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

whiskeyman · 18-03-2020 01:03PM

Newstalk's Ciara Kelly has it.
Probably been posted already?
Only a matter of time before more high profile people have it.

bottlebrush · 18-03-2020 01:05PM

billybonkers wrote: »

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

Dont know about the banks but just heard on the news that post offices are extending opening hours

ChikiChiki · 18-03-2020 01:07PM

whiskeyman wrote: »

Newstalk's Ciara Kelly has it.
Probably been posted already?
Only a matter of time before more high profile people have it.

Its hard not to think many people have had it at this stage and just written it off as the seasonal flu.

kowloon · 18-03-2020 01:08PM

neonsofa wrote: »

I've just been assuming those types of posts are parody/satire. Maybe I'm giving too much credit :pac:

That's the problem with satire: Done well and you can never tell the difference.

beolight · 18-03-2020 01:09PM

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.

Have to agree and we need a journalist to probe this further next time Leo, Simon etc bring up South Kotea as the model to follow It’s basically a wartime situation and as such the HSE mantra/paranoia about privacy needs to be put to one side nobody is asking for identities or eircodes just locations .....: it may have a beneficial effect as it will dawn on some of the foolhardy ones just how close they maybe to it

bb12 · 18-03-2020 01:09PM

i see the government are in talks with the banks this afternoon re helping people with mortgages, loans etc

wonder if they will apply the same to themselves and if they're gonna take everyone's property tax bill out of their banks accounts on the 21st?

Retr0gamer · 18-03-2020 01:09PM

They probably have developed plenty of potential cures and vaccines to Cov19. That work isn't too tough. What takes so long is testing to make sure they are effective and safe. No Pharma company wants another Thalidomide and all the testing and regulations are in place and necessary to avoid that.

statesaver · 18-03-2020 01:09PM

bottlebrush wrote: »

Dont know about the banks but just heard on the news that post offices are extending opening hours

Makes sense, there will be a lot more people queuing for their dole. Sad times.

retro:electro · 18-03-2020 01:10PM

facehugger99 wrote: »

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

Eh how exactly? Hardly any good John from down the road coming out saying he has it. Sure he doesn’t have a profile and can’t use his voice/following to inform the masses. Nothing “celebrity obsessed” about it. Like it or not but there is a stigma attached to this illness, and the more people who come out and address their symptoms the better, even more so if they have large followings.

gabeeg · 18-03-2020 01:10PM

346 new cases in the Netherlands. 15 deaths.

The mad fools are still going down the herd immunity route. They're in huge trouble.

iwillyeah1234 · 18-03-2020 01:10PM

Hurrache wrote: »

Out of all the places in which you believe anything written, nevermind anything written about the EU, Spiked, and the peasant stock staff, is not one you'd even wipe your ass with

Nobody click through to that link.

From the European Court of Justice, dated March 12th:
"Judgment in Case C-576/18
Commission v Italy"

"Italy is ordered to pay pecuniary penalties for failing to recover aid unlawfully
granted to the hotel industry in Sardinia.
That Member State will therefore have to pay to the budget of the EU a lump sum of €7 500 000 as well as, as from today, a periodic penalty payment of € 80 000 for each day of delay"

bekker · 18-03-2020 01:11PM

Good article in Guardian yesterday by Dr Petra Klepac (assistant professor of infectious disease modelling at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine).

Factual overview of were the science is at regarding COVID-19, covers much more than title indicates..

Content gives overview of nature of viral spread in context of COVID-19, basis of differing strategies for constraining spread, and results of study of how it is spread by different age groups

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/17/scientists-age-groups-covid-19-workplaces-shops-restaurants

amadangomor · 18-03-2020 01:12PM

SeaBreezes wrote: »

What were your symptoms for the last 2 weeks?

Cough that started in the chest, sore throat for 2/3 days, headache for maybe one day, slightly off food for a day or two. No temperature, little bit tired but nothing out of the ordinary. Was slightly out of breath for last few days and worse today. Sore chest when breathing today.

dummy_crusher · 18-03-2020 01:12PM

ChikiChiki wrote: »

Its hard not to think many people have had it at this stage and just written it off as the seasonal flu.

I tend to agree, but it is certainly not a reason to become complacent since so many people are potentially high risk.

s7ryf3925pivug · 18-03-2020 01:12PM

I emailed a plumber this morning.

They're here now.

The end of days has arrived.

tobefrank321 · 18-03-2020 01:12PM

I really hope those testers doing drive through testing disinfect between each test. Sticking their hands in people's mouths is asking for spreading covid19 if they don't get it right.

05eaftqbrs9jlh · 18-03-2020 01:13PM

whiskeyman wrote: »

Newstalk's Ciara Kelly has it.
Probably been posted already?
Only a matter of time before more high profile people have it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtdKrju9nzc

I actually called Ciara Kelly having it on Friday. I hope Miriam doesn't have it but since Claire Byrne is self-isolating, there's a chance it's in RTÉ to some extent.

