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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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  • #4202
    MintyMagnum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 480 ✭✭MintyMagnum


    UsBus wrote: »
    This would absolutely infuriate me. It's not on to waking people in the middle of a working week with late night parties at the best of times. To be doing it at the moment is disgraceful. I'd be letting them know it's not on, maybe call to their door all desheveled with a mask on and see how they take it..

    And take the mask down and cough uncontrollably


  • #4203
    Duke of Url
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,662 ✭✭✭Duke of Url


    Coronavirus: Tens of thousands of retired medics asked to return to NHS

    Is it not us who are always being the UK?


  • #4204
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


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


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

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

    Best to keep away from any british articles,they have proven themselves to be buffoons over there lately.stick with irish news from reputable experts and specialists


  • #4205
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,039 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    walshb wrote: »
    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...

    They are fighting for their economic lives

    Put yourself in their shoes


  • #4206
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 81,134 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    Burty330 wrote: »
    Shut your hole you disgusting splatter of PIGSLOP.

    Mod

    Do not post in this thread again


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  • #4207
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,015 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    They are fighting for their economic lives

    Put yourself in their shoes

    People are fighting for their actual lives.


  • #4208
    Snow Garden
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Snow Garden


    Jin luk wrote: »
    If this became endemic would it seriously lower life expectancy?

    Have we a vaccine for any coronavirus at all?

    We were making great progress on a SARS vaccine and trials but funding was cut when SARS went away. It seems we would have been much closer to a COVID19 vaccine if the SARS program was completed in early 2000s.


  • #4209
    TheAsYLuMkeY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 634 ✭✭✭TheAsYLuMkeY


    Mr.S wrote: »
    Now now, let's not get you banned from another forum.

    Have to tip my hat to your leniency, i have been banned for less in the past.

    Imagine how stressed people are going to be in two weeks on here.

    Mass bans will be the order of the day, i dont envy moderators job on this subject.


  • #4210
    otnomart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭otnomart


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    Something stinks about this virus. How it has moved all over the globe in no time whatsoever. I can't help but feel that it was already rampant throughout the world

    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    Air travel.


    Know we now (from genomic data) that the virus was introduced early in Europe, with early cases in the Netherlands and Germany which appear to have been the main gateways thanks to the busy airport hubs.
    There was also a death in Valencia on the 13 February.


    Three Irish cases in Nextstrain are as follows:
    -the Dublin one was originated via the Netherlands and/or Bavaria (via Italy)
    -one from Limerick was originated via England and/or the Netherlands
    -second one from Limerick is 100% from the Netherlands


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  • #4211
    RollieFingers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,645 ✭✭✭RollieFingers


    walshb wrote: »
    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...

    The office I work in in the city centre is still open, commuting in as we speak.

    Last weekend I was hoping to get word they would be closing as the thought of the travel in was freaking me out. However, after acquiring a mask and seeing how empty the DART is it's actually not so bad.

    Great to still be earning at a time like this and not be one of the many unlucky people to have been laid off, hopefully it is only temporarily for the majority of you. Saying that I would have no argument if they do shut the doors though.


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  • #4212
    Snow Garden
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Snow Garden


    By the way it's Friday and the sun is shining bright.

    :)


  • #4213
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Regarding the ventilators being made by other companies, the UK health Secretary was saying this morning that they had openly published the deigns for any engineering company to use and they are already testing some newly built ones to check for standards that some places have already made.


  • #4214
    Rob A. Bank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭Rob A. Bank


    anderson.jpg?resize=807x807


  • #4215
    TheAsYLuMkeY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 634 ✭✭✭TheAsYLuMkeY


    RollieFingers wrote: »
    The office I work in in the city centre is still open, commuting in as we speak.

    Last weekend I was hoping to get word they would be closing as the thought of the travel in was freaking me out. However, after acquiring a mask and seeing how empty the DART is it's actually not so bad.

    Great to still be earning at a time like this and not be one of the many unlucky people to have been laid off, hopefully it is only temporarily for the majority of you. Saying that I would have no argument if they do shut the doors though.

    Get yourself a bike, i cycled for years in dublin, largest journey being 8km there and same back, all weathers, just dress appropriately.


  • #4216
    froog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,784 ✭✭✭froog


    beautiful day outside. raises the spirits.


  • #4217
    TheAsYLuMkeY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 634 ✭✭✭TheAsYLuMkeY


    froog wrote: »
    beautiful day outside. raises the spirits.

    until we see hordes of people all out in groups in the parks and beaches......

    what we need right now is good old fashioned Irish pissing it down weather for weeks.


  • #4218
    MOR316
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,243 ✭✭✭MOR316


    TheAsYLuMkeY wrote: »
    until we see hordes of people all out in groups in the parks and beaches......

    You'd have to go outside to see them, wouldn't you? :)


  • #4219
    TheAsYLuMkeY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 634 ✭✭✭TheAsYLuMkeY


    MOR316 wrote: »
    You'd have to go outside to see them, wouldn't you? :)

    Point taken.

