CoVid19 Part X - 1,564 cases ROI (9 deaths) 209 in NI (7 deaths) (25 March) *Read OP*

Thargor wrote: »

Is anyone else just in total shock that this is happening and how suddenly it came along? I forget about it then remember that its happening all over again a minute after my alarm goes off every morning, its absolutely mad when you think about it. Bill Gates was warning us we were completely unprepared for a pandemic in his TED talks from 2015 onwards.

Imagine if this was some kind of airborne Ebola that was actually killing 90% of the people who got it, society would just collapse.

Goldengirl wrote: »

Info is readily available on HSE.ie Coronavirus pages and updated every day.

If you are unwell ring your GP, and if you are referred for a test you will need to self isolate and your household will have to restrict their movements , that means not going to work. Again all on the above site.

amadangomor wrote: »

Other generations did things like bring Hitler to his knees with great sacrifice and all we are being asked to do is stay on our couch and talk on skype etc instead of in person. Of course it's doable ffs

frillyleaf wrote: »

Why are people assuming heat will kill this? It’s a new disease so anything can go with it

Deleted User wrote: »

A woman in the Land of the Free was billed $34,927.43 for Covid-19 testing and treatment.

https://time.com/5806312/coronavirus-treatment-cost/

tuxy wrote: »

Imagine the kind of thinking that goes into the logic that if you had a flu or cold in the last 4 months that was debilitating then it could only have been covid-19

If it goes back that far that means our ICU's were completely overrun with many dying around Christmas time, yet it wasn't reported on.
Also it was just a coincidence that a strain of influenza(typical winter increase in influenza) was identified to be spreading in Ireland around that time.

darjeeling wrote: »

I've posted about this before in one or two of these threads, and I don't think it's possible that it was here before mid-Jan for several different reasons.


1) The reports of flu-like illness (red lines below) correlated perfectly with detected influenza viruses (bars) over the flu season, just like previous years.
It's only in the last two weeks that flu symptoms are increasing while detected flu is decreasing (circled).



2) There are now over a thousand complete viral genome sequences from patients all over the world, all showing mutations that pick up over time.
Tracking back computationally to find the common ancestor of all of them shows that it's genomes from China, including Wuhan, that are at the origin of everything, and that the origin dates to ~Nov-Dec 2019.
The sequences from the US, from Europe, from Australia etc all radiate out from that origin.

3) The pathology is different - doctors in China got very good at detecting COVID-19 using CT scans, and there are quite distinct cellular features seen on autopsy. These were not noted in Dec & Jan here.

Dr Holohan said it was “very encouraging” that the average number of contacts in confirmed cases had dropped from 20 last week to about five

snoopboggybog wrote: »

I'm a bit worried. So say we isolate for three months and everything goes back to normal what happens if a major outbreak starts happening again? Do we all self isolate again?

Its a bit worrying that no vaccine has been produced after nearly three months. To get the amount needed for the over 60's and people with underlying medical conditions could take a long long time for the entire world. I'm no medical expert but could it be a few years before the vaccine is readily available if one ever is?

I just want this to end.