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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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  • #3602
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91,041 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    dougm1970 wrote: »
    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.

    That is a long what for a test for someone so seriously sick yet "celebs" with mild to little symptons are tested fast
    https://forumofgames.com/




  • #3603
    Longing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭Longing


    ShaneU wrote: »
    I've had some mild symptoms come and go the last three days, cough, headaches, burning/itchy eyes, pains at the side of my head, and a strange "swarming" feeling in my head (hard to concentrate) Feel grand now just the odd cough. No fever

    Thinking of ringing HSE tomorrow

    Sounds like Graves Disease.


  • #3604
    brookers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 408 ✭✭brookers


    marilynrr wrote: »
    There's a thread further down about trying to convince elderly parents to stay in when they don't want to.
    Some of them just aren't afraid of the risk, and would rather keep living their life rather than risk being isolated and lonely and possibly dying anyway due to another age related issue.

    That is correct, apparently one of these 90 year olds said they were going to die anyways so who gives a flying hoot, feck the fact that a bad recession is coming and and an icu bed is going to be as rare as a hen's tooth.


  • #3605
    Jinglejangle69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,122 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    Michael Martin fills me with no confidence.


  • #3606
    tobefrank321
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,527 ✭✭✭tobefrank321


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

    Probably in isolation down the country somewhere!


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  • #3607
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,384 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    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

    On this, do people think we can mollycoddle the elderly a bit too much, in terms of their mental ability to be alone for a while.

    I mean, a lot of them have to deal with loneliness anyway, and have been through much harder times than any one of us could imagine.

    I think most are a hardy bunch, just worried that some might not be so aware of what's happening now.

    Not sure where I'm going with that thought...


  • #3608
    Gods Gift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,713 ✭✭✭Gods Gift


    Steve F wrote: »
    What's this I'm hearing about hydroxychloroquine?

    Love their old stuff.

    Can’t wait to see them at the electric picnic


  • #3609
    Monkeynut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 655 ✭✭✭Monkeynut


    Jinglejangle69 wrote: »
    Michael Martin fills me with no confidence.


    Lets have a vote.


  • #3610
    I Am The Law
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 657 ✭✭✭I Am The Law


    Gods Gift wrote: »
    But they’re so tasty.
    Kerrygold butter and toomattto sauce.

    What the Hollandaise?


  • #3611
    weisses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,758 ✭✭✭weisses


    wakka12 wrote: »
    Over 1000 deaths in Europe today, hard to comprehend

    every day 200 people die from influenza in Europe ...


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  • #3612
    Mental Mickey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,669 ✭✭✭✭Mental Mickey


    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    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.

    I thought you meant Kirsty Young....?

    :mad:


  • #3613
    niallo27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,137 ✭✭✭✭niallo27


    owlbethere wrote: »
    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?

    So you think it would be easier for the whole population to do it.


  • #3614
    bekker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 912 ✭✭✭bekker


    Deleted User wrote: »
    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.
    Total non-sequitur at the end.


  • #3615
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,277 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    Jinglejangle69 wrote: »
    Michael Martin fills me with no confidence.

    I wish he'd just go away


  • #3616
    theguzman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,084 ✭✭✭theguzman


    Deleted User wrote: »
    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.


    After all this there needs to be a total trade embargo on China think 10,000% tarrifs, don't buy their products, use US and European power to destroy their economy, bankrupt them and then start arming their nationalists to overthrow the Communists there. They have destroyed the world economy and are a dictatorship like Hitler hell bent on total global domination.


  • #3617
    ceadaoin.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,623 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    Monkeynut wrote: »
    This is what i don't get. If everything is getting back to normal. How is it not snowballing again?

    Testing everyone. Anyone who is positive is swiftly isolated and their contacts traced. They have apps that let them know exactly where the person has been. People are notified if they have been exposed and told to self isolate. At least that's how South Korea are keeping on top of it and supposedly china too


  • #3618
    tikkahunter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,052 ✭✭✭tikkahunter


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    Think I read somewhere that trump wants to give all the Americans 1k.
    Not much good if it costs 4K to get tested.


