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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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  • #7592
    Midnight Rambler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 ✭Midnight Rambler


    Oh oh!!

    Miriam O’Callaghan to self isolate next (it’s amazing how quickly we become super sensitive to things like coughs and rough voices).


  • #7593
    cj maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,654 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    I don't get the hate against paying doctors E30 a call.
    They're not having the craic on these calls . they'll be making notes, writing scripts , advising patients. And here they're called Gougers ?


  • #7594
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    Clarence Boddiker wrote: »
    I hope people realise theres a multitude of Government shills right now on these very boards expressing their gratitude at how well the government are handling the situation.
    But if it was a party that you liked, it wouldn't be shilling, am I right?
    PmMeUrDogs wrote: »
    Um you can see from my previous posts that I voted soc Dem and SF in our last election, mate. I'm far from a shill.
    No no, it doesn't work that way. You can't possibly agree with the view of a party leader that you didn't vote for. You must disagree at all times - if you don't, then the only conclusion to be drawn is that you're a shill. It's the only possibility.
    EB_2013 wrote: »
    One good speech and suddenly everyone's forgot about the housing crisis, trolley crisis, etc.
    Everyone's forgotten? Do demonstrate the evidence of same.


  • #7595
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    People taking digs at parties can **** off.

    This is a time for every single one of us to work together no matter what our political beliefs are.

    The only parties we should be taking digs at are the large house parties.


  • #7596
    Clarence Boddiker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 776 ✭✭✭Clarence Boddiker


    Necro wrote: »
    Jesus f*cking Christ.

    Put your nonsense political tripe away.

    This is a GLOBAL PANDEMIC.

    Not the time for stupid, petty, political pointscoring.

    Thankfully the other parties have realised that too now maybe their online followers can do the same?

    Yes it is a global pandemic and the entire Eu are planning on banning all inward travel from outside and the Irish government are not...does that not seem strange to you?


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  • #7597
    Mech1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,149 ✭✭✭Mech1


    New advice on Prime Time!!!
    Cough into a sheet of paper its grand.


  • #7598
    Logan Roy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 452 ✭✭Logan Roy


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    One thing mentioned in this speech, and in a previous update too, was the importance of distancing within the home.

    Most cases it seems are spread within the home.

    I've been staying inside, bar the odd trip to the supermarket, but are we taking appropriate measures at home?

    I live in a small apartment with my partner, no children. We've been within one metre all the time. I can't get a bigger apartment.

    Sometimes we kiss or hug :( we have to.

    Ah jesus there's no need to distancing inside in your own home. Yes most cases are spread within a home but the whole idea of social distancing outside your home is that you don't pick something up and bring it home.


  • #7599
    PokeHerKing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,877 ✭✭✭PokeHerKing


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    It really wasn't whatsoever like your first paragraph. People need to think for themselves and stop throwing out that kind of stuff for the sake of it.

    Who the hell would get comfort out of it? It was totally ominous.

    Comfort that the right actions are being taken. Comfort that the right provisions are being put into place for the people who are going to be most hit by this. Comfort in the thought that the leader of your country is taking this crisis and threat serious and not just seeing it as an opportunity for his ****ing close up.


  • #7600
    nails1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 495 ✭✭nails1


    Midnight Rambler wrote: »
    Oh oh!!

    Miriam O’Callaghan to self isolate next (it’s amazing how quickly we become super sensitive to things like coughs and rough voices).

    Didn’t cough into her elbow either


  • #7601
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,603 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Great upbeat movie to follow Prime Time. Geez


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  • #7602
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,398 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    timhenn wrote: »
    I know someone who works for a multinational company. They have the capability to work from home but the company says they have to come into the office for work. Is anyone else in the same position? What can be done about it? They are putting their staff at risk of picking this virus up!

    Approach HR? Ask questions? I don't know.
    Surely they don't want a lot of staff sick either.

    Keep on pushing the question, sound it out with your colleagues too.


  • #7603
    olestoepoke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,383 ✭✭✭olestoepoke


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    One thing mentioned in this speech, and in a previous update too, was the importance of distancing within the home.

    Most cases it seems are spread within the home.

    I've been staying inside, bar the odd trip to the supermarket, but are we taking appropriate measures at home?

    I live in a small apartment with my partner, no children. We've been within one metre all the time. I can't get a bigger apartment.

    Sometimes we kiss or hug :( we have to.

    My wife works in a pharmacy. I'm working from home with the kids. She is our biggest worry now. Where's one of the first place a sick person goes? Into their pharmacy. She's doing her best by washing her hands and using sanitiser but they have been unbelievably busy with customers in the last couple of weeks. It's an ill wind that doesn't blow for someone, her boss is taking in twice what he normally does in a day.


  • #7604
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Interesting article here. Basically saying we do not know the true infection rate so we can't be sure of the actual mortality. He takes a look at the cruise ship to show a population that was contained and tested.

    https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/


  • #7605
    silver2020
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,045 ✭✭✭silver2020


    vladmydad wrote: »
    Trump has
    - was the first to ban flights from affected areas thus buying time
    - made a consortium of all major pharmaceutical companies to find a vaccine.
    - He waved regulations to allow a vaccine candidate to become the fastest ever to enter phase one testing.
    - He’s giving paid family leave to those affected by Coronavirus.
    - He’s made one Trillion dollars available in government bonds.
    - He got Walmart to use their car parks for drive through testing.
    - he’s planning a bailout for cruise and airline industry’s
    - he’s looking at giving €1000 to every American
    - even CNN are giving him some praise

    Please stop the uninformed Trump bashing

    oh boy - please do not read the new york post -

    He only stopped some international flights last week - has no problem with huge amounts of internal flights (USA is almost the size of all of europe)

    Hundreds of flights daily from seattle to all arts of the US - STILL!

