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

stephenjmcd · 20-03-2020 08:06AM

joeguevara wrote: »

Had a look at flight radar live map and was shocked at number of flights arriving. DAA said it was their responsibility to keep flights open to ensure supply chain isn’t effected. If tourists are coming in then it is shocking. One saving grace is because most countries have closed their borders and stopped air travel it severely diminishes passengers arriving. But it’s the one thing that needs to be stopped immediately.

Flights might be arriving but the vast majority have only a handful of people on them who are being brought back to Ireland

OhToBeByTheSea · 20-03-2020 08:06AM

I don't think 52% will continue or worsen. I think we'll probably return to the "expected" 30% or thereabouts today, with a few more spikes from the Italians, Cheltenham and then see a slow drop when we see the impact of the schools and colleges closing. There may be some further spikes in the middle from before air travel was curtailed.
This is not an exact science, even for the experts, they're all learning more about this virus every day. In the same way as we're getting a drip feed of information every day, they're also getting a drip feed of test results, patient information etc.

Just try to do your part. Stay at home if you can, there are so many people who don't have that option. Limit social interactions, it may be hard but, if we do this now, we won't have to do it forever. Keep yourself clean, keep your germs to yourself. Keep your children at home now or you'll have to keep them at home for a lot longer. Stay away from hospitals, GPs, medical centres etc, unless you absolutely have to be there. Ring ahead if you need a prescription and, ring ahead to the pharmacy to make sure they can fill it for you, otherwise you could make a wasted trip. Try to keep your calm. Be considerate of those among us who are at risk of dying from this virus.

As an aside, it's quite eerie seeing all of the pubs closed and hotel carparks empty.

olestoepoke · 20-03-2020 08:07AM

joeguevara wrote: »

Why home delivery isn’t used by everyone is bizarre. If it’s an option then it should be mandatory. If need fresh air or get out of house then a walk to park is better than a supermarket with crowds of people.

Lidl and Aldi don't do deliveries and not everyone can afford to shop in Tesco.

Unearthly · 20-03-2020 08:09AM

Akrasia wrote: »

This is why we need emergency measures to get shopping delivered to people’s houses for free if they’re in a position where they are the sole carers for one or more children.
Take away every excuse for bringing kids into supermarkets for the time being

There are plenty of people who have just been laid off work who would be more than happy to do this if supplied with the correct PPE

Yes and there is a lack of drivers at the moment to. So something like the government helping to pay for more drivers to deliver shopping

Doctors room ghost · 20-03-2020 08:09AM

The biggest mystery for me is where did all the drama queens and their “sources” go,that were sending whats ap messages about the Tuesday morning lock down.
Great work people.
Probably the same clowns that emptied Aldi’s shelves last week. The shelves are full again ye selfish swine despite yere selfish efforts.

caveat emptor · 20-03-2020 08:12AM

amadangomor wrote: »

It's more to do with a jump in testing as we widened the testing criteria this week.

You are assuming that we are now testing at a rate similar to Italy etc. From the anecdotal evidence on here. I wouldn't be so sure. If people are struggling to test and they recover. There is no telling how many more people they infect. There's evidence that it is possible to transmit to people after symptoms subside.

Most people's attitude in that cohort will say "no I didn't have that" etc.

crisco10 · 20-03-2020 08:13AM

joeguevara wrote: »

Had a look at flight radar live map and was shocked at number of flights arriving. DAA said it was their responsibility to keep flights open to ensure supply chain isn’t effected. If tourists are coming in then it is shocking. One saving grace is because most countries have closed their borders and stopped air travel it severely diminishes passengers arriving. But it’s the one thing that needs to be stopped immediately.

There is also cargo on those flights, even the passenger jets.

whiskeyman · 20-03-2020 08:13AM

Jurgen Klopp wrote: »

Lads I just think this deserves sharing. A team in Galway are currently trying to design an easily built and put together ventilator which can be rapidly built and deployed. It's to be an open source device so anyone or any nation will be free to use the designs to make their own. Non profit

Saw it in the journal this morning

https://www.thejournal.ie/emergency-ventilators-ireland-5051956-Mar2020/

They currently have about 36k of the 50k needed, just said I'd share it

https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-breathing-fund-emergency-covid19-ventilators

Seems to be a different group doing same thing below.
Surely they are best to collaborate and learn failings and successes.
Or maybe a sense of competition is good?

