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Covid19 Part XVI- 21,983 in ROI (1,339 deaths) 3,881 in NI (404 deaths)(05/05)Read OP

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  • #1412
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    Its so isnt about me-Leo

    It must be about M Martin


  • #1413
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,301 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    billybonkers wrote: »
    Did he say social distancing until we have a vaccine? Did I hear that right?


    We might never have a vaccine, there's none for SARS, none for AIDS which is nearly 40 years on the go.


  • #1414
    hotmail.com
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    Gynoid wrote: »
    Anti American diatribes. That was what you engaged in. That Americans would not give a damn about even one million deaths.

    That's not about Trump.


  • #1415
    Maestro85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 199 ✭✭Maestro85


    Serious question.... what constitutes "mass gathering"? My place of work (tourist site down south) during the summer gets an average of 3000 people per day during the summer/late summer months. Half of these are cars/family vistors. A lot of Irish too.


  • #1416
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,212 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Leo did alright tbh.


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  • #1417
    Timistry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 781 ✭✭✭Timistry


    A vaccine is probably a year away


  • #1418
    hetuzozaho
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,840 ✭✭✭hetuzozaho


    Why are these swans costing us so much money?


  • #1419
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,384 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    Timistry wrote: »
    A vaccine is probably a year away

    And another 6 months before everyone has received it.


  • #1420
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,301 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    Achasanai wrote: »
    You may be right, but how to contain it from the red states? Plenty of them have big urban areas, which the virus seems to hit harder than rural areas. It does seem odd that cities like Vegas, Houston, etc don't seem to be as hard hit as cities in blue states.


    Especially when you consider the tourism in a place like Vegas and the close contact within Casinos with slot machines, sharing cards playing poker, crowded nite clubs etc.


  • #1421
    timmy_mallet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,165 ✭✭✭timmy_mallet


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    We might never have a vaccine, there's none for SARS, none for AIDS which is nearly 40 years on the go.

    Correct.

    The only benefit to this, though, is that the world is literally lockedown til we get one which = mega $$$$$'s for whoever gets there first.


    Still, I would be extremely surprised if there was a vaccine ever found for this. Corona virus vaccines have been attempted in the past, with very very little success.


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  • #1422
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,093 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    Not much harm keeping social distancing for ques and the like. Nothing worse than some fūck literally breathing down your neck for no reason.


  • #1423
    Achasanai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 730 ✭✭✭Achasanai


    Stheno wrote: »
    African Americans are affected far worse than others

    Second biggest risk factor after age is obesity


    Is there a genetic factor for that, or is it societal/economic? If it's economic, then it would be impacting on the poorer sections of cities regardless of whether the city is in a blue or red state. If it's genetic, there will still be a significant black percentage of the people of any city, regardless of where it is.


    Obesity is more prevalent in blacks, but is still quite high among whites and hispanics (not so much the asians) in the US.


  • #1424
    Kivaro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,105 ✭✭✭Kivaro


    Gynoid wrote: »
    This caricaturisation of Americans is the weird thing. As if they were one homogenous blob. Or all fall into a brace of freakish stereotypes. Pfft. Ridiculous. Look at aerial photos of those freedom protests, for example, there were about as many at them as went to court here with Gemma and John. America is full of different kinds of people, just like anywhere else. I have a few pals in America and they are getting through this with as much grace and sadness, confusion and stoicism as the rest of us. Just because people in America were given a choice in 2016 between the devil and a demon and picked one because they had no options, doesn't mean people can dump all over ordinary Americans forever. (Well, you can, of course. If you are a nitwit.)
    It's an odd obsession by some posters.
    Wonder if they thought about expending some of their energy on China's deadly oppression of Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities, and the atrocities committed in Tibet, and the re-education camps in locations all around China or ............... God forbid, the wet markets and biological lab in Wuhan.


  • #1425
    timmy_mallet
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    hotmail.com wrote: »
    And another 6 months before everyone has received it.

    Not a chance. And you'd be foolish to take the first few batches.

    Are we just assuming that researches will be successful? Why would they when vaccines for corona virus in the past have been difficult and unsuccessful.

