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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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  • #8312
    SuperTortoise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,427 ✭✭✭SuperTortoise


    SlowBlowin wrote: »
    I am sure I must have missed something here, and if I did there will be an avalanche of people correcting me.

    1. The government health advice is when coughing not to use your hand to cover your mouth, but instead cough into the elbow.

    2. The government social advice when meeting people is not to shake hands but instead bump elbows.

    I can understand both bits of advice on their own, but together they seem totally illogical. Has this already been discussed and I missed it ?


    You'd be doing well to cough into the outside of your elbow!


  • #8313
    YFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    It could be skin failure or fin rot I would get it checked out.;)

    As in the end time rot?

    Probably just a slight chest and throat infection.


  • #8314
    The One Doctor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,339 ✭✭✭The One Doctor


    SlowBlowin wrote: »
    I am sure I must have missed something here, and if I did there will be an avalanche of people correcting me.

    1. The government health advice is when coughing not to use your hand to cover your mouth, but instead cough into the elbow.

    2. The government social advice when meeting people is not to shake hands but instead bump elbows.

    I can understand both bits of advice on their own, but together they seem totally illogical. Has this already been discussed and I missed it ?

    You don't have to bump elbows if you cough. Or cough if you bump elbows.


  • #8315
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,015 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    The_Brood wrote: »
    How in the world is all this social welfare/mortgage freezing/business saving packages going to be paid for? In Ireland and abroad? You understand a few weeks, but if this really goes on for months....how are governments going to find the money to afford this? All the time nonstop we hear about how there's no money for this or that that the public needs, and how they can't possibly tax rich people/corporations any more...ok....so how in the world will they fund all this for months and months?

    Things are making 0 economic sense right now and people aren't asking politicians the important questions.

    People are asking the important questions. Thankfully most are finding surviving more important than money.


  • #8316
    owlbethere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭owlbethere


    DevilsHaircut wrote: »
    Some recoveries https://twitter.com/IrishTimes/status/1241385840711839744

    We definitely need some good news and this is a bit of good news. Symptom free is worrying though.


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  • #8317
    iwillyeah1234
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭iwillyeah1234


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    WAN MILLION EURO!!!

    Look it’s just a bit of advice. Diversify in 25% chunks. Just a rule of thumb. And you can scale to any level.

    If you come across an old coin worth 25 euro , and you have 25 euro to spare - skip the big slab of lager cans and just buy that old coin. It’s just common sense stuff.


  • #8318
    ShooterSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,824 ✭✭✭ShooterSF


    SlowBlowin wrote: »
    I am sure I must have missed something here, and if I did there will be an avalanche of people correcting me.

    1. The government health advice is when coughing not to use your hand to cover your mouth, but instead cough into the elbow.

    2. The government social advice when meeting people is not to shake hands but instead bump elbows.

    I can understand both bits of advice on their own, but together they seem totally illogical. Has this already been discussed and I missed it ?

    Where did you see govt advice to bump elbows? Keep metres apart has been their advice. Seriously?


  • #8319
    NasserShammaz
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 886 ✭✭✭NasserShammaz


    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    It could be skin failure or fin rot I would get it checked out.;)

    Its trenchfoot , plenty of zinc avoid spicy foods be grand


  • #8320
    elperello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,922 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    SlowBlowin wrote: »
    I am sure I must have missed something here, and if I did there will be an avalanche of people correcting me.

    1. The government health advice is when coughing not to use your hand to cover your mouth, but instead cough into the elbow.

    2. The government social advice when meeting people is not to shake hands but instead bump elbows.

    I can understand both bits of advice on their own, but together they seem totally illogical. Has this already been discussed and I missed it ?

    Bump elbows was so last week.

    Sensible people now are staying two metres apart and exchanging pleasantries verbally.


  • #8321
    2Mad2BeMad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,792 ✭✭✭2Mad2BeMad


    elperello wrote: »
    Bump elbows was so last week.

    Sensible people now are staying two metres apart and exchanging pleasantries verbally.

    You mean we have to talk to people? :mad:


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  • #8322
    Xertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭Xertz


    Think of it this way: the virus needs hosts to survive. It can’t survive without them for more than at most 1 to 2 days.

    If we all stop coughing on each other for a couple of weeks to a couple of months and isolate, the number of infections should plummet quite quickly.

    Getting that level or buy in the playing along with it is another question.

    The only way of getting rid of it for good is going to have to be technical though.


  • #8323
    dummy_crusher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 114 ✭✭dummy_crusher


    fritzelly wrote: »
    Yes because you were wrong - whats hard to understand?

    Where's your proof of the other one from yesterday? Apart from a friend of someone who got the report

    I said there were 4 recoveries up until yesterday. That was true, yet for some reason you pointed out that the first case was on the 11th. :confused: That makes no sense.

    If you thought my statement about the 5th recovery was wrong, why not address that instead of stating that the first case was on the 11th :confused:

    What's so hard to understand?

    https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/ireland/ have the recoveries at 5, so do https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

    Maybe they know something you don't...?

