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

niallo27 · 21-03-2020 02:45PM

Mwengwe wrote: »

It's a really weird thing to do, what people are doing at the moment, demanding to know whether someone had underlying conditions so that they can feel better about their own chances. Very, very weird. It's like when you hear someone got cancer and you ask if they were a smoker.

How do you know you - or someone in your family - don't have an underlying condition you're 'not aware of yet'?

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.

silverharp · 21-03-2020 02:45PM

niallo27 wrote: »

Hang on, what does this mean.

the Chinese are not to be trusted

GM228 · 21-03-2020 02:46PM

caveat emptor wrote: »

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...

You can't, it's strictly regulated, besides Ireland ceased printing money in 2019.

If you simply print more money, you create a false economy and prices inevitably rise creating a viscous circle.

Signore Fancy Pants · 21-03-2020 02:46PM

elperello wrote: »

In fairness it's hardly fair to hold someone who tweeted during the personal trauma of losing a loved one to the same standard as someone posting smart comments on a forum at a distance.

I would class tweeting the (quite topical) death of a loved one as opportunistic attention seeking.

Im not the only one either.

pH · 21-03-2020 02:48PM

silverharp wrote: »

I dont know how I missed this, calm down everyone, it will be grand

https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152

Wasn't it just a few days after this that US Democrats cancelled Trump's impeachment so he could get on with planning for the impending disaster that everyone could clearly see coming. Well that's how I remember it anyway.

Strazdas · 21-03-2020 02:48PM

silverharp wrote: »

I dont know how I missed this, calm down everyone, it will be grand

https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152

Why have you reprinted that tweet? That was literally a day or two after the very first death in Wuhan, when knowledge of the virus was extremely limited, even within the scientific community.

Hotblack Desiato · 21-03-2020 02:49PM

caveat emptor wrote: »

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...

Clueless. Better off not posting about stuff you know nothing about, tbh.

davehey79 · 21-03-2020 02:49PM

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.

Catmaniac
Not scare mongering but was in same boat as yourself end of January ! Blood Oxygen was 82/83 breathing from top of lungs couldn’t catch breath. Rang MiDOC straight to hospital through A&E triage and into Emergency Dept for cat scans with dye injected and X-rays. Was a bad lungs chest and air ways infection which developed to a bad dose of pneumonia spent 6 days dependent on oxygen even for a loo visit had my little cab of oxygen to shell behind so GET CHECKED OUT. I’m only 40 !!

AllGunsBlazing · 21-03-2020 02:50PM

silverharp wrote: »

the Chinese are not to be trusted

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

BorneTobyWilde · 21-03-2020 02:52PM

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/?

CrabRevolution · 21-03-2020 02:52PM

caveat emptor wrote: »

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.

ITman88 · 21-03-2020 02:53PM

CrabRevolution wrote: »

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

elperello · 21-03-2020 02:54PM

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

Signore Fancy Pants wrote: »

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.

Mwengwe · 21-03-2020 02:54PM

Signore Fancy Pants wrote: »

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!

mikeoc85 · 21-03-2020 02:54PM

caveat emptor wrote: »

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?

21-03-2020 02:54PM

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.

enda1 · 21-03-2020 02:55PM

Hobgoblin11 wrote: »

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.

Strazdas · 21-03-2020 02:55PM

AllGunsBlazing wrote: »

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.

NasserShammaz · 21-03-2020 02:55PM

Cork Boy 53 wrote: »

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...

recyclebin · 21-03-2020 02:56PM

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.

Thelonious Monk · 21-03-2020 02:57PM

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.

BorneTobyWilde · 21-03-2020 02:57PM

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

Mwengwe · 21-03-2020 02:58PM

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.

Seamai · 21-03-2020 02:59PM

NasserShammaz wrote: »

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˜

ILoveYourVibes · 21-03-2020 03:01PM

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

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.

Sam Russell · 21-03-2020 03:02PM

whisky_galore wrote: »

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.

cloudatlas · 21-03-2020 03:02PM

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!

elperello · 21-03-2020 03:03PM

Seamai wrote: »

Surely you mean poxy ðŸ˜

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

Sam Hain · 21-03-2020 03:07PM

NasserShammaz wrote: »

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.

Itssoeasy · 21-03-2020 03:07PM

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.

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