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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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  • #7352
    Sam Hain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,317 ✭✭✭Sam Hain


    NasserShammaz wrote: »
    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.


  • #7353
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,756 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #7354
    ACitizenErased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,928 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    https://twitter.com/rtenews/status/1241401246071783424?s=20


  • #7355
    GM228
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,917 ✭✭✭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


  • #7356
    maxpowers
    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.


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  • #7357
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Calm before the storm in US?

    https://www.nytimes.com/video/nyregion/100000007043833/coronavirus-nyc-shutdown-new-york-city.html


  • #7358
    A Dub in Glasgo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,341 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #7359
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/rtenews/status/1241401246071783424?s=20
    Cool, but also hope they get to that 15000 a day pronto!


  • #7360
    FVP3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭FVP3


    sheepsh4gger wrote: »
    On image boards people are saying tonics include plant extracts used to make the malaria drug:

    I bet now everyone will be buying Schweppes

    Are you saying that there is some evidence that quinine helps fight the CV?


  • #7361
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,756 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    https://twitter.com/FergalBowers/status/1241403305655521281?s=19


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  • #7362
    ricero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,348 ✭✭✭✭ricero


    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

    Fair play to Tommy. Thats the attitude we need to get scum off our streets. No respect for the elderly, vile vermin.


  • #7363
    ACitizenErased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,928 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/FergalBowers/status/1241403305655521281?s=19
    Fair play to the HSE for securing this amount of testing kits. Keeping well on top of it now.


  • #7364
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,756 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    Fair play to the HSE for securing this amount of testing kits. Keeping well on top of it now.

    Yeah they seem to be well on top of procurement.

    Things that usually take weeks are taking days


  • #7365
    Jim Gazebo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,363 ✭✭✭Jim Gazebo


    It's all so demoralising. If these measures turn out not to work and at the end of this they go for another 2 weeks of proper lockdown I'd be really ******. I'm working really hard as a young person to stay self isolating and put my life on hold for this but if the partial lockdown wasn't going to work(they should know by now from other data) why prolong the pain and not just go full lockdown asap?

    If anything when it's over we'll be paying the bill then for many years as well. Do we have a positivity thread on the forum for the Corona virus at all?


  • #7366
    Spook_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,892 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie


    https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-8-000-more-hospital-beds-and-20-000-extra-staff-join-covid-19-fight-11961532



    And yet I feel that it will still be well short of their needs, are we in Ireland getting our private hospitals on board I haven't heard much about it if we are.


  • #7367
    noodler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,935 ✭✭✭✭noodler


    Spook_ie wrote: »
    https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-8-000-more-hospital-beds-and-20-000-extra-staff-join-covid-19-fight-11961532



    And yet I feel that it will still be well short of their needs, are we in Ireland getting our private hospitals on board I haven't heard much about it if we are.

    You can guarantee that the private hospitals will be brought on board one way or another.


  • #7368
    ACitizenErased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,928 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    Spook_ie wrote: »
    https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-8-000-more-hospital-beds-and-20-000-extra-staff-join-covid-19-fight-11961532



    And yet I feel that it will still be well short of their needs, are we in Ireland getting our private hospitals on board I haven't heard much about it if we are.
    We have got 500 ICU beds available, this has doubled in the last two weeks. If we follow the same path as Italy we can expect ~4000 cases. 7% requiring ICU means we are well within what we require.


  • #7369
    bekker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 912 ✭✭✭bekker


    noodler wrote: »
    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.
    If your really interested in details Cura Italia Decree 16.03.2020, translate provisions from Italian Govt site.

    Financial details as the apply to business continuity etc, all over business finance advisory sites, especially US.

    No idea of social protection details, not interested in wading through reams of detailed provisions.

    Relinquish the belief that English speaking mass media are concerned with comprehensive news coverage. They know their public and publish that which reinforces their worldview, or provides a club for them to beat whichever party, or group they currently hold disfavour.


  • #7370
    Loafing Oaf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,928 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    Jim Gazebo wrote: »
    . Do we have a positivity thread on the forum for the Corona virus at all?

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058060900


  • #7371
    joeguevara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,378 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    GM228 wrote: »
    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

    What an absolute legend. Love Liam. He cracks me up. He tweeted that he thought he had contracted it as he felt really hot, then realised he just left the heating on.

    https://www.nova.ie/liam-gallagher-fears-he-got-covid-19-but-had-just-left-the-heating-on-176451/


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  • #7372
    cosanostra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 888 ✭✭✭cosanostra


    It was claimed that the new test kits had arrived on wed eve and yesterdays results were some of the new batch of kits being rolled out it was also said earlier in the week that if we didn't get new kits on stream by Thursday we'd run out, Now its being said that "35000 kits have arrived and ready to go from today" I don't want to be negative but I don't think we're getting the full picture https://twitter.com/FergalBowers/status/1241403305655521281?s=20


  • #7373
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/FergalBowers/status/1241403305655521281?s=19

    Can the kits support multiple swabs if that makes sense? I.e one kit allows 6 tests to be car TV ied out?


  • #7374
    macnug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 619 ✭✭✭macnug


    cameramonkey wrote: »
    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.

    Honestly haven't a clue and agree its very unusual, would they be related? maybe its genetic?


  • #7375
    noodler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,935 ✭✭✭✭noodler


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    We have got 500 ICU beds available, this has doubled in the last two weeks. If we follow the same path as Italy we can expect ~4000 cases. 7% requiring ICU means we are well within what we require.

    When we get to 13,000 cases as is expected in next few week though?


  • #7376
    padjocollins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 459 ✭✭padjocollins


    prob posted earlier but i haven't read back on much of todays postings
    https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-interview-larry-brilliant-smallpox-epidemiologist/#intcid=recommendations_wired-homepage-right-rail-popular_d00a3648-f912-49b3-9b8a-f82ade2ecbd5_popular4-1


  • #7377
    neonsofa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,476 ✭✭✭neonsofa


    little bess wrote: »
    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?

    Ring your local citizens information service and they should be able to post one out to you or your mum. You can request/order some forms from deasp online, to be posted to your address, but im not sure if that form is one of them.


  • #7378
    Signore Fancy Pants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,703 ✭✭✭Signore Fancy Pants


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    Yeah they seem to be well on top of procurement.

    Things that usually take weeks are taking days

    Mossad "got hold" of 100,000 kits in 24hrs.


  • #7379
    GooglePlus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,010 ✭✭✭GooglePlus


    What's in the testing kits exactly?


  • #7380
    stockshares
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,772 ✭✭✭stockshares


    little bess wrote: »
    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?

    I've done this. You don't need a form.

    Get you Mother to write a letter stating that she wants to change her payment from the post office to her bank. Include her pps number in the letter.

    Then enclose the top portion of her recent bank statement showing her BIC and IBAN account numbers. You can cut this piece from the bank statement.

    Post these to the
    Social Welfare Services,
    Pension Services
    College road,
    Sligo.

    You can check the full address on Citizens information website.
    You can call the Sligo office on
    (071) 915 7100 or
    Locall: 1890 500 000


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  • #7381
    Hobgoblin11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Hobgoblin11


    I don't think countries will bail each other out during or after this emergency, debt forgiveness is down the road, nobody likes to write off debt

    Dundalk, Co. Louth



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