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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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  • #3572
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91,041 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    begbysback wrote: »
    relax - we've had 3 deaths, kids in blanchardstown and finglas have a higher kill rate this year

    Even 1 death is too many
    https://forumofgames.com/




  • #3573
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,114 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    you're not you when you're hungry, have a snickers

    It's Marathon now (for a limited time)


  • #3574
    tobefrank321
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,527 ✭✭✭tobefrank321


    sheepsh4gger wrote: »
    The problem is with eating wild animals, bats especially as they carry diseases.

    The wet markets are a huge part of the economy particularly the rural uneducated poor in China who survive by subsistance agriculture. A year from now they'll be back up and running if probably more underground.


  • #3575
    owlbethere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭owlbethere


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/caixin/status/1238049329765470208

    How do they sleep at night?


  • #3576
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    caveat emptor wrote: »
    You are contradicting yourself.

    There is no benefit but health workers need them to stop getting sick.

    Do you actually listen to yourself? Have you ever had to apply critical thinking skills to understand something?

    HSE said.....

    They said it was low risk
    They now advise doctors it can last in the air for up to 3 hours after someone coughs. Imagine that in a supermarket. Do you think you won't get it cause the HSE said so. Good luck

    Give it over, healthcare workers are in contact for much longer periods and require ppe including masks, that's a no brainer. Read the previous posts.

    The general public walking around outside do not need to wear one as the risk of contracting is considered low.

    Theres a difference between a 12 hour plus shift in an isolation ward and a walk down the road.

    Thats the point. And yes my job involves highly critical thinking. You have a great night now.


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  • #3577
    Blueshoe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    Strazdas wrote: »
    Those demanding a lockdown are probably isolated / loners and wouldn't even be impacted by it. It's a different for the broader society who are used to socialising and not being prisoners in their own home....it would hit them hard if it went on too long.

    That's just rude. Look at Spain, Italy, Germany. They should have shutdown earlier. Now hundreds are dying everyday.
    Don't worry you can still Skype


  • #3578
    Gods Gift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,713 ✭✭✭Gods Gift


    Hobgoblin11 wrote: »
    I wish people would stop eating BATS all around the world, they are meant for other things. :(

    Makes my stomach turn

    Have a Snickers

    But they’re so tasty.
    Kerrygold butter and toomattto sauce.


  • #3579
    martin101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 407 ✭✭martin101


    Strazdas wrote: »
    Those demanding a lockdown are probably isolated / loners and wouldn't even be impacted by it. It's a different for the broader society who are used to socialising and not being prisoners in their own home....it would hit them hard if it went on too long.

    No think your wrong, me and a few of my friends want a lockdown. Some of us have elderly family that we care about and don't want to see die. Nothing to do with being a loner and just want a lockdown for the sake of it. Problem with people these days is "I'm ok so fxxk the rest of yous" lovely attitude


  • #3580
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,162 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    How come almost every contributor to these shows on Covid-19 seem to have the worst possible quality internet connection?


  • #3581
    niallo27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,137 ✭✭✭✭niallo27


    Strazdas wrote: »
    Those demanding a lockdown are probably isolated / loners and wouldn't even be impacted by it. It's a different for the broader society who are used to socialising and not being prisoners in their own home....it would hit them hard if it went on too long.

    Its impossible for some factories to close full time too, I work in a 24/7 manufacturing multi national. If we shut down lines for 24 hours even, it would be chaos.


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  • #3582
    Mervyn Skidmore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,210 ✭✭✭Mervyn Skidmore


    Gods Gift wrote: »
    But they’re so tasty.
    Kerrygold butter and toomattto sauce.
    Put a bitta butter on the bats Andre.


  • #3583
    dougm1970
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,148 ✭✭✭dougm1970


    godson / nephew of mine...16...very sick today...sick since Saturday night but awful bad today....huge fever, headache and coughing...dry cough too....seemingly someone coming out to test him today and it'll be two days for results
    a young fella whos never sick ..not a pick of fat on him.. does a lot of boxing and football.
    facetimed him there and was shocked how he looked, face swollen and sweaty...hes in bed and has no energy at all.

    may not be it at all....but its just hes never sick and has these symptoms at this time.

    his family have been told to self isolate.


    that was posted monday....he was sick since last saturday night...family told he'd be tested on monday, someone would call to house.....but nothing since...family are under isolation and can't leave the house, my wife doing shopping etc for them and leaving at their gate.
    he's improved in last couple of days, but he was savage sick...doctor instructed him to stay in bedroom and not go around the house.
    maybe it wasnt the virus at all....but his family are convinced it was, due to symptoms and how first time he was ever this sick happened to fall on this week.
    dunno if he'll be tested at all now that hes on the mend.


