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

alan partridge aha · 22-03-2020 02:11AM

statesaver wrote: »

Stopped watching Bill Maher after he said something like, 'what we need to get rid of Trump is a recession'. And the clowns in the audience clapped.
A fcuking multi millionaire wishing for a recession which would not effect him one bit.
That made me so mad.

Wancer of the highest order.

Speak Now · 22-03-2020 02:12AM

coolshannagh28 wrote: »

Philanthropy is not an Irish trait.

It is but doesn't cross county borders.

SharpshooterTom · 22-03-2020 02:12AM

Westernyelp wrote: »

You do realise that the US are only at the beginning of this process?

Virtually every country is outside China, Korea and Japan.

Cork Boy 53 · 22-03-2020 02:13AM

We should have established colonies on the Moon and Mars while we still had the chance. Looks like our time has run out.

FVP3 · 22-03-2020 02:13AM

ThomasFlynn wrote: »

Populations:

USA - 328 million
Germany - 83 million
France - 67 million
UK - 67 million
Italy - 61 million
Spain - 47 million

All things considered equal the US should top the list by some distance come July. It will be on the US to see if they can successfully flatten the curve. There are some skillful people working in that white house, Dr.Fauci and Deborah Birx. Theres also a 2 billion stimulus coming in next week.

Be great if Europe had the same support from you as you give America.

Woodsie1 · 22-03-2020 02:13AM

tikkahunter wrote: »

How many direct cases have turned up from that by the way ?

God knows...stupid idea letting tons of Italians over here to roam around when their country was being overrun with the virus.

Wolf359f · 22-03-2020 02:13AM

If ~4% of tests in Ireland are proving positive.... what are the other 96% suffering from?
Phantom symptoms?
In a way I'm glad the government didn't give more accurate locations of those infected, if I was close to them and I had a cough, I'd be looking to get tested.
Don't touch your face.... how many people here just want to touch their face?
Christ, I have a shower and rub my face, it's such a relief. Gone are the days masturbating in the shower and feeling bad!

bb12 · 22-03-2020 02:13AM

tom1ie wrote: »

Immunity/vaccine is much more preferable than trying to avoid this thing

vaccine: yes.

immunity? well there's lot of rails out there you can lick if you're a gambler...

V8 Interceptor · 22-03-2020 02:13AM

tikkahunter wrote: »

How many direct cases have turned up from that by the way ?

Turned up from what?

JP Liz V1 · 22-03-2020 02:14AM

skimpydoo wrote: »

Does anyone know if the RTE employee with Covid-19, is a reporter, a presenter or someone working behind the scenes?

:eek:

Tubs?

Claire Byrne was negative I think that was answered on here

sheepsh4gger · 22-03-2020 02:14AM

I wonder if the drug addicts are affected by the social distancing and closed borders. I bet the dealers can't get drugs into the country because China can't get them fentanyl now. Imagine all of them going desperate with lead pipes.

bekker · 22-03-2020 02:14AM

tom1ie wrote: »

Immunity/vaccine is much more preferable than trying to avoid this thing

Without a vaccine the only way to gain immunity is to live through an infection.

statesaver · 22-03-2020 02:14AM

Cork Boy 53 wrote: »

We should have established colonies on the Moon and Mars while we still had the chance. Looks like our time has run out.

Time for bed, love, nightie night

fritzelly · 22-03-2020 02:15AM

V8 Interceptor wrote: »

Someone's best reason they could give to me for having our borders wide open was because it would be too difficult to close them.

The USA is huge. Trump stopped all flights from Europe and other places and sealed seven and a half thousand miles of border with Canada & Mexico.

Yet apparently its "too difficult" for us to keep our piddly little island from being a petri dish for half the World.

Every night around this time you come out and peddle the same argument looking for a bite - Trump banned flights but still there are flights

22-03-2020 02:15AM

The saddest part of this whole thing is how some are still just using it to make retarded political points..from the 'fnck trump' crowd to the 'close the borders' crowd..it's really tragic..

Westernyelp · 22-03-2020 02:15AM

ThomasFlynn wrote: »

Virtually every country is outside China, Korea and Japan.

Yes. so what makes you think the US is doing well? numbers are staring to rocket over there. they did not take it seriously in time and their leader is nuttier than a squirrel sh!te.

Xertz · 22-03-2020 02:16AM

Wolf359f wrote: »

If ~4% of tests in Ireland are proving positive.... what are the other 96% suffering from?
Phantom symptoms?

