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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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  • #9692
    FVP3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭FVP3


    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.


  • #9693
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    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.


  • #9694
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    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.


  • #9695
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    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.


  • #9696
    STB.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,380 ✭✭✭STB.


    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


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  • #9697
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,579 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    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."


  • #9698
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 18,748 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    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


  • #9699
    Cork Boy 53
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    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.


  • #9700
    jackboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,259 ✭✭✭jackboy


    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    I have Zero respect for those who use the R word as a weapon I just factually reported what is happening.

    It might be better to just edit your post to remove reference to ‘Chinese’. It distracts from your point.


  • #9701
    mick987
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 141 ✭✭mick987


    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    I have Zero respect for those who use the R word as a weapon I just factually reported what is happening.
    I have Zero respect for a closet raciest


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  • #9702
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,193 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    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.

    Its not as if its actually airborne though, you can still go for walks or a cycle in the the country, just bring viral wet wipes, don't touch things and don't touch your face and keep a good distance from other people and you will be grand. Wash your hands when you get back home and gargle some water and spit it out. I feel sorry for the homeless people, who'd be pretty fecked in this situation.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #9703
    Strazdas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,430 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


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

    That's very good news : the risk of the health service being swamped would come from widespread transmission across the public


  • #9704
    circadian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,031 ✭✭✭circadian


    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    I have Zero respect for those who use the R word as a weapon I just factually reported what is happening.

    Nationality has nothing to do with what was going on. I power washed my drive and paths yesterday because they were all gunk and slippery after winter. Hardly something to be outraged about, water is not being restricted right now.


  • #9705
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 78,513 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Lockdown!


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