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

We got a text from work last night informing us that our boss has tested positive for Covid-19 and is currently in hospital. Contact tracing has said only certain members of the office now need to isolate for a week, as they were most likely to have had longer interactions of 15 minutes or more with him.

It's a smallish open office and social distancing wasn't observed until last week. Everyone in the office would have been in contact with him and all the surfaces he touched, yet we are being told we do not need to be tested.

I am working from home since today, was in the office every day up until now. I am so worried and confused as to why the rest of us are deemed lower risk of having been infected. I have been in contact with my grandson since last week, who has severe asthma. Not showing symptoms, but am aware not everyone shows symptoms and even if they do contract the virus, it can take up to two weeks for symptoms to appear.

Should I trust the HSE and their contact tracing rules and just continue to work from home, or should I be pushing for a test? I've been so worried all day...

dark crystal wrote: »

We got a text from work last night informing us that our boss has tested positive for Covid-19 and is currently in hospital. Contact tracing has said only certain members of the office now need to isolate for a week, as they were most likely to have had longer interactions of 15 minutes or more with him.

It's a smallish open office and social distancing wasn't observed until last week. Everyone in the office would have been in contact with him and all the surfaces he touched, yet we are being told we do not need to be tested.

I am working from home since today, was in the office every day up until now. I am so worried and confused as to why the rest of us are deemed lower risk of having been infected. I have been in contact with my grandson since last week, who has severe asthma. Not showing symptoms, but am aware not everyone shows symptoms and even if they do contract the virus, it can take up to two weeks for symptoms to appear.

Should I trust the HSE and their contact tracing rules and just continue to work from home, or should I be pushing for a test? I've been so worried all day...

I'd trust your instinct and ask GP for a test. You'll feel better and you have every right

dark crystal wrote: »

We got a text from work last night informing us that our boss has tested positive for Covid-19 and is currently in hospital. Contact tracing has said only certain members of the office now need to isolate for a week, as they were most likely to have had longer interactions of 15 minutes or more with him.

It's a smallish open office and social distancing wasn't observed until last week. Everyone in the office would have been in contact with him and all the surfaces he touched, yet we are being told we do not need to be tested.

I am working from home since today, was in the office every day up until now. I am so worried and confused as to why the rest of us are deemed lower risk of having been infected. I have been in contact with my grandson since last week, who has severe asthma. Not showing symptoms, but am aware not everyone shows symptoms and even if they do contract the virus, it can take up to two weeks for symptoms to appear.

Should I trust the HSE and their contact tracing rules and just continue to work from home, or should I be pushing for a test? I've been so worried all day...

Ask for the test.

The only problem is you've a helluva wait to get any result.

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Bicycle shops count twice for some reason.

Boris Bikes.

Strumms wrote: »

FG throughout their history have been beholden to big business or any business. They wanted money to keep rolling into the country and they don’t want businesses to suffer or miss out. They are a money party. That’s their first priority. They would probably rather see no recession and moderate numbers of ill and dead where the rest of us would rather us, our relatives and friends come out the other side, well and intact with maybe a recession to face and a difficult couple of years, that’s the difference.

I really wish people would stop with this political agenda stuff.

The government is doing it's best and shut businesses down 2 weeks ago before a lot of other countries in a similar situation did and they know they've caused a recession.
So therefore totally disproving your theory.

This is a national emergency and public health issue now, it's not political anymore.

dark crystal wrote: »

We got a text from work last night informing us that our boss has tested positive for Covid-19 and is currently in hospital. Contact tracing has said only certain members of the office now need to isolate for a week, as they were most likely to have had longer interactions of 15 minutes or more with him.

It's a smallish open office and social distancing wasn't observed until last week. Everyone in the office would have been in contact with him and all the surfaces he touched, yet we are being told we do not need to be tested.

I am working from home since today, was in the office every day up until now. I am so worried and confused as to why the rest of us are deemed lower risk of having been infected. I have been in contact with my grandson since last week, who has severe asthma. Not showing symptoms, but am aware not everyone shows symptoms and even if they do contract the virus, it can take up to two weeks for symptoms to appear.

Should I trust the HSE and their contact tracing rules and just continue to work from home, or should I be pushing for a test? I've been so worried all day...

talk to your GP over the phone tommorow. take care.