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/health-pharma/irish-project-for-easy-to-assemble-covid-19-ventilators-bears-fruit-1.4205999

weemcd · 20-03-2020 08:13AM

joeguevara wrote: »

In times like this, people will try anything to be safe. Unfortunately fraudsters will prey on this. While usually only financial impact occurs, doing it now is downright dangerous. I’ve come across this guy before and he clearly is evil. Flies around in a jet funded by his followers. He should be arrested and charged with intentional poisoning.

Healing through the tv is disgusting and disturbing.

https://youtu.be/EU5hjBtDkjE

Before I even clicked that link I knew it was gonna be him. If the devil was real, he'd be it.

bilston · 20-03-2020 08:13AM

More good news from China regarding two consecutive days without community transmission...however can we believe their stats?

Either way it is clearly a much better picture there than it was six weeks ago, so that has got to be hope for the rest of us.

PokeHerKing · 20-03-2020 08:14AM

stephenjmcd wrote: »

Morning Ireland hyping up yesterdays numbers yet again and referring to numbers by the island of Ireland.

No point in giving massive airtime to the numbers when testing has been ramped up and we wont see the benefits of social distancing for at least a week - 2 weeks. Only then will we have a clearer picture as to if we can reduce the curve.

No, the world is in this mess for two reasons, people eating bat's and governments suppressing information about the disease.

The public need to be frightened, we should be going FOX news level of scaremongering. It might make the public at large take it seriously and actually self isolate.

mohawk · 20-03-2020 08:17AM

gozunda wrote: »

I noticed on another thread some parents givng out about new restrictions on bringing children into supermarkets

Two things:

You risk your children becoming infected with a potentially life threatening disease

Children are often asymptomatic and children are known superspreaders of a number of diseases

It has been found that "more than 90 percent of the cases in children had no symptoms, or with mild or moderate illness. However, approximately 6 percent of the coronavirus cases in children were severe or critical"

"asymptomatic children are unlikely to be tested. These children can transmit the virus to other people without them knowing"

https://www.news-medical.net/amp/news/20200319/Some-children-may-become-seriously-ill-with-coronavirus-experts-warn.aspx

Initial numbers from Italy are indicting that children are not the main carriers of this particular virus. In that town they tested in Italy the majority of children didn’t test positive for the virus. You need to carry the virus to spread it.
For many viruses kids are asymptomatic carriers but initial data is not supporting that for the virus.
Can’t remember where I got that study from.

Akrasia · 20-03-2020 08:19AM

stephenjmcd wrote: »

Morning Ireland hyping up yesterdays numbers yet again and referring to numbers by the island of Ireland.

No point in giving massive airtime to the numbers when testing has been ramped up and we wont see the benefits of social distancing for at least a week - 2 weeks. Only then will we have a clearer picture as to if we can reduce the curve.

At this point in time It is much much better for the media to highlight the surging numbers in Ireland than it is to downplay the seriousness of the situation or tell people a cure is around the corner (like Boris Johnson is doing)

This is an extremely time sensitive crisis and we need everyone to take it seriously right now because we are only weeks away from being Italy if people don’t prevent it from spreading

Jurgen Klopp · 20-03-2020 08:19AM

Jurgen Klopp wrote: »

Lads I just think this deserves sharing. A team in Galway are currently trying to design an easily built and put together ventilator which can be rapidly built and deployed. It's to be an open source device so anyone or any nation will be free to use the designs to make their own. Non profit

Saw it in the journal this morning

https://www.thejournal.ie/emergency-ventilators-ireland-5051956-Mar2020/

They currently have about 36k of the 50k needed, just said I'd share it

https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-breathing-fund-emergency-covid19-ventilators

They've hit their 52k target and climbing, hell ya!

Akrasia · 20-03-2020 08:20AM

mohawk wrote: »

Initial numbers from Italy are indicting that children are not the main carriers of this particular virus. In that town they tested in Italy the majority of children didn’t test positive for the virus. You need to carry the virus to spread it.
For many viruses kids are asymptomatic carriers but initial data is not supporting that for the virus.
Can’t remember where I got that study from.

If you can’t remember your source then all you’re doing is spreading gossip on the internet. Do you want to be ‘that’ person?

ihdxwz4a3pem9j · 20-03-2020 08:22AM

I have a very long-shift ahead of me today. The neighbours threw a massive party. It is bloody frustrating to be woken in the middle of the night.

Gooey Looey · 20-03-2020 08:24AM

Mallory Rich Salad wrote: »

I have a very long-shift ahead of me today. The neighbours threw a massive party. It is bloody frustrating to be woken in the middle of the night.

