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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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  • #5102
    Blanco100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,933 ✭✭✭Blanco100


    Thingymebob wrote: »
    We were in a Spar yesterday when the Gardaí came in and told the staff no sales of alcohol until 4pm today.

    A friend of ours plastered the photos of their house parties all over Facebook, both Friday and Saturday nights. They’re in their late thirties, married with four kids, ones a nurse, the other works for the council. You’d hope they’d have the cop on, but since some people cant be hit with the common sense stick, the government is going to have move past ‘urging people’ and ‘advising people’, and start increasing restrictions.

    I'm sorry but i'm calling bullsh*t on that. Its actually too unbelievable.


  • #5103
    Discodog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,089 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    Wibbs wrote: »
    Sounds sensible alright D, especially if paracetamol is right there as an alternative.

    Though a question I'd have - and it may be a daft one - if you're feverish that's your body's built in response evolved over millions of years to kill pathogens, so why seek to reduce that? Obviously if it gets to dangerous temps yeah, but otherwise is it not better to let the fever do the job it evolved to do?

    That's what the Guardian article suggests. Run a temperature but monitor it & use Paracetamol if necessary. The Guardian is hardly a red top rag.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/health-experts-criticise-nhs-advice-to-take-ibuprofen-for-covid-19


  • #5104
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,111 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    Cinemas, restaurants, airlines, gyms, so many things are about to go bust. The days of cheap travel are over I think. So many industries are gone, even trying to bring them back will take a long time.


  • #5105
    blade1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,012 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    auspicious wrote: »
    Here's a mad one.
    The ultimate isolation. Contestants on Germany's Big Brother tv show haven't a clue about the virus yet. They are to be told live on air tonight!

    I'd say that'll be a fair buzzkill.
    Car crash TV.


  • #5106
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,980 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    Beasty wrote: »
    And there are more

    Do not post in this thread again

    Lucky for him there will be a new thread in no time :)


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  • #5107
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Cases in the US approaching 5000 now


  • #5108
    careless sherpa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 373 ✭✭careless sherpa


    Antares35 wrote: »
    My parents are out there :( They have made the decision to stay put rather than risk a mass exodus in the airport. Am worried sick about them but from what they have told me, there have been real efforts to implement and enforce the lockdown controls there. Dad went to the supermarket to stock up for a couple of weeks and staff in masks were patrolling the shop aisles reminding people to keep distances. Police out patrolling the streets etc.

    Then in benidorm you have English holiday makers chanting we've got the virus as they taunt the police. Should just have beaten them off the streets and onto a cattle ship or something


  • #5109
    ITman88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 876 ✭✭✭ITman88


    rob316 wrote: »
    Far worse people are too hysterical to see the real cost though.

    Yeah I think people have clouded judgement in the ability to see the bigger picture regarding the long terms effects of this approach.
    Consumer confidence will be years recovering from this.
    If I had just bought a house or invested heavily in a business I would be very concerned


  • #5110
    ITman88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 876 ✭✭✭ITman88


    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    Cinemas, restaurants, airlines, gyms, so many things are about to go bust. The days of cheap travel are over I think. So many industries are gone, even trying to bring them back will take a long time.

    The world has got much bigger


  • #5111
    Loafing Oaf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,638 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    auspicious wrote: »
    Here's a mad one.
    The ultimate isolation. Contestants on Germany's Big Brother tv show haven't a clue about the virus yet. They are to be told live on air tonight!

    Wouldn't be the worst place to be right now as long as none of them had it going in


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  • #5112
    Speak Now
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,868 ✭✭✭Speak Now


    YFlyer wrote: »
    Surely that is not nation wide?

    Of course not, more Facebook/WhatsApp tripe.


  • #5113
    Kaisr Sose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,862 ✭✭✭Kaisr Sose


    Hamsterchops wrote: »
    What would you say that :mad:

    Give us the medical proof.

    Sorry about that. I posted a bit too little info. It wss a theory being put out there by researchers, but unproven. It is now held that suspected reinfections may have been due to an error in the initial diagnosis and recovery. There is a lot unknown. Google the matter if you wish to find out more about it. As always, not everything you will resd will be fact or proven.


  • #5114
    Ace2007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,037 ✭✭✭✭Ace2007


    facehugger99 wrote: »
    340,000 out of work by the weekend - the cure is looking worse than the disease.
    rob316 wrote: »
    Far worse people are too hysterical to see the real cost though.

    I feel that neither of you know anyone working in the health sector, or dare I say have anyone close to you who is in a high risk area.

    Lets' say you are right in what your saying - then yes people lose jobs/money etc.

    If your wrong, thousands of thousands of innocent people could die.

    Actually your never going to be right - because we see in Italy and Spain the amount of people dying, Ireland as a society is listening and social distancing is occurring, so we will slow down the numbers, the things is have we slowed it down enough.

    Your grand parents probably went to war not knowing if there would see another day, all you need to do is stay at home - it's that simple.


  • #5115
    scamalert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,732 ✭✭✭scamalert


    rob316 wrote: »
    Far worse people are too hysterical to see the real cost though.
    those with mortgages debts, bills who are out now, if this continues as its foolish to believe that 3 weeks will solve anything, the amount of job losses will create second wave, it wont be health but will put many at the mercy of dole, given it will last long term, the effects on economy will be bashing, back to 2008 if not worse, as many live outside their means but take away 4k say average family pulls in, and delay 2k payments each month and doesnt take much maths to see how many will get screwed fast.


