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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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  • #4172
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1240790639815667714?s=20


  • #4173
    Kerrydude1981
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,192 ✭✭✭✭Kerrydude1981


    Was talking to a taxi driver in Tralee yesterday, was on about people having house parties, he got a call for a pick up at a house last weekend when he arrived he saw that there was a house party taking place so he turned the car and left again.


  • #4174
    Ellie2008
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,123 ✭✭✭Ellie2008


    Fakediamond wrote: »
    I hope this post in tongue in cheek. If not, I would have phoned the guards to clear the place out, they would have done it too, I’d say, completely irresponsible and selfish people.

    Tbh I’d be phoning the guards today so they can have words. The sheer selfishness of it! If it happens again phone the guards.


  • #4175
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,230 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    mohawk wrote: »
    Have you seen the volumes of scientific studies so far on this virus. I have never seen so many about one topic. All data so far is very preliminary. All I did is point out that children may not be the primary carriers of this disease. Another study with more numbers could show that they are. A lot of people have decided that children are the problem when the safest thing to do is act as if everyone is a carrier.
    You’re right, children aren’t ‘the problem’
    Everyone needs to presume both that they have the virus, and that everyone else has the virus, at least for the next few months. Children aren’t able to self isolate, or observe social distancing so parents need to isolate them on their behalf

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • #4176
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Surprised to see how out of hand it's getting in Australia 100-150 new cases everyday the last few days after having stagnant numbers for months. Approaching 1000 now


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  • #4177
    Doctors room ghost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,839 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    Akrasia wrote: »
    3 out of 10



    That was at least an 8 and you are in a mood because you weren’t invited to the house party


  • #4178
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    wakka12 wrote: »
    Surprised to see how out of hand it's getting in Australia 100-150 new cases everyday the last few days after having stagnant numbers for months. Approaching 1000 now
    Isn't it interesting how we can look at those numbers now, armed with the "expected 30% a day increase" of the DOH, and just nod?! A few weeks ago that would have been full-on panic for a lot of people.


  • #4179
    circadian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,438 ✭✭✭circadian


    So I know 2 people in the UK with the virus. Or at least we think it's the virus but because of their testing policy it's hard to tell.

    First one is my friend's sister who's housemate tested positive. Early 20's and both described it as feeling like a bad cold, harsh cough and tightness of chest. Neither really had a fever.

    Second is a friend of mine who had spent some time with someone who later tested positive. He's in his late 30's but in good shape. He said it came on like a cold, then the fever hit and it was tough, not the worst fever he's had but tough enough. He's been exhausted for days but over the fever and at the minute has the cough and chest tightness. He sounds a little funny, hoarse but not the usual hoarse you'd associate with a phlegmy cold, crackly like a dry throat or something. He was saying he could see why this causes issues with elderly and those with underlying conditions. He reckons if you've got asthma this could be tough going. Basically it feels familiar and alien at the same time.

    It's interesting to hear from people who have had it, or at lest believe they have. Chest tightness seems to be a common symptom. It's a shame the UK aren't really actively testing as there could be valuable data and information gained form doing so.


  • #4180
    Fakediamond
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,055 ✭✭✭Fakediamond


    robinph wrote: »
    Have people taken to breathing on each others shoes as a greeting?

    Other than the usual issue of walking dog crap into your house, what's so risky about shoes and spreading the virus?

    Well we have the disgusting spitters as well don’t forget...


  • #4181
    Rob A. Bank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭Rob A. Bank


    A message for the braindead zoomers/millennials who are in the "I'm all right Jack" camp at 00:30 in this video.



    The CDC figures for the early admissions to hospital in the USA should concern them.


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  • #4182
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    It's not just those demographics with that attitude - it's boomers and older too. And a 37-year-old with no underlying conditions has died in Spain.

    Italy's death toll is now higher than China's. Not percentage but actual numbers. :(

    Should be said that that number includes people who were going to die soon anyway and contracted the virus. But that is still frightening and nuts.


  • #4183
    joeguevara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,244 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    Rob A. Bank wrote: »
    A message for the braindead zoomers/millennials who are in the "I'm all right Jack" camp at 00:30 in this video.



    The CDC figures for the early admissions to hospital in the USA should concern them.

    I am conflicted about younger people putting themselves at risk. On the one hand I am concerned about them passing it on to higher risk or being left with long term damage but on the other hand the more people who recover and their blood tested, the quicker we get a vaccine or effective treatment.


