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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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  • #1322
    careless sherpa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 373 ✭✭careless sherpa


    Gynoid wrote: »
    Oh dear God please make this pandemic stop soon so we do not have to suffer these silly idiots behaving even more toe curlingly than usual
    ...

    https://twitter.com/bestofgaI/status/1240443499910234112?s=19

    Too late for that. Bono ramping the cringe factor up to the maximum with the Italian song as if things were not bad enough there


  • #1323
    facehugger99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,824 ✭✭✭facehugger99


    Gynoid wrote: »
    Oh dear God please make this pandemic stop soon so we do not have to suffer these silly idiots behaving even more toe curlingly than usual
    ...

    https://twitter.com/bestofgaI/status/1240443499910234112?s=19

    Bleugh!


  • #1324
    silverharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,854 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    I wouldn't like to be the execs of companies like this if they kick up a fuss

    https://twitter.com/geoffpilkington/status/1240475591058440193

    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



  • #1325
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    For the first time since December no new cases in hubei and no suspected cases


  • #1326
    niallo27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,137 ✭✭✭✭niallo27


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    If we go into lockdown, and can only go to the shop, does anyone think we should close off-licences. I just see a load of young people going off to house parties. We need to make those house parties dry.

    And then your stopping people having a drink at home. This thing is miserable enough without being able to have a drink on a friday night.


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  • #1327
    iwillyeah1234
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭iwillyeah1234


    cameramonkey wrote: »
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/18/scientists-say-mass-tests-in-italian-town-have-halted-covid-19

    lots of carriers with no symptoms.

    Boris at his press conference yesterday stated that Corona tests in the U.K. would be prioritised for patients showing possible symptoms.

    This is not going to end well for the U.K. , unless they embark on a massive South Korea style testing regime. It’s becoming increasingly obvious that it’s the asymptomatic carriers that are vectors for Corona.


  • #1328
    niallo27
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    jill_valentine wrote: »
    You're making a lot of big bold statements here that are based entirely on wishy thinking while Italy is having to draft in the army to transport the volume of coffins they fill daily.

    Know i understand things could and probably will get worse in italy but on average 1750 people die every day in italy. Do they really need the army to transport an extra few hundred on top of this. What happened when they had a spike before.


  • #1329
    Quantum Erasure
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    just a quick graph of Covid in sub-saharan Africa this month, breaks in numbers at weekends

    62J0kU5.png

    data taken from here
    https://twitter.com/WHOAFRO


  • #1330
    iwillyeah1234
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭iwillyeah1234


    niallo27 wrote: »
    And then your stopping people having a drink at home. This thing is miserable enough without being able to have a drink on a friday night.

    House parties were banned in Wuhan. And are banned in Italy and France right now - you have to explain to the police why you are outside or why you are entering a building that isn’t your residence.

    But you can still buy food and drink for yourself.


  • #1331
    iwillyeah1234
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭iwillyeah1234


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    just a quick graph of Covid in sub-saharan Africa this month, breaks in numbers at weekends

    62J0kU5.png

    data taken from here
    https://twitter.com/WHOAFRO

    Dear god. That’s the familiar “Italian curve” starting to take off.


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  • #1332
    kevcos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 220 ✭✭kevcos


    Gynoid wrote: »
    Oh dear God please make this pandemic stop soon so we do not have to suffer these silly idiots behaving even more toe curlingly than usual
    ...

    https://twitter.com/bestofgaI/status/1240443499910234112?s=19

    Kill it with fire.


  • #1333
    bilston
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,997 ✭✭✭✭bilston


    wakka12 wrote: »
    For the first time since December no new cases in hubei and no suspected cases

    The problem for China is imported cases, which can ultimately lead to domestic cases.

    South Korea's figures are increasing again, although it appears to be centred on specific clusters so hopefully can be contained.


  • #1334
    Metroid diorteM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 303 ✭✭Metroid diorteM


    We should put children to work as they dont get the virus as badly

    https://ibb.co/NSsGJfp


  • #1335
    niallo27
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    bilston wrote: »
    The problem for China is imported cases, which can ultimately lead to domestic cases.

    South Korea's figures are increasing again, although it appears to be centred on specific clusters so hopefully can be contained.

    South Korean figures are up 19 people on day before in a population of 51 million. I think it's too early to call it a spike yet.


