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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: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    c.p.w.g.w wrote: »
    When can we expect todays figures for ireland?
    The usual time! They might just release them without a briefing. Assume they'll match projections.


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


    FVP3 wrote: »
    So your argument here remains the same - an Italian newspaper is not to be trusted about Italy and only an English speaking newspaper should be trusted. This isn't the best argument I have ever heard.

    I think the gravity of the measures the poster seems to have made up are lost on you.

    Three pages of Google searches now and not.once English report of Italy introducing COVID measures Which involve:

    1) banning forms from firing workers;

    2) forcing firms to pay 80% of workers wages whilst not working.

    Pretty big deals.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,220 ✭✭✭cameramonkey


    If you listened to the interview they were assured that the place they were going to was safe from the virus at that stage.

    But agree with you that they shouldn't have travelled at that stage.


    Who assured them?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 909 ✭✭✭coastwatch


    Does anyone know why this SARS-CoV-2 is so much more infectious than the SARS we had back in 2003?

    If they are both related illnesses, I wonder why the massive difference with infection rates?

    That one had around a 10% mortality rate, but infected far less people. And also seemed to fizzle out relatively quickly. (They still don't have a vaccine for that one either btw)

    SARs only becomes contagious when the infected person develops symptoms.
    SARS-CoV-2 (causing Covid19) is believed to be contagious even before people develop symptoms, meaning they could be spreading virus for a few days before they develop symptoms.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 132 ✭✭Satturnfalls


    Someone from rte is infected with corona says fergal bowers, he was wishing them a speedy recovery at home


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


    noodler wrote: »
    I think the gravity of the measures the poster seems to have made up are lost on you.

    Three pages of Google searches now and not.once English report of Italy introducing COVID measures Which involve:

    1) banning forms from firing workers;

    2) forcing firms to pay 80% of workers wages whilst not working.

    Pretty big deals.

    Edit: I dunno what the link the poster linked to is but it's certainly not a news site not can Google translate find anything about his claims.

    I knew I was right to be sceptical.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,922 ✭✭✭GM228


    Snowbiee21 wrote: »
    Well

    It's just a testing centre being powered off the LE Samuel Beckett.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,089 ✭✭✭Happy4all


    If you listened to the interview they were assured that the place they were going to was safe from the virus at that stage.

    But agree with you that they shouldn't have travelled at that stage.

    There was a similar well documented case of 8 Co meath businessmen going skiing in Italy at the same time. There flight to Italy was cancelled but not to be deterred, they booked alternative flights to Lyon, hired a car and drove to Italy. At least one tested positive for Covid 19 on their return. Brainless and selfish.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,237 ✭✭✭mcmoustache


    Rocko wrote: »
    Taking Tommy Robinson's past outta of it, don't want to hear of that.

    What ye think of this..

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJp7jLRGOqY


    Posting some video without any context as to what it is and asking for opinions is something that only a c↓nt would do.

    That's what I think.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    FVP3 wrote: »
    No the money isn't borrowed, its just created. I can't see any reference to Zimbabwe using helicopter money during their time of hyperinflation. In fact theories of hyperinflation being caused by excessive borrowing or printing seem wanting in empirical evidence, like a lot of economics.

    anyway all this is moot in a deflationary period. Imagine instead of deflation of 5%, you add enough money to the money supply to increase inflation by 5%. That gets you back to 0.

    People don't want to believe this, but banks create money all the time, when they issue loans.

    Bernie is a fan....

    https://twitter.com/berniesanders/status/1241380960622522371?s=21


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 619 ✭✭✭macnug


    7 who tested positive had zero symptoms in this cae. A study from the North of Italy in a town that tested everyone said that of the people who tested positive 9 out of 10 had absolutely no symptoms. It is a really strange outcome.

    People have evolved to have different immune systems. Have you every had the flu? as in the actual flu? In bed for a week, couldn't give a sh*t if the house burned down flu? No? I bet you did you just didn't notice it. Yet people die from it all the time. Thinks about it, how could you go your whole life without getting the flu, its as infections (maybe) as corona.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭gabeeg


    In the past 24 hours the coronavirus death toll in Lombardy, Italy’s worst-affected region, has risen by more than by 546 to 3,095, according to official figures.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/mar/21/coronavirus-live-updates-deaths-jump-in-spain-and-italy-millions-locked-down-in-us


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    MipMap wrote: »
    Any crowds there?
    The Brits are reporting wide scale panic buying - we don't seem to be seeing this as badly

    No it was pretty quiet but we have 2 supervalus 2 Tesco's 2 lidl, 2 Aldis and 2 Dunnes where I live and I went to the quieter Supervalu

    Passed one of the Dunnes on the way and they had a queue being managed by security


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,244 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    I haven’t been reading too much today and having a lovely chilled day today. Went for a walk on the pier around 5am, and not a sinner around. Was nice to get fresh air, even nicer that didn’t have to worry about someone brushing past me or trying to stop to chat.

    I was looking at Netherlands figures, and they have moved from initaly herd immunity to now social distancing.
    They had initally 3 cases in February 27,28 and 29 from people returning from Italy.

