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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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  • #2342
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    bekker wrote: »
    Why the hell does it matter a damn to us if German figures are believable or not to some here, or even in reality.

    If you're going to spread such 'concerns' it is only reasonable to expect some attempt to indicate why it should bother us.

    If your determined to worry about something, worry about the lack of sunset clausing in the legislation currently going through the Dáil.
    If you go back to Thread 1 or even as recent as VI you'd see we've come a long way from panic and a what is this question every second post. I find it amusing to see the passion with which people are debating it!


  • #2343
    neil_hosey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,712 ✭✭✭neil_hosey


    TheAsYLuMkeY wrote: »
    WTF is going on?

    trump is an idiot is what is going on.


  • #2344
    SweetCaliber
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,487 ✭✭✭SweetCaliber


    Was in work today, work in retail, and I'm shocked at the lack of self control people have towards social distancing. People chatting in groups, kids running around, nobody abiding to the 2m rule, customers constantly up in my face looking for stuff.

    Did people just forget about Covid-19 all of a sudden?

    It's time for supermarkets to limit the amount of customers entering, for their own sake but also for our sake, the staff.


  • #2345
    Blaze420
    Closed Accounts Posts: 904 ✭✭✭Blaze420


    mick987 wrote: »
    I think London is going to get hammered, Hope I am wrong but don't think so.
    So many people living on top of each other

    The U.K. are screwed - herd immunity was never a viable option, 250k attending Cheltenham should never have happened. They will reap what they have sown.


  • #2346
    plodder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,769 ✭✭✭plodder


    xabi wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/skynewsbreak/status/1240667742170202112?s=21
    That does sound very promising. If it works out, I promise just to smile and not get annoyed when Trump claims all the credit.

    "When I was calling it a pandemic before anyone else, I said that Hydroxychloroquine would cure it" :rolleyes:


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  • #2347
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,387 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    SweetCaliber wrote: »
    Was in work today, work in retail, and I'm shocked at the lack of self control people have towards social distancing. People chatting in groups, kids running around, nobody abiding to the 2m rule, customers constantly up in my face looking for stuff.

    Did people just forget about Covid-19 all of a sudden?

    It's time for supermarkets to limit the amount of customers entering, for their own sake but also for our sake, the staff.

    Supervalu have at least


  • #2348
    Blaze420
    Closed Accounts Posts: 904 ✭✭✭Blaze420


    SweetCaliber wrote: »
    Was in work today, work in retail, and I'm shocked at the lack of self control people have towards social distancing. People chatting in groups, kids running around, nobody abiding to the 2m rule, customers constantly up in my face looking for stuff.

    Did people just forget about Covid-19 all of a sudden?

    It's time for supermarkets to limit the amount of customers entering, for their own sake but also for our sake, the staff.

    I wouldn’t blame any retail employee for ****ing people like that out of the store.


  • #2349
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,612 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    RandomName2 wrote: »
    I thought Washington State was hardest hit? :confused: I was assuming this was due to direct flights from China or something.

    thats on a per capita basis, New york has the highest overall

    New York .... : 3,083
    Washington.. : 1,187
    California..... : 870
    New Jersey... : 427
    Florida......... : 330
    ...


  • #2350
    owlbethere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭owlbethere


    Is our government still welcoming this disease in off flights?


  • #2351
    Blueshoe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Pointless speculation. Wait for the facts to emerge.

    The figure will be 45 with a +/- margin of error of 2


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  • #2352
    EDit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 819 ✭✭✭EDit


    plodder wrote: »
    That does sound very promising. If it works out, I promise just to smile and not get annoyed when Trump claims all the credit.

    "When I was calling it a pandemic before anyone else, I said that Hydroxychloroquine would cure it" :rolleyes:

    It does sounds promising, but it has some interactions with medications used by some of the high risk populations.

