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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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  • #7742
    bekker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 912 ✭✭✭bekker


    The One Doctor wrote: »
    Two reasons. One, Italy has a disproportionate number of elderly people who are most at risk. More at-risk people equals more deaths. Two, Italy's health system makes ours look world class and Italy is broke.
    Really? Italy and Ireland, have same order of magnitude '000 hospital beds and intensive care hospital care beds.

    Don't have treatment outcome comparisons available, please post links substantiating your conclusions, or are they just apocryphal.


  • #7743
    Cork Boy 53
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    Deleted User wrote: »
    How many Chinese people do you think eat bats?

    How many do doesn`t matter. The fact that at least one did, caught the virus and passed it on to others is why the planet is up ****e creek without a paddle now.


  • #7744
    RugbyLad11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 547 ✭✭✭RugbyLad11


    Blaze420 wrote: »
    I don’t care in the slightest, if they didn’t we might not have a ****ing pandemic worldwide now

    If you done some research you would see that it hasn't been proven that the virus originated from bats, that is just one possibly


  • #7745
    c montgomery
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,125 ✭✭✭c montgomery


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    How many Chinese people do you think eat bats?

    About a billion of them I'd say


  • #7746
    cosanostra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 886 ✭✭✭cosanostra


    https://twitter.com/FergalBowers/status/1241436499440275457?s=20


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  • #7747
    GM228
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,922 ✭✭✭GM228


    Humberto Salazar wrote: »
    Flights have decreased a bit apparently over the past week but the skies are still full of planes going everywhere. Just log into Flightradar. I mean repatriation and cargo flights don't seem to cover it, what's going on? Thought skies would be largely clear by now?

    There was 60,967 flights less in the skies yesterday compared to the same day in 2019.

    10% less than last year for March so far.


  • #7748
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    is_that_so wrote: »
    Very odd format of that Wuhan programme on RTE News Now, it's like watching a medical conference call!

    Yes but its quite insightful what some of the Irish doctors are asking

    We had 693 cases yesterday a rise of 30% would be another 207 cases


  • #7749
    lbj666
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,027 ✭✭✭lbj666


    c montgomery wrote: »
    About a billion of them I'd say

    Blaze420 reckons 10 billion


  • #7750
    Blaze420
    Closed Accounts Posts: 904 ✭✭✭Blaze420


    amadangomor wrote: »
    You do realise that it was not caused by people eating bats? Give up now you are posting ****e dude.

    What was it caused by so, enlighten us? Because it originated in Wuhan that has the market


  • #7751
    autumnbelle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭autumnbelle


    All from Wuhan wearing masks


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  • #7752
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 81,134 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    Blaze420 wrote: »
    And said countries wouldn’t even be forced to deal with this now without that filthy country of 1.4 billion eating ****ing bats - what’s your point exactly?

    Mod

    Do not post in this thread again.


  • #7753
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Cork Boy 53 wrote: »
    How many do doesn`t matter. The fact that at least one did, caught the virus and passed it on to others is why the planet is up ****e creek without a paddle now.

    If China weren't such a large country, it would be one person in a regular country of say ten million who started it.

    But it is a very large country and now the whole thing gets branded as "bat eaters"..


  • #7754
    An Ciarraioch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,806 ✭✭✭An Ciarraioch


    Ground-up pangolin scales, reportedly.


  • #7755
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    Cork Boy 53 wrote: »
    How many do doesn`t matter. The fact that at least one did, caught the virus and passed it on to others is why the planet is up ****e creek without a paddle now.

    No evidence of this whatsoever. It is likely it was passed from human via Pangolins.


  • #7756
    tobefrank321
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,527 ✭✭✭tobefrank321


    walshb wrote: »
    Italy’s death toll today is tragic...

    Almost 800 people..

    What time is our update?

    I can see it hitting 1000 a day sometime next week and staying that way for a while. It seems like hundreds of thousands have it in Italy and don't know it.


  • #7757
    frillyleaf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 801 ✭✭✭frillyleaf


    Blaze420 wrote: »
    And said countries wouldn’t even be forced to deal with this now without that filthy country of 1.4 billion eating ****ing bats - what’s your point exactly?

    I think this attitude is extremely ignorant. A small minority of Chinese consume these types of food , less than 1%.

    The way we some intensive pig farms in Ireland is not far off in terms of animal welfare to what you see in some of these markets. It is just well hidden from the public, out of sight and packaged in a nice wrapper and put on a shelf. Intensive chicken farming is equally as bad - have you ever seen the state of the battery caged chickens?

    I believe that if this wasn’t caused by a wet market in China something similar would have happened at some point from the way we farm animals now.
    Most countries treat animals like products when in fact they are living things similar to ourselves. They feel fear, they feel pain, they feel despair when we take their young and they carry disease


  • #7758
    extra gravy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,238 ✭✭✭✭extra gravy


    RugbyLad11 wrote: »
    You've probably never even been to China...I've lived in China and I never met one person eating bats or anything. The weirdest thing I saw was duck blood but sure that's the same as black pudding.

    The only people in China eating bats would be a few peasants from the countryside

    An educated reply based on experience. Thank you.


