CoVid19 Part XI - 2,615 in ROI (46 deaths) 410 in NI (21 deaths)(29/03)OP upd 28/03

26-03-2020 10:35PM

Busi_Girl08 wrote: »

Where is that if you don't mind saying?

Dublin 15 area. Not sure if I can name the place on here, but there was a death over the weekend which was reported in some media outlets.

Jim_Hodge · 26-03-2020 10:35PM

tobefrank321 wrote: »

Not a hope of stopping this unless we ground every single commercial flight in and out of Ireland for the next month as a start.

Otherwise we could face a year long lockdown.

You need to le go of the obsession over fights. They are no longer an issue. Change the record.

Duke of Url · 26-03-2020 10:35PM

Where any of the deaths related to the nursing home in the east?

wadacrack · 26-03-2020 10:35PM

1800_Ladladlad wrote: »

Christ that RTE player is a croc of sh*te. Who was that second knob jockey that asked Holohan if he had any words of condolences for the family of the deceased, literally just after Holohan had expressed his condolences!!

Richard Chambers. Hes been posting "humorous" posts on his twitter account during the day also, some about Trump. Personally would prefer a more professional approach during a pandemic.

fr336 · 26-03-2020 10:35PM

mick987 wrote: »

I read last week that it could be body mass, men are heavier than women and struggle to fight the infection ( being obese is one of the pre-conditions).

Is it? I thought it was more to do with obese people often tending to have obese related illnesses, most obviously something like diabetes than their actual weight.

irishguy1983 · 26-03-2020 10:35PM

pawdee wrote: »

Weren't we supposed to be up to 3046 cases today according to projections? That was assuming a 30% increase per day. I'm clutching at straws here I know.

We were meant to be at 15,000 in 5 days....We are at 1,800 - we are doing well ratio wise compared to other countries...We are one the least densely populated countries in Europe....We are doing pretty well compared to others....

Ficheall · 26-03-2020 10:35PM

Wibbs wrote: »

I'd reckon a lot of it is for the political optics L. It looks like "we're doing something".

If the virus may last for over two weeks on surfaces (see the study of the Diamond Princess), disinfecting is unlikely to hurt. People seem to be largely dismissing the possibility of fomite transmission, despite any supporting evidence..

owlbethere · 26-03-2020 10:36PM

Sean 18 wrote: »

They should be asking why didn't the HSE do more when they were letting all the skiers coming back into the country when it was starting to run rampant in Italy

Its not the HSE responsibility to close our borders or to stop flights. They probably had a hard time trying to hammer home how serious this is to our government. Remember the weekend of the 6/7/8 of March here. There was very little action done from our government. The paddy's day parades should ha e been cancelled well before then given what was happening around Europe with the health crisises all around. Our government cared more about parades and economic activity than they did about showing some respect to our European neighbours that were suffering from this disease.

amadangomor · 26-03-2020 10:36PM

Tandey wrote: »

So you know that none of the 10 who passed away today are related? Source?

And the winner of the most unnecessarily spikey and pedantic post goes to.......

Sean 18 · 26-03-2020 10:36PM

Kerry25x wrote: »

Unfortunately, I agree that even in best case scenario we will have hundreds of deaths.

Yes your right and It won't just be the elderly nobody is immune to this vicious disease

JP Liz V1 · 26-03-2020 10:36PM

Ace2007 wrote: »

I don't because it doesn't achieve anything - I think I asked you yesterday and didn't see a reply - would you act differently if you knew there was a cluster 1km away.

If the answer is yes, then your not acting properly at the moment.

I think I probably would act more differently if I knew a cluster was quite close, no local shop or even pharmacy out for me then

At present I'm only going out alone for shopping when needed and to the pharmacy

kingshankly · 26-03-2020 10:36PM

All trump talks about is Money head is in the clouds

Cameron326 · 26-03-2020 10:36PM

Surely Ireland (and everywhere else for that matter) should now be banning all non-essential travellers into the country. China has just barred off 10 million sqkm of land to anyone who doesn't have a Chinese passport. Surely time to lockdown, but obviously need the UK to do likewise.

extra gravy · 26-03-2020 10:37PM

I lost my grandmother at the end of last year, I'm so glad now that she went in peace when she did and didn't have to live through this. Can't imagine what it must be like for families not being able visit their sick elderly relatives. Hope anyone here in that position finds the strength to get through it.

Columbia · 26-03-2020 10:37PM

JPCN1 wrote: »

If that's true and no reason to disbelieve you, then China set the rest of the world up for a fall and should be held to account when we get through this.

I agree with you. I've discussed with my wife (whose parents are hardline communist party members, and whose grandfather was one of the original communists in China), how something as simple as an independent media (to which the Wuhan doctors, finding their original diagnoses were suppressed) could have reported and avoided this whole thing. There should be repercussions, but I highly doubt there will be.

hotmail.com · 26-03-2020 10:37PM

Sean 18 wrote: »

Something doesn't add up with all this disinfecting roads it almost sounds like something nuclear

It was never a lockdown, not is there a lockdown in the UK. The term is a headline tabloid term sadly used by the more respectable media.

