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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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  • #6842
    Heckler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,382 ✭✭✭Heckler


    Longing wrote: »
    Maybe God allowed the pandemic for man's sins. So he allowed Satan to go ahead.

    God will see his faithful in these troubled times. Who call out to him.

    God is all love he does not target anyone. Sin kills man.

    Maybe I missed something but the Pope has been very quiet in these troubling times. Not even a message of hope to the followers ? Could he be dead from the virus ?!


  • #6843
    kevcos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 220 ✭✭kevcos


    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    A collective mindset of The Great British spirit at work.

    Half expecting the Grant sisters to release twitter videos full of false facts highlighting how great they are and how they will beat the virus through their Britishness.

    Collective mindset?
    So exactly how many Brits went to the boozer last night seeing as you have such an insight?


  • #6844
    italodisco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,422 ✭✭✭italodisco


    amadangomor wrote: »
    Surely barbers are all closed? Impossible to socially isolate from one! If a barber got it he would probably infect all his customers. The chances of him getting infected would be huge.

    The barber is open ffs, madness.

    And the gym next to my girlfriends house off ossory Road in North strand is still open too which boggles the mind.
    Supposedly have measures in place, which are advising members to try space themselves and wipe down equipment.

    Absolute nonsense. As for the users still going there who have families at home etc, very irresponsible


  • #6845
    Longing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,349 ✭✭✭Longing


    Heckler wrote: »
    Maybe I missed something but the Pope has been very quiet in these troubling times. Not even a message of hope to the followers ? Could he be dead from the virus ?!

    Seek and you shall find my friend.

    https://www.lastampa.it/esteri/la-stampa-in-english/2020/03/20/news/pope-francis-don-t-be-afraid-1.38613776


  • #6846
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Spain will be worse than Italy soon..first update today, 3355 new cases and 233 new deaths.


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  • #6847
    Ninthlife
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,622 ✭✭✭Ninthlife


    amadangomor wrote: »
    Surely barbers are all closed? Impossible to socially isolate from one! If a barber got it he would probably infect all his customers. The chances of him getting infected would be huge.

    Barbers open near me too, all wearing face masks and gloves..

    I'll be doing a DIY cut for the forseeable


  • #6848
    Johnny1999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 112 ✭✭Johnny1999


    Hobgoblin11 wrote: »
    the new or old release?

    No the paperback version, I have a copy signed by the author! Lol


  • #6849
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,144 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    Longing wrote: »
    Seek and you shall find my friend.

    https://www.lastampa.it/esteri/la-stampa-in-english/2020/03/20/news/pope-francis-don-t-be-afraid-1.38613776

    Great, can we deal with facts on here and forget about the religious mumbo jumbo. There is a religious forum for that stuff.


  • #6850
    mandrake04
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,435 ✭✭✭mandrake04


    Heckler wrote: »
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-51984725

    Images from Bondi Beach on Friday showed swimmers, surfers and sunbathers packed in huge numbers onto the sand.

    ****ing aussie *****.

    A lot of them are retarded backpackers so they don’t give a fùck


  • #6851
    TheChizler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,562 ✭✭✭TheChizler


    italodisco wrote: »
    The barber is open ffs, madness.

    Assuming that they're washing hands and equipment between customers, and don't have a cough or sneeze, by what mechanism do you see them sharing the virus?


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  • #6852
    Longing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,349 ✭✭✭Longing


    amadangomor wrote: »
    Great, can we deal with facts on here and forget about the religious mumbo jumbo. There is a religious forum for that stuff.

    I didn't bring it up. I was only answering somebody. But of course shoot the messenger.


  • #6853
    mick987
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 141 ✭✭mick987


    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    A collective mindset of The Great British spirit at work.

    Half expecting the Grant sisters to release twitter videos full of false facts highlighting how great they are and how they will beat the virus through their Britishness.

    Don't think that just applies to Britain, Irish pubs are still open through the back door. Belgium has a problem with house parties and the French Police have arrested over 1000 people for beaning out for no reason, but don'y let that stop you getting a dig in.


  • #6854
    Hobgoblin11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Hobgoblin11


    Johnny1999 wrote: »
    No the paperback version, I have a copy signed by the author! Lol

    im waiting for the series to be released on Net flix, meant to be a hoot

    Dundalk, Co. Louth



  • #6855
    otnomart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,061 ✭✭✭otnomart


    Glenbhoy wrote: »
    That research is hypothetical and doesn't stand up to scrutiny.


    Nexstrain is visualising data from the GISAID Initiative - the international sharing of virus sequences.
    https://www.gisaid.org/


    Glenbhoy wrote: »
    It's probable that persons with no to very mild symptoms simply spread the virus unknowingly.


    Sure.

    The first death by COVID-19 recorded in Europe is actually a person who died in Valencia on 13 February, initially diagnosed as a death by pneumonia.


    https://twitter.com/GVAsanitat/status/1234917172469796866


  • #6856
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,144 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    TheChizler wrote: »
    Assuming that they're washing hands and equipment between customers, and don't have a cough or sneeze, by what mechanism do you see them sharing the virus?

    Did you see the amount of ICU hospital workers getting it and they are hazmat, goggles and visored up all day? Don't underestimate this virus!


  • #6857
    jackboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,300 ✭✭✭jackboy


    Just wondering what is going to happen when we eventually get to zero cases in Ireland. If we open up everything thing again the virus will establish itself again eventually unless we completely ban travel on and off the island.

