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Covid 19 Part XX-26,644 in ROI (1,772 deaths) 6,064 in NI (556 deaths) (08/08)Read OP

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  • #3662
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,260 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    Deleted User wrote: »
    We don't hear a lot of advice on toilets. I am terrified of public or business toilets, especially the cubicles where people defecate.

    I was away for a few days and had to use public toilets on the journey .I took two Dettol wipes in my pocket .Opened the toilet door with one and wiped the seat with it . I used to other then to press the flush and open the door , discarded both in the bin and washed my hands then sanitized them once out of the door .


  • #3663
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    Gruffalox wrote: »
    Put down the lid before flush.

    Bring your own lid in case there isn't one.


  • #3664
    Gruffalux
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭Gruffalux


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Bring your own lid in case there isn't one.

    Just pee in the woods. Public toilets are gick.


  • #3665
    LiquidZeb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,254 ✭✭✭LiquidZeb


    The HorsesMouth wrote: »
    JFC... everyone involved in the vaccine making programs are optimistic about achieving a vaccine. Even Fauci agrees it will be here by end of 2020. But no the guys and gals of boards.ie have decided they are going to stick to their negative, depressing and grim outlook.
    Like why would you choose to be pessimistic about this vaccine? The vaccine is the only way out of this absolute
    s**tshow.
    Are you loving the fact that we are living like this?? Anyone surely wanting out of this is going to be praying and hoping for one...not coming up with endless reasons why the phd scientists are wrong and they can't make one.

    I dunno Fauci and Oxford are good and all but clearly theyre no match for the boards.ie institute of misery, piss and vinegar.


  • #3666
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    Gruffalox wrote: »
    Put down the lid before flush.

    Not all toilets have toilet seat. And if they do, the person before you have to put down the lid and people are selfish with all this, so that won't be happening.


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  • #3667
    owlbethere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭owlbethere


    is_that_so wrote: »
    A report from the CDC on a kids camp in Georgia, with a 44% infection rate. Lots of kids close together doing typical camp activities and a suggestion that the view of the possible role of kids in this may not be not fully accurate.



    https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6931e1.htm?s_cid=mm6931e1_w

    We were told from the early days of this virus emerging outside of China, that children don't seem to get this virus, they don't get it as bad, they don't spread it.

    I was never able to get this and how can we possibly rely on statistics coming out from China when they dealt with the virus differently. They had isolation centres for people who were sick. So the virus never had the chance to gain a foothold within family units in China. The rest of the world was told to self isolate at home away from the rest of your families. Not everyone has the ideal living situations with en suite bathrooms for each sick person. The virus is going to spread around more here within family units.


  • #3668
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,817 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    What advice do you need? Don't lick the seat prehaps.
    Flush and wash your hands.

    You haven't mentioned ventilation.

    Nobody seems too interested in ventilation. Countless places I have been in with signs on walls, windows, floors etc telling people about 2 meters. But those places have all their windows shut. I dont believe they all have highly advanced ventilation systems.


  • #3669
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    I was away for a few days and had to use public toilets on the journey .I took two Dettol wipes in my pocket .Opened the toilet door with one and wiped the seat with it . I used to other then to press the flush and open the door , discarded both in the bin and washed my hands then sanitized them once out of the door .

    I think this is a good suggestion. Also masks and goggles.


  • #3670
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    Gruffalox wrote: »
    Just pee in the woods. Public toilets are gick.

    Agreed, but if it's a number 2 bag it and bring it home. No one wants to walk in that.


  • #3671
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    I think this is a good suggestion. Also masks and goggles.

    Haz mat suit just to be super safe.


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  • #3672
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,817 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    I was away for a few days and had to use public toilets on the journey .I took two Dettol wipes in my pocket .Opened the toilet door with one and wiped the seat with it . I used to other then to press the flush and open the door , discarded both in the bin and washed my hands then sanitized them once out of the door .

    That's all great but if the person in before you had covid and took a dump. What about the aerosols?


  • #3673
    iguana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭iguana


    jackboy wrote: »
    Schools all over Europe have been opened with little impact on the spread of the virus apart from isolated cases of infection spikes. It seems that it just takes some minor adjustments in the normal school routine to prevent significant spikes.

    Of course children can spread the virus to some degree but it is clear that the significant spreaders are adults doing things like going to packed pubs and working in environments with little social distance.

    From what we know at this moment, it is clear that the schools should reopen.

    47% of Israel's June cases, which began their second wave were infected in schools. They are now in the middle of a massive second wave. Reopening schools was an absolute disaster for Israel.


