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

RurtBeynolds · 31-03-2020 10:38PM

What's the shopping situation like now? Need to go to tesco tomorrow night, do I need to queue around the block? Are they only allowing one person in at a time? Do I have to be alone or can my partner come too?

FVP3 · 31-03-2020 10:39PM

yosser hughes wrote: »

Does anyone know why the cargo received from China was transported on Army trucks and Garda outriders with cameras rolling to capture the whole exercise?
I've seen it replayed several times.
To me it looked like a propaganda exercise.

you are right, should have been a few lads in a ford fiesta with the merch tied on top with twine.

FVP3 · 31-03-2020 10:41PM

lillycakes2 wrote: »

Does anyone know how our curve is actually going by looking at the figures? literally dreading this bloody surge/peak

All here

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/ireland/

Look for daily cases.

Stheno · 31-03-2020 10:41PM

RurtBeynolds wrote: »

What's the shopping situation like now? Need to go to tesco tomorrow night, do I need to queue around the block? Are they only allowing one person in at a time? Do I have to be alone or can my partner come too?

I go to supervalu in the evening once or twice a week it's fairly quiet

Trump spouting more nonsense now

Notmything · 31-03-2020 10:41PM

RugbyLad11 wrote: »

Don't forget Leos unrealistic prediction of 15,000 cases by the end of the month.

I see lots of people celebrating and saying fantastic job by the Government because we didn't hit the 15,000 cases or 30% increase per day.

FFS, we get 15,000 cases and it's the government's fault. We don't reach 15,000 cases and it's still their fault.

CiarraiAbu2 · 31-03-2020 10:41PM

RurtBeynolds wrote: »

What's the shopping situation like now? Need to go to tesco tomorrow night, do I need to queue around the block? Are they only allowing one person in at a time? Do I have to be alone or can my partner come too?

As far as I'm aware ye can both travel.

ooter · 31-03-2020 10:42PM

RurtBeynolds wrote: »

What's the shopping situation like now? Need to go to tesco tomorrow night, do I need to queue around the block? Are they only allowing one person in at a time? Do I have to be alone or can my partner come too?

i've been going to my local lidl around 7ish most evenings and it has been grand, 5 min wait max to get in. you'll be fine with your partner.

TheMilkyPirate · 31-03-2020 10:42PM

Testing center opened up about 100 metres up the road from me a week ago. Built from scratch in a few days. I walk or drive past it 2 or 3 times a day and I've seen two cars drive through it this week. Other people around me are saying the same very little activity but always open and two security guards standing outside.

What's going on why such little testing?

Stheno · 31-03-2020 10:42PM

Notmything wrote: »

FFS, we get 15,000 cases and it's the government's fault. We don't reach 15,000 cases and it's still their fault.

Tony said earlier they may look at loosening th ed restrictions once they see how the next 10 days or so pan out

Quantum Erasure · 31-03-2020 10:42PM

lillycakes2 wrote: »

Does anyone know how our curve is actually going by looking at the figures? literally dreading this bloody surge/peak

this is daily new cases from Wikipedia, seems to be holding steady enough, not accelerating

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland

beolight · 31-03-2020 10:43PM

is_that_so wrote: »

Can't get the kits for the labs they said, it's a worldwide problem.

If you watch killians interview on Prime Time tonight he mentioned that a vital ingredient in the ( probably not correct word) test kit is proprietary and this is the main issue.

So maybe some big pharmaceutical company is holding the world to ransom or simply can’t produce enough

Stheno · 31-03-2020 10:44PM

beolight wrote: »

If you watch killians interview on Prime Time tonight he mentioned that a vital ingredient in the ( probably not correct word) test kit is proprietary and this is the main issue.

So maybe some big pharmaceutical company is holding the world to ransom or simply can’t produce enough

Cant produce enough apparently

Juanito13 · 31-03-2020 10:45PM

Professor Moriarty wrote: »

I did. The word 'overtime' isn't mentioned. Perhaps you should read it again?

Well that would be too obvious. Second line, second paragraph

Mervyn Skidmore · 31-03-2020 10:45PM

ooter wrote: »

i've been going to my local lidl around 7ish most evenings and it has been grand, 5 min wait max to get in. you'll be fine with your partner.

Lidl in Doughiska Galway were only allowing 1 person per group in yesterday. Went there with my wife and she ended up waiting in the car.

31-03-2020 10:45PM

Spudmonkey wrote: »

Simple Simon? Varadkardashian? Did you come up with those all on your own?

Imagine typing that out, looking at it on the screen, and then thinking ''yeah, I'll post that''.

RobertKK · 31-03-2020 10:45PM

https://twitter.com/irishtimes/status/1244711625728208896?s=21

Dr Fauci in the US says he would lean towards people wearing masks in public, once it doesn't affect supplies to medical workers.

Ace2007 · 31-03-2020 10:45PM

TheMilkyPirate wrote: »

Testing center opened up about 100 metres up the road from me a week ago. Built from scratch in a few days. I walk or drive past it 2 or 3 times a day and I've seen two cars drive through it this week. Other people around me are saying the same very little activity but always open and two security guards standing outside.

