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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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  • #3722
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    smelly sock wrote: »
    So the hospitality trade isnt essential to the economy.

    Ffs.

    You don't care about the hospitality trade.:rolleyes:

    And no it is not essential in the short term jobs will be lost but people are being hired for medical care those roles are essential.


    Hospitality trade do you mean tourism?:rolleyes:

    I think it just a load of brain dead selfish pricks who just want to get pissed.
    Apart from speeding up the spread mindless fu*ktards drunk filling up the A&E at the weekends giving abuse to the staff is not what we need right now.


  • #3723
    Larbre34
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,459 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    wotzgoingon wrote: »
    I think I have Corona Virus. I've been sick the past few days. But thinking about it further I probably have a normal flu.

    Well you're not going to be enlightened in here.

    If you feel you could infect other people, or have dependents that may need the increased support payment, get a test. Otherwise isolate yourself and see what happens.


  • #3724
    gabeeg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭gabeeg


    Strazdas wrote: »
    That doesn't seem to be the case. If there was zero immunity, you would probably see 30m people in Italy with the virus. Why isn't that happening?

    Because we don't have accurate figures from Italy on how many people have it.

    That's not what the testing is for. You should be getting this by now.


  • #3725
    cnocbui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,025 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    New Home wrote: »
    Has this been posted yet? If it hasn't, it's about time it did. If it has, then a reminder won't go astray.

    WARNING: Strong language

    Classic Australian humour. :)


  • #3726
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,118 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    RogerThis wrote: »
    Going by Leo's 30% increase per day, 38 days to go before everyone in Ireland getting it.

    More like 3 weeks using your analogy, but it will plateau well before that as you won't be infecting your social circle anymore
    Why they won't predict that far out


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  • #3727
    Blueshoe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    jill_valentine wrote: »
    Somebody has to handle payments to Medtronic. I'd guess their payroll might be outsourced. They'll have land and sea shipping companies to work through. Their IT must be furnished somehow. Etc etc etc

    Every office I know that's still open has sanitiser stations and some attempt at social distancing underway. None of that is happening in a pub.

    Italy, France etc are wrong then. Lockdown not required. There is hand sanitizer in the office. Insanity


  • #3728
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,458 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    fritzelly wrote: »
    Not a great time to be a man - were all these skiing trips boys schools?

    DccpjL7.jpg
    Them Greens get everywhere.....


  • #3729
    Monkeynut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 655 ✭✭✭Monkeynut


    shoppergal wrote: »
    Apologies I'm sure this has been asked already but is everyone who gets this being admitted to hospital? We have 3 small kids, what if my husband and I both get it? Grandparents obviously wouldn't be able to come and mind them.


    You try sit it out in your home. If both adults caught it too. Good chance the kids have it too.


    If both have to go to hospital if it worsens .
    I'm not sure about that.

    Other family members. Neighbours.
    A place for temp kids care?????


  • #3730
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    smelly sock wrote: »
    So the hospitality trade isnt essential to the economy.

    Ffs.

    Apt name, your posts have a tendency to stink up the place.


  • #3731
    cosanostra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 886 ✭✭✭cosanostra


    shoppergal wrote: »
    Apologies I'm sure this has been asked already but is everyone who gets this being admitted to hospital? We have 3 small kids, what if my husband and I both get it? Grandparents obviously wouldn't be able to come and mind them.

    Most people don't even know they have it and somewhere around 80% don't require hospitalisation so don't worry about it but at the same time practice hand washing, social distancing and only make necessary journeys cause you could spread it to someone you will suffer badly


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  • #3732
    Harper Mealy Frisbee
    Posts: 13,688 ✭✭✭✭ Harper Mealy Frisbee


    Cork Boy 53 wrote: »
    Full lockdown was enforced in China. Contrast that to what`s happening in Italy and Spain. We are going to be as bad if not worse than those 2 countries.

    Why?


  • #3733
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    He has a point
    Infections will continue to increase then. That's the trade off. To stop infections spreading everywhere must close. Closing pubs but leaving offices open will make zero difference to stoping soread

    So you want the offices closed?:D


    Or the PUBS open?

    Let me guess.


  • #3734
    2Mad2BeMad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,792 ✭✭✭2Mad2BeMad


    why are the brits conference meetings called (Cobra) all I keep thinking of is evil men plotting against the world. Like out of G.I Joe


  • #3735
    skepticalme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 229 ✭✭skepticalme


    bottlebrush wrote: »
    Live in the Midlands too. Have been wondering if there are no cases or are they absorbed into west/east/south depending on how close the counties are to these regions

    There are cases in the Midlands eg A case in Mullingar is called a case in the East


  • #3736
    Imreoir2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭Imreoir2


    rossie1977 wrote: »
    32% growth rate is not good.

