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

Tippex · 05-05-2020 06:11PM

setanta1984 wrote: »

These moron journalists are nearly as soul-destroying as the restrictions.

Tony's reaction to Zara Kings comment of the cocooners in phase 5 was hilarious.
He has the patience of a saint in fairness to him.

Out of interest is there anywhere we can rewatch these press conferences (I missed the weddings bit)

Miike · 05-05-2020 06:13PM

Lads Colm Henry wanted to jump the desk to your man there :pac::pac::pac::pac: the face on him

hmmm · 05-05-2020 06:17PM

ZX7R wrote: »

This paper has had absolutely no peer reviewing and that has been admitted by the co-aruthors .
They released it a newspaper first yesterday and has not been inforced by any scientific journals.
They seemly released to help people finding a vaccine.
It also goes against every other paper on mutation of covid-19

Similar papers come up every few weeks. Every time so far they have been dismissed as minor mutations from the people who seem to know what they are talking about. I can particularly recommend this Twitter account - https://twitter.com/trvrb

Stheno · 05-05-2020 06:17PM

Miike wrote: »

Lads Colm Henry wanted to jump the desk to your man there :pac::pac::pac::pac: the face on him

I think poor Colm has the 1. The male equivalent of a resting bitchface and 2. Low tolerance for what he considers nonsense

Miike · 05-05-2020 06:18PM

Stheno wrote: »

I think poor Colm has the 1. The male equivalent of a resting bitchface and 2. Low tolerance for what he considers nonsense

Do you blame him? He gave a perfectly reasonable, succinct answer and the reporter says "yeah mm so watch this space so" and his face turned into pure scorn :pac:

Bridge93 · 05-05-2020 06:18PM

Tests per million people at nearly 43,000 if RTÉ numbers are correct. 18th highest in the world and 9th highest of countries with a population over 1m people

Drumpot · 05-05-2020 06:20PM

So Italy and Spain, two of the worst affected countries in Europe, opening up some things are used as a stick to beat our authorities who are being more cautious ? Sound logic there . .

Stheno · 05-05-2020 06:23PM

Miike wrote: »

Do you blame him? He gave a perfectly reasonable, succinct answer and the reporter says "yeah mm so watch this space so" and his face turned into pure scorn :pac:

Not at all. He reminds me of me, I'm unable to control my facial expression at times when people make idiotic points

It's why I refuse to use video on my work conference calls

amadangomor · 05-05-2020 06:23PM

What Username Guidelines wrote: »

My 95 year old grandmother, in a nursing home, is now 20 days since testing positive, now considered recovered. Didn’t see the inside of a hospital, just rode it out in her room

Legend

coastwatch · 05-05-2020 06:24PM

podgeandrodge wrote: »

Where are most UK cases coming from at the moment?

The North West according to reports over the weekend.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/may/03/north-west-overtakes-london-for-number-of-covid-19-hospital-cases-coronavirus

Seamai · 05-05-2020 06:25PM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

UK reports 698 new deaths and 4,406 new cases.

They are really struggling.

If people want to know what the biggest threat to Ireland getting out of this is, look no further!

It is worrying, all the more so when we have a pretty soft border with part of it. I doubt that full plane between London and Belfast was a once off, personally I'd be taking the boat at the moment but if I boarded that plane and saw that many people I'd be asking to get off.

Why were all the UK news websites today putting the death figures at in excess of 32,000 but the figure given by Dominic Raab is 2,500 less? I notice that he just gave the new total, not the increase on yesterday, is this an attempt to soften or disguise a shocking figure?

Miike · 05-05-2020 06:25PM

Stheno wrote: »

Not at all. He reminds me of me, I'm unable to control my facial expression at times when people make idiotic points

It's why I refuse to use video on my work conference calls

Are you me? :pac:

threeball · 05-05-2020 06:25PM

TheDoctor wrote: »

Uk has overtaken Italy with the highest number of deaths in Europe and still seems to be climbing.

Concerning having that on our doorstep.

Just keep the doors shut to them and the US and we should be able to climb our way out of this. Having those two simpletons running their respective countries means their journey will run and run. My fear is we'll tip the cap and reinstate full travel with both, in which case we as well not have bothered locking down at all.