  • #4184
    Bob24
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,905 ✭✭✭✭Bob24


    Sorry if this was shared before and I missed it, but see here some footage inside a Bergamo hospital and a short interview with a doctor there: https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-they-call-it-the-apocalypse-inside-italys-hardest-hit-hospital-11960597


  • #4185
    Hector Savage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51963486


    "Years" .....F*cking YEARS.....

    Jesus, seriously thinking of doing myself in at this stage ...


  • #4186
    otnomart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭otnomart


    Frankenchrist wrote: »
    What do das Germans know that we don't? Pretty impressive, the difference between them and the Brits for example with cases/deaths is mind boggling.
    No idea.
    A reason given often is: wide-spread testing that catches the mild cases.
    One crucial data that I do not see in their report is: the number of people in hospital

    https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus/Situationsberichte/Gesamt.html

    While, in the reports from Italy, you can clearly see: how many in hospitals and how many quarantined at home.
    And what I do not understand is: Germany currently have 2 people in intensive care.
    So why are they stockpiling ventilators, then ?
    "Last week, the federal government ordered an extra 10,000 life-saving ventilators from a German manufacturer, on top of the 25,000 that are already in place in hospitals across the country. The city state of Berlin, which has so far recorded 391 cases of Covid-19, is converting parts of the local trade fair ground into a 1,000-bed hospital for future coronavirus patients. Similar steps have been taken across the country."
    https://www.ft.com/content/c0755b30-69bb-11ea-800d-da70cff6e4d3


  • #4187
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    otnomart wrote: »
    No idea.
    A reason given often is: wide-spread testing that catches the mild cases.
    One crucial data that I do not see in their report is: the number of people in hospital

    https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus/Situationsberichte/Gesamt.html

    While, in the reports from Italy, you can clearly see: how many in hospitals and how many quarantined at home.
    And what I do not understand is: Germany currently have 2 people in intensive care.
    So why are they stockpiling ventilators, then ?
    "Last week, the federal government ordered an extra 10,000 life-saving ventilators from a German manufacturer, on top of the 25,000 that are already in place in hospitals across the country. The city state of Berlin, which has so far recorded 391 cases of Covid-19, is converting parts of the local trade fair ground into a 1,000-bed hospital for future coronavirus patients. Similar steps have been taken across the country."
    https://www.ft.com/content/c0755b30-69bb-11ea-800d-da70cff6e4d3

    Lot's of countries starting to ban export of medicines necessary to treat patients with corona in the EU. Some aren't necessarily banning export but aren't issuing export licenses so can't cross a border. Our government should retaliate if we are not able to source the medicines or equipment we need.

    https://www.dennybros.com/ireland-a-world-leader-in-pharmaceutical/

    Free movement of people seems to be shutting down, goods are following close behind.

    We might have to get through this with cabbage and spuds. Thank god we have that output.


  • #4188
    Achasanai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 730 ✭✭✭Achasanai


    Hector Savage wrote: »
    https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51963486


    "Years" .....F*cking YEARS.....

    Jesus, seriously thinking of doing myself in at this stage ...


    Nobody knows what's going to happen. Yeah, it could be years, but the writers of that article have as much of a clue as you or me.


  • #4189
    Hrududu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,712 ✭✭✭Hrududu


    Hector Savage wrote: »
    https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51963486


    "Years" .....F*cking YEARS.....

    Jesus, seriously thinking of doing myself in at this stage ...

    I can feel your anxiety from here.


  • #4190
    joeguevara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,244 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    Hector Savage wrote: »
    https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51963486


    "Years" .....F*cking YEARS.....

    Jesus, seriously thinking of doing myself in at this stage ...

    James Gallagher who wrote the piece has a qualification in biology but has been a journalist for 15 years. His role is to garner clicks and is not on the cutting edge. Don’t take his opinion and writing as gospel. He is simply regurgitating snippets of public knowledge.

    Wait for official information. Your mind will be addled if we believe what press tells us.


  • #4191
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    It's not just those demographics with that attitude - it's boomers and older too. And a 37-year-old with no underlying conditions has died in Spain.

    Italy's death toll is now higher than China's. Not percentage but actual numbers. :(

    Should be said that that number includes people who were going to die soon anyway and contracted the virus. But that is still frightening and nuts.