    They currently are positive tested of just over 3660, with 136 deaths. The one question I have and which is very concerning is that they only have had 2 people recover and discharged. Their critical rate is 10%. Would it have been expected that more infected patients would have recovered by now in the Netherlands.

    https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/netherlands/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,182 ✭✭✭✭Fr Tod Umptious


    Surely the stress of going to work and running risk of catching this virus and potentially passing it onto sick or older relatives is much worse than social isolation/distanceing???

    It would have more to do with the loss of income, the inability to pay bills, to keep a roof over your and your families head, than the actual going to work that would affect people mentally.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 484 ✭✭little bess


    Can anyone advise where to get printed social welfare forms?

    I want to change my mum’s pension Payment method to go directly to her bank account. I’ve downloaded the form but she doesn’t have a printer, mine is broken, the libraries and local Internet cafes are closed.

    I’m sure there are others in the same situation?


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


    https://www.doh.gov.ph/2019-nCoV
    Less than 1000 people have been tested in the Philippines !


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


    c.p.w.g.w wrote: »
    When can we expect todays figures for ireland?

    before tomorrow


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,245 ✭✭✭Gretas Gonna Get Ya!


    coastwatch wrote: »
    SARs only becomes contagious when the infected person develops symptoms.
    SARS-CoV-2 (causing Covid19) is believed to be contagious even before people develop symptoms, meaning they could be spreading virus for a few days before they develop symptoms.

    And yet they are related illnesses...

    And when this one does actually make you seriously ill, by the sounds of it it's every bit as severe as SARS! Leading to pretty rapid decline and death!

    I find it strange that some people can be severely ill with this, and others can be completely unaffected. (Even small children)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,237 ✭✭✭Sam Quentin


    I have to say it's great to see everyone adhering to social distancing as best they can...... But what is it with some women(I can't lie it was 100% all women)over compensating talking really loudly and obviously blowing their germs further than if they spoke softer and not as much... It's very annoying when most are doing their best.

    Ps: I didn't mean 100% of women,.I meant the few today I've seen and heard doing it were all women.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,220 ✭✭✭cameramonkey


    macnug wrote: »
    People have evolved to have different immune systems. Have you every had the flu? as in the actual flu? In bed for a week, couldn't give a sh*t if the house burned down flu? No? I bet you did you just didn't notice it. Yet people die from it all the time. Thinks about it, how could you go your whole life without getting the flu, its as infections (maybe) as corona.


    What are the chances of 7 people in one group having exactly the same outcome 100% no symptoms? Pretty low I would say.


    I do understand your point as I have never had the flu to my knowledge. I think the virus may be more widespread than many thing and many may not be aware that they got it. It means that the good news is that it may not be as deadly as we think, the bad news is that we all must consider that we are already infected if we want to prevent old and compromised people from getting infected.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,244 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    Can anyone advise where to get printed social welfare forms?

    I want to change my mum’s pension Payment method to go directly to her bank account. I’ve downloaded the form but she doesn’t have a printer, mine is broken, the libraries and local Internet cafes are closed.

    I’m sure there are others in the same situation?

    A friend of mine shared a post by Richard Boyd Barrett on Facebook. It said that if you contacted him via Facebook he would send a printed form out. Probably get one more local but if not planning to leave house. Is there anyway it could be done online as I think some facilities can.


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


    You've been to them all yea , cause the one in the jervis is very good, I believe I posted about it a while back.

    All shops and shopping centres with you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    I've noticed supermarkets handing out gloves to shoppers with their trolley and staff wearing gloves alot in the last few days. Why is this ?

    Best thing to do is to wipe down the trolley handles with the disinfectant that most supermarkets are providing and the tissues to do it.

    The official guidelines and it was said by the chief medical officer in one of the press conferences over the last 2 days that unless advised by a doctor there is no need for gloves. If anything your more likely to pass on the virus due to lack of hand washing with the gloves giving a false sense of security. Frequent hand washing is far more effective. The question was asked of him in the sense of supermarkets and petrol pumps, the petrol pump one started as a WhatsApp rumour and grew legs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,749 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,922 ✭✭✭GM228


    All we need now is an Oasis reunion (we have a better chance of 0 new cases today):-

    https://twitter.com/liamgallagher/status/1241382187179610112?s=19


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70 ✭✭maxpowers


    macnug wrote: »
    People have evolved to have different immune systems. Have you every had the flu? as in the actual flu? In bed for a week, couldn't give a sh*t if the house burned down flu? No? I bet you did you just didn't notice it. Yet people die from it all the time. Thinks about it, how could you go your whole life without getting the flu, its as infections (maybe) as corona.

    Alot of sense in that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,919 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    Happy4all wrote: »
    2 weeks ago!

    The outbreak in northern Italy's skiing resorts was well documented at that time.

    If that was so, why was the area not in the 'do not travel' advice?

    The nurse mentioned in his interview was tested positive on 28th Feb


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Cool, but also hope they get to that 15000 a day pronto!


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