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

iamwhoiam · 19-03-2020 05:53PM

fritzelly wrote: »

People shopping in Lidl do not understand what social distancing is. And why do you need to take all your kids shopping?
One elderly woman, covered in scabies or something and scratching rabidly at her arm, literally in my face at the checkout. Told her to move back to the black line. The look of contempt
Irish people are fooked. The more "foreign" looking people were maintaining a distance and moving out of the way when trying to pass

Think I'll stick to shopping in Tesco from now on

I was in Lidl this morning during the over 65 hours . It was quiet , orderly , shelves stacked , people keeping distance , staff helpful and trolly handles sprayed
I will be going there from now on

Andrew00 · 19-03-2020 05:53PM

Eamonn Ryan made a show of himself

threeball · 19-03-2020 05:55PM

Tippex wrote: »

These Italian figures are making a mockery of the numbers coming out of China IMO.
Yes I know China locked down but I truely do not believe that the only have 81k cases in a population of 1.5 billion and Italy have 41k in a population of 60 million.
China infection rate of 0.0054% versus Italy with an infection rate of 0.068% (assuming I got my maths correct)

Unless someone literally sprayed Italy with a crop duster I can't see how the figures could be so different.

NasserShammaz · 19-03-2020 05:56PM

Can I just say a huge thank you to the staff in Tesco/ M&S into the jervis absolutely fcukin brilliant still doing a great job and still cool particularly the lady I saw controlling the social distance at the tills , 2 lads not quite getting g it she just quietly and calmly explained and fair play they both hopped to it.

Cork Boy 53 · 19-03-2020 05:56PM

When are today`s cases due to be announced? Same time as yesterday?

circadian · 19-03-2020 05:56PM

Out for a run earlier and noticed a bunch of grandparents gathered around watching the grandkids playing football.

Wouldn't surprise me if the parents were none the wiser either, exactly a stunt the father in law would pull despite being told otherwise.

Mervyn Skidmore · 19-03-2020 05:57PM

Looking at those Italian figures is very sobering. Can this thing be stopped or slowed at all?

Spanish Eyes · 19-03-2020 05:57PM

Andrew00 wrote: »

Eamonn Ryan made a show of himself

What did he say

Snow Garden · 19-03-2020 05:57PM

Tippex wrote: »

These Italian figures are making a mockery of the numbers coming out of China IMO.
Yes I know China locked down but I truely do not believe that the only have 81k cases in a population of 1.5 billion and Italy have 41k in a population of 60 million.
China infection rate of 0.0054% versus Italy with an infection rate of 0.068% (assuming I got my maths correct)

I have no reason to question the China numbers. They reacted brilliantly.
I doubt their schoolkids went skiing when the schools closed.

pH · 19-03-2020 05:57PM

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Italy have double the deaths for have the cases. WTF
Why can't they stead the ship.

It's not easy.

Let's say you have 100,000 infected people in a population and now you enforce household lockdown, the infection is still going to spread within households. Italy has 2.58 persons/household so in theory the number of cases could get 2.5 times bigger even after lockdown (it will statistically be less because some of the original 100,000 already shared a household).

Couple that with the fact that a small number of people are almost certainly deliberately avoiding the lockdown, the many people are working in essential services that meet every day, and that even 'locked-down' people need to get out to chemists and supermarkets there will still be a small amount of inter-household spread going on.

Hobgoblin11 · 19-03-2020 05:57PM

circadian wrote: »

Out for a run earlier and noticed a bunch of grandparents gathered around watching the grandkids playing football.

Wouldn't surprise me if the parents were none the wiser either, exactly a stunt the father in law would pull despite being told otherwise.

Crafty buggers!

An Ciarraioch · 19-03-2020 05:57PM

Cork Boy 53 wrote: »

When are today`s cases due to be announced? Same time as yesterday?

Literally any minute.

conor05 · 19-03-2020 05:58PM

Cousin works in Aer Lingus and they received an email this evening stating all staff will receive a 50% pay cut for 50% reduction in working hours for April, May and June.

E-mail stated it was fairer to do it this way than to make a lot of people redundant.

gmisk · 19-03-2020 05:58PM

laugh wrote: »

Off his tits on anxiety, talking shite, the green partly need a better leader.

Lots of green leaning people in this country now but he doesn't communicate well.

He is useless....Catherine Martin should take over ASAP

jackboy · 19-03-2020 05:58PM

Andrew00 wrote: »

Eamonn Ryan made a show of himself

I don’t know why anyone would be surprised. They were an embarrassment last time they were in government.

marno21 · 19-03-2020 05:58PM

It seems pretty evident that the higher death rate in Italy is caused by insufficient testing, meaning that the reported case numbers are vastly understated.

I wouldn’t be surprised if there was 200,000+ cases in Italy right now but the majority are going under the radar.

threeball · 19-03-2020 05:58PM

Away With The Fairies wrote: »

Does anyone else think we should go on lockdown now? What are they waiting for? We don't have the same hospital space as other countries. We need to stop this now.

Its too early, we only have 6 in ICU. When that hits the 30 mark I think you'll see action. Thats giving loads of wiggle room to deal with new cases. How long are you willing to sit in your house with no work. How long can a country survive with no income just outgoings? People need to cool the jets. If you're really threatened go lock yourself down, no one is stopping you.

