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

James 007 · 17-03-2020 05:16PM

deisedevil wrote: »

Is there any manufacturing sites in this country? I can't find any. I don't know where we are going to get the amount we need.

I had seen on Twitter that someone mentioned this company makes them, could someone working there confirm?

https://www.medtronic.com/ie-en/about/medtronic-ireland.html

JP Liz V1 · 17-03-2020 05:16PM

Were the two young fatalities on Irish roads last night coming from house parties? RIP to them

ITman88 · 17-03-2020 05:16PM

greenpilot wrote: »

Exactly. I was let go on Friday. So this "Stay Home" flaky ****e on Facebook really gets my blood boiling. Staying at home with €200 per week dole and 4 kids plus mortgage is a non runner. I'm prepared to do anything now at this stage, even helping Public Services in some way to get over this crisis rather than stay at home.

People advocating the stay at home/lockdown policy must not have large mortgages with kids.

kyote00 · 17-03-2020 05:16PM

So they don't actually know how many they have but you accept Sky News rather than the UK DHSC ?

Quote from that 'engineer.co.uk:

"So far, the only company officially mentioned by the government is Oxfordshire firm Unipart group, although Rolls-Royce Plc and JCB have also been referenced in a number of reports.

Other companies understood to be interested in helping out include West Midlands contract manufacturer PP Control & Automation, which employs 230 people at its manufacturing site in Walsall."

Blueshoe wrote: »

https://www.theengineer.co.uk/uk-government-manufacturers-ventilators-nhs/

Top companies coming on board to make more.
Reported on sky news today that the UK has 9000 with 3k more coming.

Juwwi · 17-03-2020 05:17PM

People off work here business closed down trying to do our best to stop this disease spreading , yet flights are still arriving from all over Europe ,,

Yesterday Tony Holohan said he didn't think that checking temperatures was needed ,, what the hell why not ,, we can check everyone's passport easily why not a quick temperature check at least as they get off the planes .

If they had of just shut down flights from Italy on day 1 , sent out chartered planes to get any Irish holiday makers home and put them in isolation when they returned ,,and then done the same with each country as they got bad we would still be the country as normal with alot less cases here .

bekker · 17-03-2020 05:17PM

Rob A. Bank wrote: »

If you don't trust the Chinese figures... look at Taiwan, Singapore and South Korea... all doing well in the battle against the virus.

BTW, As the WHO Expert China Team said we should all be grateful to the Chinese.

By extending the Chinese Lunar New Year holiday (essentially until just recently) and stopping all travel from their hot spots... the Chinese bought a month of time for the rest of the world... at a large cost to their own economy and in lives lost.

We all would have had far less time to prepare if all those Chinese people had fanned out all over the world in late January, at the end of their New Year holiday.

It could have been Italy on steroids for us all at the beginning of February.

I said nothing about COVID-19. I referred to figures on Chinese industrial restart figures. They have valid worries concerning supply-chain adjustments and need to seek to give reassurance.

ITman88 · 17-03-2020 05:17PM

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Were the two young fatalities on Irish roads last night coming from house parties? RIP to them

It matter little where they were. The families are utterly devastated beyond belief

statesaver · 17-03-2020 05:17PM

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Were the two young fatalities on Irish roads last night coming from house parties? RIP to them

What does it matter now ?

caveat emptor · 17-03-2020 05:17PM

An Ciarraioch wrote: »

Apparently 50% of global production comes from Galway, so we certainly shouldn't have a shortage!

That’s great. We need the specialised staff to operate them though. Very high risk once a patient is on one anyway.

ldy4mxonucwsq6 · 17-03-2020 05:18PM

all about the mane wrote: »

You point that finger girl!

There will be plenty of people pointing the finger once we've finished our global economic collapse.

China only did what they did because they knew the truth would eventually be discovered anyway, they had no other choice.

And we are supposed to be grateful that they gave us a heads up?

Food safety regulations exist for a reason. Those markets are disgusting and have no place in any developed country.

Do you see any other zoonotic diseases causing havoc worldwide that have come from countries with proper food practices?

jackboy · 17-03-2020 05:18PM

ITman88 wrote: »

People advocating the stay at home/lockdown policy must not have large mortgages with kids.

A mortgage is just a long term gamble so there won’t be much sympathy.

ITman88 · 17-03-2020 05:18PM

signostic wrote: »

Parts from maybe a problem at this moment? That would be solved if China clears the virus and gets back to work.

We assemble ventilators, we manufacture sweet f€&k all in Ireland

Rob A. Bank · 17-03-2020 05:18PM

Lundstram wrote: »

WTF did I just read? Those disgusting barbarians in Wuhan caused this with their ignorance.

And the farm boy from Kansas who probably started the 1918 flu, which cased between 50 to 100 million deaths ?

Was it his fault ?

Or the 2 children in Southern California who were first infected with the 2009 flu causing about 150,000–575,000 fatalities ?

Or the two year old playing in a hollow tree with a bat colony started the recent (2013) Ebola epidemic infecting 28,616 people with 11,310 deaths in Africa.

Measles, smallpox, influenza, HIV, diphtheria, the common cold and tuberculosis all originated from animals infecting humans.

A pathogen jumping from an animal to a human can happen anywhere and has been happening for as long as man has been on earth.

FFVII · 17-03-2020 05:19PM

In 2 weeks time we go back to normal spreading again?

Then what?