  • #3584
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,917 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Was talking to my dad the other day (69 years old) and he was saying he wouldn't mind if he got the virus and died from it.

    I, a bit perplexed as you can imagine, questioned his thinking. He said that from what he understands of it, people that get it are off their heads in and out of fevers and their breathing slows until they die. He reckons the respiratory system giving up, whilst you're so out of it with the 'flu', that you'd barely notice, and "with a few whiskeys in you" it'd be a grand way to go.

    I did have to laugh, but it got me thinking: how do you actually die from this? It does seem to be mostly related to the breathing issue, from what I can see (it shuts down your ability to breath properly?). Are people dying in their sleep and over night with it, just by suffocating?

    Hospital would be managed, and perhaps with morphine it would just be like drifting away.

    But alone, all I can say is that a friend got viral pneumonia a few years back and couldn't breathe enough to talk and call an ambulance. They texted me and I called the ambulance for them.
    They said it was the scariest thing they had ever encountered, the panic of not being able to breathe just made it worse.


  • #3585
    Gods Gift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,713 ✭✭✭Gods Gift


    David McWilliams wants the bank to print free money and put it into our bank accounts


  • #3586
    tobefrank321
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,527 ✭✭✭tobefrank321


    Strazdas wrote: »
    Those demanding a lockdown are probably isolated / loners and wouldn't even be impacted by it. It's a different for the broader society who are used to socialising and not being prisoners in their own home....it would hit them hard if it went on too long.

    Those demanding a lockdown are responsible patriots wanting the best for their compatriots.


  • #3587
    Monkeynut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 655 ✭✭✭Monkeynut


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    China blamed the Us military several times hence Trump calling it the Chinese virus at every opportunity.

    Even in a global crisis they can't leave each other be. Looks like China is getting back to normal while the problems in the Us are only beginning.
    Check mate to Winnie the Pooh
    This is what i don't get. If everything is getting back to normal. How is it not snowballing again?


  • #3588
    sheepsh4gger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 622 ✭✭✭sheepsh4gger


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    How come almost every contributor to these shows on Covid-19 seem to have the worst possible quality internet connection?
    It has to do with wireless being a joke. You need to connect your laptop with a physical cable to the router, otherwise if someone walks in front of you or turns on a microwave your connection will drop. A wire also has much higher bandwidth.


  • #3589
    bekker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 912 ✭✭✭bekker


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Was talking to my dad the other day (69 years old) and he was saying he wouldn't mind if he got the virus and died from it.

    I, a bit perplexed as you can imagine, questioned his thinking. He said that from what he understands of it, people that get it are off their heads in and out of fevers and their breathing slows until they die. He reckons the respiratory system giving up, whilst you're so out of it with the 'flu', that you'd barely notice, and "with a few whiskeys in you" it'd be a grand way to go.

    I did have to laugh, but it got me thinking: how do you actually die from this? It does seem to be mostly related to the breathing issue, from what I can see (it shuts down your ability to breath properly?). Are people dying in their sleep and over night with it, just by suffocating?
    You don't really want to know.

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  • #3590
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    No but they have grotesque animal factory farms where diseases spread that could spread to humans, for that reason I don't think any of us can look down on the Chinese. We should perhaps think about how we keep animals worldwide, it might even mean, gasp, eating less meat.

    The Chinese seem to have a particularly callous disregard for animal welfare. I seen two videos today from China on twitter that shocked me to the core. One was a dog in what looked like a large wok, the dog was being boiled alive and basted at the same time in a shallow enough liquid. The other was even worse a poor dog strung up by a wire still alive while a man was blow-torching it. It was black from head to toe and he seemed to spend a sinister amount of time blow torching its face. The dog was still alive. I was so repulsed i had to go for a walk to get my head around what i had just seen.

    Europe is not anywhere near the level of depraved animal treatment you see in China. I'm not sure there is anywhere on earth that would come close to them.

