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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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  • #4502
    Doctors room ghost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,839 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    is_that_so wrote: »
    A message to all
    https://twitter.com/the_psyentist/status/1242357405519876096



    3/10.
    1 for content,2 for the fox


  • #4503
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    is_that_so wrote: »
    A message to all
    https://twitter.com/the_psyentist/status/1242357405519876096

    A friend posted this on Facebook. Don't agree at all with the bit on the left.

    We have to confront people that are not taking it seriously. Social pressure needs to be applied. The passive route won't work here, we are at war with the virus.


  • #4504
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    Hamsterchops wrote: »
    Well done with your calculations, it does indeed make you wonder why so many people 'posting here' criticise Boris & the UK so harshly in their approach to this unprecedented crisis.

    You do realise they are only testing people hospitalised in the UK?

    These figures are meaningless in this context.

    Inform yourself more before posting horse manure commentary please.


  • #4505
    Jim Gazebo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,363 ✭✭✭Jim Gazebo


    To the self appointed experts everywhere saying lockdown. Stop. Our people will make the decision when they need to. 99% of people are now in pretty much lockdown. People are going to be depressed into oblivion with all this talk. I was on the phone to my parents last night and they were so upset at the idea of further measures on lockdown, they are already isolating but enjoy a short walk or two everyday to stay sane.

    I know it won't happen but for everyones mental state can those championing lockdown stop and wait to be told. It's crazy.


  • #4506
    Blueshoe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    amadangomor wrote: »
    There's a reason he is calling it the Chinese virus.

    Will blame the Chinese when trying to deflect from how he sat on his hands for weeks when action was needed.

    China blamed US military for the virus. (Media reported)
    China tried to surpress news about the virus (media reported)
    China imprisoned a doctor who tried to warn about the virus (media reported)

    You just made up your version. Trump is an idiot but China is not your friend.


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  • #4507
    Sweet.Science
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭Sweet.Science


    Hamsterchops wrote: »
    Well done with your calculations, it does indeed make you wonder why so many people 'posting here' criticise Boris & the UK so harshly in their approach to this unprecedented crisis.

    The numbers testing positive isnt a good thing to compare countries with at all. The numbers hospitalized, the amount in ICU and the number of deaths are the only things that matter.


  • #4508
    Blueshoe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    Jim Gazebo wrote: »
    To the self appointed experts everywhere saying lockdown. Stop. Our people will make the decision when they need to. 99% of people are now in pretty much lockdown. People are going to be depressed into oblivion with all this talk. I was on the phone to my parents last night and they were so upset at the idea of further measures on lockdown, they are already isolating but enjoy a short walk or two everyday to stay sane.

    I know it won't happen but for everyones mental state can those championing lockdown stop and wait to be told. It's crazy.

    Lockdown is inevitable.


  • #4509
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,917 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Quote: Monkeynut
    Phone repair and pc repair. Essential? Non-Essential? People need to work from home
    fritzelly wrote: »
    Call out service - no need for shop

    Same potential result as having a store open, you have someone visiting different houses, rather than the people visiting the shop.

    Also if you only have a mobile and the sim or another component dies, how do you contact a service to have someone come to your home to repair/replace it?

    Your hardly going to drop round to the neighbors to use their phone or ask them to make a call for you.


  • #4510
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,240 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    amadangomor wrote: »
    A friend posted this on Facebook. Don't agree at all with the bit on the left.

    We have to confront people that are not taking it seriously. Social pressure needs to be applied. The passive route won't work here, we are at war with the virus.

    Problem is people don't give a Fu*k as it is. That'll only intensify given everything lately.


  • #4511
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    amadangomor wrote: »
    A friend posted this on Facebook. Don't agree at all with the bit on the left.

    We have to confront people that are not taking it seriously. Social pressure needs to be applied. The passive route won't work here, we are at war with the virus.
    If you fancy getting into A&E for other reasons have at it! I'll take distance from idiots every single time.


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  • #4512
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,251 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    That crossed my mind!