Shelle1234. · 05-05-2020 06:26PM

So just to clarify. I'm morbidly obese, diabetic and have hypertension...lucky me.i suffere severe depression and admit seriously to letting myself go, locking myself in the house and trying to eat away the sadness. About 8 months ago i started to get a hold on things. I've lost four stone and although on meds for life (pre existing conditions PCOS) for diabetes, and blood pressure they are controlled. But I still have a ways to go with the old weight.....am I right in thinking that if I get this I'm seriously fecked?? (41 year old female). Also as restrictions ease am I right or wrong to think I'm going to be keeping my kids home and off school until a vaccine is in place because of the risks. I'm all for things getting back to normal but like so many I want it done sensibly. I also feel there will be an element of trial and error and people will die,but I dont want to be trial or error. I have a 13 and 7 year old and dont think I will be letting them out to play or even back to school in Sept Sept something changes. Am I a horrible parent ??

Also ivr been reading this thread from the beginning and although I dont participate often I do appreciate the modicum of sense on this site.....even the odd side of doomsdayers and negative comments are sensible. I've recently looked through a group on fb called end the lockdown ireland and omg .....there are no words for the way some people think lol.

Many thanksxxxx

ZX7R · 05-05-2020 06:29PM

hmmm wrote: »

Similar papers come up every few weeks. Every time so far they have been dismissed as minor mutations from the people who seem to know what they are talking about. I can particularly recommend this Twitter account - https://twitter.com/trvrb

Thank you for the link.
Just to add the paper in question appears to have been writing by a group of undergraduates from the Los Alamos laboratory in new Mexico

threeball · 05-05-2020 06:32PM

Shelle1234. wrote: »

So just to clarify. I'm morbidly obese, diabetic and have hypertension...lucky me.i suffere severe depression and admit seriously to letting myself go, locking myself in the house and trying to eat away the sadness. About 8 months ago i started to get a hold on things. I've lost four stone and although on meds for life (pre existing conditions PCOS) for diabetes, and blood pressure they are controlled. But I still have a ways to go with the old weight.....am I right in thinking that if I get this I'm seriously fecked?? (41 year old female). Also as restrictions ease am I right or wrong to think I'm going to be keeping my kids home and off school until a vaccine is in place because of the risks. I'm all for things getting back to normal but like so many I want it done sensibly. I also feel there will be an element of trial and error and people will die,but I dont want to be trial or error. I have a 13 and 7 year old and dont think I will be letting them out to play or even back to school in Sept Sept something changes. Am I a horrible parent ??

Also ivr been reading this thread from the beginning and although I dont participate often I do appreciate the modicum of sense on this site.....even the odd side of doomsdayers and negative comments are sensible. I've recently looked through a group on fb called end the lockdown ireland and omg .....there are no words for the way some people think lol.

Many thanksxxxx

You're in the high risk category for sure but if you got your weight down it would remove a lot of your risk. You have 4 months before the kids go back to school. its the perfect opportunity to set a goal to gradually lose weight over the summer. Your kids being the motivation so they can go back to school. Its not healthy for them to be couped up for the next 12 months awaiting a vaccine that might never come. You either. Set a goal, the first step is the hardest. Sugar drives depression and exercise relieves it. Its up to you which to choose.

Miike · 05-05-2020 06:32PM

Shelle1234. wrote: »

So just to clarify. I'm morbidly obese, diabetic and have hypertension...lucky me.i suffere severe depression and admit seriously to letting myself go, locking myself in the house and trying to eat away the sadness. About 8 months ago i started to get a hold on things. I've lost four stone and although on meds for life (pre existing conditions PCOS) for diabetes, and blood pressure they are controlled. But I still have a ways to go with the old weight.....am I right in thinking that if I get this I'm seriously fecked?? (41 year old female). Also as restrictions ease am I right or wrong to think I'm going to be keeping my kids home and off school until a vaccine is in place because of the risks. I'm all for things getting back to normal but like so many I want it done sensibly. I also feel there will be an element of trial and error and people will die,but I dont want to be trial or error. I have a 13 and 7 year old and dont think I will be letting them out to play or even back to school in Sept Sept something changes. Am I a horrible parent ??

Also ivr been reading this thread from the beginning and although I dont participate often I do appreciate the modicum of sense on this site.....even the odd side of doomsdayers and negative comments are sensible. I've recently looked through a group on fb called end the lockdown ireland and omg .....there are no words for the way some people think lol.

