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

I thought I was lucky enough to still have a job to go to this week then noticed that my weekly wages are less than the dole now. I don't understand anything anymore

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1240371160078000128

The comments on this are fantastic.

Tea Shock wrote: »

A mate of mine obviously has it. Been waiting for a test for a week now. Can't leave the house. Lives with two elderly parents

Lives with two elderly parents:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
The question is should he be living with them at all!!!

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1240371160078000128

The comments on this are fantastic.

I'm 65 and when I was their age I was just the same.
We didn't have a virus, we had the threat of a nuclear war and we
didn't give a sh1t about it. We lived for today and that is what they are doing.

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

RTE thinks it's important we know what Greta thinks

Greta Thunberg: Coronavirus crisis response shows world can act fast

https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/0324/1126125-thunberg-crisis-response-shows-world-can-act-fast/

Greta Thunberg says it's 'extremely likely' she has coronavirus.

https://www.buzz.ie/news/greta-thunberg-says-extremely-likely-coronavirus-361043

The Swedish climate activist said she was self-isolating after returning from a trip around central Europe with her father around two weeks ago.

She said they both began to feel ill a few days later, with Thunberg suffering with “shivers, sore throat and cough”.

Thunberg said she had not been tested, in line with the policy in Sweden, and had now "basically recovered".

so thats where she's been

citysights wrote: »

I don’t think we’ll go back to the way we were before. Well need to rethink things, even the fact of the Venice canals being full of fish after so long might make us consider our effects on the planet......

Nope. it'll be back to business as usual as soon as possible, if not before

Spare a thought for your local burglar at this testing time. My area was plagued by such uninvited guests shortly before this outbreak. Reports of such enterings are zero these days, with practically everyone home they can’t get a look in.

One positive at least.

Do you not think it is completely daft that RTE.ie states in each COVID-19 update that?:

“Generally, you need to be 15 minutes or more in the vicinity of an infected person, within 1-2 metres, to be considered at-risk or a close contact"

Although this is clear and unambiguous, in specific reference to <15 minutes, it is not accurate and will mislead the general public!


Is it accurate?

No. This phrase is simply not correct when presented on its own, without context.


As stated in HSE guidelines, the phrase is not based on observations of COVID-19, it is “based on observations from similar serious coronaviruses – SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV." This does not make it to RTE.ie publication. May I also add a generalization from comparisons to two other similar coronaviruses is being made here, not a large number.


Is it misleading?

Many or most people may interpret that “Generally” is in reference to at least observation/s of COVID-19, and that they are safe for up to 15 minutes, thus leading to ill-advised and imprudent behaviour, not warned that COVID-19 appears more transmissible than SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV, which the phrase is based on.

To add, one would think a phrase, if to be repackaged, would at least promote cautious, vigilant behaviour, in such a fast evolving public safety topic.


Alternatives?

I am not objecting to any advice provided by HSE, RTE.ie should provide the information that HSE provides to the general public, and other creative images and communications. RTE.ie is repackaging information from HSE interim technical guidelines, and presents it without very important context, while we deal with a more infectious virus this time around.

Not just yet.

cloudatlas wrote: »

The advice they seem to be giving is that if you had symptoms you would need to self isolate at home and stay as far away from your partner as possible. Use separate bathrooms. Don't share stuff etc.

There’s a separate bathroom in every house?

if there's no en-suite, they advise that the person with symptoms use the bathroom after everyone else is done, disinfect / wipe down surfaces afterwards, use separate towels, and keep them separate, dirty laundry in a binbag, and do separately...

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Louisiana has 4.66m people. 1388 cases, same as Ireland, with 216 new cases and 46 deaths . Louisiana is a real hot spot, I'm not sure we are doing too good.

My sister's in-laws have family living there. My nieces are devastated because last week their grand-uncle volunteered to help out at a nursing home so that his daughter who was on the medical staff there could go work in the local hospital and he became infected within two days. He has both diabetes and cancer and refused to take up a ventilator so he stands little to no chance of surviving but he's a stubborn old man and he's still hanging on. His daughter and son have both been infected at the hospital they were working at so they are both in isolation.