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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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  • #4532
    YFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,712 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    Doctor Shipman wrote: »
    Let's worry about ourselves for the time being.

    Changing your tact Harry?


  • #4533
    Tea Shock
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 345 ✭✭Tea Shock


    Seen the report on RTE that pubs have been inspected by Gardai in Cork for compliance with the Government request to close.

    Why are pubs being signed out - there's a fairly large Costa café around the corner from me that appears busier than it ever was - and from looking in from passing outside, there doesn't appear to be any social distancing taking place. Not a word said!


  • #4534
    joeguevara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,419 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    Wearing a mask while walking around is not really any benefit for walking around and steering clear of people. Proper face masks obviously prevent (by and large) if in close contact with an infected person. If they didn’t medics wouldn’t wear them. But they are specific grade and constantly changed and worn correctly.

    The issue as raised in Hospital consultant AMA is there is a shortage of them. People bulk buying protective grade means it more likely medics run out.

    Paper ones are useless.


  • #4535
    Duke of Url
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,661 ✭✭✭Duke of Url


    We get our own stats now.

    https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/ireland/


  • #4536
    Gooey Looey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,297 ✭✭✭Gooey Looey


    murpho999 wrote: »
    So what risk is he taking in his truck that nobody else has been in?

    If he observes social distancing and good hand hygiene then he'll be fine.

    He shares the truck, the truck is on the road 24/7, it's for a haulage company


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  • #4537
    otnomart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,061 ✭✭✭otnomart


    tobefrank321 wrote: »
    So almost 1 in 2 cases in Italy are hospitalised.

    Either they are only testing severe or hospital cases, or its hitting Italians worse than elsewhere. Its likely the former. So the real prevalence in Italy must be massive, at least in the hundreds of thousands.


    Since the start (and as per yesterday), Italy had done nearly 183000 tests in total.
    Those tests identified 41000 cases.
    This number includes: deaths, people who have recovered, and those 33190 current cases which I have listed earlier.


  • #4538
    ednwireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,018 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    wakka12 wrote: »
    How does it explain Iran, also with a high death rate, and one of the lowest rates of smoking in the world

    how many years of sanctions are they under, what do you think medical facilities are like for the average person.

    was just reading about cuba going back to oxen because of fuel sanctions .....

    "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others" - Winston Churchill

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



  • #4539
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Tea Shock wrote: »
    Seen the report on RTE that pubs have been inspected by Gardai in Cork for compliance with the Government request to close.

    Why are pubs being signed out - there's a fairly large Costa café around the corner from me that appears busier than it ever was - and from looking in from passing outside, there doesn't appear to be any social distancing taking place. Not a word said!

    My local costa have closed off their seating areas, no more than 2 people allowed in the shop at any time, only taking card payments and no seating indoors or out. Takeaway drinks/food only.


  • #4540
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,482 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    murpho999 wrote: »
    I'm sorry this is not true.

    I've been in Tesco, Lidl & Supervalu in Bray this week, all spacious and not crowded.

    Where do people get this stuff from?

    Ugh. Before I give myself a break from this thread!
    Ok Baggot St Tesco, SuperValu Killester, and Nolans Clontarf, all packed in the past few days when I've been there and they're cramped supermarkets to begin with, i can't speak for all supermarkets.


  • #4541
    Naggdefy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,981 ✭✭✭Naggdefy


    All these generalising terms are annoying. Boomers, millennials, generation X, Y, Z.

    You get decent citizens of all ages and you get people who do nothing for society in every age group.


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  • #4542
    jamesf85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 207 ✭✭jamesf85


    wakka12 wrote: »
    Several hundred tourists from dozens of countries leaving Italy were infected after leaving Italy, there must be at least a few hundred thousand cases in Italy

    It's more contagious than the flu. This past winter, we had more than 2,000 people hospitalized with the flu in Ireland. It kills nearly 700,000 world wide every year.

    Why are people freaking out about the number of infected. Italy likely has a couple of million infected.

    Just for reference, the season just gone, its estimated the US had around 31 million people infected with the flu, up to 370,000 needed to be hospitalised.

    People need to realise a huge number of people are going to contract this, try and make sure you're not one of them and if you are do your very best that you don't pass it on. If most of us can do that, then we'll be ok.


  • #4543
    tobefrank321
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,621 ✭✭✭tobefrank321


    wakka12 wrote: »
    How does it explain Iran, also with a high death rate, and one of the lowest rates of smoking in the world

    Possible reasons - poor diet, perhaps endemic TB. It all depends on lung health in the general population. Also poor healthcare facilities.


  • #4544
    AllGunsBlazing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,730 ✭✭✭AllGunsBlazing


    Apparently American college kids are absolutely flocking in droves to Florida to celebrate spring break.

    Florida, if I'm not mistaken, is like one huge retirement home for elderly retirees.


  • #4545
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    I need something to look forward to. I’ve wanted to see The Book Of Mormon for ages and it’s coming to Dublin in December as of now. I’m taking a leap of faith and booking tickets.


  • #4546
    rob316
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,685 ✭✭✭✭rob316


    Cork Boy 53 wrote: »
    So it seems like that there are no plans for any implementation of a Italy/Spain style lockdown in the near future. We are in deep ****e.

    Would you ever give it a rest. Every single of your posts is lockdown this, lockdown that, its boring lad.