  • #7759
    c montgomery
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,125 ✭✭✭c montgomery


    RugbyLad11 wrote: »
    If you done some research you would see that it hasn't been proven that the virus originated from bats, that is just one possibly

    Where did you do your research

    I've seen experts say they can identify it was from bats and even express certainty on when it jumped to humans based on its genetic signature.

    I know nothing about it technically so looking to learn


  • #7760
    GiftofGab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,490 ✭✭✭GiftofGab


    Just seen that 10,000 people were tested in Ireland. We already have 683 cases. Looks like a minimum (not counting todays figures) of 6.83% of the population have Coronavirus. That's about 330,000 people have it here and it's growing fast.
    Italy has a mortality rate of 9%. Apply the same here and there could easily be nearly 30,000 deaths in Ireland alone from this. This looks like a huge moment in history.


  • #7761
    lucalux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,406 ✭✭✭lucalux


    Acosta wrote: »
    I'm pretty much a pacifist but I'm so stressed out in these situations that I think I would have completely lost the rag with her. What a stupid ignorant asshole.
    I wish I could cocoon myself for a a couple of weeks until the penny drops for these fcukers and everyone is taking it seriously.

    I'd agree, cocooning seems like the goal if people can't wise up, so many not taking notice

    As to losing the rag, haha, I hear you, that's pretty much what I was trying to avoid for my own sake. I'm a pacifist, until someone puts me, or the ones I care about in danger, and then I've got a serious temper and can get into it (verbally) with anyone if I need to.

    I didn't wanna go postal on her, much as I felt I'd be in the right, as I would have been embarrassed afterwards, and from the people there watching, I felt I'd come out of it looking worse, as most of them didn't seem bothered by any of it at all. So not much point I felt. She'd go on thinking I'm a nutter!

    I've no love for queues at the best of times, and massive social anxiety which is ramped up so high these days, so yep, home shopping for me from now on. Can't keep that level of self control up for weeks/months depending on how this situation pans out.


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  • #7762
    nc6000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,424 ✭✭✭nc6000


    Deleted User wrote: »
    If I went home to Ireland and ate a bat and started a pandemic, that would more people per capita than China eating bats.

    So what exactly does that prove? This came from China just like SARS and just like H5N1. I don't give a flying f**k how many people per capita are eating bats.

    It came from China and it's has happened before.

    We're in a right mess now and they're boasting about having it under control with no new cases. I don't believe that for a minute, not a chance it's under control.


  • #7763
    bekker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 912 ✭✭✭bekker


    Blaze420 wrote: »
    What was it caused by so, enlighten us? Because it originated in Wuhan that has the market
    Enlightenment could be yours if you extended you data sources beyond YouTube and sources derived therefrom.


  • #7764
    cameramonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,220 ✭✭✭cameramonkey


    GiftofGab wrote: »
    Just seen that 10,000 people were tested in Ireland. We already have 683 cases. Looks like a minimum (not counting todays figures) of 6.83% of the population have Coronavirus. That's about 330,000 people have it here and it's growing fast.
    Italy has a mortality rate of 9%. Apply the same here and there could easily be nearly 30,000 deaths in Ireland alone from this. This looks like a huge moment in history.


    I dont think you can apply the 9% to Ireland.


  • #7765
    AdrianII
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭AdrianII


    102 today according to the indo


  • #7766
    Tippex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,958 ✭✭✭Tippex


    102 new cases just announced


  • #7767
    The Hound Gone Wild
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 255 ✭✭The Hound Gone Wild


    102 new cases here. 785 all in.

    https://www.gov.ie/en/news/7e0924-latest-updates-on-covid-19-coronavirus/#march-21


  • #7768
    smallfryy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29 ✭smallfryy


    I feel so annoyed reading accounts of people out and about and taking days out and playdates with other families.

    My poor little 5 year old cried her heart out today, the isolation is definitely getting in on her and she misses her school friends so much. We are all making huge sacrifices and efforts here and it pisses me off that there are adults not doing their share.
    Supermacs in town here is out the door with crowds because the other fast food places are closed.

    102 New Cases here today according to the news just now.


  • #7769
    Class MayDresser
    Closed Accounts Posts: 395 ✭✭Class MayDresser


    tobefrank321 wrote: »
    I can see it hitting 1000 a day sometime next week and staying that way for a while. It seems like hundreds of thousands have it in Italy and don't know it.

    Why do you say that? 1000 peak but sustained for a while hopefully not.


  • #7770
    GM228
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,922 ✭✭✭GM228


    102 new cases today.


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  • #7771
    lainey_d_123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,385 ✭✭✭lainey_d_123


    frillyleaf wrote: »
    I think this attitude is extremely ignorant. A small minority of Chinese consume these types of food , less than 1%.

    The way we some intensive pig farms in Ireland is not far off in terms of animal welfare to what you see in some of these markets. It is just well hidden from the public, out of sight and packaged in a nice wrapper and put on a shelf. Intensive chicken farming is equally as bad - have you ever seen the state of the battery caged chickens?

    I believe that if this wasn’t caused by a wet market in China something similar would have happened at some point from the way we farm animals now.
    Most countries treat animals like products when in fact they are living things similar to ourselves. They feel fear, they feel pain, they feel despair when we take their young and they carry disease

    1% of over a billion people is still a lot of people.

    Stop defending their disgusting practices.

    It's not racist to state facts.


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