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

Touchee · 20-03-2020 06:48PM

namloc1980 wrote: »

The UK paying 80% of monthly wages up to £2.5k for those workers impacted is unreal. Makes our €203 a week (€880 a month) seem miniscule in comparison.

€200 is miniscule, it won’t cover half the rent if I lose my job. Poor response from the Government on supporting businesses and employees. Nothing has been done other than offering pay standard social welfare.

Hobgoblin11 · 20-03-2020 06:48PM

kcools wrote: »

Don't think you're comparing apples with aples there. Isn't the €203 our unemployment assistance whereas the 80% thing is a grant to an employer to keep someone on, rather than lay them off?

Yes sounds like that, once over the 2k grant those laid off workers get less than the 203 we get here

josip · 20-03-2020 06:49PM

namloc1980 wrote: »

The UK paying 80% of monthly wages up to £2.5k for those workers impacted is unreal. Makes our €203 a week (€880 a month) seem miniscule in comparison.

And by the time they're finished doing that, £2,500 will probably be worth about €1,500.

BorneTobyWilde · 20-03-2020 06:49PM

Dublin is epicentre in Ireland, and needs locking down like Wuhan. The free movement around country from Dublin is just dumb.

Harry Palmr · 20-03-2020 06:49PM

Twice today the needless use if masks by the public has been raised, hopefully people will stop asking about them.

namloc1980 · 20-03-2020 06:50PM

Touchee wrote: »

€200 is miniscule, it won’t cover half the rent if I lose my job. Poor response from the Government on supporting businesses and employees. Nothing has been done other than offering pay standard social welfare.

We don't have the financial resources to be honest to inject massive amounts of money into business and employees.

otnomart · 20-03-2020 06:50PM

tobefrank321 wrote: »

So about 1 in 4.5 tests produced a positive.

Here about 1 in 40 tests produce a positive, although that ratio is closing.

Yep the prevalence is huge in Italy. The closer the ratio of tests to positives, the higher the prevalence, unless the testing is very targeted.

Here is a chart on: tests vs cases

https://lab24.ilsole24ore.com/coronavirus/#box_6

bekker · 20-03-2020 06:50PM

landofthetree wrote: »

The Irish can only dream of what the Tories gives the Brits.

Free GP visits.
Free school books.
Lower income tax and no USC
Rail links to airports.
A much better train network.
Some of the world's best universities.
Etc etc.

An apparent ignorance of history and politics is undoubtedly an asset in making ridiculous claims. Tories give???

Hobgoblin11 · 20-03-2020 06:50PM

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Dublin is epicentre in Ireland, and needs locking down like Wuhan. The free movement around country from Dublin is just dumb.

cork and limerick have high numbers

TheValeyard · 20-03-2020 06:50PM

What time does boards crash today at?

BorneTobyWilde · 20-03-2020 06:50PM

Cannot treat whole country as a whole, lockdown Dublin asap. No one in or out, except freight

fritzelly · 20-03-2020 06:50PM

126 new cases

VM1 News

20-03-2020 06:51PM

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Dublin is epicentre in Ireland, and needs locking down like Wuhan. The free movement around country from Dublin is just dumb.

I think it’s more the movement into Dublin from outside....

Antares35 · 20-03-2020 06:51PM

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Dublin is epicentre in Ireland, and needs locking down like Wuhan. The free movement around country from Dublin is just dumb.

Never miss an opportunity to Dublin bash... even in a pandemic

I think free movement out of and into Dublin should be banned altogether. :pac:

iwillyeah1234 · 20-03-2020 06:51PM

kcools wrote: »

Don't think you're comparing apples with aples there. Isn't the €203 our unemployment assistance whereas the 80% thing is a grant to an employer to keep someone on, rather than lay them off?

the employer needs to inform HMRC - as in the employee is furloughed and still tied to that employer. But its not a grant - the government will pay the furloughed employee directly.

