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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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  • #8732
    FVP3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭FVP3


    statesaver wrote: »
    He said 15000 by the end of March. No idea where he got that number from.

    Since we are not testing everyone, he probably would have meant that to be all cases. I would say thats fairly likely, assuming we catch 1 in 4 cases.


  • #8733
    Gods Gift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,713 ✭✭✭Gods Gift


    Class MayDresser wrote: »
    What's your vector Victor?

    Ok for clearance?
    Clarence.


  • #8734
    Class MayDresser
    Closed Accounts Posts: 395 ✭✭Class MayDresser


    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    Roger Over?

    Striker! STRIKER!


  • #8735
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,116 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    trumptheman wrote: »
    Unfortunately Ireland does not look after people who have been laid off from their jobs temporarily due to unforeseen circumstances or been let go.

    Ireland rewards the long term unemployed with no intention of ever working.

    Maybe just maybe this could be the start of a reform of welfare for people who lose their jobs, like in other EU countries, where you get a declining percentage of your wage in benefits.


  • #8736
    irishproduce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,840 ✭✭✭irishproduce


    Woodsie1 wrote: »
    Harry,You are in no position to be taking any moral high ground.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=112814214&postcount=5586

    I'm actually shocked that that guys post is verbatim.
    I can't believe a grown adult is proposing that people get purposely infected over a soccer trophy. In the current situation
    You'd wonder about the intellectual maturity of some of these guys, a bloody soccer trophy when people are fighting for their lives in hospitals around the world.


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  • #8737
    Cork Boy 53
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    nocoverart wrote: »
    Yellowstone Super Volcano, Gamma Ray Bursts and an Asteroid off the top of my head. Obviously none are Viral, just worse.

    Isn`t there an asteroid due to come close to Earth sometime in April?


  • #8738
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    alan partridge aha wrote: »
    Ya but that ain't happening. 191 126 103 last 3 days

    Yes but that first figure of 191 was a 125% increase on the day before

    Since the announcement that cases would grow by 30% daily, 191+126+103 when combined and spread over 3 days is is actually far more than a 30% increase daily


  • #8739
    Macdarack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 816 ✭✭✭Macdarack


    Gods Gift wrote: »
    Ok for clearance?
    Clarence.

    Huh?


  • #8740
    Naggdefy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,981 ✭✭✭Naggdefy


    trumptheman wrote: »
    We currently have 800 cases, Do you honestly think it will be 3,000 in 10 days?

    We had a 15% increase today. On the low side. Let's use that until the end of March, a very low projection.

    22 March 903
    23 March 1038
    24 March 1194
    25 March 1373
    26 March 1580
    27 March 1817
    28 March 2090
    29 March 2403
    30 March 2764
    31 March 3179

    Now this is at a really low 15% growth rate. Growth averaged 29% over the past week.


  • #8741
    Macdarack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 816 ✭✭✭Macdarack


    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    And the never employed.

    Non working class


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  • #8742
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,116 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    alan partridge aha wrote: »
    Ya but that ain't happening. 191 126 103 last 3 days

    You don't take just a few days to extrapolate your data - what if tomorrow there is 300 cases? Then the next day 100, then the next 500 - the result is the same


  • #8743
    saabsaab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,722 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    elperello wrote: »
    Thanks for that.
    Needs further verification.


    See link. Adds to Warming overall it seems.


  • #8744
    nocoverart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,354 ✭✭✭nocoverart


    Cork Boy 53 wrote: »
    Isn`t there an asteroid due to come close to Earth sometime in April?

    Yeah, I remember hearing something about that. Nothing of grave concern if I recall, then again... either was this a few months back.


  • #8745
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,614 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/21/politics/north-korea-trump/index.html
    North Korea said President Donald Trump sent Kim Jong Un a personal letter in which he expressed his willingness to help with "anti-epidemic work,"

    fair play


  • #8746
    threeball
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,766 ✭✭✭threeball


    wakka12 wrote: »
    All the deaths popping up in developing countries is very worrying, lots have a couple of deaths but a tiny number of cases, likely a huge number of cases going undetected

    Bangladesh just 24 cases and 2 deaths
    Ukraine jus 47 cases and 3 deaths
    Burkina Faso 3 deaths and just 64 cases
    Algeria 15 deaths and just 139 cases
    Iraq 17 deaths and just 200 cases

    Africa will be devastated. Already huge numbers with HIV and TB. They have no hope.


  • #8747
    Technophobe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,091 ✭✭✭Technophobe


    Macdarack wrote: »
    Huh?

    What's your vector Victor?


  • #8748
    1882
    Closed Accounts Posts: 65 ✭✭1882


    pawdee wrote: »
    All we need now is a wet summer, potato blight, bubonic plague, foot and mouth, rabies and ebola. Have I left anything out?
    Another Boyzone comeback...


  • #8749
    alan partridge aha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,337 ✭✭✭alan partridge aha


    wakka12 wrote: »
    Yes but that first figure of 191 was a 125% increase on the day before

    Since the announcement that cases would grow by 30% daily, 191+126+103 when combined and spread over 3 days is is actually far more than a 30% increase daily

    Correct but we are testing far more people than we were. As we are testing more how come cases have dropped in the last 2 days?


  • #8750
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    OwlsZat wrote: »
    A quarter of all confirmed Irish cases are associated with healthcare workers.

    Are we missing something here? How does that compare with other Countries?

    A large percentage of these health care workers were infected in Cork Limerick and Waterford by cases which were exposed pre clinical diagnosis at the beginning of the outbreak here - eg doctor in Limerick who worked in UHL following return from abroad and undiagnosed casesin UHC and Waterford.