26-03-2020 10:37PM

I'd like to know the date the 255 confirmed cases today were tested.

saabsaab · 26-03-2020 10:37PM

Jin luk wrote: »

If its okay to be out and about exercising or whatever,

Then why was china and italy and that santizing everything? every road every footpath they knew this virus was on everything, everything was deep cleaned.

I see the need for people to get out for a but every day.

I was also wondering why there are no disinfectants being sprayed in our cities streets, public transport and outside shops here. This is shown in most other places.

ACitizenErased · 26-03-2020 10:37PM

Has it been clarified that ICU numbers are not current and are total cases there to date? I've a feeling that it is total to date, the same as the hospitalization numbers.

Mental Mickey · 26-03-2020 10:38PM

kingshankly wrote: »

All trump talks about is Money head is in the clouds

Toolbag

martingriff · 26-03-2020 10:38PM

owlbethere wrote: »

Its not just throwing granny under the bus, it's other people too - our parents, people with underlying conditions and there would be a lot of young people in this bracket too.

Also if you stop this 2 early and swamp the hospitals with Covid 19 people what about other cases that need ICU or isolation cancer treatments etc

Ninthlife · 26-03-2020 10:38PM

saabsaab wrote: »

I see the need for people to get out for a but every day.

I was also wondering why there are no disinfectants being sprayed in our cities streets, public transport and outside shops here. This is shown in most other places.

Could do with spraying some people too

wadacrack · 26-03-2020 10:39PM

We dont have much better resources that countries in Eastern Europe(Serbia, Albania, Bosnia) in terms of ICU beds. They all had a lockdown within their first 10 cases. We were way too slow. We only have about 200 ICU beds now.

Gretas Gonna Get Ya! · 26-03-2020 10:39PM

Wibbs wrote: »

The kicker is L, Ireland of all places in Europe has so many advantages to fight this; chief among them our low population and low population density and lack of high density living spaces with shared areas and surfaces even within our cities. IMHO it's what has being protecting us thus far. Forget about flattening the curve, we could nail this bastard fcuking virus hard, if we did so en masse, together and consistently.

And it starts from the top, with our politicians pulling the f*cking finger out, and start showing some REAL leadership... not just PR nonsense for the cameras!!

We need tougher measures to really get a grip on this thing... we need enforcement for anyone who doesn't think the rules apply to them!

We had an advantage, being a sparsely populated Island on the edge of Europe, with several weeks advanced warning of this. But we are pi$$ing away that strategic advantage, through weak dithering leadership! :mad:

spookwoman · 26-03-2020 10:39PM

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Has it been clarified that ICU numbers are not current and are total cases there to date? I've a feeling that it is total to date, the same as the hospitalization numbers.

Numbers are as of midnight 24th
https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/0cbb04-statement-from-the-national-public-health-emergency-team-thursday-26/

Strazdas · 26-03-2020 10:39PM

Cameron326 wrote: »

Surely Ireland (and everywhere else for that matter) should now be banning all non-essential travellers into the country. China has just barred off 10 million sqkm of land to anyone who doesn't have a Chinese passport. Surely time to lockdown, but obviously need the UK to do likewise.

I noticed Jacinda Ardern announcing NZ now have very strict rules for people entering the country, even for NZ citizens.

tobefrank321 · 26-03-2020 10:39PM

otnomart wrote: »

The virus is spreading in the community in Ireland.
Stopping flights will not stop community spread.
Many countries in the World are in lockdown and I doubt anyone (except the Irish who still have to repatriate) would want to "escape" to Ireland - as it has so few ICU beds.

We need a two fold approach. Stop the community spread and stop the flow here of new cases.

You can try to stop community spread all you like but if the pool of new cases is replenished from abroad it is absolutely the most pointless exercise and waste of time. This basic premise seems to escape most just as the basic premise that if you cancel cheap flights from Italy far less people will travel here.

cnocbui · 26-03-2020 10:39PM

saabsaab wrote: »

I see the need for people to get out for a but every day.

I was also wondering why there are no disinfectants being sprayed in our cities streets, public transport and outside shops here. This is shown in most other places.

When was the last time you got down on you knees and licked a street?

tobefrank321 · 26-03-2020 10:40PM

otnomart wrote: »

The virus is spreading in the community in Ireland.
Stopping flights will not stop community spread.
Many countries in the World are in lockdown and I doubt anyone (except the Irish who still have to repatriate) would want to "escape" to Ireland - as it has so few ICU beds.

We need a two fold approach. Stop the community spread and stop the flow here of new cases.

You can try to stop community spread all you like but if the pool of new cases is replenished from abroad it is absolutely the most pointless exercise and waste of time. This basic premise seems to escape most just as the basic premise that if you cancel cheap flights from Italy far less people will travel here escaped most people.

Jin luk · 26-03-2020 10:40PM

saabsaab wrote: »

I see the need for people to get out for a but every day.

I was also wondering why there are no disinfectants being sprayed in our cities streets, public transport and outside shops here. This is shown in most other places.

Ive heard of the luas being deep cleaned and dublin bus havnt heard of anywhere else though

CoVid19 Part XI - 2,615 in ROI (46 deaths) 410 in NI (21 deaths)(29/03)*OP upd 28/03*

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CoVid19 Part XI - 2,615 in ROI (46 deaths) 410 in NI (21 deaths)(29/03)OP upd 28/03