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Covid19 Part XVII-24,841 in ROI (1,639 deaths) 4,679 in NI (518 deaths)(28/05)Read OP

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  • #5762
    Jim Bob Scratcher
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭Jim Bob Scratcher


    quokula wrote: »
    I was going to say, am I the only one who thinks he looks healthier in the "after" picture - maybe the affects of six weeks off the steroids.

    Yeah, I thought that too.


  • #5763
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    Boggles wrote: »
    President of Brazil.

    "little flu" was the term I think.

    President of Brazil posting on here?


  • #5764
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,722 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    So the virus can affect people mildly or severely? And?

    Just thought it was interesting to see how much weight he lost, but I hadn't considered steroid use. Who pissed in your cornflakes this morning?


  • #5765
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,367 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    Simon Harris trying to shame people who are legally going to shops, allowed to open by his government.

    He's taking the Tory attitude.


  • #5766
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    kowloon wrote: »
    Just thought it was interesting to see how much weight he lost, but I hadn't considered steroid use. Who pissed in your cornflakes this morning?

    Don't like cornflakes, dislike scare mongering even more.


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  • #5767
    Rob A. Bank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭Rob A. Bank


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    So the virus can affect people mildly or severely? And?

    This professor got what was classified as 'mild' disease:-

    For 7 weeks I have been through a roller coaster of ill health, extreme emotions, and utter exhaustion

    "The illness went on and on. The symptoms changed, it was like an advent calendar, every day there was a surprise, something new. A muggy head; acutely painful calf; upset stomach; tinnitus; pins and needles; aching all over; breathlessness; dizziness; arthritis in my hands; weird sensation in the skin with synthetic materials. Gentle exercise or walking made me worse—I would feel absolutely dreadful the next day...

    There was a pattern in that period from two weeks to six weeks: feeling absolutely dreadful during the day; sleep heavily, waking with the bed drenched in sweat; getting up with a blinding headache, receding during the day, turning me into a battered ragdoll in the evening. "

    In spite of your continuous downplaying of the seriousness of this disease, getting it is no joke.

    :(


  • #5768
    Boggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,458 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Who says it's only a flu?
    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    President of Brazil posting on here?

    He doesn't AFAIK, but that wasn't the question you asked.


  • #5769
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    hotmail.com wrote: »
    Simon Harris trying to shame people who are legally going to shops, allowed to open by his government.

    He's taking the Tory attitude.

    Always thought Harris was a clown, but after his this is number 19 of 18 Covid's. I completely ignore him.


  • #5770
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    Boggles wrote: »
    He doesn't AFAIK.

    Grand so.


  • #5771
    sonofenoch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,501 ✭✭✭sonofenoch


    sheepsh4gger wrote: »
    I just recovered from some kind of cold/flu I caught at Tesco. (I know exactly where I go - only to buy food, don't interact with other people in person, wear gloves, treat each surface as contaminated)

    1. Wear a face mask going there. (wash it every day, don't let stuff build up on its surface)
    2. Wash all of the packaging in your kitchen sink.

    Lesson learned.

    I think I got infected through packaging. It could be also that this thing lingers in the air. (I never had any allergies so it's not that)

    It just shows that no matter how many precautions you take (and I went out of my way) not to catch a virus - you can still get infected.

    You probably brought it on yourself being so anal about things to the point of ocd ........it's not a healthy mindset

    ps....and leave the sheep alone, that also is not healthy


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  • #5772
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    Rob A. Bank wrote: »
    This professor got what was classified as 'mild' disease:-

    For 7 weeks I have been through a roller coaster of ill health, extreme emotions, and utter exhaustion

    "The illness went on and on. The symptoms changed, it was like an advent calendar, every day there was a surprise, something new. A muggy head; acutely painful calf; upset stomach; tinnitus; pins and needles; aching all over; breathlessness; dizziness; arthritis in my hands; weird sensation in the skin with synthetic materials. Gentle exercise or walking made me worse—I would feel absolutely dreadful the next day...

    There was a pattern in that period from two weeks to six weeks: feeling absolutely dreadful during the day; sleep heavily, waking with the bed drenched in sweat; getting up with a blinding headache, receding during the day, turning me into a battered ragdoll in the evening. "

    In spite of your continuous downplaying of the seriousness of this disease, getting it is no joke.

    :(
    Third time you have posted this, surely you can find a more recent case with equally nasty after effects.
    Sister in law's Mother caught Covid, back to work after two weeks.
    As I said not everyone has the same outcome.


  • #5773
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,511 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Don't like cornflakes, dislike scare mongering even more.

    Sounds like you dislike a lot and are great fun. :rolleyes:


  • #5774
    Rob A. Bank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭Rob A. Bank


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Third time you have posted this, surely you can find a more recent case with equally nasty after effects.
    Sister in law's Mother caught Covid, back to work after two weeks.
    As I said not everyone has the same outcome.

    Nope... never posted it before... Why do you continuously make things up ?


  • #5775
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    eagle eye wrote: »
    Sounds like you dislike a lot and are great fun. :rolleyes:

    I don't spend my free time trying to scare others for kicks and giggles, unlike others on these threads.


  • #5776
    sheepsh4gger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 622 ✭✭✭sheepsh4gger


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    The virus can survive on plastic for a week? You're going to have to back that claim up with some evidence.
    Sticky because it is encased in a lipid. Which is why you are asked to sanitise your hands which breaksdown the shell on the virus. People wearing gloves such as yourself cross contaminate every surface you touch.


