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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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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,069 whisky_galore
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    54 not too bad. We've got this.

    It's far from over.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,038 Ficheall
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    54 not too bad. We've got this.
    You are being sarcastic, right?


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 56,862 Necro
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    Beasty wrote: »
    It depends on the quality of network and VPN connection. I work for a major organisation that is now requiring everyone that can to work from home, connecting to our network via domestic broadband

    I would suspect the HSE have possibly not invested in appropriate security software to facilitate this - probably on the basis they never thought anything like this could happen

    That's why big businesses have Business Continuity plans. We tested access on Friday with as many people as possible doing so from home

    Unfortunately a hard and unfortunate way for many organisations to learn a lesson, and there is likely to be a lot of IT upgrades worked on when this is all over

    This is exactly why.

    Trialling WFH in our office at the moment.

    Requirements:

    Work PC number

    Broadband (no sh1t sherlock :D )

    Laptop/PC with Windows 7/10 minimally (lol)

    Internet fooking Explorer.... :rolleyes:


  • Posts: 19,236 [Deleted User]
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    20silkcut wrote: »
    Any country with a significant Airline industry can export viruses. We are unlucky that China is in that bracket with its weird sanitary and eating habits.
    We are lucky that most African countries are not at that level and when Ebola breaks out Airlines can quickly cancel all flights to those countries without thinking twice.

    that's not the main reason that Ebola didn't spread - was not airborne and symptoms are obvious and apparent in all who got it

    it's the very nature of the Coronavirus -> 80% with no or mild symptoms yet highly contagious and airborne that make it far more dangerous


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,164 fritzelly
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    30 male, 24 female

    41 in the east, 11 in the south and 2 in the north/west of the country

    East (Dublin) is ramping up, thought it would be the case in the South a few days ago


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,636 RoryMac
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    Beasty wrote: »

    I would suspect the HSE have possibly not invested in appropriate security software to facilitate this - probably on the basis they never thought anything like this could happen

    They have and plenty of people use it daily


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,222 pjohnson
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    If Leo & company project 15,000 cases by end of March, why no lockdown the country now? At least try to stymie growth instead of emulating the Italian model.

    Its ridiculous. We dont have capacity for the currently projected figures. Letting it increase more and more breaks everything.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,690 Quantum Erasure
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    54 not too bad. We've got this.

    Not Great, Not Terrible


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,850 BorneTobyWilde
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    Ficheall wrote: »
    You are being sarcastic, right?


    Not at all. I was expecting 300


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,139 niallo27
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    54 is too low. Hopefully very few people are getting tested. Any figures on how many are getting tested.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,732 rob316
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    pjohnson wrote: »
    Its ridiculous. We dont have capacity for the currently projected figures. Letting it increase more and more breaks everything.

    The economy would break too if you went into full lockdown


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,766 ACitizenErased
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    41 in the east. Dublin is riddled, by the looks of it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,086 Nijmegen
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    This was like a slow burner from January and February. But March, particularly the last two weeks, it just seems its spreading everywhere. Prognosis on the news appears more and more grim. Hopefully we shall turn a corner soon.


    Amazing how things can change so quickly.

    Exponential growth... Go back to thread 1 and 2 and all the active naysayers getting nasty with anyone pointing out the fairly simple maths behind all of this.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 619 macnug
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    fritzelly wrote: »
    30 male, 24 female

    41 in the east, 11 in the south and 2 in the north/west of the country

    East (Dublin) is ramping up, thought it would be the case in the South a few days ago

    Dublin kicking off now id say. I thought they were going to do it county by county now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,062 Hobgoblin11
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    There must be thousands of carriers in the EAST

    Dundalk, Co. Louth



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 214 Level 5 Vegan
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    54 not too bad. We've got this.

    Coronavirus? Yes, many do.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,575 RandomName2
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    Beasty wrote: »
    It depends on the quality of network and VPN connection. I work for a major organisation that is now requiring everyone that can to work from home, connecting to our network via domestic broadband

    I would suspect the HSE have possibly not invested in appropriate security software to facilitate this - probably on the basis they never thought anything like this could happen

    There is no special security software really required. You should be able to trust your home network, so a VPN is not really necessary.

    Standard encryption should be decent enough. Standard medical data isn't even a major target for cyber criminals. They will need their own servers facing the internet to be secure though, but they should be anyway.

    They should also have forseen something like this coming. The presence of Covid-19 was announced back in December. They didn't take any measures to prevent in coming to Ireland in the following months, so how this state of affairs could have escaped them I do not know.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,856 threeball
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    Dr. Holohan predicting 40,000 close contacts by the end of the week.

    No he said the cases we already have would be expected to have 40,000 contacts. However as we have seen from the ship not everyone gets infected and of those that do the vast majority are mild.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
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    fritzelly wrote: »
    30 male, 24 female

    41 in the east, 11 in the south and 2 in the north/west of the country

    East (Dublin) is ramping up, thought it would be the case in the South a few days ago

    Well, a quarter of the country’s population is in the Greater Dublin area so it’s not surprising. More than a quarter actually.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,783 murpho999
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    If Leo & company project 15,000 cases by end of March, why not lockdown the country now? At least try to stymie growth instead of emulating the Italian model.

    Maybe they know a lockdown is coming but want to time it right. If implemented it could be a long one and they don't want to do it too soon for reasons of mental health and public order.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,164 fritzelly
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    macnug wrote: »
    Dublin kicking off now id say. I thought they were going to do it county by county now.

    "Later" in the week


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    I can guarantee you there are no Spanish coming into the country. Those flight are getting Spanish students (generally teenagers who have been in ireland since Sepember 2019) back to their families and Irish holiday makers back home from Spain

    .......and many of those IRISH returning will bring Covid 19 with them, so another spike I'd say and we also have the Cheltehnam spike to look forward to...........


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,222 pjohnson
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    rob316 wrote: »
    The economy would break too if you went into full lockdown

    If we copy Italy the economy is utterly fúcked anyway. The world economy is fùcked anyway. Just a question how many do we want to kill off.


    Life is more important than economy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,872 Sittingpretty
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    I’m going to take it that schools won’t reopen until at the very least new term September?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 is_that_so
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    pjohnson wrote: »
    Why the fcuk do they want it to spread so badly.
    Varadkar said earlier that quarantines don't work and they've accepted it's going to spread. The distancing is to flatten the number of cases or that's my understanding.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,038 Ficheall
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    Not at all. I was expecting 300
    Today's rate will give half a million infected in a month...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,825 walshb
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    pjohnson wrote: »
    If we copy Italy economy is fúcked anyway.


    Life is more important than economy.

    But life depends on several parts of the economy. To fight this absolutely needs an economy...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,856 threeball
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    If Leo & company project 15,000 cases by end of March, why not lockdown the country now? At least try to stymie growth instead of emulating the Italian model.

    Italy has far far more than 15000 cases. They are just the cases that came forward for treatment.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,598 munsterlegend
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    Not at all. I was expecting 300

    Have you a clue about how many tests our labs can actually do a day?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,233 normanoffside
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    .......and many of those IRISH returning will bring Covid 19 with them, so another spike I'd say and we also have the Cheltehnam spike to look forward to...........

    We already have it. The only thing we can do is to stop spreading it.


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