CoVid19 Part XII - 4,604 in ROI (137 deaths) 998 in NI (56 deaths)(04/04) Read OP

31-03-2020 12:19PM

iguana wrote: »

I wonder if one of the social changes we see in the future is a bigger aversion to apartment living than we already have. Not just because of the higher infection risk in an apartment but also because as this lockdown phase continues, the variation of experience between people in apartments versus people in houses becomes far more obvious. This 'lockdown' experience is going to be completely different for people in apartments, many without even a balcony and people with a garden, especially people with a bigger house and large garden.

It has certainly made me want to accelerate my plan to get a small cottage and put down roots out west, and spend more time away from my Dublin apartment

Jimmy Garlic · 31-03-2020 12:22PM

Amazing how the entire economy has been shot down and sacrificed to "protect us " from something that The vast majority would recover from in a week. We are supposed to believe that the hse and government suddenly started Caring about old people, lol.. Talking to the local postmaster yesterday and he was on the ball, there will be more suicides as a result of this than deaths as a result of contracting the actual virus. Just wait until people realise they have no jobs to go back to.

31-03-2020 12:23PM

Hector Savage wrote: »

Great, if this is true then these lockdowns will never end till there is a vaccine.

Jesus, this sh1t will never f*cking end ...

I don't think that they will anyway, irrespective of the transmission method. We will probably have a slight release of restrictions to allow businesses to operate when we have ICU capacity, and then another tightening of them as the curve starts to steepen, and then another relaxation etc. And this could go on for months and months until a vaccine, or evidence that a substantial proportion of the population has had COVID-19 and been asymptomatic

It will play havoc with schools and travel

31-03-2020 12:23PM

Can't understand the extreme tight restrictions on funerals. If workplaces and supermarkets can manage to spread out crowds of people into acceptable distances, why can't the same be done in a large church or graveyard???

gabeeg · 31-03-2020 12:23PM

maestroamado wrote: »

Just now i was looking at a world chart of the mortality numbers for Covid 19
The climate must be a big factor, i thought it run riot in Asia where people live in all kinda conditions.
There are 5 deaths in Thailand, none in Vietnam and none in Cambodia.
There is also a much higher % mortality in Europe than Africa UK very high.
It may be because of living conditions stronger immune.

No unfortunately it's probably down to a lack of testing.

The virus is currently rife in many warm climates.

Hector Savage · 31-03-2020 12:24PM

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

Amazing how the entire economy has been shot down and sacrificed to "protect us " from something that The vast majority would recover from in a week. We are supposed to believe that the hse and government suddenly started Caring about old people, lol.. Talking to the local postmaster yesterday and he was on the ball, there will be more suicides as a result of this than deaths as a result of contracting the actual virus. Just wait until people realise they have no jobs to go back to.

Will be interesting to see how Sweden does ...

Tacitus Kilgore · 31-03-2020 12:26PM

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

Amazing how the entire economy has been shot down and sacrificed to "protect us " from something that The vast majority would recover from in a week. We are supposed to believe that the hse and government suddenly started Caring about old people, lol.. Talking to the local postmaster yesterday and he was on the ball, there will be more suicides as a result of this than deaths as a result of contracting the actual virus. Just wait until people realise they have no jobs to go back to.

Do tell - what do you think we should have done/do differently? please - you have the floor

Ulysses Gaze · 31-03-2020 12:26PM

Hector Savage wrote: »

Will be interesting to see how Sweden does ...

And the Dutch

Wibbs · 31-03-2020 12:27PM

This is it wrote: »

Or because there's little testing or deaths attributed to C19 in those countries

or because in many such third world countries the population of those above 65 is very much lower, so fewer die, because there are fewer of them in the first place. The hardest hit in Italy also have one of the oldest populations in the world.

caveat emptor wrote: »

WHO says it's airborne.

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1244945503139368963?s=20

It's "airborne" in the sense that it can be transported through the air in an aerosol form in droplets of saliva and mucus. The virus itself isn't. And yet the HSE, the WHO and other health bodies are still insisting that community mask wearing is pointless.. :rolleyes: Taiwan and China and others don't seem to think so. And they're right.

leahyl · 31-03-2020 12:27PM

caveat emptor wrote: »

WHO says it's airborne.

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1244945503139368963?s=20

Ok, take a look at the last post on the WHO instagram page - 2 days ago. Complete opposite message.

Ice Storm · 31-03-2020 12:27PM

HSE confirm that no nurses have died in Ireland from Covid19.

https://twitter.com/HSELive/status/1244942663142563841?s=20

tobefrank321 · 31-03-2020 12:30PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Can't understand the extreme tight restrictions on funerals. If workplaces and supermarkets can manage to spread out crowds of people into acceptable distances, why can't the same be done in a large church or graveyard???

Because there's always an oul fella at a funeral who doesn't watch the news or read the papers, hasn't a clue what coronavirus is and will insist on shaking the hands of everyone, potentially spreading it to himself and others. He'll then head to the shop to do his weekly shop after collecting the pension from the post office.