    See reports of......


  • #4220
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Just 13 countries/territories in the worldwide havnt reported a case yet


  • #4221
    RollieFingers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,645 ✭✭✭RollieFingers


    TheAsYLuMkeY wrote: »
    Get yourself a bike, i cycled for years in dublin, largest journey being 8km there and same back, all weathers, just dress appropriately.

    I live in Greystones, I'm far too lazy to be cycling that distance and back every day :)


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  • #4222
    MOR316
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,243 ✭✭✭MOR316


    TheAsYLuMkeY wrote: »
    Point taken.

    See reports of......

    :D


  • #4223
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    TheAsYLuMkeY wrote: »
    until we see hordes of people all out in groups in the parks and beaches......

    what we need right now is good old fashioned Irish pissing it down weather for weeks.
    DoH believe there is a high compliance with the distancing advice and people do need cheering up.


  • #4224
    TheAsYLuMkeY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 634 ✭✭✭TheAsYLuMkeY


    MOR316 wrote: »
    :D

    For about two weeks now i havnt gone anywhere bar work and shops for food.

    Family are staying home and i am bringing supplies home.

    They are spending time in garden and obviously on internet and Playstation.

    (I knew i was right all along to want my games on physical disk and not relying now on the heavily burdened internet)


  • #4225
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,765 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Why are people calling for people not to go outside? We're not in official lockdown so people are entitled to go out if they wish.

    I now live alone and am minimizing face to face contact. I'm working from home.

    Have not had a conversation with a person since last Saturday. I now have a routine of going for a walk by the sea as part of my daily shopping trip. That way I get to see people and maybe have a safe chat with shop assistant. It gives me much needed exercise which will be more difficult in the coming weeks when the inevitable lock down is in place.

    Yes, I have seen people of all ages not observing distancing but what do you expect . The vast majority of people are at home as witnessed by quiet roads, streets and public transport. There will always be idiots.

    Either way it's perfectly safe to go outside and get exercise once distancing is observed and people should not be criticised for it as they need to get out for mental health and exercise reasons.


  • #4226
    otnomart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭otnomart


    Strazdas wrote: »
    Yes indeed, all countries our size in Europe have the virus and many have more cases than us - Austria, Norway, Denmark, Czech Rep etc

    This thing with the 5000 Italian rugby fans is almost an urban myth at this stage.
    Agree.
    It is not like each of the 5000 went to visit a Irish household to infect all the members of such household !


    And the fear of the Republic being infected by Northern Ireland is also a myth.


    People picked up the virus during business trips, business meetings, week-ends away - not just skiing holidays - just think about how many pop to UK for a family visit or a football match or a shopping week-end.


  • #4227
    techdiver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,535 ✭✭✭techdiver


    eagle eye wrote: »
    I'm not sure if it's been posted yet but heard that the office of either the Taoiseach or Tanaiste ordered all civil servants to work with no preparations in place for dealing with covid-19. I was informed that anybody in the high risk category is excused but those with high risk family members residing with them, whether they be children or older relatives, have to go to work in an unsafe environment.
    How can this be happening?

    Have a couple of family members in the civil service. One is in a high risk category. Many of these offices are treating it like a joke. From managers laughing off issues, to people returning from high risk travel waltzing back into the office, to the archaic IT system that won't permit them to work form home, it's an absolute joke. This is across 2 different offices in 2 different geographic locations.

    Ministers are publicly stating to private sector workers to work from home and avoid contact where possible (completely correctly), but then the civil servants that work from them are not afforded the same courtesy!


  • #4228
    TheAsYLuMkeY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 634 ✭✭✭TheAsYLuMkeY


    is_that_so wrote: »
    DoH believe there is a high compliance with the distancing advice and people do need cheering up.

    Sorry for my ignorance,

    what does, 'DoH' mean at the beginning of your sentence?


  • #4229
    jamesf85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 206 ✭✭jamesf85


    TheAsYLuMkeY wrote: »
    Sorry for my ignorance,

    what does, 'DoH' mean at the beginning of your sentence?

    Department of Health


  • #4230
    Tacitus Kilgore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,128 ✭✭✭Tacitus Kilgore


    TheAsYLuMkeY wrote: »
    Sorry for my ignorance,

    what does, 'DoH' mean at the beginning of your sentence?

    Homer-Doh.jpg


    Department of health


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  • #4231
    otnomart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭otnomart


    saabsaab wrote: »
    Our increase in cases rises as expected. I wonder how many are related to Cheltenham or Italian Tourists? Any figures for this?
    Three Irish cases in Nextstrain are as follows:
    -the Dublin one was originated via the Netherlands and/or Bavaria (via Italy)
    -one from Limerick was originated via England and/or the Netherlands
    -second one from Limerick is 100% from the Netherlands


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