    Look at every election they have over there, massive long queues at the polls, it would be madness to hold traditional elections there unless this whole thing somehow blows over. They may try to go to 100% postal voting but Their system is not ready for that as and they don’t have enough time to administer such a system before November, and those votes would still need to be counted manually...

    Or they might try some kind of online voting which would be a constitutional crisis and the loser would fight the results in court (likely leading to the loaded Supreme Court declaring the republicans to be the winner no matter what)

    By November the US will definitely be in some state of national emergency or just emerging from it. Either the vote will be suspended (for a year probably) or an election will be held that will have very little legitimacy. I think the former, but would not be surprised if the republicans use this as an opportunity to take 4 more years in the most chaotic ‘election’ in generations

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • #4513
    Poorside
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,098 ✭✭✭Poorside


    Jim Gazebo wrote: »
    To the self appointed experts everywhere saying lockdown. Stop. Our people will make the decision when they need to. 99% of people are now in pretty much lockdown. People are going to be depressed into oblivion with all this talk. I was on the phone to my parents last night and they were so upset at the idea of further measures on lockdown, they are already isolating but enjoy a short walk or two everyday to stay sane.

    I know it won't happen but for everyones mental state can those championing lockdown stop and wait to be told. It's crazy.

    99% of people are not pretty much in lockdown, if they were nothing would be happening, open your eyes.


  • #4514
    secman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,659 ✭✭✭secman


    Hamsterchops wrote: »
    Well done with your calculations, it does indeed make you wonder why so many people 'posting here' criticise Boris & the UK so harshly in their approach to this unprecedented crisis.

    The UK simply do not know how many cases they have, they previously told people to self isolate if they thought they had it. Their numbers wilk ramp up hugely because they delayed any actions. A nurse posted a picture this morning of a crammed packed tube on her way to work this morning...the first morning of the lock down.


  • #4515
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    China blamed US military for the virus. (Media reported)
    China tried to surpress news about the virus (media reported)
    China imprisoned a doctor who tried to warn about the virus (media reported)

    You just made up your version. Trump is an idiot but China is not your friend.

    You are making up a position for me:confused:

    I was talking about Trump blaming China, never mentioned any of the other stuff that you have imagined as being my position :rolleyes:


  • #4516
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    Lockdown is inevitable.
    It might be but not at a time of your pleasing. If the time is deemed right and the measure appropriate then it will.


  • #4517
    patnor1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,301 ✭✭✭patnor1011


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    Seems like many of the people who don't want a full shut down are those who are already working from the comfort of their own homes.

    The rest who can't work from home deserve to be safe too.

    There is no such a thing as complete shutdown. Even if you try it you suddenly find that there is quite a lot of essential services which cant be shut down without pretty much instant economic and societal collapse.

    And whith what is proposed as a shutdown - to leave essential services only coupled with helicopter money hyperinflation is inevitable. A lot of people will be chasing decreasing small range of products.

    Vulnerable people needs to be protected and sheltered from this but the rest of us need to take as much precaution as possible and keep going.


  • #4518
    BluePlanet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,444 ✭✭✭BluePlanet


    Without a vaccine we, as in pretty much every country in the world, will have to do rolling lockdowns.
    Do a major lockdown now to stem the tide, then partially lift it and watch the infection rate ramp up again.

    Key is to manage it so it doesn't overwhelm the HSE.

    So yes, lockdown now to stem the tide, additionally to condition people to get used to it for awhile.


  • #4519
    martingriff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,362 ✭✭✭✭martingriff


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    Lockdown is inevitable.

    Ya because a small minority can't follow what is been asked. Some in this country are really proving we have to be a nanny state


  • #4520
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    is_that_so wrote: »
    If you fancy getting into A&E for other reasons have at it! I'll take distance from idiots every single time.

    Not getting you here at all.

    I was talking about confronting people who are not adhering to social distancing as a means to get more people playing ball where people's lives are at stake.

    Your tweet was all lovey dovey,ahh we can't control what other people do.

    If someone is standing foot from me in the supermarket , damn right I can control that with a bollocking. They will think about it the next time.


