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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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  • #7202
    Humberto Salazar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 624 ✭✭✭Humberto Salazar


    Economic ruin certain. We'll be back into the 1950s after this. A lost decade coming up. We'll have to borrow billions and pay it back jig time. Taxes up, services cut. Recession. I doubt the foreign multinationals will stay or be able too to be honest. Pretty apocalyptic actually, there are no bright lights from this


  • #7203
    Lundstram
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭Lundstram


    Great speech but do not agree with that €30 per phonecall for GPs. That's way too much for very little.


  • #7204
    boggerman1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭boggerman1


    To all those that voted shinner and wanted Mary who.that was some speech by Leo and I wouldn’t be his biggest fan.fair play to him and I hope the people of Ireland will think of it the next time we vote.dont be hoodwinked by shysters and con men.look at what Boris and trump are and are doing


  • #7205
    Lord TSC
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 42,939 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lord TSC


    statesaver wrote: »
    I agree but 15000 cases by the end of March ???? That would mean 1000's over the next weeks
    Itssoeasy wrote: »
    Btw it was a very good speech but this 15,000 by the end of the month number will scare people. That was my point. I realise that it's good to be upfront with people but surely there a better way to convey that message without giving a number. That was my point.

    They HAVE to scare people to keep it at 15k. If people don't have cop on, it will be worse, quicker, and more people will die as a result.

    This really isn't a scenario where they can afford to mollycoddle people, cause when they did, people ran to the pubs and thought it was a joke...


  • #7206
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    STB. wrote: »
    From modelling, Stephen.

    He is pointing out there is a shít storm coming up and VERY soon.

    Its is going to go on for months well into the summer.

    Asking that older people cocoon themselves and gen public to social distance.

    This is all about not overwhelming the limited health resources and ventilators that we have in Ireland.

    The modeling doesn't seem to take any impact from the measures already put in place.

    They've used the term flatten the curve and we're doing that but they wont be 30% per day say 3 or 4 weeks down the line if the measures being put in place are effective.

    Like I said if its 15k that gives us the highest number of cases per capita in the world


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  • #7207
    owlbethere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭owlbethere


    ArielAtom wrote: »
    I’m not a LEO fan, but that was, honest l, concise and did not sugar coat it. He was short of saying a complete lockdown, but he is being led by medical experts, led by Dr Tony Holohan. Stop sharing bull**** and listen to the experts. Well done Leo.

    +1, not a fan of Leo but good speech.


  • #7208
    smallfryy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29 ✭smallfryy


    I'm no fan of Leo nor Fine Gael but he is a fantastic speaker. His speeches are not only well written but his delivery is clear and genuine. I do think he is handling this all really well. Political preferences aside, he doesn't have an easy job right now. I know I couldn't do it!


  • #7209
    Assetbacked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,969 ✭✭✭Assetbacked


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    Just maybe people might take things more seriously?

    Also, older people may not be gorging on online media in relation to it. It may not be news to most of us but the older people may not be like that and it gives them a good status of where we are now and where we are going.


  • #7210
    Hobgoblin11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Hobgoblin11


    So much back seat moderating now

    Dundalk, Co. Louth



  • #7211
    STB.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,380 ✭✭✭STB.


    Itssoeasy wrote: »
    Btw it was a very good speech but this 15,000 by the end of the month number will scare people. That was my point. I realise that it's good to be upfront with people but surely there a better way to convey that message without giving a number. That was my point.


    There isn't actually.

    Unfortunately there are still idiots out there playing this down, ignoring the social distancing advice and generally being a gob****e with no thought for anyone but themselves.


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  • #7212
    saabsaab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,722 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    Mariah Microscopic Candlestick wrote: »
    Well done Leo, serious stuff.

    Feels like we're at war, which I guess we are in a way.


    Yes, we are at war. Nothing new in it but was fine but no De Valera.


  • #7213
    statesaver
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,084 ✭✭✭statesaver


    skimpydoo wrote: »
    You got to hand it to Leo he said it as it is and said the truth. Would you rather have Boris or Trump in charge? I know I wouldn't and I am no fan of Leo.

    Trumps press conference today was excellent IMO


  • #7214
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,497 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Quite emotional type speech in parts..