  • #3674
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    You haven't mentioned ventilation.

    Nobody seems too interested in ventilation. Countless places I have been in with signs on walls, windows, floors etc telling people about 2 meters. But those places have all their windows shut. I dont believe they all have highly advanced ventilation systems.

    Suba tank and regulator sorted.


  • #3675
    jackboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,048 ✭✭✭jackboy


    iguana wrote: »
    47% of Israel's June cases, which began their second wave were infected in schools. They are now in the middle of a massive second wave. Reopening schools was an absolute disaster for Israel.

    That did not happen anywhere in Europe. Obviously, there was something different in the Israeli schools that facilitated their outbreak.


  • #3676
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    iguana wrote: »
    47% of Israel's June cases, which began their second wave were infected in schools. They are now in the middle of a massive second wave. Reopening schools was an absolute disaster for Israel.

    So are you going to keep your child at home until they are 18?


  • #3677
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,459 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    A balanced and rational opinion piece from Fergal Bowers

    https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/0731/1156726-fergal-bowers-analysis/


  • #3678
    LiquidZeb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,254 ✭✭✭LiquidZeb


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    So are you going to keep your child at home until they are 18?

    Why stop at 18?


  • #3679
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    jackboy wrote: »
    That did not happen anywhere in Europe. Obviously, there was something different in the Israeli schools that facilitated their outbreak.

    Religious gatherings . Although this second wave hysteria when the virus was still present is amusing.


  • #3680
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    LiquidZeb wrote: »
    Why stop at 18?

    Age of majority? Child gets to decide .


  • #3681
    Boggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,566 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    jackboy wrote: »
    That did not happen anywhere in Europe. Obviously, there was something different in the Israeli schools that facilitated their outbreak.

    The same infrastructural problems and teacher pupil ratios as us?


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  • #3682
    LiquidZeb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,254 ✭✭✭LiquidZeb


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Age of majority? Child gets to decide .

    Just lock them up indefinitely. To keep them safe


  • #3683
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    LiquidZeb wrote: »
    Just lock them up indefinitely. To keep them safe

    Good idea.


  • #3684
    iguana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭iguana


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    So are you going to keep your child at home until they are 18?

    My child most probably had Covid already. He can go around licking walls, Covid likely poses no risk to him and he likely can't pass it on to anyone else. He'll go back to school when they reopen. But our school reopening plan isn't good and nearly 1/3 of yesterday's cases were community transmission. There is a more than reasonable chance that we will see clusters in schools and schools will have to close again. Anyone with a school child who is not preparing for that eventuality is deluding themselves. It will be great of schools can stay open but realistically they may not.


  • #3685
    Widdensushi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,592 ✭✭✭Widdensushi


    Boggles wrote: »
    The same infrastructural problems and teacher pupil ratios as us?

    The schools there reopened without precautions, with hooks to hang their masks on, all the masks on top of each other, bonding exercises etc.


  • #3686
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    iguana wrote: »
    My child most probably had Covid already. He can go around licking walls, Covid likely poses no risk to him and he likely can't pass it on to anyone else. He'll go back to school when they reopen. But our school reopening plan isn't good and nearly 1/3 of yesterday's cases were community transmission. There is a more than reasonable chance that we will see clusters in schools and schools will have to close again. Anyone with a school child who is not preparing for that eventuality is deluding themselves. It will be great of schools can stay open but realistically they may not.

    The schools will stay open, outbreaks will be dealt on a local basis. Why would you expect schools in Mayo to close if there was a cluster found in Louth. Children's mental health and education is important.


  • #3687
    Boggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,566 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Widdensushi wrote: »
    The schools there reopened without precautions, with hooks to hang their masks on, all the masks on top of each other, bonding exercises etc.

    Incorrect the schools were reopened with unworkable guidance which mimics ours.

    They will be reopening again in September hopefully, with completely different workable guidance.

    I imagine something we will eventually mimic.


  • #3688
    Widdensushi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,592 ✭✭✭Widdensushi


    We have to learn to live with covid


  • #3689
    Boggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,566 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Widdensushi wrote: »
    We have to learn to live with covid

    Too big for a bumper sticker, but catchy.


  • #3690
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Haz mat suit just to be super safe.

    I forgot this is just a joke to you.


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  • #3691
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,312 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    What advice do you need? Don't lick the seat prehaps.
    Flush and wash your hands.

    Close the lid before flushing after you use the toilet
    Very simple advice that could reduce the spread but most people don’t think of doing

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



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