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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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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭AllGunsBlazing


    silverharp wrote: »
    the Chinese are not to be trusted

    Doesn't do much for the credibility of the WHO either.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,579 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    schmoo2k wrote: »
    Ireland are currently ranked 19th worst when death rate is normalized by population.

    https://observablehq.com/@gordonsmith/covid-19-normalized-by-population

    ...and UK is higher than China...


    USA not on list/?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,957 ✭✭✭CrabRevolution


    Yes we can. We can't control the interest rate but we can print to our hearts content and we have.

    Have you not seen house prices? INFLATION...


    So the CB can just print off €100 Trillion for themselves and the rest of Europe would have no problem exchanging goods and services for it?

    You're talking nonsense.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 876 ✭✭✭ITman88


    So the CB can just print off €100 Trillion for themselves and the rest of Europe would have no problem exchanging goods and services for it?

    You're talking nonsense.

    Boards.ie economics


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,922 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    Jizique wrote: »
    Can’t be terribly traumatic if you are live-tweeting it.
    Will probably be on the late late next week after featuring on the indo today.
    Dancing with the Stars next
    I would class tweeting the (quite topical) death of a loved one as opportunistic attention seeking.

    Im not the only one either.

    The demise of her mother was part of her lived experience not yours. Harsh and judgmental to condemn her response to her trauma.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 454 ✭✭Mwengwe


    It doesnt upset me at all Mwengwe, youd want to have a very very sheltered life and sensitive disposition for a Tweet to upset you.

    However, calling a Tweet like that out as narcissism seems to upset some people here, hence my comment.

    It clearly has upset you and many others on Boards
    Been talking about it three days now!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 134 ✭✭mikeoc85


    Really hard. You will have to suspend your disbelief for a second. Here's a few things to consider while considering the problem.
    • The central bank of Ireland can print as many yo-yos as they want
    • They can choose who to give those freshly printed digital 1s and 0s to whoever they want.
    • To date this has been given to banks in the hope they would "recapitalise" and lend to people in the real economy (at a profit)
    • The books don't need to balance. Checkout the US treasury's current liabilities for that one.

    Why didn’t we do this during the last crisis? Why don’t poorer countries do this?


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    murphaph wrote: »
    82 is very low. If I were you I'd be thinking about calling an ambulance. My son showed 85 last year and was struggling for breath and we took him to the doc who fairly promptly told us to go over to the paediatric unit in the hospital as he suspected pneumonia (same campus) and he'd call ahead to let them know we were on the way. Sure enough it was pneumonia and my son was in hospital for a week.

    They always say that breathing issues can get out of hand quickly.

    Indeed, that is very low catmaniac and explains the confusion you're experiencing. I would get yourself looked at immediately.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,166 ✭✭✭enda1


    i call BS, the culture in Italy doesnt vary that much!

    I lived there for 5 years and still have an apartment there. Even in the south it’s not done much tbh, although more than the north.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,294 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    Doesn't do much for the credibility of the WHO either.

    That was after one or two deaths in China. Nobody had a clue what they were dealing with, how the virus was being transmitted or how contagious it was....the thing had appeared out of nowhere.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 886 ✭✭✭NasserShammaz


    By having a word you mean beat the ****e out of them? Good luck with that one.

    Letting their proxy kids run in and out of what cafes are open touching all the stuff sugar... messing . It's important these places are open not for cnuts that think this is a holiday and I include Irish idiots too but people are still working if they can .

    I don't care if they all get a horrible dose of this but giving it to someone else because they're pig ignorant dkum is not acceptable.
    I'd suggest pavement pointless/ Roma could do something but I very just realised what I typed... no chance


    Ok beat them back to their holes...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,539 ✭✭✭recyclebin


    It's the ECB printing the money not the CB. As most other banks are doing the same (e.g. UK and USA), it should not have the normal effects like devaluing of the currency and hyperinflation. These are exceptional times, similar to a world war.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,277 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    It is kind of scary though how quick these things escalate. Imagine if something happened to our food supplies, like some kind of blight again, that kills plants. We'd be gone in no time. I think we need to reassess everything, especially how we treat nature, and stop this exponential growth.
    People will want things back to how they were though asap, that's the problem.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,579 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    All these bright sparks coming up with the idea of shoving leaflets through every letter box in the country are spreading virus. It will kill 100's . How it's allowed I'll never know.
    An Post now doing to do it, postcards? WTF WE ALL HAVE PHONES, IT'S NOT THE 1920'S


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 454 ✭✭Mwengwe


    niallo27 wrote: »
    Its human nature to worry about yourself and the ones closest to you. If we didnt have these figures then there would be absolute chaos. Could you imagine if this thing had a high child mortality rate.

