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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: 2,969 ✭✭✭Assetbacked


    pjohnson wrote: »
    Cheltenham was like a fùcking concert not a workplace. Hygiene out the window. Or does your workplace feature pints and large crowds pushing around?

    How do you marry after work pints in packed pubs, packed tubes with commuters, other horse racing events etc with that view of Cheltenham as being mecca for covid19 spreading?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,593 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    Nermal wrote: »
    https://medium.com/wintoncentre/how-much-normal-risk-does-covid-represent-4539118e1196

    I will keep posting the sane, balanced articles I find here.

    They get lost amid panic responses asking for further lockdowns, closed borders and mentioning 10% fatality rates.

    Not to mention stories of deranged OCD types insulting our youth who have the temerity to be outside.

    Oooh another edgy type!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,061 ✭✭✭otnomart


    Summer2020 wrote: »
    Even if 30,000 of those are positive tests it doesn’t really matter where it counts - the ICU and hospitals. The numbers hospitalised is what matters.
    Absolutely.
    This is why Countries can plan their hospital requirements - based on the numbers published by the Countries that were hit first.


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,566 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    I was down there yesterday but I went at first sunlight was leaving and all by 5 past 9 and there was barley a sole in the place at that stage, when I arrived I was the only one there and done a 2and a half hour walk and didn't pass a single person,

    Sole is a saltwater fish, so wouldn't be able to survive in Glendalough


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    cosanostra wrote: »
    So the new test sites havnt come on board yet
    19 now I believe but they did say it would take a little longer for all 32 to be up and running.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    Nermal wrote: »
    https://medium.com/wintoncentre/how-much-normal-risk-does-covid-represent-4539118e1196

    I will keep posting the sane, balanced articles I find here.

    They get lost amid panic responses asking for further lockdowns, closed borders and mentioning 10% fatality rates.

    Not to mention stories of deranged OCD types insulting our youth who have the temerity to be outside.
    Standing close to each other. Not being outside.

    Why is this so hard to accept? :confused:

    It's the deranged ones who are rejecting social distancing/self isolation pleas. More interested in going on about how it's government repression etc.

    Also, don't post articles that are just opinions, please. They're all as skewed as each other, in whatever direction the writer prefers/you prefer.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,783 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    Sole is a saltwater fish, so wouldn't be able to survive in Glendalough

    Maybe they were making poetic reference to the feet of walkers:P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 196 ✭✭Corkgirl20


    Anybody know if there’s word on school returns dates yet. I know we were told Monday March 30th. But surely that will be extended a week meaning that it will run into the 2 week off the kids will have anyway for Easter.
    I fear if schools open parents will think sure they’re on top of other kids in school everyday anyway may as well go ahead with that birthday party/play date etc.

    I know in my classroom I wouldn’t have enough desks or space to separate children and in the yard it’s impossible to keep them off of each other.
    Also a lot of my kids come to school with a sniffle, I’d probably have to send every kid with a sniffle home because the symptoms of the virus for kids can be mild.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,809 ✭✭✭sonofenoch


    Former Real Madrid president Lorenzo Sanz has died of Corona virus


    I'm beginning to think there's something in the Latin gene pool, the death rate in Italy and Spain just doesn't stack up against most of the rest of the world, even the Chinese weren't hit like this were the case must have been in the 100's of 1000's


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,579 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    Discodog wrote: »
    I thought that the Gardai have been given additional powers ?

    Yes but not to fine people.
    They'll break up groups congregating together and anyone not adhering to the mass gathering bans


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,593 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    Corkgirl20 wrote: »
    Anybody know if there’s word on school returns dates yet. I know we were told Monday March 30th. But surely that will be extended a week meaning that it will run into the 2 week off the kids will have anyway for Easter.
    I fear if schools open parents will think sure they’re on top of other kids in school everyday anyway may as well go ahead with that birthday party/play date etc.

    I know in my classroom I wouldn’t have enough desks or space to separate children and in the yard it’s impossible to keep them off of each other.
    Also a lot of my kids come to school with a sniffle, I’d probably have to send every kid with a sniffle home because the symptoms of the virus for kids can be mild.
    Extended a week?
    Try a month at least.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,783 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    Corkgirl20 wrote: »
    Anybody know if there’s word on school returns dates yet. I know we were told Monday March 30th. But surely that will be extended a week meaning that it will run into the 2 week off the kids will have anyway for Easter.
    I fear if schools open parents will think sure they’re on top of other kids in school everyday anyway may as well go ahead with that birthday party/play date etc.

    I know in my classroom I wouldn’t have enough desks or space to separate children and in the yard it’s impossible to keep them off of each other.
    Also a lot of my kids come to school with a sniffle, I’d probably have to send every kid with a sniffle home because the symptoms of the virus for kids can be mild.

    I would say very unlikely to happen this school year


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


    pjohnson wrote: »
    Oooh another edgy type!

