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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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  • 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.


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


    102 today according to the indo


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,960 ✭✭✭Tippex


    102 new cases just announced


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




  • 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.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 395 ✭✭Class MayDresser


    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.


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


    102 new cases today.


  • 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.


  • Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Anyways, I find it bizarre that people in Ireland are complaining about China while it's doing fuk all to stop the spread. Asia locked up shop when they realised what was happening and Europe hasn't. Surely the greater fault of a country is in its reaction to the crisis rather than the one citizen who started it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,843 ✭✭✭Pretzill


    Italy is suffering so much - it's so upsetting I can hardly watch news or even follow this thread - I have come down with a heavy cold and that's making me feel very conscious how easy germs are transmitted considering I have taken every precaution - this pandemic is a disaster - I only hope China/elsewhere will come up with a vaccine/or antiviral solution soon -


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


    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.

    But we are not testing people randomly, we are only testing people with symptoms


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,629 ✭✭✭PropJoe10


    As someone that's spent months in China over a few trips, I find the attitude here to be pretty sad. If not unexpected. I've also never seen anyone eating bats or the like. People should try to educate themselves on other cultures before making idiots of themselves - online or otherwise.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,610 ✭✭✭bennyl10


    GM228 wrote: »
    102 new cases today.

    Below 30% again?
    Not all bad


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,265 ✭✭✭Mervyn Skidmore



    That's promising. Now keep testing, testing, testing, and isolating.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 13,882 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh



    An increase of 15pc I reckon


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 760 ✭✭✭youreadthat


    No. Italy has one of top three health systems in the world

    People keep saying that, yet before all this I never heard the Italian health system used as a model to aspire to.


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




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


    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"..

    Yes it’s like our country getting branded as fox hunters when most people think it’s barbaric


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 10,795 ✭✭✭✭893bet


    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.

    That’s not how maths works. You can’t extrapolate like that.

    The people who were tested were largely symptomatic or in contact with a known case etc so will have a much higher concentration of positive cases verses a random 10,000 test in the general population.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,734 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    102 is not that bad considering it was 191 couple days ago

    Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,200 ✭✭✭c montgomery


    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.

    No!
    10000 have been tested
    6.8 % of the population that have been tested have it.
    It's actually surprisingly low considering that you must have symptoms to be tested.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭TheDoctor


    102 cases on top of the 683 from yesterday

    15% increase


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,419 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    GiftofGab wrote: »
    Just seen that 100,000 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.

    You could be right but are you saying because 683 out of 100k are positive then 6.83% of population have it? People are only testing if they have symptoms or similar symptoms. That isn’t able to be extrapolated you could say that 6.83 % of people who currently have symptoms are infected.

    I do agree though that it will increase but hopefully only in a way that is below that critical hospital Line.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,056 ✭✭✭darced


    If 102 is correct, I think we are doing really well.


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


    Does the lower number not just tie into them running out of tests a few days ago


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,934 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    102 is not that bad considering it was 191 couple days ago

    Excellent news : that puts us behind the 15,000 curve


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,234 ✭✭✭Panrich


    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.

    If the 10,000 were picked at random and tested, then you could extrapolate to make the case that this represents 6.83% of the general population but that is not the case.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,084 ✭✭✭tastyt


    Thats positive news thank God.

    What is happening in Italy? Why is it so so bad ? Why can't they get it under some control, its just going up and up.

    Its heartbreaking


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,762 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    Does the lower number not just tie into them running out of tests a few days ago

    They didnt run out of tests


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 110 ✭✭2016


    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.



    utter nonsense.

    if these were randomly tested from the population at large, then yes.

    But these were people who were at high risk for some reason or another, and "only" 6.83% of those risky people have it.


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