    They really need to be held to account for their treatment of animals and their disgusting wet markets. Just look where we are now with this virus because of their treatment of animals.


  • #3591
    Jinglejangle69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,122 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    Gods Gift wrote: »
    David McWilliams wants the bank to print free money and put it into our bank accounts

    Sorted!!


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  • #3592
    niallo27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,137 ✭✭✭✭niallo27


    martin101 wrote: »
    No think your wrong, me and a few of my friends want a lockdown. Some of us have elderly family that we care about and don't want to see die. Nothing to do with being a loner and just want a lockdown for the sake of it. Problem with people these days is "I'm ok so fxxk the rest of yous" lovely attitude

    That's not correct, there has to be a balance though. I have vulnerable family but I dont want a complete lockdown. I think what we have in place now is enough for now.


  • #3593
    patnor1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,301 ✭✭✭patnor1011


    Strazdas wrote: »
    If you go too soon with this, how do you get back out of it? The govt have to be really careful here......people would not accept a six week lockdown, their mental health would really start to suffer.

    Not quite. People can endure much more like for example in a war time.
    I would think that mental health will suffer more seeing people you know to die from this virus and not from lack of browsing shops and sitting in a pub.


  • #3594
    Hobgoblin11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Hobgoblin11


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Was talking to my dad the other day (69 years old) and he was saying he wouldn't mind if he got the virus and died from it.

    I, a bit perplexed as you can imagine, questioned his thinking. He said that from what he understands of it, people that get it are off their heads in and out of fevers and their breathing slows until they die. He reckons the respiratory system giving up, whilst you're so out of it with the 'flu', that you'd barely notice, and "with a few whiskeys in you" it'd be a grand way to go.

    I did have to laugh, but it got me thinking: how do you actually die from this? It does seem to be mostly related to the breathing issue, from what I can see (it shuts down your ability to breath properly?). Are people dying in their sleep and over night with it, just by suffocating?

    Google anti-natalisim, your dad should also

    Dundalk, Co. Louth



  • #3595
    ShaneU
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,067 ✭✭✭✭ShaneU


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    you're not you when you're hungry, have a snickers

    I turn into a right Diva when I'm hungry


  • #3596
    Mental Mickey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,669 ✭✭✭✭Mental Mickey


    Gods Gift wrote: »
    David McWilliams wants the bank to print free money and put it into our bank accounts

    F**kwit


  • #3597
    Steve F
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,858 ✭✭✭Steve F


    What's this I'm hearing about hydroxychloroquine?


  • #3598
    owlbethere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭owlbethere


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    I think our approach has been sensible, if a bit late.

    I also think there will be a ramp up in interventions. I don't know what that could be though.

    Lockdown may come, but maybe an intermediate step first. They did mention advising elderly people to isolate - cocooning - perhaps that's next, before people on the street are fined.

    Isolating elderly people?

    What age does the government mean by elderly? This virus attacks those who I wouldn't even consider old like early 60s. So everybody 60+ hides away for a year. Also people with underlying issues are at risk. How about adults living at home with their parents? Where to they go to isolate their parents?


  • #3599
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,277 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    Gods Gift wrote: »
    David McWilliams wants the bank to print free money and put it into our bank accounts

    I think it's called quantitative easing, I had to turn it off though as his skype was so bad. Hello Kirsty Wark on Newsnight, drool.


  • #3600
    bb12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 888 ✭✭✭bb12


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Was talking to my dad the other day (69 years old) and he was saying he wouldn't mind if he got the virus and died from it.

    I, a bit perplexed as you can imagine, questioned his thinking. He said that from what he understands of it, people that get it are off their heads in and out of fevers and their breathing slows until they die. He reckons the respiratory system giving up, whilst you're so out of it with the 'flu', that you'd barely notice, and "with a few whiskeys in you" it'd be a grand way to go.

    I did have to laugh, but it got me thinking: how do you actually die from this? It does seem to be mostly related to the breathing issue, from what I can see (it shuts down your ability to breath properly?). Are people dying in their sleep and over night with it, just by suffocating?


    that's not a peaceful death at all...you body madly gasping for its last breath as the lungs are full of fluid and you're organs shutting down because of lack of oxygen..


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  • #3601
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    Gods Gift wrote: »
    David McWilliams wants the bank to print free money and put it into our bank accounts

    Think I read somewhere that trump wants to give all the Americans 1k.


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