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

JP Liz V1 · 16-04-2020 09:35PM

In her first interview since being diagnosed, Rita Wilson, 63, spoke to The Talk with Gayle King and detailed her symptoms.

“I felt extremely achy, uncomfortable, didn’t want to be touched, and then the fever started,” Wilson said, adding she suffered from “chills like I never had before.”

Wilson, an actress and singer, said her fever reached its highest temperature about nine days following the positive test results, saying it “got close to” 39C.

She also revealed she had been given the drug chloroquine, which is usually used to prevent and treat malaria and is being studied as a possible Covid-19 treatment.

However, Wilson is not sure what impact it had on her. She said: “I can only tell you that I don’t know if the drug worked or if it was just time for my fever to break, but my fever did break.”

And Wilson warned the drug had “extreme side effects”. She felt “completely nauseous” and could not walk. “My muscles felt very weak,” she said.

“I think people have to be very considerate about that drug,” the star added. “We don’t really know if it’s helpful in this case.”

Wilson also said Hollywood star Tom Hanks, also 63, had less severe symptoms than her.

The couple is now home in Los Angeles.

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/rita-wilson-opens-up-on-coronavirus-ordeal-and-warns-of-treatment-side-effects-39129139.html

Kermit.de.frog · 16-04-2020 09:36PM

whisky_galore wrote: »

Would you pick fruit?

What are you saying?

That it's not an honorable profession?

A bit too low brow for the Irish, is it?

Woodsie1 · 16-04-2020 09:36PM

whisky_galore wrote: »

Would you pay a fair price for them in the shop?

Yes....whats your point?

murphm45 · 16-04-2020 09:37PM

LRNM wrote: »

Havent been following this thread in weeks, honestly not even going to try catch up.

But have to login to get things off chest.

...

That sounds at best grim but for what it's worth (which I'm sure is sod all) I, and I'm sure thousands (if not millions) like me are extremely grateful for your efforts. While a simple thank you is the best I can offer which I appreciate it's not much (if ever there was a case for understatement it's now) please don't forget that the majority of us are fully behind you and are unspeakably appreciative!

Thanks again - to you and all your colleagues

Dr. Bre · 16-04-2020 09:38PM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

What are you saying?

That it's not an honorable profession?

A bit too low brow for the Irish, is it?

Sounds like sour grapes

tobefrank321 · 16-04-2020 09:39PM

Odd that we are importing workers when we now have close to 1 million unemployed and when there's restrictions on going 2km down the road.

FG never really understood the meaning of their own lockdown or the fatal flaws in it.

Duke of Url · 16-04-2020 09:42PM

tobefrank321 wrote: »

Odd that we are importing workers when we now have close to 1 million unemployed and when there's restrictions on going 2km down the road.

FG never really understood the meaning of their own lockdown or the fatal flaws in it.

Do you think these fruit pickers are getting paid more then 350 a week for back breaking work?

whisky_galore · 16-04-2020 09:42PM

Woodsie1 wrote: »

Yes....whats your point?

3 euro a punnet or a tenner a punnet?

Let's see which of these gets bought by the public.

easypazz · 16-04-2020 09:43PM

Woodsie1 wrote: »

Yes....whats your point?

If Irish people got €30 an hour they would pick fruit.

Would you pay €10 for a punnet of strawberrys?

jackboy · 16-04-2020 09:44PM

whisky_galore wrote: »

Wow, not answering the question. Yes or fcuking no?

I don’t think my personal employment ambitions are relevant to the thread.

If there is a problem getting Irish people to do these jobs then there are alternatives. The government are paying workers that lost their jobs, because of the virus, 350 Euro. They could offer people on basic dole to keep the dole on top of the basic wage they would receive for these jobs.

Woodsie1 · 16-04-2020 09:45PM

whisky_galore wrote: »

3 euro a punnet or a tenner a punnet?

Let's see which of these gets bought by the public.

Ah so youre in favour of immigrants slaving for fcuk all just so you can keep your cheap strawberries,nice guy:rolleyes:

whisky_galore · 16-04-2020 09:45PM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

What are you saying?

That it's not an honorable profession?

A bit too low brow for the Irish, is it?

Simple economics.

Woodsie1 · 16-04-2020 09:45PM

easypazz wrote: »

If Irish people got €30 an hour they would pick fruit.

Would you pay €10 for a punnet of strawberrys?

Whos saying anything about 30 quid an hour...cop yourself on

whisky_galore · 16-04-2020 09:45PM

Woodsie1 wrote: »

Ah so youre in favour of immigrants slaving for fcuk all just so you can keep your cheap strawberries,nice guy:rolleyes:

What is your solution?

Plus it's not only me, and you, eating this fruit. It's every Emer and Mary piling on Keelings swearing they'll never buy from them again.
Who will they buy from, huh?

Woodsie1 · 16-04-2020 09:47PM

whisky_galore wrote: »

What is your solution?

