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

speckle · 22-03-2020 01:47PM

jester77 wrote: »

My local supermarket is also doing that, but not so extreme. An extra 5€ for each additional pack of kitchen roll, toilet paper, etc with the money being donated to charity.

the only problem with this is...if you are for example shopping for more than one household because they are higher risk than yourself.

FVP3 · 22-03-2020 01:48PM

bekker wrote: »

Testing

IF 40,000 awaiting tests AND that number includes only those triaged by GP or in hospital or other medical environments, THEN we already have a major problem.

Assuming a 5% positive rate that's that will be 2,000 to be confirmed. If it turns out to be 0.5% that implies that the triaging in place is not being correctly implemented.

Please stop fixating on testing numbers, they are a self-selected group who have identified sufficient symptoms to ask a GP to triage them for a test.

In addition including asymptomatics, and mildish symptomers ~40% of those actually infected will never apply for a test.

All front-line staff approaching any category of person needs to be provided with the appropriate level of personal protection equipment for the level of risk anticipated. The basic level of risk that should be assumed is that all close contact with ANYONE is potentially infectious.

Surely the 40,000 is just people who apply for testing. Personally, as I have said before, the end game is to test everybody. If we could test for antibodies it would be even better, so that the previously infected -- even unknown to themselves - would get back to work.

KiKi III · 22-03-2020 01:49PM

CinemaGuy45 wrote: »

Living next door to a Chinese family outside for over an hour pressure washing their car and driveway apart from the noise they are wasting water a resource that is under pressure right now.

Really selfish bastards.

Since when is water a resource that's more under pressure than usual? Is this just more scaremongering?

FVP3 · 22-03-2020 01:49PM

CinemaGuy45 wrote: »

Living next door to a Chinese family outside for over an hour pressure washing their car and driveway apart from the noise they are wasting water a resource that is under pressure right now.

Really selfish bastards.

Is it?

This would be a good use of pay per use for water, if so.

Raconteuse · 22-03-2020 01:50PM

perrito caliente wrote: »

Some amount of zombies and gowls in these threads alright. Sheep is the word. You'd say some interesting behavioural research should come out of all of this, but we haven't learned anything we didn't know already. People don't think for themselves and are easily led, even into the butcher's yard.

Incredible. Why would a person be more bothered by efforts to stem the spread than the devastating virus itself? https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Why would they call following WHO guidelines "being sheep"?

Narcissism?

perrito caliente · 22-03-2020 01:50PM

CinemaGuy45 wrote: »

Living next door to a Chinese family outside for over an hour pressure washing their car and driveway apart from the noise they are wasting water a resource that is under pressure right now.

Really selfish bastards.

Give over you clown. Stay cooped up watching box sets peering out between the blinds all you like, but let others wash their car FFS.

CinemaGuy45 · 22-03-2020 01:50PM

KiKi III wrote: »

Since when is water a resource that's more under pressure than usual? Is this just more scaremongering?

It was announced by Irish water during the week when washing hands not to leave the tap running. Spraying a driveway is a waste of water.

is_that_so · 22-03-2020 01:50PM

STB. wrote: »

People going and doing their shopping like they do every Saturday. In LARGE Numbers. FULL car parks in small shopping centres on TOP of each other.

Do you understand the point now ?

Yep, I also understand you're in quite a snot about it! Get out in the sun, like normal people!;)

10000maniacs · 22-03-2020 01:51PM

KiKi III wrote: »

If you want to go above and beyond government guidelines, feel free to do so. Don't criticise people who are already adhering to every rule and being careful though.

I'm going to continue going for a walk every day alone for as long as it is allowed to do so. I don't stop to talk to anyone, I disinfect before and after.

If we went with the government guidelines of 30 days ago now, the Irish situation would become as bad as Italys. If we had self isolated from the start, we would be like Singapore now.

Gynoid · 22-03-2020 01:51PM

Ugh. If there is something I could wish about this thread it is that zero people would say things like...
Yeah, say that if your parents get it
Or
Hope that scum doing x y or z gets it
Or
Almost wouldn't care if that ignorant tosser got it
Or
If I could wish for one person to get it, it would be...etc
Etc etc.

It strikes me as really bad juju anytime people dispense that curse so casually.

ACitizenErased · 22-03-2020 01:51PM

Some good news.
https://twitter.com/williamsjon/status/1241720236807774211?s=21

KiKi III · 22-03-2020 01:51PM

CinemaGuy45 wrote: »

It was announced by Irish water during the week when washing hands not to leave the tap running. Spraying a driveway is a waste of water.

Seems like you're just pissed off that a Chinese family exists next to you. Making up reasons to be pissed off with them.

murpho999 · 22-03-2020 01:52PM

[URL="Coronanieuws 21 maart: drukte op het strand en bijna 800 Italiaanse doden https://nos.nl/l/2327903"]Dutch social distancing[/URL]

For those complaining about Ireland and how it’s being handled and social behaviour of the public. Have a look at the short video in the blog above.

Dutch cities packed yesterday and people on top of one another.

I think they have made a mess of it over there and it’s set to become the next Italy or Spain. 43 died yesterday.

I think people and society are taking it much more serious here.

Doctors room ghost · 22-03-2020 01:52PM

CinemaGuy45 wrote: »

Living next door to a Chinese family outside for over an hour pressure washing their car and driveway apart from the noise they are wasting water a resource that is under pressure right now.

Really selfish bastards.

They’re blessed to have a curtain twitcher for a neighbor.
Why the need to mention they are Chinese?
Has paddy Irishman stopped washing his car?

Raconteuse · 22-03-2020 01:52PM

is_that_so wrote: »

Yep, I also understand you're in quite a snot about it!

With good reason.