    Best ignored really.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,117 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    Yes but not to fine people.
    They'll break up groups congregating together and anyone not adhering to the mass gathering bans

    So they should do that & avoid open spaces being closed to the majority of responsible people.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,373 ✭✭✭Phoebas


    Corkgirl20 wrote: »
    Anybody know if there’s word on school returns dates yet.

    Nobody knows yet; my own assumption is that schools won't reopen until after the summer holidays.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 867 ✭✭✭voluntary


    UK is sooooo f**.d

    brLcb3d.png


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 912 ✭✭✭bekker


    This caretaker government seems to be mainly made up of individuals with little, or no commercial, let alone competitive commercial experience to inform their light-touch, laissez-faire, free market ideology. Apparently never heard of 'competitive advantage'.

    Just back from shopping in a number of supermarkets. Different hours for over 60s in different supermarkets, different implementation of queuing markers from very good to token nod, different implementations within the same chain.

    Government needs to issue a mandatory instruction for all supermarkets to implement a standard time slot for over 60/65s (9-11 should avoid impeding those on way to work), and minimum queue and till spacing.

    Left to themselves some supermarket chains and individual managers will seek competitive advantage to improve their figures. All normal, natural, and to be expected reactions. All should have been anticipated in contingency plan, if one even existed.

    A government directive, a few spot checks, and mandatory closure orders would do the trick.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 396 ✭✭Jin luk


    mick987 wrote: »
    There is some lung damage to people who have had the virus, but they don' know if it is permanent or not ( it might heel over time )

    Its called the honeycomb effect it punches holes in the lungs so even if it did seal back up you now have weak spots on youre lungs look it up if u dont want to take my word,

    Thats why its so important we defeat this before any more waves come


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    fr336 wrote: »
    I'm grateful every morning I wake up feeling fine at the moment...dull normality is very underrated and can't wait to have it back...

    I want my boring life back with no worries. I hate waking up every day thinking will I catch it today or not. I'm limiting the amount of people I see but I read of a story where a guy worked from home, went out once in 10 days to meet a friend and caught it. It seems it's so easy to catch it. It's not easy with people who don't understand the concept of distancing


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    sonofenoch wrote: »
    Former Real Madrid president Lorenzo Sanz has died of Corona virus


    I'm beginning to think there's something in the Latin gene pool, the death rate in Italy and Spain just doesn't stack up against most of the rest of the world, even the Chinese weren't hit like this were the case must have been in the 100's of 1000's
    Very touchy feely cultures, mad levels of smoking, many people live with their parents until their 30s or 40s (just ideas that have been suggested).


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,497 ✭✭✭coolshannagh28


    People out there are seeing a fall in numbers and thinking things are fine. Just got off the phone with by dad it's the first thing he said

    It is inevitable that we will be hit like Italy and we should be on lockdown .


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


    pjohnson wrote: »
    Extended a week?
    Try a month at least.

    Schools and colleges will not reopen until Aug/Sep at the earliest.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,593 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    voluntary wrote: »
    UK is sooooo f**.d

    brLcb3d.png

    Some dolts would call them "legends"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,569 ✭✭✭blackcard


    Spain up to over 1700 deaths, an increase of 344 in one day


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    Phoebas wrote: »
    Nobody knows yet; my own assumption is that schools won't reopen until after the summer holidays.

    That's if we beat this.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    sonofenoch wrote: »
    Former Real Madrid president Lorenzo Sanz has died of Corona virus


    I'm beginning to think there's something in the Latin gene pool, the death rate in Italy and Spain just doesn't stack up against most of the rest of the world, even the Chinese weren't hit like this were the case must have been in the 100's of 1000's
    Was chatting to a couple of Brazilians yesterday and it's the stress of not being able to touch that's getting to them! Living life out on the street in cafes, bars and restaurants is what has caused a lot of the issues as well as a casual dismissal of government announcements.


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


    otnomart wrote: »
    Sadly, there is a lot of the following going on in many people's heads right now.


    "It won't happen to us because:
    -we are have a younger population

    -we have a heathier population
    -we have a lower population density
    -we flee the nest and don't live with our elders

    -we respect the rules "


    Actually these are all valid arguments but they are absolutely no excuse whatsoever for anyone taking the decision to risk someone else's life.


    We need to prepare for the worst and hope for the best.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,373 ✭✭✭Phoebas


    It is inevitable that we will be hit like Italy and we should be on lockdown .

    That is NOT inevitable.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,522 ✭✭✭kingshankly


    Phoebas wrote: »
    Nobody knows yet; my own assumption is that schools won't reopen until after the summer holidays.

    I would say opening in September would be best case scenario


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  • Site Banned Posts: 12,341 ✭✭✭✭Faugheen


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    Standing close to each other. Not being outside.

    Why is this so hard to accept? :confused:

    It's the deranged ones who are rejecting social distancing/self isolation pleas. More interested in going on about how it's government repression etc.

    Also, don't post articles that are just opinions, please. They're all as skewed as each other, in whatever direction the writer prefers/you prefer.

    As I’ve said before, it’s morons who don’t like being told what to do.

    Entitled children. Although even most entitled children understand what’s going on.


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