Pay a proper wage and price the product accordingly.
Consumers cut their cloth to match what they can afford.
Strawberries are far from a necessity.

Wombatman · 16-04-2020 09:47PM

Tony on the Late Late tomorrow night. Minor celeb now. Bet he gets the Desperate D4 Housewives in a flutter.

Funsterdelux · 16-04-2020 09:47PM

whisky_galore wrote: »

Would you pick fruit?

My kids would pick all day but wouldnt earn a penny, theyd eat all the profits.

Harry Palmr · 16-04-2020 09:47PM

Greens Berry Farm in Wexford had 15 pickers paid for coming from the east but couldn't get them in so I'd like to know what the difference is with the other place

Purple Mountain · 16-04-2020 09:48PM

Will the Bulgarians be made to self isolate for 2 weeks in a hotel near the airport?

easypazz · 16-04-2020 09:50PM

[QUOTEy=Woodsie1;113180391]Whos saying anything about 30 quid an hour...cop yourself on[/QUOTE]

Its €60k a year.

After tax 45k?

A family of 5 on benefits is on about €35k

So why would they bother?

Vivienne23 · 16-04-2020 09:50PM

Lads , strawberries are dear enough as it is ! No need to bring the Irish pickers in

There’s a reason the Bulgarians come and they are probably afraid of catching it here , they will quarantine for 14 days , I really don’t see the issue ,

We would be better off to support our local producers , they are getting an awful slating

I was talking to a food producer and they have foreign workers on their site with a few local lads , they said the locals were more of a risk than the foreign lads they only left the site once a week for shopping where as the locals were coming and going every day ,

Let the pickers work away in peace and enjoy the strawberries !

eagle eye · 16-04-2020 09:50PM

Again our government fail miserably.

How are we supposed to get clear of this thing if they are letting people in like this?
I'm sure Keeling's knew they were coming a month ago at the very latest. They should have been brought over at Keeling's expense 2 weeks ago and quarantined.
We have potentially now another strain of the virus in this country and possibly spread to Irish people already.

Kermit.de.frog · 16-04-2020 09:50PM

Wombatman wrote: »

Tony on the Late Late tomorrow night. Minor celeb now. Bet gets the Desperate D4 Housewives in a flutter.

Did yeh see yer man on the news this evening doing the drawings of notable Irish people?

Presenting a drawing of him he described Tony as "the face of coronavirus"

Not sure how Tony feels about that.

whisky_galore · 16-04-2020 09:52PM

Woodsie1 wrote: »

Pay a proper wage and price the product accordingly.
Consumers cut their cloth to match what they can afford.
Strawberries are far from a necessity.

Alright so, a tenner a punnet or let them rot in the fields, grand so.

Woodsie1 · 16-04-2020 09:52PM

easypazz wrote: »

Its €60k a year.

After tax 45k?

A family of 5 on benefits is on about €35k

So why would they bother?

Because the vast majority of unemployed people arent scroungers with no willingness to work for a living.

woohoo!!! · 16-04-2020 09:54PM

easypazz wrote: »

If Irish people got €30 an hour they would pick fruit.

Would you pay €10 for a punnet of strawberrys?

They wouldn't. That's not to say such firms underpay. They do

Woodsie1 · 16-04-2020 09:54PM

whisky_galore wrote: »

Alright so, a tenner a punnet or let them rot in the fields, grand so.

Yep...Plenty of farmers have trouble selling milk and lamb because of this no reason why a few strawberries cant rot too.

Rob A. Bank · 16-04-2020 09:54PM

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woohoo!!! · 16-04-2020 09:56PM

Vivienne23 wrote: »

Lads , strawberries are dear enough as it is ! No need to bring the Irish pickers in

There’s a reason the Bulgarians come and they are probably afraid of catching it here , they will quarantine for 14 days , I really don’t see the issue ,

We would be better off to support our local producers , they are getting an awful slating

I was talking to a food producer and they have foreign workers on their site with a few local lads , they said the locals were more of a risk than the foreign lads they only left the site once a week for shopping where as the locals were coming and going every day ,

Let the pickers work away in peace and enjoy the strawberries !

Exactly

stephenjmcd · 16-04-2020 09:56PM

eagle eye wrote: »

Again our government fail miserably.

How are we supposed to get clear of this thing if they are letting people in like this?
I'm sure Keeling's knew they were coming a month ago at the very latest. They should have been brought over at Keeling's expense 2 weeks ago and quarantined.
We have potentially now another strain of the virus in this country and possibly spread to Irish people already.

Well if you read the statement on it, they have been brought over at Keelings expense and now do have to undertake the 14 day limited movements for entrants into the country.

What's you point ? It's food production and needs to be done, like it or not they're a skilled worker that's required in the food chain. Read up on this earlier, to trian in someone to do this sort of work can take up to a year.

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

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