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CoVid-19 Part VII - 169 cases ROI (2 deaths) 45 in NI (as of 15 March) *Read OP*

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  • #102
    bekker
    Registered Users Posts: 912 ✭✭✭bekker


    Leo Varadkar on his return must go into isolation and be tested, he has been in close contact with a contact of a confirmed case.

    Under no circumstances can he be allowed close contact with any on the Emergency Committee - he must teleconference with them. In the nation context politicians are replaceable, the people directing the HSE and their assembled experts are not.


  • #103
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,741 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    fritzelly wrote: »
    15 more countries report their first cases

    https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1238574972018270210

    thats it for Africa now...


  • #104
    spookwoman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,971 ✭✭✭spookwoman


    https://twitter.com/Deisesupes/status/1238574514990014464?s=20


  • #105
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,669 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Natasha Warm Teacup wrote: »
    If only there was some sort of petition everyone could sign to encourage the government to bring in mandatory periods of self isolation after coming back from affected areas.

    .

    Would you ever piss off pushing that petition crap


  • #106
    NasserShammaz
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 886 ✭✭✭NasserShammaz


    MrMusician18 wrote: »
    One thing I do hope that the government do is that they come down extremely hard on anyone that stretches the emergency services by acting the bollocks during this time.

    I'm after coming back from Nutgrove and there seems to be a gathering of what can be best described as a shower of cunts in their souped up cars acting like pricks.

    10 years minimum imo for those stretching the emergency services during this time.


    Crush their fuvking cars


  • #107
    Doctor Jimbob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,657 ✭✭✭Doctor Jimbob


    Jinglejangle69 wrote: »
    That's why Italy got so bad.

    They all treated it as a holiday.

    Government should have been more clear on this.

    Nah. The government have been perfectly clear. At some point personal responsibility comes into it. The government didn't close schools and ask people to work from home for the craic.


  • #108
    Vivienne23
    Registered Users Posts: 238 ✭✭Vivienne23


    Jinglejangle69 wrote: »
    That's why Italy got so bad.

    They all treated it as a holiday.

    Government should have been more clear on this.

    Don’t think the government should have had to tell them , WTF is wrong with these people ! I am so looking forward to the day the government shuts down all non essential businesses so I can close my own business and stop having to interact ,

    It’s all about health now not economy , I’d be devastated if a business I have worked so hard in fails but now we have to do the right thing for public health and cop on to what we are doing for once and stop acting like children

    As a woman said to me the other day ,
    Tie up your camel and trust in god

    (I’m not religious but I thought it summed things up quite well )


  • #109
    thecretinhop
    Registered Users Posts: 6,663 ✭✭✭thecretinhop


    hearing arsehole teachers on de lash knowing many (not all) wud not surprise me
    also clown cnt parents arranging play dates etc wtf is wrong with u, there are a generation of parents who dont know how to cope with kids.
    sayz i with a 5 month old baby cretin who has kept her away from crowds in last two weeks
    finally the idiots from Cheltenham should be shot up a dogs arse for the selfishness
    as my mother said"i will shout at them... from a distance"


  • #110
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    bekker wrote: »
    Leo Varadkar on his return must go into isolation and be tested, he has been in close contact with a contact of a confirmed case.

    Under no circumstances can he be allowed close contact with any on the Emergency Committee - he must teleconference with them. In the nation context politicians are replaceable, the people directing the HSE and their assembled experts are not.

    Should get tested anyway
    Like its only a 24 hour wait


  • #111
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    ITman88 wrote: »
    Short of handcuffing them to the couch or sedating them you won’t stop the movement of kids to easily

    Orrr you could just keep them inside and explain to them that it’s right for them to be out right now. Throw on some Netflix or get them to help around the house, or if they’re older get them on their school work. You know there is a happy medium between sedating them and letting them roam feral throughout the estate?


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  • #112
    jimmurt
    Registered Users Posts: 367 ✭✭jimmurt


    Urquell wrote: »
    What's going on in Spain exactly that it's spreading so drastically?

    Is this what we can look forward to seeing across the pond?


    I live in southern Spain. Very slow reaction from Government. Massive events in Mmadrid last weekend including Intl woman´s day march,

    Madrid now epicentre of virus in Spain and people are leaving to go to their second houses, bringing the virus with them.

    That´s just part of it.


  • #113
    Jenbach110
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 154 ✭✭Jenbach110


    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    So Lanzarote officially have it now.

    I was one of the people warning from the start that this would get bad.

    Too be honest even I am shocked at how quickly things have gone downhill in the last two weeks.
    Well done on the warning's!


  • #114
    touts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,536 ✭✭✭touts


    Spanish Eyes wrote: »
    Without spooking people too much, I think the Government needs to hammer home the message every single fkn day. Some are far too complacent, as others have said. Not a good look.

