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

GooglePlus · 24-03-2020 10:14PM

Blueshoe wrote: »

Good to hear. As many hands as possible. I'm working as per usual. Where have you been redeployed from?

I'd prefer not to say but I can say that all civil servants who aren't in roles now deemed essential will be redeployed to services that are, that's the nature of the beast.

That could be movement internally within their Department or on to other Departments such as DEASP or the HSE.

It's far from foot off the accelerator at the minute, it's all hands on deck.

martin101 · 24-03-2020 10:14PM

My office is back in tomorrow. All staff where called by our manager and told to report to work in the morning. Our office would be 90% non essential work and 10% essential but the manager used the whole "it's under the same umbrella" phrase to get everyone in. Some people where very upset who said they would work from home but weren't given the option even though their work isnt essential. Some others said they might just go out sick and not come in at all. I'm off until Monday myself but if Monday comes and I'm due in then i don't know what I'll do. Unless buses or more of a lockdown happens

tobefrank321 · 24-03-2020 10:15PM

robinph wrote: »

If going to the supermarket was such a risky thing to do then surely some country by now would have figured that out through their contact tracing and changed things to deliverys only, or you have to stand at the door and someone else goes and fetches stuff from the shelves for you whilst you stay in your car with your windows up and they then drop the bags in your boot for you.

Yes, keep your distance in supermarkets, don't breath on people, reduce contact as much as possible. But if there were contact tracing being done and the only link they could find between cases was someone going to the local Tesco 6 hours after a known case then things would be very very different... and it would already be too late for all of us.

Work and public transport are probably more likely. In all the photos of the luas here and tube in the UK its rare to see anyone wearing gloves for example. Suicidal ignorance you might say.

Quantum Erasure · 24-03-2020 10:15PM

kingston mills, sounds like a sliced pan

is_that_so · 24-03-2020 10:16PM

spookwoman wrote: »

He said everyone that had been tested was contacted yet there are people who have been swabbed and still waiting a week or so later for the call. I think they are still looking at swabs from before the 13th

No, he said 22nd-23rd in the NVRL and that 18000 have received results. They also mentioned the 20000 a day looking for tests, which from the perspective of this are not practical or useful to test. I think they expect their new definitions to have much higher level of positives.

grinder23 · 24-03-2020 10:17PM

stephenjmcd wrote: »

Change in case definition for a test.

As expected a large number of people simply with a cough or even a bit of a head cold looking for testing.

Must have 2 symptoms now, previously cough or fever, now both.

Not necessarily know someone today who has no fever whatsoever but has cough and tight chest and suffers from asthma who's gp ordered a test but couldn't give a time frame

gmisk · 24-03-2020 10:17PM

tobefrank321 wrote: »

Work and public transport are probably more likely. In all the photos of the luas here and tube in the UK its rare to see anyone wearing gloves for example. Suicidal ignorance you might say.

The difference is our public transport at least in Dublin is pretty much empty now, the tube at least in London still looks to be absolutely heaving.

2lazytogetup · 24-03-2020 10:18PM

martin101 wrote: »

My office is back in tomorrow. All staff where called by our manager and told to report to work in the morning. Our office would be 90% non essential work and 10% essential but the manager used the whole "it's under the same umbrella" phrase to get everyone in. Some people where very upset who said they would work from home but weren't given the option even though their work isnt essential. Some others said they might just go out sick and not come in at all. I'm off until Monday myself but if Monday comes and I'm due in then i don't know what I'll do. Unless buses or more of a lockdown happens

I'd find out if any announcements are made tomorrow. If you are laid off, you need to get your SW form in

tigger123 · 24-03-2020 10:18PM

tobefrank321 wrote: »

They are masters at PR I will give them that.

You can't manage a crisis like this through PR. They're doing an excellent job. Harris in particular.

Professor Moriarty · 24-03-2020 10:19PM

gmisk wrote: »

The difference is our public transport at least in Dublin is pretty much empty now, the tube at least in London still looks to be absolutely heaving.

5,000,000+ trips per day on average.

Mervyn Skidmore · 24-03-2020 10:19PM

GooglePlus wrote: »

I'd prefer not to say but I can say that all civil servants who aren't in roles now deemed essential will be redeployed to services that are, that's the nature of the beast.

That could be movement internally within their Department or on to other Departments such as DEASP or the HSE.

It's far from foot off the accelerator at the minute, it's all hands on deck.

Fair play to you. As a civil servant myself who's working in an agency that's been deemed an essential service at the minute, it's a nice change for some people to finally have some appreciation for the work we do. Makes a change from the "useless b*stards" line often trotted out.

BorneTobyWilde · 24-03-2020 10:19PM

Pence talking like New York is the epicentre, Trump talks of opening up huge parts of US at Easter, isolating New York it seems

declanflynn · 24-03-2020 10:22PM

tobefrank321 wrote: »

They are masters at PR I will give them that.

Good lord

elperello · 24-03-2020 10:23PM

tobefrank321 wrote: »

They are masters at PR I will give them that.

Well to be truthful they do have a lot of staff and media advisors but having acknowledged that would you replace them now?

