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

lbj666 · 24-03-2020 02:10PM

Keyzer wrote: »

This is a very uneducated opinion. They didn't just f*ck off... the conditions here were deplorable for doctors & nurses, working ridiculous hours and getting paid f*ck all.

One of my best mates is a doctor, he's just returned to Ireland after over 10 years. He's walked into a disaster zone which he is only too happy to do what he can. He's cancelled his wedding, parties and everything else that's going on in his life to help fight this.

So please, educate yourself before you make idiotic comments. At the very least, have some respect for doctors. Your life or the life of one of your loved ones might depend on one of them in the near future.

Exactly no one who is not in the profession has any authority to judge any doctor, nurse, administrator even porter and this moment in time. They are facing an unprecedented like a wartime situation that few other industries have to face. Many people "****ed off" to work for the NHS because of the better working conditions but now could be facing a situation far worse than here.

Tacitus Kilgore · 24-03-2020 02:11PM

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

If these doctors are such heroes and care about ireland so much why did they let the tax payer fund their education and then f*ck off to sunnier climes? I think they just want to be lauded in the media tbh.

What are you doing to help?

jam_mac_jam · 24-03-2020 02:11PM

paddythere wrote: »

Wont it be similar in Ireland then? A lot of 20 and 30 somethings (sometimes with their own kids) still living at home with their parents

People are just looking for reasons that we are different.

Xertz · 24-03-2020 02:12PM

TheDenialTwist wrote: »

Is that the same as The Range here in Little Island in Cork? Or is that a totally different store?

The range doesn't sell Ikea stuff. It's a bit more like Woodies, only less focused on DIY and more on home decor and random 'stuff' - cups, plates, fabric, art and hobby, lighting. They're NOT an essential store by a long shot.

jimmycrackcorm · 24-03-2020 02:13PM

CrabRevolution wrote: »

It's untrue to say that Ireland "couldn't provide a living for them". There's no doctors going hungry in Ireland. It's just that the pay and conditions in Australia are more attractive than in Ireland, before you even start talking about weather, desire to travel etc.

One flaw that I don't understand about the HSE is that they only usually offered 6 month contracts for NCHDs. I've a cousin who had to move on four different occasions to different hospitals around the country every six months. Imagine the disruption is you had to do all the hassle of trying to find and rent a new place every six months. Even so much as they had to finish work on a sunday evening, pack up everything, drive a few hours to the new place and start in another hospital the following morning.

cloudatlas · 24-03-2020 02:14PM

enricoh wrote: »

They left coz the workload is desperate in Irish hospitals and you pay half your wages in tax at a rediculously low threshold to fund spongers.
Fair play to them coming back and putting themselves in harm's way to help out.

What if patients in Perth die because there aren't enough doctors / medical professionals on call? It's a city of 1.985 million over a quarter of the population of Ireland.

LillySV · 24-03-2020 02:14PM

Can’t believe there’s pricks here begrudging health professionals who are willing to come home and help us!! How retarded are some people on this Island?
A major reason why loads of them abroad is cause there were no jobs for them here... particularly nurses where moratorium stopped them from working here

spookwoman · 24-03-2020 02:16PM

https://twitter.com/rtenews/status/1242455047130288129?s=20

Xertz · 24-03-2020 02:16PM

Jim Gazebo wrote: »

Not much use though - people that are in final years in college need a timeframe of when they expect to be closing until imo.

We should probably just ask the virus.

I'm sure if the minister just gets Commander Data to setup the universal translator, he could ask it what its intentions are and when it plans to leave us alone.

Oh wait... sorry that's actually sci-fi and this is just real life dystopia.

Sorry for being sarcastic, but there's no way of knowing the answers to these things. We're basically in a complete natural disaster level mess right now.

The reality is nobody knows. This is day-by-day, week-by-week, try and figure it out as we go along.

I'm sure universities can figure something out by continuing online only for now.