Whereas in Sweden or Germany, the employer can lay off the worker, but the worker can claim 80% of their wages for a year from social welfare directly.

coolshannagh28 · 20-03-2020 06:51PM

DOCARCH wrote: »

Time to open up the Apple bank account!

Our government is either broke or deluded , they have made essentially no effort to support the economy or recently laid off in comparison to the UK .

JP Liz V1 · 20-03-2020 06:51PM

126 new cases

is_that_so · 20-03-2020 06:51PM

Touchee wrote: »

€200 is miniscule, it won’t cover half the rent if I lose my job. Poor response from the Government on supporting businesses and employees. Nothing has been done other than offering pay standard social welfare.

https://www.gov.ie/en/news/878d4d-wednesdminister-donohoe-outlines-further-measures-to-support-individ/

Hobgoblin11 · 20-03-2020 06:51PM

Antares35 wrote: »

Never miss an opportunity to Dublin bash... even in a pandemic

I think free movement out of and into Dublin should be banned altogether. :pac:

north side south side split would be interesting

Tacitus Kilgore · 20-03-2020 06:52PM

coolshannagh28 wrote: »

Our government is either broke or deluded , they have made essentially no effort to support the economy or recently laid off in comparison to the UK .

Ah that's a bit of a stretch isn't it?

stephenjmcd · 20-03-2020 06:52PM

126 new cases. Good number

autumnbelle · 20-03-2020 06:52PM

12 in icu

BorneTobyWilde · 20-03-2020 06:52PM

Hobgoblin11 wrote: »

cork and limerick have high numbers

Dublin has 200 plus of the total?

Lock down Cork and Limerick too. How can they knowingly ask us to self isolate, when they won't isolate every other county from the epicentre .

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 20-03-2020 06:52PM

My uncle is deteriorating rapidly, from cancer, not COVID19. If he dies in the near future, the family isn’t going to have a funeral because there are quite a few immunocompromised people amongst our ranks. There’s me, my aunt who is 60ish and has a serious autoimmune disease and two of her children, aged early to mid 30s who have a different autoimmune disorder. One of them has it very bad, it almost killed him a few years ago. I’m so sad that we won’t be able to honour my uncle’s life at the time of his passing.

But we can’t risk it.

Then, my husband’s aunt is also in the final stages of cancer. Her husband is distraught because the hospital are only allowing him 5 minutes with her a few times a day. They actually set a timer on his visits. I’m not sure why they are doing that. She’s not going to bounce back at this stage. She’s in the final stages of the disease. It seems like they could use their discretion.

I just wanted to share these anecdotes to highlight the human cost. I hope we get a breakthrough of some kind soon: flattening of the curve, an existing medication that might help treat it, a vaccine, anything.

Tippex · 20-03-2020 06:52PM

126 new cases today

An Ciarraioch · 20-03-2020 06:52PM

fritzelly wrote: »

126 new cases

VM1 News

Presumably there was a backlog of tests from Patrick's Day yesterday, explaining today's "decline"?

TheValeyard · 20-03-2020 06:52PM

fritzelly wrote: »

126 new cases

VM1 News

That's a lot better than yesterday.

Is there a pattern where it rises, following day it rises again, next day dips below that point and then you have a large increase the following day?

Mervyn Skidmore · 20-03-2020 06:52PM

mikeoc85 wrote: »

Two idiots down here in Galway, were in Dubai (one of the busiest hubs in the world) and came back yesterday. No self isolation and now meeting frontline staff at the hospital. All for a cheap photo opp and some publicity

https://twitter.com/cleancutmeals/status/1240980916580814848?s=21

How do you know? Call them out on it if it's true. They should be adhering to restricted movement, not self isolating, unless they have symptoms of course.

Harry Palmr · 20-03-2020 06:52PM

TheValeyard wrote: »

What time does boards crash today at?

Now

Plus 126.

GM228 · 20-03-2020 06:52PM

126 new cases.

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