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Airport alert as lethal coronavirus on our doorstep

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  • #2
    DesperateDan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,581 ✭✭✭DesperateDan


    This is the sort of thing that will probably kill us all off, not aliens / asteroids / nuclear war.


  • #3
    73bc61lyohr0mu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 312 ✭✭73bc61lyohr0mu


    Remember when Ebola was going to kill us all? Or SARS? Or Swine Flu? Mass hysteria as usual and the media are loving it. Wait until this illness becomes boring and you won't hear anything more about it. Live your life, relax and don't believe the sensationalist nonsense out there..


  • #4
    DesperateDan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,581 ✭✭✭DesperateDan


    Bryce Numerous Comedy wrote: »
    Remember when Ebola was going to kill us all? Or SARS? Or Swine Flu? Mass hysteria as usual and the media are loving it. Wait until this illness becomes boring and you won't hear anything more about it. Live your life, relax and don't believe the sensationalist nonsense out there..

    Those were only contained due to extensive international efforts, they didn't just disappear. Someone has eaten an infected bat or a koala in China and the repercussions are being felt across the world. The antibiotics crisis doesn't help things either.


  • #5
    The chan chan man
    Registered Users Posts: 824 ✭✭✭The chan chan man


    Well, if there’s any country that can make a complete tits of this, its us..


  • #6
    Hurrache
    Registered Users Posts: 10,146 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    It's a relatively minor virus as it is though, only really dangerous to those immunocompromised or the old, just like a lot of other viruses.

    Antibiotic make no difference whatsoever anyway, it's a virus.


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  • #7
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    DesperateDan wrote: »
    Those were only contained due to extensive international efforts, they didn't just disappear. Someone has eaten an infected bat or a koala in China and the repercussions are being felt across the world. The antibiotics crisis doesn't help things either.

    Agree with most of your point but antibiotics will not help with a virus.


  • #8
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    It is mutating they said at the start, and there have been many deaths already. Wise to take no risks.. Hope for the best but prepare for the worst

    They are acting wisely and responsibly
    Hurrache wrote: »
    It's a relatively minor virus as it is though, only really dangerous to those immunocompromised or the old, just like a lot of other viruses.

    Antibiotic make no difference whatsoever anyway, it's a virus.


  • #9
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Just waiting for this new virus to be blamed on climate change, can’t be long now.


  • #10
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    The chan chan man wrote: »
    Well, if there’s any country that can make a complete tits of this, its us..

    Wow, the doom and gloom brigade media has really done a job in making peoples outlook overly negative. Things really aren't that bad in this country.


  • #11
    RebelButtMunch
    Registered Users Posts: 2,378 ✭✭✭RebelButtMunch


    Bryce Numerous Comedy wrote: »
    Remember when Ebola was going to kill us all? Or SARS? Or Swine Flu? Mass hysteria as usual and the media are loving it. Wait until this illness becomes boring and you won't hear anything more about it. Live your life, relax and don't believe the sensationalist nonsense out there..

    Yep. Ebola still going strong in Africa... where's the headlines?


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  • #12
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users Posts: 24,468 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    DesperateDan wrote: »
    Someone has eaten a... koala in China
    :confused::confused:
    come again?


  • #13
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users Posts: 3,133 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Bryce Numerous Comedy wrote: »
    Remember when Ebola was going to kill us all? Or SARS? Or Swine Flu? Mass hysteria as usual and the media are loving it. Wait until this illness becomes boring and you won't hear anything more about it. Live your life, relax and don't believe the sensationalist nonsense out there..

    I agree.


  • #14
    Peatys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,881 ✭✭✭Peatys


    The chan chan man wrote: »
    Well, if there’s any country that can make a complete tits of this, its us..

    China: hold my tea


  • #15
    Snow Garden
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Snow Garden


    Bryce Numerous Comedy wrote: »
    Remember when Ebola was going to kill us all? Or SARS? Or Swine Flu? Mass hysteria as usual and the media are loving it. Wait until this illness becomes boring and you won't hear anything more about it. Live your life, relax and don't believe the sensationalist nonsense out there..

    I feel sorry for young people these days. They are being bombarded with fear stories on a constant basis. It cannot be easy on their mental health.


  • #16
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 28,067 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    Ah jeeze not the Russians again...


  • #17
    nthclare
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,316 ✭✭✭nthclare


    Nothing against the OP but I love the sensationalist headline in the post.

    Reminds me of the time in the 90's some guy caught a tope on a rod and line way up the Shannon Estuary, and the headline on the paper was something onto Jaws is getting nearer to Limerick city..