    And i included this in my original comment...
    Worldometer and John's Hopkins both have the updated figure of 5.


  • #8324
    trumptheman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 51 ✭✭trumptheman


    iwillyeah1234 wrote: »
    Look it’s just a bit of advice. Diversify in 25% chunks. Just a rule of thumb. And you can scale to any level.

    If you come across an old coin worth 25 euro , and you have 25 euro to spare - skip the big slab of lager cans and just buy that old coin. It’s just common sense stuff.

    Your advice given here in everything you posted is the opposite of what you should do with a million.


  • #8325
    sterz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 528 ✭✭✭sterz


    iwillyeah1234 wrote: »
    Just WALKING into a local Tesco fuels panic buying.

    Why are you back posting that again?

    Also, that's not a local Tesco.


  • #8326
    YFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    iwillyeah1234 wrote: »
    Raises a glass. Having wine here too.
    It’s been one hell of a week.

    Don’t normally drink , but this evening I need to chill out.[/quot


    It overwhelming alright. I think this is the week where many people began to understand mortality rates.

    Enjoy


  • #8327
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    NasserShammaz wrote: »
    Its trenchfoot , plenty of zinc avoid spicy foods be grand


    360?cb=20101014052403


  • #8328
    niallo27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,137 ✭✭✭✭niallo27


    Anyone else not have a ****en clue what comorbidities meant before all this started.


  • #8329
    SlowBlowin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,924 ✭✭✭SlowBlowin


    SuperTortoise wrote: »
    You'd be doing well to cough into the outside of your elbow!

    Try it, cough into your elbow and put your fingers on the outside of your shirt by the elbow and cough into the inside of your elbow, the breath impregnates all the fabric around your elbow.


  • #8330
    joeguevara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,244 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    ricero wrote: »
    Rent freezes still not being implemented is absolutely farcical at this stage

    It’s going to be announced by Wednesday. Can’t announce it until full legislation is signed and full mortgage freeze is agreed with banks.

    As rents are usually paid monthly by and large March rent would be paid prior to any job losses.

    Most landlords are in the same position anyway so what’s the issue.


  • #8331
    iwillyeah1234
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭iwillyeah1234


    ShooterSF wrote: »
    Where did you see govt advice to bump elbows? Keep metres apart has been their advice. Seriously?

    Coughing into your elbow is so frigging anti human it’s unreal. WEAR A MASK!!

    And if you want to greet someone , just wave. Or go full Japanese and just bow. Zero contact. It’s really simple.


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  • #8332
    YFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    2Mad2BeMad wrote: »
    You mean we have to talk to people? :mad:

    The gentle nod would do.


  • #8333
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,611 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    elperello wrote: »
    Bump elbows was so last week.

    Sensible people now are staying two metres apart and exchanging pleasantries verbally.

    you're still talking to people? i tip my hat to you, sir


  • #8334
    MipMap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 435 ✭✭MipMap


    SlowBlowin wrote: »
    I am sure I must have missed something here, and if I did there will be an avalanche of people correcting me.

    1. The government health advice is when coughing not to use your hand to cover your mouth, but instead cough into the elbow.

    2. The government social advice when meeting people is not to shake hands but instead bump elbows.

    I can understand both bits of advice on their own, but together they seem totally illogical. Has this already been discussed and I missed it ?




    In the 1980s we used to bump arses on the dance floor. We should do that instead!


  • #8335
    elperello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,922 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    2Mad2BeMad wrote: »
    You mean we have to talk to people? :mad:

    Only if you know them :)

    Newly minted hermit here !


  • #8336
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,611 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    sterz wrote: »
    Why are you back posting that again?

    Also, that's not a local Tesco.

    its local to someone


  • #8337
    Xertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭Xertz


    Coughing into your elbow is better than into your hands but it’s not like elbows come with magic viral particle filtration systems.

    If you have a cough - please say at home for a while and put your feet up.


  • #8338
    iwillyeah1234
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭iwillyeah1234


    sterz wrote: »
    Why are you back posting that again?

    Also, that's not a local Tesco.

    Why are you being such an autist?


  • #8339
    cameramonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,220 ✭✭✭cameramonkey


    DevilsHaircut wrote: »
    Maybe not officially (all would need to test negative twice?). But all pretty certain to recover as all 7 never had any symptoms.

    I think the take-away is more about asymptomatic people and the increased possibility of transmission (and need for maximum social distancing).


    An wider testing.


  • #8340
    sterz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 528 ✭✭✭sterz


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    its local to someone

    Well, someone browsing an Irish site might think it to be a Tesco in Ireland. Which it's not.

    Anyway, it's irresponsible to be posting images like that, espeically multiple times in the one thread.


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  • #8341
    elperello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,922 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    you're still talking to people? i tip my hat to you, sir

    Thank you.
    I was never one to burn bridges.
    It's a long road that has no turn.


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