    I can’t see how we can be without some level of lockdown in the long term, possibly a couple of years. How can this end any quicker?


  • #6858
    Hobgoblin11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Hobgoblin11


    Toyko Olympics date is about to be revised id imagine

    https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/51981562

    Dundalk, Co. Louth



  • #6859
    mick987
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 141 ✭✭mick987


    Rob A. Bank wrote: »
    An effective new or existing antiviral drug holds out more hope than a vaccine, I think.

    I am inclined to agree with you bb12 about their 'herd immunity by stealth' strategy. Sitting behind a table with 2 yellow coronavirus signs at Dublin airport was just window dressing. It was no way to defend the country against the introduction of this deadly virus.

    Then waiting for the numbers to rise, to some mystery state secret amount, before taking any sensible preventative measures was grossly negligent IMHO.

    Re-branding incarcerating the elderly as 'Cocooning', or in the UK as 'Shielding', is one of the worst modern examples of advertisers doublespeak... since George Orwell's book "1984".

    What happens to the elderly when they emerge from their 'cocooning' ?

    They have a one in five chance of dying when they get infected... Russian roulette odds are better.. at least it gives you a five out of six chance of survival.

    So disappointed with what is happening here...

    I think all European government are try to do "herd immunity" in some way or another


  • #6860
    Hobgoblin11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Hobgoblin11


    jackboy wrote: »
    Just wondering what is going to happen when we eventually get to zero cases in Ireland. If we open up everything thing again the virus will establish itself again eventually unless we completely ban on travel on and off the island.

    I can’t see how we can be without some level of lockdown in the long term, possibly a couple of years. How can this end any quicker?

    the virus will be part of the herd! thats the plan of most of the epidemiologists

    Dundalk, Co. Louth



  • #6861
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    threeball wrote: »
    Why the delay. Should have got on the blower weeks ago.

    God was on vacation


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  • #6862
    GetWithIt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭GetWithIt


    Looks like Cheltenham effect is starting. Footballer Charlie Austin has tested positive and reckons he picked it up there.
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2020/03/20/dont-take-lightly-serious-charlie-austin-warns-severity-illness/
    Edit: symptomatic


  • #6863
    GM228
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,917 ✭✭✭GM228


    Jin luk wrote: »
    Its an infection threw blood completly different

    Couldnt compare covid 19 with hiv

    I'm not saying they are comparable, nor did I make any comparisons between them.


  • #6864
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,144 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    Longing wrote: »
    I didn't bring it up. I was only answering somebody. But of course shoot the messenger.

    Sorry, thought you were the one bringing up the religious stuff.


  • #6865
    TheChizler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,562 ✭✭✭TheChizler


    amadangomor wrote: »
    Did you see the amount of ICU hospital workers getting it and they are hazmat, goggles and visored up all day? Don't underestimate this virus!

    There's a difference between working in a confined space around confirmed cases that are showing symptoms, coughing, spitting up, touching their fluids, cleaning after them, taking bloods, and a local barber.

    What is the transfer mechanism?


  • #6866
    smelly sock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭smelly sock


    GetWithIt wrote: »
    Looks like Cheltenham effect is starting. Footballer Charlie Austin has tested positive and reckons he picked it up there.
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2020/03/20/dont-take-lightly-serious-charlie-austin-warns-severity-illness/

    He didnt test for it though. Just displayed symptoms.


  • #6867
    Kaisr Sose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,070 ✭✭✭Kaisr Sose


    Hobgoblin11 wrote: »
    Toyko Olympics date is about to be revised id imagine

    https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/51981562

    There is no way they can go ahead here. Its monumentally stupid that the IOC has not called time on this already.


  • #6868
    Hobgoblin11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Hobgoblin11


    GetWithIt wrote: »
    Looks like Cheltenham effect is starting. Footballer Charlie Austin has tested positive and reckons he picked it up there.
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2020/03/20/dont-take-lightly-serious-charlie-austin-warns-severity-illness/

    the Darwin award for 2020 would go to Cheltenham goers if one existed

    Dundalk, Co. Louth



  • #6869
    Discodog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,128 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    Has anyone seen any explanation for why symptoms & outcomes are so varied ? It really feels like there are several strains.


  • #6870
    Curlysue76
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,862 ✭✭✭Curlysue76


    See a lot of posts giving out about teenagers hanging around in mobs. Is that a big city thing, we live in a biggish town in the west and I haven’t seen any of that. Granted I’m not out much but I do take my teenage daughter out for a walk then a drive around at least once a day and we have just seen people on their own or in pairs. She hasn’t seen any of her friends since last weekend. Some have underlying health issues, her best friends father is a consultant in the hospital and has banned his kids from going into town or having friends over. I’ve talked to my daughter about this and she said she sees all the comments made online but that isn’t what’s happening here. So please don’t lump all teenagers and their parents together. We don’t let them run wild but they don’t want to either.


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  • #6871
    iwillyeah1234
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭iwillyeah1234


    TheChizler wrote: »
    There's a difference between working in a confined space around confirmed cases that are showing symptoms, coughing, spitting up, touching their fluids, cleaning after them, taking bloods, and a local barber.

    What is the transfer mechanism?

    Exactly. If you wear a face mask and the barber wears a face mask , and neither of you are coughing and spluttering , you should be both ok.


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