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CoVid-19 Part IX - 785 cases ROI (3 deaths) 108 in NI (1 death) (20 March) *Read OP*

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  • #62
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    Bunch of ten year olds. It's their own fault for not knowing.
    Wikipedia claims it was was because journalists were free to report on the effects in neutral Spain, but censored in reports from wartime countries, hence the name stuck.


  • #63
    Cody montana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,584 ✭✭✭Cody montana


    Kidchameleon wrote: »
    No, I'm trying to find out what is so offensive about calling a virus that originated IN CHINA as a "Chinese virus". The fact that everyone who has responded so far has ignored the question (instead lecturing on widely known trivia about Spanish Flu) would suggest there is nothing offensive about it and they are just being busy bodies. Trump has done plenty wrong FWIW.

    Again, everyone is calling it the Coronavirus, not the Chinese virus.
    Why is he trying to change the name?
    We all know it started in China and now it's global.


  • #64
    Kidchameleon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Kidchameleon


    tuxy wrote: »
    Spain was not in the war and their media was free to report on it.
    Countries in the war had media restrictions on bad news.
    Spain was the only one talking about it as it was ongoing.


    AFAIK, it actually originated in China (I'm sure some of the Wikipedia readers can verify that), same as the Chinese Virus we all know and love today.


  • #65
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,115 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    DevilsHaircut wrote: »
    Re NSAIDs/Nurofen/ibuprofen, real-time observational evidence takes a while to meet 'proper' evidence threshold and make it into official guidance. This virus was only discovered in December.

    Do you have some kind of agenda here?

    This thread is not for medical advice


  • #66
    Bubbaclaus
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    We have more cases per capita than China


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  • #67
    Thelonious Monk
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    just cycled to shops in Clontarf. People everywhere mostly avoiding each other but a couple of big gangs of teenagers, like 8 in a group. I don't think we're taking this serious enough.


  • #68
    dan786
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,341 ✭✭✭dan786


    The first coronavirus death has been recorded in sub-Saharan Africa, involving a high-ranking politician in Burkina Faso.

    The country's main opposition party, the Union for Progress and Change, said in a statement that Rose-Marie Compaore, the first-vice president of the parliament, had died.

    The number of infections in Burkina Faso, including the death, stands at 27 - up from seven.


  • #69
    GM228
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    What Username Guidelines wrote: »
    The Spanish named it the Spanish flu. It was knocking around for a while and when it arrived in Spain they didn’t realise it came from outside.

    The Spanish actually named it Soldado de Napoles, it was US and other European countries which called it the Spanish Flu after widespread reporting of the flu from Spain after King Alfonso XIII of Spain caught it.


  • #70
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,019 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    Is Trump giving Ireland a cure/vaccine?

    If not is there not 4 or 5 threads that ye can bicker about him in already?


  • #71
    Kidchameleon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Kidchameleon


    Cody montana wrote: »
    Again, everyone is calling it the Coronavirus, not the Chinese virus.
    Why is he trying to change the name?
    We all know it started in China and now it's global.


    He can call it whatever he likes, just as you can choose not to be offended by words that are factual.


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  • #72
    c.p.w.g.w
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    Bubbaclaus wrote: »
    We have more cases per capita than China

    That's if the Chinese figures are correct which i sincerely doubt


  • #73
    cosanostra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 886 ✭✭✭cosanostra


    https://twitter.com/mickthehack/status/1240034428753190912?s=20


  • #74
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
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    Kidchameleon wrote: »
    No, its offensive because you choose to be offended by it. He is just stating a fact.

    Really? What properties make the virus Chinese?


  • #75
    tuxy
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    Kidchameleon wrote: »
    AFAIK, it actually originated in China (I'm sure some of the Wikipedia readers can verify that), same as the Chinese Virus we all know and love today.

