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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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  • #4682
    Blanco100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,933 ✭✭✭Blanco100


    any sign of advertisements for this national recruitment drive?


  • #4683
    Lashes28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭Lashes28


    Jin luk wrote: »
    My town,

    30tests done yesterday

    A good few of them showing respiratory symptoms,

    Source: gp fb page a full update is being giving daily from the doctor.

    What's the GPS page?


  • #4684
    kingshankly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,015 ✭✭✭kingshankly


    NasserShammaz wrote: »
    Why isn't this gob**** helping in a hospital helping out instead of being on a ****ing TV show with that diease piers Morgan. ****ing coward

    In fairness to him he’s been the main voice of reason in Uk against Uk strategy


  • #4685
    Jin luk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 389 ✭✭Jin luk


    Lashes28 wrote: »
    What's the GPS page?

    Carrickmacross gp


  • #4686
    Volthar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭Volthar


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I was in Lidl after work last night and while it was quiet and i only had a small basket , a rather large stressed woman dumped a trolley load of shopping right behind me and bumped into me a few times while doing so ! There was no need as the cashiers were all free.

    I then went to top up my gas in local newsagent , I was the only Customer until a man came in behind me , picked up a bar or chocolate then almost stood on top of me !! Even without Coronavirus it was far too close ! I turned around and glared at him and he moved back one step :mad:


    Maybe people just aren’t thinking ........

    Same happened to me in Dunnes and then at the post office. I am almost sure wearing a mask would freak people out so they will keep their distance but, sadly, I do not have any. Perhaps wearing one of them bandana scarves with skull pattern would work. No on the actual virus but on people not keeping their distance.


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  • #4687
    2xj3hplqgsbkym
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭2xj3hplqgsbkym


    spookwoman wrote: »
    Romania records are great
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Romania

    Very informative details on how the cases spread. No deaths in Rpmania yet, so no details there on what I was asking about- ie cause of death. . However if/ when there are deaths there they will probably give details.


  • #4688
    ThePiedPiper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,643 ✭✭✭ThePiedPiper


    Iran has just temporarily freed 85,000 prisoners! Source: RTE

    That’s messed up


  • #4689
    frillyleaf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 801 ✭✭✭frillyleaf


    amadangomor wrote: »
    Maybe a little bit of realisation from the "fuk the economy brigade" that it is actually the economy operating that keeps food on people's tables and stops us being a small agrarian backwater where we have continually export our people.

    Probably won't happen but maybe Fine Gael will be given some credit for keeping the economy going when it was on its knees. They did get more than bit stale in the last few years but when it came to that huge threat to us back in 2009/10 and the huge threat now they have stood up.

    Do you really think there was not more that could be done to slow this down? There is still no flight restrictions, screening or any quarantine of people flying from I heavily infected areas.Completely reckless in my opinion but I could be wrong


  • #4690
    [Deleted User]
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    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Why does it take a crisis like this for the Gardai to set up a full time public order unit?

    This is a headline on RTE like it's some cosmic event...

    Because we don't need a full time public order unit.


  • #4691
    Nermal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,836 ✭✭✭Nermal


    pH wrote: »
    It envisages 18 months (but still no guarantees) of fighting the virus in waves, admitting that a soon as we leave lockdown another epidemic will arrive shortly thereafter.

    They do concede (however late) that this is still better than their original mitigation (R >1.0) strategy (aka 'flattening the curve') which now they've seen the impact this virus has on ICUs they say would result in hundreds of thousands of deaths.

    Hundreds of thousands of deaths - in the context of a population of nearly 80 million people - is preferable to huddling in the dark with our economy evaporating around us, waiting for a vaccine that may never come.


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  • #4692
    yourdeadwright
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,950 ✭✭✭✭yourdeadwright


    What's people thoguths on Coffee shops being open, is it ok to get a take away coffee


  • #4693
    GooglePlus
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    Going for a jog in a built up but relatively quiet area, yay or nay?

    Exercise is the best thing I can do for my immune system and I'm afraid that being immobile over the coming months will ruin it.


  • #4694
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    yourdeadwright wrote: »
    What's people thoguths on Coffee shops being open, is it ok to get a take away coffee

    Sure, get a nice K(or)ona coffee and forget everything for a while


  • #4695
    Jin luk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 389 ✭✭Jin luk


    bubblypop wrote: »
    Because we don't need a full time public order unit.

    Because we live to the law in this country absolute muck, should have 1 constantly.

    Mind u this 1 is around 100in numbers and going to be based only in dublin.


  • #4696
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,234 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Volthar wrote: »
    Same happened to me in Dunnes and then at the post office. I am almost sure wearing a mask would freak people out so they will keep their distance but, sadly, I do not have any. Perhaps wearing one of them bandana scarves with skull pattern would work. No on the actual virus but on people not keeping their distance.

    Make a tshirt mask. Put your head inside a tshirt, put the neck hole where your eyes are and tie the arms around the back.
    Won’t stop a single virus particle but could help with social distancing because you will look like a cross between a terrorist and a ninja

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • #4697
    Mrcaramelchoc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,795 ✭✭✭Mrcaramelchoc


    Brilliant idea..make the pricks work.

    https://news.expats.cz/coronavirus-in-the-czech-republic/czech-prisoners-have-started-making-face-masks-to-fill-short-supply-during-coronavirus-outbreak/


  • #4698
    Jin luk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 389 ✭✭Jin luk


    GooglePlus wrote: »
    Going for a jog in a built up but relatively quiet area, yay or nay?