John Oliver also did his show in an empty studio the other day because their studio is being cleaned after two people in the office were confirmed as having coronavirus. It was jarring. Probably intentionally. Very effective.

iwillyeah1234 · 18-03-2020 01:14PM

beolight wrote: »

Have to agree and we need a journalist to probe this further next time Leo, Simon etc bring up South Kotea as the model to follow It’s basically a wartime situation and as such the HSE mantra/paranoia about privacy needs to be put to one side nobody is asking for identities or eircodes just locations .....: it may have a beneficial effect as it will dawn on some of the foolhardy ones just how close they maybe to it

as i pointed out earlier in the thread, the South Korean government is allowed legally to publish all records of a Corona case's movements - credit card transactions, mobile phone GPS, transport movements etc. The data is anonimised, but where the case was moving geographically, they publish - and they publish to social media apps in Korea!

Part of a policy of extreme transparent messaging.

This greatly assists with members of the public coming forward to get tested. ( they also have a massive "test test test" program )

beolight · 18-03-2020 01:15PM

Reassuring to see it so empty

1800_Ladladlad wrote: »

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

gabeeg · 18-03-2020 01:15PM

If all our telly and radio presenters get sick, I'm willing to answer the country's call

Stone Deaf 4evr · 18-03-2020 01:15PM

tobefrank321 wrote: »

I really hope those testers doing drive through testing disinfect between each test. Sticking their hands in people's mouths is asking for spreading covid19 if they don't get it right.

yeah, you tell em!

dummy_crusher · 18-03-2020 01:15PM

tobefrank321 wrote: »

I really hope those testers doing drive through testing disinfect between each test. Sticking their hands in people's mouths is asking for spreading covid19 if they don't get it right.

Ah stop now, you don't think they're taking every precaution to prevent infecting other people and themselves? Some BS.

Gael23 · 18-03-2020 01:16PM

Looks likely the leaving cert is off.

18-03-2020 01:16PM

billybonkers wrote: »

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

They are still open.

Friday is pension day. That’s gonna be a nightmare. My brother got form to collect my mums pension for her.

EDit · 18-03-2020 01:17PM

amadangomor wrote: »

Cough that started in the chest, sore throat for 2/3 days, headache for maybe one day, slightly off food for a day or two. No temperature, little bit tired but nothing out of the ordinary. Was slightly out of breath for last few days and worse today. Sore chest when breathing today.

This is exactly what myself and my wife have had for the last 5-6 days. The lack of persistent cough and fever has made me think it’s just a cold, but we are self-isolating anyways

18-03-2020 01:20PM

bb12 wrote: »

i see the government are in talks with the banks this afternoon re helping people with mortgages, loans etc

wonder if they will apply the same to themselves and if they're gonna take everyone's property tax bill out of their banks accounts on the 21st?

It was already said a few days back that it’s not being taken.

Cw85 · 18-03-2020 01:21PM

I have tonsillitis at the moment, started coming on yesterday. I get it every 3 months so was kind of expecting it and on a waiting list to get them out. Rang doctor this morning and went down to collect a prescription, you have to wait outside and they bring it out to you. A lot of the symptoms I have are similar to to Covid-19 such as aches and pain, fever, sore throat and shortness of breath but I know it's the tonsollities as I have these symptoms every 3 months for the past 3 years.

Cork Boy 53 · 18-03-2020 01:21PM

gabeeg wrote: »

If all our telly and radio presenters get sick, I'm willing to answer the country's call

"Liveline. Talk to gabeeg." Seems workable.

joeguevara · 18-03-2020 01:21PM

beolight wrote: »

Have to agree and we need a journalist to probe this further next time Leo, Simon etc bring up South Kotea as the model to follow It’s basically a wartime situation and as such the HSE mantra/paranoia about privacy needs to be put to one side nobody is asking for identities or eircodes just locations .....: it may have a beneficial effect as it will dawn on some of the foolhardy ones just how close they maybe to it

But the issue is undetected cases would mean a drop of guard if published where positive hits are.

18-03-2020 01:22PM

gabeeg wrote: »

346 new cases in the Netherlands. 15 deaths.

The mad fools are still going down the herd immunity route. They're in huge trouble.

Herd immunity is the best approach once you fully pre-isolate as many vulnerable people as possible. Quarantine those with the highest risk and let everyone else carry on as normal. Some young/healthy people will die but not many, most will have a typical flu.

In this case people should actually be encouraged to mix more than ever, not less. In no time at all most of us will have caught it, after a few months you can progressively lift the quarantine. Old people may still die as you lift the quarantine but you do it in groups (eg 65-67 the first month, 67-69 the next month etc) so it won't overwhelm the system. And we're talking months in the future so we will have rakes of ventilators by then.

If you don't effectively isolate the at-risk then herd immunity approach will be a disaster.

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