Could be flu (still end of flu season albeit almost over), various colds, random upper respiratory infections (plenty of those), allergies ... or tests giving false negatives.

FVP3 · 22-03-2020 02:16AM

Cork Boy 53 wrote: »

We should have established colonies on the Moon and Mars while we still had the chance. Looks like our time has run out.

You are on a definite we are doomed trajectory tonight. Cork dry gin, is it? Can make the most solid of men maudlin.

I don't think even in the worst of the worst case scenarios which nobody wants ( 5%) that humanity is doomed. In fact the population would recover in a few years.

And it will be nothing like 5%. China was less than 0.1% if I recall.

rossie1977 · 22-03-2020 02:18AM

Westernyelp wrote: »

You do realise that the US are only at the beginning of this process?

Yeah it's weeks behind Italy. When Italy went into full lockdown the US had less than 50 confirmed cases.

nc6000 · 22-03-2020 02:18AM

ThomasFlynn wrote: »

All things considered equal the US should top the list by some distance come July. It will be on the US to see if they can successfully flatten the curve. There are some skillful people working in that white house, Dr.Fauci and Deborah Birx. Theres also a 2 billion stimulus coming in next week.

Keep going, CNN said 2 Trillion which is US $2,000,000,000,000

Quantum Erasure · 22-03-2020 02:18AM

Wolf359f wrote: »

If ~4% of tests in Ireland are proving positive.... what are the other 96% suffering from?
Phantom symptoms?

and yet there's people on here convinced half the country has it

V8 Interceptor · 22-03-2020 02:19AM

fritzelly wrote: »

Every night around this time you come out and peddle the same argument looking for a bite - Trump banned flights but still there are flights

No argument needs to be peddled. Its the most translucent fu*k up by our Government since they took office. The fact that I come on here every night and only see a very occasional poster mention it beggars belief to be honest.

The whole Forum, indeed Country, should've been in uproar for the past month and more.

tom1ie · 22-03-2020 02:19AM

bb12 wrote: »

vaccine: yes.

immunity? well there's lot of rails out there you can lick if you're a gambler...

Vaccine gives you immunity........?!!

fritzelly · 22-03-2020 02:19AM

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

:eek:

Tubs?

Claire Byrne was negative I think that was answered on here

Miriam O'Callaghan had a cough the other night - not even the sense to cough into her elbow on a program about coronavirus

tom1ie · 22-03-2020 02:20AM

bekker wrote: »

Without a vaccine the only way to gain immunity is to live through an infection.

Yes. Exactly.

cloudatlas · 22-03-2020 02:21AM

I’ve gotta admit I still don’t understand the social distancing when outside in the open air. I go for walks with two family members, we are all self isolating. We step off the path when someone is coming turn away as if to admire the view and hold our breath momentarily. Is this going too far? I see folks are still posting annoyed messages about people meeting in the park. Surely the wind, outdoors would make it difficult for the virus to survive. We’re not close to anyone.

niallo27 · 22-03-2020 02:21AM

Speak Now wrote: »

If thousands have had it and recovered then our mortality rate is unbelievably low.

Yes yes yes a thousand times yes. Let's hope this is the case.

V8 Interceptor · 22-03-2020 02:21AM

fritzelly wrote: »

Miriam O'Callaghan had a cough the other night - not even the sense to cough into her elbow on a program about coronavirus

Even worse, she didn't even have the sense to ask the experts why our borders are still wide open during a pandemic.

Westernyelp · 22-03-2020 02:21AM

fritzelly wrote: »

Miriam O'Callaghan had a cough the other night - not even the sense to cough into her elbow on a program about coronavirus

It's got to be Bowers. from all those cog notes he gets handed before his reports

Xertz · 22-03-2020 02:21AM

The tragedy here is *nobody* seems to have seen the seriousness of this until it was too late:

1. China - initially saw it as a doctor trying to cause 'trouble' and had him arrested and harassed. He was right and is now dead and the outbreak happened.
2. European countries all seemed to think this was something that could only happen in 'far away lands' and that it was impossible in Europe due to our advanced medical care and so on... Italy gets wiped out.
3. USA takes more or less the same attitude and has exceptionalist notions. I saw some guy on CNN wandering off into how outcome in the US would be better and almost implying that the Italian healthcare system, which is extremely high tech and well resourced, was somehow massively different to the American one.

Everyone step by step failed to realise how serious this was and didn't react quickly enough.

There's a whole lot of could have, should have and hindsight. The reality is none of us, not China, not the EU, not the US were prepared for a pandemic.

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