    We are at China daily growth levels now pre lock-down

    Of course we are, what makes you think it would travel more slowly in Ireland than in China? We are just as human as they are.

    We only implemented control measures a few days ago and if anything we still need to implement more stringent measures. It took two weeks for the lockdown to bear fruit in China because of the lenght of the incubation period for the disease. You can be sure that it will take just as long here. The numbers will continue to go up relentlessly for the next two weeks, what we do now will be seen in two weeks time.

    The little bollixes that continued to go to the pub even while the country was adopting control measures are the reason that our efforts will be less effective than China's, but even so they should result in a significant slow down in growth by April.


  • #3737
    rob316
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,670 ✭✭✭✭rob316


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    He has a point
    Infections will continue to increase then. That's the trade off. To stop infections spreading everywhere must close. Closing pubs but leaving offices open will make zero difference to stoping soread

    We have an economy built flimsly on a corporation tax rate. If you start shutting down those large multinationals we will not have the resources to fight this to save anyone.

    How the **** can people not get that through there heads. Do you live in a bubble where no one works is it?


  • #3738
    smelly sock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭smelly sock


    amadangomor wrote: »
    Apt name, your posts have a tendency to stink up the place.

    So its not essential? Yes or no.

    I agree with pubs shutting btw.

    Offices should be too though.


  • #3739
    TSQ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 283 ✭✭TSQ


    Just wondering.... several friends had severe respiratory illness just before and after new year, not flu related. Prescribed antibiotics and steroids, but apart from being told it was a respiratory infection they werent really told what it was. They dont know each other so didnt catch it off each other, and in fact anecdotally seems lots of people had the same symptoms around that time. Has corona actually been in Ireland since last December?


  • #3740
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,117 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1239631056581668867


  • #3741
    niallo27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,137 ✭✭✭✭niallo27


    gabeeg wrote: »
    Because we don't have accurate figures from Italy on how many people have it.

    That's not what the testing is for. You should be getting this by now.
    Isnt that a good thing though, if millions have it and a thousand are dieing. Then numbers are fantastic.


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  • #3742
    beggars_bush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,904 ✭✭✭beggars_bush


    2Mad2BeMad wrote: »
    why are the brits conference meetings called (Cobra) all I keep thinking of is evil men plotting against the world. Like out of G.I Joe

    They all think they are in james bond


  • #3743
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,447 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    Still baffled by the run on jacks roll.


  • #3744
    Nonoperational
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭Nonoperational


    Mellor wrote: »
    If operating theatres are turned into makeshift beds. That will cause a knock on increase in non-covid deaths. That’s the reality of health services being stretched. Everyone receives less care.

    Of course. Essential surgery will still have to be done. Non essential surgery that is postponed will make waiting lists even worse but nothing we can do.


    The overall number of positives is not really what's important. Far more interesting metrics are the % that test positive and the number in ICU. 6 out of 223 is low but cases tend to disimprove and need ICU from day 5 on. So early days.

    From a doctor point of view the HSE and hospitals have put together some unbelievable resources. I'm sat here reading COVID information for the past few hours and the amount of resources that have been shared with us in the past few days is brilliant.


  • #3745
    Ger Roe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,193 ✭✭✭Ger Roe


    COBRA meetings - It's not as James Bond as you might think.

    Cabinet Office Briefing Room A - it's where the meetings are held.


  • #3746
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,374 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    2Mad2BeMad wrote: »
    why are the brits conference meetings called (Cobra) all I keep thinking of is evil men plotting against the world. Like out of G.I Joe

    Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms, that boring.


  • #3747
    beggars_bush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,904 ✭✭✭beggars_bush


    TSQ wrote: »
    Just wondering.... several friends had severe respiratory illness just before and after new year, not flu related. Prescribed antibiotics and steroids, but apart from being told it was a respiratory infection they werent really told what it was. They dont know each other so didnt catch it off each other, and in fact anecdotally seems lots of people had the same symptoms around that time. Has corona actually been in Ireland since last December?

    Could well have been
    We don't know


  • #3748
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,045 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1239631056581668867

    Rob will be disgusted what about the sacred economy?


    Write off the elderly and keep all services working!


  • #3749
    gabeeg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭gabeeg


    niallo27 wrote: »
    Isnt that a good thing though, if millions have it and a thousand are dieing. Then numbers are fantastic.

    You may not have noticed, but they haven't finished dying


  • #3750
    cnocbui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,025 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    smelly sock wrote: »
    So the hospitality trade isnt essential to the economy.

    Ffs.

    No, it really isn't, unless you are a brain damaged alcoholic, in which case it probably is.


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  • #3751
    beggars_bush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,904 ✭✭✭beggars_bush


    Ger Roe wrote: »
    COBRA meetings - It's not as James Bond as you might think.

    Cabinet Office Briefing Room A - it's where the meetings are held.

    So if it's held in room B it ruins the acronym?


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