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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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  • #52
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    yasmina wrote: »
    Any details on what measures Spain took and when ?
    Largely none until a day or two ago. It is of their own making. Schools now closed and all shops bar those selling food and pharmacies from tomorrow evening. A state of emergency exists now but not clear if it's a lockdown like the Italian one. Their problem is Madrid, which has the bulk of the cases.


  • #53
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    D.Q wrote: »
    When this is all said and done this saga of threads will be incredible reading. Hive mind documentation of a pandemic, from the initial humble beginnings to wild hysteria

    Forget the pandemic it will be a great case study in denial and stupidity.


  • #54
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,512 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    branie2 wrote: »
    All masses are cancelled until the 29th

    Apparently, you can get the same magic by watching them on tv.


  • #55
    bekker
    Registered Users Posts: 912 ✭✭✭bekker


    is_that_so wrote: »
    Is it any wonder nobody can keep up?
    We need to flatten the curve!


  • #56
    voluntary
    Registered Users Posts: 871 ✭✭✭voluntary


    Spanish Eyes wrote: »
    As per my username, I visit Spain a lot (a nice spot, has to be said, not the beer and breakfast place ahem).

    In mid Feb my finger hovered over the flights, and I said nah, see how it pans out.

    So glad my fingers hovered now.

    My guess is that every single current flight from Spain bring multiple infected. Nobody takes these serious.


  • #57
    Gentleman Off The Pitch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 603 ✭✭✭Gentleman Off The Pitch


    One sickening thing about the Cheltenham crowd and other self absorbed types who aren't taking this seriously is that that those of them that will get sick will do so relatively early in the cycle and may go on to hog the limited hospital beds, ventilators and ICU places from those who bothered their hole educating themselves about the virus and will succumb to the virus later as a result of being more careful and conscientious.


  • #58
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    Was meant to be going to Lanzarote on Monday decided not to have I made the correct call do you think?
    If you feel you have there is no need to ask the question!:)


  • #59
    ITman88
    Registered Users Posts: 876 ✭✭✭ITman88


    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    Forget the pandemic it will be a great case study in denial and stupidity.

    Or hysteria and panic!


  • #60
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,928 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Saw a lot of kids roaming about today. Seems like it's just being treated as an unexpected long weekend.

    Traffic was lighter alright but lots of general activity which is good and bad.

    After the panic yesterday, are people already becoming complacent?


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  • #61
    Rob A. Bank
    Registered Users Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭Rob A. Bank


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    i thought it was brilliant. He has put together a great team, tore up the red tape and put the American People first.

    Wow, just WOW

    Trump got Walmart and other big companies will make portions of their parking lots (in select locations) available for drive-thru testing for COVID-19

    Such an incredible, marvelous and generous responses to this unfolding sh*tstorm from the private sector in the USA !

    :rolleyes:


  • #62
    [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.

    Tenerife and countries they pass through should be more worried. In case you haven't noticed, the virus is here.


  • #63
    jackboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,664 ✭✭✭jackboy


    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.

    If he is that worried he should stay at home from work anyway. Anyone could have it, pointless aiming his stress at his boss.


  • #64
    jill_valentine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    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.


  • #65
    pc7
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,124 Mod ✭✭✭✭pc7


    That really is ahole behavior by them Retro, some people are fooking idiots


  • #66
    Class MayDresser
    Closed Accounts Posts: 395 ✭✭Class MayDresser


    She sounds like a barrel of laughs.


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  • #67
    charlietheminxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,579 ✭✭✭charlietheminxx


    _Kaiser_ wrote: »

    After the panic yesterday, are people already becoming complacent?

    Some people absolutely are.


  • #68
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭ [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.

    Afaik the government want everyone returning from italy and spain to self isolate for 2 weeks


    Id call gaurds on them.on monday tbh,no point in having all these extra gaurds if they cant be used,they literally people lives at risk

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.joe.ie/amp/fitness-health/irish-people-travel-spain-italy-ireland-694732


  • #69
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    "I just don't for the life of me understand how this disease is spreading. Sick people are locked down immediately. In Dublin at least everyone is extremely careful and staying away from each other. Are there some kind of underground virus sex parties going on? Or maybe the current measures are not enough, forget 1 meter, we should be 5 meters away from each other?"

