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

43% Irish cases from travel abroad

Kaisr Sose wrote: »

Some things never change. My elderly mothers house was broken into this afternoon when she went out to collect pension. She was only out for 25min, so they were watching her.

A very vigilant neighbour seen them force a window and called the Garda who rushed up in masse. Two members of a mobile type background now in custody. However, two Garda were injured while responding (crashed car) and i believe hospitslised.

My mother, the legend she is for a 92 yr old, got quite a shock on returning home to see all the Garda cars and vans at her house. Thankfully, she was totally unphased, and was offering to make the Gardaí tea while they took a statement from her.

And to think our primary concern was protecting her health, not her home. Total scumbags to violate her home like this in thse times. At least they now have their own perios of social distancing while in lockdown in the station.

need new laws for this type of **** during this crisis - life sentence

So as the numbers continue to get even worse in Italy, how do we think things are going to be in the UK and NI very shortly?

Once Italy realised the scale of the problem they implemented a severe lockdown, and hopefully we will see the positive effects of that soon. When Ireland and the rest of Europe realised the scale of the problem they begin implementing severe measures themselves.

But in the UK and NI, pubs, shops, general businesses, gyms, schools and unis are still open, with schools and unis due to close tomorrow. But pubs, shops, gyms, and businesses in general are still open however, it is absolutely crazy at this stage. They also aren't bothering to implement nearly as strong a testing regime as Ireland. Unlike Italy, currently there is no expected timeframe for when the upcoming disastrous UK numbers begin to level off as they haven't implemented measures nearly as strict as the rest of Europe..life is continuing as normal still over there.

One of the most important measures we could have taken weeks ago was to stop flights from Italy earlier. My God we can only dream of the amount of upcoming pain that could have been avoided if we had taken this step earlier. In general, every country can only wish they had stopped flights from Italy and China earlier.

So why on Earth do we still have multiple flights going back and forward daily to the UK, and London in particular? London is so densely packed the virus has to be spreading like wildfire. This is nuts, who knows what the true number of cases is yet as they aren't testing properly..I can only imagine how bad things are going to be there soon.

We were too slow to stop flights from Italy. We are already too slow to stop flights from London, but FOR GOD SAKE AT LEAST STOP THEM NOW!!!

For example:

fattymuatty wrote: »

My husband works for an internet company and they have had a rash of calls from UK numbers calling to check that their internet is up and running in their holiday home in Ireland before they come over here to wait it out.

Downlinz wrote: »

The strain in Wuhan is predominantly thought to be milder than the one we appear to have in Europe.
What's happening in Italy with a near 10% death rate is certainly not comparable to a seasonal flu.

Yeah but the number of cases in Italy will be a hell of a lot higher than 40,000. It's probably at least 10 times that amount.

This is it wrote: »

Covid 19 will be done and dusted by the time I read all that.

Read it.
At once scary, practical and hopeful.

I see Eoghan Murphy was self isolating from returning from travel abroad

Jake1 wrote: »

I was curious about this. A few nights ago, a large group of scumbags were running wild, smashing up vehicles, in Cherry Orchard Dublin
I am curious, what if any powers , would the army have if called to a scene like this.

Can they even put their hands on a person? What if they were just abused and told to f off

New laws they can detain without question or shoot

ironingbored wrote: »

We have 7,300 active personnel and 1,663 reserves minus 565 currently on active duty overseas.

We are so sparsely populated that we would need the army in every town and village.

Obviously Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway would need more resources than elsewhere.

A week of high profile presence would tell people the **** is real.
Fines for disobedience.

We would not need feet in every town and village, just the major areas where anti social behaviour is common and where a certain demographic resides. Local Gardai can look after the rest

saabsaab wrote: »

Our increase in cases rises as expected. I wonder how many are related to Cheltenham or Italian Tourists? Any figures for this?

Definitely not Cheltenham anyway. There wouldn't have been enough time to get infected and then tested (the festival only finished on Friday evening).

Omackeral wrote: »

Which would you rather, test positive for Covid-19 or watch an episode of Mrs Browne's Boys from start to finish?

I'd live in Mrs. Browne's bloomers to not catch it