    We have to do this together and for the common good, painful as it may seem.

    Sorry for the lecture, but am fed up with people just laughing it off.

    There will be the usual selfish gob****es who will pack into the pubs on St Patrick's Day. If the government had any sense they would announce that the pubs are all closed on Tuesday.


  • #115
    ziggyman17
    Registered Users Posts: 1,422 ✭✭✭ziggyman17


    We are an Island, we should be using this to our advantage.. Close the airports, no flights in or out for the foreseeable future...Send the army up to the Northern border and stop the flow of people to and from the north... Tough love but that is what it will take to keep us safe..


  • #116
    threeball
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,266 ✭✭✭threeball


    fritzelly wrote: »
    15 more countries report their first cases

    https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1238574972018270210

    Gotta feel sorry for these African countries with zero health service. Terrible position to be in.

    Make you laugh at China coming over here inspecting our beef production is up to scratch and they have every breed and creed of animal crammed in a cage waiting to be eaten which has been the source of most of these new viral epidemics.


  • #117
    beggars_bush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,646 ✭✭✭beggars_bush


    thecretinhop wrote: »
    hearing arsehole teachers on de lash knowing many (not all) wud not surprise me
    also clown cnt parents arranging play dates etc wtf is wrong with u, there are a generation of parents who dont know how to cope with kids.
    sayz i with a 5 month old baby cretin who has kept her away from crowds in last two weeks
    finally the idiots from Cheltenham should be shot up a digs arse for the selfishness
    as my mother said"i will shout at them... from a distance"

    Nothing wrong with going for a drink

    Pubs and restaurants need the business


  • #118
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    jill_valentine wrote: »
    I have a very mild cold since early last week. Was home to my parents last weekend (thinking it might be the last time for a while) and mam reports she's getting the start of a cold now.

    I'm not worried about myself, I'll be grand, but if it was to turn out I'd brought it to my midlands mam and dad who would otherwise probably be grand I don't think I'd ever get over it.

    It's probably nothing, but now I have to worry - just a little - that it's something terrible. But I'm nowhere near sick enough to get tested. This sucks. Just wanted to get that off my chest.

    I've a chest infection which is unusual for me as usually suffer from sinuses when have a cold and it usually never goes to my chest.

    Would be worried but I never had a fever with it which is the biggest indicator (don't take that as gospel look it up). My way of looking at it is in the extremely unlikely chance I Covid I am really lucky as the symptoms are very mild.

    I would rather self isolate just in case but advice from work and HSE advice is not to so I will continue to do so but am socially distancing. I can work by myself mostly and have told a trainee to be patient as I won't train them further until this is over.


  • #119
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    Was meant to be going to Lanzarote on Monday decided not to have I made the correct call do you think?

    Go and you'll have the holiday for a lifetime.


  • #120
    DeanAustin
    Registered Users Posts: 3,855 ✭✭✭DeanAustin


    Jinglejangle69 wrote: »
    Good luck with that.

    Irish people are a bunch of self centred morons contrary to the "everyone loves the Irish" brigade.

    Jesus Christ. We're no more selfish than anyone else. Why the self-loathing?


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  • #121
    Signore Fancy Pants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,687 ✭✭✭Signore Fancy Pants


    Spanish Eyes wrote: »
    Sorry for the lecture, but am fed up with people just laughing it off.

    Ireland seems to have a large proportion of idiots. The aul blaise attitude of 'sure tis grand' is all too common.

    Thousands of people have died, Ireland are not immune to this type of threat.

    The "hero" attitude they have threatens the nation.


  • #122
    syngindub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,798 ✭✭✭syngindub


    have excuse to send mother in law home ;)


  • #123
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    retro:electro wrote: »
    My boyfriend just informed me that his boss and his girlfriend are off to Tenerife until Thursday, and they plan to rock back into work the following Monday no screening no testing no nothing. People seem to be categorise where is “safe” to travel to based on the amount of positive cases there; completely forgetting the important fact that in order to get there you’ve to travel through an airport likely riddled with the infection and travel on a plane that’s been god knows where before you. My boyfriend is worried because his mother has not only cardiovascular disease but high BP and diabetes, she’s basically a right off if she gets this disease. He’s now thinking of taking the two weeks off when they return because of their moronic and selfish behaviour.

    Thats pretty crappy. I have had someone come into work sick 2 weeks in a row and book meetings. I didnt realise they were sick until i got into the room with them. They are more senior so it sucks. Also to add to the fun a colleague is just back from Italy and another has family over from a certain middle/far eastern country that is an out of control epicenter and they have been coughing their lungs up all week - 2 weeks ago. I got a sore throat (the tiniest sore throat but enough of an excuse) last week and took the entire week off just in case. Feck sake. Oh and to add to all of that...as I was walking out of a large meeting room through double doors another colleague was walking in with their face in some pieces of paper and they turned their head to the side and coughed directly in my face as I passed by.

