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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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  • #6272
    crossman47
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,600 ✭✭✭crossman47


    lawred2 wrote: »
    Who are you engaging with here? Toddlers?

    Judging by some posts here, confused toddlers.


  • #6273
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    Mervyn Skidmore wrote: »
    This comment is pathetic.
    People without a notion of how things work are the "greatest" experts of all.


  • #6274
    froog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,784 ✭✭✭froog


    also it seems a lot of people missed a very troubling comment in the middle of all this - leo said pharmacies will be able to give out medicine past it's sell by/use by dates. odd thing to say unless he's expecting a mass shortage of essential medicines very soon.


  • #6275
    Curious_Case
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭Curious_Case


    lawred2 wrote: »
    Who are you engaging with here? Toddlers?

    I'm casting the net far and wide, so it's all down to mesh dimension and fishy size


  • #6276
    Gentleman Off The Pitch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 603 ✭✭✭Gentleman Off The Pitch


    caveat emptor wrote: »
    I don't know if this has been posted already so apologies if it has.





    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

    I wonder what implications, if any, these findings of ''Two metres not enough' when social distancing' would have for people in their back gardens in housing estates for example


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  • #6277
    recyclebin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,541 ✭✭✭recyclebin


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

    Majority are to close.


  • #6278
    kevcos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 220 ✭✭kevcos


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

    Ms Hoover, someone has eaten my thread can I have a new one?


  • #6279
    cnocbui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,063 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    sReq | uTeK wrote: »
    Okay so this suggests I can go to a wood 2k away from my house with the kids?

    You better drag a 2km long tape measure with you, or else the high horse men of this thread will have you burned at the stake for reckless endangerment.


  • #6280
    storker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,716 ✭✭✭storker


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    New data has been added to Worldometer. Including the date of each country's first case confirmation.

    When Italy and Spain were at the point in time that we are at now (about four weeks since the first confirmed case) they had a fraction of the deaths in this country.

    I'm actually sick with worry now.

    Seriously, take a break from threads like this, watch only one news broadcast a day and spend the time you save doing something fun. While observing the latest recommendations, of course.


  • #6281
    leahyl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,429 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    froog wrote: »
    also it seems a lot of people missed a very troubling comment in the middle of all this - leo said pharmacies will be able to give out medicine past it's seel by/use by dates. odd thing to say unless he's expecting a mass shortage of essential medicines very soon.

    Eh I think he meant beyond the length of the prescription


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  • #6282
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,185 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1243861391477329921


  • #6283
    froog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,784 ✭✭✭froog


    recyclebin wrote: »
    Majority are to close.

    where is that written?


  • #6284
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    A 2km from home calculator.

    https://2kmfromhome.com/


  • #6285
    recyclebin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,541 ✭✭✭recyclebin


    froog wrote: »
    also it seems a lot of people missed a very troubling comment in the middle of all this - leo said pharmacies will be able to give out medicine past it's sell by/use by dates. odd thing to say unless he's expecting a mass shortage of essential medicines very soon.

    I thought that was the prescription script, not the medicine itself.


  • #6286
    Icemancometh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 873 ✭✭✭Icemancometh


    froog wrote: »
    also it seems a lot of people missed a very troubling comment in the middle of all this - leo said pharmacies will be able to give out medicine past it's sell by/use by dates. odd thing to say unless he's expecting a mass shortage of essential medicines very soon.

    I think he meant prescriptions can roll over. So if you're on some blood pressure medication, but the script runs out, the pharmacist can extend it for now.


  • #6287
    Sofiztikated
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Sofiztikated


    froog wrote: »
    also it seems a lot of people missed a very troubling comment in the middle of all this - leo said pharmacies will be able to give out medicine past it's seel by/use by dates. odd thing to say unless he's expecting a mass shortage of essential medicines very soon.

    Was it not that pharmacies can give out medicine outside their normal remit?

    That if I have a kidney infection, I can get a run of antibiotics without having to go to the doctor?


  • #6288
    RoryMac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,614 ✭✭✭RoryMac


    froog wrote: »
    also it seems a lot of people missed a very troubling comment in the middle of all this - leo said pharmacies will be able to give out medicine past it's seel by/use by dates. odd thing to say unless he's expecting a mass shortage of essential medicines very soon.

    That's not what I heard, I took it as they could give out medicines after the prescription had expired so for repeat prescriptions they could still provide the medicine without the person having to go back to their GP


  • #6289
    SleetAndSnow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,754 ✭✭✭SleetAndSnow


    What's happening with restaurant deliveries and stuff does anybody know? Passed a bill yesterday allowing them to all become deliveries, are they closed now?


