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

Refractions · 18-03-2020 01:40PM

c.p.w.g.w wrote: »

Whats the procedure for the following?

Person A is currently waiting to be tested for Covid-19.

Person B was with him on thursday evening. Person B is showing zero symptoms?

What does Person B do?

There doesnt seem to be any hard and fast rules, just limit your movements. My daughter is showing symptoms and even though kids ‘aren’t supposed to get it’ they’re testing her anyway and have told us all not to leave the house until results are back. So i guess dont go to work and self-isolate.

Cw85 · 18-03-2020 01:43PM

People need to be wary of articles where it states that a cure has been found. A lot of pharma companies to this to gain revenue by people buying stocks and shares. The WHO and any reputable experts I have heard from all state that it will be at least 12 months.

Class MayDresser · 18-03-2020 01:46PM

Two people I see going into my local Super Valu without cleansing their hands at the front door. First fella passed me out while I was cleansing mine, I stopped him in the fruit and veg, he was genuinely stumped but went back out.
On leaving another woman mid thirties straight in no cleansing.
I give up, how thick are people?

gabeeg · 18-03-2020 01:46PM

Cw85 wrote: »

People need to be wary of articles where it states that a cure has been found. A lot of pharma companies to this to gain revenue by people buying stocks and shares. The WHO and any reputable experts I have heard from all state that it will be at least 12 months.

We don't need a cure. It'd be nice to have of course.

We need treatments that make this fecker more manageable. I'm confident we'll see progress here with a vast numbers of doctors/scientists working on it.

DevilsHaircut · 18-03-2020 01:47PM

Cw85 wrote: »

People need to be wary of articles where it states that a cure has been found. A lot of pharma companies to this to gain revenue by people buying stocks and shares. The WHO and any reputable experts I have heard from all state that it will be at least 12 months.

That's for a vaccine.

Curlysue76 · 18-03-2020 01:47PM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Is he also going to write a songs for Ireland, Spain, Germany, France, USA, Iran....????

Oh please God no. Aren’t we all suffering enough .

Silverfish · 18-03-2020 01:47PM

Refractions wrote: »

There doesnt seem to be any hard and fast rules, just limit your movements. My daughter is showing symptoms and even though kids ‘aren’t supposed to get it’ they’re testing her anyway and have told us all not to leave the house until results are back. So i guess dont go to work and self-isolate.

Kids do get it, that's the point. They can get it, and spread it, it just doesn't affect them as severely as adults.
This is why schools closed to prevent the spread from asymptomatic carriers.

facehugger99 · 18-03-2020 01:48PM

retro:electro wrote: »

Wishing her a full recovery. The more “high profile” who come out and say they have this illness, the more relief I seem to feel. It’s good to put faces to some of the patients and be informed on how they’re managing.

If ever a sentence summed up the sad state of our celebrity-obsessed culture....

marklazarcovic · 18-03-2020 01:49PM

Passed a funeral earlier,rural village, decent sized village,in the west.. place was wedged,spilling out the front door, another crowd there,a good portion in the older age bracket.. it ain't hitting home hard enough yet I'm afraid.

Blud · 18-03-2020 01:51PM

Cw85 wrote: »

People need to be wary of articles where it states that a cure has been found. A lot of pharma companies to this to gain revenue by people buying stocks and shares. The WHO and any reputable experts I have heard from all state that it will be at least 12 months.

This seems like a mad sentence to actually have to write, but... companies don't gain revenue by people buying their stocks and shares.

If you think a CEO is doing this to artificially boost share price so that he, and other shareholders, can cop a big gain, then that would be illegal.

freshpopcorn · 18-03-2020 01:51PM

Class MayDresser wrote: »

Two people I see going into my local Super Valu without cleansing their hands at the front door. First fella passed me out while I was cleansing mine, I stopped him in the fruit and veg, he was genuinely stumped but went back out.
On leaving another woman mid thirties straight in no cleansing.
I give up, how thick are people?