    Exercise is the best thing I can do for my immune system and I'm afraid that being immobile over the coming months will ruin it.

    No symptoms then fine go ahead will be good,

    If any of ye get symptoms stop exercising seriously bad to do so.


  • #4699
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,117 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    bubblypop wrote: »
    Because we don't need a full time public order unit.

    People living in fear in certain working class areas/estates would strongly disagree with you.

    Still a positive is we might finally have some proper policing in the country.


  • #4700
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,234 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    yourdeadwright wrote: »
    What's people thoguths on Coffee shops being open, is it ok to get a take away coffee

    The cafe staff are high risk because they work facing the public all day, their equipment is shared amongst staff and they hardly disinfect the gear between every customer/staff member

    Then they hand you the coffee in a cup so any virus that was on their hands are on the cup that you are now holding...

    It’s not risk free

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • #4701
    Soulsun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 548 ✭✭✭Soulsun


    GooglePlus wrote: »
    Going for a jog in a built up but relatively quiet area, yay or nay?

    Exercise is the best thing I can do for my immune system and I'm afraid that being immobile over the coming months will ruin it.

    Don’t see the issue, doing similar myself unless told otherwise. Cabin fever!


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  • #4702
    Neamhshuntasach
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    Mrcaramelchoc wrote: »
    Brilliant idea..make the pricks work.

    https://news.expats.cz/coronavirus-in-the-czech-republic/czech-prisoners-have-started-making-face-masks-to-fill-short-supply-during-coronavirus-outbreak/

    Ah no. Set them free instead.


  • #4703
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,749 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    People living in fear in certain working class areas/estates would strongly disagree with you.

    Still a positive is we might finally have some proper policing in the country.

    The Gardai employed on public order duty, are a standby unit. If they are required they are called out. Otherwise, they sit waiting.
    Now, I don't think there is any need for 40/50 Gardai to be sitting around doing nothing on a Tuesday morning, just in case there is a riot situation.
    These Gardai are employed in normal active policing when not tied up for public order duty.

    So, why would we have a full time public order unit?


  • #4704
    MipMap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 435 ✭✭MipMap


    hairyslug wrote: »
    At my local Tesco, they have a line on the ground at the checkout than you can't pass until the person infront has paid and moved on. Have seem a few photos on the Twitter of signs outside Supervalus saying they will be limiting the numbers of people inside.




    This is excellent. The biggest pinch point in the supermarkets is at the checkouts. I really admire the checkout staff who cannot keep a decent distance from customers or avoid hand contact etc.,


  • #4705
    beggars_bush
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    bubblypop wrote: »
    The Gardai employed on public order duty, are a standby unit. If they are required they are called out. Otherwise, they sit waiting.
    Now, I don't think there is any need for 40/50 Gardai to be sitting around doing nothing on a Tuesday morning, just in case there is a riot situation.
    These Gardai are employed in normal active policing when not tied up for public order duty.

    So, why would we have a full time public order unit?

    Because there are groups of feral teenagers and scumbags out to cause trouble

    Is some gardai will be very eager to beat a few heads


  • #4706
    BluePlanet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,444 ✭✭✭BluePlanet


    Fast-track testing would be a godsend right now.
    Could have a quarantine staging area for arrivals at airports.
    People disembark, get tested and then wait an hour or so for results before being allowed in.
    But thinking about it I suppose this wouldn't stop new infections that occur on the flight.
    Need to get that incubation period down...


  • #4707
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,032 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    People living in fear in certain working class areas/estates would strongly disagree with you.

    Still a positive is we might finally have some proper policing in the country.

    Nabbing them is one thing, the soft touch justice system is where it falls down.
    Underage? Unless its murder, a stern finger wagging and that's about it.


  • #4708
    TheAsYLuMkeY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 634 ✭✭✭TheAsYLuMkeY


    MipMap wrote: »
    This is excellent. The biggest pinch point in the supermarkets is at the checkouts. I really admire the checkout staff who cannot keep a decent distance from customers or avoid hand contact etc.,

    Supervalu ballaghadereen for nearly two weeks now have,

    Sanitising wipes at entry to clean your trolley handle
    Hand sanitiser at entry point
    Perspex shield in front of checkout staff
    Checkout staff all wearing gloves
    Marking on floor at checkout for at least the first person unpacking their goods given distance


  • #4709
    Ashes11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2 ✭Ashes11


    Hi guys,

    My mum works in a supermarket. During these mad times, she is unfortunately still going to work 5 days a week, 8-10 hours a day.

    She is taking all precautions (gloves, mask, hand washing etc.) to keep clean and avoid the coronvirus - However, I am deeply concerned that she will still contract it as she is constantly dealing with the public, money etc.

    I'm young and healthy, chances are that I would survive it, however my mum isn't which is worrying.

    I am considering asking her to quit her job - financially we could survive as I can work from home and can look after us for the next few months.

    Am I being overly paranoid or is quitting her job really a good idea ?


  • #4710
    wadacrack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,172 ✭✭✭wadacrack


    With the economy being hit, where their be any work needed for this? Contact tracing? Garda recruitment , Defence Forces?


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  • #4711
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    Akrasia wrote: »
    The cafe staff are high risk because they work facing the public all day, their equipment is shared amongst staff and they hardly disinfect the gear between every customer/staff member

    Then they hand you the coffee in a cup so any virus that was on their hands are on the cup that you are now holding...

    It’s not risk free

    My thoughts aswell. Was surprised to see cafes busy on Sunday.

    I though the Sunday go for a walk and cafe crowd would be far more clued in than the Saturday night pints crowd.


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