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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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  • #3992
    SharpshooterTom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭SharpshooterTom


    Approximately 700 are dying per day because of this virus. At least that's the rate of the past two days.

    If you were to replicate over the next 365 days (as there surely will be no vaccine still) that would leave approximately leave 250,000 dead.

    Again it's important to remember the 2009 flu pandemic killed 150,000-575,000 worldwide and AIDS killed 32 million in the 20th century. So deaths wise this isn't anything we've not seen before. The problem is unlike all those other pandemics the economic fallout is going to be much much worse.


  • #3993
    Cuckoo7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 235 ✭✭Cuckoo7


    pH wrote: »
    That's hardly 'packed'. And it looks spotlessly clean - good job Madrid Metro!

    I'm sure you you could have take a very similar picture on the LUAS or DART this morning, what's your point?
    Was it you who posted an old pic of Madrid Metro and pretended it was taken today?
    Because that’s what I’m referring to.


  • #3994
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,723 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Trying to watch Claire Byrne, but fkn ell if that RTE player isn't bloody shite.


  • #3995
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    owlbethere wrote: »
    That looks like pig on a spit. It's different.


    Bat is disgusting. Bats are wild, they fly and swoop and carry disease.

    The pigs would fly too if they had wings.:D

    Also pork is full of tapeworm eggs.

    flying-pig-1.jpg


  • #3996
    Lundstram
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭Lundstram


    Class MayDresser wrote: »
    Toolman Tim retired.
    Tim the Toolman Taylor.

    Get it right.


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  • #3997
    radiotrickster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 923 ✭✭✭radiotrickster


    splinter65 wrote: »
    She can certainly go to see her family if she’s terribly upset but it will depend on wether the UK is accepting any visitors from abroad at that stage and even if they are id certainly hope that at that stage we won’t accept her return.
    Sometimes all your wants can’t be met.

    Thanks for this. They were meant to go back last weekend too but didn’t. I guess with Mother’s Day coming up, it’s a tough few weeks to be away for them.

    I’ve been thinking for weeks that the airports should shut so it’s very mixed feelings in our house!


  • #3998
    Gods Gift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,713 ✭✭✭Gods Gift


    Claire could be in the dog house.

    Naughty


  • #3999
    Jinglejangle69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,124 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    The 20,000 returning from Spain by Thursday is gonna be interesting to say the least.


  • #4000
    Kermit.de.frog
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    WTAF :eek:

    https://twitter.com/hancocktom/status/1239669605586604032


  • #4001
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,962 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    grim sh1t in Italy.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfkbv_WQtn0


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  • #4002
    tigger123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,594 ✭✭✭tigger123


    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    Good man Simon Harris when talking about mortgage payments, loans etc

    "The people of the country were very good to the banks. They need to show some cop on and help people out"

    He was very, very strong on how the banks need to step up. Fair play to him!


  • #4003
    leavingirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 551 ✭✭✭leavingirl


    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    Good man Simon Harris when talking about mortgage payments, loans etc

    "The people of the country were very good to the banks. They need to show some cop on and help people out"

    Reaction from the Rothschild bankers:


  • #4004
    Class MayDresser
    Closed Accounts Posts: 395 ✭✭Class MayDresser


    Lundstram wrote: »
    Tim the Toolman Taylor.

    Get it right.

    Ah Christ I must have Altimers.


  • #4005
    Shn99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,353 ✭✭✭Shn99


    Only tuning into CB live now, why is she away from the studio?


  • #4006
    Blueshoe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    Good man Simon Harris when talking about mortgage payments, loans etc

    "The people of the country were very good to the banks. They need to show some cop on and help people out"

    Simon Harris is not s good man. He is a man who still only holds his job due to this crisis.

    He was a failure before this crisis and will continue to be a failure throughout.


  • #4007
    phobia2011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,300 ✭✭✭phobia2011


    Must say, I’m happy with the response of our government good to see them taking it serious and being proactive, thank fcuk we don’t have Borris manning the wheel!


  • #4008
    Gods Gift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,713 ✭✭✭Gods Gift


    Shn99 wrote: »
    Only tuning into CB live now, why is she away from the studio?

