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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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  • #6812
    Gynoid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭Gynoid


    Boggles wrote: »
    Is that Madonna?

    Thought she could sing and didn't have a face like an over inflated life raft?

    :confused:

    I think it is her. But honestly don't know for sure.


  • #6813
    Bob24
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,905 ✭✭✭✭Bob24


    Mr_Muffin wrote: »
    How serious is this virus?

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


  • #6814
    bilston
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,997 ✭✭✭✭bilston


    We should take it with a pinch of salt but Iran has reported a drop in the number of new cases today.

    That said yesterday was Friday, which is obviously prayer day there, so maybe that had something to do with it.


  • #6815
    blackcard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,317 ✭✭✭blackcard


    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


  • #6816
    Hector Savage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    Wake up, day 9 of quaratine .....
    check news

    BAD NEWS
    BAD NEWS
    BAD NEWS
    GETTING WORSE GETTING WORSE GETTING WORSE GETTING WORSE GETTING WORSE GETTING WORSE

    The toll this will have on mental health, economy, suicides, will be far worse then the disease itself ....


    that's day 9 of the next YEAR !!!!


    F*ck this sh1t ...


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  • #6817
    Johnny1999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 112 ✭✭Johnny1999


    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.


  • #6818
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    Your Local TD wrote: »
    Russia took immediate to stop the virus getting in. The EU did nothing...

    Open borders uber alles.

    You believe the Russian figures?


  • #6819
    gigantic09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 736 ✭✭✭gigantic09


    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.


  • #6820
    Blueshoe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    I actually now think that when Trump says China virus is because he hates China. Especially it's leader. This virus (which China are now supposedly almost clear off) is going to ruin his chance of re-election, his personal fortune and the economy.
    Apparently Us cases peak is still 5 weeks away with figures close to 20k already. The health care system will collapse. The economy will be hammered.
    2 rivals and one is going to be severely weakened while the other also takes a hit but is at least recovering


  • #6821
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    Hector Savage wrote: »
    Wake up, day 9 of quaratine .....
    check news

    BAD NEWS
    BAD NEWS
    BAD NEWS
    GETTING WORSE GETTING WORSE GETTING WORSE GETTING WORSE GETTING WORSE GETTING WORSE

    The toll this will have on mental health, economy, suicides, will be far worse then the disease itself ....


    that's day 9 of the next YEAR !!!!

    F*ck this sh1t ...


    Hope you are ok.If it is affecting you badly you need to as someone suggested keep away from news sources/social media apart from maybe once a day from a reputable source.


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  • #6822
    mick987
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 141 ✭✭mick987


    threeball wrote: »
    Why the delay. Should have got on the blower weeks ago.
    If the Pope gets ill will he go to hospital or church?


  • #6823
    iwillyeah1234
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭iwillyeah1234


    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


  • #6824
    Hobgoblin11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Hobgoblin11


    Hector Savage wrote: »
    Wake up, day 9 of quaratine .....
    check news

    BAD NEWS
    BAD NEWS
    BAD NEWS
    GETTING WORSE GETTING WORSE GETTING WORSE GETTING WORSE GETTING WORSE GETTING WORSE

    The toll this will have on mental health, economy, suicides, will be far worse then the disease itself ....


    that's day 9 of the next YEAR !!!!


    F*ck this sh1t ...

    this virus is going to wipe a lot of the weaker of society out, whether homeless, mentally ill, old or infirm its going to be rough

    Dundalk, Co. Louth



  • #6825
    OneEightSeven
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,357 ✭✭✭OneEightSeven


    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.


  • #6826
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Cases in Australia pass 1000.
    Thailand has it's largest single day rise at 90 new cases

    Phillippines Indonesia and Malaysia also have their largest rise in a single day with 77, 81 and 153 new cases respectively

    First two deaths in Singapore, a man who had been in ICU for almost a month and an Indonesian man who was admitted to ICU upon arrival in Singapore


  • #6827
    bilston
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,997 ✭✭✭✭bilston


    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.


