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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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  • #4022
    BLIZZARD7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,002 ✭✭✭BLIZZARD7


    rossie1977 wrote: »
    At our level of growth we are 10 days away from when Italy implemented a full lockdown based on current trajectory. Italy had 9,000 confirmed cases and 460 deaths when they went into full lockdown.

    Adjusted for population differences our 557 cases is the equivalent of ~6,500 in Italy. We need to lockdown now!

    Italy was too late.


  • #4023
    Ninthlife
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,460 ✭✭✭Ninthlife


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    If this is the first time you have felt fear, then you either have not being paying attention and you haven't been as careful as you should have, or you for some reason thought you we were immune.

    Ive been paying full attention and Ive taken all the precautions necessary to try and protect me as I know I am far from immune.

    The fear I have is that despite all my best efforts Im surrounded by ****wits who havent paid attention, taken precautions and think they are immune and as a result the majority like me and probably you who have will be the ones to suffer


  • #4024
    joeguevara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,244 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    Dublin and Cork need to be locked down. Could lift stay at home for rest of country.

    Every county has large towns which will mean large exposure. But the virus doesn’t differentiate between rural and urban. I’m from the country but live in Dublin. A farmer friend rang me and I asked has the mart being closed. He told me it was but now reopened with restrictions, including floor markings on where people should stand. People are requested to stay in cars/jeeps until their animal is for sale or if they want to buy but he said this is being ignored by some. Even worse was the fact that many are still engaging in the spit and shake custom when a deal is done.


  • #4025
    statesaver
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,084 ✭✭✭statesaver


    BLIZZARD7 wrote: »
    Last week certain people accused others of 'Scaremongering' and 'doomsday scenarios' when trying to get across the gravity of the situation - Unfortunately we didn't even have to wait 7 days to exceed 100 cases a day...

    I agree with what some other posters have mentioned, we need a full shutdown here ASAP to really stem the spread. Some people just aren't getting it.

    6034073

    I was one of those posters, I called the Taoiseach's speech on St. Patrick's day scaremongering and in a few other posts i said scaremongering. When he said 15000 cases by the end of this month i just thought bullsh1t. I couldn't get my head around the numbers.
    But after listening to Dr. Catherine Waterway i now fully get the gravity of the situation and it's scary, very scary.


  • #4026
    Cork Boy 53
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    statesaver wrote: »
    I was one of those posters, I called the Taoiseach's speech on St. Patrick's day scaremongering and in a few other posts i said scaremongering. When he said 15000 cases by the end of this month i just thought bullsh1t. I couldn't get my head around the numbers.
    But after listening to Dr. Catherine Waterway i now fully get the gravity of the situation and it's scary, very scary.

    The point is will the authorities get it anymore than what they already have?
    How many deaths would it take before they would order a lockdown even if it could be implemented?


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  • #4027
    joeguevara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,244 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    statesaver wrote: »
    I was one of those posters, I called the Taoiseach's speech on St. Patrick's day scaremongering and in a few other posts i said scaremongering. When he said 15000 cases by the end of this month i just thought bullsh1t. I couldn't get my head around the numbers.
    But after listening to Dr. Catherine Waterway i now fully get the gravity of the situation and it's scary, very scary.

    I think it dawned on me last Wednesday. I have been in the house since then. Up until then I was posting jokes on Facebook etc. A few weeks before that, I was inwardly cringing when someone brought up a coronavirus policy in our offices. I hadn’t really read up on it and assumed it was not something that would have an impact.

    My brother is as frontline as there can be and even when he was talking about the seminars he was giving to his staff on what will be done, I still didn’t get it. When i spoke to him on the phone and could hear nerves from the most usually detached person on medical things, it became clear how serious this is.


  • #4028
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,114 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Cork Boy 53 wrote: »
    The point is will the authorities get it anymore than what they already have?
    How many deaths would it take before they would order a lockdown even if it could be implemented?

    We could be a few weeks away from when deaths start ramping up in magnitude
    If the daily cases start ramping up then a lockdown needs to be seriously looked at - we had 191 today and that is partly down to increased testing.
    But what if we have 300 tomorrow, 500 the day after - some scary looking numbers for a small country
    5000 new cases in a week could mean over 100 people in ICU - yes we have a lot more places than that but that 100 will quickly escalate to 100's


  • #4029
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Ninthlife wrote: »
    Ive been paying full attention and Ive taken all the precautions necessary to try and protect me as I know I am far from immune.

    The fear I have is that despite all my best efforts Im surrounded by ****wits who havent paid attention, taken precautions and think they are immune and as a result the majority like me and probably you who have will be the ones to suffer

    My apologies then. And I agree. Sorry for misrepresenting your position.

    I'm just a little antsy and a little emotional. Probably would do best to take a break from the news and this thread.

    Again, I mean it when I say I'm sorry. I was wrong.


