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

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

I wouldn't say its very effective in even that sense. Was out for a spin around the town yesterday and everyone seemed to be just doing their daily business with little regard for distancing. Few women wearing scarves over their faces but that's about all. Shops and streets as busy as usual.

On some practicalities.. How are people approaching things like getting a haircut, getting tyres for their cars or a service - all of which I need - given that a lot of businesses are shutting down now

Agree with you. Unfortunately a majority of people in most Western countries only tend to start taking it very seriously once they are scared. Behaviours will change once our hospitals are maxed-out and we start getting report of dozens of people dying everyday.

Had a haircut last weekend to make sure I’m fine for a while if we all need to stay in our caves for a while :-) But I think both myself and the hairdresser were not 100% at ease. Good thing though is that usually the barber shop is packed with people with 3 of them having a haircut and 4 or 5 waiting in a tiny shop, but it was actually just me and one hairdresser with no wait plus we didn’t do much talking and she was wearing gloves and using plenty of disinfectant gel - so in the end it was fine. But I think they might be closing now (they have very limited business anyway).

How serious is this virus?

harr wrote: »

You just have to look at the housing in Italy to see why it was probably a major factor . Narrow streets and high blocks of apartments and it seems a lot of people live in theses especially the older population.

Yes just looking at those videos of Italians singing etc at home they are literally living on top of each other even in lockdown. If one of them sneezes in the top balcony it’s straight down on to the people below.

Mr_Muffin wrote: »

How serious is this virus?

Very serious. It hasn’t made a single joke to date.

iwillyeah1234 wrote: »

Did some calculations this morning on the relative size of coronavirus.

If you scaled a corona up to the average size of a human , then the height of an average human would be from Ireland to ... Australia.

In short - a corona landing on a human , is ( roughly) equivalent to Armstrong on the moon. That’s how incredibly small these things

If you scaled up corona in seconds, the answer would be 769 kg plus 10 watts minus 205 degrees

Ninthlife wrote: »

Sometimes in a crisis you need an individual like Putin in charge.

No bullsh*t, not afraid to make hard decisions.

Unfortunately it’s not as clear cut as that. For example before this started the price of ethanol was about 860e a tonne. It’s now 10 times that price. As global demands for products such as masks, sanitisers etc grows the cost of raw materials to make them goes up.

iwillyeah1234 wrote: »

Did some calculations this morning on the relative size of coronavirus.

If you scaled a corona up to the average size of a human , then the height of an average human would be from Ireland to ... Australia.

In short - a corona landing on a human , is ( roughly) equivalent to Armstrong on the moon. That’s how incredibly small these things are.

And that children, is how it became known as the Australian virus.

Police step in to guard a Tesco in London

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8137409/Police-step-stop-selfish-stockpilers-barging-past-pensioners-supermarkets.html

Queues since 5am

whisky_galore wrote: »

We are less densely populated. Saved by one-off housing?

Living in a one-off house will limit transmission at your doorstep, but they still have to visit their nearest town to buy groceries and do everything. Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan are highly urbanised and they have much lower transmission rates than Ireland, so there's no evidence that one-off housing is limiting transmission.

iwillyeah1234 wrote: »

Police step in to guard a Tesco in London

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8137409/Police-step-stop-selfish-stockpilers-barging-past-pensioners-supermarkets.html

Queues since 5am

Ridiculous. People need to look in the mirror at themselves. Just embarrassing.

mick987 wrote:

If the Pope gets ill will he go to hospital or church?

The hospital. He's religious, not stupid