You'll need to get used to it, this could go on for awhile

gozunda · 20-03-2020 08:25AM

Covid-19 restrictions 'likely' to last longer than two weeks ...

https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/0320/1124269-coronavirus-ireland/

Rob A. Bank · 20-03-2020 08:25AM

mohawk wrote: »

Initial numbers from Italy are indicting that children are not the main carriers of this particular virus. In that town they tested in Italy the majority of children didn’t test positive for the virus. You need to carry the virus to spread it.
For many viruses kids are asymptomatic carriers but initial data is not supporting that for the virus.
Can’t remember where I got that study from.

The expert WHO China group found the same thing.

It was not so much of children spreading to adults, more of adults spreading to the children.

But early days yet with this virus... a lot more study is needed to clear up the many unknowns.

Akrasia · 20-03-2020 08:27AM

Mallory Rich Salad wrote: »

I have a very long-shift ahead of me today. The neighbours threw a massive party. It is bloody frustrating to be woken in the middle of the night.

Did you call the Gardaí?

Because that’s certainly what I would have done

Gooey Looey · 20-03-2020 08:28AM

Doctor Shipman wrote: »

The garda will be shutting down house parties if they are reported.

Family house parties? You can have a party without inviting anyone else.

Doctors room ghost · 20-03-2020 08:28AM

My cousins neighbors cat eats food out of Leo varadkars wheelie bin and he said there’s definitely a lock down coming,involving the Irish army and live rounds.
He even used pew pew sounds to mimic bullets flying.be ready folks.that same cat has its little paw on the pulse and is also a serious operator in predicting weather and the best times for cutting hay and turf.

Wrex · 20-03-2020 08:29AM

So these seems to be some optimism about drugs that have been trialed recently such as Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine .

Could these types of drugs if proved successful for treating the virus , be a quick fix to the crisis we are in? Or, even if proved effective and supplied to people, we are still looking at weeks or months as we are?

Ellie2008 · 20-03-2020 08:29AM

A few articles this morning suggesting buying from small businesses online. It’s a tough one is it ethical in the current environment to have parcels circulating & postmen, sorters etc. working more then they need to?

wakka12 · 20-03-2020 08:32AM

300 new cases and 25 more deaths in Indonesia

is_that_so · 20-03-2020 08:32AM

bilston wrote: »

More good news from China regarding two consecutive days without community transmission...however can we believe their stats?

Either way it is clearly a much better picture there than it was six weeks ago, so that has got to be hope for the rest of us.

It's that 6-8 weeks experience they already have. Between poster anecdotes and news report they do seem to be relaxing some of the restrictions. That suggests they feel they have it under control. After the initial denials they do seem to be a lot more open about details. There's also not much point in "juking the stats" at this stage. Even if they've hidden 20000 it's not going to make a whole lot of difference to anything.

olestoepoke · 20-03-2020 08:33AM

Gooey Looey wrote: »

You'll need to get used to it, this could go on for awhile

WTF is wrong with people?

RandomName2 · 20-03-2020 08:34AM

Ellie2008 wrote: »

A few articles this morning suggesting buying from small businesses online. It’s a tough one is it ethical in the current environment to have parcels circulating & postmen, sorters etc. working more then they need to?

It is absolutely ethical. People should avoid human contact if possible.

SuperValue even advertises online 'Please help protect our staff and other people by ordering from us online'

If more people are needed for sorting and delivering (they probably will be) then they will be hired. Dominos and Amazon in America are both going on a hiring spree for exactly this reason.

If you can shop 'locally' online that would be really good for small businesses, but those businesses will have to have some sort of system in place where you can do so. I'm certain that a lot of them won't

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

My cousins neighbors cat eats food out of Leo varadkars wheelie bin and he said there’s definitely a lock down coming,involving the Irish army and live rounds.
He even used pew pew sounds to mimic bullets flying.be ready folks.that same cat has its little paw on the pulse and is also a serious operator in predicting weather and the best times for cutting hay and turf.

Okay, but I need clarification. Did you hear this directly from the cat, or were you just told this by your cousin?

XsApollo · 20-03-2020 08:34AM

wakka12 wrote: »

300 new cases and 25 more deaths in Indonesia

Surprised they never sent us some viruses over the years.
Some of the food markets there make Wuhan look like a 3 star Michelin restaurant.

Akrasia · 20-03-2020 08:35AM

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

My cousins neighbors cat eats food out of Leo varadkars wheelie bin and he said there’s definitely a lock down coming,involving the Irish army and live rounds.
He even used pew pew sounds to mimic bullets flying.be ready folks.that same cat has its little paw on the pulse and is also a serious operator in predicting weather and the best times for cutting hay and turf.

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