  • #5116
    Blueshoe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,957 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    careless sherpa wrote: »
    Then in benidorm you have English holiday makers chanting we've got the virus as they taunt the police. Should just have beaten them off the streets and onto a cattle ship or something

    Just shoot them dead. Burn the bodies and send a 6 pack of Stella Artois to the families.


  • #5117
    woohoo!!!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 801 ✭✭✭woohoo!!!


    Thrashssacre wrote: »
    Spain over 11k and over 100 more dead
    That's us by the end of the month.


  • #5118
    facehugger99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,060 ✭✭✭facehugger99


    ITman88 wrote: »
    Yeah I think people have clouded judgement in the ability to see the bigger picture regarding the long terms effects of this approach.
    Consumer confidence will be years recovering from this.
    If I had just bought a house or invested heavily in a business I would be very concerned

    People will look back in a year or so and serious questions will be raised as to the approach adopted - probably by the same people who are calling Boris a granny-killer.

    This has the potential to make the last recession look like the Teddy Bear's picnic.


  • #5119
    Heiser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 271 ✭✭Heiser


    Ace2007 wrote: »
    Be more frustrating to everyone if you have the virus and you passed it on, and how would you feel if you passed in on to a colleague and someone got really sick.

    You can help out just as much in 2 weeks time - it won't have disappeared by then, **** knows it will still be around in 2 months time

    Yep. I totally understand that. Doesn't mean it's not frustrating though.

    I'm not going to work. Even though I believe had I not been in Kenya where I've pretty much been in near enough isolation, and had been in Dublin, getting the Luas everyday, working in an environment that would have me in contact with a lot of people daily, I would of had a much higher chance of catching it and I wouldn't be in self isolation.


  • #5120
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    is_that_so wrote: »
    Some more positive news on coronavirus research!
    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-17/research-how-bodys-immune-system-fights-coronavirus-covid-19/12059266

    Hook good news to my veins.


  • #5121
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,111 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    Outside my window now

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  • #5122
    MD1990
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,740 ✭✭✭✭MD1990


    this has potential to bad as bad as the spamish flu.

    Dont think that is an overreaction now.


  • #5123
    careless sherpa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 373 ✭✭careless sherpa


    facehugger99 wrote: »
    People will look back in a year or so and serious questions will be raised as to the approach adopted - probably by the same people who are calling Boris a granny-killer.

    This has the potential to make the last recession look like the Teddy Bear's picnic.

    The stance of the British government is completely twisting in the wind. Boris looks bereft


  • #5124
    PCeeeee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,441 ✭✭✭PCeeeee


    Heiser wrote: »
    It's frustrating. I work in an essential service and I really want to get stuck in and help out right now

    This will not finish for a long while yet. Do the sensible thing, self isolate, protect others and in 14 days you will still be needed, perhaps even more than now.


  • #5125
    1wizards sleeve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 212 ✭✭1wizards sleeve


    One thing IV noticed is how quiet sinn Fein are gone. It's almost like they don't want to be making any decisions . I Wonder why. Could it possibly be that they won't be popular decisions.


  • #5126
    Ace2007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,037 ✭✭✭✭Ace2007


    facehugger99 wrote: »
    People will look back in a year or so and serious questions will be raised as to the approach adopted - probably by the same people who are calling Boris a granny-killer.

    This has the potential to make the last recession look like the Teddy Bear's picnic.

    The virus also has the potential to kill more people than WWII

    But you don't care.


  • #5127
    Nonoperational
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭Nonoperational


    I must say I was posting on a bit of a rant on earlier threads that the general attitude of the public was not great (putting it mildly), I was very much mistaken.

    The majority of people are actually making a great effort. Shops full of stock again this morning, I'd swear the guys in LIDL live there at this stage. More nods and hellos when out walking. The penny is dropping and hopefully we will get the rewards of it.

    I've said it before but the number of people in ICU is the metric. The numbers will increase because we are testing more.


  • #5128
    cosanostra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 888 ✭✭✭cosanostra


    Loafing Oaf wrote: »
    Wouldn't be the worst place to be right now as long as none of them had it going in

    Except a show like that is choreographed and producers and the like are in with the guests regularly


  • #5129
    Hooked
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,961 ✭✭✭Hooked


    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    Hook good news to my veins.

    What’s with the pic in the article? Looks like a still from a pornhub ‘version’ of the outbreak!


  • #5130
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    sonofenoch wrote: »
    Enough hosts to burn itself out, the ultimate game of russian roulette .....BBC ran a docu last night on the Spanish flu, 500m infected with anything up to 100m deaths worldwide .......what we're facing now is grim but no where near the same scale (as of now) ......100k infected in Manchester alone in the first 2 weeks

    You can't compare the world of 100 years ago to the world now.

    Spanish flu had been allowed to spread unchecked and unacknowledged by officialdom as it was deemed bad for moral - that's why it's called the 'Spanish' flu, Spain wasn't involved in WWI so the press there wrote about it.

    It occured during a time when the continent of Europe was literally devastated by war, the countries who had been involved in that war were economically on their knees (bar the USA), and given the medical knowledge at the time treating casualties of a mechanised war was beyond the skill set of most medics - never mind combatting a virus.

    Large groups of people were moved around the globe en mass - and untested. We are talking cruise ship amounts not plane full amounts as troops were sent home. Literally whole armies returning from infected areas then spreading across their home country.

    If we had the same 'world' now as then Covid 19 would be running unchecked too.


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  • #5131
    SlowBlowin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,889 ✭✭✭SlowBlowin


    Cant believe the stupidity going on in Sneem right now.

    Full of travellers, stalls, horses etc..


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