    A tope is a small shark which is common enough around the coast and can grow up to 6ft in length.
    Harmless but one would have to be careful while unhooking them.


  • #18
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,011 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    There have been 44 deaths so far this season from flu in Ireland (the 'ordinary' variety of flu) and around 2700 hospital admissions. That is from the HSE; normally there are between 80 and 120 deaths in a season. Last year there were 102 deaths.


  • #19
    Peatys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,881 ✭✭✭Peatys


    looksee wrote: »
    There have been 44 deaths so far this season from flu in Ireland (the 'ordinary' variety of flu) and around 2700 hospital admissions? That is from the HSE; normally there are between 80 and 120 deaths in a season. Last year there were 102 deaths.

    I've man flu since yesterday.. you telling me this is the end?!


  • #20
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,850 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Saw the headline and assumed the OP was just trying to do a dramatic impression of the Indo. Seems the paper is happy to be more and more tabloid itself!


  • #21
    gozunda
    Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Bryce Numerous Comedy wrote: »
    Remember when Ebola was going to kill us all? Or SARS? Or Swine Flu? Mass hysteria as usual and the media are loving it. Wait until this illness becomes boring and you won't hear anything more about it. Live your life, relax and don't believe the sensationalist nonsense out there..

    There will always be those who use alarmism or who just like to believe the worst doomsday scenario possible.

    That said - I would recommend an excellent overview on plagues over the course of human history, which have been responsible for the deaths of many millions and how a number of specific regions - - one which is China effectively serve as disease pools for the generation of new forms of infection. Worth a read.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagues_and_Peoples


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  • #22
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users Posts: 11,464 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Peatys wrote: »
    I've man flu since yesterday.. you telling me this is the end?!

    Yes. Put your affairs in order and inform your loved ones.


  • #23
    Peatys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,881 ✭✭✭Peatys


    For Forks Sake wrote: »
    Yes. Put your affairs in order and inform your loved ones.

    I hereby leave this half finished bowl of crunchy nuts to my next door neighbor. She always loved my crunchy nuts.


  • #24
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users Posts: 5,745 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/election-2020/varadkar-pulls-out-of-election-events-due-to-illness-38889385.html
    #PrayForLeader


  • #25
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 32,940 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    looksee wrote: »
    There have been 44 deaths so far this season from flu in Ireland (the 'ordinary' variety of flu) and around 2700 hospital admissions? That is from the HSE; normally there are between 80 and 120 deaths in a season. Last year there were 102 deaths.

    But that's not 'sexy' enough for the 24hr news and media.

    It has to be a killer virus from abroad, not plain old flu


  • #26
    Snow Garden
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Snow Garden


    Peatys wrote: »
    I hereby leave this half finished bowl of crunchy nuts to my next door neighbor. She always loved my crunchy nuts.

    She is ill too ;)


  • #27
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,381 ✭[Deleted User]


    DesperateDan wrote: »
    Someone has eaten an infected bat or a koala in China

    What a year. Straight from the fire and into the frying pan.


  • #28
    GooglePlus
    Registered Users Posts: 2,010 ✭✭✭GooglePlus


    The media hungry for clicks again..


  • #29
    TheBoyConor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭TheBoyConor


    What a load of chit.

    It's a cold.

    Tell that man in Belfast to have a lemsip and a hot whiskey and watch some netflix. Be grand.

    remember when sars & Bird flu was going to wipe out the human race? Turned out that the only way to contract it is if you were living in a hen house in Thailand with your face up a ducks arse for 12 hours a day.

    Same with swine flu. A load of bollox.

    For normal healthy people, these are non-issues.

    It is only if you have a AIDS or a knackered immune system or if you are a 137 year old diabetic that these are an issue. But sure then the regular flu would probably finish you off just as well.


  • #30
    Dubh Geannain
    Registered Users Posts: 3,393 ✭✭✭Dubh Geannain


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    Just waiting for this new virus to be blamed on climate change, can’t be long now.

    The warming sea temperatures off the China coast created the perfect conditions for the virus to mutate within the local sea weed. Ironically in an attempt to reduce their carbon footprint and move to a more plant based diet locals have been eating more of this seaweed.

    So the people causing climate change are to blame and the people trying to do something about it are also to blame. So no ones not to blame.


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  • #31
    Snow Garden
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Snow Garden


    You can nearly sense from news readers that they are fed up propping up these continual fear stories.
    You can see that they don't believe the hype and don't like saying overly dramatic words like 'deadly', 'lockdown' and 'mutating' (all viruses mutate ffs).
    .


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