Muahahaha · 19-03-2020 05:58PM

codie wrote: »

I didn't see famous Eamon on the tv,
What did he say? Cabbage, painting, salads??????

This was his exact quote in the Dail earlier

How about we keep our hardware shops open? I know that is not the most important thing but if we keep our hardware shops open and if we have to work at home or be at home for a period we can get paint from the hardware shop.

“Or let’s get every south-facing windowsill in this country. Let’s plant our seeds in the next week so that if there is a supply crisis in food in a few months’ time and when this gets really hard, we will have our salads ready to go.”

They played it on Newstalk earlier and when he got to 'salads' I spat my tea out in laughter

MOR316 · 19-03-2020 05:59PM

Mervyn Skidmore wrote: »

Looking at those Italian figures is very sobering. Can this thing be stopped or slowed at all?

Not in my opinion.

It's here to stay I believe.
Just a matter of when, not if, we get all get it

Inquitus · 19-03-2020 05:59PM

Chloroquine, the malaria drug trumpeted by US president as a readily available potential cure for coronavirus, has not been approved by the FDA, Bloomberg reports.

“It’s been around for a long time, so we know that if things don’t go as planned it’s not going to kill anybody,” Trump said of the drug, as he suggested it could be quickly rolled out to patients in the country.

However, an FDA spokesman told Bloomberg it had not been approved for use in patients with the coronavirus.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/mar/19/coronavirus-update-live-news-who-covid19-cases-outbreak-us-states-uk-school-closures-australia-europe-eu-africa-asia-latest-updates

YFlyer · 19-03-2020 05:59PM

Pablo Escobar wrote: »

These are the types of situations we should be trying to avoid.

I'll ring her back after the news.

Goldengirl · 19-03-2020 05:59PM

froog wrote: »

UK Coronavirus bill is extensive.

this is just the summary version;

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-01/0122/en/20122en.pdf

Bet they wish they still had EU funding!
Just wait for somebody to start blaming the EU for this ...

Mervyn Skidmore · 19-03-2020 06:00PM

Muahahaha wrote: »

This was his exact quote in the Dail earlier

They played it on Newstalk earlier and when he got to 'salads' I spat my tea out in laughter

If only we had fields to grow stuff in.

Spanish Eyes · 19-03-2020 06:00PM

Away With The Fairies wrote: »

Does anyone else think we should go on lockdown now? What are they waiting for? We don't have the same hospital space as other countries. We need to stop this now.

TBH I think many would be relieved to be given an order on this. Most are resigned to it by now and at least it applies to everyone.

Come on and do it.

Ensure the message gets out that visits to shops docs and chemists are not affected, and that shops are fully stocked every day. Get ahead and do it yesterday IMO.

LRNM · 19-03-2020 06:00PM

Can I just say the amount of restaurants and food places that have come out to give us free meals to emergency service and hospital staff is amazing.
The amount of pizza's, indians, cakes, biscuits, and other food bits being dropped into us every day, we can't keep up with it!

Drumpot · 19-03-2020 06:00PM

Tippex wrote: »

These Italian figures are making a mockery of the numbers coming out of China IMO.
Yes I know China locked down but I truely do not believe that the only have 81k cases in a population of 1.5 billion and Italy have 41k in a population of 60 million.
China infection rate of 0.0054% versus Italy with an infection rate of 0.068% (assuming I got my maths correct)

I think your may be partially right but welding people into apartments and asking people to stop being stupid (proper social distancing) obviously yield different results.

There are people in Ireland still not getting this. I’ve had to be very careful who I have tried to warn on this up until recently but in the last few days I know somebody who has been getting worse and worse. I’m not posting anymore then that here but even people on this thread don’t know how much this news is making me even more worried for us all. I’ve been taking a lot of care but I’m now hearing a first hand account of how devastating this can be.

I’ve started warning friends and family even more now and don’t care if it scares people. I’d rather scare sense into people then say nothing. I’m sad because a lot of what I’m telling people now might of helped this person last week but as I said , a lot of people haven’t wanted to listen to me so I’ve sort of said very little.

mick987 · 19-03-2020 06:00PM

threeball wrote: »

Unless someone literally sprayed Italy with a crop duster I can't see how the figures could be so different.

Because one set is true and the other is make believe, I will let you decide which is which.

gmisk · 19-03-2020 06:01PM

Muahahaha wrote: »

This was his exact quote in the Dail earlier

They played it on Newstalk earlier and when he got to 'salads' I spat my tea out in laughter

Jesus Christ....he is such a clown

19-03-2020 06:01PM

Snow Garden wrote: »

I have no reason to question the China numbers. They reacted brilliantly.
I doubt their schoolkids went skiing when the schools closed.

I doubt any Irish ones did either.

They may have gone in early February to northern Italy before anyone knew it was a hot spot, but not since.

Hobgoblin11 · 19-03-2020 06:02PM

MOR316 wrote: »

Not in my opinion.

It's here to stay I believe.
Just a matter of when, not if, we get all get it

Fear mongers are us

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