    I can't remember who I'm quoting here as I copied text from previous thread, your point about five metres apart is not far off, was there not a case of community infection in China on a bus with people 4.5 metres apart, I'll see if I can find it.

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    https://twitter.com/Castletonian/status/1237218895062347778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1237218895062347778&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.boards.ie%2Fvbulletin%2Fshowthread.php%3Fp%3D112788476

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #70
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,996 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


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

    How would I know, you have to go with your gut feeling.

    https://lanzaroteinformation.co.uk/corona-virus-in-lanzarote/


  • #71
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,901 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    The real reason the UK is dramatically reducing it's testing no doubt...
    Trump is asked why the UK was exempted from the travel ban list. He says that was the expert advice and, looking at the increase in the number of cases in the UK, the country may be added to the list soon, while other countries might be taken off it.


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  • #72
    GooglePlus
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    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.

    Chances are it's just a cold.


  • #73
    Tootsie_1
    Registered Users Posts: 308 ✭✭Tootsie_1


    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.

    If they get worse they should get tested keep an eye on them . This is the scary thing non of us would mean to do it but so easily passed on.


  • #74
    otnomart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭otnomart


    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?


    Spain got the virus early on.
    -One case at the end of Jan in La Gomera - a German tourist
    -first death on 13 February in Valencia, diagnosed a few weeks later


    Two Spanish genomes are now up on Nextstrain and show that they represent "separate introductions".


    The map shows two introductions:
    -one from Germany (Bavaria in the map) via Italy
    -the second one directly from China

    So we now know that the virus arrived to Spain from different sources


    ES8_7CyUcAEtwiq?format=png&name=small
    https://twitter.com/nextstrain/statu...79354380980224


  • #75
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,743 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Rob A. Bank wrote: »
    Wow, just WOW

    Trump got Walmart and other big companies will make portions of their parking lots (in select locations) available for drive-thru testing for COVID-19

    Such an incredible, marvelous and generous responses to this unfolding sh*tstorm from the private sector in the USA !

    :rolleyes:

    got the stock markets moving in the right directions though...


  • #76
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    Some families need to cop on as well and take this more seriously. At least where I live, it was like your average day during mid term break. Kids all out together on the green, mixing together, and in and out of one another’s houses. I know it’s hard to keep them entertained but this isn’t a holiday. There was intent behind this decision and it’s like they don’t understand there was a purpose behind keeping them off school. I don’t think people are taking this seriously enough. Same people will be giving out about de gubbermint not doing enough when one of their relatives gets sick or dies


  • #77
    ihdxwz4a3pem9j
    Closed Accounts Posts: 82 ✭✭ihdxwz4a3pem9j


    Please do not get tricked into buying the wrong type of hand-sanitisers. Normal soap and water is the gold-standard. But an alcohol-based (at least 60%) disinfectant will also be effective. (I have seen some hand-sanitisers which have no alcohol, so these are utterly useless). Also, make sure to dry your hands thoroughly afterwards if using soap and water. If you wash your hands a lot, it is advisable to use a hand-moisturiser (not a communal one, as this could spread the infection). This reduces your chances of getting sore and inflamed skin on your hands. And definitely don't use bleach products on your skin (people have used things like dettol wipes to clean their hands). This could damage the skin


  • #78
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    branie2 wrote: »
    All masses are cancelled until the 29th

    So there's really nothing to be said for another mass?


  • #79
    Jinglejangle69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,563 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    retro:electro wrote: »
    Some families need to cop on as well and take this more seriously. At least where I live, it was like your average day during mid term break. Kids all out together on the green, mixing together, and in and out of one another’s houses. I know it’s hard to keep them entertained but this isn’t a holiday. There was intent behind this decision and I don’t think people are taking this seriously enough. Same people will be giving out about de gubbermint not doing enough when one of their relatives gets sick or dies

    That's why Italy got so bad.

    They all treated it as a holiday.

    Government should have been more clear on this.


