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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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  • #5972
    MD1990
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,740 ✭✭✭✭MD1990


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ3QqNeeWUA

    72% of ICU patients in the UK where overweight/obese,

    Seems a even bigger risk than smoking.


  • #5973
    mcmoustache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,237 ✭✭✭mcmoustache


    dresden8 wrote: »
    If the offies don't stay open it's going to put a lot more pressure on the supermarkets.

    People aren't going to give up drinking.

    I think that they're covered by the first item on the list.

    1. Retail and wholesale sale of food, beverages and newspapers in non-specialised and specialised stores.


  • #5974
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    paddythere wrote: »
    What's your problem with somebody going out for a jog

    Maybe it's me but I just want to lock myself up and have no interactions with people at all. I don't even want to walk past them on the footpath.


  • #5975
    Cork Boy 53
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    all about the mane wrote: »
    What’s your solution if she is removed from the post?

    I very much doubt he/she has one.


  • #5976
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,140 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    Yurt! wrote: »
    Can you refrain from trying to turn yet another thread into a FG party political broadcast?


    Not the time nor the place.

    You're the one turned it into a political debate. But, you're right this is not the time nor place for it.


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  • #5977
    voluntary
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 871 ✭✭✭voluntary


    billybonkers wrote: »
    Later, keep an eye on rte news now

    Can't they simply stick to the 6 PM announcements every day?


  • #5978
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    voluntary wrote: »
    Can't they simply stick to the 6 PM announcements every day?
    They do it when they are ready!


  • #5979
    FVP3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭FVP3


    vladmydad wrote: »
    No Trump banned travel from China in JANUARY.
    Also the Chinese communist party surpressed vital information for 6 weeks and locked up dissenters trying to spread information. So stop the CCP propaganda ok

    Lol,is the "CCP propaganda" now the theme of crazed Trump supporters? Its the mirror image of the anti-Russian propaganda of the crazed American left. I am beginning to think the problem is the US hating the entire world.

    The Chinese informed the WHO in Dec 31st. This is a press release from the WHO on Jan 5th. They clearly didnt know about it for 6 weeks by then, in fact the first case was less than a month before.

    https://www.who.int/csr/don/05-january-2020-pneumonia-of-unkown-cause-china/en/

    There clearly wasn't much of a cover up in China. The US president denied this was anything more than a flu for months and refused to take action, except the chinese travel ban ( which was more of a hatred of China than anything else). That's on him.

    Not that I care either way about the US, but this cretin tried to blame the virus on Europe as well as China, and tried to steal German IP.


  • #5980
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,142 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    SteelyDanJalapeno wrote: »
    I'd rather not have to watch all nigh thou, was there any estimate?

    About 5 million


  • #5981
    YFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    dresden8 wrote: »
    If the offies don't stay open it's going to put a lot more pressure on the supermarkets.

    People aren't going to give up drinking.

    I'll imagine if they close the offies, they may also stop selling alcohol at the supermarkets.

    Saying that, I better get ready to go to Aldi.


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  • #5982
    martingriff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,362 ✭✭✭✭martingriff


    SteelyDanJalapeno wrote: »
    I'd rather not have to watch all nigh thou, was there any estimate?

    between 8 and 9 usually

    I meant that as an estimate in time you would see them


  • #5983
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,140 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    Yurt! wrote: »
    Take it back to a dedicated thread. I'm sure other posters will be delighted to see a FG loyalist carpet bombing coronavirus threads with nothing short of propaganda.

    How about dropping this nonsense yourself?


  • #5984
    jam_mac_jam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,733 ✭✭✭jam_mac_jam


    MD1990 wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ3QqNeeWUA

    72% of ICU patients in the UK where overweight/obese,

    Seems a even bigger risk than smoking.

    We are screwed if that's true.


  • #5985
    MrMusician18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,127 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    saabsaab wrote: »
    I think many are coming around to the idea that we have more in common that with the UK

    That we have a substantial proportion of our population that are self entitled morons?

    Absolutely.


  • #5986
    BluePlanet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,444 ✭✭✭BluePlanet


    all about the mane wrote: »
    What’s your solution if she is removed from the post?
    Rather like when someone exits a workplace.
    Walk them to the front door, take their badge off them and they loose access to the building.
    The only way they re-enter is on a Visitor badge.

    If FG don't have the numbers to replace, then look to the opposition benches to fill the post.


  • #5987
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    People going out for a jog, or queueing up to get a burger. Seriously, the only thing that is being asked of us is to stay the fcuk home. It's really not that hard to limit our interactions with people.

    How many people do you normally interact with when you're out running? Cows and pheasants are all I meet


  • #5988
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,549 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    fin12 wrote: »
    That’s true, I was out walking yesterday, people were walking in twos and three abreast, wouldn’t even move into a single file when being approached. I had to go into the grass to keep my distance.
    Just back from a walk along Bray promenade. Probably a good 5m wide, so plenty of room for people to walk in line either side and leave a good distance between them. But no, people walking towards us, 3 or 4 abreast, right in the middle, and not making any attempt to move. Ended up walking along the pebbles on the beach instead.