I was talking to somebody and a shop had a table set up with hand gel,etc. After a time tough it was just watered down and people who worked there was telling people to stay away from it because they said you'd probably catch something off it nearly!

Hurrache · 18-03-2020 01:52PM

keps wrote: »

A lot of taxi drivers are out of work/pay as there are no customers

The Gov should engage with the Taxi Union and pay the drivers to do Home deliveries of essentials

A lot of people are out of work, why not pay everybody who wants to do home deliveries?

If it's groceries, the last person I'd want dropping my stuff off is a taxi driver anyway, they'd have little to no knowledge of food handling and hygiene, nor the equipment.

Curlysue76 · 18-03-2020 01:52PM

marklazarcovic wrote: »

Passed a funeral earlier,rural village, decent sized village,in the west.. place was wedged,spilling out the front door, another crowd there,a good portion in the older age bracket.. it ain't hitting home hard enough yet I'm afraid.

I think it will be very hard for people not to go to a funeral. It would seem so unnatural, but I think it needs to be done. Do something to pay respects after this has passed if need be.

nacho libre · 18-03-2020 01:53PM

gabeeg wrote: »

We don't need a cure. It'd be nice to have of course.

We need treatments that make this fecker more manageable. I'm confident we'll see progress here with a vast numbers of doctors/scientists working on it.

As leading experts have stated, the answer to controlling this virus is in better treatments, alongside the restrictive measures being taken, a vaccine will not solve the issue. These reports about a vaccine being found remind me of various articles claiming a cure for cancer.

That said A vaccine will be of course be developed but its takes time for it to be trialled and approved for human usage. According to the experts that can take up to a year.

Mervyn Skidmore · 18-03-2020 01:54PM

Curlysue76 wrote: »

I think it will be very hard for people not to go to a funeral. It would seem so unnatural, but I think it needs to be done. Do something to pay respects after this has passed if need be.

Maybe after they realise they're attending more funerals than normal it'll hit home.

griffinlee · 18-03-2020 01:54PM

Anyone got a link to Leo's full speech, UK friends are asking for it as they saw it being discussed in their papers..

Can't share rtes videos

tobefrank321 · 18-03-2020 01:55PM

murpho999 wrote: »

Please explain to me how it would be helpful? She's got it and she's self isolating and I'm sure she's informed everyone she knows that she's been in contact with.

She also sounds fine by the way which should reassure people.

Helpful to know if its a cluster.
Helpful to know if its community transmission.
Helpful to know if she picked it up on public transport, or in a shop, or in her place of work in which case the office should be shut down asap and deep cleaned.
Helpful for a number of reasons.

Refractions · 18-03-2020 01:56PM

Silverfish wrote: »

Kids do get it, that's the point. They can get it, and spread it, it just doesn't affect them as severely as adults.
This is why schools closed to prevent the spread from asymptomatic carriers.

Yeah i know they carry it but do any show symptoms? Pardon my ignorance but i haven’t heard of any. My thinking was that my daughter (5) just has a common bug but my wife/GP are more concerned.

SusieBlue · 18-03-2020 01:56PM

facehugger99 wrote: »

If ever a sentence summed up the sad state of our celebrity-obsessed culture....

Its nothing to do with being obsessed with celebrities, its more to do with being able to put a face to the virus, meaning more of the deniers & naysayers might take it a bit more seriously.

The more famous people that come out with this, the more "real" it will feel to the public. The more real it feels, the better the chance they'll wash their hands, observe social distancing, and take other precautions, thus contributing to the delay of the spread.
That's why its a relief.

facehugger99 · 18-03-2020 01:56PM

Curlysue76 wrote: »

I think it will be very hard for people not to go to a funeral. It would seem so unnatural, but I think it needs to be done. Do something to pay respects after this has passed if need be.

