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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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  • #8972
    facehugger99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,825 ✭✭✭facehugger99


    DeanAustin wrote: »
    I hope that's not true - I'm one of those 400k.

    It's not, just a hysteria-merchant trying to stoke up the panic.


  • #8973
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,032 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    iwillyeah1234 wrote: »
    Japan's culture is naturally socially distant.
    They bow rather than shaking hands.
    They wear face masks all the time , if they are ill ( and also to counter act pollution).

    They also don't naturally strike up friendships with outsiders. ( they aren't naturally sociable with foreigners)

    Japan's culture is probably what , inadvertently, saved them.

    Follow rules to the letter, they wouldn't be heading down to the off licence for bags of cans, inviting all their mates for a laugh and a virus party.


  • #8974
    olestoepoke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,383 ✭✭✭olestoepoke


    Spideog Rua wrote: »
    We were too slow...the govt dilly dallied and dint make decisions until it was too late. Nobwe pay the price of having to wait 7 to 10 days to the spread to slow down

    Letting thousand go over to Cheltenham was a crazy mistake. Reports in the paper today that some who came back are showing symptoms. Who'd have guessed right.


  • #8975
    blade1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,767 ✭✭✭✭blade1


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  • #8976
    BLIZZARD7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,002 ✭✭✭BLIZZARD7


    Spain at +2,084 cases and 90 new deaths so far today


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  • #8977
    Hector Savage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    Whats the story with hotter countries, like Nigeria, India ... they don't seem to have that many cases, I know they wouldn't be testing much, but it's about a month since the 1st official case appeared in Nigeria - surely there would be some unexplained deaths - from flu like illnesses that would make them test more ?

    Or could it be the heat here making it less transmissible ?


  • #8978
    billybonkers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,293 ✭✭✭billybonkers


    Ryanair to ground most flights from Tuesday next


  • #8979
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,599 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Scottish & Welsh schools closing this Friday!

    I presume NI schools will follow suit?
    (If they haven't done so already)?


  • #8980
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    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.

    Your talents are truly wasted here on boards.ie.


  • #8981
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    SuspectZero wrote: »
    Some questions some might be able to shine a light on for me. Ireland is currently seeing a doubling of cases just under every 4 days and the government is saying the model predicts it will continue like this. this infection growth rate is similar to the early days infection rate in both China and Italy where there were no controls in place for a long period of time. It was also said that the population median age in Italy was a prime cause of the high death rate and infection rate. was just looking at the datachecker graph and statistics and one sticks out.

    Japan's infection growth rate from day one was a doubling every 7 days, Japan also has the highest median age in the entire world yet it has the second lowest infection rate in the world, this even though social distancing and banning of mass gatherings weren't put into place until 51 days after patient zero was discovered in Japan.

    So why despite more stricter measures been put in place in Europe, Ireland, UK and The US earlier and harder has the infection growth rate been almost identical to places like Italy and China? And why is the growth rate in Japan been 50% slower even before strict measures were put in?

    There are suspicions that the Japanese are cooking the books when it comes to the figures/maybe not testing as much as thy could. The reason could be that PM Abe is trying to push for the Olympics to go ahead. I've only heard this on the radio so this isn't gospel


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  • #8982
    Hector Savage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    BLIZZARD7 wrote: »
    Spain at +2,084 cases and 90 new deaths so far today

    yeah don't f*cking remind me ... im in the epicentre here can't even go out for a ****


  • #8983
    dan786
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,341 ✭✭✭dan786


    RTÉ News understands that the Stormont Executive is on course to confirm that schools will close from the weekend in response to the coronavirus emergency.

    The devolved administrations in Scotland and Wales have already announced plans to shut schools. When Northern Ireland confirms its plans it will mirror the strategy introduced south of the border last week.