    WFH


  • #4009
    tigger123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,594 ✭✭✭tigger123


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    Simon Harris is not s good man. He is a man who still only holds his job due to this crisis.

    He was a failure before this crisis and will continue to be a failure throughout.

    He holds his job because the next government hasnt been formed yet. Nothing to do with Covid 19.


  • #4010
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    If she's in isolation who's behind the camera.

    Do you need a camera operator for a camera that does not move?


  • #4011
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91,093 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    is_that_so wrote: »
    They'll be up to over 30 test centres by the end of the week or early next week.

    I think every city and large county town should have at least one of those drive thru testing centre
    https://forumofgames.com/




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  • #4012
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,622 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Just off camera in shed



    o-BDSM-570.jpg?7


  • #4013
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,788 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    What’s Biddy from Glenroe aka Mary McEvoy doing on RTÉ discussing COVID ?


  • #4014
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    Are people not able to spend a few weeks at home without seeing their friends? Seriously, they all have phones now.


  • #4015
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,447 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    Shn99 wrote: »
    Only tuning into CB live now, why is she away from the studio?

    She's in self isolation.


  • #4016
    WhiteMemento9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,575 ✭✭✭WhiteMemento9


    Lundstram wrote: »
    Harris speaking very well. He's not sparing the banks anyway.

    He has been bloody amazing today. Both in the press briefer and that interview. No BS, fully informed and gives clear, consise and straight answers while pulling no punches. He has been everything you would want in the current situation. Well done to him.


  • #4017
    Shn99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,353 ✭✭✭Shn99


    namloc1980 wrote: »
    She's in self isolation.

    Christ, was she a close contact of the canteen worker in the donnybrook studio?


  • #4018
    jos28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,246 ✭✭✭jos28


    Have to agree with other posters about Simon Harris tonight. He was very clear, concise and compassionate. On a personal level he must be exhausted, I would not want his job for any amount of money.


  • #4019
    bekker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 912 ✭✭✭bekker


    Shn99 wrote: »
    Only tuning into CB live now, why is she away from the studio?
    See 'Search this thread above' , enter Claire Byrne.

    This is a general comment, not aimed at you specifically.

    She's in isolation.


  • #4020
    smelly sock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭smelly sock


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    Simon Harris is not s good man. He is a man who still only holds his job due to this crisis.

    He was a failure before this crisis and will continue to be a failure throughout.

    Ok. Helpful.


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  • #4021
    ressem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,427 ✭✭✭ressem


    SuperTortoise wrote: »
    The largest economy in the world shut it's self down for 2 months to fight a virus that largely kills the elderly, and it would appear to be winning that fight, they posted a lower infection rate today than we did despit them no doubt testing thousands more people.
    We in the western world are too selfish to do the same, we love our sky sports and a few jars on the weekend to much.


    You'll be an old man one day too.

    Not to mention long-term respiratory damage to many survivors.
    Uncertain as of yet about percentages.
    https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3074988/coronavirus-some-recovered-patients-may-have wrote:
    Some patients who recovered from Covid-19 have suffered reduced lung function and now experience problems such as gasping for air when walking quickly, Hong Kong’s Hospital Authority has revealed.
    The authority released its findings on Thursday after observing the first group of discharged coronavirus patients.
    The city has so far recorded 131 confirmed cases of Covid-19, including three fatalities. Of them, 74 patients have been discharged while one probable coronavirus case has also recovered.
    Dr Owen Tsang Tak-yin, medical director of the authority’s Infectious Disease Centre at Princess Margaret Hospital in Kwai Chung, said doctors had already seen around a dozen discharged patients in follow-up appointments. Two to three were unable to do things as they had in the past.

    “They gasp if they walk a bit more quickly,” Tsang told a media briefing on Thursday. “Some patients might have around a drop of 20 to 30 per cent in lung function [after recovery].”
    Tsang, who also heads an authority task force on the clinical management of infection, said these patients would undergo tests to determine how much lung function they still had. Physiotherapy would also be arranged to strengthen their lungs.
    A review of lung scans of nine infected patients at Princess Margaret found patterns similar to frosted glass in all of them, suggesting there was organ damage.


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