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

lawred2 wrote: »

You'd need another 30000 days solid where there were 1000 deaths recorded in order to reach 30m dead.

That's only 82 thousand years.

I don't agree with the original comment, but I don't agree with your maths either...

Over the last week, worldwide deaths have almost doubled 5833 -> 11387.

The previous week, 3599 -> 5833.

This is about to really kick off soon in the US and UK, nevermind about India, Russia and Africa...

Let's take a conservative (pessimistic) view that deaths will double every week...

In 8 weeks, that is a total of 2,915,072 deaths worldwide.

I'm not that doom and gloom or anything, just pointing the error in how you arrived at 82 thousand years.

102 today but that figure will greatly rise when proper testing is rolled out

Deleted User wrote: »

That’s just not true. You are living in a different Dublin

I guess it also might depend on the neighborhood.

Reckless Abandonment wrote: »

We need to see numbers drop for a week or more before I'll start getting excited. And even then social separation is the new norm. We might get lucky and be able to keep it in check here. but while the rest of the world has it there can be no going back to normal. A vaccine is the only way I see this going away.

Just to be clear here
There is a mis conception that when a successful vaccine is developed this virus will "go away"
Sadly NOT
We have a seasonal 'flu vaccine but it doesn't go away
The number of cases and deaths will be dramatically reduced but sadly it won't go away
There are strong possibilities that it could mutate and lose it's potency which obviously will be very good news

Aidric wrote: »

Why are accounts like this allowed to exist? Contributes nothing substantial to the topic being discussed. Just drops in with a nonsensical one liner. Troll accounts like this should be shut down. All they are doing is throwing petrol in to the fire.

I just see the numbers in Italy dying daily increasing and because I made a comment that the half the country could be wiped out, I'm trolling, let's get real an awful lot of Italians are dying, it is heartbreaking what is happening over there and now looks like Spain, US and UK death toll is also rising, is it wrong to talk about the deaths, if so I apologise

RugbyLad11 wrote: »

I really doubt they are dead bodies, now of course I don't know for sure but apparently they are people sleeping outside because they got kicked out of their apartments as they were suspected of having the virus.

One of the reasons I doubt these are bodies because china can build a hospital for 7,000 people in a few days, so surely they could built a basic building to store the bodies in less than a day.

No, at the time the video came out the hospital wasn't built.

Rickytumtum wrote: »

My brother is waiting since last Saturday for a test, he’s finally getting one on Monday...we are at least a week behind (on average) with these figures

Just as a matter of interest with someone like your brother, has his symptoms got worse since then or is he feeling better?

Away With The Fairies wrote: »

785 cases in Ireland... How is this possible? We were letting in plane loads of people from Italy? There should be more. Or are symptoms really that mild in most of us?

Remember that these numbers are a week or two behind. This is why I don't read the papers, it's old information.

Lord TSC wrote: »

Liz, even with the crazy fatality rate in Italy, the death rate is "only" 7%. Nowhere near 50% of Italy will die. The absolute worst case scenario, an utter nightmare, would be about 7%.

And that's presuming they aren't just massively undertesting, and the fatality rate isn't round 1-2% like in countries that are mass testing. And presuming that it's 100% infection rate, which even the worst case scenarios haven't been predicting.

Ok I was maybe exaggerating speculation but their death rate daily is astonishing, heartbreaking

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

https://twitter.com/ESPNFC/status/1241453658832875520

I'm actually beginning to think that Italians are somehow more susceptible to this virus. Nothing seems to be containing it over there.

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

My God

rob316 wrote: »

Cork from what I see is as good as locked down. Anything more is unwarranted at this stage. Businesses are trading still while practicing social distancing and those that can't have just closed. Compliance is largely high.

Cork and Westmeath are joint first place as far as percentage of the population is concerned

dummy_crusher wrote: »

I don't agree with the original comment, but I don't agree with your maths either...

Over the last week, worldwide deaths have almost doubled 5833 -> 11387.

The previous week, 3599 -> 5833.

This is about to really kick off soon in the US and UK, nevermind about India, Russia and Africa...

Let's take a conservative (pessimistic) view that deaths will double every week...

In 8 weeks, that is a total of 2,915,072 deaths worldwide.

I'm not that doom and gloom or anything, just pointing the error in how you arrived at 82 thousand years.