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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,402 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    8 metre social distancing?


    Unworkable if true, I'm afraid.

    Totally.....that would knock supermarkets, post offices, public transport, Garda checkpoints and everything else out of the equation.


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


    MarkY91 wrote: »
    Got to laugh at these incompetent fools they call the Gardai....

    Walked past a checkpoint today, guy rolls the window down then the fool proceeds to stick his head in the window breading all over the guy in the passenger seat. At best their faces were 2 feet apart.

    I've already made the decision that if I am stopped I will only wind window down a few millimeters explain to them why and ask them to keep their distance


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 373 ✭✭careless sherpa


    Steve F wrote: »
    Not trying to be a downer(people will say I am) but once the figures go down and we gradually start going about our business again,the threat will increase again unless the virus completely disappears from the face of the earth(highly unlikely)

    We will still have to maintain frequent hand washing,cough etiquette,social distancing etc

    Also,I am a firm believer that there will be a "second wave" to this Pandemic.

    Our lives won't go back to what we knew as normal before this outbreak for a long time

    Our greatest hurdle after the initial outbreak will be complacency

    Would be a positive if it resulted in a general increase in hygiene. He fact that it took a pandemic for people to understand how to cough or sneeze properly is amazing


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Snow Garden


    MarkY91 wrote: »
    Got to laugh at these incompetent fools they call the Gardai....

    Walked past a checkpoint today, guy rolls the window down then the fool proceeds to stick his head in the window breading all over the guy in the passenger seat. At best their faces were 2 feet apart.

    Was it white loaf Brennans?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,071 ✭✭✭MarkY91


    I don't believe you.

    What's so unbelievable about it? The Gardai bent down to walk and his nose was literally inside the car. It's absolutely disgraceful. The driver should have told him to back off.

    It's my first time seeing a checkpoint. I'd have imagined they were keeping distance but clearly not.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,774 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    I love how we are in a crisis and FG are using bots to praise Simon Harris.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,071 ✭✭✭MarkY91


    Steve F wrote: »
    I've already made the decision that if I am stopped I will only wind window down a few millimeters explain to them why and ask them to keep their distance

    Everyone should do that. I was furious. I wish I took a photo of it and plastered it on Twitter to make that idiot Gardai famous.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,712 ✭✭✭Hrududu


    MarkY91 wrote: »
    Got to laugh at these incompetent fools they call the Gardai....

    Walked past a checkpoint today, guy rolls the window down then the fool proceeds to stick his head in the window breading all over the guy in the passenger seat. At best their faces were 2 feet apart.

    Seems strange. I saw a checkpoint yesterday. Guards were standing at the passenger side of each car stopped. But standing well back from the car and speaking to the occupants from there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,148 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    I have seen this Cosgrave guy mentioned many times on this thread but I have no idea who he is. I guess I could Google him but the mood music suggests not.
    Why do you read his garbage so?

    Someone constantly posts his tweets


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


    Rutte and co went down the Herd Immunity path and it is going to bite them royally on the ass.
    It is not only the Dutch Gov position on herd immunity, but also how the population is not taking this seriously.
    "The Netherlands' anonymous tip line Meld Misdaad Anoniem received dozens of tips about people breaking the restrictions in place to curb the spread of Covid-19.

    Most tips regarded things like parties, bars letting people in, and businesses that are open against the rules like gyms and nail salons, a spokesperson said"
    https://nltimes.nl/2020/03/31/record-hours-sunshine-making-difficult-stick-coronavirus-restrictions
    Interesting they have an "anonymous tip line".


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,201 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 763 ✭✭✭joe_99


    froog wrote: »

    Again, using 'Admitted' instead of currently in. Why are they using this term?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,121 ✭✭✭This is it


    Article in UK Independent...

    Probably better to link it than pass it off as your own theory then.


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


    Would be a positive if it resulted in a general increase in hygiene. He fact that it took a pandemic for people to understand how to cough or sneeze properly is amazing

    Totally agree
    However,if recent behavior by some is anything to go by most will fall back into old habits.

    I remember commenting on here near the beginning of the outbreak that if frequent hand washing was one of the measures to slow the spread then "God help us all" and a few scoffed.

    Personal hygiene wouldn't be high a some peoples list of priorities

    Some peoples behavior in public toilets tells you this....Both Male and Female are guilty equally as my wife has confirmed the same behavior that I have seen in Male Toilets


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,858 ✭✭✭Lillyfae


    MarkY91 wrote: »
    Got to laugh at these incompetent fools they call the Gardai....