24-03-2020 10:23PM

Every Luas and Bus I see go past are virtually empty, nothing like the tube photos.

briany · 24-03-2020 10:23PM

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Pence talking like New York is the epicentre, Trump talks of opening up huge parts of US at Easter, isolating New York it seems

It would make sense to have certain states more open than others, depending on how many cases they're suffering from. Right now, it looks like New York is certainly one of the epicentres in the U.S., so naturally they would experience more of a lockdown.

24-03-2020 10:23PM

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Pence talking like New York is the epicentre, Trump talks of opening up huge parts of US at Easter, isolating New York it seems

New York state all in including NYC?

If yes do they have a DR site to take over from wall street?

Jinglejangle69 · 24-03-2020 10:24PM

tobefrank321 wrote: »

They are masters at PR I will give them that.

Clearly not going by the election results.

saabsaab · 24-03-2020 10:24PM

robinph wrote: »

If going to the supermarket was such a risky thing to do then surely some country by now would have figured that out through their contact tracing and changed things to deliverys only, or you have to stand at the door and someone else goes and fetches stuff from the shelves for you whilst you stay in your car with your windows up and they then drop the bags in your boot for you.

Yes, keep your distance in supermarkets, don't breath on people, reduce contact as much as possible. But if there were contact tracing being done and the only link they could find between cases was someone going to the local Tesco 6 hours after a known case then things would be very very different... and it would already be too late for all of us.

They have suggested deliveries but there just isn't the capacity and unfortunately people need to get their food somewhere. Anyway I think you misunderstood me as I was using them as an example of the numbers racking up easily in daily life. Also the contact tracing wouldn't pick this up, as there are many cases now origin unknown community acquired etc.

Of course keep your distance it will reduce your risk in a Supermarket but not eliminate it.

BorneTobyWilde · 24-03-2020 10:24PM

We should be going the same, Dublin is clearly the problem in Ireland. And still its open for business, flying everyone and anyone from UK and Europe into it.

fritzelly · 24-03-2020 10:25PM

elperello wrote: »

Well to be truthful they do have a lot of staff and media advisors but having acknowledged that would you replace them now?

Imagine the one from Sinn Fein in charge :eek:

Blueshoe · 24-03-2020 10:25PM

declanflynn wrote: »

Good lord

I think Leo got in on the fifth count. Who would have thought he would be leading us through a global pandemic a few short weeks later. Crazy how life works

Thargor · 24-03-2020 10:26PM

Is anyone else just in total shock that this is happening and how suddenly it came along? I forget about it then remember that its happening all over again a minute after my alarm goes off every morning, its absolutely mad when you think about it. Bill Gates was warning us we were completely unprepared for a pandemic in his TED talks from 2015 onwards.

Imagine if this was some kind of airborne Ebola that was actually killing 90% of the people who got it, society would just collapse.

woohoo!!! · 24-03-2020 10:26PM

Coyote wrote: »

posting this again due to the speed of the thread
No Change in number

Slow Change

Big Drop in numbers

again with all of this i'm just trying to show people the 14 day delay in an change in how we deal with this
if you wait till we are overloaded it's too late
everyone has to make up there own mind but at least look at the maths

3 weeks no change 42K
3 weeks slow change 23K
3 weeks big drop 9K

1 month no change 241K
1 month slow change 56K
1 month big drop 11K

you need to decide what you do today to affect 3 weeks from now

Interesting chart but incomplete without projected recoveries and deaths.

fritzelly · 24-03-2020 10:26PM

Blueshoe wrote: »

I think Leo got in on the fifth count. Who would have thought he would be leading us through a global pandemic a few short weeks later. Crazy how life works

Probably should have held off on that GE

FVP3 · 24-03-2020 10:26PM

froog wrote: »

and that's trump's thinking the last few days too by the way. he's probably going to pull back most control measures in a few weeks when they haven't even reached their peak yet. it's going to get very ugly there if he goes through with it and make italy look like a bad flu season.

Tucker Carlson had the dignity to be unimpressed, at least.

fritzelly · 24-03-2020 10:27PM

Would people stop quoting massive pictorial posts just to add one line of text - ridiculous

Cork Boy 53 · 24-03-2020 10:28PM

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Pence talking like New York is the epicentre, Trump talks of opening up huge parts of US at Easter, isolating New York it seems

I stated it before but for the good of the US population Trump needs to be taken out of the picture.

tobefrank321 · 24-03-2020 10:28PM

gmisk wrote: »

The difference is our public transport at least in Dublin is pretty much empty now, the tube at least in London still looks to be absolutely heaving.

Even a quarter empty luas carriage is risky. I wouldn't touch any surface inside a luas. You only have to look at the Diamond Princess to see how covid spreads in shared areas, surfaces and in the air. Another lesson ignored by western European countries. They shut down everything except the most likely cause of spread such as the Tube or Luas. Private cars are far safer for the remaining workers.

Jin luk · 24-03-2020 10:28PM

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Pence talking like New York is the epicentre, Trump talks of opening up huge parts of US at Easter, isolating New York it seems

New york will peak a couple of weeks before the other cities their saying all i can see happening over their is it getting seriously out of hand.

They wont shut an economy down all americans think about is digits in their bank they will be fighting this alot longer than us here in europe.

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