    In terms of the approvals, per a post on the prior page, there seems to be some confusion as to whether the fda have approved it or not


  • #2353
    mick987
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 141 ✭✭mick987


    Blaze420 wrote: »
    The U.K. are screwed - herd immunity was never a viable option, 250k attending Cheltenham should never have happened. They will reap what they have sown.
    You seem quite pleased with that or maybe I am reading it wrong


  • #2354
    Drumpot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭Drumpot


    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=112861354&postcount=18

    I refer to above from our resident HSE consultant answering questions.

    I draw your attention to

    Yes, my parents have a blood pressure monitor and thermometer and I made sure they bought a pulse oximeter in the run-up to this. I have instructed them that if they think they might be unwell to take their blood pressure and oxygen saturation every morning and record the results on a different sheet of paper each along with the date.

    That way they'll be able to tell me and/or their GP their routine obs over the phone and it'll help establish that they're not just anxious as well as creating a timeline of any deterioration in their health.

    I have the same and will post my temperature, oxygen saturation and BP if/when I get COVID-19.


    I am starting to keep 3 times a day notes on my wife and my BP, heartbeat, Temp and Oxygen levels. Partially to get used to it and also because we have felt a bit off but not much.


  • #2355
    An Ciarraioch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,806 ✭✭✭An Ciarraioch


    Ryanair have grounded most of their fleet, and most European countries have clamped down on travel now.


  • #2356
    bekker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 912 ✭✭✭bekker


    Catherine Connolly TD eviscerated the drafting and detailed provisions of the proposed emergency legislation.

    The application, extension of effect, and of time totally would be completely given over to Ministers without any Dáil oversight or recourse.

    Doubt this will fly without extensive safeguards added.


  • #2357
    Blaze420
    Closed Accounts Posts: 904 ✭✭✭Blaze420


    mick987 wrote: »
    You seem quite pleased with that or maybe I am reading it wrong

    Not pleased in the slightest but i think we shouldn’t have played along with it - you went to Cheltenham? Hope you enjoyed it, now stay in the U.K. for 2 months because you are not coming back. We are doing so much here to combat it and being undermined by ****ing idiots across the pond from us


  • #2358
    Naggdefy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,981 ✭✭✭Naggdefy


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    Figure will be 45

    :D You can't beat optimism!

    I'll pm you with pleasure to congratulate you if thats the figure.


  • #2359
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    bekker wrote: »
    Catherine Connolly TD eviscerated the drafting and detailed provisions of the proposed emergency legislation.

    The application, extension of effect, and of time totally would be completely given over to Ministers without any Dáil oversight or recourse.

    Doubt this will fly without extensive safeguards added.
    An independent newbie knows better?


  • #2360
    Goldengirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,853 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    Boggles wrote: »
    Because I imagine the people doing the press conference are quite busy during the day and don't have the luxury of complaining about things online.

    They explained this last week when they changed the time from afternoon.
    They are waiting to get end of day figures from NVRL and they meet to discuss the figures before the press are updated.
    I presume they have to have a bite to eat as well !

    Putting in long shifts and working very hard..credit due .


  • #2361
    Cork Boy 53
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    mick987 wrote: »
    I think London is going to get hammered, Hope I am wrong but don't think so.
    So many people living on top of each other

    It will be.


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  • #2362
    mick987
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 141 ✭✭mick987


      Blaze420 wrote: »
      Not pleased in the slightest but i think we shouldn’t have played along with it - you went to Cheltenham? Hope you enjoyed it, now stay in the U.K. for 2 months because you are not coming back. We are doing so much here to combat it and being undermined by ****ing idiots across the pond from us

      Surly that Ireland's problem if a bunch of morons travel abroad not the UK's, they were not forced to go.


    1. #2363
      BorneTobyWilde
      Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,579 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


      wakka12 wrote: »
      USA is very quickly overtaking most of Europe in number of cases. It now has the 6th largest number in the world




      When I see the daily up dates it feels like Top Of The Pops,


      '' up 4 places to 6th is USA, but still No 1 is China with Coronavirus''


    2. #2364
      greenpilot
      Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,789 ✭✭✭greenpilot


      donfers wrote: »
      Could the discrepancy in mortality rates between Germany and Italy be down to simple socio-cultural norms.