  • #6828
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    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

    We seem to be lucky here and it wasn't that bad compared to the UK with crazy panic buyers and empty shelves.
    Sure we got the one day since the schools were announced closed, but I think the government did well drip feeding the measures and of course the suppliers and retailers have been great.


  • #6829
    Thepoet85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,763 ✭✭✭Thepoet85


    mick987 wrote:
    If the Pope gets ill will he go to hospital or church?


    The hospital. He's religious, not stupid ;)


  • #6830
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Hobgoblin11 wrote: »
    this virus is going to wipe a lot of the weaker of society out, whether homeless, mentally ill, old or infirm its going to be rough

    Comforting words....


  • #6831
    all about the mane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,401 ✭✭✭all about the mane


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    We seem to be lucky here and it wasn't that bad compared to the UK with crazy panic buyers and empty shelves.
    Sure we got the one day since the schools were announced closed, but I think the government did well drip feeding the measures and of course the suppliers and retailers have been great.

    Though plenty on here complained that more decisive action wasn't taken, it does seem to have prevented the panic experienced elsewhere. They seem to have got the balance right on that one.


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  • #6832
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    For any parents of children or teenagers - who think it's ok for them to go and hang out ...

    It's not. Keep your kids in.

    The virus doesnt just kill 'old' people

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J60fQr0GWo


  • #6833
    Hobgoblin11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Hobgoblin11


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Comforting words....
    sorry, Ive clearly been watching the news too much!

    and i forgot to mention favelas around the world and refugees!

    Dundalk, Co. Louth



  • #6834
    Bananaleaf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭Bananaleaf


    The worldometer website is now providing a link for Ireland, with stats specific to our figures

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


  • #6835
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Something shocking and surreal every morning when I check updates..
    https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1241240862119641088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1241240862119641088&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.redditmedia.com%2Fmediaembed%2Ffmac68%3Fresponsive%3Dtrue%26is_nightmode%3Dfalse


  • #6836
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,165 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    I'd expect 500 new cases for this Friday.


  • #6837
    Macdarack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 816 ✭✭✭Macdarack


    Funsterdelux wrote: »
    Dont worry it'll be over soon. God just got the call

    The-Pope-says-asked-God-stop-coronavirus-epidemic

    Why would God allow this plague, maybe he did it, but its confusing, the most devoted of his sheep would be the over 80s but why does he target them, or allow it to kill them, his most loyal followers? Doesn't make sense. Just doesn't.


  • #6838
    Macdarack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 816 ✭✭✭Macdarack


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    I'd expect 500 new cases for this Friday.

    Friday 6 days time? In Ireland?


  • #6839
    Hobgoblin11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Hobgoblin11


    Macdarack wrote: »
    Why would God allow this plague, maybe he did it, but its confusing, the most devoted of his sheep would be the over 80s but why does he target them, or allow it to kill them, his most loyal followers? Doesn't make sense. Just doesn't.

    god is omnipotent









    also hes a human creation :)

    Dundalk, Co. Louth



  • #6840
    Kaisr Sose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,686 ✭✭✭Kaisr Sose


    Andrea B. wrote: »
    Crowd still here on Adverts scaremongering and profiteering.

    I assume face masks and hand sanitizer. Adverts and Done Deal should delist these type ads. Amazon, ebay, facebook have removed/banned new listings for masks etc. where price gouging is going on, false claims beinf made, or scaremongering used. In the UK, misleading ads about facemasks offering protection have been sanctioned by Advertising Standards.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/12/amazon-blocks-new-sale-listings-of-face-masks-hand-sanitizer.html

    Ireland needs to act here too. Boards.ie is part of a grouo of companies which includes Done Deal and Adverts.ie. It would be nice if they took action. High quailty facemasks are needed on the frontline


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  • #6841
    iwillyeah1234
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭iwillyeah1234


    gozunda wrote: »
    For any parents of children or teenagers - who think it's ok for them to go and hang out ...

    It's not. Keep your kids in.

    The virus doesnt just kill 'old' people

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J60fQr0GWo


    They need to start releasing videos like that from NHS hospitals. There’s one in London that filled up yesterday. It’s the only way to really get the message across.


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