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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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  • #5012
    Antares35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Antares35


    Does anyone know why Spain is just getting worse and worse? Didn't they more or less lock down ten days ago? My parents decided to take their chances staying put and now are basically sitting ducks while it worsens around them. If anything happens, they will be alone :( Also read about Ryanair suspending flights for April and May so they are really stuck now, and will likely miss their first grandchild's birth too. I just don't understand how it got so bad over there when the authorities seem to be implementing the measures quite strictly :(


  • #5013
    pH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭pH


    Seamai wrote: »
    650,000 is only 1% of the population of Italy.

    Yep basic maths is hard, if Italy wanted 'herd immunity' they'd have to go through what they just went through another 60 times.


  • #5014
    deisedevil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,252 ✭✭✭deisedevil


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

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

    Is any of these predictions of any use when our whole testing situation is a shambles at the minute?


  • #5015
    mikeoc85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 150 ✭✭mikeoc85


    pH wrote: »
    Yep basic maths is hard, if Italy wanted 'herd immunity' they'd have to go through what they just went through another 60 times.

    If this is more contagious than the flu then Italy likely has a few million people infected.


  • #5016
    cwboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 313 ✭✭cwboy


    Schools will not reopen immediately after the 29th March - RTE News now.


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  • #5017
    An Ciarraioch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,806 ✭✭✭An Ciarraioch


    https://twitter.com/DarranMarshall/status/1242422059340304385


  • #5018
    Donald Trump
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,325 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    cwboy wrote: »
    Schools will not reopen immediately after the 29th March - RTE News now.


    I, for one, am shocked.


  • #5019
    MrMusician18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,329 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    Gael23 wrote: »
    Olympics postponed

    That must smart for the greedy IOC.

    Their circus was already in trouble, could be a hammer blow to it.


  • #5020
    davedanon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,062 ✭✭✭davedanon


    cwboy wrote: »
    Schools will not reopen immediately after the 29th March - RTE News now.

    Don't think that's a surprise to anyone.


  • #5021
    frillyleaf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 801 ✭✭✭frillyleaf


    Antares35 wrote: »
    Does anyone know why Spain is just getting worse and worse? Didn't they more or less lock down ten days ago? My parents decided to take their chances staying put and now are basically sitting ducks while it worsens around them. If anything happens, they will be alone :( Also read about Ryanair suspending flights for April and May so they are really stuck now, and will likely miss their first grandchild's birth too. I just don't understand how it got so bad over there when the authorities seem to be implementing the measures quite strictly :(

    Have they not tried to get home? I thought anyone from Spain was told to make arrangements last week?

    We live in Europe, it’s completely different to how China for example handles these situations.


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  • #5022
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,650 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    cwboy wrote: »
    Schools will not reopen immediately after the 29th March - RTE News now.

    I almost missed the 'not' word there, and was thinking wtf....


  • #5023
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    ongarite wrote: »
    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.

    But they are not shops.

    Those services are already classed as key and required to remain operating and would be the last to go.


  • #5024
    MOR316
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,276 ✭✭✭MOR316


    MrMusician18 wrote: »
    That must smart for the greedy IOC.

    Their circus was already in trouble, could be a hammer blow to it.

    Guy on the committee is called Dick Pound heh heh heh


  • #5025
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,650 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Fair few new restrictions due to be announced soon I am reading


  • #5026
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    Gael23 wrote: »
    Olympics postponed
    I have an awful feeling the Japanese were hiding their true covid stats due to the Olympics.
    Their testing rates are awful for such a population.


  • #5027
    Seamai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    pH wrote: »
    Yep basic maths is hard, if Italy wanted 'herd immunity' they'd have to go through what they just went through another 60 times.

    Doesn't bear thinking about.


  • #5028
    Hobgoblin11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Hobgoblin11


    cwboy wrote: »
    Schools will not reopen immediately after the 29th March - RTE News now.

    I, for one, am not shocked.

