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

jesus_thats_gre wrote: »

Few friends living in Spain.

One was fined 500 euro because he unnecessarily brought his daughter with him to the the garbage area of the development. About a 150m walk and he was fined by the police.

Another girl's mother was challenged by the army when returning from food shopping. They insisted on seeing her receipt and threatened to fine her as she didn't go to the nearly market and took too long to get home (based on the timestamp of the receipt).

Can you imagine that happening here?! I think they would be a lot of scraps between the public and the Gardai if we were to ever try going down that line here.

walshb wrote: »

George Lee jus mentioned that we are hoping to test 100,000 per day in the next few days?

Is the man mixing himself up here?

100k a week. Which is basically the 15k a day figure they said 3 weeks ago.

Tenzor07 wrote: »

100k yes

If they run out of reagent again and end up with a huge backlog they really are taking the piss.

Testing has to be sustainable for 6 months at least.

Mic 1972 wrote: »

In normal circumstances I would be against this, but at this time i think it's a great tool, probably similar solutions will be implemented here too in order to move forward. We need to find ways to live with this virus for ht next while until a vaccine is developed

I for one wont be cooperating with any of that!

Rvsmmnps wrote: »

Dramatised,and dare i say none will die.Any ryanair or aerlingus crew ill.. no large spread of any illness amoung the most exposed..front line workers.

What? You mean that only a few weeks ago 25% of cases were not health care workers?

ednwireland wrote: »

cant blame her for not listening to him,really

Well, I can actually. I expect a little better from people in these positions..

But I get your point......!

Rvsmmnps wrote: »

Do you want a hard lock down? In Norway the state doctors read the summary of what happened in Italy.When they looked at the stats they were happy to reopen kinder gardens Monday coming and schools the following week.
Your covid is killing the old and ill,not enough of a reason to end your economy and any type of a functioning country in the future.

The old and ill obviously having no right to life in your world. Who cares about them anyway?

The WHO have come out tonight and said that an antibody test could be pointless as there is little evidence that people who have had the virus have gained the antibodies required to fight off the virus.

Not sure what that means for a vaccine, but in terms of natural immunity, well it seems it isn't something we can rely on. At least not based on the evidence to date.

I'm feeling so sorry for anyone on this thread and in the whole country that has a relative living in or working in a nursing home right now. What's unfolding is incredibly sad. Just checking rip.ie for my own county is so depressing. Be of no doubt, the residents are dying in the homes, not in hospital. It's stated in the death notices.

I had a phone call with a person whose role involves facilitating communication between the HSE and nursing homes in our region yesterday. She said her opinion is that the biggest misstep so far is not recognising in advance that the nursing homes would be the real front line. Why did we not see this coming when it had already happened elsewhere?

I sincerely hope that the new measures being taken can minimise the toll this monster of a virus will have within Ireland's care homes.

Sad, sad times.