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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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  • #6242
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Steer55 wrote: »
    Anyone know if building sites are now closed?
    Not so far but they did have 48 hours to comply with distancing. The list when it's published should confirm.


  • #6243
    Risteard81
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,566 ✭✭✭Risteard81


    Hooked wrote: »
    If it were me... I’d be on the road now.

    The news only broke last night. Explain you were at work when it broke and this is the first chance you’ve had to move. Can’t see anyone with even half a brain turning you around.

    Drive safe.

    Explain nothing. It's none of their business.


  • #6244
    Jinglejangle69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,131 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    Risteard81 wrote: »
    Explain nothing. It's none of their business.

    Wow folks we have a rebel here.


  • #6245
    niallo27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,139 ✭✭✭✭niallo27


    crossman47 wrote: »
    That is a lunatic comment. I happen to know many civil servants are working flat out, barely getting home to sleep. Have a bit of cop on - they are trying to cope with a fast moving emergency.

    You would like to think they have plans in place for different phases of lockdown. I agree with the original poster. They had a few days to sort this out, instead of it's a lockdown from midnight. Oh you want to know what businesses affects, we will tell ya over the weekend. Its pathetic.


  • #6246
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,016 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    That's not official (yet).

    It was on the 11 0 clock news.
    My advice to people, get off this thread and get your information from official sources.


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  • #6247
    tromtipp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 264 ✭✭tromtipp


    Don't know about phones but I used diluted bleach yesterday on a 'new' laptop and it hasn't harmed it (took care not to let wetness get into the innards). Went to the laptop repair shop in response to an 'emergency' - in another world. I'm so glad I went for a reconditioned replacement, now that this phase of the lockdown has landed. Wondered at the time was my feeling I wanted to avoid going back into town a bit ott.



    For clothes, you'd be better to wash them - soap and water is the BEST cleanser. If you're staying at home, wearing easily washable things shouldn't be a problem.
    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    I know alcohol can be good for cleaning phones, but can a diluted bleach solution be used as well to clean phones. Also are there any good disinfectants that won't stain clothes like bleach would?


  • #6248
    Lundstram
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭Lundstram


    I think this goverment and it's advisors have done a great job so far but they really should've had a specific and comprehensive list ready of essential jobs that can carry on. There's a lot of confusion.


  • #6249
    Bandito909
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 347 ✭✭Bandito909


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Yes, they are.

    Source?


  • #6250
    lawred2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,756 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Achasanai wrote: »


    Exactly. Although we're due a 'big' shop, we're waiting until the end part of the week with the hope that any panic buying will have died down by then.

    Just going to order online.. sod waiting in long queues. Going to ration whatever food we do have until this delivery arrives. Then we'll immediately place the next order.


  • #6251
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,086 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    Risteard81 wrote: »
    Of course you can. Go home to see her. Leo can mind his own business.
    Risteard81 wrote: »
    Explain nothing. It's none of their business.

    So many pointy edges.


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  • #6252
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,016 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Bandito909 wrote: »
    Source?

    The news.


  • #6253
    cj maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,794 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    Risteard81 wrote: »
    Of course you can. Go home to see her. Leo can mind his own business.

    Just make sure to fill up. Some petrol stations are doing maintenance work when it's slow on the roads


  • #6254
    Curious_Case
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭Curious_Case


    For those who still don't understand the 2km radius restriction, it's like this -

    Connect yourself to your front door or gate using a 2km length of imaginary thread (actually a little longer to facilitate knot making at both ends)

    You can now go wherever you like as long as you don't stretch or break the imaginary thread.


  • #6255
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    old_aussie wrote: »
    Good luck Ireland

    Yeah Ireland are getting the ones the Spanish no longer want ........
    Coronavirus: Spain stops using Chinese test kits after its found they have a 30 per cent accuracy.

    The research found nose swabs developed by Shenzhen Bioeasy Biotechnology had an accuracy rate of less than 30 per cent.

    https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/coronavirus-spain-stops-using-chinese-test-kits-after-its-found-they-have-a-30-per-cent-accuracy/news-story/c87b6929a0447d9d00a14b0938735c68

    It's collecting PPE.


  • #6256
    Sofiztikated
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Sofiztikated


    cnocbui wrote: »
    Bleach breaks down to salt water fairly quickly, it's not a danger to the oceans and probably would be mostly broken down in passing through storm water drainage systems.

    Should, in theory, be neutralised before it hits storm drains. An overload of salt water will shock water courses.
    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    I know alcohol can be good for cleaning phones, but can a diluted bleach solution be used as well to clean phones. Also are there any good disinfectants that won't stain clothes like bleach would?

    A bleach solution (1 part bleach to 99 parts water) is good.

    Normal washing powder is fine, soap breaks down the lipid coating on the virus.


  • #6257
    khalessi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,216 ✭✭✭khalessi


    niallo27 wrote: »
    You would like to think they have plans in place for different phases of lockdown. I agree with the original poster. They had a few days to sort this out, instead of it's a lockdown from midnight. Oh you want to know what businesses affects, we will tell ya over the weekend. Its pathetic.

    THis might surprise ya but sometimes tds do stuff off the bat despite being advised not to as things may not be ready to roll out but they do it anyhow


  • #6258
    froog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,784 ✭✭✭froog


    extremely confusing from the government regarding factories and other non retail businesses. there appears to be no restrictions there at all?