BorneTobyWilde · 17-03-2020 05:19PM

Medtronic in Galway are most likely exporting Ventilators to USA and leaving us shorts.

caveat emptor · 17-03-2020 05:19PM

Griffin Tasteless Floor wrote: »

There will be plenty of people pointing the finger once we've finished our global economic collapse.

China only did what they did because they knew the truth would eventually be discovered anyway, they had no other choice.

And we are supposed to be grateful that they gave us a heads up?

Food safety regulations exist for a reason. Those markets are disgusting and have no place in any developed country.

Do you see any other zoonotic diseases causing havoc worldwide that have come from countries with proper food practices?

What about biosafety 4 labs and BioWarfare programs?

ZX7R · 17-03-2020 05:19PM

coastwatch wrote: »

The Trump administration just announced the US government is going to make direct payments (about $1k) in the next two weeks to all workers affected by the shutdown. David McWilliams recommended the same "helicopter money" approach for Ireland last weekend.

Helicopter payments generally would work better to help reboot an economy.
What trup is doing does not help much in the short term induce panic buying and then the money is gone.

Gretas Gonna Get Ya! · 17-03-2020 05:19PM

banie01 wrote: »

It will bring down the overall rate in terms of infected/recovered Vs infected dead.

The % is not the issue here.
The actual number of people who are contracting Covid-19 and needing hospital support is the issue.

The number of deaths directly attributable to Covid-19 is the issue.
The number of other deaths due to resources being pulled away from immediate emergency care and A+E are the issue.

I have said it before, and I will keep saying it.
This illness is an attritional monster, it sucks in medical resources and leaves the sick patients needing prolonged specialist care and support especially compared to the usual ICU patient.

Very true.

The very first critical Italian patient, requiring ICU treatment, was only released from hospital in the last week or so...

I'm not sure what the average is, but that's a long time for one patient to be taking up an ICU bed.

Pneumonia is not something you overcome quickly. (If you're even lucky enough to overcome it at all)

ITman88 · 17-03-2020 05:20PM

jackboy wrote: »

A mortgage is just a long term gamble so there won’t be much sympathy.

I don’t understand.
Are you saying people with mortgages and families don’t deserve sympathy?

walshb · 17-03-2020 05:20PM

FFVII wrote: »

In 2 weeks time we go back to normal spreading again?

Then what?

There will be an extension to the restrictions. Has to be..

namloc1980 · 17-03-2020 05:20PM

FFVII wrote: »

In 2 weeks time we go back to normal spreading again?

Then what?

We won't be going back to normal in 2 weeks. Amazing the amount of people who think everything will be grand on the 29th March.

Ironicname · 17-03-2020 05:21PM

Lundstram wrote:

WTF did I just read? Those disgusting barbarians in Wuhan caused this with their ignorance.

Wtf did I just read?

Seriously man, now is not the time.

Xertz · 17-03-2020 05:21PM

tuxy wrote: »

But that is evil socialism, it can't be tolerated in the land of the free!

America was at its best when it was socialist - all that stuff around the New Deal etc etc. It still is socialist, but due to a internalised self-hatred of being a bit socialist, it is so far into the closet it's in some kind of capitalist Narnia.

I mean the US spends money on public health (just it doesn't spread it around that effectively), it has welfare programmes, it has HUGE federal budgets that are directed to support states with employment, massive spending on military, all sorts of stuff.

Even the American aspects of the internet technologies (which are very substantial) emerged from DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), a state run (... socialist) programme that allowed scientists to go off and work on all sorts of projects in a big brain storming exercise to see what they'd come up with.

all about the mane · 17-03-2020 05:21PM

Griffin Tasteless Floor wrote: »

There will be plenty of people pointing the finger once we've finished our global economic collapse.

China only did what they did because they knew the truth would eventually be discovered anyway, they had no other choice.

And we are supposed to be grateful that they gave us a heads up?

Food safety regulations exist for a reason. Those markets are disgusting and have no place in any developed country.

Do you see any other zoonotic diseases causing havoc worldwide that have come from countries with proper food practices?

We can all point the finger at someone. What’s it going to achieve?

BorneTobyWilde · 17-03-2020 05:22PM

Dr Deborah Birx, Trump press conference

'' we're asking young Americans to stay at home,don't go out spreading virus on to Knobs''

Xertz · 17-03-2020 05:23PM

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Dr Deborah Birx, Trump press conference

'' we're asking young Americans to stay at home,don't go out spreading virus on to Knobs''

She has a point! Stay off dating apps!

No amount of condoms will save you from this.
Unless you're wearing a full biohazard suit, you're basically at risk.

niallo27 · 17-03-2020 05:23PM

jackboy wrote: »

A mortgage is just a long term gamble so there won’t be much sympathy.

Ok swap mortgage for rent.

Humberto Salazar · 17-03-2020 05:23PM

Sorry deleted post accidentally. This study from China suggests those with A type blood have significantly higher risk of infection from COVID-19 than O type. No idea if anyone else has done this, I'm sure it will be. It's just a sample and changes nothing, even though as a O type myself, would take any solace I can at this stage.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.11.20031096v1

jam_mac_jam · 17-03-2020 05:23PM

ITman88 wrote: »

People advocating the stay at home/lockdown policy must not have large mortgages with kids.

Or maybe they have kids so don't want them to loose their grandparents.

spookwoman · 17-03-2020 05:24PM

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