Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

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

1…7374767879…325

Comments

  • #2252
    harr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,511 ✭✭✭harr


    Jesus Trump is waffling on, he is nearly putting himself asleep... huge amount on dialogue without actually saying anything of importance ... only that it’s a very exciting time for medicine..


  • #2253
    daheff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,030 ✭✭✭daheff


    Blaze420 wrote: »
    Are any of ye taking a 2-3 hour Corona break during the days now? I'm setting aside evenings after 6pm where I won't look at or watch news - just a decompression time from all the stuff going on. I don't think it's healthy for any of us to be following this 24/7 especially with the always on mentality we have these times.

    I'm (trying- and sometimes failing) to only look at stuff from 7/8pm onwards when daily numbers are in.


    cant watch this 24-7 anymore. too depressing


  • #2254
    Blaze420
    Closed Accounts Posts: 904 ✭✭✭Blaze420


    PowerToWait wrote: »
    I'll definitely be seriously impacted financially, was about to start a self-build, so that's out, holidays etc are out for a few years and I'm no spring chicken, possibly lose my job altogether.

    All that doesn't change the facts that cannot be denied I'm afraid. I presume you're personally in a low risk bracket. You might feel differently if you were vulnerable to death by this bug or had very close family who were.

    I'm guessing the poster is some sort of teenager because they really don't give a **** about this to be honest. No clue of the real world, just brushing this off with "it only kills the old people" bull****.


  • #2255
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    otnomart wrote: »
    A question to all :
    Why Germany is so good at curing coronavirus, and not so at curing flu ?


    Spiegel article dated 21 February: 130 deaths by flu


    https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/medizin/grippe-in-deutschland-80-000-kranke-130-tote-a-dda6cd79-99cd-496f-a655-47ccf45a1eeb
    Well that solves the mysterious low coronavirus death toll in Germany then


  • #2256
    Boggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,427 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Mervyn Skidmore wrote: »
    I wish I had your faith.

    I wouldn't actually be surprised if he finds a reason to drop out.

    I mean, who wants to inherit the mess this is going to leave?


  • Advertisement
  • #2257
    RandomName2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭RandomName2


    Blaze420 wrote: »
    I don't even know who he is and even I want to punch him in the face - that's a special talent.

    Anybody who describes Ireland as 'Free Sate' is usually a wanker of the highest order.


  • #2258
    tobefrank321
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,527 ✭✭✭tobefrank321


    otnomart wrote: »
    A question to all :
    Why Germany is so good at curing coronavirus, and not so at curing flu ?


    Spiegel article dated 21 February: 130 deaths by flu


    https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/medizin/grippe-in-deutschland-80-000-kranke-130-tote-a-dda6cd79-99cd-496f-a655-47ccf45a1eeb

    My German isn't the best - does it say 80,000 cases of flu and 130 deaths?

    Deaths rise exponentially for coronavirus. They start off small but because of healthcare limitations they rise, except of course you can get on top of it. So far, Germany have something like 1330 cases in the over 60 age group. Still manageable in a country with something like 10,000 ICU beds. multiply that 1330 cases by 10 and you will see deaths rapidly increase.

    Deaths will increase in Germany there is no doubt about it. But so far there is no evidence or proof to indicate they've had more than a small number of deaths.


  • #2259
    nacho libre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,604 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    harr wrote: »
    Jesus Trump is waffling on, he is nearly putting himself asleep... huge amount on dialogue without actually saying anything of importance ... only that it’s a very exciting time for medicine..

    So he is already planting the seed. He will be upset if Chinese scientists were to come up with better treatments or a vaccine for this virus.


  • #2260
    nathan99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 151 ✭✭nathan99


    Boggles wrote: »
    Trump is not getting in for a second term, not a fúcking hope once the dust settles on this thing.

    The Democrats could put up Bill Cosby and they will win it at a landslide.

    Boggles, I wouldnt not be so optimistic on your prediction, I wouldn't be surprised if he got in again for another 4 years, if the economy starts to get on track at any point between now and the election he will get re-elected. but lets wait and see!


  • #2261
    Blaze420
    Closed Accounts Posts: 904 ✭✭✭Blaze420


    nacho libre wrote: »
    So he is already planting the seed. He will be upset if Chinese scientists were to come up with better treatments or a vaccine for this virus.

    Didn’t he try to bribe a german pharmaceutical company a week ago with 1 billion to give the vaccine exclusive to the US?


