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

sheepsh4gger wrote: »

Fire Holohan, he's dodging questions. I want to know which streets to avoid in Dublin.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/coronavirus-ban-on-all-non-essential-travel-commercial-social-activity-mooted-1.4210346

All of them if you can.

The safest approach is to consider that everybody you meet could have CoViD-19 and potentially give it to you. Similarly act as if you might have it and want to avoid giving it to anyone else.

dan786 wrote: »

Under significant new restrictions to be announced after today's Cabinet meeting, a large number of people working today, will not be going to work tomorrow, Health Correspondent Fergal Bowers reports.

The measures are likely to take in restaurants, cafés, hairdressers and a range of other service sectors regarded as non-essential.

Restrictions will also be introduced for outside gatherings.

While the measures will not be an exact replica of what has been announced in the UK, they will be significant.

Priority testing for health staff including GPs will be introduced.

General health testing will be increased for those with symptoms.

Officials believe these are the correct measures now, for the right period of time, however further measures are expected in the weeks ahead.

Know of very few of those locally who are even operating and aside from supermarkets and pharmacies not much else is open.

cjmc wrote:

I ordered a take away, delivery. It arrived and I pointed to just leave it at the door. It was prepaid by card. He kept looking for me to open the door . Why? To give me a fcucking receipt . I was fuming

So you are worried about the guy delivering it but have no concern about who cooked it, what precautions they took?

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.

Thats wrong how would we cope if all the Australian, Indian, Polish doctors and nurses went home the health service would collapse overnight.

is_that_so wrote: »

Know of very few of those locally who are even operating and aside from supermarkets not much else is open.

It would be more to make the closures official,I know one barber shop still open and two hair dressers .

Or for those of us working from home will be still be able to go to office to drop or collect jobs

RTE: New restrictions will see fewer people going out to work

We are slowly but surely getting there ourselves with non-essential closures already but the likes of the construction industry in particular are going to need some sort of government enforcement to really nip this in the bud.

lobbylad wrote: »

Agreed, I drove through greystones yesterday and everything except chemists, banks, supermarkets and O'Briens was closed.

Same around Dalkey.

We need more compliance of the 2m rule. That in itself will cause aditional closures.

I actually think stronger measures around distancing is the big one, to protect people not observing it and wannabee vigilantes from themselves.

autumnbelle wrote: »

Will that be hardware shops and building sites closed or is there anymore detail

Even in Italy and Spain hardware shops are deemed to be essential.
More Incase something breaks in your house a leak electric ECT.
Trades people deemed essential because a lot of people won't be able to repair the likes themselves.
They would need resources also

Non food stuff panic/prepping buying yesterday.

I am a radio ham, and as my antenna was destroyed in a recent storm I thought I would buy a new one. I called a large radio distributor in the UK, and while I was on the phone in the background I could hears lots of phones ringing and people talking. After placing the order I asked her if they were busy, she said it was the busiest day they could remember, selling loads of high end communications gear.

I guess a lot of people are putting in their own communications systems.

Another friend in the UK owns 2 Vape shops, the CV has made them the busiest they have been too.

Gael23 wrote: »

Will these new measures close takeaways? Supermarkets are cleaned out and people have to eat

Takeaways are non essential.

My local Lidl , Tesco, Dunnes and Aldi are fully stocked with all kinds of food so there is plenty of stock.

Rob A. Bank wrote: »

That is not true.. they declared it was a pandemic when it actually was one.

Declaring a pandemic too early would have caused some countries to stop tracing contacts and to give up on confronting the virus aggressively.

Why would it have caused to stop tracing contacts and give up confronting the virus? It is now declared a pandemic and we have more contact tracing and containment measures then ever.

Rob A. Bank wrote: »

The reason they do not recommend travel restrictions is to make sure that trade continues and things like PPEs for the front line medical staff are available everywhere.

Travel restrictions or quarantines when entering a country don’t prevent the trade of goods. We are talking about restricting individuals. As a matter of fact many countries which implemented travel restrictions for individuals early (alongside other measures) are the ones currently trading the most as their economies, factories and infrastructure are still 100% up and running. For exemple China now has strong restrictions to enter the country but shipping out masks and ventilators to the rest of the world.