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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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  • #3572
    beggars_bush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,904 ✭✭✭beggars_bush


    threeball wrote: »
    Experience is not going to eliminate it. Its not on just the chinese now. It can come from anywhere.

    Last time something like this hit Ireland was 1918


  • #3573
    rob316
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,670 ✭✭✭✭rob316


    pjohnson wrote: »
    Wait you suddenly care about living?


    But the sacred economy?

    Ya you need money to live. The junkie on the street needs money to live. Keeps the wheels turning as long as possible so we have the resources to fight this. Many small businesses will not be able to open again that have closed in the last few days. They are the life blood of our country.


  • #3574
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    MastiffMrs wrote: »
    Was wondering about Mullingar also, considered to be the east?
    Did they announce that cluster of 16 to be anywhere specific?
    Will be interesting to see the county numbers eventually.

    Yes its the East


  • #3575
    Mervyn Skidmore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,210 ✭✭✭Mervyn Skidmore


    shoppergal wrote: »
    They said 33% of the first 150 or so cases were in 25-44 age range. Holy crap!!

    That's a good thing surely as most won't need hospitalisation?


  • #3576
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,118 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Dr Tony is coming across far better the past few days - more confident and at ease with the questions


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  • #3577
    blackcard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,318 ✭✭✭blackcard


    shoppergal wrote: »
    They said 33% of the first 150 or so cases were in 25-44 age range. Holy crap!!

    I think that is okay. They will get the virus but the vast vast majority will be fine


  • #3578
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,516 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Humberto Salazar wrote: »
    41 out of 1m people is not riddled. It is a cluster. But it will rise hugely, I grant you.

    It’s not really out of a million..

    It’s out of a pool of tested people...


  • #3579
    Shn99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,353 ✭✭✭Shn99


    fritzelly wrote: »
    Dr Tony is coming across far better the past few days - more confident and at ease with the questions

    Id hate to be in his position, fair play to him


  • #3580
    threeball
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,778 ✭✭✭threeball


    Gynoid wrote: »
    It is hardly fair to mock people who are on the more nervous side about this thing, given how 2 months ago most of us were fairly blasè and could not have foreseen things being the way they are now or could be as they are in Italy. While personally I would tend to cleave more towards the attitude you generally display, it is also allowed to leave some bit if room for the dreadful possibility that things might be ...FUBAR.

    Well if he wants to go around calling people stupid and trying to control the message then he leaves himself open to comebacks. If there is no immunity then there is no possibilty to win, but as Jeff Goldblum once said, Life finds a way.


  • #3581
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,118 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    twirlagig wrote: »
    What did Tony Holohan reply with to the question of fees for ringing your GP? I didn’t catch it

    They have a policy they are looking at so the doc fees is not a burden to getting a test


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  • #3582
    jam83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 341 ✭✭jam83


    shoppergal wrote: »
    They said 33% of the first 150 or so cases were in 25-44 age range. Holy crap!!

    Doesn't mean they were anything other than mild though?


  • #3583
    Cork Boy 53
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    is_that_so wrote: »
    Surplus that Paschal had of €1.5bn and topped up to €3bn.

    Which was supposed to be put aside in case of a hard Brexit. Well so much for that.


  • #3584
    PCeeeee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭PCeeeee


    fritzelly wrote: »
    Dr Tony is coming across far better the past few days - more confident and at ease with the questions

    He is very impressive right now. Calm, full answers, no bull.


  • #3585
    Mellor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,379 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    shoppergal wrote: »
    They said 33% of the first 150 or so cases were in 25-44 age range. Holy crap!!

    Why is that holy crap?
    They’d be 33% of the population. If anything that’s better than a high % of +65 cases


  • #3586
    kyote00
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,664 ✭✭✭kyote00


    TB in the 1950s quite bad also (in fact wasnt the original hospital in Blanch a TB isolation ward )
    beggars_bush wrote: »
    Last time something like this hit Ireland was 1918


  • #3587
    bekker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 912 ✭✭✭bekker


    perrito caliente wrote: »
    Why aren't China trying to get 'herd immunity' across their one billion whatever population I wonder?!
    Because there is no evidence that it will work, it is dangerous making assumptions on the basis of flu like corona virus results.

    SARS (2003) still has no vacine. Exposure acquired antibody immunity for SARS 1, had disappeared in most cases after 3 years.


    SARS 2 COVID-19 is probably going to yield results closers to SARS 1 than to flu like corona virus results. Hopefully it won't but there is as yet no evidence to support that hope.