  • #8751
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,116 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    alan partridge aha wrote: »
    Correct but we are testing far more people than we were. As we are testing more how come cases have dropped in the last 2 days?

    When testing you will hit clusters of infected one day and the next you might not

    I wonder how the GP referrals are working in to it that its a phone consultation and they think you may have it but just as much chance its flu or a cold or ...


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  • #8752
    spookwoman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,059 ✭✭✭✭spookwoman


    threeball wrote: »
    Africa will be devastated. Already huge numbers with HIV and TB. They have no hope.

    Add the odd ebola and famine outbreak as well


  • #8753
    coolshannagh28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭coolshannagh28


    statesaver wrote: »
    He said 15000 by the end of March. No idea where he got that number from.

    Italian bases increased by 22% per day over the first two weeks , we could reach 5 to 6000 , W seem to be using the 30% figure which is well on the high side.


  • #8754
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    threeball wrote: »
    Africa will be devastated. Already huge numbers with HIV and TB. They have no hope.

    And they won't be getting any help all economy's will be in tatters again this thing is over.:(


  • #8755
    Technophobe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,091 ✭✭✭Technophobe


    Technophobe wrote: »
    What's your vector Victor?

    Damn, already done..
    Picked a bad day to give up smoking


  • #8756
    OwlsZat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,531 ✭✭✭OwlsZat


    The testings is hugely backlogged. There are swathes of perfectly fine people trying to get tested clogging up the system.


  • #8757
    FVP3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭FVP3


    threeball wrote: »
    Africa will be devastated. Already huge numbers with HIV and TB. They have no hope.

    i doubt it, the population is fairly young. Median age is 20.


  • #8758
    Cork Boy 53
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    nocoverart wrote: »
    Yeah, I remember hearing something about that. Nothing of grave concern if I recall, then again... either was this a few months back.

    TBH I would prefer to be wiped out quickly by an asteroid strike than die from the virus. That's not meant to be a smart comment by the way.


  • #8759
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,614 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    threeball wrote: »
    Africa will be devastated. Already huge numbers with HIV and TB. They have no hope.

    over 1000 cases there so far, mostly Egypt (297) and South Africa (205)

    https://twitter.com/WHOAFRO/status/1241376177392140288


  • #8760
    tobefrank321
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,527 ✭✭✭tobefrank321


    Speakerboxx wrote: »
    Does 20 secs of hand washing completely remove virus from your hands if hands become contaminated? Think about it, the amount of things you touch daily in public places and if those surfaces are contaminated and you touch them and put your hands on your face, nose or eyes you risk being infected without knowing it. No wonder the virus is flying around rapidly and people who ignore social distancing makes infection far worse.

    When I go to shop now. I limit my visits to shop once a week. I wear gloves. Go shopping and when im finished, I place my shopping in boot. My boot door handle is potentially contaminated from visit to shop so after I close boot door,I take my gloves off correctly and aseptically and disgard. I open drivers door and get my anti baterial spray and spray my boot door handle and then finally spray and clean my hands throughout. I won't make contact with any parts inside car where possible before cleaning my hands. Car keys seat belts, wiper and indicator controls, handbrake steering wheel light switch,radio and dashboard controls door handles window levers i will clean and disinfect before driving off and sanitize and clean my hands again after all this before driving off. I am a freak but doing my best to be careful but it's not easy.

    I am spraying down all my shopping and sanitizing everything before entry to house. All disinfected shopping is placed on countertop once complete and my hands fully washed before touching the disinfected item's again. Are we all doing enough to combat covid 19?

    If you were to be totally ocd about it, you could always use same clothes when shopping but change out of them after and leave them in garage or shed so you don't wear them in house, same with shoes. Give bottom of your shoping bags a a wipe, even with kitchen paper. Also disinfect your phone and wallet.


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  • #8761
    Shelly66
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56 ✭✭Shelly66


    Speakerboxx wrote: »
    Does 20 secs of hand washing completely remove virus from your hands if hands become contaminated? Think about it, the amount of things you touch daily in public places and if those surfaces are contaminated and you touch them and put your hands on your face, nose or eyes you risk being infected without knowing it. No wonder the virus is flying around rapidly and people who ignore social distancing makes infection far worse.

    When I go to shop now. I limit my visits to shop once a week. I wear gloves. Go shopping and when im finished, I place my shopping in boot. My boot door handle is potentially contaminated from visit to shop so after I close boot door,I take my gloves off correctly and aseptically and disgard. I open drivers door and get my anti baterial spray and spray my boot door handle and then finally spray and clean my hands throughout. I won't make contact with any parts inside car where possible before cleaning my hands. Car keys seat belts, wiper and indicator controls, handbrake steering wheel light switch,radio and dashboard controls door handles window levers i will clean and disinfect before driving off and sanitize and clean my hands again after all this before driving off. I am a freak but doing my best to be careful but it's not easy.

    I am spraying down all my shopping and sanitizing everything before entry to house. All disinfected shopping is placed on countertop once complete and my hands fully washed before touching the disinfected item's again. Are we all doing enough to combat covid 19?

    See your point , though think it’s extreme disinfecting the shopping . Though yes what if some one handled the tin of beans , then put it back on shelf ?? Where do we stop over analyzing.

    I too realized today that I returned to car with gloves on , took out keys , opened boot put in the shop. Afterward realized need to take gloves off when you exit the supermarket if you’ve cleaned the trolley on entering. So I sprayed the handles cleaned keys etc but yet I handling change . I really don’t know the answer . We can only do our best


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