  • Advertisement
  • #2262
    Quin_Dub
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    Funkfield wrote: »
    I assumed a kit had multiple, but not unlimited, uses.

    Can anyone with the knowledge answer?

    From a report I saw from Italy I think , each Test kit can do 5 or 6 tests..

    So , 30k kits might give us about 10/12 days of capacity at 15k tests/day if that's accurate.


  • #2263
    RandomName2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭RandomName2


    nacho libre wrote: »
    So he is already planting the seed. He will be upset if Chinese scientists were to come up with better treatments or a vaccine for this virus.

    Our scientists - great men and women - gave the Chinese government the means to fight the Chinese virus. I am very generous. We knew they couldn't sort it out themselves.


  • #2264
    CiarraiAbu2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 584 ✭✭✭CiarraiAbu2


    From BBC

    15:40
    Where we are so far
    If you've just joined us - welcome to our live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic.

    It has been another day of grim statistics and images as the virus spreads in Europe: Spain saw 209 deaths in just 24 hours while reports from a town in Italy suggest the army is now being used to ferry the coffins of the dead, there are so many.


  • #2265
    nacho libre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,604 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    Blaze420 wrote: »
    Didn’t he try to buy to bribe a german pharmaceutical company a week ago with 1 billion to give the vaccine exclusive to the US?

    Did he? I was not aware of this. Although it wouldn't surprise me in the least with that ego maniac.


  • #2266
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    USA is very quickly overtaking most of Europe in number of cases. It now has the 6th largest number in the world


  • #2267
    Spook_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,896 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie


    auspicious wrote: »
    The Dail live on RTE One +1 now.

    Contradictory that LIVE on +1 :D


  • #2268
    bekker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 912 ✭✭✭bekker


    Blaze420 wrote: »
    Didn’t he try to bribe a german pharmaceutical company a week ago with 1 billion to give the vaccine exclusive to the US?
    Yes but EU granted ~€80M, and the then chairman who had spoken with Trump 'resigned', and the founder is back in control.


  • #2269
    Blaze420
    Closed Accounts Posts: 904 ✭✭✭Blaze420


    nacho libre wrote: »
    Did he? I was not aware of this. Although it wouldn't surprise me in the least with that ego maniac.

    https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-germany-covid-19-vaccine-not-for-sale-donald-trump-2020-3?r=US&IR=T

    This is the type of clown he is.


  • #2270
    otnomart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭otnomart


    RandomName2 wrote: »
    It should definitely bother us whether or not Germany does a good job at containing this. The capacity of Germany to deal with the disease determines when others can freely travel to and from that country. It's way more important for us in relation to the UK, but Germany is pretty close as well.
    Yes.
    Especially because Germany initially assumed they had fully contained the Bavaria outbreak in January - but now we know they didn't.
    Article from the New England Journal of Medicine
    https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.105...d-mnX3d9F_WRzM
    Research has established the samples from Italy are all related to Bavaria Patient 1 (shortened in BavPat1), who was infected by a colleague from China.
    Source: https://nextstrain.org/


  • #2271
    auspicious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,536 ✭✭✭auspicious


    Spook_ie wrote: »
    Contradictory that LIVE on +1 :D

    Lol yeah. Was only the end I caught too. Over now.


  • Advertisement
  • #2272
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,101 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    froog wrote: »
    also when googling that guy, he is massive critic of the global response to H1N1 (and which most people actually do agree the world went completely overboard on a disease less harmful than the regular flu). so you can see why he's skeptical of this one.

    but he's being willfully ignorant of certain facts, and perhaps supported by his own country's figures which do not match up at all with the rest of the world.

    He's scary.
    ThePopehimself wrote: »
    ;):D

    Looks like someone has lots of time on his hands (even more than me).
    Mwengwe wrote: »
    He's talking bollocks

    Agreed.


  • #2273
    Maggie Benson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89 ✭✭Maggie Benson


    harr wrote: »
    Can I ask why Ireland leave it son late in the day for update 8.45 pm is a ridiculous time of the day. Most if not all other countries have press conferences during the day.
    Could they lot do it around lunch time .. any particular reason for this.

    The people on the frontline are too busy to worry about giving regular number updates to the media. Leave them at the excellent job they are carrying out, I say.


