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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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  • #2372
    dan786
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,341 ✭✭✭dan786


    The Dutch minister for medical healthcare, Bruno Bruins, has resigned.

    Same guy who collapsed yesterday.


  • #2373
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    indough wrote: »
    It’s already used for rheumatoid arthritis and malaria so I would imagine it must be approved
    Sounds like a drug a team in Australia are looking at but it will be Trump who saves the world.


  • #2374
    Blaze420
    Closed Accounts Posts: 904 ✭✭✭Blaze420


    1882 wrote: »
    Lovely day here today. Groups of teens roamimg around all day, where I am. Whats the point having them off school really.

    They don’t care and they won’t until we enforce quarantine for people in groups of 20+. Not to paint them all with the same brush but today’s teenagers are a bunch of goofy haircut, fashion victim ****heads. They don’t care about this in the slightest so why should we care about them?


  • #2375
    Naggdefy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,981 ✭✭✭Naggdefy


    Two days of 25% increase, while encouraging, is too small a time frame to read into anything. Likewise if it's 120, no need to react the opposite way.

    Blushoe 45 would be 12.5% increase on yesterday :D


  • #2376
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    TheCitizen wrote: »
    She's not a Newbie. You must be a noob to Irish politics if you hadn't heard of her before.
    Since 2016 is not a veteran and it's grandstanding.


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  • #2377
    Cork Boy 53
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    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.

    When the ****e starts hitting the fan it may lead to the end of Johnson as PM.


  • #2378
    yourdeadwright
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,949 ✭✭✭✭yourdeadwright


    Naggdefy wrote: »
    Two days of 25% increase, while encouraging, is too small a time frame to read into anything. Likewise if it's 120, no need to react the opposite way.

    Blushoe 45 would be 12.5% increase on yesterday :D

    The real number we need is how many people are hospitalised ,
    the trick to beating this is to keep that number as low as possible which is quite obvious


  • #2379
    Simdruid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28 ✭Simdruid


    I think we're going to get this once a week.

    https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/cd0cea-an-analysis-of-the-266-cases-of-covid-19-in-ireland-as-of-march-16-2/


  • #2380
    sonofenoch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,496 ✭✭✭sonofenoch


    https://www.ajc.com/news/breaking-trump-announces-new-vaccine-treat-coronavirus/UlmcYjEZPwBxXleD74S52K/


    Chloraquine was mentioned about 4m posts ago


  • #2381
    Naggdefy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,981 ✭✭✭Naggdefy


    Re. groups in parks, those not observing 2m gaps etc.

    It's hard for some people to unlearn social norms. Then there are the clueless.


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  • #2382
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,387 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    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.
    How many thousands went from Ireland though? They have helped screw us as well!


  • #2383
    citysights
    Closed Accounts Posts: 288 ✭✭citysights


    Some people still not observing the social distancing. Speaking to someone earlier saw a big gang of teenagers hanging out together no social distances. I know this is difficult for everyone and today is a lovely day but seriously they need to cop on. My knuckles are cracking and sore from hand washing, I scrubbed the house trying to do everything right, disinfecting kitchen surfaces and table constantly, put car keys in separate box, put food like sugar and flour etc in tubs and binned packaging and yet these people or their parents don’t give a €hit. Sorry for rant really annoyed...


  • #2384
    Hector Savage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    froog wrote: »
    he seems like a smart guy. but how do you explain the massive sudden requirement for ICU and ventilation equipment? if this was nothing out of the ordinary this would not be the case. health systems would not be overloaded like we saw in wuhan, like we are seeing in Italy and Spain. it just doesn't make sense.

    maybe someone can explain his argument better to me though, i'm not sure I fully grasp his logic.

    His logic is pretty sound - for every country except China, Italy and Spain ...


  • #2385
    Naggdefy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,981 ✭✭✭Naggdefy


    yourdeadwright wrote: »
    The real number we need is how many people are hospitalised ,
    the trick to beating this is to keep that number as low as possible which is quite obvious

    Yourdeadright in more ways than one! It's the biggie. And any deaths.


  • #2386
    TheCitizen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,710 ✭✭✭TheCitizen


    is_that_so wrote: »
    Since 2016 is not a veteran.

    Who said anything about the word veteran? This happens on here quiet a lot, posters in a comment throw in phrases at another poster that they never actually said. It's very poor debating skills.


