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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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  • #4982
    Rob A. Bank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭Rob A. Bank


    Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »
    No they're not. That's the kind of cretinous statement that causes panic buying.

    The first panic buyer ever ?

    236580.png

    ;)


  • #4983
    SusanC10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,432 ✭✭✭SusanC10


    So, does this sound accurate to stay open ?

    Supermarkets
    Chemists
    Post Office
    Bank
    Hardware

    Butchers ?
    Fishmongers ?
    Fruit & Veg Store ?


  • #4984
    Hobgoblin11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Hobgoblin11


    Tea Shock wrote: »
    I wondered if it was because of the long Paddy's weekend resulting in less testing. Possibly?

    Because of Cheltenham race goers, blame them if there is no other apparent reason

    Dundalk, Co. Louth



  • #4985
    Keyzer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Keyzer


    US2 wrote: »
    That's me. Had a nice 4 pints last night too. Only 6 of us in the pub though, what difference is that to being at home with 6 people.

    Idiot...


  • #4986
    spookwoman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,059 ✭✭✭✭spookwoman


    frillyleaf wrote: »
    I’d say pet shops and people that work with animals in vets. Maybe banks etc

    post offices

    and someone finaly got some sence


    https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1242428031702007816?s=20


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  • #4987
    froog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,784 ✭✭✭froog


    Lads its non essential RETAIL stores that will close, not factories/other businesses. Which is what they did in the UK by the way.


  • #4988
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    niallo27 wrote: »
    Lets hope its 100 or 200 times what is known. This will be over faster than we think if that is the case.

    How would it make much difference? Regardless of the death rate, it is crippling the healthcare infrastructure of some of the most developed nations in the world, it would imply that the mortality rate is not all that low. If it was 100 or 200 times lower than originally thought, then the more dangerous seasonal flu would cause more damage to the european healthcare infrastructure every year


  • #4989
    MOR316
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,247 ✭✭✭MOR316


    SusanC10 wrote: »
    So, does this sound accurate to stay open ?

    Supermarkets
    Chemists
    Post Office
    Bank
    Hardware

    Butchers ?
    Fishmongers ?
    Fruit & Veg Store ?

    I'm still in work and I work in none of those places.

    ICT are incredibly slow in allowing me access to servers to work from home so I'm stuck here until they get their finger out.

    Everyone else is on a rotation thing. 2 people come in one day, 2 others come in the next.

    It's quite idiotic


  • #4990
    deisedevil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,252 ✭✭✭deisedevil


    SusanC10 wrote: »
    So, does this sound accurate to stay open ?

    Supermarkets
    Chemists
    Post Office
    Bank
    Hardware

    Butchers ?
    Fishmongers ?
    Fruit & Veg Store ?

    Pharma. Can't stop that or far more people will start to suffer and die with lack of medication.


  • #4991
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,822 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    DrumSteve wrote: »
    That's literally the least I would expect from Mike Ashley

    No fücker is going to wake up this morning thinking “hey, I really need a new pair of air max !” It’s going to cost him more to open the shops probably...


    Paying staff
    Fûck all custom
    Light
    Heat
    Rent

    If he has 5 staff per store even, from manager, security, sales/store people... averaging at 14 euros an hour, 40 hours work.. that’s a day 560 euros in staff costs and that’s a conservative outlook.


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  • #4992
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-spains-death-toll-rises-by-514-in-one-day-to-2-696-11962778
    WHO says USA may overtake Europe as epicentre of pandemic


  • #4993
    Loafing Oaf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,868 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    deisedevil wrote: »
    Pharma. Can't stop that or far more people will start to suffer and die with lack of medication.

    'Chemists' is what us old folks call pharmacies...


  • #4994
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    Somedaythefire wrote: »
    That doesn’t mean it can still infect you.

    Doesn't mean it can't either?


  • #4995
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    SusanC10 wrote: »
    So, does this sound accurate to stay open ?

    Supermarkets
    Chemists
    Post Office
    Bank
    Hardware

    Butchers ?
    Fishmongers ?
    Fruit & Veg Store ?

    Petrol stations
    Car mechanics


  • #4996
    Duke of Url
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,662 ✭✭✭Duke of Url


    FFS:mad:

    One of Ireland's biggest geriatric rehabilitation hospitals is now battling to deal with eight confirmed and suspected cases of Covid-19.

    The hospital complex - in the south - now threatens health chiefs with what a doctor described as “one of the nightmare scenarios we had hoped to avoid”.

    Public health officials have effectively placed the complex in lockdown.