    Utter fool he is


  • #7606
    Clarence Boddiker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 776 ✭✭✭Clarence Boddiker


    The Irish people are the most easily manipulated people on earth, its truly terrifying.
    They talk about Trump, Russia, Fox News, The daily Mail and yet it never occurs to them that their own media are manipulating them...christ almighty...


  • #7607
    Xertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭Xertz


    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    People taking digs at parties can **** off.

    This is a time for every single one of us to work together no matter what our political beliefs are.

    Also we live in a proportional representation democracy where there tends to be a hell of a lot of common ground in the centre.

    So, let's not get carried away thinking that we're in some kind of Tory vs Labour or GOP vs Dems imported crazy - That's not our politics. We haven't ever had those kinds of hard divides. Winner never takes all here. It's about consensus.

    This is Ireland.
    Politics is a whole lot more centrist and that means we can absolutely come together and just deal with this.

    Politics her is about pragmatism, compromise, finding consensus and in a situation like this it's about putting on the green jersey and contributing ideas, leadership, work, whatever you can. We're all in this together across the whole political spectrum.

    It's us vs a virus. So, let's not get bogged down on anything else. It's not worth it right now.

    We've a country to first protect and then probably rebuild.

    There aren't a whole lot of choices here as viruses neither wait around nor do they negotiate and do politics. We have to move and move now.


  • #7608
    timhenn
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 514 ✭✭✭timhenn


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    Approach HR? Ask questions? I don't know.
    Surely they don't want a lot of staff sick either.

    Keep on pushing the question, sound it out with your colleagues too.

    It's not me. My friend said that they did raise concerns. They have been told that the more experienced members of staff will work from home but the less experienced ones will have to go to the office. It doesn't seem right.


  • #7609
    Bonzo Delaney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,577 ✭✭✭Bonzo Delaney


    Midnight Rambler wrote: »
    Oh oh!!

    Miriam O’Callaghan to self isolate next (it’s amazing how quickly we become super sensitive to things like coughs and rough voices).
    If she farted no one would of bated an eyelid these days


  • #7610
    screamer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,193 ✭✭✭screamer


    Clarence Boddiker wrote: »
    Yes it is a global pandemic and the entire Eu are planning on banning all inward travel from outside and the Irish government are not...does that not seem strange to you?

    One big difference, they are on the continent with land borders, we’re an island at the very end of the European supply chain. Now I wonder why we might need flights coming in?


  • #7611
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,398 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Logan Roy wrote: »
    Ah jesus there's no need to distancing inside in your own home. Yes most cases are spread within a home but the whole idea of social distancing outside your home is that you don't pick something up and bring it home.

    Thanks. Maybe I'm over thinking. It's a confusing time.


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  • #7612
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,117 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Can anyone tell me what the subject of the day will be tomorrow to get het up about?
    Running out of topics now.


  • #7613
    ITman88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 876 ✭✭✭ITman88


    jk23 wrote: »
    The place I work for are not taking this serious and are dealing with the public alot of the day. It's an essential service so it won't shut down but many others are not and are holding much more than 100 workers together...medical device companies for instance

    Medical devices are still critical, should we shut Medtronic in Galway?


  • #7614
    Level 42
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭Level 42


    If you get the virus and recover from it can you catch it again or what


  • #7615
    Clarence Boddiker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 776 ✭✭✭Clarence Boddiker


    screamer wrote: »
    One big difference, they are on the continent with land borders, we’re an island at the very end of the European supply chain. Now I wonder why we might need flights coming in?

    Yes cargo/freight flights not multitudes of people from affected areas.


  • #7616
    Mech1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,149 ✭✭✭Mech1


    No elbow


  • #7617
    jos28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,246 ✭✭✭jos28


    Quick question on a lighter note - what's the best app to use for a virtual party. Really missing me besties, I'd love for us all to open a bottle and have the chats virtually


  • #7618
    skimpydoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,074 ✭✭✭skimpydoo


    statesaver wrote: »
    Did you watch Trumps press conference today ?
    If not, i think you should. Was measured just like Leo's but without the scaremongering of Leo's.
    Go watch it and see.
    Scaremongering? some people are still not getting it and putting peoples lives at risk. If you layout the worse scenario it should make people question what they are doing and hopefully cop on.


  • #7619
    Duke of Url
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,662 ✭✭✭Duke of Url


    cjmc wrote: »
    I don't get the hate against paying doctors E30 a call.
    They're not having the craic on these calls . they'll be making notes, writing scripts , advising patients. And here they're called Gougers ?

    Me: hi Doc

    Doc: what’s up

    Me: I have a fever and cough

    Doc: know anyone with C19

    Me: nope

    Doc: stay home and isolate for 14 day

    Click....

    €30 blings baby


  • #7620
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    And all cause of this guy.... !!


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  • #7621
    Big Pussy Bonpensiero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,794 ✭✭✭Big Pussy Bonpensiero


    silver2020 wrote: »
    oh boy - please do not read the new york post -

    He only stopped some international flights last week - has no problem with huge amounts of internal flights (USA is almost the size of all of europe)

    Hundreds of flights daily from seattle to all arts of the US - STILL!

    Utter fool he is

    Why engage....


    Can the moderators please stop this from becoming a political debate?? The majority of us don't care about Trump/BJ/SFvsFFG when we have a global pandemic bringing the world to a halt.


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