All I could suggest is keep in touch with your academic staff / course coordinator and so on.

kingshankly · 24-03-2020 02:17PM

marilynrr wrote: »

How would Tesco even know any person or families individual circumstances?

Have your date of birth

MarkY91 · 24-03-2020 02:18PM

spookwoman wrote: »

https://twitter.com/rtenews/status/1242455047130288129?s=20

My only question is...

Will my local chipper be closed?

ChikiChiki · 24-03-2020 02:18PM

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

If these doctors are such heroes and care about ireland so much why did they let the tax payer fund their education and then f*ck off to sunnier climes? I think they just want to be lauded in the media tbh.

Some absolutely disgusting attitudes towards medical staff who want to return I must say.

This scutter above takes the biscuit.

Lillyfae · 24-03-2020 02:18PM

LillySV wrote: »

Can’t believe there’s pricks here begrudging health professionals who are willing to come home and help us!! How retarded are some people on this Island?
A major reason why loads of them abroad is cause there were no jobs for them here... particularly nurses where moratorium stopped them from working here

Do you want them running the risk of infecting who knows how many people on the way "home"???? The whole world is tackling this virus at the moment. We are all affected, doesn't matter where we are. Any country's win is a win for the whole world at the moment. It was a stupid initiative anyway.

jam83 · 24-03-2020 02:20PM

Keyzer wrote: »

This is a very uneducated opinion. They didn't just f*ck off... the conditions here were deplorable for doctors & nurses, working ridiculous hours and getting paid f*ck all.

One of my best mates is a doctor, he's just returned to Ireland after over 10 years. He's walked into a disaster zone which he is only too happy to do what he can. He's cancelled his wedding, parties and everything else that's going on in his life to help fight this.

So please, educate yourself before you make idiotic comments. At the very least, have some respect for doctors. Your life or the life of one of your loved ones might depend on one of them in the near future.

He cancelled his wedding because all weddings are affected by this. Don't make out he cancelled it to run into a hospital to save lives.

marilynrr · 24-03-2020 02:21PM

kingshankly wrote: »

Have your date of birth

Knowing their customers ages doesn't mean that they know that the person isn't vulnerable or doesn't have vulnerable people in their household!!

bekker · 24-03-2020 02:21PM

brendanwalsh wrote: »

What facility is it ?

We don't need to know.

I'm generally very critical of HSE and Irish media on information dissemination, in this case it's a closed environment and all contacts should be readily traceable.

There are far more relevant questions.

Why has it take until today for the IT to establish from HSE that there is only capacity to process 33% of publicised 4,500 tests daily?

jam83 · 24-03-2020 02:21PM

Tacitus Kilgore wrote: »

What are you doing to help?

Are these doctors doing it for free all of a sudden?

joeysoap · 24-03-2020 02:22PM

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

One flaw that I don't understand about the HSE is that they only usually offered 6 month contracts for NCHDs. I've a cousin who had to move on four different occasions to different hospitals around the country every six months. Imagine the disruption is you had to do all the hassle of trying to find and rent a new place every six months. Even so much as they had to finish work on a sunday evening, pack up everything, drive a few hours to the new place and start in another hospital the following morning.

I’ve a cousin who had to do that Galway, Drogheda, And a couple of Dublin hospitals. He Emigrated in the end.

Tea Shock · 24-03-2020 02:23PM

marilynrr wrote: »

Knowing their customers ages doesn't mean that they know that the person isn't vulnerable or doesn't have vulnerable people in their household!!

You'd be surprised at how much all that data on your Tesco clubcard tells them about you!

TheDenialTwist · 24-03-2020 02:23PM

Xertz wrote: »

The range doesn't sell Ikea stuff. It's a bit more like Woodies, only less focused on DIY and more on home decor and random 'stuff' - cups, plates, fabric, art and hobby, lighting. They're NOT an essential store by a long shot.

