other areas.


  • #3230
    poppers
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    Jaylee Faint Rival wrote: »
    I drive a van and I average about 600km a day. One thing I've noticed in the past week is no speed vans. Haven't seen one..

    Passed 2 today on way to cork.
    One in mullingar other on M8


  • #3231
    Adiboo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭Adiboo


    Will the UK's response to this possibly push NI population more towards a united Ireland?


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  • #3232
    niallo27
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    bilston wrote: »
    Over 560 dead in Europe in the last 24 hours.

    Over 1,100 dead in the last 48 hours.

    I mean that sounds horrific on the small scale but in terms of a population of 741 million it's pretty small.


  • #3233
    Hunchback
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    20silkcut wrote: »
    Just watched a YouTube video on the 2014 Ebola epidemic in west Africa. Frightening stuff the WHO and MSF were over it like a rash and managed to contain it to three countries. 28000 cases 11000 deaths.
    Only Africa is so isolated from the rest of the world we dodged that bullet.

    Mortality rate for Ebola is higher, but its less contagious (I heard)


  • #3234
    Reckless Abandonment
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭Reckless Abandonment


    Tootsie_1 wrote: »
    Just Re working from home and Volunteering it won’t happen I’m in the HSE we aren’t allowed work from home even though we technically could we have to go in probably GDPR And sensitive information and all that goes with that. Im being redeployed to help out in other areas.

    GDPR should be fxck in the bin for a while


  • #3235
    RugbyLad11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 547 ✭✭✭RugbyLad11


    Blanco100 wrote: »
    How would one apply for these tracing positions?

    They will be announced tomorrow


  • #3236
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Blanco100 wrote: »
    How would one apply for these tracing positions?
    You can find out tomorrow.


  • #3237
    Tootsie_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 309 ✭✭Tootsie_1


    Reckless Abandonment wrote: »
    GDPR should be fxck in the bin for a while

    It should but I don’t see it happening.


  • #3238
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,458 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    adox wrote: »
    Does anyone even read this thread? The amount of times someone asks a question that’s been answered numerous times in the recent previous posts!
    A point that has been made numerous times across the 8 threads to date


    :pac::pac:


  • #3239
    Ray Donovan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,030 ✭✭✭Ray Donovan


    Tootsie_1 wrote: »
    Just Re working from home and Volunteering it won’t happen I’m in the HSE we aren’t allowed work from home even though we technically could we have to go in probably GDPR And sensitive information and all that goes with that. Im being redeployed to help out in other areas.

    I really think in the current climate GDPR should get fcuked out the window.


  • #3240
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Tootsie_1 wrote: »
    Just Re working from home and Volunteering it won’t happen I’m in the HSE we aren’t allowed work from home even though we technically could we have to go in probably GDPR And sensitive information and all that goes with that. Im being redeployed to help out in other areas.
    Does it depend on what you do? Family member expecting to WFH for two weeks from tomorrow.


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  • #3241
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,617 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Hunchback wrote: »
    Mortality rate for Ebola is higher, but its less contagious (I heard)

    I heard he wasn't showing symptoms


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