  • #8984
    BLIZZARD7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,002 ✭✭✭BLIZZARD7


    Big increase in Taiwan today, +23 to 100 cases in total


  • #8985
    Hector Savage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    Hector Savage wrote: »
    yeah don't f*cking remind me ... im in the epicentre here can't even go out for a ****

    :D:D:D:D that should say WALK !!!


  • #8986
    Spook_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,896 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie


    Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »
    Ah god love them, there is no such thing as a poor taxi driver, they have been creaming it for years, they'll manage fine.

    Really, suggest you come and see my bank account then!


  • #8987
    Funkfield
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,602 ✭✭✭Funkfield


    Hector Savage wrote: »
    yeah don't f*cking remind me ... im in the epicentre here can't even go out for a ****


    Hope thats not a typo


  • #8988
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »
    Yeah no problem you great orange ape, we'll just shut up shop here and start a factory in the US, can you give us until Monday to get that sorted? Cool, thanks.

    How someone so fcuking retarded could get elected as president is a sad indictment on the US electorate.

    I generally wouldn't defend the Orange eejit but he didn't say this at all

    See for yourself.
    https://youtu.be/vvdjqrxSOFk?t=4194


  • #8989
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,444 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    Hector Savage wrote: »
    yeah don't f*cking remind me ... im in the epicentre here can't even go out for a ****

    A fan of al frescoe tugging?


  • #8990
    Snow Garden
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Snow Garden


    US2 wrote: »
    You can be sure its mostly hypochondriacs clogging up the testing labs. Plenty of them on here too .

    Without a shadow of a doubt. The same people that were selfish buying last week.


  • #8991
    lak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37 ✭lak


    Hamsterchops wrote: »
    Scottish & Welsh schools closing this Friday!

    I presume NI schools will follow suit?
    (If they haven't done so already)?

    They'll do what they always do, wait till England tell them what to do.


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  • #8992
    tromtipp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 264 ✭✭tromtipp


    Funkfield wrote: »
    Well, yeah, but they have to say that.

    But seriously? Dettol has been effective against previous strains to 99.9% (or whatever) according to them. I was happy to be disinfecting with it.




    I wouldn't. 0.1% error is too high. Use soap and water, as advised by experts, or a high alcohol gel if you can't do that. Bleach is useful for hard surfaces. But 99.9% leaves thousands of nasties free to run wild.


  • #8993
    bennyl10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,591 ✭✭✭bennyl10


    Had a call to the Gp today who has advised should be tested(Partner was in Rome, dry cough, tightness in chest)

    Any one have any idea how long it currently is taking for the HSE to even arrange an appointment for testing


  • #8994
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,385 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    DeanAustin wrote: »
    I hope that's not true - I'm one of those 400k.




    It's not. You (and I) are at higher risk but it is not probably going to kill you


  • #8995
    KGLady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 339 ✭✭KGLady


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    The only bit of comfort that i would take albeit not pleasant is the vomiting, that isn't a symptom of covid, also the temp isn't over 38.

    Hopefully just one of the normal doses that does the sounds.

    The vomiting was soley part of the cold body temperature episode, when we'd warm her up she would get sick again and then the coldness of her body and shivering would return afterwards. When on to the phone with the GP we were told it something that happens when some kids fight infection that doesn't express itself as a fever. Never experienced it before but I'll take their word on it. My own temp hasn't exceed 37 either, and there's a LOT of people who are confirmed with covid19 who didnt have high temps at all.

    The cough and the lung pains and inability to breathe when at rest and in good quality air are enough symptoms that we're considered likely to have it by the GP and waiting on test contact.

    Just putting this all out there so that there's no complacency around Children can't be sick with it, or No Fever = No Covid19. Its more nuanced. Once we've results I'll come back to this thread and clarify anyway :)


  • #8996
    Drumpot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭Drumpot


    US2 wrote: »
    You can be sure its mostly hypochondriacs clogging up the testing labs. Plenty of them on here too .