    With all this carry on I believe my workplace would have zero chance if the virus got in.


  • #124
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,597 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    According to the Irish times
    “Here, the criteria for people requiring testing has been updated by the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET), to the effect that anyone with a new fever of 38 degrees or more, or chills and/or respiratory tract infections including cough will require testing.”

    My wife has all of these symptoms and we are in Clare. Does anyone know the number we’re supposed to call to get a test?
    My wife’s GP doesn’t open on Saturday


  • #125
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Probably posted in one of the previous threads, but I found this very interesting.

    https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca


  • #126
    cnocbui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,110 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    coastwatch wrote: »
    Quick calculation of current reported (active) cases per million population,
    .
    .
    New Zealand 1
    (Iceland 394 per million, pop 340,000)

    See, I always knew New Zealand would be the place to be in a real life zombie outbreak, though a pandemic will do.


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  • #127
    ITman88
    Registered Users Posts: 876 ✭✭✭ITman88


    retro:electro wrote: »
    Orrr you could just keep them inside and explain to them that it’s right for them to be out right now. Throw on some Netflix or get them to help around the house, or if they’re older get them on their school work. You know there is a happy medium between sedating them and letting them roam feral throughout the estate?

    True effort should be made alright.
    I’m gona guess using words like feral to describe kids running about means you don’t have any?


  • #128
    threeball
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,266 ✭✭✭threeball


    ziggyman17 wrote: »
    We are an Island, we should be using this to our advantage.. Close the airports, no flights in or out for the foreseeable future...Send the army up to the Northern border and stop the flow of people to and from the north... Tough love but that is what it will take to keep us safe..

    Good time to start a war. Leave it a week more, most of the Brits will have calved anyway by then.


  • #129
    ceadaoin.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,357 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    silverharp wrote: »
    how bored are some people, they must enjoy queuing

    https://twitter.com/JackieValley/status/1238511285324505088

    Haha that's my local costco. Luckily I got all my stuff from there weeks ago

    Was out earlier and had a drive through the car park of the casino opposite the costco just to see if people were still going, it's as full as ever. People care more about mindlessly stocking up than actually doing something to stop the spread.


  • #130
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,996 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Jinglejangle69 wrote: »
    Good luck with that.

    Irish people are a bunch of self centred morons contrary to the "everyone loves the Irish" brigade.

    I'd like to think most of us ARE responsible though, it's the tiny minority of morons that wreck things for everyone, as always.

    A bit despondent tonight. We are only one day into this lockdown and it seems there is a rebellious reaction to Government advice. Cheek by jowl in the supermarkets, kids out playing and so on.

    IT IS NOT A HOLIDAY. Italy made that mistake and look where they are now.

    Fekkit and Fed UP.


  • #131
    ihdxwz4a3pem9j
    Closed Accounts Posts: 82 ✭✭ihdxwz4a3pem9j


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    Is Medex hand sanitiser any good, picked that up at one of the Euro shops I also have some I bought from a pharmacy for 5.90, pretty much price gouging there.

    I am not sure which Medex formulation you picked up. Check the ingredients section: Check the percentage next to Ethanol/Alcohol. If the number is 60 or higher, you are in business. If the number is lower than 60, then it is ineffective, and it is best to buy one with a higher ethanol/alcohol content.

    Remember good old soap and water will do fine, if you cannot buy hand sanitiser!

    And to reiterate, good technique is as important as the product. YouTube WHO Clean Hands (I cannot seem to add the link to my post)


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  • #132
    Jinglejangle69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,563 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    DeanAustin wrote: »
    Jesus Christ. We're no more selfish than anyone else. Why the self-loathing?

    Because we have zero responsibility and always blame someone else for our challenges.

    And expect other people to sort it out.


  • #133
    Gynoid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭Gynoid


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    map-walmart-stores-america.jpg?w=1028


    It was a vital piece of the jigsaw. Getting the private sector involved will speed up testing, and make it available to the whole country. And this is USA, Not Ireland.

    Yeah at first glance it seems like a reasonable proposition, the big corps get free advertising and product placement with the Pres, and the citizens get covid testing mcdonaldfied...in all senses. Don't see how it is outrageous or insulting or whatever. But meh whatever.


  • #134
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    silverharp wrote: »
    how bored are some people, they must enjoy queuing

    https://twitter.com/JackieValley/status/1238511285324505088

    Chinese people acted like selfish asses in China weeks ago and people who pointed this out were accused of racism.

    The messy old Italians cleaned out their supermarkets in a panic and yesterday the Irish did it today the Yanks are doing it.

    Let's call out bad behaviour wherever we see it and stop all the PC bull.