  • #6290
    recyclebin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,541 ✭✭✭recyclebin


    froog wrote: »
    where is that written?

    It is kind of obvious. People should not be looking for loopholes.


  • #6291
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,086 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    froog wrote: »
    also it seems a lot of people missed a very troubling comment in the middle of all this - leo said pharmacies will be able to give out medicine past it's sell by/use by dates. odd thing to say unless he's expecting a mass shortage of essential medicines very soon.

    Out of date scripts I assume.


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  • #6292
    lawred2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,756 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    Adults who behave like toddlers.

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

    That is true.


  • #6293
    castletownman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    I for one won't be affected by this 2KM limit. Live on a country road that isn't too busy with walkers anyway, and my house is pretty much equidistant between two crossroads, hence a good reference point.

    I really don't understand how people can be confused by it though. Even if you live in a town, one lap of your estate could equal 2KM. Or a walk to say the end of the street and back. By yourself of course.


  • #6294
    iguana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭iguana


    froog wrote: »
    also it seems a lot of people missed a very troubling comment in the middle of all this - leo said pharmacies will be able to give out medicine past it's sell by/use by dates. odd thing to say unless he's expecting a mass shortage of essential medicines very soon.

    Did he say that? I thought he was implying that at one stage but as he spoke on it sounded more like he said pharmacists were being given powers to extend ongoing prescriptions. So if someone with a 3 month prescription for, say blood pressure medicine, wasn't able to see a GP to get a new prescription, pharmacists could give them a week or two more medication until they could manage to get a doctor's appointment.


  • #6295
    blackcard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,332 ✭✭✭blackcard


    RoryMac wrote: »
    That's not what I heard, I took it as they could give out medicines after the prescription had expired so for repeat prescriptions they could still provide the medicine without the person having to go back to their GP

    Exactly


  • #6296
    IrishStuff09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 814 ✭✭✭IrishStuff09


    circadian wrote: »
    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.

    Was it this one?


  • #6297
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,695 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    froog wrote: »
    also it seems a lot of people missed a very troubling comment in the middle of all this - leo said pharmacies will be able to give out medicine past it's sell by/use by dates. odd thing to say unless he's expecting a mass shortage of essential medicines very soon.
    Did he not mean prescriptions that were outside their date?
    Ie stockpiling of medicine?

    To thine own self be true



  • #6298
    nacho libre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,617 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    is_that_so wrote: »
    It is interesting how much of people's personalities have been laid bare on these threads. Let it go, you're mutually irritated/outraged by the topic and it'll just be yet another bout of scrapping for the moral high ground.

    It's understandable to be irritated by posts that come across as sociopathic in tone, but i suppose you are essentially right, it's futile to persist because such posters are "not for turning" or "can't be reached"


  • #6299
    Grab All Association
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,942 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    Normally don’t agree with The Scum, but they have a point here.

    There was factories in this country that hmade or had the ability to make PPE. BSN in Thurles for example, that closed during the Celtic tiger and production moved abroad to places like China.

    What I’m hoping comes out of this is manufacturing brought back to Europe and the USA in retaliation to this.

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11264885/china-wet-markets-coronavirus-world-knees/


  • #6300
    RoryMac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,614 ✭✭✭RoryMac


    SleetAndSnow wrote: »
    What's happening with restaurant deliveries and stuff does anybody know? Passed a bill yesterday allowing them to all become deliveries, are they closed now?

    No they're open


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  • #6301
    otnomart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭otnomart


    Ficheall wrote: »
    The Dutch seem a little lax in their approach to the coronavirus - for example, they're saying it's fine for kids to go and play with each other if they are not symptomatic https://www.rivm.nl/en/novel-coronavirus-covid-19/questions-and-answers#039;s%20Novel%20coronavirus%20in%20China - I'd take anything they say with a large pinch of salt..


    The Dutch Gov has been more than a little lax.
    Becoming a liability now.
    They are the only ones aiming for herd immunity.


    And now they are denying solidarity.
    A few days ago, the Irish Gov co-signed a letter to European Council calling for "coronabonds", together with other 8 Countries including France, Belgium and Luxembourg.
    However, the Netherlands together with Germany are the most fiercely opposed to this.
    Germany will likely change position, but the Dutch Gov is digging its heels.


    https://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/news/nine-member-states-ask-for-eurobonds-to-face-coronavirus-crisis/

    https://www.ft.com/content/258308f6-...f-41bea055720b
    https://www.rte.ie/news/europe/2020/...e-coronabonds/


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