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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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  • #7292
    zerosugarbuzz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭zerosugarbuzz


    Surprised at the reactions here, Leo should be in a boy band, totally scripted speech, good scriptwriter though!


  • #7293
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,980 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    mick987 wrote: »
    If that is the official figure what will the real figure be ( with all the untested people)

    That's not a real figure, it's a prediction using a model which may include people they expect never to be tested.


  • #7294
    PhantomHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 152 ✭✭PhantomHat


    Bullocks wrote: »
    I'd agree, and Coveney speaking well too
    They should be commended for their efforts in the past few days. They must also be extremely exhausted. Hopefully they can keep well and maintain their energy levels


  • #7295
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,452 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    GM228 wrote: »
    €30 for taking a phone call, how much extra do those who actually perform the test get? Or those working in the hospitals etc...

    I understand it was probably forced on them as a compromise to stop people being charged, but still.

    It's because all the regular GP business is way down, people are rightly anxious about coming into the surgery with more everyday problems, eg check ups, routine bloods, etc etc.

    Instead GPs are spending a massive chunk of the day fielding phone calls. If this work was not paid for, the surgery, as a business, would have no money to pay the mortgage / rent, salaries of nurse /doctors /receptionists and would end up having to close down. It's not as if the 30 euro is going directly into the GPs pocket.


  • #7296
    threeball
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,808 ✭✭✭threeball


    I'm off to buy some doctors scrubs, there'll be some amount of hole to be had....oh wait....


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  • #7297
    ctrl-alt-delete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,242 ✭✭✭✭ctrl-alt-delete


    Spanish Eyes wrote: »
    Would anyone know if there’s a transcript of the speech anywhere. Thanks. Just missed it live, and by the time the RTE Player gets to the point, I’ll have given up.

    Thanks

    According to early reports you could probably get a copy from the EU


  • #7298
    Poorside
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,098 ✭✭✭Poorside


    Good speech, teeing is up for further measures coming down the line soon.


  • #7299
    Cilldara_2000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,199 ✭✭✭Cilldara_2000


    JanuarySnowstor wrote: »
    Varadkar is playing a stormer at the moment while the other parties are running scared. You may not like his policies as I don't but he's one hell of a leader as he proved on Brexit!! They should pass a Dail motion to keep the Government in place for next 6 months.

    Agreed. I think any change could be dangerous. You don't change horses in midstream.


  • #7300
    fuerte1976
    Closed Accounts Posts: 692 ✭✭✭fuerte1976


    Bullocks wrote: »
    I'd agree, and Coveney speaking well too

    Agree. And I'm no fan of FG. Covney is the real deal here ..


  • #7301
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Omackeral wrote: »
    Why don't you stick to smashing the thanks button of any post that criticizes Varadkar instead of worrying about that. The pattern is pathetic.

    People falling over themselves to put him on the highest plinth. It's one scripted speech, let history be the ultimate judge.


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  • #7302
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,140 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Doctor Shipman wrote: »
    Amazing speech, I cried.

    I was close...

    I’d say Leo was, too...


  • #7303
    martingriff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,715 ✭✭✭✭martingriff


    holyhead wrote: »
    I thought he spoke well. A little corny in parts but his delivery was good and warm. Light though on details re the financial hardship facing us though.

    I say there still in meetings with the banks and utility companies in relation to what they will do I expect something more in a day or 2


  • #7304
    kingshankly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,522 ✭✭✭kingshankly


    Anyone hearing 44 year old died in county louth from coronavirus


  • #7305
    MipMap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 435 ✭✭MipMap


    podgeandrodge wrote: »
    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!


    Absolutely right.


    I am OAP and have a medical card so I don't pay.
    A few months ago I wanted to renew an ongoing prescription and they
    insisted I see the doctor and on the way out they asked me for €50. before they realized I had the card.



    Saw the guy for less than 5 minutes.


    It's this sort of rip off that has to be brought to and end in this country.


    It's this sort of injustice that Leo should be judged on. Not some rousing speech he made that was written by someone else.


  • #7306
    vladmydad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 786 ✭✭✭vladmydad


    darced wrote: »
    Why the hate for the UK and US? I watched both their press conferences and they are going to massive lengths and throwing billions at the virus. At the end of the day it will probably be one of them who will beat the virus in the end.

    Exactly American and British governments are doing trojan work. Our fool allowed the virus in through the Italian flights but he did a group tested speech tonight so he’s great. Of course it’s the US UK that will create the vaccine but Orange man bad bla bla


  • #7307
    EB_2013
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 811 ✭✭✭EB_2013


    One good speech and suddenly everyone's forgot about the housing crisis, trolley crisis, etc.


