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

caveat emptor · 20-03-2020 01:18PM

stephenjmcd wrote: »

Dont bother arguing with the 2 posters that keep replying to you. I tired to get the same point across about masks last night and just got abuse for it. It's even answered in the thread by a HSE consultant that for the general public they are of no use.

Some people cant get that into their head and think wearing them helps, it doesn't.

Is that your opinion? What makes you so knowledgeable about aerodynamics and pathogen transmission. Please do tell.

iwillyeah1234 · 20-03-2020 01:18PM

sky news - Italian army are being called in to enforce the lockdown.

stephenjmcd · 20-03-2020 01:18PM

caveat emptor wrote: »

There's this thing called science. People do experiments, they write down the results. They share them. If it is proven and replicated we trust it. People learn stuff and we improve as a whole.

You should check it out. Google science.

How about you stop being so utterly condescending to people every time they put up a post that goes against your own thinking . Talking to people like they're 2

Mwengwe · 20-03-2020 01:19PM

is_that_so wrote: »

Most people I see at present are normal with none of that. I also hope most of us don't terrify too easily.

Well consider yourself fortunate then because a large amount of people are pigs.

wakka12 · 20-03-2020 01:19PM

iwillyeah1234 wrote: »

sky news - Italian army are being called in to enforce the lockdown.

Is the population not complying?

Lundstram · 20-03-2020 01:19PM

signostic wrote: »

Filling stations could be a way of spreading the virus, if you are filling up your car please use rubber gloves, every filling station should have them available to customers.

But they don't. Buy your own, they're only around €5 for a box and keep them in your car.

I still see people handing their debit cards to cashiers TO TAP. Some folk are beyond help.

Bannasidhe · 20-03-2020 01:19PM

Hobgoblin11 wrote: »

This game of tag the kids are playing , where they shout covid 19 when tagged is a dangerous disgrace

Did you know that
"Ring-a-ring-a-rosies
A pocket full of posies
A tissue, a tissue
We all fall down"
dates back to the Black Death?

The ring-a rosies are the rash.
The pocket full of posies are the herbs people hoped would keep them safe.
The rest is self explanatory.

TheCitizen · 20-03-2020 01:19PM

Dial Hard wrote: »

Joe Brolly who went to Cheltenham last week?

This is typical for what passes for comment on here.

I asked you did he go to Cheltenham last week, you don't answer there's no evidence that he did, you just say he did and yet you get thanks for that. Did he go to cheltenham last week or not?

Nermal · 20-03-2020 01:19PM

wakka12 wrote: »

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

Suppression is a failed strategy.

Hobgoblin11 wrote: »

This game of tag the kids are playing , where they shout covid 19 when tagged is a dangerous disgrace

Hobgoblin11 wrote: »

the worst part is they Playing outside pharmacies and tagging elderly people leaving the pharmacy

The kids where you are at least retain their sense of humour and perspective. The adults on this thread don't.

spookwoman · 20-03-2020 01:19PM

https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1240989380183015424?s=20

josip · 20-03-2020 01:20PM

iwillyeah1234 wrote: »

sky news - Italian army are being called in to enforce the lockdown.

So, martial law?

Hobgoblin11 · 20-03-2020 01:20PM

Bannasidhe wrote: »

Did you know that
"Ring-a-ring-a-rosies
A pocket full of posies
A tissue, a tissue
We all fall down"
dates back to the Black Death?

The ring-a rosies are the rash.
The pocket full of posies are the herbs people hoped would keep them safe.
The rest is self explanatory.

I learned this as a child, most children do

stephenjmcd · 20-03-2020 01:21PM

caveat emptor wrote: »

Is that your opinion? What makes you so knowledgeable about aerodynamics and pathogen transmission. Please do tell.

And what makes you so knowledgeable, I follow medical advice by the HSE who are the only official source to follow.

I'm not going to follow someone online.

pjohnson · 20-03-2020 01:21PM

iwillyeah1234 wrote: »

sky news - Italian army are being called in to enforce the lockdown.

Why doesnt Italy have economic experts like facehugger to save them.

TheCitizen · 20-03-2020 01:21PM

TheCitizen wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekjVAhuEUH8

Just listening to this and Joe is very well informed and interesting on this. He's 100 percent correct, leadership on this has been very poor. It's not been great in the Republic and even worse in The North and the UK. There's racing in Dundalk today, what's that about exactly?

After 30 minutes he says we should have shut the border with Northern Ireland. I think we should have done that as well as much as possible, even if it was just to slow traffic over and back across border areas.

maebee · 20-03-2020 01:21PM

WildWater wrote: »

Just made a donation.

So did I. Not a huge amount but if we all donated even a tenner it would make a big difference.

iwillyeah1234 · 20-03-2020 01:21PM

signostic wrote: »

Try telling that to the people of Bergamo....

According to Sky News , the main hospital in Bergamo is one of the "most advanced in Europe"..

There's a report from Stuart Ramsey, of Sky News , from inside that hospital:

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-they-call-it-the-apocalypse-inside-italys-hardest-hit-hospital-11960597

"The city of Bergamo invited us in to show everyone what a catastrophic emergency, that nobody has ever experienced before, looks like.

They want you to see it. They want the world's population to question their own governments' responses.

