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CoVid19 Part X - 1,564 cases ROI (9 deaths) 209 in NI (7 deaths) (25 March) *Read OP*

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,086 ✭✭✭Nijmegen


    owlbethere wrote: »
    It's beyond me how they are not doing the online grocery shopping. They had years to catch up with Tesco.

    It's actually a positive if you want to physically go to a shop, as Tesco etc are either struggling to keep the shelves full or have online deliveries with loads of items missing according to folks I've been chatting to. You know everything on the shelf in Dunnes is there for a physical shopper when you go. There's a place for both.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,220 ✭✭✭cameramonkey


    Travellers doing traveller things. Scum.


    Knowing and being in the company of many travellers over the years I think this outbreak may hit them very hard. Many travellers socialize in a different way to settled people. They have large family groups that live together and frequent each others house on an everyday basis. They also I would say have more underlying health problems than the settled world, lots of obesity, heart problems and chest issues. If this gets into one or two extended families it will be devastating.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭ArchXStanton


    Hopefully Italy with Russian and Chinese help can turn things around against this virus, both have experience in dealing with these type disasters


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,096 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    ...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,245 ✭✭✭lawrencesummers


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    Big deal if horse racing is still going ahead. Look around you most people are still at work.

    I looked around, none of us are at work.
    I looked around the estate, every house has its cars in the drive.

    “Most” people are certainly not at work.
    A considerable portion are out of work.
    A considerable portion are working from home.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,096 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Hopefully Italy with Russian and Chinese help can turn things around against this virus, both have experience in dealing with these type disasters

    Both are lying about the cases in their own countries.

    Sanctions should be brought against Russia and China.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    I think SuperValu has been best, straight away took necessary precautions

    Dunnes Stores is good now too

    Our local SuperValu has been fantastic but as they operate differently (most are franchised) I wonder if standards vary from store to store?
    It's in a stores best interest to do everything they can to keep the customers coming back.
    After seeing Aldi very poor attempt today I won't be rushing back there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭c.p.w.g.w


    Hopefully Italy with Russian and Chinese help can turn things around against this virus, both have experience in dealing with these type disasters

    Very Hard to turn it around with all the deaths they've had, hopefully stem the tide and get a handle on it is the best Italy can hope for i'm afraid


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,220 ✭✭✭cameramonkey


    niallo27 wrote: »
    You honestly found that moving, it screams attention seeking for me. The videos from Italy were moving not some self absorbed attention seeker.


    His mother was on Joe Duffy today. Himself and his mother went to the UK last week and attended a party.He has only himself to blame, he is a good example of a dumb asshole.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭bennyineire


    Are we not in near full lock down any way at this stage, more and more things are been shutdown. Over the last few days national parks are close, playgrounds.

    Fastfood chains closing down. More and more buissiness directing people to work from home.

    By the end of the week we will be at near full lockdown. What else will we need to do ?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,245 ✭✭✭lawrencesummers


    Knowing and being in the company of many travellers over the years I think this outbreak may hit them very hard. Many travellers socialize in a different way to settled people. They have large family groups that live together and frequent each others house on an everyday basis. They also I would say have more underlying health problems than the settled world, lots of obesity, heart problems and chest issues. If this gets into one or two extended families it will be devastating.

    As someone who knows travellers do you think they will read the information and adhere to the washing of hands?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭ArchXStanton


    Both are lying about the cases in their own countries.

    Sanctions should be brought against Russia and China.

    Maybe so, but at least they have feet on the ground unlike the EU who sat on its overpaid hole


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


    Paul Kehoe was on South East Radio earlier asking people who left Dublin etc and headed to their mobile homes in Wexford to go home. It's bad enough being stuck in a house but in a mobile home? Not thanks. How will they control social distancing when the parks are full of kids?


    Not learning from the mistakes in Italy and France (where people moved from Milan and Paris to their holiday homes and home towns)


    Again, this is what a lot of people are thinking:
    "It won't happen to us because:
    -we 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 "


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,220 ✭✭✭cameramonkey


    Both are lying about the cases in their own countries.

    Sanctions should be brought against Russia and China.