I know The Range here doesn't sell Ikea type stuff, I have been to The Range many times. Was only curious to know was there some franchise or something with being the same name, that's all.

Just looked it up myself and it is yes indeed part of the UK Chain of The Range stores. In the UK stores they don't sell Ikea type stuff either. And as the original poster pointed out, they bought in freezers in an attempt to be considered as "essential". Will The Range here do the same I wonder?

And yes, I totally concur that The Range here in Cork would be classified as totally non essential. Nice store though.

spookwoman · 24-03-2020 02:24PM

https://twitter.com/FergalBowers/status/1242457239107010562?s=20

ThePopehimself · 24-03-2020 02:25PM

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

“All drama queens please begin to form a que.this is not a drill people.
those with the strangest conspiracy theories will be placed in a social distance draw,with the possibility of winning a double lined tin foil hat with the word PANDEMIC scribed on it in red crayon.”

You're so cool!

We took a vote and everyone here want's to see you do The Epic-Split using two Ambulances.

Beasty said he'll stream it live.

matthewmurdock · 24-03-2020 02:27PM

Fair play to the government for the €350 for laid off workers.

However, there are people working in supermarkets who will barely clear that in a week, working their bolloxes off, dealing with people who could have the virus. And the student nurses who are getting nothing. Doesn't seem fair to the people that are still out there working hard (not saying that the people at home wouldn't be working hard if they could).

mydogwentroof · 24-03-2020 02:27PM

Should I be in work?

I work in a small office with 6 others. I found out today that one woman is actually carrying out swab tests, as she is a nurse. Her husband is also an ICU consultant. Another woman is married to a Consultant doctor based in a large hospital nearby. One girl lives with her mother who is a nurse in the same hospital.

Two of the three are coughing all day and making "jokes" about having symptoms.

spookwoman · 24-03-2020 02:28PM

Looks like 2 more dead from the Diamond Princess

dePeatrick · 24-03-2020 02:28PM

borderlinemeath wrote: »

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"?

I had to go shopping for jeans, all my old ones were falling off me

I wasn't as light as you but not overweight. I live in a rural location pretty isolated and can go for walks without having to meet anyone either, have not been face to face to anyone for 10-12 days now, I get cut off with floods and snow so am used to having a 3-4 week stock of food in. There's a learning curve to do with what food to buy I have realised over the years. If I can give you any tips at all feel free to PM me, don't want to derail the thread completely.

MOR316 · 24-03-2020 02:28PM

LillySV wrote: »

Can’t believe there’s pricks here begrudging health professionals who are willing to come home and help us!! How retarded are some people on this Island?
A major reason why loads of them abroad is cause there were no jobs for them here... particularly nurses where moratorium stopped them from working here

No offence meant but, you can't believe it?

Seriously?

I'm shocked that you're shocked

DOCARCH · 24-03-2020 02:31PM

matthewmurdock wrote: »

Fair play to the government for the €350 for laid off workers.

However, there are people working in supermarkets who will barely clear that in a week, working their bolloxes off, dealing with people who could have the virus. And the student nurses who are getting nothing. Doesn't seem fair to the people that are still out there working hard (not saying that the people at home wouldn't be working hard if they could).

It's E 305 a week, if you are told to self isolate. Otherwise E 203 a week.

:mad:

I am pretty sure 99% of people laid off would prefer to (still) be at work!

IrishStuff09 · 24-03-2020 02:31PM

As of 2pm on Tuesday 24 March, testing has resulted in 44 new positive cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Northern Ireland to 172.

https://www.publichealth.hscni.net/news/covid-19-coronavirus#what-is-the-situation-in-northern-ireland

Tacitus Kilgore · 24-03-2020 02:32PM

jam83 wrote: »

Are these doctors doing it for free all of a sudden?

WTF does that have to do with anything?

You want them to do it for free? I'm sure some of them would like - but we can pay them, so let's.

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