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

Blueshoe wrote: »

Burning sinuses, headache, coughing and upset stomach.
I have all of these slowly come on. Bad today but only a cough is one of the symptoms of Covid19 so I shouldn't be worrying right?

Hope you feel better soon. Heed the HSE advice which is linked here multiple times, or available on google.

You are a regular viewer here so you should know that medical diagnosis via social media is as useful as a handbrake in a canoe.
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GM228 wrote: »

Advice given: Don't take advice from the internet

Source: Anonymous user on the internet

Bit of a paradoxical problem

Don't believe anything I say, I always lie.

GM228 wrote: »

We have all been warned not to turn to the likes of WhatsApp/social media or updates, but, the WHO has just launched a WhatsApp Health Alert messaging update service!l]

We've been asked not listen to bulls hit on social media.

Big difference.

Gael23 wrote: »

Will have devastating consequences for platforms like Airbnb.

I think the whole tourism industry is bollixed, not just air bnb

weisses wrote: »

More then 7500 obesity related deaths every day globally .... completely avoidable..... Humans:rolleyes:

Yes and 17% of Irish people still smoke, alcohol puts tremendous pressure on our health services, thousands fry in the sun or on sunbeds, it took years and threats of penalty points and fines to make us wear seatbelts ...

And yet when elections come around surprisingly 'the state of the health service' is our number one priority, and if the nasty HSE won't spend €100,000 on an experimental drug that might extend the life of one woman by 6 months Joe Duffy doesn't hear the end of it for weeks.

Public attitudes to health are not exactly logical or consistent most of the time.

walshb wrote: »

Has the sex and age of the third ROI death been confirmed? Reporting says that the person who died had no underlying health condition..

There is a woman who posted on Twitter saying that her elderly Mum died from.the virus on Wednesday in Dublin. If she is the 3rd victim then she was 88 with COPD and asthma.

jackboy wrote: »

EU money. Do you think Germany will bail us out after this?

Why did they bail us out last time though, do you really think it was because they thought we were a great bunch of lads. It was to protect themselves and the bond holders.

Properties available to rent in Dublin up 64% since crisis started!

Shows the damage Airbnbs have done to the rental market for ordinary people.

Jin luk wrote: »

During the 1918 pandemic young people was a big fatality,

Was that like that from the the very start of it or did this start to happen after high numbers were infected and hospitals and field hospital were overcrowded??

There is an interesting theory that older people had some immunity as a result of a previous pandemic called the 'Russian flu' almost 20 years previously.
There is another theory that those who got 'Spanish flu' in the first wave in spring 1918 had some immunity when the second and deadlier wave struck in the autumn.

The pandemic mostly killed young adults. In 1918–1919, 99% of pandemic influenza deaths in the U.S. occurred in people under 65, and nearly half of deaths were in young adults 20 to 40 years old. In 1920, the mortality rate among people under 65 had decreased sixfold to half the mortality rate of people over 65, but 92% of deaths still occurred in people under 65. This is unusual, since influenza is typically most deadly to weak individuals, such as infants under age two, adults over age 70, and the immunocompromised. In 1918, older adults may have had partial protection caused by exposure to the 1889–1890 flu pandemic, known as the "Russian flu".

bennyineire wrote: »

If you're going to say "reporting" then add a link, otherwise it just sounds like you heard/read it in social media in which case don't say it at all

Yes.... keep your rumors off social media. That’s the message from WHO and the government. It’s not helpful

National guard deployed in Balitmore. The city is starting to enforce strict curfews.

https://twitter.com/PeterRQuinones/status/1241100523253780480

https://twitter.com/KevinCullen67/status/1241129234220953601

I hope we don't go down the route of wearing masks in public for the reason that some scumbags will start robbing them from hospitals and selling them online.

Masks should be left to the medical professionals, not panic buying morons.

Jizique wrote: »

She was a bit of an attention seeker

The rip notice would indicate that her mum was indeed the third person to die from corona virus, no funeral was held.