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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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  • #212
    iwillyeah1234
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭iwillyeah1234


    Lord Trollington wrote: »
    Is an update for ROI numbers due today? Normally out around 6-7pm?

    8.45pm


  • #213
    madalig12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,557 ✭✭✭madalig12


    Lost my job today due to this darn virus and lost my granny yesterday to old age. So yeah, not a fun time.


  • #214
    Gods Gift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,713 ✭✭✭Gods Gift


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    also this

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40097665

    'The Trump Organization made only one change: replacing the word "Integrity" with the word "Trump" '

    Original name was drumpf.
    Changed to trump when they went to America from Germany.


  • #215
    Shn99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,353 ✭✭✭Shn99


    madalig12 wrote: »
    Lost my job today due to this darn virus and lost my granny yesterday to old age. So yeah, not a fun time.

    Thoughts are with you and your family.


  • #216
    thegills
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,802 ✭✭✭thegills


    Achasanai wrote:
    What would your recommendations be for more trusted sources?


    HSE. They have a long history of telling the truth and not concealing anything.


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  • #217
    Class MayDresser
    Closed Accounts Posts: 395 ✭✭Class MayDresser


    lak wrote: »
    Thank you, I was looking but just couldn't find the answer so I thought I'd ask the ever helpful posters on here.

    Yeah everyone is on eggshells, here and IRL.
    No numbers til 8.45


  • #218
    statesaver
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,084 ✭✭✭statesaver


    Syncpolice wrote: »
    Speak for yourself

    :rolleyes:


  • #219
    joeguevara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,247 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    madalig12 wrote: »
    Lost my job today due to this darn virus and lost my granny yesterday to old age. So yeah, not a fun time.

    Really sorry for your loss


  • #220
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Gods Gift wrote: »
    Original name was drumpf.
    Changed to trump when they went to America from Germany.

    A good few Schmits probably done that, along with the occasional Saxe Coburg.


  • #221
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    3,000 new cases in Spain

    105 deaths today


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  • #222
    cnocbui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,016 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    That they are Irish by nationality. What a daft comparison. Seriously like. Unless you think ‘nationality’ can’t be defined?

    Spanish Flu
    Hong Kong Flu
    Asian Flu
    Brisbane Flu

    But Wuhan or Chinese Flu is definitely not Ok? :rolleyes:


  • #223
    Lackey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭Lackey


    madalig12 wrote: »
    Lost my job today due to this darn virus and lost my granny yesterday to old age. So yeah, not a fun time.

    Sorry to hear that :(
    RIP


  • #224
    SeaBreezes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭SeaBreezes


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

    Exactly, totally wrong cause it came from the states...
    Idiots.


  • #225
    10000maniacs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,588 ✭✭✭10000maniacs


    pH wrote: »
    The Italian figures of cases have to be way off. 35,000 confirmed cases but only a 17% increase today which is comparatively good news.

    Given that Varadkar is saying we will have 15,000 by the end of the month, and 35,000 has completely overwhelmed the Italian health care system, something is very wrong considering we have 8% of the population of Italy (and therefore a health system with 8% of the capacity).

    35,000 cases in Italy would be equivalent to 2,800 cases here (in terms of health service pressure)

    There must have been between 250,000 and 500,000 cases in Italy, it's the only way these numbers can make any sense.
    Correct. The only reason for the drop is the lack of testing kits. And yes, multply that 35,000 by at least 10. That Alpen ski lodge has a lot to answer for.


  • #226
    Speak Now
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,764 ✭✭✭Speak Now


    cnocbui wrote: »
    Spanish Flu
    Hong Kong Flu
    Asian Flu
    Brisbane Flu

    But Wuhan or Chinese Flu is definitely not Ok? :rolleyes:

    Dont forget the poor birds


  • #227
    cnocbui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,016 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    ecoli3136 wrote: »
    No man, it's my friend's brother who's in the gards that gets all the early scoop.

    Cool story...


  • #228
    lawred2
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    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    That doesn’t answer my question. What properties of the virus make it Chinese? Viruses don’t have a nationality, as anyone with more than two brain cells knows. What classifies the virus as Chinese?

    China not the origin no?

