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

SusanC10 wrote: »

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.

She was a bit of an attention seeker

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..

A woman in her eighties

Are people driving worse as a result of all this?

https://www.thejournal.ie/louth-road-crash-3-5046551-Mar2020/

Pedestrian killed last week

https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/0318/1123990-man-questioned-after-fatal-hit-and-run-in-county-cork/

Hit and run murder on a pedestrian a few days ago

https://www.thejournal.ie/female-teenage-pedestrian-dies-in-offaly-5053385-Mar2020/

Teenage girl pedestrian killed yesterday

And heard some other crash deaths on the news during the week

Where's the outrage over this? Such gruesome deaths and no one seems to care, it's bizarre.

tobefrank321 wrote: »

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.

I was out and about today and there were a fair amount wearing masks..a noticeable increase.

YouSavedMyLife wrote: »

If you get hospitalized and require treatment for the virus, is it....free? Would i need to be insured for it to be "free"? Anyone have any insight?

Where? Here in Ireland?

Presuming you don't have a medical card, normally an A&E fee of €100 is charged for attending without a GP referral and from then on there's an €80 per night charge (capped at €800)

People who are not entitled to a Medical Card (i.e. 68.1% of the population) must pay fees for certain health care services. There is a €100 A&E charge for those who attend an accident and emergency department without a referral letter from a family doctor (a visit to which usually costs €45–75, though some practices offer rates as low as €25-35 for over-65s and students[7]). Hospital charges (for inpatients) are a flat fee of €80 per day up to a maximum of €800 in any twelve-month period, irrespective of the actual care received. Specialist assessments and diagnostic assessments (such as X-rays, laboratory tests, physiotherapy, etc.) are provided free of charge. If a person cannot afford to pay hospital charges, the HSE will provide the services free of charge. Under the Drugs Payment Scheme, prescription drugs, individuals and families are eligible for subsidies for approved prescription drugs, medicines, and certain appliances, and pay only a maximum of €124 per month per household. To qualify a patient must hold a Drugs Payment Scheme Card, for which everyone who does not hold a Medical Card is eligible.[8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland

Jizique wrote: »

She was a bit of an attention seeker

100%...doing an expose directly afterward, I’m sure she’ll claim she was trying to raise awareness.

Gael23 wrote: »

America is rightly screwed. Aside from Trump bring in charge

Got any numbers to back this up?

I think some people would like the see the US and UK 'rightly screwed' so as to fully expose Trump and Boris as the gee bags they are.

Not a healthy mindset.

Gods Gift wrote: »

This virus likes those type of people.
Hence America is in trouble.

I bet we don't have to worry about smokers here.

pH wrote: »

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.

Dont forget the 17000 children dying every single day mostly from preventable causes .... I guess once something doesn't affect the economy to much not a fukc is given

Jizique wrote: »

She was a bit of an attention seeker

Incredibly narcacistic behaviour I thought, I find it uneasy this woman built a following by live tweeting about her mothers death.
She was 88, had COPD and asthma, immobile and needed 2 carers. If anything covid put an end to that woman's suffering.

mikeoc85 wrote: »

That headline is a bit disingenuous. Covid didn’t take your mum. She was terminally ill. This part is scaremongering imo. It’s fudging the numbers. A horrible way to go but saying Covid took her like makes people believe she was fit and healthy with a reasonable life expectancy and then she got it

With all due respect to the woman she tweeted about how contagious the disease was as her mother was immobile. Anyone with a half a brain cell can understand the relevance in posting information like this.

COPD is not necessarily terminal and asthma certainly isn’t. Her mother could have had a few years left.
I’m certain journalists were looking for a comment and I don’t see how she can be labelled an attention seeker.

One thing is certain, if it wasn’t for COVID in this instance her mother would be still alive. RIP

mikeoc85 wrote: »

If the economy is going to be ground to a hault. If half the country is going to lose their jobs. If people are to give up most of the things they enjoy in life, then it needs to be for people who have a reasonable life expectancy and are cruelly taken.

I know that sounds harsh, but this can’t all be for people that the next flu was going to kill anyway. The numbers need to be more specific, maybe Germany are reporting correctly

Harsh very harsh. That wont go down well in here.

Excellent resource from Google

https://www.google.com/covid19/

rob316 wrote: »

Incredibly narcacistic behaviour I thought, I find it uneasy this woman built a following by live tweeting about her mothers death.
She was 88, had COPD and asthma, immobile and needed 2 carers. If anything covid put an end to that woman's suffering.

Incredibly insensitive post.

YUCK !!!

rob316 wrote: »

She was 88 completely immobile, respiratory problems and needed 2 carers. Another few years of suffering? That's a really poor quality of life.

And another YUCK !