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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 18,878 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Just decided to rewatch Contagion again (after many years, my previous film selection was TWD, RE etc) - my god it is so damn true to life with regards to what is happening now (also forgot how many stars were in it)


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


    Took a nap and woke up with the news of 19 deaths. It's heartbreaking and so much people still not taking this seriously saying things like "we're better than Italy". We're only a few weeks behind them. Please take this seriously.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 288 ✭✭citysights


    delly wrote: »
    I was taking it seriously from the start, stocked up on some key provisions early and took my kid out of school 2 weeks before the official closure. With that being said I had absolutely no idea in hell that we would be where we are today. What makes it even scarier is that I genuinely cannot forecast where we will be a month from now.

    Good that you were well prepared. I considered letting the kids stay at home but felt I’d just get too much grief for doing it, from school and family.

    People I know say they are taking it day by day, it’s the most bizarre world now. If anyone had told me at Christmas that we’d be in lock down in March waging war against a new killer virus I’d have told them to get off the video games or see a mental health specialist or stop smoking drugs. This thing is bringing the whole world to a halt. Boards is great though because it’s good for people to talk out their thoughts plus we get loads of information about the virus. I prefer to know than not to know.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,549 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Billy Gates on CNN , Not painting a happy picture. Saying Trump is dreaming if he thinks mid April is time to open up American again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 336 ✭✭ThePopehimself


    We might be over the worst of this by the end of April, or May, possibly into June? Who knows, but then there will be several questions about what just happened, like . . . . .

    1/ Will the virus come back again next year?
    2/ If I've caught it once might I catch it again?
    3/ Might the virus mutate into a different strain?
    4/ Could survivors have future complications?
    5/ Was the release of Covid-19 a deliberate act?
    6) Why is it so random in its individual potency?
    7/ What's been goin on while we're all distracted?


    There's a few questions to be going on with...
    1. Yeah
    2. No
    3. Yeah
    4. Yeah
    5. No
    6. It isn't.
    7. Life


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,152 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    nocoverart wrote: »
    Without getting carried away, perhaps we finally have a legitimate answer to the Fermi Paradox. We’re so vulnerable to these Viruses that they could potentially wipe out the Human Race! this Virus won’t do that but perhaps the next one or the one after that. ****ty Viruses could be the true Great Filter.

    I like to think they've seen enough of our tv signals to know not to get involved.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭speckle


    Send out a family message saying to stay away, no exceptions. Anyone who disagrees, set out the facts.

    and change locks on doors if needs be.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,981 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Billy Gates on CNN , Not painting a happy picture. Saying Trump is dreaming if he thinks mid April is time to open up American again.

    It's rather a pity at this time that Gates isn't the Democrat candidate going up against Trump.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,223 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    1. Yeah
    2. No
    3. Yeah
    4. Yeah
    5. No
    6. It isn't.
    7. Life

    Listening to Dr. Fauci recently and he wouldn't agree absolutely with your 2nd answer.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,598 ✭✭✭aligator_am


    Am curious about what your reactions would be if you were on the receiving end of this Corona challenge thing by some youngsters?

    So if, for example, some teens came up to you and deliberately coughed in your face or spat at you, would you hesitate in levelling them with a dig in the head?

    (Perhaps) More importantly, what would the Gards do? in these exceptional times would they waive their regular application of the law or how do you think it would pan out?

    Could you even prove that the little toerags coughed / spat at you?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 336 ✭✭ThePopehimself


    fritzelly wrote: »
    Just decided to rewatch Contagion again (after many years, my previous film selection was TWD, RE etc) - my god it is so damn true to life with regards to what is happening now (also forgot how many stars were in it)

    We watched it the other night.

    Scarily accurate.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 42,965 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    DubInMeath wrote:
    The Donald has been being his usual self and unfortunately Americans are going to suffer more because of it.
    You see this is what you m talking about. You are blaming him for how bad they are going to be hit by covud-19. That's just ridiculous, there are governor's with enormous powers in every state in the US. There is the CDC whose job is to manage situations like this.
    Donald Trump is a horrible human being and the worst President in the history of the USA I think. He is not responsible for Covid-19 though and what he says doesn't really matter as it's up to the governor of each state to decide how seriously they act to prevent the spread of this virus.
    And as I've said it doesn't matter who says what, if you are going to blame the leader in one country then your a hypocrite if you are not blaming the leaders in the other countries.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 153 ✭✭PaybackPayroll


    humberklog wrote: »
    Listening to Dr. Fauci recently and he wouldn't agree absolutely with your 2nd answer.

    If it's possible to catch multiple times, then that's a major game changer. No herd immunity.

    Each successive time, does it weaken us more?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,152 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    humberklog wrote: »
    Listening to Dr. Fauci recently and he wouldn't agree absolutely with your 2nd answer.

    I got Swine Flu twice, not the same thing, but I imagine it'll take time for Sars-Cov-2 to be researched more.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 196 ✭✭Corkgirl20


    kowloon wrote: »
    I got Swine Flu twice, not the same thing, but I imagine it'll take time for Sars-Cov-2 to be researched more.

    Apparently people who have had swine flu now have super immunities to other viruses.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 42,965 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    If it's possible to catch multiple times, then that's a major game changer. No herd immunity.

    Each successive time, does it weaken us more?

    We won't know this for a couple of months yet.
    We are about 16/17 months from a vaccine. I don't think anybody can consider themselves safe until then.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 336 ✭✭ThePopehimself


    The Last Man On Earth (Series)

    Mike Pence has died of the Virus.....