  • #5989
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,769 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    51551 wash your hands


  • #5990
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,734 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    AdrianG08 wrote: »
    What if you lost your job of 5 years in february for instance? You don't think financial circumstances have changed? And job prospects are just as tough?

    One person is on €203 and a month later another person receives €350.

    Its crazy. I get people don't want scroungers getting a rise, but being lumped in with the scroungers here is a kick in the balls.

    I fully get your point, it's not fair, there's no way of differentiating between people who have adjusted to living on the 200 versus those who are now living beyond their means due to sudden unemployment with no opportunity for a new job any time soon. It would stretch the state coffers further to have to cover everyone already unemployed before this crisis. There are no real winners.


  • #5991
    bekker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 912 ✭✭✭bekker


    is_that_so wrote: »
    See my post above about our Constitution!

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=112937896&postcount=5943
    Quite true that Constitution requires that for continuity.

    However the reason we still have a caretaker government is those non-constitutionally mandated organisations, the political parties, are jockeying for positions more advantageous to them.


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  • #5992
    KiKi III
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,653 ✭✭✭KiKi III


    Why haven't today's numbers come out yet? It's giving me anxiety.


  • #5993
    martingriff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,362 ✭✭✭✭martingriff


    mcmoustache wrote: »
    I think that they're covered by the first item on the list.

    1. Retail and wholesale sale of food, beverages and newspapers in non-specialised and specialised stores.

    I know this is a 1st world problem but I am guessing shops like Gamestop are closed. Only asking as I get the game I had ordered digitally instead


  • #5994
    Happy4all
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,089 ✭✭✭Happy4all


    Would going to the shop for a bottle of wine be considered essential shopping?


  • #5995
    Antares35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Antares35


    jobeenfitz wrote: »
    Im in Spain also. We are in lockdown like you say. There is food in the shops. If they are stíl clear of virus in a couple of days their highly unlikely to pick up virus cos not in contact with outside world. Even in shops everybody out here is wearing masks and at this stage less likely now, that infected people out and about.

    We are close to peak here in Spain and with another 3 weeks lockdown they will be fine til then. By then the curve should be turning and things may start to get better.

    Just stay in contact and make sure their using common sense until this is over. Same as if they were home.

    Thank you. I really needed this. I think your post is the most positive thing I have read today! :) They are definitely staying in, and they have someone nearby who has offered to pick up food if needed for the elderly in the area and leave it on doorsteps. I will have the biggest hug (if we are ever allowed to do that again :pac:) for him when this is all over, and I can't thank him enough.

    It's hard to know how to interpret the stats. Some sources saying it will hit the peak soon then start to improve, then there are the ones who just constantly remind us "the old are being abandoned at nursing homes!" or "the ice rink is now a morgue!" etc. and it can be so hard to have any glimmer of hope.

    I hope you and your loved ones stay well and safe through this.


  • #5996
    Happy4all
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,089 ✭✭✭Happy4all


    KiKi III wrote: »
    Why haven't today's numbers come out yet? It's giving me anxiety.

    Spreading out the bad news


  • #5997
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,639 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Happy4all wrote: »
    Would going to the shop for a bottle of wine be considered essential shopping?

    get 6 while you're there, save you going out tomorrow


  • #5998
    KiKi III
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,653 ✭✭✭KiKi III


    Happy4all wrote: »
    Would going to the shop for a bottle of wine be considered essential shopping?

    Obviously not. How hard is it to stock up on booze in Dunnes or Tesco alongside your food shop?


  • #5999
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    KiKi III wrote: »
    Why haven't today's numbers come out yet? It's giving me anxiety.
    Expect 337 or 30% and you'll be pleased if/when it's lower.


  • #6000
    Hobgoblin11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Hobgoblin11


    Trump - herd immunity moment

    Mr Trump acknowledged there were trade-offs, but claimed, without apparent evidence, that if closures stretched on for months there would be “probably more death from that than anything that we’re talking about with respect to the virus”.

    The comments were further evidence that Mr Trump has grown impatient with the pandemic, even before it has reached its expected peak.

    In recent days, tensions have been rising between those who argue the country needs to get back up and running to prevent a deep economic depression, and medical experts who warn that, unless more extreme action is taken, the human cost will be catastrophic.

    Health experts have made clear that unless Americans continue to dramatically limit social interaction — staying home from work and isolating themselves — the number of infections will overwhelm the health care system, as it has in parts of Italy, leading to many more deaths

    Dundalk, Co. Louth



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  • #6001
    FVP3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭FVP3


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    People going out for a jog, or queueing up to get a burger. Seriously, the only thing that is being asked of us is to stay the fcuk home. It's really not that hard to limit our interactions with people.

    That's not what is being asked. There's no restriction on walking or jogging. Both are safe.


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