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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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  • #9602
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    Kinda bad form to have that on national TV imo

    Ah, come on. I’m not religious myself but Mass brings comfort to many people. And the demographic most hit is also the most religious.


  • #9603
    silverharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,853 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    https://twitter.com/Dr_FarrisD/status/1240344481511149568

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • #9604
    Ninthlife
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,622 ✭✭✭Ninthlife


    Im the last person to panic and I consider my self level headed and logical. Rarely ill

    But

    The last two days my chest in particular just above my diaphragm is sore, nearly a pulsing ache and tightness. Sinuses are a bit stuffed too.

    This fecker makes you paranoid


  • #9605
    ACitizenErased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,959 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    All UCC college examinations taking place online.


  • #9606
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Kidchameleon wrote: »
    I'm well able to read Wikipedia myself thanks. Have you a relevant response?

    Trump can literally do no wrong. Is this the desired response?


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  • #9607
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,853 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Irish_peppa wrote: »
    Can the banks not increase the bank card tap to be increased to double at 60 euro? Most people shopping at the moment will be doing bigger shops. less people using keypad the better

    Cash is practically unused in my area now.


  • #9608
    wild turkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 626 ✭✭✭wild turkey


    Deleted User wrote: »
    All the Cheltenham punters who are sick at home with a bad dose will need something to watch for the next few weeks.

    F*****s, they should all be made do contact tracing for their own files. Let them answer personally to their victims !


  • #9609
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Irish_peppa wrote: »
    Can the banks not increase the bank card tap to be increased to double at 60 euro? Most people shopping at the moment will be doing bigger shops. less people using keypad the better
    It's going up to €50.


  • #9610
    dan786
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,395 ✭✭✭dan786


    The Department of Foreign Affairs is extending its deadline for Irish tourists in Spain to travel home until Saturday.

    Tánaiste Simon Coveney had originally called on Irish holidaymakers in Spain who want to fly home to do so by midnight tomorrow.

    But this has been extended in order to deal with the numbers involved.

    The plan is being worked on by airlines including Ryanair and Aer Lingus in conjunction with Spanish authorities.


  • #9611
    olestoepoke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,383 ✭✭✭olestoepoke


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    All UCC college examinations taking place online.

    DCU too. How will they manage that? How will they prevent cheating?


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  • #9612
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Martina1991 wrote: »
    Good to see the Medical Scientists of the NVRL highlighted on the news. Unfortunately they were called a "Technical Officer" for some reason. A bit disrespectful to not name staff by their actaul title.

    They are working night and day 24/7 to get through the backlog. They're under severe pressure.

    Everyone is in a rush to be swabbed but its only creating a bottleneck for our laboratory services.

    That is the title of many of the testers in the NVRL. I think there are more technical officers than medical scientists. There’s nothing deeming about it at all.


  • #9613
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,762 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    As bad as the Italy figures are, they seem to be hopefully coming towards the upper end of the curve and in a weeks time should see a steady decrease with the effects of lockdown being well underway.

    The big news is the number recovered in the last 24hrs, this tok you would expect to grow day by day given the 2 weeks period.


  • #9614
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Trump is 100% correct to refer to it as the "Chinese virus "

    China has been a very bad actor here and should be required to bail us all out

    Truly evil regime


  • #9615
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,614 ✭✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    oh no, alison spittle might be out of work


  • #9616
    Cuckoo7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 235 ✭✭Cuckoo7


    borderlinemeath wrote: »
    The virus doesn't fare well on hot food. So hot takeaway food should be fine. Cold food such as sandwiches and salads I wouldn't risk.

    https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2020/03/16/COVID-19-and-food-This-virus-is-sensitive-to-cooking-temperatures
    I would only worry about the containers the food comes in. As long as you transfer the food to your own plate and dispose of the rest carefully there should not be any problem.


  • #9617
    Irish_peppa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 651 ✭✭✭Irish_peppa


    is_that_so wrote: »
    It's going up to €50.

    where did you hear that? a quick google got me nothing


  • #9618
    nimrod86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 789 ✭✭✭nimrod86


    Irish_peppa wrote: »
    Can the banks not increase the bank card tap to be increased to double at 60 euro? Most people shopping at the moment will be doing bigger shops. less people using keypad the better

    I don't know about other banks, but with KBC you can use Google Pay, and there's NO LIMIT on it - Been my go to for the past few months, and handy paying with my phone!


  • #9619
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    God, Spain France Switzerland and Netherlands all look right in the thick of it. We are so lucky we got on top of this early(well earlier than them)


  • #9620
    pH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭pH


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    Arlene Foster speaking this evening:

    '...school closures [in NI] will likely take us to and beyond the natural break for the summer...'.

    Can't foresee ROI schools being any different!

    So we need urgent action to get the Leaving cert students taught somehow, otherwise no leaving cert = no CAO = no university admission in 2020. This is the sort of things that needs to be announced, but all we're still doing the usual trick or lutching along one step behind the crisis all they way.


  • #9621
    Happy4all
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,089 ✭✭✭Happy4all


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    As bad as the Italy figures are, they seem to be hopefully coming towards the upper end of the curve and in a weeks time should see a steady decrease with the effects of lockdown being well underway.

    The big news is the number recovered in the last 24hrs, this tok you would expect to grow day by day given the 2 weeks period.

    How can we know it's the upper end of the curve?


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  • #9622
    cosanostra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 888 ✭✭✭cosanostra


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    475 deaths in Italy in 24 hours. What. Tha. Fuk.

    To put that into perspective there is on average 1700 deaths per day in Italy normally


  • #9623
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    olestoepoke wrote: »
    This is insane. I watched a video on twitter of a fairly young woman in hospital with the virus and she looked very bad. There was no info regarding underlying health problems etc but she was young enough looking. Scary stuff, I know we are being told its only older people and people with existing issues that get it bad but I have my suspicions that we aren't being told everything to avoid panic. Hope I'm wrong.

    Well, you don’t know if that young woman had an underlying condition so you can’t draw any conclusions from that. Lots of people have chronic illnesses.


  • #9624
    GM228
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,917 ✭✭✭GM228


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    France: +1,404 cases/+89 deaths.

    That was Italy about a week ago....

    The French Army and Air Force have started moving those who are critical from the worst affected areas to intensive care in other regions not hit including military hospitals.


  • #9625
    Chardee MacDennis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,228 ✭✭✭Chardee MacDennis


    moonlighting_1 wrote: »
    There is a leaked report from America going around the webs
    they are planning for 18 months crisis.

    are you sure that isnt just the Imperial College London report that was released?


  • #9626
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Irish_peppa wrote: »
    where did you hear that? a quick google got me nothing

    https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/0318/1123788-banks-covid-19/


  • #9627
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 81,512 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    Mod

    Approaching 10k post so closing this, please bear with me folks while I make a new thread.



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    That was me,

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  • #9628
    Quin_Dub
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 17,545 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    olestoepoke wrote: »
    DCU too. How will they manage that? How will they prevent cheating?


    They can't obviously , but that they can do is mitigate it.

    My son is at 3rd level and a lot of his tests are online anyway and they tend to be very short time slots


    A typical exam is available online for 1hr with the expectation that it should take 45 minutes to complete etc. to limit the time you might have to check your notes or google the answers, they also randomise the questions , so each student will get 12 random questions from a selection of ~100 or whatever , reducing the chance that you could "copy off a partner" etc.

    Not perfect , but a lot better than nothing and it gets them done - In a lot of courses , the end of year exams are a relatively small % of the overall grade for the year as well as they are continuous assessment.


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