    Sticky @ 2:15



    https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/new-coronavirus-stable-hours-surfaces


  • #5777
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    Rob A. Bank wrote: »
    Nope... never posted it before... Why do you continuously make things up ?

    If you say so, best you protect your post history so. ;-)


  • #5778
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    sheepsh4gger wrote: »
    Sticky @ 2:15



    https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/new-coronavirus-stable-hours-surfaces

    You claimed the virus will survive on plastic for a week, even your own link contradicts your claim. I suggest you read it.


  • #5779
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,647 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    FintanMcluskey wrote: »
    The virus thats as dangerous as influenza?

    One example.


  • #5780
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,140 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    The virus can survive on plastic for a week? You're going to have to back that claim up with some evidence.

    Not only is it inaccurate, but even the real figure doesn't tell the whole picture:
    It is worth noting that in a Q and A interview, Carolyn Machamer, a cell biologist who specialises in coronaviruses, states: “What's getting a lot of press and is presented out of context is that the virus can last on plastic for 72 hours - which sounds really scary. But what's more important is the amount of the virus that remains. It's less than 0.1% of the starting virus material. Infection is theoretically possible but unlikely at the levels remaining after a few days. People need to know this.


    https://www.lenus.ie/bitstream/handle/10147/627423/Rapid-Evidence-Review-COVID-19-Contaminated-Surfaces.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y


  • #5781
    ek motor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 548 ✭✭✭ek motor


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    I don't spend my free time trying to scare others for kicks and giggles, unlike others on these threads.


    No , you seem to spend it moaning at people on this thread.


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  • #5782
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    ek motor wrote: »
    No , you seem to spend it moaning at people on this thread.

    Feel free to report my posts if you have an issue.


  • #5783
    Rob A. Bank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭Rob A. Bank


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    If you say so, best you protect your post history so. ;-)

    No need to protect anything... there you go again making things up to suit your Bolsonaroesque ridiculous view of this poorly understood, highly contageous lethal illness !


  • #5784
    ek motor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 548 ✭✭✭ek motor


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Feel free to report my posts if you have an issue.

    No issue, just an observation.


  • #5785
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    Rob A. Bank wrote: »
    No need to protect anything... there you go again making things up to suit your Bolsonaroesque ridiculous view of this poorly understood, highly contageous lethal illness !

    21,000 in Ireland have recovered. Contagious yes, but lethal?


  • #5786
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,116 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    sheepsh4gger wrote: »
    I just recovered from some kind of cold/flu I caught at Tesco. (I know exactly where I go - only to buy food, don't interact with other people in person, wear gloves, treat each surface as contaminated)

    1. Wear a face mask going there. (wash it every day, don't let stuff build up on its surface)
    2. Wash all of the packaging in your kitchen sink.

    Lesson learned.

    I think I got infected through packaging. It could be also that this thing lingers in the air. (I never had any allergies so it's not that)

    It just shows that no matter how many precautions you take (and I went out of my way) not to catch a virus - you can still get infected.

    If it's a surgical mask, its fibres degrade a little every time you wash it, making it less and less effective every time. If it's a fabric one, then that doesn't apply, but keep in mind that the more tightly-woven the fabric (and the more layers it's made up of) the more effective it is.

    Also, if you want to "sterilise" a fabric face mask after you've washed it, you can always iron it. :)


  • #5787
    sheepsh4gger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 622 ✭✭✭sheepsh4gger


    sonofenoch wrote: »
    You probably brought it on yourself being so anal about things to the point of ocd ........it's not a healthy mindset

    ps....and leave the sheep alone, that also is not healthy


    In my last job a guy died of swine flu around 2008. He was very healthy they said. He was from Dublin and went to Northern Ireland on a project - that's where he caught it.


    Coincidentally I travelled myself for the same reason in 2018 and caught a flu there, it was horrible and worst I experienced in years. Ever since I use my sleeves to touch things like bars on a bus, press buttons in public.



    I'm taking no chances.


    Also you don't get paid when you're sick and I'm not planning on using my holidays for sick days.


  • #5788
    tobefrank321
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,527 ✭✭✭tobefrank321


    giveitholly wrote: »
    Or maybe it's the steroids he stopped taking?

    Steroids are very dangerous for the heart. You only have to look at all the WWF fighters or athletes who died young of heart attacks from steroids misuse.

    Covid 19 is also very dangerous for those with a weakened heart.

    Steroids and covid 19, not a good combination!


  • #5789
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,140 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    21,000 in Ireland have recovered. Contagious yes, but lethal?

    And 1,543 have died. Lethal doesn't mean that everyone dies from it. It means that it has the potential to kill. A gun would be considered a lethal weapon, even though more people are merely injured by them than killed. One could say "potentially lethal", but that's redundant, a bit like "ATM Machine".


  • #5790
    Deeper Blue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,398 ✭✭✭Deeper Blue


    kowloon wrote: »
    Saw this before/after of a healthy guy who caught the virus and how much it took from him.

    *before/after image of bearded man*

    I'm not in any way underestimating the seriousness of the disease, but the guy in that photo was absolutely jacked and I assume was on a strict diet with a lot of protein and/or "supplements" of some description.

    Obviously that diet went out the window once he was admitted to hospital so he was always going to drop a tonne of muscle regardless of what disease he had.

    The Covid obviously didn't help but I just think taking this guy as an example is somewhat misleading.

    Just my 2c


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  • #5791
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    ek motor wrote: »
    No issue, just an observation.

    You accused me of moaning because I don't follow the scaremongering narrative that is so prevalent on these threads.
    Feel free to challenge my comments, however what does a personal comment achieve?


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