  • #1336
    Quantum Erasure
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    iwillyeah1234 wrote: »
    Dear god. That’s the familiar “Italian curve” starting to take off.

    if you take the whole continent,
    273 on the 15th
    350 on the 16th
    418 on the 17th
    477 on the 18th
    633 today (in the last hour)


  • #1337
    RugbyLad11
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    bilston wrote: »
    The problem for China is imported cases, which can ultimately lead to domestic cases.

    South Korea's figures are increasing again, although it appears to be centred on specific clusters so hopefully can be contained.

    That's true but China don't **** around. I believe everyone entering their country must go into quarantine for 2 weeks and I believe they bring you there too (like a hotel room).


  • #1338
    weldoninhio
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    Technophobe wrote: »
    Are you still in the pub??

    No, back to work for the HSE today.

    Social Distancing, not on Dublin Bus!!


  • #1339
    randomname2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,065 ✭✭✭randomname2005


    niallo27 wrote: »
    And then your stopping people having a drink at home. This thing is miserable enough without being able to have a drink on a friday night.

    And they should remove the time restrictions too if people are going to be shopping early for the vulnerable. And never bring it back


  • #1340
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    trapp wrote: »
    I'm well aware of that.

    However some posters on here seem to revel in hysteria.

    We had one predicting 500 000 deaths in Ireland.

    No harm to have some optimism, however wishy.

    You are peddling positive hysteria. No difference between you and the ones you are slagging


  • #1341
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,886 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    Australia: +90 cases.

    Looks like they are starting to loose the battle to contain?


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  • #1342
    whisky_galore
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    Maestro85 wrote: »
    I get that. Sorry for the rant, it comes from a place of exhaustion (I am currently doing 4 peoples jobs atm) and fear of things getting worse. I don't understand how anyone would want to travel given all that is going on. The people I met did not think it was serious at all and were more angry that we were not open (particularly rude too - except the Americans).

    What did they expect in the middle of a fcuking global pandemic, that all the touristy places are going to be rolling out the welcome mat? They should be quarantined, force marched to a plane and get the fcuk out of here.

    Utter idiots. How are they even getting accommodation with growing numbers of hotels shutting down and presumably, the bottom falling out of the airbnb market?


  • #1343
    Duke of Url
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  • #1344
    Quantum Erasure
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    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    if you take the whole continent,
    633 today (in the last hour)

    up to 263 for sub-saharan Africa, if my numbers are right, today

    l2VzJ2b.png

    https://who.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/0c9b3a8b68d0437a8cf28581e9c063a9

    https://twitter.com/WHOAFRO/status/1240531267990536193


  • #1345
    Lashes28
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    DOCARCH wrote: »
    Australia: +90 cases.

    Looks like they are starting to loose the battle to contain?

    What restrictions were put in over there?


  • #1346
    clever user name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 537 ✭✭✭clever user name


    RugbyLad11 wrote: »
    That's true but China don't **** around. I believe everyone entering their country must go into quarantine for 2 weeks and I believe they bring you there too (like a hotel room).

    Can confirm. You are processed (can take up to 8 hours) and then taken to a government designated hotel for 14 days, at your own expense. Some cities are allowing quarantine at home, but most are going the hotel route now and that will probably be countrywide soon. You're not allowed leave the hotel room. Not even allowed order anything, they bring you three meals a day.


  • #1347
    DOCARCH
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    Lashes28 wrote: »
    What restrictions were put in over there?

    No idea. All I know is that the news this morning is that Qantas are suspending all international flights.


  • #1348
    walshb
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    Surely we have good chance of very little growth in daily figures/increases?

    Is it not reasonable to think we never get above 100 new cases per day right up until March 31?


  • #1349
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    fr336 wrote: »
    I obviously understand the border issue. When did schools close - less than a week ago? I'll give you the testing. I'm the last person to defend a Tory government but I'm not sure comparing a country of 5 million with one of nearly 70 million is always wise. I'm sure there have been errors in thinking, as there have been and will be in Ireland, but I also suspect certain measures were based on sound thinking regarding managing a population of 70 mil vs 5 mil.

    In terms of all that has happened, a week is a long time.


  • #1350
    Blueshoe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    China zero new cases.
    Lockdown works.

    When will Leo put us in lockdown? 2 or 3 weeks time maybe


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  • #1351
    Akrasia
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    old_aussie wrote: »
    Maybe it's a different strain.

    Obesity is a big risk factor and America has a big obesity rate among young people. I would suggest that this could get very serious for a lot of them

    36% of Americans are obese but about a quarter of those are morbidly obese, and that is a huge risk factor for respiratory distress

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



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