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSyQvrb-caQ


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,566 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    If it's possible to catch multiple times, then that's a major game changer. No herd immunity.

    Each successive time, does it weaken us more?

    There are many possibilities though - it gives some/most people immunity, but not others, it gives temporary immunity for a few weeks then goes, possibly that it can give partial immunity (i.e. you can still get it, but are better able to deal with it the second time), you can have immunity to one strain, but not to another novel strain etc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,276 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    Took a nap and woke up with the news of 19 deaths. It's heartbreaking and so much people still not taking this seriously saying things like "we're better than Italy". We're only a few weeks behind them. Please take this seriously.
    We've been practically the same as Italy since the start. It took us an eternity to start waking up to this reality.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,354 ✭✭✭nocoverart


    I feel like I let my guard down with my musical tastes these last few years, I allowed horrid Pop Music into my brain stream. My ears are definitely receiving a good vaccine with Radiohead/OK Computer and Pink Floyd/Animals in these tough times, it’s not all bad.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,183 ✭✭✭✭spookwoman




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    Louisiana in the US is in the process of getting an absolute walloping as a result of Mardi Gras going ahead.

    As an aside, this year's New Orleans procession passed a partially collapsed building where a worker's corpse is still occasionally visible from the street, leading some to suggest it was cursed.


  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 7,811 Mod ✭✭✭✭delly


    citysights wrote: »
    Good that you were well prepared. I considered letting the kids stay at home but felt I’d just get too much grief for doing it, from school and family.

    People I know say they are taking it day by day, it’s the most bizarre world now. If anyone had told me at Christmas that we’d be in lock down in March waging war against a new killer virus I’d have told them to get off the video games or see a mental health specialist or stop smoking drugs. This thing is bringing the whole world to a halt. Boards is great though because it’s good for people to talk out their thoughts plus we get loads of information about the virus. I prefer to know than not to know.
    In my case there was an underlying illness, so it just wasn't worth the risk no matter how small it was in those early days. I actually remember waking up during the night frequently in that first week, literally in a state of panic. I could only compare it to the same feeling of waking when my dad died, the realisation of such a terrible and sad event.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭speckle


    AdrianG08 wrote: »
    my mother in law passed away with it today. She had underlying conditions ... but was scarily quick how it took hold.../quote]

    May the road rise with her, on her journey home, to the loving embrace of her ancestors. We the people of Ireland also embrace you, and your family from a far. I have a candle in my window for herself, and the other souls that have passed away today.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,598 ✭✭✭aligator_am


    There are many possibilities though - it gives some/most people immunity, but not others, it gives temporary immunity for a few weeks then goes, possibly that it can give partial immunity (i.e. you can still get it, but are better able to deal with it the second time), you can have immunity to one strain, but not to another novel strain etc.

    That is something that I've been wondering about, I've not heard of any massive outbreaks of the virus in Africa or South America, this is a good thing of course (assuming there's no big outbreaks), just curious as to how it hasn't really kicked off there yet?

    Listening to a Joe Rogan podcast and he mentioned that a Doctor friend of his has a patient in their 20's who's a fitness instructor that is in a heap with it and on a ventilator, and yet you have say Idris Elba who's in his 40's or possibly 50's who also has it and is apparently not a bother to him?

    It may be a while before we figure out why some are more succeptible than others, but it's interesting nonetheless.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,598 ✭✭✭aligator_am


    nocoverart wrote: »
    I feel like I let my guard down with my musical tastes these last few years, I allowed horrid Pop Music into my brain stream. My ears are definitely receiving a good vaccine with Radiohead/OK Computer and Pink Floyd/Animals in these tough times, it’s not all bad.

    Be careful, if you start listening to some of Radiohead's more recent stuff then you'll probably get the HIV and possibly a dose of crabs.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 949 ✭✭✭Woodsie1


    Am curious about what your reactions would be if you were on the receiving end of this Corona challenge thing by some youngsters?

    So if, for example, some teens came up to you and deliberately coughed in your face or spat at you, would you hesitate in levelling them with a dig in the head?

    (Perhaps) More importantly, what would the Gards do? in these exceptional times would they waive their regular application of the law or how do you think it would pan out?

    Could you even prove that the little toerags coughed / spat at you?

    No hesitation,a swift dig to the temple and hopefully drop the cnut unconscious.
    More importantly I wouldnt be there when the Guards arrived,if they even arrived at all.
    Swift dig for the little prick and carry on with my day!

    People need to start realising that these little toerags get away with all sorts without having to prove anything...You can too!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,598 ✭✭✭aligator_am


    Louisiana in the US is in the process of getting an absolute walloping as a result of Mardi Gras going ahead.

    As an aside, this year's New Orleans procession passed a partially collapsed building where a worker's corpse is still occasionally visible from the street, leading some to suggest it was cursed.

    And don't forget those dimwit spring breakers down in Florida, I think half the place is infected now! Absolute plonkers.

    Unfortunately, there's no telling the young what to do , they "know everything" at that age (as we all did ourselves of course).


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,223 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    If it's possible to catch multiple times, then that's a major game changer. No herd immunity.

    Each successive time, does it weaken us more?[/QUOTE

    I think Dr. Fauci's point was more along the lines that immunity wears off and in this instance no one knows how long (or indeed if) immunity lasts.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 336 ✭✭ThePopehimself


    humberklog wrote: »
    Listening to Dr. Fauci recently and he 'wouldn't agree absolutely' with your 2nd answer.


    Okaaaaay...Fauci 'wouldn't absolutely agree'.....;) so does this mean that at worst I scored 85.714285714286% in the questionnaire but I might still get the 100%?



    :)


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