    Walked past a checkpoint today, guy rolls the window down then the fool proceeds to stick his head in the window breading all over the guy in the passenger seat. At best their faces were 2 feet apart.

    I'd say keep your sandwiches to yourself, sir :pac:.
    Would be a positive if it resulted in a general increase in hygiene. He fact that it took a pandemic for people to understand how to cough or sneeze properly is amazing

    So true, wasn't it on Mythbusters around 20 years ago??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,640 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    RobertKK wrote: »
    I love how we are in a crisis and FG are using bots to praise Simon Harris.

    I love that you felt the need to share that with us


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,041 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    MarkY91 wrote: »
    Got to laugh at these incompetent fools they call the Gardai....

    Walked past a checkpoint today, guy rolls the window down then the fool proceeds to stick his head in the window breading all over the guy in the passenger seat. At best their faces were 2 feet apart.

    So you saw one Garda making a mistake and that entitles you to call AGS "incompetent fools".


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    New study suggests the two-metre safety distance is nowhere enough. The virus can travel eight metres.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/27/social-distancing-new-study-suggests-two-metres-not-enough/

    The article does mention coughs and sneezes in relation to this distance though, as well as a warm & moist atmosphere as a medium. An 8 metre rule for distancing would be simply unworkable unfortunately.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 634 ✭✭✭TheAsYLuMkeY


    MarkY91 wrote: »
    Got to laugh at these incompetent fools they call the Gardai....

    Walked past a checkpoint today, guy rolls the window down then the fool proceeds to stick his head in the window breading all over the guy in the passenger seat. At best their faces were 2 feet apart.

    I have a 3M respirator mask in the car similar to the one Wibbs posted a pic of that he has some time back, protective eye wear and Vinyl gloves.

    If I encounter a checkpoint I will signal for them to wait one minute, put on my mask, glasses and gloves and then engage with them.


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


    There is no reason to wind down the window to a garda. In Spain they ask to see shopping receipts as proof of your business being out. These can easily be shown through a window as can any proof of the reason for your journey. If a garda asks you to wind down your window, you are within your rights to refuse.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    367 added to England tally - 19 to 98 years, 28 of them had NO underlying conditions

    393 UK tally total for today.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,890 ✭✭✭Rattlehead_ie


    joe_99 wrote: »
    Again, using 'Admitted' instead of currently in. Why are they using this term?

    Is that an honest question?
    In media terms they will give you the admitted number as it a reflection of the amount of cases that need or require an ICU bed. So for e.g. out of 2000 cases 200 need ICU. Therefore its safe to assume that 10% of cases need ICU. That is the important figure really. Telling people hey there is only 50 ICU beds left, 49 tomorrow, 35 the next day. will only cause anxiety and more worry in the public. Its also a number that will be in flux constantly as ppl that need to go to ICU will recover at different rates (adding more numbers) and of course unfortunately deaths.
    The HSE and Gov are in a crisis "management" situation. Its not only managing the number of patience, beds, etc, its also managing the public and their worries and uncertainties.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,566 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    I love that you felt the need to share that with us
    Well any real person who is praising people who left everything open far too long is an idiot. If it's not bots then we have more stupid people than even I thought.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭Sweet.Science


    Could this be why Germanys death rate is so low?

    'HHS said Germany’s Sandoz has already given 30 million doses of hydroxychloroquine to the Strategic National Stockpile, the federal government’s supply of medical supplies for public health emergencies, while Bayer has donated 1 million doses of chloroquine'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,951 ✭✭✭✭yourdeadwright


    367 added to England tally - 19 to 98 years, 28 of them had NO underlying conditions

    393 UK tally total for today.

    DEATHS OR CASES ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,201 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Deaths


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


    Miss OMMC wrote: »
    If a person works entirely alone at a workshop 20mins from their home, is this allowed? It's small scale manufacturering but not essential.

    Probably not, but if you had some shopping bags on the passenger seat...


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    RobertKK wrote: »
    I love how we are in a crisis and FG are using bots to praise Simon Harris.

    Not surprised in the slightest that we are in a crisis and that SF are using bots to attack Simon Harris and everyone else in FG.


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


    367 added to England tally - 19 to 98 years, 28 of them had NO underlying conditions

    393 UK tally total for today.

    Taking off in UK sadly. Indicates a major problem and spread over there. We need to do all we can to isolate ourselves from that or we will be as bad as them a few weeks from now.

    Their herd immunity idea was very badly thought out and the changes they made came very late.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,201 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    As stated regarding UK surge in fatalities -
    New victims were aged between 19 & 98, and 28 had no underlying health conditions.


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