  • #2274
    Boggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,427 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    nathan99 wrote: »
    Boggles, I wouldnt not be so optimistic on your prediction, I wouldn't be surprised if he got in again for another 4 years, if the economy starts to get on track at any point between now and the election he will get re-elected. but lets wait and see!

    The economy could take years to get anyway near the track again let alone back on it.

    When this gets bad and it will, people will be looking for answers and someone to blame.

    He is culpable, it was only last week congress had to force him to take 8 billion to fight this thing, he only wanted 1, claiming it was an over blown and no worse than the flu.

    He has acted like a conspiracy theorist up until a few days ago, this isn't raw dogging a porn star, he could potentially be killing many of his own base because of his own vanity.

    Like I said, when the dust settles on this, he will be finished.


  • #2275
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,248 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    tobefrank321 wrote: »
    My German isn't the best - does it say 80,000 cases of flu and 130 deaths?

    Deaths rise exponentially for coronavirus. They start off small but because of healthcare limitations they rise, except of course you can get on top of it. So far, Germany have something like 1330 cases in the over 60 age group. Still manageable in a country with something like 10,000 ICU beds. multiply that 1330 cases by 10 and you will see deaths rapidly increase.

    Deaths will increase in Germany there is no doubt about it. But so far there is no evidence or proof to indicate they've had more than a small number of deaths.

    Yes it says 80000 confirmed in laboratory cases of flu . And 130 deaths from infuenza


  • #2276
    bekker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 912 ✭✭✭bekker


    otnomart wrote: »
    Yes.
    Especially because Germany initially assumed they had fully contained the Bavaria outbreak in January - but now we know they didn't.
    Article from the New England Journal of Medicine
    https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.105...d-mnX3d9F_WRzM
    Research has established the samples from Italy are all related to Bavaria Patient 1 (shortened in BavPat1), who was infected by a colleague from China.
    Source: https://nextstrain.org/
    Generally agree, but the real long term impact on us will be contraction of German markets, and the EU wide impact of Germany falling into recession.


  • #2277
    Mezcita
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭Mezcita


    Boggles wrote: »
    The economy could take years to get anyway near the track again let alone back on it.

    When this gets bad and it will, people will be looking for answers and someone to blame.

    He is culpable, it was only last week congress had to force him to take 8 billion to fight this thing, he only wanted 1, claiming it was an over blown and no worse than the flu.

    He has acted like a conspiracy theorist up until a few days ago, this isn't raw dogging a porn star, he could potentially be killing many of his own base because of his own vanity.

    Like I said, when the dust settles on this, he will be finished.

    Currently just over even money to get in again though.

    https://www.oddschecker.com/politics/us-politics/us-presidential-election-2020/winner

    Just a question of how they can spin it once the s.hit hits the fan.


  • #2278
    Boggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,427 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Mezcita wrote: »
    Currently just over even money to get in again though.

    He was 1/25 AFAIK 2 weeks ago.


  • #2279
    KathleenGrant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,789 ✭✭✭KathleenGrant


    Maggie Benson wrote: »
    The people on the frontline are too busy to worry about giving regular number updates to the media. Leave them at the excelllent job they are carrying out, I say.

    Well said. And I agree. Excellent job being done.


  • #2280
    yourdeadwright
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,949 ✭✭✭✭yourdeadwright


    Boggles wrote: »
    The economy could take years to get anyway near the track again let alone back on it.

    When this gets bad and it will, people will be looking for answers and someone to blame.

    He is culpable, it was only last week congress had to force him to take 8 billion to fight this thing, he only wanted 1, claiming it was an over blown and no worse than the flu.

    He has acted like a conspiracy theorist up until a few days ago, this isn't raw dogging a porn star, he could potentially be killing many of his own base because of his own vanity.

    Like I said, when the dust settles on this, he will be finished.

    No chance your listing to the wrong tv channels ,
    Doesn't matter what YOU think of him or what I think of him ,
    Americans who are republicans ( a hell of a lot of them) will vote for him ,

    In fact he will win by a landslide ,


  • Advertisement
  • #2281
    Boggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,427 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    yourdeadwright wrote: »
    No chance your listing to the wrong tv channels ,
    Doesn't matter what YOU think of him or what I think of him ,
    Americans who are republicans ( a hell of a lot of them) will vote for him ,

    In fact he will win by a landslide ,

    Sorry, what are the right TV channels? :confused:


This discussion has been closed.
Advertisement