Many thanksxxxx

Hi Shelle. I think you should definitely speak to your GP for the advice on how to move forward given your medical history. I don't think anyone should comment any further on that be honest with you, as it would be ill placed and ill informed. The GP is best placed to advise further

jam_mac_jam · 05-05-2020 06:33PM

Shelle1234. wrote: »

So just to clarify. I'm morbidly obese, diabetic and have hypertension...lucky me.i suffere severe depression and admit seriously to letting myself go, locking myself in the house and trying to eat away the sadness. About 8 months ago i started to get a hold on things. I've lost four stone and although on meds for life (pre existing conditions PCOS) for diabetes, and blood pressure they are controlled. But I still have a ways to go with the old weight.....am I right in thinking that if I get this I'm seriously fecked?? (41 year old female). Also as restrictions ease am I right or wrong to think I'm going to be keeping my kids home and off school until a vaccine is in place because of the risks. I'm all for things getting back to normal but like so many I want it done sensibly. I also feel there will be an element of trial and error and people will die,but I dont want to be trial or error. I have a 13 and 7 year old and dont think I will be letting them out to play or even back to school in Sept Sept something changes. Am I a horrible parent ??

Also ivr been reading this thread from the beginning and although I dont participate often I do appreciate the modicum of sense on this site.....even the odd side of doomsdayers and negative comments are sensible. I've recently looked through a group on fb called end the lockdown ireland and omg .....there are no words for the way some people think lol.

Many thanksxxxx

Well done on your weightloss. Four stone is brilliant.

The best thing to do is talk to your doctor in relation to the risk. No you are not a horrible parent. You are thinking of your health and they need you and that might be more important than school in the great scheme of things.

rob316 · 05-05-2020 06:35PM

Shelle1234. wrote: »

So just to clarify. I'm morbidly obese, diabetic and have hypertension...lucky me.i suffere severe depression and admit seriously to letting myself go, locking myself in the house and trying to eat away the sadness. About 8 months ago i started to get a hold on things. I've lost four stone and although on meds for life (pre existing conditions PCOS) for diabetes, and blood pressure they are controlled. But I still have a ways to go with the old weight.....am I right in thinking that if I get this I'm seriously fecked?? (41 year old female). Also as restrictions ease am I right or wrong to think I'm going to be keeping my kids home and off school until a vaccine is in place because of the risks. I'm all for things getting back to normal but like so many I want it done sensibly. I also feel there will be an element of trial and error and people will die,but I dont want to be trial or error. I have a 13 and 7 year old and dont think I will be letting them out to play or even back to school in Sept Sept something changes. Am I a horrible parent ??

Also ivr been reading this thread from the beginning and although I dont participate often I do appreciate the modicum of sense on this site.....even the odd side of doomsdayers and negative comments are sensible. I've recently looked through a group on fb called end the lockdown ireland and omg .....there are no words for the way some people think lol.

Many thanksxxxx

I doubt you are seriously fecked but you would probably end up in hospital on oxygen. Old age and underlying illness is more of a factor

Shelle1234. · 05-05-2020 06:40PM

Dont know how to copy all replies to thank you all but thanks for replies. Much appreciated. Still working on getting healthy but honestly terrified about the risks. Appreciate that this may not have been the place to ask for advice but honestly I would just be taking it as opinions anyway and will be speaking to my gp later this week, where I will raise my concerns (phone appt, wont be going to surgery lol). Thanks so much again all x

threeball · 05-05-2020 06:43PM

Shelle1234. wrote: »

Dont know how to copy all replies to thank you all but thanks for replies. Much appreciated. Still working on getting healthy but honestly terrified about the risks. Appreciate that this may not have been the place to ask for advice but honestly I would just be taking it as opinions anyway and will be speaking to my gp later this week, where I will raise my concerns (phone appt, wont be going to surgery lol). Thanks so much again all x

Best of luck.

Beasty · 05-05-2020 06:46PM

A reminder to posters to avoid straying into anything that could be construed as medical advice

Thanks

podgeandrodge · 05-05-2020 06:49PM

Someone said to me earlier, so it must be true, that countries are broadly all coming to a peak at similar times regardless of the lockdown severity approach taken. And that social distancing alone, rather than the shutting down of all businesses, would perhaps have been sufficient had they concentrated on protecting nursing homes etc.

Thoughts?

speckle · 05-05-2020 06:50PM

I learn something new everyday. Probotic and micro bio bloom research on covid. Including one from UCC.
https://isappscience.org/how-some-probiotic-and-prebiotic-scientists-are-working-to-address-covid-19/

ChelseaRentBoy · 05-05-2020 06:50PM

Shelle1234. wrote: »

So just to clarify. I'm morbidly obese, diabetic and have hypertension...lucky me.i suffere severe depression and admit seriously to letting myself go, locking myself in the house and trying to eat away the sadness. About 8 months ago i started to get a hold on things. I've lost four stone and although on meds for life (pre existing conditions PCOS) for diabetes, and blood pressure they are controlled. But I still have a ways to go with the old weight.....am I right in thinking that if I get this I'm seriously fecked?? (41 year old female). Also as restrictions ease am I right or wrong to think I'm going to be keeping my kids home and off school until a vaccine is in place because of the risks. I'm all for things getting back to normal but like so many I want it done sensibly. I also feel there will be an element of trial and error and people will die,but I dont want to be trial or error. I have a 13 and 7 year old and dont think I will be letting them out to play or even back to school in Sept Sept something changes. Am I a horrible parent ??