  • #4997
    pH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭pH


    SusanC10 wrote: »
    So, does this sound accurate to stay open ?

    Supermarkets
    Chemists
    Post Office
    Bank
    Hardware

    Butchers ?
    Fishmongers ?
    Fruit & Veg Store ?

    Don't forget that to keep the country moving we need fuel and mechanics. And those mechanics working in garages need a supply chain of parts behind them. And those supply chains needs office workers, purchasing, delivery vans, etc.

    If every truck that breaks down is taken off the road, we come to a standstill on basics like food and medicine just as quickly as if we shut them down.


  • #4998
    Blueshoe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    Rob A. Bank wrote: »
    No one knows... the virus has only been known to science since the beginning of January.

    Trump's lies still having an effect, it seems.

    China knew about it in December. Didn't they lock up the doctor who tried to warn them. They knew even before that


  • #4999
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    Keyzer wrote: »
    Idiot...

    I've reported his post, what a DH


  • #5000
    Looney1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 122 ✭✭Looney1


    Building sites???


  • #5001
    voluntary
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 871 ✭✭✭voluntary


    Man dies from hantavirus in China: All you need to know about the virus, and how it spreads
    Even as the coronavirus outbreak takes the world by storm, a number of other diseases are also rearing their ugly heads. Cases of swine flu and bird flu have already been reported in India and other countries. Now, a man from China has tested positive for hantavirus.
    https://www.firstpost.com/health/man-dies-from-hantavirus-in-china-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-virus-and-how-it-spreads-8184521.html


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  • #5002
    sadie1502
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 666 ✭✭✭sadie1502


    SusanC10 wrote: »
    So, does this sound accurate to stay open ?

    Supermarkets
    Chemists
    Post Office
    Bank
    Hardware

    Butchers ?
    Fishmongers ?
    Fruit & Veg Store ?

    Vets and dentists


  • #5003
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Was just walking to the shop with my brother and sister and some old lady barks at us from behind to keep our distance from one another. We said we are siblings and live together and she says 'you are no exception, you are killing people', and storms off.

    Hysteria going to some people's heads


  • #5004
    MOR316
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,247 ✭✭✭MOR316


    voluntary wrote: »
    Man dies from hantavirus in China: All you need to know about the virus, and how it spreads


    https://www.firstpost.com/health/man-dies-from-hantavirus-in-china-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-virus-and-how-it-spreads-8184521.html

    1. Can't be transmitted from human to human
    2. Unless you're planning on eating live mice and rats, you're safe


  • #5005
    SlowBlowin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,924 ✭✭✭SlowBlowin


    I see the scammers are taking advantage of the situation, facebook full of scam tool sales etc this morning..


  • #5006
    Seamai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »
    No theyre not. Even at 650,000 cases that's only 10%. You need over 60% to achieve herd immunity.

    650,000 is only 1% of the population of Italy.


  • #5007
    ongarite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,511 ✭✭✭ongarite


    SusanC10 wrote: »
    So, does this sound accurate to stay open ?

    Supermarkets
    Chemists
    Post Office
    Bank
    Hardware

    Butchers ?
    Fishmongers ?
    Fruit & Veg Store ?

    You are forgetting all the invisible B2B that keep the country running.
    Electricity, Gas, Water, Waste Collection, Recycling, Ports & Airports for freight, warehouses, couriers, banks/finance so you can get payed, government services so you can get pension/disability/unemployment benefits.

    There will still be a million people going to work everyday.


  • #5008
    An Ciarraioch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,806 ✭✭✭An Ciarraioch


    Apparently, this woman updates her model projection every night once the daily numbers are released:

    https://twitter.com/osullica/status/1242158655715368966


  • #5009
    iwillyeah1234
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭iwillyeah1234


    Director of John Hopkins centre for disease control, in America:

    https://twitter.com/T_Inglesby/status/1242232846900756482


  • #5010
    SlowBlowin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,924 ✭✭✭SlowBlowin


    MOR316 wrote: »
    1. Can't be transmitted from human to human
    2. Unless you're planning on eating live mice and rats, you're safe

    Bollox, thats lunch in the bin, have to go shopping now.


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  • #5011
    deisedevil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,252 ✭✭✭deisedevil


    Loafing Oaf wrote: »
    'Chemists' is what us old folks call pharmacies...

    No, I meant Pharmaceutical companies, sorry. It's often shortened to Pharma, as in pharmaceutical industry. Pharmacies also need to stay open. Chemists by the way are not pharmacists but it's funny that, in Ireland anyway, we still say we are going to the Chemists to get a prescription. For example, I'm a chemist but I can't fill prescriptions.


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