    What about Germany?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,867 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    Are we not in near full lock down any way at this stage, more and more things are been shutdown. Over the last few days national parks are close, playgrounds.

    Fastfood chains closing down. More and more buissiness directing people to work from home.

    By the end of the week we will be at near full lockdown. What else will we need to do ?

    I'm more or less in lockdown for the past week.

    I'm lucky enough to be able to work from home. I go out to the shop only when absolutely necessary, not to get a coffee, but to get the weekly essentials or to go to the chemist.

    I go to my Mother's house and bring in the coal and briquettes etc. for her, all while she stays miles away from me as I'm passing through.

    And that's it, I go nowhere else unless absolutely necessary.

    That's what a lockdown is.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,222 ✭✭✭Valhallapt


    We don’t want an Italy style lockdown. If we shutdown all non essential shops / offices / etc we now we will have very restricted freedom still allowed out to go for a walk or pick up a click and collect. But if people continue to queue half a mile for a bag of chips, we’re going to end up imprisioned in our houses.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,078 ✭✭✭endainoz


    Glebee wrote: »
    This is going on in every town in Ireland. A back door opens. Anybody who says different is dilusional.

    No it isn't. Not in my village anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,348 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    What about Germany?

    Oh FFS. :rolleyes:

    The only thing that spreads quicker than the Corona virus is bullshit on the internet it seems.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,068 ✭✭✭Widdensushi


    otnomart wrote: »
    Not learning from the mistakes in Italy and France (where people moved from Milan and Paris to their holiday homes and home towns)


    Again, this is what a lot of people are thinking:
    "It won't happen to us because:
    -we 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 "

    what about all the holiday homes that are full in donegal, from northern Ireland


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    His mother was on Joe Duffy today. Himself and his mother went to the UK last week and attended a party.He has only himself to blame, he is a good example of a dumb asshole.

    But he followed the guidelines? The airports were open. Ryanair was flying. Not his fault.......

    From what I've read you shouldn't question the guidelines. At least he is trying to raise awareness.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,806 ✭✭✭An Ciarraioch




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,527 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    Are we not in near full lock down any way at this stage, more and more things are been shutdown. Over the last few days national parks are close, playgrounds.

    Fastfood chains closing down. More and more buissiness directing people to work from home.

    By the end of the week we will be at near full lockdown. What else will we need to do ?

    No next step is everything closed but grocery stores and pharmacies. Not allowed leave home without some kind of government form for essential trip to say supermarket. Army and gardai patrolling streets 24/7.

    They next step after that is nobody allowed out of their homes under any circumstances. Food will be brought to you. Anyone disobeying rules are physically locked in homes


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 399 ✭✭BigMo1


    Claire Byrne tested positive.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    What about Germany?

    Well they are part of the good guys now. They used to be one of the bad guys. Now they are on the good team. China and Russia are different. They are the bad guys, they used to be the good guys but not any more. It's hard to keep up I know.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,371 ✭✭✭✭bilston


    Number of hospitalised cases in Lombardy has dropped, this would explain the drop in deaths as the most critical are getting better treatment now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,424 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    20 new cases in NI

    NI's numbers are very encouraging, they seem on a par with the Republic, especially with deaths


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,957 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    I looked around, none of us are at work.
    I looked around the estate, every house has its cars in the drive.

    “Most” people are certainly not at work.
    A considerable portion are out of work.
    A considerable portion are working from home.

    The world is bigger than your estate.
    Most people are at work.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,011 ✭✭✭BLIZZARD7


    Strazdas wrote: »
    NI's numbers are very encouraging, they seem on a par with the Republic, especially with deaths

    They are only testing hospitalized cases...


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


    Tony EH wrote: »
    Oh FFS. :rolleyes:

    The only thing that spreads quicker than the Corona virus is bullshit on the internet it seems.

    Is germany and thailand not reporting high numbers of pneumonia since this started though?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,220 ✭✭✭cameramonkey


    Tony EH wrote: »
    Oh FFS. :rolleyes:

    The only thing that spreads quicker than the Corona virus is bullshit on the internet it seems.


    Logic is a better tool than insults.


    It seems that WHO approved data from China in not accepted by some but they can believe the unbelievable low death rate figures from Germany.


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