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

Kaisr Sose wrote: »

Thats lot of car there. Are you sure its a Nurses car? Nurses are staff and have dedicated staff parking and exept from parking restrictions.

Not trying to belittle anyone here but that pic coiod be anybodies car. If it is a nurses car, I would expect they wont have to pay a relesse fee.

Looks like a 3 series? Not that much car.

fr336 wrote: »

Erm happy st Patrick's day guys

We've gone from pubs open on Good Friday, to pubs closed on St Patrick's Day!

Who says God doesn't have a sense of humour?!

fritzelly wrote: »

I'm outta the loop on this - whats the joke?

Watch the film Castaway

tom1ie wrote: »

I am not quite sure you understand what I’m saying.
China gears back up and the lockdown is lifted, workers get infected again. We are back to square one.
You say once it peaks it does not have the same rate, that depends on two things,
1 people can’t be reinfected due to developing immunity. We don’t know the answer to this, there are reports from China and Japan of re infections.
2 China locked Wuhan the epicentre down. This curtailed the spread massively, hence if it kicked off again with new infections, would they catch it in time? Possibly?

Who’s to say this is not perpetual? Until a vaccine is created there is no natural immunity.

Last question: what are you on about?

China has a massive testing program in place , tracking people according to risk and the society is well prepared . It will not kick off large scale again in China rest assured.

skimpydoo wrote: »

A quick question for you all. A friend of mine was out jogging earlier and a neighbour of his was out walking his dog. He crossed the road and talks to mate. He mentions he is supposed to be in self isolation as his mother is in hospital with Covid-19. The guy is coughing too so mate says he has to go. My mate is wondering if he should call the guards? He thinks if he does this guy might retaliate.

Thats North Korea level stuff right there.

TSQ wrote: »

I am puzzled... your business has imploded (so has mine), so have you stopped working? In which case, how can your wife afford to give up working? What does she think?

Little apples will grow again. It’s not as though we are totally broke either. Just under pressure (could last 6 months on rations). What’s the point in her working if we are both dead ? Serious question btw.

skimpydoo wrote: »

A quick question for you all. A friend of mine was out jogging earlier and a neighbour of his was out walking his dog. He crossed the road and talks to mate. He mentions he is supposed to be in self isolation as his mother is in hospital with Covid-19. The guy is coughing too so mate says he has to go. My mate is wondering if he should call the guards? He thinks if he does this guy might retaliate.

At least maybe HSE or local GP for advice

forgodssake wrote: »

Anyone else feel like we are living in a virtual reality or some kind of nightmare at the moment. Life has changed so so much over the last few days ...and become so precious to those of us who think we invincible.

Anyone a mild case of anxious depressive, suddenly feeling like the world around them has, as if by magic, been starting to sync up with how they are feeling all of the time..?

Naggdefy wrote: »

You too Liz. Try your best not to worry, it's one of our big foes now

You spoke about pleuracy, I'm similar had pneumonia and like you have asthma and a weak enough immune system.

It is hard not to worry, I have taken a few anixcalm everyone take care

dalyboy wrote: »

Little apples will grow again. It’s not as though we are totally broke either. Just under pressure (could last 6 months on rations). What’s the point in her working if we are both dead ? Serious question btw.

Your chances of dying are extremely low. Hers even moreso. Look at the figures of deaths in Italy in your age range, its tiny. Then take in to consideration that in that population there are people with CF, very severe lung issues and late stage cancer who are most likely the ones who succumb to this disease. I'm not saying you won't get sick but I think perspective is important as stressing yourself out is more damaging than anything else.

rob316 wrote: »

Its really not. You can't live forever, reaching that age anything all could get you.

It is. And it's wrong.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/lifeexpectancies/bulletins/nationallifetablesunitedkingdom/2016to2018

"UK life expectancy at age 90 years saw little change from figures seen in 2015 to 2017, and remained at 4.1 years for males, and 4.6 years for females. "

You're just writing off that 4.1/4.6 extra years of life. I'd bet any money if you were 90 you'd rather live those years than be written off as on the way out anyway.

ITman88 wrote: »

You are incredibly optimistic of the simplicity of the economic situation.
The virus will die off anyway it always does

Yes it will die off and again unless everyone is tee-total or never again tries to do any DIY jobs, the bar work and DIY work will return again.

Griffin Tasteless Floor wrote: »

It has been theorised by lots of posters that the really bad dose doing the rounds in December and early January might have been the virus.

I haven't seen proof that it was or that it wasn't. That dose was rampant and seemed to be plenty worse than a cold for most. There was a thread on here and all about it.

Maybe the high pneumonia death rates for at risk groups were only noticed when it hit a very dense population like China. China having been through SARS paid attention and discovered it was a new coronavirus.

You'll remember the hospitals here were overrun and many restrictions in place for what was reported as a particularly bad flu season.

I know a few people myself who were hospitalised but recovered eventually.

It would be good news really if it was because it would mean loads of us already had it, but probably wishful thinking. .

I think there's no possibility that anyone here had Covid-19 in Dec / early Jan.

The influenza-like illness incidence from late 2019 to early 2020 correlates strongly with detection rates of influenza viruses, in Ireland principally type A H3N2 before Jan and more recently tybe B. The HSE briefing last month also told us that there weren't an unusual number of hospitalisations due to flu this year.

There are differences in the pathology between Covid-19 and influenza infections that would be picked up if people had Covid-19. Covid-19 more often leads to acute respiratory distress and has distinctive features seen on autopsy, including e.g. the formation of multinucleated giant cells due to cellular fusion. This was seen in SARS, and has now also been reported also for Covid-19, but it is not a feature of influenza.

The genome sequences of all the viral isolated all collapse back to an origin dated to November / December 2019. The earliest samples from Wuhan have the same genome sequence as this predicted original sequence, while sequences isolated later show increasing divergence over time. This all gives clear evidence that the virus originated in Wuhan in late 2019.

If anyone involved in infectious disease control anywhere thought there was even a remote possibility that the SARS-CoV-2 virus did not first appear in Wuhan in late 2019, reaching Europe from January onwards, they could look at samples from earlier to see if they test positive for the virus, or for antibodies to it. The fact that no-one is even considering doing this anywhere tells us that they don't believe that SARS-CoV-2 was present outside China in December 2019.