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

cloudatlas wrote: »

What are Ireland doing?

Ireland is doing a lot in fairness and will be doing more.

Schools shut down ahead of a lot of countries.
Pubs and businesses shut.
Social distancing being encouraged and being observed by the vast majority.
Test programmes being implemented and will increase
Recruitment of front line medical staff and preparation of more hospital and facilities.

That's just a few and I'm sure there'll be more measures announced today but people here won't be happy until it's 100% lockdown as they see it as a miracle cure.

The decision to reduce tubes despite people still having to go to work is crazy. Those pictures tell a story alright. I think if I lived in London I'd have to cycle or something. You couldn't pile into the tube and not end up sick.

smelly sock wrote: »

I find a bit of arrogance from the young Irish doctors and nurses working in Australia wanting to come home to "Help".

They actually asked for a chartered flight just for them.

Pointy Dome wrote: »

I’d say they’d be ridin’ the holes off each other on the flight back thinking they are so great ! Drinking champagne as well

lawred2 wrote: »

they'd be totes heroes roysh

Eric Cartman wrote: »

All in first class presumably , thered be big group selfies of them all #savethenation , theyd do it for 3 months then go right back to aus, spend the entire time hugging their relatives and on instagram about saving lives while telling everyone who stayed in ireland “ohh you simply have to come to aus mate, its totes sunny”

It would literally be the most ego masturbatory jaunt for the blackrock college set that the taxpayers money could buy.

What the fuck is wrong with all of yee?

Jealous or just arseholes?

silverharp wrote: »

Seems like London needs to close its Tube down , it makes a mockery of the shutdown or let it run but you need an NHS or emergency service pass

there's about 20,000 cabbies currently out of work in London.

they could easily be hired to move NHS staff around.

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Wuhan is similar in size to London.
How did essential workers commute in that city?
Iirc public transport was shut?

They did the opposite. They put on extra trains/busses

This game predicted everything:

patnor1011 wrote:

Correct. But you forgot to add one very imortant potential pandemic factory and it is quite disputable if wet market is number one in this case as wet markets are there thousands of years.

The other potential source of pandemic and in my opinion more deadly one is military research and their quest of creating perfect weapon. And make no mistake, a lot of countries big and small are heavily involved in this.

Wibbs wrote: »

1) we tend to overestimate the ability of military techs to build such things and 2) they've been there for thousands of years and have been hotbeds of infectious diseases with it.

There is a possibility that is a Laboratory safety incident. Maybe they didn't follow strict protocols of deposing animals after experiments.

There were incidents of escaped SARS virus in a China's Lab in 2004.


https://www.the-scientist.com/news-analysis/sars-escaped-beijing-lab-twice-50137

"SARS escaped Beijing lab twice -
Laboratory safety at the Chinese Institute of Virology under close scrutiny - 2004"


If they didn't learn the mistakes about the wild-life markets in 2003, they might also didn't learn the mistakes about lab safety too.

Tacitus Kilgore wrote: »

What the fuck is wrong with all of yee?

Jealous or just arseholes?

Or confused about the ethics of leaving the health service you work at when a crisis is about to hit it?

gabeeg wrote: »

Pigs and birds are carriers of viruses that regularly jump to humans.

It's not just the US and China - every country on the planet could be the source of the next pandemic.

Correct. My point is that the standards of hygiene in these two will not will not be forcibly raised collectively by the rest. I'd safely say the standards of hygiene in Ireland are far stricter that in those two; we have to suffer due to their lower standards.

dePeatrick wrote: »

I got it too then, I ended up in a pool of my own vomit on my hands and knees dry retching unable to breathe. I never ever want to go through that again. I thought I would die 100% Took ages to recover from, lost 10kg.

This one is worse by all accounts, have not been outside the door for over a week now.

There definitely was a gastric element to it as well, I lost about 5kg, but back the I was under 60kg. When we were over the worst of it I remember making food, looking at it, unable to eat, still feeling so nauseous.

I'm lucky in so far that we both work from home and have limited contact with others. We're semi rural so can walk in the countryside without meeting a soul, but on Sunday we went to the beach to walk the dogs and it was ridiculous. I literally walked over rocks and seaweed to avoid others - who for the most part were keeping in their own family units. But I'm not surprised that public amenities such as beaches/parks are going to be further restricted. It was far too busy for what we are dealing with.

I HAVE to go to the shop for essentials today - my child asked me yesterday "Have we any food that hasn't gone bad"?

Rob A. Bank wrote: »

A ventilator is less than useless, and possibly dangerous, if there are not highly skilled staff available to run it.

You can't just plug someone in and leave them... the patient must be anesthetized and nursed 24/7 usually 1:1 nursing if really ill, or 1 nurse to 2 patients if not so critical.

We will need every last nurse and doctor to deal with this coming tsunami of patients... otherwise we face a disaster like Northern Italy or Spain

Yes and there were thousands of volunteers the other day. Australia will be hit badly too, they should stay in the health service that they have been working for and who have paid their wage.

Is there any announcement time for today
Rgds

smelly sock wrote: »

I find a bit of arrogance from the young Irish doctors and nurses working in Australia wanting to come home to "Help".

They actually asked for a chartered flight just for them.

Not arrogance, that's the only way they can make it home, and I say send it.