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

whisky_galore · 16-03-2020 10:05PM

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

54 not too bad. We've got this.

It's far from over.

Ficheall · 16-03-2020 10:05PM

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

54 not too bad. We've got this.

You are being sarcastic, right?

Necro · 16-03-2020 10:05PM

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

)

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

Internet fooking Explorer.... :rolleyes:

16-03-2020 10:05PM

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

fritzelly · 16-03-2020 10:05PM

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

RoryMac · 16-03-2020 10:06PM

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

pjohnson · 16-03-2020 10:06PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

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.

Quantum Erasure · 16-03-2020 10:06PM

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

54 not too bad. We've got this.

Not Great, Not Terrible

BorneTobyWilde · 16-03-2020 10:06PM

Ficheall wrote: »

You are being sarcastic, right?

Not at all. I was expecting 300

niallo27 · 16-03-2020 10:06PM

54 is too low. Hopefully very few people are getting tested. Any figures on how many are getting tested.

rob316 · 16-03-2020 10:06PM

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

ACitizenErased · 16-03-2020 10:06PM

41 in the east. Dublin is riddled, by the looks of it.

Nijmegen · 16-03-2020 10:07PM

TheValeyard wrote: »

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.

macnug · 16-03-2020 10:07PM

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.

Hobgoblin11 · 16-03-2020 10:07PM

There must be thousands of carriers in the EAST

Level 5 Vegan · 16-03-2020 10:07PM

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

54 not too bad. We've got this.

Coronavirus? Yes, many do.

RandomName2 · 16-03-2020 10:07PM

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.

threeball · 16-03-2020 10:07PM

ACitizenErased wrote: »

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.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 16-03-2020 10:08PM

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.

murpho999 · 16-03-2020 10:08PM

Deleted User wrote: »

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.

fritzelly · 16-03-2020 10:08PM

macnug wrote: »

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

"Later" in the week

16-03-2020 10:08PM

normanoffside wrote: »

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...........

pjohnson · 16-03-2020 10:08PM

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.

Sittingpretty · 16-03-2020 10:08PM

I’m going to take it that schools won’t reopen until at the very least new term September?

is_that_so · 16-03-2020 10:09PM

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.

Ficheall · 16-03-2020 10:09PM

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Not at all. I was expecting 300

Today's rate will give half a million infected in a month...

walshb · 16-03-2020 10:09PM

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...

threeball · 16-03-2020 10:09PM

Deleted User wrote: »

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.

munsterlegend · 16-03-2020 10:09PM

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Not at all. I was expecting 300

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

normanoffside · 16-03-2020 10:10PM

Deleted User wrote: »

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