  • #3619
    martin101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 407 ✭✭martin101


    niallo27 wrote: »
    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.

    I don't agree. Likes of easons still open. Hardly an essential place that needs to be still open


  • #3620
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91,041 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Steve F wrote: »
    What's this I'm hearing about hydroxychloroquine?

    Trump thinks it is the answer
    https://forumofgames.com/




  • #3621
    Jinglejangle69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,122 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    Michael forgets he is still basically in government.

    He never stops rambling and getting nowhere.


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  • #3622
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,579 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    There is a company from Derby who's test diagnoses in 10

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8118165/British-company-claims-created-coronavirus-test-detect-COVID-19-ten-minutes.html




    https://streamable.com/rbfa9


  • #3623
    Hobgoblin11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Hobgoblin11


    sheepsh4gger wrote: »
    So I haven't been out for 5 days - are people wearing masks now?

    only the paranoid schizophrenics

    Dundalk, Co. Louth



  • #3624
    Steve F
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,858 ✭✭✭Steve F


    Originally Posted by Steve F View Post
    What's this I'm hearing about hydroxychloroquine?


    Trump thinks it is the answer


    And what do other people think?


  • #3625
    bb12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 888 ✭✭✭bb12


    saw this guy on itv news...he's an english nurse working in bergamo

    https://www.itv.com/news/2020-03-19/coronavirus-patients-in-italy-treated-as-numbers-as-death-toll-hit-nearly-3-000/


    "And there are no relatives, like it’s complete isolation.
    So for most of the patients that arrive, most of them see their families once when the ambulance goes to pick them up and there’s no contact, even until the moment of their death and their funeral."


  • #3626
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,385 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    Trump thinks it is the answer
    The WHO say it isn't who would you believe?


  • #3627
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 14,266 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    martin101 wrote: »
    I don't agree. Likes of easons still open. Hardly an essential place that needs to be still open




    I think a lot of places that are only closing now (Penney's, Ikea, etc.) are doing so because they're exhausting their stock levels, rather than because they've suddenly grown a heart for their employees. :(


  • #3628
    begbysback
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭begbysback


    martin101 wrote: »
    I don't agree. Likes of easons still open. Hardly an essential place that needs to be still open

    Maybe not, but it means somebody there still has a job at the moment, and its doing no harm.


  • #3629
    Call Me Jimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    Route1 wrote: »
    What’s the logic in not going into lockdown here?

    The logic everywhere seems to be 'wait for the direct evidence (confirmed cases) to get to a point where it is so bad that we don't have any other choice'. I completely get the economic problem but even China said '**** the economy for a minute'. Then there was the outliers, imo, South Korea.

    I've been watching South Korea every day. I said a few weeks back that they would definitely shut down their economy (back before many countries started doing it) and I was wrong. Testing and extremely transparent information regarding confirmed cases appears to have outsourced some of the processing to individuals and it's absolutely not a success yet but it has been very promising. Taiwan on the other hand, very quick containment. You have to choose something extreme, early. Not slow-roll into full lockdown over many weeks.

    Regarding asian countries extreme transparency regarding locational data: From a psychological perspective I think it would make sense (given that European countries have a problem with the public copping on) to publish specific locational data. Wouldn't it make people a bit more alert a bit earlier to know it's right on their doorstep? The opposing argument is that it makes others complacent, but I don't think it'd make people more complacent than they would be just knowing the County. All I know is it seems to be a component in the more 'successful' countries.


  • #3630
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,156 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    Leaving and Junior certs certainly will not be going ahead this year in June.


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  • #3631
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,101 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    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?

    It's not a soft, painless death at all. If you've never seen anyone gasping, starving for air, count yourself lucky. It's a horrible way to go. So is septic shock and kidney failure.


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