    It's still stupid to call it a Chinese virus but at the same time, they could stop eating all that wet meat of questionable origins.


  • #229
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    Kidchameleon wrote: »
    There's a sh1t tonne of cases in Australia considering they have relatively high temperatures. I'm starting to think this "higher temperatures" line is fake news.

    I havent seen any reputable source mention that high temp would help!


  • #230
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,648 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Kidchameleon wrote: »
    There's a sh1t tonne of cases in Australia considering they have relatively high temperatures. I'm starting to think this "higher temperatures" line is fake news.

    It was simply a theory based on the fact that the ordinary flu dies off during the summer.

    They were hoping it might happen with covid19 but time will tell.


  • #231
    [Deleted User]
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    nacho libre wrote: »
    "They haven’t changed track at all. They are implementing measures at the rate that suits them, as they made clear from the outset.

    But how does any of this undermine what the Irish government is doing? "

    Are you officially employed to do PR for the British Government by any chance?
    You must be with your line that they are implementing measures at the rate that suits them. They have realised they made a mess of it with their approach,
    So they have changed by tack, by now adopting measures advised by the WHO and other leading experts in the field of infectious diseases, which we and other nations have already been doing. The UK Government is now playing catch up, because the "Science has changed". I know you are so blinkered Aegir that you'll continue to protest to the contrary, and insist anyone criticising the Uk Governments handling of this could only be anti brexit and looking to score points, because you can't accept that people might just be annoyed by the UK's cock up of this crisis.

    So no hint of actually pointing out where this undermines the Irish approach then, or showing us how and where the U.K. government cocked this up, it is just a case of “they didn’t close the schools when we did, so they’ve cocked this up”

    Good work, keep it up.


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  • #232
    twirlagig
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    madalig12 wrote: »
    Lost my job today due to this darn virus and lost my granny yesterday to old age. So yeah, not a fun time.

    So sorry to hear x


  • #233
    lawred2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,748 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Kidchameleon wrote: »
    Did anyone else LOL last night when Leo told us to get our information only from trusted sources such as the government, W.H.O. and the news media? Three of the most untrustworthy news sources :)

    No.


  • #234
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    youandme13 wrote: »
    Do you think we'll ever get a break down of numbers in each county??

    Yes, HSE will provide this on Friday and on a weekly basis thereafter.


  • #235
    Class MayDresser
    Closed Accounts Posts: 395 ✭✭Class MayDresser


    madalig12 wrote: »
    Lost my job today due to this darn virus and lost my granny yesterday to old age. So yeah, not a fun time.

    Sorry to hear that :-( Bleak times.


  • #236
    STB.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,380 ✭✭✭STB.


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    If I were cynical, I'd say quite a few countries aren't telling the complete truth.


    Well the Chinese certainly were not. They literally locked people away when it got to the 9% that it is pushing right now.

    Russians have been very quiet all the same. Presume their health system is not fantastic. Only a matter of time before it gets out that there numbers are high. The numbers reported are a mystery given their geographic position etc.


  • #237
    AllGunsBlazing
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    I see Arlene finally got the ok from the mainland. Showing real leadership up there....


  • #238
    ldy4mxonucwsq6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,537 ✭✭✭ldy4mxonucwsq6


    Just see on worldometers that the death rate for closed cases has jumped up again and is now at 10%.

    Do you think this is due to Italy cases or is this the reality if a China reaction is not taken?

    Very worrying.


  • #239
    TheValeyard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,400 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    STB. wrote: »
    Well the Chinese certainly were not. They literally locked people away when it got to the 9% that it is pushing right now.

    If the Chinese government said it was raining right now outside my house, I'd go outside to confirm it rather than believe them.

    All eyes on Kursk. Slava Ukraini.



  • #240
    Ninthlife
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,466 ✭✭✭Ninthlife


    Bat Flu

    Pangolin Flu...that sounds kinda exotic

    Made in a lab as a bio weapon flu is a mouthful and only for the tinfoil hat wearers

    My own personal favourite is "that f**kin virus"


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  • #241
    Gods Gift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,713 ✭✭✭Gods Gift


    I always thought the cold weather killed bugs.
    Old people around here always said a cold snap would kill alot of the colds and flus goin around.

    Good healthy weather.


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