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

Mervyn Skidmore · 25-03-2020 12:22AM

Strazdas wrote: »

Really? That directly contradicts what I read in one of the Irish papers - 'self isolation' and 'quarantine' are meant to be two different things

Forget about the papers and go directly to the source, www.hse.ie.

There are two guidelines, self isolation and restricted movement.

murpho999 · 25-03-2020 12:22AM

ChikiChiki wrote: »

Sat tight for 10 days working from home and generally keeping a social distance having tracked the spread since January. Left the apartment Friday to go meet best friend for dinner in a quiet spot.

Person has been sent for testing showing all the symptoms.

Feel like facepalming myself as I had some reservations in the first place as the same person annoyed me with their it's only a flu attitude.

Ffs stupid. Won't be leaving here for 2 weeks at the minimum regardless. I'm living alone so no problem there.

Don't beat yourself up, it's hard to stay in.

Hopefully your friend's test is negative and you'll be fine.

Marje · 25-03-2020 12:22AM

https://twitter.com/SimonHarrisTD/status/1242585764308946947?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1242585764308946947&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Ftwitter.com%252FSimonHarrisTD%252Fstatus%252F1242585764308946947%26widget%3DTweet

fr336 · 25-03-2020 12:24AM

Strazdas wrote: »

Same for all of us : not being able to interact normally with other people is really weird

I don't even have much of a social life outside work but it's just plain depressing seeing how everyone else is having just as little fun as I am! Normality is underrated.

JP Liz V1 · 25-03-2020 12:24AM

dan786 wrote: »

The first known death of a child due to the novel coronavirus in the United States has been reported, despite the disease not typically proving severe for juveniles.

The death of a "youth under the age of 18" from Lancaster, just north of Los Angeles, was confirmed in a statement by county health officials.

I think I read of an 18 year old in the UK also a fatality

The symptoms seem to change daily, it is confusing, I assume GPs will decide if you need a test or not by telephone consult

I think high temperature fever and shortness of breath are the two big main symptoms

tuxy · 25-03-2020 12:25AM

Spain is in for a really though time for the next few weeks ( I know it was difficult for them already )

Any signs of what country is the next one in major trouble?

boardise · 25-03-2020 12:25AM

fritzelly wrote: »

I wish them the worst

Hopefully Darwin's law takes care of these retards.

Ace2007 · 25-03-2020 12:26AM

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

I think I read of an 18 year old in the UK also a fatality

The symptoms seem to change daily, it is confusing, I assume GPs will decide if you need a test or not by telephone consult

I think high temperature fever and shortness of breath are the two big main symptoms

Lads being realistic about this, even with the flu there are more than likely 18 year olds dying somewhere in the world.

JP Liz V1 · 25-03-2020 12:27AM

GeorgeBailey wrote: »

Has anybody noticed a huge increase in self-appointed smart people recently?

Yes my sister calling me one and telling me to shut the fcuk up as I a head wrecker

ACitizenErased · 25-03-2020 12:27AM

Marje wrote: »

https://twitter.com/SimonHarrisTD/status/1242585764308946947?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1242585764308946947&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Ftwitter.com%252FSimonHarrisTD%252Fstatus%252F1242585764308946947%26widget%3DTweet

Fair play to Simon. He's not well and doing a fantastic job.

Martina1991 · 25-03-2020 12:27AM

flashforward wrote:

Right now we are only getting results from 1350 swabs per day. This is pathetic and we will only see ~5 >20% of these testing positive which means unless we take the finger out of the arse we are blind to what's really going on

We're testing more per capita than a lot of countries.

By what standard do you consider it "pathetic".

You dont know what you're talking about.

greenpilot · 25-03-2020 12:27AM

Ace2007 wrote: »

Why - someone else whose child is in posted that it was true

Link? Because if it was indeed true it would certainly be newsworthy so as to impress upon people to adhere to guidelines.

elperello · 25-03-2020 12:28AM

boardise wrote: »

Hopefully Darwin's law takes care of these retards.

I know we are all on edge but it's not nice to wish harm on others.

BLIZZARD7 · 25-03-2020 12:28AM

tuxy wrote: »

Spain is in for a really though time for the next few weeks ( I know it was difficult for them already )

Any signs of what country is the next one in big trouble?

France looks like it's getting worse still. The US and UK will both be in trouble soon. Netherlands not exactly looking fantastic.

Germany - hard to tell what's really going on there re deaths.

froog · 25-03-2020 12:28AM

greenpilot wrote: »

"2 Children under 5 in hospital in Ireland with virus .no mum or dad allowed.imagin .
STAY HOME.what if it was your child ."

Just a sample of the utter ****e being shared around Facebook at the moment by bottom feeders.

if it scares morons into staying the **** away from other people i'm all for it to be honest.

bekker · 25-03-2020 12:29AM

A question which doesn't to have been asked is why exactly are we testing.

What is the purpose?