    This is a post that really does show the kind of ignorance some people are spouting. I think alot of people dont really think through their logic, they just think something and if it suits whatever story they want to tell themselves, they run with it.

    Ive been preparing for this since early February, taking my own measures, including visting my doctor well in advance of the rush. I would classify myself as a very cautious person when it comes to my health, others might call it being a "hypochondriac".

    I feel very relaxed about what is going on because I got emotionally and physically prepared like Dr Aylward recommended weeks ago. The people I have heard who are being tested have probably not taken this seriously enough, certainly 2 different people who are being tested went to Italy regardless of the outbreak. I would say there are a few Cheltenham dopes getting tested this week aswell. I would guess alot of the people being tested are just scared, not necessarily hypochodriacs.

    Ive had a cough (seasonal/allergy) since January that just wont go away. But over the last 2 days myself and my wife have had moments when we did wonder if either of us were getting mild symptoms. Our plan is to self isolate if thats happens and only contact authorties if it gets bad or we need to be tested. I also have a plan to measure my BP, heart-rate and temp and keep a record so I wont waste their time if I do need to contact them.

    But asides from that, there are alot of people still struggling to come to terms with this. To be fair, this is probably the scariest thing that most people in our country has had to suffer in their lifetimes, I still think some people are not grasping this.


  • #8997
    iwillyeah1234
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭iwillyeah1234


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Follow rules to the letter, they wouldn't be heading down to the off licence for bags of cans, inviting all their mates for a laugh and a virus party.

    there is that too. they follow the rules in a big way.


  • #8998
    kevcos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 220 ✭✭kevcos


    BLIZZARD7 wrote: »
    Big increase in Taiwan today, +23 to 100 cases in total

    But but Taiwan were the poster boys of the Shutdown, I just refuse to believe cases are rising there!


  • #8999
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    Hector Savage wrote: »
    :D:D:D:D that should say WALK !!!

    At least you didn't send it to your mother. Better check all old messages to her just in case :D


  • #9000
    Gretas Gonna Get Ya!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,245 ✭✭✭Gretas Gonna Get Ya!


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Herd immunity has been suspended because most experts are in the pocket of big pharma. They want us to sit around for 18 months so none of us have any immunity to it and then they'll sell their vaccine to the entire planet.

    Unchecked, 10% of positive tests require hospitalisation. Actual numbers of infected are believed to be at least 15x higher than positive tests.

    So 0.6% of infected require hospitalization. We can identify most of those - elderly, diabetes etc. Put these people in very effective isolation and you can easily reduce the amount of people requiring hospitalisation 10-fold.

    Then you let the virus run through the population, 0.06% of infected will require hospitalisation. It won't be all at once, most will recover quickly, we can handle that. 99.94% of infected will get no worse than a flu.

    In 6 months time most of us will have caught it. A test to identify if you are immune and non-spreading will be over-the-counter, cheap and widely available. You can begin lifting the isolation one group at a time. They will still need to practice social distancing but their family members can all get a test to see if they are immune and non-spreading. We can wear colored badges to notify others that we are immune.

    So most coming out of isolation will not get it. The damage to the economy and daily life will be minimal.

    Nice username. ;)

    teotwawki definition:

    a catastrophic event that destroys the existing institutions and norms of society.

    I'm guessing with a username like that, you must fancy yourself as a bit of a survivalist / prepper eh?

    You'd like that scenario wouldn't you? :rolleyes:

    Let the virus run through "the herd"... while you're safely tucked up in your doomsday bunker, watching everyone else in panic and fear!

    No thanks... we'll fight this thing head on and defeat it.

    Societies have done it before, with less knowledge and less technology than we currently have!

    You stay in your bunker and keep yourself safe! :)


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  • #9001
    Kivaro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,105 ✭✭✭Kivaro


    Hector Savage wrote: »
    yeah don't f*cking remind me ... im in the epicentre here can't even go out for a ****
    Hmmm.
    Freudian slip?


    Or just an extrovert?


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