  • #4030
    Cork Boy 53
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    fritzelly wrote: »
    We could be a few weeks away from when deaths start ramping up in magnitude
    If the daily cases start ramping up then a lockdown needs to be seriously looked at - we had 191 today and that is partly down to increased testing.
    But what if we have 300 tomorrow, 500 the day after - some scary looking numbers for a small country
    5000 new cases in a week could mean over 100 people in ICU - yes we have a lot more places than that but that 100 will quickly escalate to 100's

    So what do you think they should do? Go for full lockdown in Dublin and Cork by Monday?


  • #4031
    Woodsie1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 949 ✭✭✭Woodsie1


    Ive been working all week,about to head out for another shift in an hour...ive been isolated most of the week reckon ive had contact with 5 maybe 6 people.
    At the start my thoughts were we probably have all got the virus and the numbers are huge and the testing figures make us worry more because of the positive cases and death rates.
    But just when they call out the numbers and the increase it still gets me even though I believe there is loads of us that have got it and have no symptoms or not bad enough to be tested and reported.
    Driving around yesterday it looked like normal,except for rush hour traffic,it was more or less gone but the amount of people roaming around in towns it was like a weekend rather than a Thursday.
    I dont know what to think anymore...doing my part wearing gloves,washing hands keeping my distance as best I can but Ive no choice but to keep on working and luckily enough my job was always pretty isolated in the first place.


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  • #4032
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Lord TSC wrote: »
    If it's your one from twitter, didn't she say her mother was in her late 80s?

    Aye.


  • #4033
    Thespoofer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,113 ✭✭✭Thespoofer


    Woodsie1 wrote: »
    Ive been working all week,about to head out for another shift in an hour...ive been isolated most of the week reckon ive had contact with 5 maybe 6 people.
    At the start my thoughts were we probably have all got the virus and the numbers are huge and the testing figures make us worry more because of the positive cases and death rates.
    But just when they call out the numbers and the increase it still gets me even though I believe there is loads of us that have got it and have no symptoms or not bad enough to be tested and reported.
    Driving around yesterday it looked like normal,except for rush hour traffic,it was more or less gone but the amount of people roaming around in towns it was like a weekend rather than a Thursday.
    I dont know what to think anymore...doing my part wearing gloves,washing hands keeping my distance as best I can but Ive no choice but to keep on working and luckily enough my job was always pretty isolated in the first place.

    I'm the same at work ( Construction), its like two different worlds.
    In work just like a normal day at work, no real social distancing practised, leave work and head home for isolation. I heard yesterday the Construction Federation of Ireland sent out emails stating its fine to keep the sites open.

    I think this is a mistake.


  • #4034
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,114 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Cork Boy 53 wrote: »
    So what do you think they should do? Go for full lockdown in Dublin and Cork by Monday?

    Just Cork maybe


  • #4035
    Ninthlife
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,460 ✭✭✭Ninthlife


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    My apologies then. And I agree. Sorry for misrepresenting your position.

    I'm just a little antsy and a little emotional. Probably would do best to take a break from the news and this thread.

    Again, I mean it when I say I'm sorry. I was wrong.

    No need to apologise as you did nothing wrong.

    I feel we will all be a little more on edge and emotional in days to come.

    Its hard to get a break from it too as just about everything is affected, sport, socialising, entertainment

    Im finding great escape from it all by reading books again. So one positive of this for me is rediscovering the joy of reading


  • #4036
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    To be perfectly blunt what gives you the right to be so judgemental about how someone else deals with a horrific situation?

    I read those tweets- it began because a bed bound woman with a very limited and known number of visitors still got infected. That was the point. How easy it was. And I, for one, think that was a damn valuable message to share.

    We have had many many requests here for someone who is infected to share their symptoms so people know what to look for.

    'This woman' thought her mother was 'safe' as she was so isolated. Turns out her mother wasn't isolated enough and 'this woman' decided to get that message out.
    'This woman' was living the nightmare and she chose to let people know in a few tweets what that was like. And it was a few tweets.

    If I was in that situation I would do the exact same thing because it might just get the message through to one person how easy it is for the vulnerable to get infected and die.

    There are people in this country who deserve to be scorned - those who are price gouging, those who are ignoring social distancing, those who will use a crises to their advantage - a woman who in her despair and grief wrote a few tweets about what happened to her mother is not one of them.

    Have we run out of compassion already?

    Well to be perfectly blunt right back at you, what gives you the right to be so judgemental of my post? See, that doesn’t really work, does it? People judge each other all the time. I found her tweets distasteful and... that was my reaction. I have a right to that reaction. She made the tweets public. Anything public is open to criticism.

    And spare me the lecture on dealing with horrific situations. I’ve personally been on death’s door numerous times in the last five years. I’d be absolutely sickened if anyone live tweeted my condition in my last days like that. I will be dying of cancer in the next few years and have given a lot of thought to how I’d like those final days to play out. Maybe this woman’s mother was okay with it but we don’t know that.


  • #4037
    Woodsie1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 949 ✭✭✭Woodsie1


    Thespoofer wrote: »
    I'm the same at work ( Construction), its like two different worlds.
    In work just like a normal day at work, no real social distancing practised, leave work and head home for isolation. I heard yesterday the Construction Federation of Ireland sent out emails stating its fine to keep the sites open.