If it is ,

to evaluate the extent of penetration of the virus then statistically valid, repeated randomised testing of the population the best answer.

to identify and rapidly treat those who are displaying symptoms of serious reaction then fast GP triaging, fast testing and fast processing.

to test the cohort who are statistically most vulnerable then selection by existing medical record is the best answer, but to test 400,000+?

to reassure the population then the present strategy seems to be effective, but meaningless as a strategy for any of the above.

woohoo!!! · 25-03-2020 12:29AM

tuxy wrote: »

Spain is in for a really though time for the next few weeks ( I know it was difficult for them already )

Any signs of what country is the next one in major trouble?

France, then UK. Switzerland and Holland also.

eldamo · 25-03-2020 12:29AM

tuxy wrote: »

Spain is in for a really though time for the next few weeks ( I know it was difficult for them already )

Any signs of what country is the next one in major trouble?

USA all the way tough guy. Hooooooooo.

Yeah, if trump gets his way they are proper feckeroonied.

Steve F · 25-03-2020 12:29AM

Corkgirl20 wrote: »

I can not wait until this is all over !

Yes indeed...we all feel the same.
Sobering thought though is we are "probably" only at the beginning of a long haul.A couple of points
1. A successful vaccine is approximately 12 to 18 months away.
2.Social Distancing is here till then because if we don't keep it up the virus cases will Skyrocket again.
3.Experts keeping a close eye on what happens in China now restrictions are starting to be relaxed,this will be key to what happens here and elsewhere.
4.Two major developments on our side could be the use of Antivirals that kill the virus in infected patients or Covid19 mutates into a less potent strain and becomes less harmful to humans.
5.A hope that warmer weather slows the spread.

We live in hope

JP Liz V1 · 25-03-2020 12:30AM

tuxy wrote: »

Spain is in for a really though time for the next few weeks ( I know it was difficult for them already )

Any signs of what country is the next one in major trouble?

France and US numbers getting higher

Corkgirl20 · 25-03-2020 12:30AM

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Fair play to Simon. He's not well and doing a fantastic job.

What do you mean by not well? His Crohn’s disease ?
I thought he looked very pale today.

amadangomor · 25-03-2020 12:30AM

Dr. Bre wrote: »

Humans are social creatures- social distancing won’t last a year

Other generations did things like bring Hitler to his knees with great sacrifice and all we are being asked to do is stay on our couch and talk on skype etc instead of in person. Of course it's doable ffs

ACitizenErased · 25-03-2020 12:31AM

Corkgirl20 wrote: »

What do you mean by not well? His Crohn’s disease ?
I thought he looked very pale today.

Yeah he has Crohn's disease. He always looks a bit ill.

Mwengwe · 25-03-2020 12:31AM

Steve F wrote: »

Yes indeed...we all feel the same.
Sobering thought though is we are "probably" only at the beginning of a long haul.A couple of points
1. A successful vaccine is approximately 12 to 18 months away.
2.Social Distancing is here till then because if we don't keep it up the virus cases will Skyrocket again.
3.Experts keeping a close eye on what happens in China now restrictions are starting to be relaxed,this will be key to what happens here and elsewhere.
4.Two major developments on our side could be the use of Antivirals that kill the virus in infected patients or Covid19 mutates into a less potent strain and becomes less harmful to humans.
5.A hope that warmer weather slows the spread.

We live in hope

It's too soon to say 2. Social Distancing is here for 12-18 months. We should brace ourselves for that possibility but we'll see.

JP Liz V1 · 25-03-2020 12:32AM

Corkgirl20 wrote: »

What do you mean by not well? His Crohn’s disease ?
I thought he looked very pale today.

The stress he is under too is huge, fair play to him

boardise · 25-03-2020 12:32AM

GeorgeBailey wrote: »

Has anybody noticed a huge increase in self-appointed smart people recently?

Whose advice to follow ?
On the one hand I can heed the statements of highly qualified Public Health experts or ,on the other , I can row in with someone who happened to stumble on a celebrity tweet and who has a problem computing percentages.
Hmm, tough one.

froog · 25-03-2020 12:34AM

it's nearly a month since first death in the US and no signs of any real large scale social distancing or lockdowns. by this stage other countries had been doing these things for at least a week or more. it's going to get real ugly there in the next few weeks.

Mwengwe · 25-03-2020 12:35AM

GeorgeBailey wrote: »

Has anybody noticed a huge increase in self-appointed smart people recently?

I think a lot of people were always one step away from it, and that step was being forced to sit at home with a computer all day

Silverfish · 25-03-2020 12:35AM

greenpilot wrote: »

"2 Children under 5 in hospital in Ireland with virus .no mum or dad allowed.imagin .
STAY HOME.what if it was your child ."

Just a sample of the utter ****e being shared around Facebook at the moment by bottom feeders.

It could well be true - there's a number of kids under 5 with it

Corkgirl20 · 25-03-2020 12:36AM

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

The stress he is under too is huge, fair play to him

Bless him, they must be under a huge amount of pressure. I can’t imagine they can sleep well at night under the stress. They’re all doing a good job to be fair.

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