    A military base in Kansas USA is as far back as they could trace it.
    China would make no sense if you think about travel during WW1


  • #76
    walshb
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    Kidchameleon wrote: »
    No, its offensive because you choose to be offended by it. He is just stating a fact.

    Nonsense.

    He is deliberately trying to offend....

    I’m not Chinese. And plenty Chinese are offended. So, you are talking nonsense..

    Like I said. A toerag. Not an ounce of decorum or diplomacy about the man, and utterly dangerous..


  • #77
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    Good newsbyte!
    Here's decency from an employer (in the UK)
    (LFC fan here but this guy is a really decent skin)
    https://twitter.com/GG_Hospitality/status/1240315292145930240?s=20


  • #78
    pjohnson
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    Kidchameleon wrote: »
    He can call it whatever he likes, just as you can choose not to be offended by words that are factual.

    And you could choose not to be offended by words but here we are.


  • #79
    Naggdefy
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    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    just cycled to shops in Clontarf. People everywhere mostly avoiding each other but a couple of big gangs of teenagers, like 8 in a group. I don't think we're taking this serious enough.

    No doubt there'll be a woman from Clontarf on to Joe Duffy about it tomorrow.


  • #80
    dan786
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,341 ✭✭✭dan786


    It all matters.

    The European Union has urged online media platforms to stream movies and entertainment in standard rather than high definition to relieve pressure on the internet during the coronavirus pandemic.


  • #81
    freshpopcorn
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    murpho999 wrote: »
    I see card contactless payments are being raised to €50. That's grand but many people will spend more than that on a big shop and you have to put card in after 3 uses.

    Could you use something such as a cotton bud to type in your pin?


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  • #82
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    What Username Guidelines wrote: »
    The Spanish named it the Spanish flu. It was knocking around for a while and when it arrived in Spain they didn’t realise it came from outside.

    No.

    It was named the Spanish Flu as Spain reported about it - any mention of it was suppressed by those busy killing each other in WWI. Spain wasn't involved so was free to talk about the other thing that was killing an awful lot of people.


  • #83
    Pinkpotato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28 ✭Pinkpotato


    I had to sign up here to ask if anyone knows what happens after being referred. I'm in Dublin but I don't drive and my 4yo needs to be swabbed. I can't see a taxi volunteering to bring me up to croke park, not that I'd risk it anyway. But do they still come out and swab at home? I'm awaiting the HSE to contact me in regards to an appointment but I can't seem to get answers from anyone about this today.


  • #84
    DOCARCH
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    Spain (Update): +2,920 cases/+105 deaths.


  • #85
    This is it
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    Any numbers for ROI announced yet? Only in the door, missed the 6.01


  • #86
    dan786
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    This is it wrote: »
    Any numbers for ROI announced yet? Only in the door, missed the 6.01

    8.45.


  • #87
    thomas 123
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    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    Really? What properties make the virus Chinese?

    It started in China.


  • #88
    omerin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭omerin


    Received a letter from my credit union today, nothing but spam, ffs no need for it. Companies stop sending spam letters!


  • #89
    Volthar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭Volthar


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    Like the people who named the Spanish flu. Bunch of ten year olds.

    ...over 100 years ago. There are even older offences that were aimed at a specific group. Oldest one and from far away is "Rebel scum". But there were others, from XX century, suggesting headlice come from Jews. Trump's aim was to offend.


  • #90
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,115 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Pinkpotato wrote: »
    I had to sign up here to ask if anyone knows what happens after being referred. I'm in Dublin bit I don't drive and my 4yo needs to be swabbed. I can't see a taxi volunteering to bring me up to croke park, not that I'd risk it anyway. But do they still come out and swab at home? I'm awaiting the HSE to contact me in regards to an appointment but I can't seem to get answers from anyone about this today.

    They'll call out to you


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  • #91
    cnocbui
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    cosanostra
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Raconteuse View Post
    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

    Let me put that into context for you: That's a 28% increase in deaths every single day - an additional 173,375 dead people per year.


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