What's going on why such little testing?

Maybe not many people in the area that are looking for testing? if your waiting on a test they are probably trying to avoid people driving 40km for it?

yosser hughes · 31-03-2020 10:47PM

Jinglejangle69 wrote: »

That's you're biggest worry through all this?

If that's our biggest issue at the end of all this I'd be happy.

Jesus you whinging whining negative doom and gloom merchants literally suck the life and belief out of normal people just trying to get through this.

Where did I say it's my biggest issue?
I'm just questioning the need for all the fanfare.
It's laughable how easily people will swallow what's presented to them.

cameramonkey · 31-03-2020 10:47PM

Notmything wrote: »

FFS, we get 15,000 cases and it's the government's fault. We don't reach 15,000 cases and it's still their fault.

I think the thing is if we are only testing only 1500 a day it would be impossible to get to 13000. If we only test 1500 a day we can really keep the numbers down.

Professor Moriarty · 31-03-2020 10:48PM

Juanito13 wrote: »

Well that would be too obvious. Second line, second paragraph

So they're saying that unqualified people are staffing ambulances when qualified people are available? And your problem with that is?

Spanish Eyes · 31-03-2020 10:48PM

At this stage I really wonder if a presser every day is absolutely necessary. We know generally how this is going to go, and hopefully it will be positive, but obviously will also be negative for many, but I'm sure you get my drift.

Same old questions from journos ( the questions seem to be longer than the answers, I cannot understand that, ask a fk question and wait for the answer), but I digress.

A recorded statement would be best. If anything worse happens and we need to be told, OK, say it.

This constant NEED for updates every day, what time is it, when will they tell us and so on doesn't mean those doing the hard graft HAVE to be live and answering the same questions every day either. Give them a break.

Kermit.de.frog · 31-03-2020 10:48PM

cajonlardo wrote: »

Hi Kermit

Perhaps you missed it

I asked you to back up your little hissy fit there
and another poster asked you why did heavily edit my post to make it seem like I was saying something I did not.

By any chance are you the chain smoking lecturing neighbour?

I see runners running around my block all the time. It's the same people, not once or twice, but over and over again. They just go round and round running a mini marathon on the public footpaths every day.

This is not required and they should not be doing that when everyone else does what they are suppose to do.

Stick to the rules we all get out of this sooner. Don't be a pr!ck to people who follow the rules.

Kermit.de.frog · 31-03-2020 10:49PM

https://twitter.com/TomthunkitsMind/status/1244630284240379906

It's fun seeing Fox news exposed on a daily basis through this.

yosser hughes · 31-03-2020 10:49PM

FVP3 wrote: »

you are right, should have been a few lads in a ford fiesta with the merch tied on top with twine.

Or just transported in ordinary trucks without the cameras. Army and Garda outriders?

tscul32 · 31-03-2020 10:49PM

RurtBeynolds wrote: »

What's the shopping situation like now? Need to go to tesco tomorrow night, do I need to queue around the block? Are they only allowing one person in at a time? Do I have to be alone or can my partner come too?

Tesco yesterday morning. No under 65s except carers allowed in until 9. Then I got in, no queue, and no queue when I left either. And plenty of stock on the shelves, except flour, never any flour. I went to lidl when I couldn't get to Tesco, noone limiting the amount of people, but again, not busy, no prob shopping, straight up to the till, no queue.

beolight · 31-03-2020 10:50PM

blackcard wrote: »

One of the learnings from the 2010 big freeze was to have sufficient salt available for our roads and this hasn't been an issue since. Some of the learnings from the current crisis?
Sufficient ventilators?
Additional Test kits?
Sufficient reagents?
Sufficient masks and other personal protection equipment?
Additional measures for nursing homes?
Measures such as perspex glass in shops?
Hygiene education and practices?
Increased numbers of ICU's?
Increased capability to work from home?
Not to believe a fraction of what you read on social media?
Social distancing?
What else?

Transparency not Spin

Muahahaha · 31-03-2020 10:51PM

https://twitter.com/Manda_like_wine/status/1244602911084154880

hmmm · 31-03-2020 10:51PM

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

At this stage I really wonder if a presser every day is absolutely necessary. We know generally how this is going to go, and hopefully it will be positive, but obviously will also be negative for many, but I'm sure you get my drift.

We don't need it, but we should have it. Because otherwise we'll have the "they're hiding stuff from us" crowd out screaming.

I agree though that we need to go easy on the people involved, I doubt they have had a day off in months. Perhaps not every press conference needs to have questions, as they can be quite stressful to answer.

Juanito13 · 31-03-2020 10:52PM

Professor Moriarty wrote: »

So they're saying that unqualified people are staffing ambulances when qualified people are available? And your problem with that is?

They are being disingenuous, EMT’s are qualified practitioners. In their eyes, the EMT’s are interfering with OT.

Professor Moriarty · 31-03-2020 10:53PM

Juanito13 wrote: »

They are being disingenuous, EMT’s are qualified practitioners. In their eyes, the EMT’s are interfering with OT.

Nowhere in that letter does it say anything like that. I'm afraid it's you who is being disingenuous.

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