  • #4547
    joeguevara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,419 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    Have seen many posts from glaziers offering to fit Perspex screens in shops for free. Obviously only effective in certain shops, but if you have friends or family working in shops tell them and request that their employer researches it and tries to install. Cashless is also a good way of reducing risk. Any help is a good thing.


  • #4548
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    joeguevara wrote: »
    Wearing a mask while walking around is not really any benefit for walking around and steering clear of people. Proper face masks obviously prevent (by and large) if in close contact with an infected person. If they didn’t medics wouldn’t wear them. But they are specific grade and constantly changed and worn correctly.

    The issue as raised in Hospital consultant AMA is there is a shortage of them. People bulk buying protective grade means it more likely medics run out.

    Paper ones are useless.

    Even if useless medically, I still think anything is better than nothing. When I wear a mask put, I never touch my face. When I get home, I have to take off the mask and it reminds me to wash my hands.


  • #4549
    Cork Boy 53
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    AllGunsBlazing wrote: »
    Apparently American college kids are absolutely flocking in droves to Florida to celebrate spring break.

    Florida, if I'm not mistaken, is like one huge retirement home for the elderly retirees.

    You`re not mistaken. Expect a huge fatality rate there.


  • #4550
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    tobefrank321 wrote: »
    Possible reasons - poor diet, perhaps endemic TB. It all depends on lung health in the general population. Also poor healthcare facilities.

    Is Iran necessarily like that? I'm sure it has very poor regions but I think a lot of people mistakenly just lump it in with the 'middle east'. From what I know of Iran it actually looks like a much more developed and advanced society than most people would give it credit, similar to China, but many think of them both as backward because of the political regime.


  • #4551
    spookwoman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,183 ✭✭✭✭spookwoman


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Even if useless medically, I still think anything is better than nothing. When I wear a mask put, I never touch my face. When I get home, I have to take off the mask and it reminds me to wash my hands.

    If in high risk category like father and you have no choice but to have to go to chemists and shops everything helps like masks and disposable gloves.


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  • #4552
    otnomart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,061 ✭✭✭otnomart


    smelly sock wrote: »
    Why are people so certain what is happening in Italy is coming our way?

    smelly sock wrote: »
    We have closed pubs and restaurants, schools and all sporting organisations have also been closed.


    So have other European Countries, but unfortunately it is not enough to flatten to curve. This is why the other Countries (except Netherlands and UK) have introduce lockdowns.
    And even lockdowns don't have immediate effects, China has shown how long it will take.



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  • #4553
    Naggdefy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,981 ✭✭✭Naggdefy


    The aftermath of this virus (hopefully we'll lose as few lives as possible) is going to be hard to predict.

    Financially will we see wage freezes, high unemployment, etc. As other posters have mentioned the roaring 20s followed on after the flu pandemic 1918. Now in that scenario people were sick of hardship since WW1 commenced in 1914. The 20s were a release. Unfortunately followed by 1929.

    I always find the final part of the 1997 History of the Great War, narrated by Judi Dench fascinating. It's called legacy. Great insight into the scars left on society, how they moved on. Of course this will be nothing on that scale.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsWJI0mvMw0


  • #4554
    DevilsHaircut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 524 ✭✭✭DevilsHaircut


    Re gloves, masks, etc., advice from HSE consultant in Coronavirus 'ask me anything' earlier in the week https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/show...t=2058062219#4


  • #4555
    deisedevil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,252 ✭✭✭deisedevil


    rob316 wrote: »
    Would you ever give it a rest. Every single of your posts is lockdown this, lockdown that, its boring lad.

    Have a listen to what the Chinese Red Cross delegation in Italy said today about the current measures in Italy. Then say that talk of a lockdown is boring. We need to do more.


  • #4556
    joeguevara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,419 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    DevilsHaircut wrote: »
    Re gloves, masks, etc., advice from HSE consultant in Coronavirus 'ask me anything' earlier in the week https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/show...t=2058062219#4

    Link broken


  • #4557
    Corkgirl20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 196 ✭✭Corkgirl20


    Duke of Url wrote: »
    We get our own stats now.

    https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/ireland/


    I know our numbers are low so far but still 1% in serious/critical condition seems to be good.

    I know we have a major lack of icu beds and beds in general and also a lack of equipment and major lack of staff in our hospitals. But I have been told that the icu nurses and staff in Ireland are extremely well trained and well sought after by other countries.

    I hope after this healthcare workers get some recognition and a pay increase. They deserve it. So many nurses are trained here and move aboard for better pay and treatment. It’s a shame really.


  • #4558
    Dubpredator2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭Dubpredator2


    I was tested for covid 19 on monday in tallaght. I was told results would be back in 24 to 48 hours. Its friday and still no word. Anyone else with similar issue?


  • #4559
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    otnomart wrote: »
    So have other European Countries, but unfortunately it is not enough to flatten to curve. This is why the other Countries (except Netherlands and UK) have introduce lockdowns.
    And even lockdowns don't have immediate effects, China has shown how long it will take.



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    Both Singpoare and Hong Kong have experienced a strong uptick in the number of new cases recently.
    Hong Kong, 25% increase in cases today
    Singapore 12% increase today, and 20% increase yesterday


  • #4560
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Stephen Collins on an important issue vis a vis new government formation. Certainly makes sense to me.
    https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/stephen-collins-varadkar-should-hold-power-until-crisis-ends-1.4207051


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  • #4561
    mcmoustache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,236 ✭✭✭mcmoustache


    Cork Boy 53 wrote: »
    You`re not mistaken. Expect a huge fatality rate there.

    And wherever they return home to.


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