  • #135
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,669 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Akrasia wrote: »
    According to the Irish times
    “Here, the criteria for people requiring testing has been updated by the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET), to the effect that anyone with a new fever of 38 degrees or more, or chills and/or respiratory tract infections including cough will require testing.”

    My wife has all of these symptoms and we are in Clare. Does anyone know the number we’re supposed to call to get a test?
    My wife’s GP doesn’t open on Saturday

    https://www.hse.ie/eng/contact-us


  • #136
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 77,504 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    syngindub wrote: »
    have excuse to send mother in law home ;)
    Sorry but I'm not having her back!



    :pac:


  • #137
    Rob A. Bank
    Registered Users Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭Rob A. Bank


    bekker wrote: »
    We need to flatten the curve!

    A good site with a great graphic showing how early aggressive action (yellow line) will affect the outcomes.

    Also how mild and moderate interventions are less successful and the huge difference in early v late interventions.

    The figures are for America, but the lessons are broadly applicable to any country.

    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/13/opinion/coronavirus-trump-response.html?action=click&module=moreIn&pgtype=Article&region=Footer&action=click&module=MoreInSection&pgtype=Article&region=Footer&contentCollection=Opinion


  • #138
    ACitizenErased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,674 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    Akrasia wrote: »
    According to the Irish times
    “Here, the criteria for people requiring testing has been updated by the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET), to the effect that anyone with a new fever of 38 degrees or more, or chills and/or respiratory tract infections including cough will require testing.”

    My wife has all of these symptoms and we are in Clare. Does anyone know the number we’re supposed to call to get a test?
    My wife’s GP doesn’t open on Saturday
    Ring HSE Live tomorrow morning.

    https://www.hse.ie/eng/hselive/


  • #139
    Sober Crappy Chemis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 461 ✭✭Sober Crappy Chemis


    Signore Fancy Pants wrote: »
    Ireland seems to have a large proportion of idiots. The aul blaise attitude of 'sure tis grand' is all too common.

    Thousands of people have died, Ireland are not immune to this type of threat.

    The "hero" attitude they have threatens the nation.

    But it actually will be grand.


  • #140
    jarvis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,497 ✭✭✭jarvis


    Last Friday at the update Holohan told us there’ll be no update over the weekend with next update being the Monday.

    I don’t recall him saying that this evening. Does anyone know will we get an update tomorrow evening?


  • #141
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    Very concerned for UK approach and the fact it differs from ours , rest of Europe and rest of world. It assumes no permanent damage and 47 million people getting it. Bothering me all day. Felt better when government took approach of closing schools but this is deeply disturbing.

    https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1238549442258763776?s=21


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  • #142
    skimpydoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,956 ✭✭✭skimpydoo


    beggars_bush wrote: »
    Nothing wrong with going for a drink

    Pubs and restaurants need the business

    Are you for real? We are facing what could be hell. Why go out and risk catching it and passing it on.


  • #143
    Signore Fancy Pants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,687 ✭✭✭Signore Fancy Pants


    Sober Crappy Chemis wrote: »
    But it actually will be grand.

    Unless youre dead.


  • #144
    ITman88
    Registered Users Posts: 876 ✭✭✭ITman88


    Signore Fancy Pants wrote: »
    Unless youre dead.

    Which you won’t know anything about so it will definitely be grand!


  • #145
    Signore Fancy Pants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,687 ✭✭✭Signore Fancy Pants


    ITman88 wrote: »
    Which you won’t know anything about so it will definitely be grand!

    Ah good man

    LOL

    /sarcasm


  • #146
    cnocbui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,110 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    People knock Trump no matter what he does, I just knock him when deserved. Today he done something incredible, and his team is pretty remarkable. He has put together the most elite force since Chuck Norris put together the Delta Force .

    Now that you are back on your feet, just thought I would mention that you can catch it from semen too.


  • #147
    Class MayDresser
    Closed Accounts Posts: 395 ✭✭Class MayDresser


    ITman88 wrote: »
    Which you won’t know anything about so it will definitely be grand!

    Who says it'll be a quick death?


  • #148
    Axfrderr
    Registered Users Posts: 82 ✭✭Axfrderr


    threeball wrote: »
    Good time to start a war. Leave it a week more, most of the Brits will have calved anyway by then.
    That's racist. :p
    Herd imunity?


  • #149
    ITman88
    Registered Users Posts: 876 ✭✭✭ITman88


    Signore Fancy Pants wrote: »
    Ah good man

    LOL

    /sarcasm

    Lol


  • #150
    thecretinhop
    Registered Users Posts: 6,663 ✭✭✭thecretinhop


    boris j has gone down route of nazi eugenics astonishing


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  • #151
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,688 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    Theres a thread here seeking a sub forum to be set up for Covid 19 as this thread is moving too fast and has too many sub topics overlapping each other. Please add a +1 on the thread if you agree

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=112824199#post112824199


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