  • #3588
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,856 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Cork Boy 53 wrote: »
    Which was supposed to be put aside in case of a hard Brexit. Well so much for that.

    Brexit is the least of anyones worries at the moment


  • #3589
    ACitizenErased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,750 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    I feel safe in the hands of these lads tbh. They know what they're doing.


  • #3590
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,019 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    fritzelly wrote: »
    Dr Tony is coming across far better the past few days - more confident and at ease with the questions

    He along with the government in fairness have been doing a great job( I know some people won’t praise politicians regardless) but they are trying.


  • #3591
    Get Real
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 952 ✭✭✭Get Real


    Strazdas wrote: »
    The Taoiseach did say he doesn't see any need for 'quarantine' : he anticipates people will be allowed leave their houses no matter what

    Dr Holohan saying the exact same thing now

    Tomorrow is forecast as cloudy and dry. I don't see the need at the moment for my umbrella.

    The only way to release the plan, if it's to go that far, is gradually.

    That said I think they're doing a great job. And I wouldn't be a fan.


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  • #3592
    Mervyn Skidmore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,210 ✭✭✭Mervyn Skidmore


    jam83 wrote: »
    Doesn't mean they were anything other than mild though?

    They might have been mild but showing symptoms.


  • #3593
    threeball
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,778 ✭✭✭threeball


    beggars_bush wrote: »
    Last time something like this hit Ireland was 1918

    Doesn't matter. We're faced with it now. All the experience in the world won't matter if we eradicate it on the island only for it to come back repeatedly.


  • #3594
    lbj666
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,027 ✭✭✭lbj666


    shoppergal wrote: »
    They said 33% of the first 150 or so cases were in 25-44 age range. Holy crap!!

    If it was a higher proportion I'd be happy, we have a better chance of dealing with it without burdening the health service. It's why "oldies indoors" is imminent in the uk


  • #3595
    Hobgoblin11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Hobgoblin11


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    I feel safe in the hands of these lads tbh. They know what they're doing.

    tell me that in retrospect sometime in the future and I will believe you then

    Dundalk, Co. Louth



  • #3596
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    twirlagig wrote: »
    What did Tony Holohan reply with to the question of fees for ringing your GP? I didn’t catch it
    Discussions under way on it but dodged that question a little bit.


  • #3597
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,117 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    rossie1977 wrote: »
    Italy were deciding who lives and who dies

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  • #3598
    froog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,784 ✭✭✭froog


    i'm feeling less anxious today. i've just kind of come to terms with it. it will suck for a few weeks, probably even a few months then it will get better. china over the hump and i expect italy soon. our hump will come sooner then a lot of other countries it looks like and we can get it done with and get back to normality. and we will be mentally stronger after it.


  • #3599
    SeaBreezes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭SeaBreezes


    fisgon wrote: »
    It is because the world has transformed in the space of a few days. Humans are adaptable, but we are not capable of processing such a massive upturning of our whole world in 72 hours.

    We are very capable of adjusting and adapting. It's one of the strengths of being human.
    Look at how many people ARE self isolating.
    How many are prepared to lose financially to save lives.
    How many volunteering, coming back from retirement, working all hours to help strangers.
    The countries donating what they can to other countries to help.
    The businesses closing, to stop the virus even though they will lose the house but they love their elders more...

    I think it's a Buddha quote that says the miracle of life is not the 2% of violent/selfcenterd people it's the 98% of ordinary humans who spend day after day improving the lives of their neighbours and people in general. In tiny little ways that never make any papers or news..

    The irish excel at this. We are a warm hearted nation that will always put the vulnerable first. We have soul.

    Ignore the idiots on boards trolling the opposite.
    They are the minority and only trolling cause they have nothing else to fill the void.


  • #3600
    trapp
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 510 ✭✭✭trapp


    Lyanna Some Gut wrote: »
    Who is tucked up in bed? I've been making provisions for those closest to me. People have lived in communities together supporting each other, grown their own food, managed their own close-knit affairs for thousands of years. Electricity can be easily produced using renewable sources in this country. If you expect everyone to just embrace death and go out to catch this in the interest of protecting the status quo, then you're the one who needs to "get real", Yank.


    You're advocating the breakdown of civilisation and society there as an option.

    If everybody had your approach we'd be back living in the middle ages in 12 months.

    The biggest advantage we have in our lives is western society as we know it.


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  • #3601
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    fritzelly wrote: »
    Dr Tony is coming across far better the past few days - more confident and at ease with the questions

    Was thinking that too, I think its a learning curve too, we are all learning how this pandemic works.


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