Harry Palmr wrote: »

A so called lock down will need to be backed up with details obviously. The bins will still be emptied, the roads will still be tarmacked and so on.

Tell that to Greyhound - they can barely bother to empty bins on a normal week

YFlyer wrote: »

Will she work and live at home? Can't expect the student nurses to ho elsewhere in the country.

Some will work 12 hours a day without pay.

Free accommodation in Galway - most normal students gone home so she can stay with one of her classmates in a half-empty house. She's only half an hour from home anyhow.

woohoo!!! wrote: »

Locking down or quarantine of anyone coming in, plus stringent domestic testing, isolation and overwhelming social adherence is effective. Banning flights but doing little to deal with cases already there is ineffective as we've seen.

Lessons learned will hopefully see a major boost in WHO funding and research and a both continental and national protocol firmly established to deal with the next one, based on best public health advice and not political/social media whims.

I agree with your first paragraph. However I don't have much faith with WHO after this crisis. WHO has became to political. Taiwan, which is not a member of WHO, because of China's refusal of its entry, actually is one of the best prepared country for the crisis.


This is what Taiwanese Government say

https://www.ft.com/content/2a70a02a-644a-11ea-a6cd-df28cc3c6a68

fritzelly wrote: »

Tell that to Greyhound - they can barely bother to empty bins on a normal week

Never had a problem with them ever. Services like this need carry on and be supported.

Strumms wrote: »

FG throughout their history have been beholden to big business or any business. They wanted money to keep rolling into the country and they don’t want businesses to suffer or miss out. They are a money party. That’s their first priority. They would probably rather see no recession and moderate numbers of ill and dead where the rest of us would rather us, our relatives and friends come out the other side, well and intact with maybe a recession to face and a difficult couple of years, that’s the difference.

That has a lot to do with it. They had 10 years to take on vested interests in housing, insurance and healthcare. They didn't want to stop flights recently because Aer Lingus and Ryanair's business might suffer.

tobefrank321 wrote: »

That has a lot to do with it. They had 10 years to take on vested interests in housing, insurance and healthcare. They didn't want to stop flights recently because Aer Lingus and Ryanair's business might suffer.

Would people piss of with this stopping flights would have stopped it arriving here

It wouldn't period - you would need to completely isolate yourself from the world, block the border with the North, stop all imports, block all outgoing exports (no one is going to trade if you don't allow it reciprocally), stopping any citizens returning - if not stopping then isolating them and that doesn't mean saying stay at home for 2 weeks and so on and so on

All we can do is manage the situation and keep the new infections low and give the HSE time to keep the critical ones alive

Martina1991 wrote: »

Outbreaks happen every so often.
The Ebola virus outbreak sticks in my mind as it was recent enough.

I remember all the plans that were put in place for the Ebola virus at work.
PPE, isolation rooms, SOPs, how would we process patient samples. The virus was transmitted through fluids so opening blood samples on a tracked analyser would require decontaminating our whole system for each sample.
Thankfully that outbreak didnt hit us hard, but we still had to prepare.

Imagine if we had set up testing centres and developed expensive testing kits and closed all borders at the time. We would cripple the economy every time there was an outbreak.

That would have been wildly excessive and a waste of time and resources. We didnt set up testing centres for zika either, or swine flu or any other outbreak .
So why should we have acted sooner for this outbreak?

We have specialists and experts in positions of power to plan accordingly to any national threat.

Epidemiologists, scientists, economists, the department of health, the HSE. Its their job to act appropriately when we have to.

Your comments come from a place of hindsight. Why didn't we see it coming?
No one saw this coming.

If you look back over my posting history very little I've said came from hindsight. I could see our early covid cases would come from northern italy because of direct flights there which turned out to be true. I can see huge spikes coming from people who have flown in from London. Social isolation has been a failure as it only takes 10% of idiots to undermine the whole thing. Because of these failures at containment we were always going to have to test thousands of people down the line. It has all followed a very predictable course.

kowloon wrote: »

Two mentions for bicycle shops, they must be really important.

josip wrote: »

Not that important, some of them will close for the 3 weeks.

Actually very important as an alternative to public transport...

Phone repair and pc repair. Essential? Non-Essential?