    I think this is a mistake.

    Im seeing all this from inside the cab of a truck...not a care in the world...delivery point i communicate by intercom and get loaded and unloaded without leaving the cab.
    I actually enjoy being alone in my job but Id never have thought that It would come in as handy as this!!!
    Know a few old workmates in the sand and gravel side of things and work is drying up fast...surely construction is next to follow...hope your not out of pocket buddy...best wishes


  • #4038
    joeguevara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,244 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    Woodsie1 wrote: »
    Im seeing all this from inside the cab of a truck...not a care in the world...delivery point i communicate by intercom and get loaded and unloaded without leaving the cab.
    I actually enjoy being alone in my job but Id never have thought that It would come in as handy as this!!!
    Know a few old workmates in the sand and gravel side of things and work is drying up fast...surely construction is next to follow...hope your not out of pocket buddy...best wishes

    Still sucks to be a gooner.


  • #4039
    spookwoman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,059 ✭✭✭✭spookwoman


    [/U]
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    Aye.
    Odd there was an article in some paper and can't fine it about last picture of grandmother

    yep was in dublin live and now gone


  • #4040
    Woodsie1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 949 ✭✭✭Woodsie1


    joeguevara wrote: »
    Still sucks to be a gooner.

    Why the fcuk do you think Im hiding away from everyone in my truck:o


  • #4041
    joeguevara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,244 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    Woodsie1 wrote: »
    Why the fcuk do you think Im hiding away from everyone in my truck:o

    No wonder self isolation is not an issue. Heard Arsenal have been given a clean bill of health. Apart from Arteta having it, none of your players have been within 6 feet of an opposition player and your goalie couldn’t catch anything.


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  • #4042
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Italy...

    https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/italien-mit-hoechstzahl-an-corona-toten-armee-transportiert-leichen-mit-lkw-ab-ausnahmezustand-im-land-verlaengert/25660522.html#!kalooga-20590/~bergamo%20~italien%5E0.75%20~monza%5E0.56

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  • #4043
    Woodsie1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 949 ✭✭✭Woodsie1


    joeguevara wrote: »
    No wonder self isolation is not an issue. Heard Arsenal have been given a clean bill of health. Apart from Arteta having it, none of your players have been within 6 feet of an opposition player and your goalie couldn’t catch anything.

    fcuks sake man i said keep it for the GPL thread this thread has enough bad news in it:pac:

    Anyway..one word...MOURINHO...enjoy:p


  • #4044
    Woodsie1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 949 ✭✭✭Woodsie1


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Italy...

    Whats the point of those sad pics?
    Do you think we all need to be reminded of the seriousness?
    Seems like more doomsday porn.
    Cop yourself on,no need to go all Daily Mail on the thread!!


  • #4045
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Should I go lift all the photos from Vietnam, Kermit? Would that help you understand the virus better? Or would it just give you a semi?


  • #4046
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Woodsie1 wrote: »
    Seems like more doomsday porn.

    More like reality to me.

    Sorry you're triggered.

    If it's good enough for publication then it's good enough to be shown.


  • #4047
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,612 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Monkeynut wrote: »
    cnocbui wrote: »
    I wonder if someone from Jameson's read my suggestion that they make hand sanitiser.
    Pubs are closed!!
    will they still be in three years? 12 years?


  • #4048
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,612 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    Aye.

    you're 8 hours behind with that answer...

    (...i'm not even an hour behind with my response)


  • #4049
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Ninthlife wrote: »
    No need to apologise as you did nothing wrong.

    I feel we will all be a little more on edge and emotional in days to come.

    Its hard to get a break from it too as just about everything is affected, sport, socialising, entertainment

    Im finding great escape from it all by reading books again. So one positive of this for me is rediscovering the joy of reading

    No, I do.

    I went on the attack for absolutely no reason. ****ing stupidity to be honest. You didn't deserve someone to go after you for saying you weren't previously scared. The more I think about it, the sillier the argument I had becomes.

    But thank you for being understanding.

    Best of luck everyone. And as hypocritical as it sounds considering my stance an hour ago, try to be nice to each other.


  • #4050
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


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    Not much curve flattening


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  • #4051
    joeguevara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,244 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    Deleted User wrote: »
    No, I do.

    I went on the attack for absolutely no reason. ****ing stupidity to be honest. You didn't deserve someone to go after you for saying you weren't previously scared. The more I think about it, the sillier the argument I had becomes.

    But thank you for being understanding.

    Best of luck everyone. And as hypocritical as it sounds considering my stance an hour ago, try to be nice to each other.

    I completely get where you are coming from but I don’t think we can have an issue of people’s reactions previously. But now, it is completely acceptable to call someone out if they are flippant about the situation. I messaged a friend who was out and about in contact with about 10 different people, videoing themselves in embrace but then going into banks, post office, shops etc. I also let rip from my door at kids (playing on the street) all from different families.


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