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

nthclare wrote: »

I was in Aldi in Ennistymon this evening and a young lady from a well known ethnic group was walking around coughing and no regard for anyone.
The nice lady at the till told me that's the 4th time she came in and did that today.

It looked like she was testing people's tolerance, then off out to the hi ace or whatever they call them ffs

Im not racist by the way, seriously

Lovely town Ennistymon. There are some special cases living there though.

ceadaoin. wrote: »

Maybe the guards should take a leaf out of Chinas book and weld them into the pub. At least they can drink away without the risk of infecting anyone else then haha

Be some craic if they did land up, barricade the doors and stick quarantine stickers on the window. See the fcukers scrambling to get out of there then.

walshb wrote: »

Many shops are not necessary...

So are all of the pubs. If you cant enjoy life without need of drinking alcohol for couple of days then good luck to you.

Was in Lidl in Doughiska, Galway, a few mins ago. Most people just doing their shopping and distancing but then in walks a gang of feral scumbags. Queuing up and they were standing on top of everyone. This country drives me nuts at times.

pH wrote: »

Ok then - do some maths.

• 5% of people who catch covid-19 will need critical care.
• At max our hospital system can deal with 50 new critical cases per day.
• So we cannot have more than 1,000 new cases per day without overloading the health service. (1,000 people catching the virus means 50 of then need icu)
• There are 4.9 million people in Ireland 70% of them would need to be infected for 'herd immunity' (3.43 million)
• 3,430,000 / 1,000 = 3,430 days (9 years 5 months) of lockdown

You would need to factor in the exponential increase in infection rate. Doesnt derail your point but would reduce the number of days. If one person has an R0 of 3 you could extrapolate figures. I would think that the R0 could be higher than what is currently being estimated at.

wakka12 wrote: »

Yes I do believe Europe already is worse and US will be worse. Not necessarily because of the freedom of movement thing but because the EU implemented serious measures much later than China and US much later than Europe

US reduced/stopped flights from affected areas etc before europe did. Most states cancelled schools weeks ago. Parts of the US are on lockdown with everything except essential businesses closed. Are there such drastic measures in place across europe? The UK at least is still pretty much business as usual. I think that will be the next to be hit hard.

Not that I think it will make things much less worse for the US, they need to shut down internal travel, but I think europe could be just as bad if not a bit worse.

amadangomor wrote: »

Only ourselves to blame. In other countries scumbags doing what they wanted wouldn't be tolerated. We've let them have free reign for too long.

It's bloody infuriating. My wife was fuming cos they don't have these types of lowlifes where she's from. We've just accepted it it seems.

OL16 wrote: »

Euronews this evening was very alarming regarding what's happening around Europe re Covid 19. RTE news very laid back, no real concern. Like chalk and cheese in regard to reporting on Covid 19. Just my opinion...realized it this evening (watched RTE News at 6pm & Euronews at 7pm).

thought RTE were very blunt about it last night, showing patients in ICU and parades of coffins from italy

Bigboldworld wrote: »

Ok, I just read on RTE that they had no report of underlying condition in the third death and it didn't mention the age of person which i thought was strange

Afaik it was an elderly lady.

Seamai wrote: »

Well if we don't call them out, we're partly to blame.

Well not really. Would you call out a gang of 16 or 17 year olds? They wouldn't think twice about assaulting you, or worse, and if you laid a finger on them you'd be up in court for assaulting a minor.

With regards to face masks (im no expert by the way, just what I've understood from reading up on it):

Medical professionals wear them because they are CONSTANTLY surrounded by sick people (Covid 19 or other) and want to avoid compromising their immune systems and/or getting covid 19 (surgeons wear them to protect their patients). Higher doses of the virus (airborne) are more dangerous as was seen with the healthy frontline staff in china.

Your average joe soap on the street does not need a face mask as the chances of catching it from walking by someone is minimal though of course they do offer some protection. The face mask joe Soap is wearing may be needed by a frontline staff at some point whose exposure is 100's or 1000's of times more than theirs. If ever there is a chronic shortage of face masks, having purchased and or worn one needlessly may actually have worsened the problem and , in extreme worst case scenarios, mean that if you ever do get sick there are fewer medical staff available as they fell ill due to lack of protection.

Basically it's not that they don't protect you, it's just that the main vector for transmission in areas where there is little airborne particles is by touching a contaminated surface and then touching your face and are thus not really needed. It's a numbers game.

Why sick people should wear masks I believe no one is debating?

Once more this is just what I have understood from reading up on it and I am happy to be corrected but it makes sense.

Why are children’s playgrounds in Dublin closed but in Meath they are open? Are Meath people immune !