    There is no miracle for this.


  • #1426
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,384 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    Kivaro wrote: »
    It's an odd obsession by some posters.
    Wonder if they thought about expending some of their energy on China's deadly oppression of Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities, and the atrocities committed in Tibet, and the re-education camps in locations all around China or ............... God forbid, the wet markets and biological lab in Wuhan.

    Or ... Ireland?


  • #1427
    sonofenoch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,504 ✭✭✭sonofenoch


    Summer2020 wrote: »
    All barbers meant to be closed. Who’s cutting the politicians hairs?

    The tv people


  • #1428
    Achasanai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 730 ✭✭✭Achasanai


    pjohnson wrote: »
    Not much harm keeping social distancing for ques and the like. Nothing worse than some fūck literally breathing down your neck for no reason.


    And people actually washing their hands. Would be great if all the infomercials about proper hand washing was just kept year round.


  • #1429
    fr336
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,179 ✭✭✭✭fr336


    Summer2020 wrote: »
    All barbers meant to be closed. Who’s cutting the politicians hairs?

    Miriam. Next question.


  • #1430
    Gynoid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭Gynoid


    pjohnson wrote: »
    Not much harm keeping social distancing for ques and the like. Nothing worse than some fūck literally breathing down your neck for no reason.

    Haha :) today I said to himself that I cannot wait to just be sauntering casually along some lovely boulevard again and he said yeah, and recklessly breathing all over other people and having them recklessly breathe all over you :D


  • #1431
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Achasanai wrote: »
    Is there a genetic factor for that, or is it societal/economic? If it's economic, then it would be impacting on the poorer sections of cities regardless of whether the city is in a blue or red state. If it's genetic, there will still be a significant black percentage of the people of any city, regardless of where it is.


    Obesity is more prevalent in blacks, but is still quite high among whites and hispanics (not so much the asians) in the US.

    Nobody knows whyAfrican Americans are more affected yet


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  • #1432
    BanditLuke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭BanditLuke


    Kivaro wrote: »
    It's an odd obsession by some posters.
    Wonder if they thought about expending some of their energy on China's deadly oppression of Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities, and the atrocities committed in Tibet, and the re-education camps in locations all around China or ............... God forbid, the wet markets and biological lab in Wuhan.

    Don't be silly that would be racist, or something.


  • #1433
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,093 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    Achasanai wrote: »
    And people actually washing their hands. Would be great if all the infomercials about proper hand washing was just kept year round.

    Agreed. The sanitiser in all shops is a good thing aswell that would be no harm to keep year round aswell.


  • #1434
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,149 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    For anyone who watched the health briefing earlier what was the report that the reporter was talking about with regards to China withholding information or something?


  • #1435
    hotmail.com
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    Stheno wrote: »
    Nobody knows whyAfrican Americans are more affected yet

    They're poor. America doesn't give a toss about the poor.


  • #1436
    billybonkers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,293 ✭✭✭billybonkers


    So most offices in Dublin are not set up for social distancing, what happens here? We've no more space either...


  • #1437
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    This is the time to sort out insurance and rates for small/mid businesses


  • #1438
    Achasanai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 730 ✭✭✭Achasanai


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    Especially when you consider the tourism in a place like Vegas and the close contact within Casinos with slot machines, sharing cards playing poker, crowded nite clubs etc.


    I'm not sure whether travel restrictions between cities in the States has been enacted. I don't think so, so I would have thought the virus would have spread more to cities other than the ones we're hearing about (New York, New Orleans, Detroit).


    I wonder if testing, and proper reporting of deaths might be a factor?


  • #1439
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    billybonkers wrote: »
    So most offices in Dublin are not set up for social distancing, what happens here? We've no more space either...

    Work from home half the week?


  • #1440
    billybonkers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,293 ✭✭✭billybonkers


    Stheno wrote: »
    Work from home half the week?

    Yeah but your going into the office where other people have been working , touching things, coughing possibly and spreading the virus?


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  • #1441
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Summer2020 wrote: »
    All barbers meant to be closed. Who’s cutting the politicians hairs?

    Bob Mortimer.


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