KathleenGrant · 22-03-2020 01:52PM

CinemaGuy45 wrote: »

Living next door to a Chinese family outside for over an hour pressure washing their car and driveway apart from the noise they are wasting water a resource that is under pressure right now.

Really selfish bastards.

What does it matter what nationality they are?

Gooey Looey · 22-03-2020 01:52PM

FVP3 wrote: »

Surely the 40,000 is just people who apply for testing. Personally, as I have said before, the end game is to test everybody. If we could test for antibodies it would be even better, so that the previously infected -- even unknown to themselves - would get back to work.

There is no point in testing everyone when you have limited ability to test. A negative test means nothing and is the waste of a test. You could test negative today and be infected tomorrow

mick987 · 22-03-2020 01:52PM

CinemaGuy45 wrote: »

Living next door to a Chinese family outside for over an hour pressure washing their car and driveway apart from the noise they are wasting water a resource that is under pressure right now.

Really selfish bastards.

What has their nationality got to do with anything?

CinemaGuy45 · 22-03-2020 01:53PM

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

They’re blessed to have a curtain twitcher for a neighbor.
Why the need to mention they are Chinese?
Has paddy Irishman stopped washing his car?

FFS:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

deisedevil · 22-03-2020 01:53PM

jamesf85 wrote: »

I also have elderly loved ones. But I would argue you're also a nasty piece of work. You're putting your ow interests above others.

What about the children that may have no home and a very bleak future after this.

There's two sides to this.

There's potential to turn that around in time. Can't bring back the dead.

BRYAN Is Ainm Dom · 22-03-2020 01:53PM

CinemaGuy45 wrote: »

Living next door to a Chinese family outside for over an hour pressure washing their car and driveway apart from the noise they are wasting water a resource that is under pressure right now.

Really selfish bastards.

What has there nationality to do with anything. Could you just not have said there is family next door to me doing xyz. But hey I am sure u are not a racist???

owlbethere · 22-03-2020 01:53PM

harr wrote: »

This fine weather is not helping things, pissing rain the last 6 months and we couldn’t do anything as soon as we are told to stay in the sun starts shining. Kids here starting to feel the isolation today. Should be out on bikes and playing a game of football.

The fine weather is an opportunity to put the washing machine on overtime. Getting a backlog of laundry washed and dry.

22-03-2020 01:54PM

Proper Equipment for medical profession. Of the total infected 25% of them are medical staff. They don't have the right protection gear.

.

Not doubting the need for proper equipment for those in healthcare. But we can't assume that all healthcare staff who are infected got it from patients. In Friday's update it said that there were 126 healthcare staff with the infection and of these 36 were associated with foreign travel. We don't know about the rest but it is likely that many were by community transmission, including from colleagues.

Also, healthcare staff interact lots with the public in all sorts of ways and so are vulnerable. They can't all be going around with full PPE. Unfortunately the public are also at risk from healthcare staff who may be carrying the virus asymtomatically.

Raconteuse · 22-03-2020 01:54PM

murpho999 wrote: »

[URL="Coronanieuws 21 maart: drukte op het strand en bijna 800 Italiaanse doden https://nos.nl/l/2327903"]Dutch social distancing[/URL]

For those complaining about Ireland and how it’s being handled and social behaviour of the public. Have a look at the short video in the blog above.

Dutch cities packed yesterday and people on top of one another.

I think they have made a mess of it over there and it’s set to become the next Italy or Spain. 43 died yesterday.

I think people and society are taking it much more serious here.

I think so too but unfortunately it only takes a minority of irresponsible selfish folk here, which there are.

Look at the unbelievable attitudes from some. More worried about following the guidelines vigilantly than the awful virus itself.

FVP3 · 22-03-2020 01:55PM

KiKi III wrote: »

If you want to go above and beyond government guidelines, feel free to do so. Don't criticise people who are already adhering to every rule and being careful though.

I'm going to continue going for a walk every day alone for as long as it is allowed to do so. I don't stop to talk to anyone, I disinfect before and after.

There's no risk there whatsoever. The virus isn't magical. Unless someone touched you, or coughed close to you, or you touched something that somebody infected touched or coughed on, there's no way you got the virus on your skin. And if you did touch something, washing on your hands would also work.

Before we totally shut down and lock the entire population of a democracy in their rooms, lets see what the fairly extreme measures we have taken so far will do.

is_that_so · 22-03-2020 01:55PM

Raconteuse wrote: »

With good reason.

You look after yourself and leave them to it. Much better approach both physically and mentally.

murpho999 · 22-03-2020 01:55PM

CinemaGuy45 wrote: »

Living next door to a Chinese family outside for over an hour pressure washing their car and driveway apart from the noise they are wasting water a resource that is under pressure right now.

Really selfish bastards.

Why mention their nationality?
Car washes still working in petrol stations.
Irish water not directing people to not wash cars.

I’d say less demands on water with so many businesses shut.

CinemaGuy45 · 22-03-2020 01:55PM

BRYAN Is Ainm Dom wrote: »

What has there nationality to do with anything. Could you just not have said there is family next door to me doing xyz. But hey I am sure u are not a racist???

Having ASD noise goes though me and they are Chinese everybody is stuck in.

stephenjmcd · 22-03-2020 01:56PM

https://twitter.com/WilliamsJon/status/1241720236807774211?s=19

blindsider · 22-03-2020 01:57PM

I suspect that water levels are not under pressure right now - although they may be later in the year. A lot of the mid-west is still under water.

Washing a car at home on a Sunday is a perfectly normal thing to do all over the world, and people will be cutting grass and hedges etc from now on...it's going to get 'noisy' as you put it.

As for their nationality, why on earth did you bring that into it. You just leave yourself open to be labelled a racist - which I'm sure you're not.....

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