  • #2387
    plodder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,769 ✭✭✭plodder


    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

    Don't see anything on FDA website. The commissioner was just at a press conf with Trump and there was a few quotes on twitter, but nothing relevant yet.


  • #2388
    05eaftqbrs9jlh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭05eaftqbrs9jlh


    https://nltimes.nl/2020/03/19/healthcare-minister-bruins-suddenly-resigns-dutch-cabinet

    Wow, really helpful measure here by Bruno Bruins.


  • #2389
    An Ciarraioch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,806 ✭✭✭An Ciarraioch


    In relation to NI, 1,646 tests have been conducted there, so 77 positives is just under 5%, roughly on a par with the Republic:

    https://twitter.com/vincekearney/status/1240674427785920512


  • #2390
    Blaze420
    Closed Accounts Posts: 904 ✭✭✭Blaze420


    gmisk wrote: »
    How many thousands went from Ireland though? They have helped screw us as well!

    They should never have been allowed back. I personally don’t know anyone who went over but if I did I’d be keeping a big distance from them - selfish bastards


  • #2391
    Gretas Gonna Get Ya!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,245 ✭✭✭Gretas Gonna Get Ya!


    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 think someone termed it "normalcy bias" in the previous thread...

    Basically, many people refuse to believe the reality of the situation we are in... perhaps it's their brain trying to protect them from becoming overwhelmed by all of it.

    Or in more simplistic terms... like an ostrich with it's head in the sand, if they can't see the danger... then there is no danger!


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  • #2392
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    58,000 social welfare payment claims in since this kicked off

    Where are the Shinners when you need em? 😅


  • #2393
    TheCitizen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,710 ✭✭✭TheCitizen


    gmisk wrote: »
    How many thousands went from Ireland though? They have helped screw us as well!
    They should have been quarantined. a lot of people said it at the time but it didn't happen. They should have been quarantined or the very least told to self isolate for a few weeks.


  • #2394
    Cork Boy 53
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    threeball wrote: »
    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.

    Who would be able to prove that one way or another? Good in theory but unworkable.


  • #2395
    Duke of Url
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,662 ✭✭✭Duke of Url


    sonofenoch wrote: »
    https://www.ajc.com/news/breaking-trump-announces-new-vaccine-treat-coronavirus/UlmcYjEZPwBxXleD74S52K/


    Chloraquine was mentioned about 4m posts ago

    Yep. Chloroquine was been talked about as a treatment at the end of January.


  • #2396
    Acosta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,689 ✭✭✭Acosta


    Gretas Gonna Get Ya! wrote: »
    I think someone termed it "normalcy bias" in the previous thread...

    Basically, many people refuse to believe the reality of the situation we are in... perhaps it's their brain trying to protect them from becoming overwhelmed by all of it.

    Or in more simplistic terms... like an ostrich with it's head in the sand, if they can't see the danger... then there is no danger!

    Need to stay away from people for a couple of weeks until the penny drops with these idiots. Not easy when I still must go to work.


  • #2397
    olestoepoke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,383 ✭✭✭olestoepoke


    The reality of the situation really hit me today. An ambulance pulled up to the house 2 doors down from me. Two guys get out with masks and plastic aprons and testing kits. I watched them when they finished, they striped down all their gear, mask, apron gloves and placed it all into a yellow bio hazard bag. Hits home when you see it so close to your own home like this.


  • #2398
    Hobgoblin11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Hobgoblin11


    China has no new domestic transmission cases today, meanwhile this disease is about to become the American virus

    Dundalk, Co. Louth



  • #2399
    Cork Boy 53
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    TheCitizen wrote: »
    They should have been quarantined. a lot of people said it at the time but it didn't happen. They should have been quarantined or the very least told to self isolate for a few weeks.

    Unfortunately we are beyond that stage now.


  • #2400
    Blaze420
    Closed Accounts Posts: 904 ✭✭✭Blaze420


    walshb wrote: »
    58,000 social welfare payment claims in since this kicked off

    Where are the Shinners when you need em? 😅

    All the shinner base is done for now with this happening, forever homes and the likes are back of the queue for the next few months. Thank **** they didn’t get in to government because we have the people we need handling this right now in the right way.


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  • #2401
    spookwoman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,059 ✭✭✭✭spookwoman


    xabi wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/skynewsbreak/status/1240667742170202112?s=21

    B*llox theer probably going to be shortage now. Lot of people inc myself use it to treat autoimmune issues. Problem is if we are taking off it for some time it can take 3 months for it to start working again. I don't fancy having major flares again


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