      In the North of Europe we tend to shun our old folks a bit more, they live alone or are packed off to nursing homes. In Southern European countries they tend to be more integrated into communities, invited to social events, out and about in the sun.

      Thus way more old people have gotten the virus in Italy and Spain and they will get more deaths.

      Nobel Prize for Science please...my next thesis will examine the role of hedgehogs in the deforestation of the Amazon

      That last bit is awful funny altogether.

      So it is.


    3. #2365
      indough
      Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,857 ✭✭✭indough


      EDit wrote: »
      It does sounds promising, but it has some interactions with medications used by some of the high risk populations.

      In terms of the approvals, per a post on the prior page, there seems to be some confusion as to whether the fda have approved it or not

      It’s already used for rheumatoid arthritis and malaria so I would imagine it must be approved


    4. #2366
      Spanish Eyes
      Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,121 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


      SweetCaliber wrote: »
      Was in work today, work in retail, and I'm shocked at the lack of self control people have towards social distancing. People chatting in groups, kids running around, nobody abiding to the 2m rule, customers constantly up in my face looking for stuff.

      Did people just forget about Covid-19 all of a sudden?

      It's time for supermarkets to limit the amount of customers entering, for their own sake but also for our sake, the staff.

      Just went for a stroll down to my local village (Dublin), the type of place that has a chemist, two pubs, a couple of cafes and a decent sized Spar.

      Chemist only allowing one at a time with one metre of tape between you and the person serving. Was handed the machine to tap.

      Spar had hand sanitizer and gloves just inside the door. One metre separation between you and the worker behind the counter. Tap or cards only.

      Everything else shut.

      But all were observing the rules, even to the extent of moving left or right on the footpath to distance each other.

      It's a start, and hopefully the message is slowly getting home. There will always be ignorant assholes, but a community glare is the way to go now with them, or a spray of disinfectant in their general area :P


    5. #2367
      1882
      Closed Accounts Posts: 65 ✭✭1882


      Lovely day here today. Groups of teens roamimg around all day, where I am. Whats the point having them off school really.


    6. #2368
      Cw85
      Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 251 ✭✭Cw85


      So for those asking why I don't get my tonsils out, I'm on a waiting list the past two years. My doctor has told me there is a big overlap in the symptoms of corona virus and tonsillitis. I have all the symptoms of the virus but given I get tonsillitis so often I know that's what I have. Doctor didn't even recommend getting me tested just sent the usual prescription of penicillin, difine and paracetamol to my chemist


    7. #2369
      Blaze420
      Closed Accounts Posts: 904 ✭✭✭Blaze420


      mick987 wrote: »

        Surly that Ireland's problem if a bunch of morons travel abroad not the UK's, they were not forced to go.

        That’s not the point I’m making - if you have willingly travelled out of Ireland for ****e like that then your return ticket should have been revoked weeks ago. We can’t account for the stupidity of people but we can punish them in ways for being such ****ing idiots.


      1. #2370
        TheCitizen
        Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,710 ✭✭✭TheCitizen


        is_that_so wrote: »
        An independent newbie knows better?

        She's not a Newbie. You must be a noob to Irish politics if you hadn't heard of her before.


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      3. #2371
        threeball
        Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,755 ✭✭✭threeball


        Real Life wrote: »
        I had to go get food for my dog, the town is almost like at Christmas. Costa is packed, everyone in groups chatting, groups of children and teens everywhere. It makes it so much harder that were trying hard to do everything we can, not seeing our families, working from home, only leaving when necessary and theres so many idiots that are prolonging the whole thing.

        They're actually shortening the infection phase but shortening the life of someone else also. The best way to deal with it is say we will prioritise those who need treatment and self isolated. Won't be long seeing the fcukers run indoors then.


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