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

rossie1977 · 27-03-2020 09:25PM

shesty wrote: »

It is being taken very seriously up here.Possibly your comments should be addressed at a more local level.

Public transport still runs across the country, local transport still running as normal. They have cut one train on the Westport-Dublin line starting next week so now we have four to Dublin every day instead of 5. In Hubei public transport was completely suspended.

Webcam of O'Connell strret shows people walking around and lots of traffic. Massive difference between that and say Milan or Venice with nobody on the street.

A lockdown in this country is inevitable once ICU's are over capacity.

Spanish Eyes · 27-03-2020 09:26PM

Boggles wrote: »

I was joking about Lilt, I seemed to have got a lot of people hopes up.

I think Enda Kenny drank it all, or so Oliver Callan said anyway. Hilarious.

GooglePlus · 27-03-2020 09:26PM

Is Leo on TV soon?

bb12 · 27-03-2020 09:26PM

tom1ie wrote: »

Hold on a sec.
can we get this straight.
How many icu beds have we got? Varadkar was on tv saying we are close to being overwhelmed in icu departments, Ivan Yates had an icu doc on saying we haven’t enough beds and we’re close to capacity, yet people on here are saying we’ve nearly 600 icu beds if we need them and we’ve loads of capacity.
Which one is it?

there's probably loads of other type patients taking up icu beds at the moment...accidents, heart attacks, car crashes etc etc

LRNM · 27-03-2020 09:26PM

There's a massive operation ongoing within NAS and HSE the past few weeks. See my post above for more info. Things are only starting. Absolutely mad times :eek:

I never thought I'd see the day the old rusty "MAJOR DISASTER" presses in hospitals and NAS lorries would be actually opened and prepped.

xabi · 27-03-2020 09:26PM

WAW wrote: »

Out of curiosity how many people have died in Ireland from the flu and other respiratory illness this season, anybody with correct figures? How many of the regular ICU (not with the private hospitals) beds are normally taken up this time of year?
How many ICU beds are taken up this year with flu/respiratory illness now that Covid 19 is in the picture?
There were reports on radio this morning people who should be going to hospitals are staying away now.
I'd love to hear from people in the know who can put the real threat of Covid in Ireland in context. Countries with poor air quality seem to have suffered more deaths but apparently these places eg North of Italy have very high death rates from respiratory illness normally.
I'm not downplaying Covid but I do wonder about hype, selective statistics and reality.

100 flu deaths last time I checked

Loafing Oaf · 27-03-2020 09:27PM

Ninthlife wrote: »

Aliens

And i for one welcome our new overlords

Just Saying · 27-03-2020 09:27PM

otnomart wrote: »

Still, the UK has the capacity to create more ICU beds, look at their upcoming NHS Nightingale hospital.
And they have also the industry capacity to produce ventilators, there is a a consortium called Ventilator Challenge UK, involving companies including Airbus, Rolls-Royce and Ford.
They can or soon will deal with their cases, same as France and Italy.

Surely it would be worth having an agreement for the UK to take in some Irish patients ?

I think wait and see is the best response to that.

cave_dweller · 27-03-2020 09:27PM

How many ICU beds does Ireland have right now?

is_that_so · 27-03-2020 09:27PM

Not sure if this has been posted. Not the way we should be going on treatment - the snake oil route

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/27/vital-drug-people-lupus-coronavirus-covid-19-link-hydroxychloroquine

bennyl10 · 27-03-2020 09:28PM

Can this be just a “don’t be f-ing eegits like you were last weekend” speech

That’d be fine

Mervyn Skidmore · 27-03-2020 09:28PM

Shn99 wrote: »

What are we expecting at this conference?

I'll tell ya in 20 minutes.

27-03-2020 09:28PM

Bookies have stopped taking bets on Leo and Simon doing a duet of Gloria Gaynors I Will Survive.

walshb · 27-03-2020 09:28PM

RTE now...

