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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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  • #2222
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,783 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    TheMilkyPirate wrote: »
    "Drugs trade ended overnight" hahahaha

    I've heard that dealers are using Revolut now.


  • #2223
    Boggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,511 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    mick987 wrote: »
    Why have 20 million chinese stopped using their mobile phones since January?

    They finished Netflix?


  • #2224
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,782 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    eagle eye wrote: »
    Not for me. As soon as this is all over I'll be back to cash.
    If you could trust that everything you do wasn't being tracked and used I'd have no problem with a cashless society but that'll never be the case.

    Those wishing for a cashless society will rue the day if it ever comes about. It's a bloody terrible idea.


  • #2225
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    shocksy wrote: »
    I'm seeing a paywall on my phone so cant read it.
    Think all the coronavirus stuff is free on NY Times, it certainly is on desktop.


  • #2226
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,570 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    stephenjmcd wrote:
    Wearing gloves is not in the current guidelines. If anything it aids the spread of virus. Frequent hand hygiene is much more effective.
    Please tell me how wearing gloves aids the spread of the virus?


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  • #2227
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,783 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Peruvian Flake wrote: »
    Holland possibly.

    Definitely and their health ministry is advising that it's ok for children to play with other children as they don't pass on the virus,

    Numbers very high there.


  • #2228
    TheMilkyPirate
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,109 ✭✭✭TheMilkyPirate


    murpho999 wrote: »
    I've heard that dealers are using Revolut now.

    Revolut, Bitcoin.. Anybody who thinks a cashless society will stop the drugs trade overnight is completely daft and very naive.


  • #2229
    dummy_crusher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 114 ✭✭dummy_crusher


    Naggdefy wrote: »
    Back from a supervalu in a small Laois town.

    Way too many people inside, the aisles are packed. People tripping over themselves.

    Report them then instead of posting on the internet.


  • #2230
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,204 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    TheMilkyPirate wrote: »
    "Drugs trade ended overnight" hahahaha

    The users wont be able to pay in cash so...that's the end for the cartels which is the end of the drugs trade...because they need cash to launder.

    Anyhow that's for a different thread.


  • #2231
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,783 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    eagle eye wrote: »
    Please tell me how wearing gloves aids the spread of the virus?

    I'd say people get complacent and think the gloves kill the virus.

    Wearing them all day doing stuff and infecting everything.

    I think people who are barehanded would be more cautious. I know I am myself when I go to the shop.


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  • #2232
    jam_mac_jam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,733 ✭✭✭jam_mac_jam


    eagle eye wrote: »
    Please tell me how wearing gloves aids the spread of the virus?

    False sense of security, less hand washing. It's easier to wash your hands. Unless you are changing gloves all the time then they are pointless


  • #2233
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Global total will likely hit 600k today, not even 48 hours after hitting 500k


  • #2234
    tobefrank321
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,527 ✭✭✭tobefrank321


    yourdeadwright wrote: »
    Any one else getting paranoid due to this ,

    Yesterday I was feeding my youngest in the kitchen and all of a sudden I got what I can only describe as bizarre feeling in one of my lungs, it was like a wheezing for about 30-40 seconds, the it disappeared , never felt anything like it before or since made paranoid as **** , I had a slight runny nose the last few mornings but nothing out of the unusual ,
    Last night I done 10k on the treadmill at home and felt absolutely fine so im guessing it was just one of those weird things that happen out of the blue ,

    Keep an eye on it. Are you working from home or in a workplace? If in a workplace, inform HR and your manager if you suspect you might have something and they will advise. If symptoms get worse, call your GP. And also avoid friends until you are sure you don't have it.


  • #2235
    qm1bv4p8i92aoj
    Closed Accounts Posts: 838 ✭✭✭qm1bv4p8i92aoj


    tobefrank321 wrote: »
    Yes they were. The Chinese aren't dumb enough to let people into the community from hotspot zones without being tested and quarantined immediately on arrival.

    No, they are just dumb enough to eat disgusting things like bat soup after being constantly warned how dangerous these types of eating habits are. And now everyone has to suffer because of their willful dumbness.

    No not dumb at all.


  • #2236
    shocksy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,610 ✭✭✭shocksy


    is_that_so wrote: »
    Think all the coronavirus stuff is free on NY Times, it certainly is on desktop.

    Ok thanks. I'll check it out on the laptop.


  • #2237
    Fitz*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,651 ✭✭✭✭Fitz*


    Tony EH wrote: »
    Those wishing for a cashless society will rue the day if it ever comes about. It's a bloody terrible idea.

    I use very little cash now more and more, almost entirely since about the start of the year.

    Paying €3 in coins for the weekly astro game is about the height of what I need cash for. Maybe if I go for pints as constantly tapping on the card is a nuisance but sometimes pubs will let me start a tab if they know me. Or getting a taxi.