    I think those people should be counted separately; Ones admitted to hospital for other reasons or who died of another main cause and just happened to have COVID 19. It makes the impact of the virus very unclear


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  • #4192
    harr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,511 ✭✭✭harr


    This social distancing is just not being taken at all seriously by teenagers. I have a friend who owns a small shop in the west , I was talking to him last and he was after trying to run a large group of teenagers hanging around outside of shop all had full bags of drinks and heading off to a house party . He got nothing but abuse when he tried to implement the one in one out policy.
    They then all started fake coughing... and even said that if they get the virus it wouldn’t kill them and only older people like my friend and they didn’t care ..


  • #4193
    dummy_crusher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 114 ✭✭dummy_crusher


    Hector Savage wrote: »
    https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51963486
    "Years" .....F*cking YEARS.....

    A lot of people have been dismissing the Imperial College Report released on the 16th, based on the belief that it was what pushed the U.K. to go with their initial herd immunity approach.

    I highly recommend everybody reads this for themselves since what they suggest as being the most appropriate approach is an ON/OFF trigger for activating a lockdown situation, the trigger being when the number of patients in ICU reaches a certain value. This does project out to a couple of years but the effect on total number of deaths is significant.
    Jesus, seriously thinking of doing myself in at this stage ...

    Please don't do anything silly now :)


  • #4194
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    There are still a lot of businesses open at present

    Are we not best to force shutdown of many to really tackle the increase in cases?

    Many of these businesses would not be deemed essential to people..

    Car showrooms, for example, still open...


  • #4195
    Burty330
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 962 ✭✭✭Burty330


    Mr.S wrote: »
    Exactly, the only people traveling right now are the ones with a really good reason, like Irish citizens returning home. DFA are urgently telling all Irish citizens worldwide to return ASAP, so it's perfectly understandable to keep the airports open. Closing them at this late stage would just cause massive disruption to those trying to get home.

    Shut your hole you disgusting splatter of PIGSLOP.


    Mod

    Banned


  • #4196
    plodder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,769 ✭✭✭plodder


    otnomart wrote: »
    No idea.
    A reason given often is: wide-spread testing that catches the mild cases.
    One crucial data that I do not see in their report is: the number of people in hospital

    https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus/Situationsberichte/Gesamt.html

    While, in the reports from Italy, you can clearly see: how many in hospitals and how many quarantined at home.
    And what I do not understand is: Germany currently have 2 people in intensive care.
    So why are they stockpiling ventilators, then ?
    "Last week, the federal government ordered an extra 10,000 life-saving ventilators from a German manufacturer, on top of the 25,000 that are already in place in hospitals across the country. The city state of Berlin, which has so far recorded 391 cases of Covid-19, is converting parts of the local trade fair ground into a 1,000-bed hospital for future coronavirus patients. Similar steps have been taken across the country."
    https://www.ft.com/content/c0755b30-69bb-11ea-800d-da70cff6e4d3
    44 deaths but only two are in critical care and according to wikipedia they had 11 deaths in the last recorded day. Doesn't sound credible. Or else people are dying at home without getting to hospital.


  • #4197
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Hector Savage wrote: »
    https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51963486


    "Years" .....F*cking YEARS.....

    Jesus, seriously thinking of doing myself in at this stage ...
    Seek out information-based articles not opinions posing as information. The latter can be very bad for your mental well-being and as suggested the writer may be even more clueless than the reader.


  • #4198
    Jin luk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 389 ✭✭Jin luk


    If this became endemic would it seriously lower life expectancy?

    Have we a vaccine for any coronavirus at all?


  • #4199
    MOR316
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,243 ✭✭✭MOR316


    What the **** is a boomer?


  • #4200
    Hector Savage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    joeguevara wrote: »
    James Gallagher who wrote the piece has a qualification in biology but has been a journalist for 15 years. His role is to garner clicks and is not on the cutting edge. Don’t take his opinion and writing as gospel. He is simply regurgitating snippets of public knowledge.

    Wait for official information. Your mind will be addled if we believe what press tells us.

    Dr John is saying the same, a year at least, and he has been right about EVERYTHING so far ...


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  • #4201
    MOR316
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,243 ✭✭✭MOR316


    is_that_so wrote: »
    Seek out information-based articles not opinions posing as information. The latter can be very bad for your mental well-being and as suggested the writer may be even more clueless than the reader.

    That's the case with everyday tabloids...Doesn't stop people believing everything they read or see in them


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