AllGunsBlazing · 27-03-2020 09:28PM

rossie1977 wrote: »

Public transport still runs across the country, local transport still running as normal. They have cut one train on the Westport-Dublin line starting next week so now we have four to Dublin every day instead of 5. In Hubei public transport was completely suspended.

Webcam of O'Connell strret shows people walking around and lots of traffic. Massive difference between that and say Milan or Venice with nobody on the street.

A lockdown in this country is inevitable once ICU's are over capacity.

A lockdown won't work now. We're already on for the ride whether we like it or not.

JRant · 27-03-2020 09:29PM

Lovely, another party political broadcast coming up.

Cork Boy 53 · 27-03-2020 09:29PM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

I'm going with this as well.

Hopefully they have had contact from the Vulcans. If it`s the Klingons or the Borg we truly are ****ed.:(

RobertKK · 27-03-2020 09:29PM

I hope this has more substance to it than the address Leo made to the nation last week.

New Home · 27-03-2020 09:29PM

Wibbs wrote: »

This plus a thousand. There will always be a whataboutthese[insert group here], but we're literally fighting a war here. We will lose people and we have to support as many people as we can, but we also have to sack the fcuk up here and do what's best for the majority of people.

How did people during the war (any war) deal with curfews, rationing, bombing, the constant fear for themselves and those they care about, etc? Nobody likes those, but limitation of personal freedom, in cases like this, is a necessary evil.

If this had been a serious radioactive spill or a chemical weapon of mass destruction, would people still be thinking and acting the same way?

I've had it up to here with people at work, for instance, who are so annoyed at the fact that their half marathon/insert sport/entertainment event has been cancelled.

LRNM · 27-03-2020 09:29PM

cave_dweller wrote: »

How many ICU beds does Ireland have right now?

Don't have the exact number but the daily report being emailed to us this morning said roughly 250 give or take.

One thing that striked me was that most of the regional hospitals only have 1 ICU bed suitable for Covid19.
Some of the big university hospitals had around 5 beds each.

Didn't read the stats for the Dublin region, so obviously there's more there in the big hospitals.

kingshankly · 27-03-2020 09:29PM

There’s definitely transport cuts

walshb · 27-03-2020 09:30PM

Deaths in the North today...3 or 13?

6 news said 13..

Now saying 3

threeball · 27-03-2020 09:30PM

bb12 wrote: »

there's probably loads of other type patients taking up icu beds at the moment...accidents, heart attacks, car crashes etc etc

You don't necessarily need ICU beds. Other countries are talking about ventilators in the 10s of thousands, they certainly don't have the ICU staff to man them so why do we need full ICU. The Excel centre in london won't be full of ICU equipment. I'm sure theres scores of cases that can be managed with just a ventilator.

lillycakes2 · 27-03-2020 09:30PM

**** ,what is leo gunna say??

laugh · 27-03-2020 09:30PM

Stream it here: https://www.rte.ie/player/onnow/66546216066

Away With The Fairies · 27-03-2020 09:30PM

Over 2000 cases... They're only testing people with at least two symptoms... Means we have way more cases here than 2000.

joe40 · 27-03-2020 09:31PM

otnomart wrote: »

From the Guardian.
A letter from Italy: this is what we know about your future
An author in Rome describes what to expect based on her experiences of lockdown
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/27/a-letter-to-the-uk-from-italy-this-is-what-we-know-about-your-future

That's a great article, thanks for sharing

RobertKK · 27-03-2020 09:31PM

George Lee is talking rubbish, I have friends in other European countries where some have acted much earlier than Ireland.

Ireland has been slow to act, not as slow as some like the UK.

Naggdefy · 27-03-2020 09:31PM

George 'Leo ahead of the curve'. Well he would say that of a former party colleague:rolleyes:

pjohnson · 27-03-2020 09:32PM

George just said 59 in ICU right now.......but others say 59 cumulative......and they say to focus on the blurry ICU numbers?

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