Covid19 Part XV - 15,251 in ROI (610 deaths) 2,645 in NI (194 deaths) (19/04) Read OP

RobertKK wrote: »

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/14/state-department-cables-warned-safety-issues-wuhan-lab-studying-bat-coronaviruses/

There were warnings from US cables from China that the security measures at the Wuhan lab were not what they should be.
The Chinese were studying bat coronaviruses to understand them better and to try and prevent a future pandemic.
It was know the lab was a risk but nothing was done to make it far more secure.

If you've watched the video "I Found The Source of the Coronavirus" by Laowhy86 on Youtube recently, this article seems to back his findings.

In case you're wondering who the random guy posting that video is, he used to live in China for years, learning the language etc. before he had to move out of the country as things became too difficult. He's assembled some interesting data freely available on the Chinese internet but in Chinese. Pretty much identical to the stuff the WP article is saying except he posted it about two weeks ago.

wakka12 wrote: »

Singapore reports new daily record of 477 cases

Singapore has gone from 1600 cases to 3700 in just seven days

From the New York Times

Singapore officials have been screening and quarantining all travelers from outside the country since the beginning of the pandemic. Their contact tracing is second to none. Every time they identify an infection, they commit to determining its origin in two hours. They post online where identified infected people work, live and have spent time so that potential contacts can be identified. They enforce quarantines and isolation of such contacts, with criminal charges for those who violate orders.

And yet, in the last week, they’ve put the entire country into lockdown. All migrant workers are confined to their compounds for at least two weeks. Citizens may leave their homes, but only to buy food or medicine, or to exercise. Anyone who breaks the rules, including spending time with anyone not in their household, can be imprisoned, fined the equivalent of $7,000 U.S., or both.

timmy_mallet wrote: »

Probably more to do with his driving issues than anything.

We will just have to see what happens to the other 6 that were arrested.

We will just have to see what happens to the other 6 that were arrested.

Some of them were absolute piss-takers, like the guy who allegedly sneezed towards a garda and shouted "there's your coronavirus".

DevilsHaircut wrote: »

Dublin map https://twitter.com/ciananbrennan/status/1250438842475098112

The Phoenix park is the only safe place in Dublin.

Lets all go there immediately. Follow me!

growleaves wrote: »

Being overweight and obese are major risk factors for this pandemic in otherwise healthy people. That is now very clear.

The fact that people would think even about banning outdoor exercise during a pandemic which is a killer for the overweight shows the extreme fixation on the single factor of risk of outdoor transmission.

Mandatory exercise and fasting for people over a certain weight by order of the government would just as reasonable a response as the restrictions (and no more or less authoritarian imo).

lol @mandatory fasting...
No-one's trying to ban outdoor exercising, there's more than one way to skin a cat and all people are saying is that running on footpaths needs some kind of regulation if people can't regulate it themselves (ie, choose a quiet footpath, or quiet time). Having said that I don't really know if it's realistically enforceable.

Also if someone's overweight to the point where it's a clear risk factor than they're not going to lose that weight overnight and suddenly be risk-free because they're running on footpaths once a day

Live W.H.O. press briefing now.

timmy_mallet wrote: »

Probably more to do with his driving issues than anything.

The bit about the driving with no licence and no insurance while disqualified is slipped in at the end of the article! Of course the Gardai would have turned a blind eye to these 'minor' offences if he was less than 2km from home.
Good headline though RTE.

Also if someone's overweight to the point where it's a clear risk factor than they're not going to lose that weight overnight and suddenly be risk-free because they're running on footpaths once a day

They'd better get a start all the same. Get the oul belly down before the much-fantasised winter second wave/mutation hits in October.

ShayNanigan wrote: »

Are these maps somewhere online or are they only for professionals? Would be interesting to see. I haven't heard of anyone being sick (or confirmed as having Covid-19) or seen anything out of the ordinary but looking at that map I'm most likely completely surrounded by cases (as are many of us).

There's over a million people in Dublin. Let's round it to a million. A few hundred dots will completely cover it up on a map at that scale, but that would still leave over 999 thousand unaffected.