  • #7308
    ben.schlomo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,042 ✭✭✭✭ben.schlomo


    zerosugarbuzz wrote: »
    Surprised at the reactions here, Leo should be in a boy band, totally scripted speech, good scriptwriter though!

    You thought he was gonna ad lib?


  • #7309
    Lundstram
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭Lundstram


    threeball wrote: »
    I'm off to buy some doctors scrubs, there'll be some amount of hole to be had....oh wait....
    And free Supermacs for after.


  • #7310
    Humberto Salazar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 624 ✭✭✭Humberto Salazar


    Speech reminded me of yer man Bill Pullman in Independence Day.


  • #7311
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 13,340 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    zerosugarbuzz wrote: »
    Surprised at the reactions here, Leo should be in a boy band, totally scripted speech, good scriptwriter though!

    Of course, Leo is a visual symbol of the response of our government, and lots of others behind the scenes.

    It's what we see. His personal performance on the job matters of course, but this is no one man show. People know that.


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  • #7312
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,980 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    vladmydad wrote: »
    Exactly American and British governments are doing trojan work. Our fool allowed the virus in through the Italian flights but he did a group tested speech tonight so he’s great. Of course it’s the US UK that will create the vaccine but Orange man bad bla bla

    So you are sceptical of the French company that say they are making good progress with a vaccine?


  • #7313
    Duke of Url
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,661 ✭✭✭Duke of Url


    carolmon wrote: »
    Cocooning? What a sugar coated term for isolation for months....my god even prisoners are not allowed to be put in solitary confinement for more than a regulated period of time... it's a human rights breach

    Then off you go.... mingle will the rest of your chums

    Contract C19 and get yourself hooked up to a ventilator while your family might be able to watch on behind the glass of the ICU.

    Chances are nobody will be looking on at you as the hospital staff will be dealing with the others you manages to pass it onto....

    Or

    Be safe with your family at home and don’t fuck around outside you and everyone else will get through this.


  • #7314
    DeanAustin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,952 ✭✭✭DeanAustin


    Good speech very well delivered. Nothing new but he got the messages across very well through his words and delivery.

    But...it was just a speech. It's just words. I'll judge Varadker and his government on their actions. And so far they've done bloody well.


  • #7315
    tonycascarino
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,373 ✭✭✭tonycascarino


    So what I got from the speech is that many many more people are going to get infected and some will die, a recession is on the way, this will go on for months and a lockdown will probably come fairly soon.


  • #7316
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    EB_2013 wrote: »
    One good speech and suddenly everyone's forgot about the housing crisis, trolley crisis, etc.

    Morons idiots I judge the fool on what he does not what he says.

    And don't forget letting in all those flights from Italy.


  • #7317
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,593 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    Cilldara_2000 wrote: »
    I disagree. Every country will be in the same boat. A way will be found to get things going again and they will. And there's no reason to suspect that all the foreign multinationals are going to bail out. We're still the only English speaking country in the EU and the Eurozone, we still have a relatively well educated workforce, they will still want to do business. The tech companies have plenty of money and the pharmaceutical sector isn't going to tank.

    Yep. The economic doom merchants are hilarious. Borrow billions? No world economy will be able to provide loans. They seem to think this is only effecting Ireland NOT the world.


  • #7318
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,140 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    EB_2013 wrote: »
    One good speech and suddenly everyone's forgot about the housing crisis, trolley crisis, etc.

    No, they haven’t.

    And those ‘crises’ will absolutely outlast this pandemic!!


  • #7319
    Ellsbells1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33 ✭Ellsbells1


    Leo did a very good speech but I have to say it brought me to tears. Isn’t is awful that we have no choice but to keep our children indefinitely away from their grandparents. I really feel sorry for older people and the isolation that this is causing. It won’t be good for mental health even if it is for the good of their physical health.
    I wish they would come out and tell us about the contingency plans though.


  • #7320
    fisgon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭fisgon


    Ursula Van der Leyen saying there could be a vaccine by the autumn.

    I was hearing that any vaccine, with human trials to make sure it is safe, would take at least 12 to 18 months. Anyone knowledgeable got any definitive info on this?

    Also, can you imagine how much the company would make that invented the vaccine?


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  • #7321
    Deeper Blue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,024 ✭✭✭Deeper Blue


    Do they reckon there'll be 15,000 confirmed cases by the end of the month? Wouldn't that mean they'd have to test 50,000+ people in the next 13 days? Seems like a lot of testing!


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