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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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  • #9632
    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


  • #9633
    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!


  • #9634
    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)


  • #9635
    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.


  • #9636
    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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  • #9637
    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


  • #9638
    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.


  • #9639
    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.


  • #9640
    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?


  • #9641
    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/


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  • #9642
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 81,181 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    Mod

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



    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=112876533#post112876533


  • #9643
    Quin_Dub
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 17,018 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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