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

10000maniacs · 22-03-2020 02:51PM

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 02:51PM

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 02:51PM

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

KiKi III · 22-03-2020 02:51PM

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 02:52PM

[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 02:52PM

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 02:52PM

is_that_so wrote: »

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

With good reason.

KathleenGrant · 22-03-2020 02:52PM

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 02:52PM

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 02:52PM

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 02:53PM

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 02:53PM

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 02:53PM

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 02:53PM

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 02:54PM

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 02:54PM

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 02:55PM

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 02:55PM

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 02:55PM

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 02:55PM

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 02:56PM

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

blindsider · 22-03-2020 02:57PM

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.....

FVP3 · 22-03-2020 02:57PM

Gooey Looey wrote: »

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

Lets make sure then that we don't have limited ability to test in the future. And it has benefits, we need to be able to visit older people at some time.

Raconteuse · 22-03-2020 02:57PM

is_that_so wrote: »

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

Me looking after myself ain't enough.

And I agree with Cinema Guy - don't waste water.

And yeah he mentioned their nationality in passing to paint a picture - big swinging Mickey. More important things to be bothered about at this juncture. But some are too cool all together to be bothered by them.

CinemaGuy45 · 22-03-2020 02:58PM

blindsider wrote: »

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.....

I have Zero respect for those who use the R word as a weapon I just factually reported what is happening.

ChikiChiki · 22-03-2020 02:59PM

KiKi III wrote: »

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

Think about it... People are washing their hands more.

STB. · 22-03-2020 02:59PM

Aidan Rancid Shamrock wrote: »

Interesting statistic

We are warned of supposedly devastating death rates. But at least one expert, John Ioannidis, is not so sure. He is Professor of Medicine, of epidemiology and population health, of biomedical data science, and of statistics at Stanford University in California. He says the data are utterly unreliable because so many cases are going unrecorded.

He warns: ‘This evidence fiasco creates tremendous uncertainty about the risk of dying from Covid-19. Reported case fatality rates, like the official 3.4 per cent rate from the World Health Organisation, cause horror and are meaningless.’ In only one place – aboard the cruise ship Diamond Princess – has an entire closed community been available for study. And the death rate there – just one per cent – is distorted because so many of those aboard were elderly. The real rate, adjusted for a wide age range, could be as low as 0.05 per cent and as high as one per cent.

As Prof Ioannidis says: ‘That huge range markedly affects how severe the pandemic is and what should be done. A population-wide case fatality rate of 0.05 per cent is lower than seasonal influenza. If that is the true rate, locking down the world with potentially tremendous social and financial consequences may be totally irrational

See all that. Bullshít and a terrible economic argument . The Diamond Princess doesn't record people that were asymptomatic.

Want realtime stats ? Right now in San Donito, Italy 50% of those with COVID-19 who are accepted into intensive care units in Italy are dying, compared with a usual mortality rate of 12% to 16% in such units nationwide. READ

stephenjmcd · 22-03-2020 03:00PM

Coveney on radio 1 a short while ago basically calling out Paddy Cosgrave.

"Tánaiste Simon Coveney says Govt is actually working with China, contrary to reports saying otherwise, on acquiring equipment, test swabs and other resources."

fritzelly · 22-03-2020 03:00PM

Humberto Salazar wrote: »

Only imported ones. Fourth day in a row if you believe the figures. However it does look like they've definitely halted this phase. Still, China is a massive country, 80000 cases a mere drop in their ocean , again if you believe the official line.

Their description is ludicrous, imported doesn't mean foreigners and these could be people who left for a few days but are now no longer a Chinese infection

Cork Boy 53 · 22-03-2020 03:00PM

Raconteuse wrote: »

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?

Posters like the one you responded to should just be ignored and preferably reported to the mods.

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