  • #4521
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    is_that_so wrote: »
    If you fancy getting into A&E for other reasons have at it! I'll take distance from idiots every single time.

    Ok, get you now:)

    That's what's wrong with our society, no one brave enough to take on the aholes.


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  • #4522
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,448 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    Lockdown is inevitable.

    Why ? Because a small number of the population can't follow instructions or because the same people who tweeted all weekend about closing the pubs and are now tweeting non stop about a lockdown ?? The same people who probably panic bought and piled into the supermarkets the week before last.

    We've been in a gradual lockdown anyway, more and more places are closing every day. More will probably be told to close today and other measures introduced but it's not going to be the lockdown you keep posting for.


  • #4523
    BluePlanet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,444 ✭✭✭BluePlanet


    Has anybody asked the government how many test kits they ordered and when they'll arrive?
    How many are these rapid test kits?


  • #4524
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    amadangomor wrote: »
    Not getting you here at all.

    I was talking about confronting people who are not adhering to social distancing as a means to get more people playing ball where people's life are at stake.

    Your tweet was all lovey dovey,ahh we can't control what other people do.

    If someone is standing foot from me in the supermarket , damn right I can control that with a bollocking. They will think about it the next time.

    It's not our place to go around confronting people and it certainly runs the risk of them not responding well to that. Refer it to people who can do something about it. I must be in the wrong part of the country all the time because I don't see anything like this.


  • #4525
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,978 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Doctors room ghost wrote: »
    In the pot if you’re stuck.
    Did you ever hear the saying “a Tyrone woman won’t buy a rabbit without its head for fear it’s a cat”.
    It’s an old proverb.
    Now, there’s a bit of learning for ye.
    I read recently (here?) that under French law rabbits must be sold with the head still on so that cat carcasses won't be put on sale...

    Not your ornery onager



  • #4526
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    BluePlanet wrote: »
    Has anybody asked the government how many test kits they ordered and when they'll arrive?
    How many are these rapid test kits?
    Yeah they have and they now seem to have a constant supply. Cillian DeGascun was on SOR yesterday so might be something there. If that question about rapid kits hasn't been asked it will be.


  • #4527
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,448 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    BluePlanet wrote: »
    Has anybody asked the government how many test kits they ordered and when they'll arrive?
    How many are these rapid test kits?

    Rapid test kits aren't proven to work effectively yet.

    They said theres more kits due this week. A large amount of medicial supplies are due to start being brought into the country this week

    Aerlingus are to operate the flights. First flight 28th March, up to 5 daily by 31st, DUB-PEK, 660tons initial, 50-60 flights, with up to 5 of these over the next 2 months..more info on these flights over in the aviation forum


  • #4528
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,215 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    BluePlanet wrote: »
    Has anybody asked the government how many test kits they ordered and when they'll arrive?


    How many are these rapid test kits?

    No the Irish media is posting online happiness about the TOOTHFAIRY still being able to visit kids so don't worry. You couldn't make it up. They have lost all credibility.


    https://twitter.com/TodayFM/status/1242356726852202501

    The Irish media can no longer talk to adults about adult topics to its resorting to to talking to the nations toddlers instead. Lets see if the toddlers of Ireland tell them to do one.


  • #4529
    Bigboldworld
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 179 ✭✭Bigboldworld


    Have the ages of the two recent victims been released yet?


  • #4530
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    is_that_so wrote: »
    It's not our place to go around confronting people and it certainly runs the risk of them not responding well to that. Refer it to people who can do something about it. I must be in the wrong part of the country all the time because I don't see anything like this.

    It is up to everyone to confront idiots now. People's lives are at stake. Chicken **** attitude has gotten us to a place where the scumbags do what they want.

    I've had hassle/abuse because I call out people for littering, I have a pair so will continue doing it.


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  • #4531
    mean gene
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 875 ✭✭✭mean gene


    Again it has to be stated flights full of potential virus carriers arriving in every few minutes in Dublin and not been checked. Wtf is the point of all these measures. Also ferry's coming in daily


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