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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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  • #4022
    sonofenoch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,502 ✭✭✭sonofenoch


    Makes you think, we might feel fit and healthy but do we all really know what 'underlying problem' we might have

    https://twitter.com/FutbolBible/status/1239613119858606081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1239613119858606081&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waccoe.com%2Findex.php%3Fapp%3Dcore%26module%3Dsystem%26controller%3Dembed%26url%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Ffutbolbible%2Fstatus%2F1239613119858606081%3Fs%3D21


  • #4023
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,448 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    WhiteMemento9 wrote: »
    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. He has been everything you would want in the current situation. Well done to him.

    And the fact he has an autoimmune problem, genuine hats off to him. Gone way up in my estimation.


  • #4024
    Jinglejangle69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,124 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    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.

    Ah jesus for once just give it over.


  • #4025
    amacca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,264 ✭✭✭amacca


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

    She is in a shed or a sauna or something

    Isolating because of contact with an infected person or posturing....no one has confirmed

    One poster thinks she looks like a 200 euro hooker....a large amount of posters disagree with this point of view myself included ...

    there all caught up.


  • #4026
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,788 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


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

    My old man the same, he’s going bananas... can’t fathom not being able to go to mass and stopping for a yap and tea after, the mother won’t let him out for a walk because “do not stop and talk to anyone” is not a task he’d be able to manage without supervision....


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  • #4027
    RandomName2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭RandomName2


    Wibbs wrote: »
    No offence TC, but maybe "just stop" and think yourself because you're posting some "clueless" material yourself.

    1) That link to the CT lung damage is of patients during the progress of the disease. It's not a month after. Some may have reduced lung function, but we don't know how many or how severe. We simply don't know yet.

    2) From what we know of other coronoviruses in humans(and there are a lot of them) people do acquire immunity after infection. That includes MERS and SARS. To that strain at least and if the virus doesn't mutate much, some immunity to new strains. Again it's early days and talk of limited or no immunity is down to people apparently becoming reinfected, but more and more it looks more like they have a relapse from the original infection because they haven' fully cleared the virus from their bodies. Again we simply don't know yet.


    I think that Boris Johnson's 'infect 30 million Britons' strategy is pretty weak.

    You have to have 3 absolutely huge assumptions
    1. That having the virus will grant long-term immunity
    2. That the roughly 15-20% of people who require hospitalization will not have permanent damage.
    3. That the health service will be able to cope with this volume of patients in the first place

    We saw a previous pandemic, in 1918, where the second wave was worse than the first. So much for so-called 'herd immunity' there. There is also evidence with SARS, and with the current virus, that lasting damage may be present. In terms of long-term immunity, we get about a 1 year immunity for the coronovirus influenza after being infected, and about a 1 month immunity from the coronovirus of the common cold after being infected, so there's no particular grounds to assume permanent immunization for the covid-19 corronovirus, at all.

    It would be much better to try and rid ourselves of the virus altogether, and only fall back on these sort of ideas as a fallback, if necessary.


  • #4028
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    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.

    At the minute the only thing I am worrying about is this absolutely nightmare crisis. It is consuming and impacting negatively every facet of our lives by the day, by the hour.

    He, the interim Govt and the Dept of Health are doing a good job in the fight against it and they have my backing.

    Whatever they say I will adhere and respect it.


  • #4029
    This is it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,109 ✭✭✭This is it


    glasso wrote: »
    grim sh1t in Italy.


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

    Awful :(


  • #4030
    Mam of 4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,915 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


    glasso wrote: »
    grim sh1t in Italy.


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

    That's heartbreaking :(


  • #4031
    Lundstram
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭Lundstram


    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    At the minute the only thing I am worrying about is this absolutely nightmare crisis. It is consuming and impacting negatively every facet of our lives by the day.

    He, the interim Govt and the Dept of Health are doing a good job in the fight against it and they have my backing.
    But Blueshoe thinks he's sh1te. Harris should IMO resign in light of this news.


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  • #4032
    Gods Gift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,713 ✭✭✭Gods Gift


    Simon Harris is doin a good job given the circumstances.

    He’s on the way out so he’s nothing to lose and can speak his mind and take no ****.


  • #4033
    ricero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,348 ✭✭✭✭ricero


    Harris couldn't help but be smarmy


  • #4034
    YFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    The host on Claire Byrne show putting her fingers to her mouth.