Tacitus Kilgore · 31-03-2020 12:31PM

Ice Storm wrote: »

HSE confirm that no nurses have died in Ireland from Covid19.

Is that Cosgrave sack going to fuck off now or what?

31-03-2020 12:32PM

Ice Storm wrote: »

HSE confirm that no nurses have died in Ireland from Covid19.

https://twitter.com/HSELive/status/1244942663142563841?s=20

So Paddy Cosgrave has publically confirmed himself to be a complete and utter dickhead.

sydthebeat · 31-03-2020 12:32PM

Tacitus Kilgore wrote: »

Is that Cosgrave sack going to fuck off now or what?

Doubtful.

He's another nut case

kilkenny31 · 31-03-2020 12:33PM

quokula wrote: »

I lived over there until recently and had family members working in the NHS. The statement that their healthcare system is better than ours may have been true in the past but is on shaky ground these days. Ireland spends more per capita on healthcare while the NHS has been in freefall for a decade - The Lancet ranks Ireland's healthcare more highly than the UKs.

Yes but we spend more than them for a healtcare system that is not free for half our population. Theres cover their entire population with free healthcare.

Kermit.de.frog · 31-03-2020 12:33PM

Washington DC has been put under "shelter in place" order joining New York and Maryland.

Be right back · 31-03-2020 12:33PM

1641 wrote: »

So Paddy Cosgrave has publically confirmed himself to be a complete and utter dickhead.

Absolutely. His tweet is still up. Hopefully he will take it down and shut up now.

joe40 · 31-03-2020 12:34PM

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

Amazing how the entire economy has been shot down and sacrificed to "protect us " from something that The vast majority would recover from in a week. We are supposed to believe that the hse and government suddenly started Caring about old people, lol.. Talking to the local postmaster yesterday and he was on the ball, there will be more suicides as a result of this than deaths as a result of contracting the actual virus. Just wait until people realise they have no jobs to go back to.

These are just my own sums but let's assume 50% of the population get the infection. That will be approx 2500,000 people. So let's assume 99% of people make a full recovery only 1% mortality, that Will still be 25,000 deaths.
Our current suicide rate is about 300per year, so no your postmaster is not on the ball.
Those figures don't include the many lives that will be lost due to the health system not been able to cope. Heart attacks, strokes etc will still happen.
This is serious and if we get away with a few months of movement restrictions it will be a small price to pay.
It will still be a significant economic and personal cost, absolutely, but better than the alternative.

An Ciarraioch · 31-03-2020 12:34PM

Just passed over 800,000 global cases.

Stheno · 31-03-2020 12:34PM

1641 wrote: »

So Paddy Cosgrave has publically confirmed himself to be a complete and utter dickhead.

Is he just trying to panic people?

Kermit.de.frog · 31-03-2020 12:34PM

1035 new cases in Portugal. Highest increase in cases there so far.

Loafing Oaf · 31-03-2020 12:35PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Can't understand the extreme tight restrictions on funerals. If workplaces and supermarkets can manage to spread out crowds of people into acceptable distances, why can't the same be done in a large church or graveyard???

I suspect reports were coming back of regulations being flouted, friends & neighbours being let in on the Q.T.

Hector Savage · 31-03-2020 12:36PM

240k ?

0.5*4.5M*0.01 = 22.5K ...

SleetAndSnow · 31-03-2020 12:36PM

Ice Storm wrote: »

HSE confirm that no nurses have died in Ireland from Covid19.

https://twitter.com/HSELive/status/1244942663142563841?s=20

Didn't they confirm that a nurse had died a few days ago? Not the 4 from yesterday but a singular one

edit: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/coronavirus-healthcare-worker-in-republic-dies-after-contracting-virus-1.4213892

Antares35 · 31-03-2020 12:36PM

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

Amazing how the entire economy has been shot down and sacrificed to "protect us " from something that The vast majority would recover from in a week. We are supposed to believe that the hse and government suddenly started Caring about old people, lol.. Talking to the local postmaster yesterday and he was on the ball, there will be more suicides as a result of this than deaths as a result of contracting the actual virus. Just wait until people realise they have no jobs to go back to.

Well if the local postmaster said it then it must be true.

DevilsHaircut · 31-03-2020 12:37PM

Irish Times reported nurse death as well.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/coronavirus-healthcare-worker-in-republic-dies-after-contracting-virus-1.4213892

Ice Storm · 31-03-2020 12:37PM

SleetAndSnow wrote: »

Didn't they confirm that a nurse had died a few days ago? Not the 4 from yesterday but a singular one

I believe they said a "healthcare worker" died.

Pinch Flat · 31-03-2020 12:37PM

Thought Cosgrave was a ball sack before this crisis. Even more so now.

D.Q · 31-03-2020 12:37PM

Antares35 wrote: »

Well if the local postmaster said it then it must be true.

Talking to the local postmaster hahahaha in a thread full of drivel that has to be right up there.

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CoVid19 Part XII - 4,604 in ROI (137 deaths) 998 in NI (56 deaths)(04/04) Read OP