Because there can be no excuse anymore that nobody knew. Italy did not. Now everyone else does."

caveat emptor · 20-03-2020 01:21PM

stephenjmcd wrote: »

How about you stop being so utterly condescending to people every time they put up a post that goes against your own thinking . Talking to people like their 2

This is a forum to share information. I don't want people to be misinformed.
You shouldn't be misinforming people about something you clearly don't understand.

I've posted information from scientific journals. That's not my opinion. If you minimise the risk more people get it. Did you read any of the links?

whiskeyman · 20-03-2020 01:22PM

wakka12 wrote: »

Is the population not complying?

A certain % will never comply, no matter what.

Having enforcement measures hopefully will show the gravitas of the situation and importance to those already complying also.

iwillyeah1234 · 20-03-2020 01:22PM

josip wrote: »

So, martial law?

well if the army is on the streets, arresting people, it pretty much effectively is.

20-03-2020 01:22PM

TheCitizen wrote: »

Don't tell this eejit is still here talking utter crap

Whilst his comment is glib, the concept of economic suicide leading to more deaths than the virus itself is not without merit. The problem is that those economic related deaths will be silent, and uncounted. But will be preceded by anguish and poverty. Many could be suicides. The visible and immediate deaths from the virus will always have a higher profile, but the response shouldn’t be based on those alone

stephenjmcd · 20-03-2020 01:23PM

caveat emptor wrote: »

This is a forum to share information. I don't want people to be misinformed.
You shouldn't be misinforming people about something you clearly don't understand.

I've posted information from scientific journals. That's not my opinion. If you minimise the risk more people get it. Did you read any of the links?

Yet again, the only official advice in this country comes from the HSE.

Yet again with the talking down to people, follow the official advice and if you dont like what I'm saying take it up with the hse because it's all on their guidelines. Maybe you should ask them to change it.

tromtipp · 20-03-2020 01:23PM

Hobgoblin11 wrote: »

ring a roses is more of a warning passed on thru the generAtions, covid tag is not, it's shameful!

the ring a roses plague thing is very fake history

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ring-around-rosie/

I'd love to think little scrotes playing Covid19 games was too . . .

Nermal · 20-03-2020 01:23PM

Bannasidhe wrote: »

Did you know that
"Ring-a-ring-a-rosies
A pocket full of posies
A tissue, a tissue
We all fall down"
dates back to the Black Death?

The ring-a rosies are the rash.
The pocket full of posies are the herbs people hoped would keep them safe.
The rest is self explanatory.

The plague did not give you a 'rosy rash' or make you sneeze, that's nonsense.

893bet · 20-03-2020 01:23PM

Bannasidhe wrote: »

Did you know that
"Ring-a-ring-a-rosies
A pocket full of posies
A tissue, a tissue
We all fall down"
dates back to the Black Death?

The ring-a rosies are the rash.
The pocket full of posies are the herbs people hoped would keep them safe.
The rest is self explanatory.

This is most likely not true. See wiki below.

Reasons against the Great Plague explanation

Folklore scholars regard this explanation as baseless for several reasons:

The plague explanation did not appear until the mid-twentieth century.[20]
The symptoms described do not fit especially well with the Great Plague.[25][28]
The great variety of forms makes it unlikely that the modern form is the most ancient one, and the words on which the interpretation are based are not found in many of the earliest records of the rhyme (see above).[26][29]
European and 19th-century versions of the rhyme suggest that this "fall" was not a literal falling down, but a curtsy or other form of bending movement that was common in other dramatic singing games.[30]

Mwengwe · 20-03-2020 01:24PM

Mwengwe wrote: »

Well consider yourself fortunate then because a large amount of people are pigs.

Actually had a thought there, it's quite possible this virus would never have got off the ground if people knew to cover their mouths when they cough. Such a simple, non-costly thing that every human being should have drummed into them from childhood.
I could be very wrong of course, maybe it spreads or sheds in other ways.

neonsofa · 20-03-2020 01:24PM

gabeeg wrote: »

Haven't seen that, but curious given the origin of ring-a-ring-a-rosey

Reminds me of IRA bash, played by kids all over dublin when i was a kid. They dont realise the gravity of it, just a game to them

TheCitizen · 20-03-2020 01:25PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Whilst his comment is glib, the concept of economic suicide leading to more deaths than the virus itself is not without merit. The problem is that those economic related deaths will be silent, and uncounted. But will be preceded by anguish and poverty. Many could be suicides. The visible and immediate deaths from the virus will always have a higher profile, but the response shouldn’t be based on those alone

You haven't been paying attention have you. We need lockdown now, deal with the economy recovery later.

murpho999 · 20-03-2020 01:25PM

caveat emptor wrote: »

There's this thing called science. People do experiments, they write down the results. They share them. If it is proven and replicated we trust it. People learn stuff and we improve as a whole.

You should check it out. Google science.

I don't doubt science.

Only one study has shown that it's plausible that it lives in the air.

Note plausible, does not mean definite.

Also, if you believe in science then you should know that you would need more empirical evidence than one study to state something is fact.

facehugger99 · 20-03-2020 01:25PM

Bannasidhe wrote: »

Did you know that
"Ring-a-ring-a-rosies
A pocket full of posies
A tissue, a tissue
We all fall down"
dates back to the Black Death?

The ring-a rosies are the rash.
The pocket full of posies are the herbs people hoped would keep them safe.
The rest is self explanatory.

Urban Legend - no evidence that it's anything to do with the Black Death.

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