  • #4035
    MD1990
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,740 ✭✭✭✭MD1990


    doctor from the states acting a bit of a prick there


  • #4036
    Gods Gift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,713 ✭✭✭Gods Gift


    That wallpaper is Fuken shocking missus.


  • #4037
    bekker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 912 ✭✭✭bekker


    amacca wrote: »
    She is in a shed or a sauna or something

    Isolating because of contact with an infected person or posturing....no one has confirmed

    One poster thinks she looks like a 200 euro hooker....a large amount of posters disagree with this point of view myself included ...

    there all caught up.
    Where can you get a €200 hooker that looks like that?


  • #4038
    Cork Boy 53
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


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

    Self isolating due to being in contact with a confirmed case.


  • #4039
    tigger123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,594 ✭✭✭tigger123


    That Doctor made an embarrassment of himself.


  • #4040
    cnocbui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,027 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Cilldara_2000 wrote: »
    I don't believe that the tech multinationals are going to pull out if there's a lock down. Where else will they get an English speaking country in the EU?

    But your point is still nonsense: https://data.oecd.org/tax/tax-on-corporate-profits.htm#indicator-chart

    In each year since 2014 we are well above the OECD average percentage of total tax take that comes from corporation tax.

    You have fallen for the massive flaw in using GDP as a measure of irish finances and taxation. Ireland's GDP is massively inflated because it measures the economic activity of all those giant US multinationals that are located here and use Ireland's favourable corporate taxation to funnel EU derived income through Ireland.
    https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/ireland-s-gdp-figures-why-26-economic-growth-is-a-problem-1.2722170

    Look up the term Leprechaun economics in wikipedia - coined by a Nobel prize wining economist.

    If you look at the Tax Foundations tax competitiveness index and their rating for corporate taxation, Ireland comes fifth - that's not fifth highest, that's fifth lowest: https://files.taxfoundation.org/20190930115625/2019-International-Tax-Competitiveness-Index.pdf

    For 2019, 12.2% of Irish government revenue was from Corporation tax. We provide the other 87.8%


  • #4041
    forgodssake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 790 ✭✭✭forgodssake


    namloc1980 wrote: »
    And the fact he has an autoimmune problem, genuine hats off to him. Gone way up in my estimation.

    People just need to stop the bashing of who they blame or who they like. We're all in this together . Get a ****ing grip .


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  • #4042
    dastardly00
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,569 ✭✭✭✭dastardly00


    Dr. Ed O'Reilly came across as an absolute d*ck


  • #4043
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    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.

    Name me a Minister for Health that has done a good job?


  • #4044
    Phibsboro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,376 ✭✭✭Phibsboro


    bekker wrote: »
    Exposure to a confirmed case maybe?

    No, she specifically said said she is following hse advice to self isolate as she has the symptoms of a cold. The advice is not that. In fact, sneezing/running nose is specifically excluded from the possible symptoms of COVID-19. We are going to have half the country self isolating on that basis. Which is possibly where we'll be by the end of the week so maybe a moot point!


  • #4045
    cloudatlas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,711 ✭✭✭cloudatlas


    Many people on here are talking about how the U.K. have got it wrong. The U.S. are beyond ****ked when you listen to what the giant wotsit is saying and how all the states are completely out of sync on this thing.


  • #4046
    bottlebrush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,215 ✭✭✭bottlebrush


    Can these questions not be addressed off air especially that doctor fella nearly wanting a signed contract


  • #4047
    giveitholly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,221 ✭✭✭giveitholly


    ricero wrote: »
    Harris couldn't help but be smarmy

    Ah will u stop,what else was he supposed to say live on tv,can u imagine the pressure he is on and one wrong word and everyone would be ready to jump down his throat


  • #4048
    This is it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,109 ✭✭✭This is it


    What did he say? Missed it


  • #4049
    YFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    MD1990 wrote: »
    doctor from the states acting a bit of a prick there

    He is right.


  • #4050
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,448 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    tigger123 wrote: »
    That Doctor made an embarrassment of himself.

    He had made his point. Repeating it was unnecessary.


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  • #4051
    cosanostra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 886 ✭✭✭cosanostra


    amacca wrote: »
    She is in a shed or a sauna or something

    Isolating because of contact with an infected person or posturing....no one has confirmed

    One poster thinks she looks like a 200 euro hooker....a large amount of posters disagree with this point of view myself included ...

    there all caught up.

    She said at the beginning that she has the cold and contacted her GP, in the mean time shes gone in to isolation


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