    I'd just be conscious of how it comes across and who might be reading it. The reply i responded to was in the context of a 'discussion' from another user about whether we should weigh up going back to normal against the idea that 'old people' are 'going to die anyway' of something (paraphrasing but that was the gist of it)

    To go from that (pretty bad in itself) to questioning whether the younger cases had underlying conditions...It's dodgy ground.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    Letting their proxy kids run in and out of what cafes are open touching all the stuff sugar... messing . It's important these places are open not for cnuts that think this is a holiday and I include Irish idiots too but people are still working if they can .

    I don't care if they all get a horrible dose of this but giving it to someone else because they're pig ignorant dkum is not acceptable.
    I'd suggest pavement pointless/ Roma could do something but I very just realised what I typed... no chance


    Ok beat them back to their holes...

    Surely you mean poxy ðŸ˜


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,215 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    All these bright sparks coming up with the idea of shoving leaflets through every letter box in the country are spreading virus. It will kill 100's . How it's allowed I'll never know.
    An Post now doing to do it, postcards? WTF WE ALL HAVE PHONES, IT'S NOT THE 1920'S
    You could say people delivering parcels are spreading it. shrug its a pointless thing to do imo i know ...someone should stop it.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 20,358 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sam Russell


    I think there's only so much that can be achieved by asking the public nicely. "Shaming" has got a bad rap recently, I think it should be used to force people to behave correctly at times such as now.

    Listen to the Sergent Major - 'First I asks you, then I tells you, the I makes you!'

    We have tried the first two - now its time to move on to the third one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,711 ✭✭✭cloudatlas


    Wow! I am overwhelmed by the heart warming emails I'm receiving from the CEO's of corporations who I've bought from in the past worried about my well being, I thought these people would be holed up in their mansions so I am very impressed with their diligence and concern. Literally dozens of them!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,922 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    Seamai wrote: »
    Surely you mean poxy ðŸ˜

    Maybe the kids were just representing other kids.
    Kind of subcontractor messers. :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,317 ✭✭✭Sam Hain


    Social distancing is all grand but could someone have a word with the idiot roma going around in hordes in the lilac centre, manky kids running around and the piss head drunks in everywhere basically and let's not forget the skunks who remarkably have a good supply of masks and gloves . Funny thing the worst today was a Chinese girl rd l in a shop no effort at all.

    Serves you right if you went to the Ilac centre in the current environment.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,972 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Well done to my local super valu on the old social distancing. Red lines where you have to stand behind. Gloves and hand sanitizer at the door. Staff wearing gloves. Good stuff and customers were adhering to it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    It is kind of scary though how quick these things escalate. Imagine if something happened to our food supplies, like some kind of blight again, that kills plants. We'd be gone in no time. I think we need to reassess everything, especially how we treat nature, and stop this exponential growth.
    People will want things back to how they were though asap, that's the problem.

    There's class of contributor to this thread (and others here) that will have no truck with environment concerns and yet that's what created this farrago!

    The Dutch have a high death rate for population 17 million.
    In the Netherlands, the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus has risen by 637 to a total of 3,631, Dutch health authorities said in their daily update on Saturday, with 30 new deaths. The total death toll in the Netherlands now stands at 136.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,667 ✭✭✭✭rob316


    cloudatlas wrote: »
    Wow! I am overwhelmed by the heart warming emails I'm receiving from the CEO's of corporations who I've bought from in the past worried about my well being, I thought these people would be holed up in their mansions so I am very impressed with their diligence and concern. Literally dozens of them!

    You must be really stupid if you think it came from the CEO


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    Itssoeasy wrote: »
    Well done to my local super valu on the old social distancing. Red lines where you have to stand behind. Gloves and hand sanitizer at the door. Staff wearing gloves. Good stuff and customers were adhering to it.

    Yep, credit to Supervalu, our local one has been very pro- active over the last few weeks. I feel quite reassured going in there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,764 ✭✭✭Speak Now


    rob316 wrote: »
    You must be really stupid if you think it came from the CEO

    Whosshhhhhh!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 389 ✭✭Jin luk


    Update time today?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,385 ✭✭✭✭noodler


    Here you go have fun. Google translate will be your friend. :pac:

    https://www.diritto.it/cassa-integrazione-coronavirus-le-istruzioni/

    .....right

    So the Italians haved banned sackings and enforced an 80% wage cost on companies and you can't find an English link?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,317 ✭✭✭Sam Hain


    Seamai wrote: »
    Yep, credit to Supervalu, our local one has been very pro- active over the last few weeks. I feel quite reassured going in there.

    Have to agree, the most proactive of all the major retailers. Tesco have been possibly the worse.


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


    rob316 wrote: »
    You must be really stupid if you think it came from the CEO

    The joke...............



























    ......................Your head


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