Also ivr been reading this thread from the beginning and although I dont participate often I do appreciate the modicum of sense on this site.....even the odd side of doomsdayers and negative comments are sensible. I've recently looked through a group on fb called end the lockdown ireland and omg .....there are no words for the way some people think lol.

Many thanksxxxx

Whatever you do don't listen or take advice from this site.

Talk to a professional GP.

Good luck

JP Liz V1 · 05-05-2020 06:50PM

Shelle1234. wrote: »

So just to clarify. I'm morbidly obese, diabetic and have hypertension...lucky me.i suffere severe depression and admit seriously to letting myself go, locking myself in the house and trying to eat away the sadness. About 8 months ago i started to get a hold on things. I've lost four stone and although on meds for life (pre existing conditions PCOS) for diabetes, and blood pressure they are controlled. But I still have a ways to go with the old weight.....am I right in thinking that if I get this I'm seriously fecked?? (41 year old female). Also as restrictions ease am I right or wrong to think I'm going to be keeping my kids home and off school until a vaccine is in place because of the risks. I'm all for things getting back to normal but like so many I want it done sensibly. I also feel there will be an element of trial and error and people will die,but I dont want to be trial or error. I have a 13 and 7 year old and dont think I will be letting them out to play or even back to school in Sept Sept something changes. Am I a horrible parent ??

Also ivr been reading this thread from the beginning and although I dont participate often I do appreciate the modicum of sense on this site.....even the odd side of doomsdayers and negative comments are sensible. I've recently looked through a group on fb called end the lockdown ireland and omg .....there are no words for the way some people think lol.

Many thanksxxxx

Look after yourself and your family, do what you think is best and take care

MD1990 · 05-05-2020 06:50PM

Shelle1234. wrote: »

So just to clarify. I'm morbidly obese, diabetic and have hypertension...lucky me.i suffere severe depression and admit seriously to letting myself go, locking myself in the house and trying to eat away the sadness. About 8 months ago i started to get a hold on things. I've lost four stone and although on meds for life (pre existing conditions PCOS) for diabetes, and blood pressure they are controlled. But I still have a ways to go with the old weight.....am I right in thinking that if I get this I'm seriously fecked?? (41 year old female). Also as restrictions ease am I right or wrong to think I'm going to be keeping my kids home and off school until a vaccine is in place because of the risks. I'm all for things getting back to normal but like so many I want it done sensibly. I also feel there will be an element of trial and error and people will die,but I dont want to be trial or error. I have a 13 and 7 year old and dont think I will be letting them out to play or even back to school in Sept Sept something changes. Am I a horrible parent ??

Also ivr been reading this thread from the beginning and although I dont participate often I do appreciate the modicum of sense on this site.....even the odd side of doomsdayers and negative comments are sensible. I've recently looked through a group on fb called end the lockdown ireland and omg .....there are no words for the way some people think lol.

Many thanksxxxx

these can be reversed or greatly reduced with a good diet.
something like Oatmeal,Wholegrain bread/pasta or rice, then some lean proteins(chicken,fish,eggs),veg & gradually cut down your calories.

Of course it will be hard to cut the proccessed foods at first but think of the benefits

Maybe start a walking program (no risk once you are moving outside) & build from there.

all the best

ChelseaRentBoy · 05-05-2020 06:51PM

podgeandrodge wrote: »

Someone said to me earlier, so it must be true, that countries are broadly all coming to a peak at similar times regardless of the lockdown severity approach taken. And that social distancing alone, rather than the shutting down of all businesses, would perhaps have been sufficient had they concentrated on protecting nursing homes etc.

Thoughts?

The person you talked to is an idiot.

bettyoleary · 05-05-2020 06:53PM

podgeandrodge wrote: »

Where are most UK cases coming from at the moment?

Nursing Homes but there is still lots of clusters in hotspots as well. I supposed packed Aer Lingus Flights wont help

Maestro85 · 05-05-2020 07:00PM

wadacrack wrote: »

Cocooners, I hope that phrase becomes eradicated along with Covid

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

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