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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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  • #6752
    Drumpot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭Drumpot


    Irish_peppa wrote: »
    I think we need to just tell everyone essential travel only
    If going to shops just one person.
    jesus christ can people not stay in their houses for 2 weeks and watch youtube and netflix. lets stop this spread. we will worry about the bill later.

    I’m wondering if that’s what tonight’s Taoiseach announcement is going to be.


  • #6753
    SuperTortoise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,427 ✭✭✭SuperTortoise


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    If say 50 cases were discovered 2 weeks ago, and 50 cases discovered today, does that mean we have 50 active cases, as the first 50 are now recovered.

    I keep seeing people say we how have 292 cases, but how can you keep adding up the cases of 14 days ago when they are recovered? Surely we how have over a 100 recovered?


    It can take up to 40 days to fully recover.


  • #6754
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,765 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Mehan2000 wrote: »
    Went into McDonalds yesterday ( maintaining my distance of course) and was quite shocked to see staff wearing no gloves handling food ... especially given the circumstances.

    People get obsessed about gloves.

    If the gloves touch a surface with the virus on it then the virus is on the gloves then the gloves will pass it on to anything it contacts.

    Good hand hygiene is more important.

    Go into good restaurants and food is handled by hands all the time. No harm in it once good hand hygiene is observed.


  • #6755
    RoryMac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,586 ✭✭✭RoryMac


    Mick Kony wrote: »
    Christ this lad...keep people away from each other as much as possible! Why do you think the gov wants you to work from home if possible?

    Bunch of people in a kitchen, one is infected and infects everyone else. Each of them infect 3 others each and on and on...

    Economy is fcuked lad, forget it. Right now it's all about slowing the spread. That's all that matters.

    Which do you think would slow the spread more, a couple 100 people fighting over bog roll and bread in a supermarket or a restaurant with high hygiene standards putting food through a hatch to people in a car??

    The knock-on effect of a total shutdown of everything in the country for an extended period will cost more lives than it will save


  • #6756
    martingriff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,342 ✭✭✭✭martingriff


    smelly sock wrote: »
    Who else is in work tomorrow?

    Working from home this week, May have to pop in a few hours in the some morning next week to get essential thing done. Printing of letter, opening any post etc


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  • #6757
    05eaftqbrs9jlh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭05eaftqbrs9jlh


    3526 new cases and 345 new deaths in Italy. Third day in a row with the same 10% mortality rate.


  • #6758
    givyjoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,287 ✭✭✭givyjoe


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    Our recovery numbers are practically 0 (5) That's crazy, countries with same amount of cases , Singapore have 114 recovered.
    Why is no one recovering ?

    Most folks have only just been confirmed. Most of those are folks who probably needed some form of treatment, so you wouldn't expect them to have recovered yet.


  • #6759
    jackboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jackboy


    Drumpot wrote: »
    I’m wondering if that’s what tonight’s Taoiseach announcement is going to be.

    Probably upping the level of lockdown.


  • #6760
    Cork Boy 53
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    Downlinz wrote: »
    essential services haven't stopped in any country, it's not something thats going to happen.

    Really? Don`t be too sure.


  • #6761
    Rob A. Bank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭Rob A. Bank


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    Our recovery numbers are practically 0 (5) That's crazy, countries with same amount of cases , Singapore have 114 recovered.
    Why is no one recovering ?

    It can take ages to recover if you are unlucky.

    A medic from Italy summed up the problem :-

    While new patients are being admitted to the Sacco Hospital, one of the largest medical centers in Italy, every five minutes, Galli said virus-free patients are being discharged every two or three hours.

    "We are getting close to not being able to accept new patients. There is a complete saturation of beds,"

    https://abcnews.go.com/Health/corona...l_taboola_feed


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  • #6762
    DevilsHaircut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 524 ✭✭✭DevilsHaircut


    "Asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic transmission are a major factor in transmission for Covid-19," said Dr. William Schaffner, a professor at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and longtime adviser to the CDC. "They're going to be the drivers of spread in the community."

    https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/14/health/coronavirus-asymptomatic-spread/index.html


  • #6763
    el Fenomeno
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,563 ✭✭✭el Fenomeno


    ironingbored wrote: »
    I actually worked it out. I've donated > 3 times to 5 Italian Hospitals.

    And do you think your donation will do more or less than Berlusconi's 10 million will?

    To think you're having a go at someone who has donated ten MILLION, regardless of their legal history....

    The mind boggles.


  • #6764
    wexandproud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,063 ✭✭✭wexandproud


    ironingbored wrote: »
    Christ that is grim.
    indeed . he said people in some towns are starting to realise boris got it wrong and bournmouth was very quiet the past few days


  • #6765
    RogerThis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 748 ✭✭✭RogerThis


    EB_2013 wrote: »
    Why are they using the 30% figure going forwards?

    That what Leo said yesterday, a growth of 30% per day, with 15,000 people infected by the end of the month.


  • #6766
    ceadaoin.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,641 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    retro:electro wrote: »
    These are the strangest of times for sure. Not only do people have to worry about a threat to their physical health, but their mental health too. Not only are people afraid of themselves or their loved ones catching the virus, they’re afraid they won’t have a job to walk into next week. Anyone who scoffs at the mental health effects this will have on people need to get a grip. While the recession was crippling, at the very least people could still visit loved ones. Now not only can you not go anywhere or do much of anything, but there is a physical distance between most families and loved ones too.