One of the lads in work was at a removal over the weekend. Bottle of hand sanitiser on a table on the way in but other than that, completely normal. everyone shaking hands and hugging the deceased family, people queuing up in close proximity.

Tacitus Kilgore · 18-03-2020 01:57PM

griffinlee wrote: »

Anyone got a link to Leo's full speech, UK friends are asking for it as they saw it being discussed in their papers..

Can't share rtes videos

98fm have it on their facebook

limnam · 18-03-2020 01:57PM

tobefrank321 wrote: »

Helpful to know if its a cluster.
Helpful to know if its community transmission.
Helpful to know if she picked it up on public transport, or in a shop, or in her place of work in which case the office should be shut down asap and deep cleaned.
Helpful for a number of reasons.

If you're acting like it's pretty much everywhere then none of it really matters.

As we go on the chances of people been able to identify how they got it with will be less and less.

freshpopcorn · 18-03-2020 01:57PM

At work we had our busiest day ever on Monday and Tuesday was okay seen the fact that no where else was open apart from Supervalu.
All the other shops apart from supermarkets, chemists Banks and the post office are closed tough.(Maybe a newsagents).
Most people still paying with cash.

neonsofa · 18-03-2020 01:58PM

facehugger99 wrote: »

If ever a sentence summed up the sad state of our celebrity-obsessed culture....

Not really. High profile people are more visible online etc, therefore certain information becomes accessible, you can keep an eye on their symptoms/how they are feeling, which gives comfort to those who are constantly hearing "X amount of cases" with no indication as to severity of symptoms/what to expect. Seeing others, who are relatable and accessible, going through it and coming out the other side is great comfort to many, and to dismiss it as some sort of celebrity obsessed culture is..... I'm not gonna get myself banned.

Gynoid · 18-03-2020 01:59PM

https://twitter.com/DrJamesKent3/status/1239534336996761609?s=19

I want to be this lady when I grow up.

facehugger99 · 18-03-2020 01:59PM

SusieBlue wrote: »

The more famous people that come out with this, the more "real" it will feel to the public. The more real it feels, the better the chance they'll wash their hands, observe social distancing, and take other precautions, thus contributing to the delay of the spread.
That's why its a relief.

Quite the opposite I'd imagine - the more famous people get it the less serious it's all going to seem, especially as a lot of them don't seem to be suffering any symptoms whatsoever.

Who know, it'll probably become quite the thing among the Facebook generation to brag about having contracted it for a few likes.

1800_Ladladlad · 18-03-2020 02:00PM

This is the Blanchardstown at the moment. Taken from the cafe in Marks and Spencer facing towards the fountain/Dunnes.

Dunnes is the only supermarket that has its own separate door which should be utilised for public to use. Keeping the entire centre open for the sake of a few shops is putting retail staff at risk along with the security and maintenance staff that have to be present as well. If you can afford to shop in Marks, then fair play to you but from what iv been told the food hall is not busy atall. There are three chemist's in the centre too, they should be closed as there are plenty in the surrounding areas that are open and are accessible.

I'm not only thinking of my mother but all of the unnecessary staff who's health is at risk. I was one of them for 10 years. I would much rather wait in a line outside a chemist in a surrounding area than risk possibly infecting staff in unnecessary and confined areas who should not have to be there

RugbyLad11 · 18-03-2020 02:01PM

griffinlee wrote: »

Anyone got a link to Leo's full speech, UK friends are asking for it as they saw it being discussed in their papers..

Can't share rtes videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30Sg2uqwXc8

bb12 · 18-03-2020 02:01PM

CIARAN_BOYLE wrote: »

Test doesn't work on most asymptomatic persons as the viral load is too little for the test to detect.

don't think that's true. didn't israel test some airline passengers entering the country and the asymptomatic ones had a much higher viral load than ones with symptoms and were seen as super spreaders

billybonkers · 18-03-2020 02:02PM

Are the banks and post offices closed? I would have thought they would be essential services.

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