  • #7215
    What Username Guidelines
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,139 ✭✭✭What Username Guidelines


    Mr.S wrote: »
    100% agree. I used to be glued to it / the guardian live-ticker etc and now just check it in the evening. Much better mentally. Turned off the RTE / BBC push notifications on mobile.

    Same. Had the day off today and spent it with my 4y/o making jewellery, building Lego and dressing up, barely any phone. Quick skim of the news at 8 and watched the speech. Feeling a lot lighter than the last week. Maybe just accepted this is happening, and what happens, will happen.

    Side note, 4y/o had a transplant, so if it wasn’t clear already, wash your ****ing hands everyone and keep your distance. Thanks.


  • #7216
    Mysteriouschic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,391 ✭✭✭Mysteriouschic


    Apocalypse vibes getting scary . I wonder how long airport will stay open


  • #7217
    MD1990
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,740 ✭✭✭✭MD1990


    Id assume he means 15000 cases approx.

    I doubt we will have that many tests done by then.

    Good speech though


  • #7218
    giveitholly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,220 ✭✭✭giveitholly


    Fair play,that's the spirit we want


  • #7219
    Hibernicis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,917 ✭✭✭Hibernicis


    Head, neck, shoulders and torso above anything from Trump, the so called leader of the free world. Hope that the foreign press broadcast Varadker’s message of solitary with the rest of the world.


  • #7220
    podgeandrodge
    Site Banned Posts: 5,975 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    Juwwi wrote: »
    GP's charging the government €30 per phone call ,, ffs that's a disgrace talk about taking the piss

    This! WTF. We are talking about everyone that can help, helping. But €30 a phone call which, and I am only guessing, will take a few minutes. There is something not right about this.

    Happy to be slated, but I would have thought emergency legislation mandating doctors to do a free few calls would have been reasonable!


  • #7221
    BoroMan32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 617 ✭✭✭BoroMan32


    Mr. Blobby could have delivered that speech and the nation would have rallied behind him.


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  • #7222
    take everything
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,846 ✭✭✭take everything


    Shaz is looking well


  • #7223
    EB_2013
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 811 ✭✭✭EB_2013


    Shame, he never showed this passion before.
    Pacing Mule wrote: »
    Feck sake if they hold an election tomorrow I'd be tempted to vote for him.

    Few weeks ago he was the only person on the ballot I didn't give a preference to.


  • #7224
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,600 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Syncpolice wrote: »
    If they don't wear capes what do the wear?


    Tiara's

    CYcT.gif


  • #7225
    Doctors room ghost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,839 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    Any fcuker that was sending them 11am Tuesday morning shut down messages on what’s app needs to be blasted into space for the greater good.
    Wafflers the lot of them.
    Where are ye now aswell as yere “sources”.
    Idiotic fools in need of tin foil hats all round


  • #7226
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    ixoy wrote: »
    The people you meet in the City Centre don't necessarily represent all of Ireland though. Give people some credit.

    Exactly, the city has been dead for the last few days


  • #7227
    Humberto Salazar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 624 ✭✭✭Humberto Salazar


    Pacing Mule wrote: »
    Feck sake if they hold an election tomorrow I'd be tempted to vote for him.

    Few weeks ago he was the only person on the ballot I didn't give a preference to.

    Politics on hold I'd say for months. What happens after - would suggest another election would be the best thing. We will be entering deep recession, or depression, serious stuff.


  • #7228
    tigger123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,593 ✭✭✭tigger123


    Leo did well there, fair play to him. Difficult speech to give in difficult times.


  • #7229
    darced
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,056 ✭✭✭darced


    He scared the life out of my parents anyway, the mother is in bits. Hopefully everyone falls in line now.


  • #7230
    What Username Guidelines
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,139 ✭✭✭What Username Guidelines


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    The modeling doesn't seem to take any impact from the measures already put in place.

    They've used the term flatten the curve and we're doing that but they wont be 30% per day say 3 or 4 weeks down the line if the measures being put in place are effective.

    Like I said if its 15k that gives us the highest number of cases per capita in the world

    Underpromise and overdeliver maybe?

    Also, per capita doesn’t matter. The virus doesn’t know the population and adjust rate of transmission. If anything, it just means places like US will be dealing with this for far longer as it takes longer to spread.


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  • #7231
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,253 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Not very often I give Leo or FG credit, but he came across really well tonight.

    Practical sensible advice and very clear message to the country.

    Well done Leo.


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