    This. I'm half way across the world from my family. I dont know when I will see them again at this stage. Really regret not coming home for a visit last year, I thought it wasnt a big deal, sure I'd be over this year. I wont take anything for granted after this (assuming there is an "after")


  • #6767
    Happy4all
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,089 ✭✭✭Happy4all


    Leo address to the nation at 9pm.


    What should we expect?


    My employer still telling us to go into a crowded office.


  • #6768
    Drumpot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭Drumpot


    jackboy wrote: »
    Probably upping the level of lockdown.

    Yeh, That’s what I’m thinking.... Prob a “well done everybody but we have to do more for each other and crank this lockdown up a notch”....


  • #6769
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91,081 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    DevilsHaircut wrote: »
    "Asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic transmission are a major factor in transmission for Covid-19," said Dr. William Schaffner, a professor at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and longtime adviser to the CDC. "They're going to be the drivers of spread in the community."

    https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/14/health/coronavirus-asymptomatic-spread/index.html

    Sorry but what does that mean? :o:confused:
    https://forumofgames.com/




  • #6770
    Hobgoblin11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Hobgoblin11


    What time is An Taoiseach locking down the country?

    Dundalk, Co. Louth



  • #6771
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,032 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Wonder if the casts of TV soaps go into isolation before the cameras?

    Art imitating life?

    (Don't watch soaps so no idea if they're doing this already)


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  • #6772
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,765 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Live in Bray and took a walk and went to supermarket.

    People have no idea about social distancing at all. Saw a queue at chipper on seafront and people on top of each other queuing.

    Then in Lidl, with clear floor distance markings, a man, not that young, stood right next to me, far too close for even normal times. I asked him had he not heard of social distancing and he just said sorry.

    Also, saw a few groups of teenagers hanging around together all very close.

    Nothing is going to stop this behaviour except an enforced lockdown.


  • #6773
    ironingbored
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,399 ✭✭✭ironingbored


    el Fenomeno wrote: »
    And do you think your donation will do more or less than Berlusconi's 10 million will?

    To think you're having a go at someone who has donated ten MILLION, regardless of their legal history....

    The mind boggles.

    So, that was only one trial.

    Perhaps Italy's hospitals would be better equipped if persistent large scale tax fraud wasn't a thing.


  • #6774
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,612 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    6 America tourist in Kilkenny tested positive, also positive case at St Lukes Hospital Kilkenny


  • #6775
    Musefan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 776 ✭✭✭Musefan


    I’ve a query re asymptomatic transition. How can it spread if a person is not coughing/sneezing? Is it through other means like kissing on the cheek etc


  • #6776
    igCorcaigh
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    RogerThis wrote: »
    That what Leo said yesterday, a growth of 30% per day, with 15,000 people infected by the end of the month.

    Is that based on a business as usual approach, or does it take into account the interventions?


  • #6777
    STB.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,380 ✭✭✭STB.


    Whats that modeled on, Roger This ?


    I can tell you now, its far too conservative. There will be exponential growth over the next 2 weeks. They have really only started testing now. They had qualifiers long fingering testing. More testing now happening. Those figures are going to sky rocket. By the end of this week we will seen a massive jump


    Taoiseach making announcent at 9pm tonight. We are gonna see more lockdown. Brits have made a mess of containment in UK.


  • #6778
    Ronan|Raven
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,152 ✭✭✭Ronan|Raven


    murpho999 wrote: »
    Live in Bray and took a walk and went to supermarket.

    People have no idea about social distancing at all. Saw a queue at chipper on seafront and people on top of each other queuing.

    Then in Lidl, with clear floor distance markings, a man, not that young, stood right next to me, far too close for even normal times. I asked him had he not heard of social distancing and he just said sorry.

    Also, saw a few groups of teenagers hanging around together all very close.

    Nothing is going to stop this behaviour except an enforced lockdown.


    Same in Aldi on the boghall earlier. Guy nearly on top of me snuffling.


  • #6779
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    el Fenomeno wrote: »
    And do you think your donation will do more or less than Berlusconi's 10 million will?

    To think you're having a go at someone who has donated ten MILLION, regardless of their legal history....

    The mind boggles.

    I don't think the op was complaining about the amount of money given, more about the fact that that would've been money due to the State anyway, and that he'll probably get a tax rebate on that charity donation, too. So, he's getting money back on money he shouldn't have had in the first place.
    What a guy. Shrewd businessman, you have to give that to him.


  • #6780
    MipMap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 435 ✭✭MipMap


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    Our recovery numbers are practically 0 (5) That's crazy, countries with same amount of cases , Singapore have 114 recovered.
    Why is no one recovering ?


    It's only been about 9 days since the first case was detected !
    I know it seems like ages. Give it some time. Unfortunately it takes time for people to die also so expect that too.


    At the same time The number of serious cases has been at 6 since 13th March and I find that suspicious as 2 died since then but the number stayed at 6.


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  • #6781
    silverharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,854 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    Croke Park

    https://twitter.com/RedMerlin1892/status/1239996560592830465

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