  • #6259
    lawred2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,756 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Curious_Case wrote: »
    For those who still don't understand the 2km radius restriction, it's like this -

    Connect yourself to your front door or gate using a 2km length of imaginary thread (actually a little longer to facilitate knot making at both ends)

    You can now go wherever you like as long as you don't stretch or break the imaginary thread.

    Who are you engaging with here? Toddlers?


  • #6260
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,780 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Curious_Case wrote: »
    For those who still don't understand the 2km radius restriction, it's like this -

    Connect yourself to your front door or gate using a 2km length of imaginary thread (actually a little longer to facilitate knot making at both ends)

    You can now go wherever you like as long as you don't stretch or break the imaginary thread.

    Some people might need an actual length of thread wrapped around their waist and attached to their front door to conceptualize this.


  • #6261
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    pjohnson wrote: »
    So many pointy edges.
    Risteard is feeling grand though, and has no worries - so what's the issue?


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  • #6262
    circadian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,487 ✭✭✭circadian


    Anyone got that diagram that shows the spread and how staying at home reduces it? It's red dots with the stay at home ones in grey.

    Really simple but effective.


  • #6263
    NATLOR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,356 ✭✭✭NATLOR


    is_that_so wrote: »
    He's now taken to threatening anyone he think he can blame. We all share a level of frustration about this and he's taking it a lot worse than most.

    His daily pressers are something to behold (comedy gold if it wasn't so serious)


  • #6264
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    lawred2 wrote: »
    Who are you engaging with here? Toddlers?
    Adults who behave like toddlers.

    So, so many adults who behave like toddlers...


  • #6265
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,086 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    Risteard is feeling grand though, and has no worries - so what's the issue?

    I'd say the education system for producing people like that tbh.


  • #6266
    Mervyn Skidmore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,210 ✭✭✭Mervyn Skidmore


    niallo27 wrote: »
    You would like to think they have plans in place for different phases of lockdown. I agree with the original poster. They had a few days to sort this out, instead of it's a lockdown from midnight. Oh you want to know what businesses affects, we will tell ya over the weekend. Its pathetic.

    This comment is pathetic.


  • #6267
    Cilldara_2000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,189 ✭✭✭Cilldara_2000


    froog wrote: »
    extremely confusing from the government regarding factories and other non retail businesses. there appears to be no restrictions there at all?

    Non-retail businesses will be dealt with in a separate list and advice to be published today.


  • #6268
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    I don't know if this has been posted already so apologies if it has.



    'Two metres not enough' when social distancing


    But a new analysis by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US has found that viral droplets expelled in coughs and sneezes can travel in a moist, warm atmosphere at speeds of 10-30 metres (33ft-100ft) per second, creating a cloud that can span approximately 7-8 metres (23ft-27ft).

    The researchers also warn that droplets can stay suspended in the air for hours, moving along airflow patterns imposed by ventilation or climate-control systems.


    It seems as though we have greatly underestimated the aerosol nature of virus transmission. Whatever the reason. I've seen in some guides on PPE use the term eye protection. Doesn't stipulate goggles or face-shield. They are not the same and do different things.

    There is even a warning on this thread that you can't talk about airborne. Think it needs to be updated at this stage.

    Number of healthcare workers getting this is very high.

    https://www.independent.ie/world-news/coronavirus/two-metres-not-enough-when-social-distancing-39083182.html


  • #6269
    iguana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭iguana


    Pencil Neck wrote: »
    What kind of lunatic would you need to be to go on a cruise after what happened on the Princess Cruise Ship?

    Have you seen the worst debacle of all The Ruby Princess in Australia? A few weeks back I posted about watching videos from Australia where people embarking were being interviewed and they were all extremely blasé about the risk of getting on the ship. Out of curiosity I looked up what happened last night and it was probably the biggest corona-cruise ship disaster of all. Numerous people on the cruise got ship and either the crew or Princess cruises made the decision to suppress the information completely. When the cruise was over they arrived in New South Wales and somehow the port authorities just let the ship dock and everyone disembark. 1/3 of the passengers were international passengers and they were told to either leave Australia right away or find a way to self-isolate for 14 days. Most of them went straight to airports and flew home. Australian passengers were told to go home and self-isolate but told it was fine to use public transport to get there.

    This is now recognised as being the largest source of cases in Australia with at least 293 passengers since testing positive and numerous contact infections stemming from these passengers. British passengers said they flew home after disembarking and were already back in London, having taken two flights home, by the time they heard there had been an outbreak on the ship. Some started showing symptoms in the following days. It's been an absolutely massive fuçk up.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-51999845

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/28/interstate-coronavirus-cases-from-ruby-princess-jump-as-32-queenslanders-test-positive


  • #6270
    khalessi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,216 ✭✭✭khalessi


    pjohnson wrote: »
    I'd say the education system for producing people like that tbh.

    Parents are the primary educators so I would look closer to home


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  • #6271
    random_banter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 614 ✭✭✭random_banter


    Went for my test earlier. Have seen Gardai out this morning carrying out checks on people who are out and about. On the way back went through a checkpoint - they were stopping everyone on the road- drivers, cyclists, runners, walkers.

    I just put the window down a crack and held up my mask in front of my mouth and said I was on the way back from the test. “Grand, take care”.

    Didn’t catch the conversations they were having with others.

    All in all I was glad to be seeing it policed in some way.


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