    I had gotten used to having very little cash on me, even before this pandemic and recommendation to use less cash.


  • #2238
    otnomart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭otnomart


    tobefrank321 wrote: »
    All our original cases can be traced back to Italy or coming from elsewhere. Once in the country, community transmission becomes the problem.


    Nextstrain is visualising data from the GISAID Initiative - the international sharing of virus sequences https://www.gisaid.org/
    There are a total of 5 sequences from ROI: 3 from Limerick, one from Dublin, one from Cork
    https://nextstrain.org/ncov?f_country=Ireland


    -the Dublin one was originated via the Netherlands and/or Bavaria (via Italy)
    -one from Limerick was originated via England and/or the Netherlands
    -second one from Limerick is 100% from the Netherlands
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/show...postcount=9150


  • #2239
    Steve F
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,858 ✭✭✭Steve F


    Just looking at some of the posts about cash reminds me of a medical paper that was released to the press...oooh ...easily 20 years ago where a lab tested bank notes and detected amongst other things,Human excrement,E-Coli,Cocaine and about another 20 viruses and bacteria.It was one of the things that encouraged me too ditch the use of cash when at all possible.My wife is constantly giving out to me for not carrying any.On odd occasions I would mention it to people about bank notes teeming with disease only to be scoffed at. Just think of the thousands of hands a bank note passes through in only 7 days

    More recently the ordering touchscreens in McDonalds restaurants tested positive for Human Excrement(I know they are closed) but if you used the screens to order then didn't wash your hands before eating you were definitely getting "extras" with your Burger


  • #2240
    silverharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,854 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    I just wear a pair of woolly gloves in the supermarket, its not a surface that they can survive on long, other than that no reason to be touching anything outside with your hands, elbows will get pedestrian lights etc.

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • #2241
    bob mcbob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 971 ✭✭✭bob mcbob


    Interesting study from Iceland

    They have been performing mass testing of their population and for those that test positive tracking back to the source of the infection. Which is probably easier to do in Iceland than most European countries. The results were

    To date a total of 4 197 samples have been diagnosed by the healthcare system. The healthcare system's testing has yielded 425 results indicating infection. About a third (34%) of all cases can be traced to overseas travel, mostly to high-risk areas identified in the European Alps. More than a quarter (32.7%) of cases have been traced to domestic transmission. The rest (33.2%) have not been conclusively traced to a source of transmission.

    So for every person who caught the virus from a known local source, another person caught it from an unknown local source.

    This could mean that for every person who had symptoms and got tested (positive), there could be another person who may be asymptomatic

    https://www.government.is/news/article/2020/03/15/Large-scale-testing-of-general-population-in-Iceland-underway/


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  • #2242
    Boggles
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    giggys wrote: »
    You will be pleased to know from 1st april Dublin Bus are getting a reduced service, a emergency Covid-19 timetable.
    We have waited until 1st april to ensure that all bonuses linked to servivce levels in financial quarter 1 can be reached and paid out to managment in both DB & NTA.
    In these difficult time, rest assure all Dublin Bus and NTA execuitives are self isolating and are safe and well provisioned at home.
    When this Covid-19 plague passes we will come out of our bunkers and be ready to get whats left of Dublin moving once again.

    A reduced service has to be carefully managed and planned.

    Can force more people to commute together.


  • #2243
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,615 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Naggdefy wrote: »
    Back from a supervalu in a small Laois town.

    Way too many people inside, the aisles are packed. People tripping over themselves.

    Makes a mockery of social distancing.


  • #2244
    andrew1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,135 ✭✭✭andrew1977


    Boris Johnson now confirmed as having Corona virus.


  • #2245
    Naggdefy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,981 ✭✭✭Naggdefy


    dummy_crusher wrote: »
    Report them then instead of posting on the internet.

    The right thing to do. It's a hard one, i know the owners. A new girl on one til was causing a lot of the backup.


  • #2246
    rodDaly69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 79 ✭✭rodDaly69


    fits wrote: »
    Article from New York Times about Bergamo.

    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/27/world/europe/coronavirus-italy-bergamo.html?referringSource=articleShare

    Jesus Christ. That hits hard.


  • #2247
    billybonkers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,293 ✭✭✭billybonkers


    Boris Johnson has the conronavirus!


  • #2248
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,615 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    billybonkers wrote: »
    Boris Johnson has the conronavirus!

    Wow, not good.

    Although he'll probably just power his way through it...


  • #2249
    greenfield21
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,126 ✭✭✭greenfield21


    ..


  • #2250
    bottlebrush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,215 ✭✭✭bottlebrush


    Boris Johnson has tested positive


    Source sean o Rourke rte


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  • #2251
    billybonkers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,293 ✭✭✭billybonkers


    https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1243496858095411200


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