    Dundalk, Co. Louth



  • #5029
    gabeeg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭gabeeg


    Antares35 wrote: »
    Does anyone know why Spain is just getting worse and worse? Didn't they more or less lock down ten days ago? My parents decided to take their chances staying put and now are basically sitting ducks while it worsens around them. If anything happens, they will be alone :( Also read about Ryanair suspending flights for April and May so they are really stuck now, and will likely miss their first grandchild's birth too. I just don't understand how it got so bad over there when the authorities seem to be implementing the measures quite strictly :(

    That's very tough. Sorry.

    We might see the effects of their lockdown impacting the situation over there at some point over the next week or so.
    You can have the virus for a week prior to showing symptoms, and then it can be another two weeks before it leaves you. So the cases we're seeing now will have been infected prior to the lockdown.

    Have your folks got in touch with the embassy?


  • #5030
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    US2 wrote: »
    Sports Direct in the UK claiming they are an essential business and stores will remain open is fairly sickening. Hopefully people remember that when this is all over. Greedy
    A company over there called The Range are the same - they bought in freezers to claim they were essential!
    They sell Ikea type stuff.


  • #5031
    RugbyLad11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 547 ✭✭✭RugbyLad11


    wakka12 wrote: »
    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

    Lots of assholes just this whole event to have excuses to be assholes


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  • #5032
    expectationlost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    80 irish medics trying to return from australia ... erm arn't they needed in their jobs in australia?


  • #5033
    Seamai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    Sir Oxman wrote: »
    I have an awful feeling the Japanese were hiding their true covid stats due to the Olympics.
    Their testing rates are awful for such a population.

    If that's true, it's nothing short of shocking.


  • #5034
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/coronavirus-new-cases-imported-travel-history-uk-us-malaysia-12570840
    32 imported infections in Singapore today, a majority of those new infections occurred in people that had just returned from the UK.


  • #5035
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    US2 wrote: »
    Sports Direct in the UK claiming they are an essential business and stores will remain open is fairly sickening. Hopefully people remember that when this is all over. Greedy
    Oh and earlier this morning there were reports of them backtracking and closing.
    But yer man in charge is an absolute tool so treat with caution.


  • #5036
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    deisedevil wrote: »
    Is any of these predictions of any use when our whole testing situation is a shambles at the minute?
    The model is a planning tool and 15000 was a worst case unmitigated total so it's very useful to have that baseline to work with.


  • #5037
    Mav11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,327 ✭✭✭Mav11


    sadie1502 wrote: »
    I was looking at that aswell very slow recovery. I saw an interview a couple home from skiing in France the husband is discharged wife still in hospital 18 days later. Takes a long recovery doesn't it.

    Seem to. I thought that the criteria for recovery was, that you tested negative for the virus 2 days in a row. Could be wrong!


  • #5038
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    RugbyLad11 wrote: »
    Lots of assholes just this whole event to have excuses to be assholes

    Yeh, saw her make some remark to some other fella up the road ahead of us after she said that as well. Probably reveling in the drama and being the vulnerable victim of this all.Im sure if she was that afraid of this whole thing she wouldn't be out on leisure walks and confronting random groups of strangers at close range, she was about half a metre from us when spoke to us


  • #5039
    10000maniacs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,804 ✭✭✭10000maniacs


    Antares35 wrote: »
    Does anyone know why Spain is just getting worse and worse? Didn't they more or less lock down ten days ago? My parents decided to take their chances staying put and now are basically sitting ducks while it worsens around them. If anything happens, they will be alone :( Also read about Ryanair suspending flights for April and May so they are really stuck now, and will likely miss their first grandchild's birth too. I just don't understand how it got so bad over there when the authorities seem to be implementing the measures quite strictly :(

    Why did they go to Spain when it was obvious there was a brewing global crisis since January?


  • #5040
    Cork Boy 53
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    The Minister for Education has confirmed that schools and colleges will not reopen in the short term. No surprise about that announcement.


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  • #5041
    Xertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭Xertz


    cwboy wrote: »
    Schools will not reopen immediately after the 29th March - RTE News now.

    Honestly think even if they did reopen, a lot of parents would be very reluctant to send kids in. I'd say they'll be closed until September at this stage.

    The LC will be 'interesting'.


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