  • #80
    voluntary
    Registered Users Posts: 871 ✭✭✭voluntary


    Why did the Plague spare Poland?
    https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/bubonic-plague-spares-poland

    img.png?width=980
    One main reason why Poland escaped relatively unscathed, was the decision by Poland's king, Casimir the Great, to close the country's borders – and set up internal quarantines.

    This increased Poland's natural isolation, both from the outside world and between the settlements within the country – generally smaller and less connected than elsewhere in Europe. Prague to Krakow took eight days on horseback. People infected took between 24 to 72 hours to get sick. So the issue would 'resolve' itself well before the danger reached the Polish border.

    Isolation plus quarantine certainly helped spare Poland from the worst of the epidemic.


  • #81
    NasserShammaz
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 886 ✭✭✭NasserShammaz


    https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/fhq000/people_of_siena_italy_sing_a_popular_song_from/


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  • #82
    MrMusician18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,588 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    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.


  • #83
    sparkle109
    Registered Users Posts: 174 ✭✭sparkle109


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


    Yes


  • #84
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    Spanish Eyes wrote: »
    How would I know, you have to go with your gut feeling.

    https://lanzaroteinformation.co.uk/corona-virus-in-lanzarote/

    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.


  • #85
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,901 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    As well as Spain, spread also accelerating in Portugal...

    34 new cases today, 119 total.


  • #86
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,996 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    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.


  • #87
    ITman88
    Registered Users Posts: 876 ✭✭✭ITman88


    retro:electro wrote: »
    Some families need to cop on as well and take this more seriously. At least where I live, it was like your average day during mid term break. Kids all out together on the green, mixing together, and in and out of one another’s houses. I know it’s hard to keep them entertained but this isn’t a holiday. There was intent behind this decision and it’s like they don’t understand there was a purpose behind keeping them off school. I don’t think people are taking this seriously enough. Same people will be giving out about de gubbermint not doing enough when one of their relatives gets sick or dies

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


  • #88
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,404 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Rob A. Bank wrote: »
    Wow, just WOW

    Trump got Walmart and other big companies will make portions of their parking lots (in select locations) available for drive-thru testing for COVID-19

    Such an incredible, marvelous and generous responses to this unfolding sh*tstorm from the private sector in the USA !

    :rolleyes:


    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.


  • #89
    Andrea B.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,964 ✭✭✭Andrea B.


    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    Was meant to be going to Lanzarote on Monday decided not to have I made the correct call do you think?
    Yes. I think planes are an ideal germ and virus mixing pot due to air recirculation. Irrelevant of where you are flying. Just one person might be possibly be infecting multiples on a plane.


  • #90
    Jinglejangle69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,563 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    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.

    Good luck with that.

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


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  • #91
    threeball
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,266 ✭✭✭threeball


    Gentleman Off The Pitch wrote: »
    One sickening thing about the Cheltenham crowd and other self absorbed types who aren't taking this seriously is that that those of them that will get sick will do so relatively early in the cycle and may go on to hog the limited hospital beds, ventilators and ICU places from those who bothered their hole educating themselves about the virus and will succumb to the virus later as a result of being more careful and conscientious.

    I said this to a few people yesterday. If you're going to get it you'd be better get it now whilst we still have a functioning health service. Once it ramps up its a numbers game whether they'll even look at you.


  • #92
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    So there's really nothing to be said for another mass?
    Think there was something in the big book that said (Something along those lines):

    During these end times (Tribulation): of plagues, locust swarms and {toilet roll} pestilence: though shall 'not be able', to celebrate the Sabbath.


  • #93
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,670 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    15 more countries report their first cases

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


  • #94
    beggars_bush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,647 ✭✭✭beggars_bush


    voluntary wrote: »
    Why did the Plague spare Poland?
    https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/bubonic-plague-spares-poland

    img.png?width=980

    Plague didn't really affect Gaelic Ireland as it was very rural and small communities in dispersed locations

    Anglo Normans in their castles, towns and villages were decimated


  • #95
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 77,514 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    D.Q wrote: »
    When this is all said and done this saga of threads will be incredible reading. Hive mind documentation of a pandemic, from the initial humble beginnings to wild hysteria
    Don't forget the calm after the storm

    How we get back to some kind of "normality" and to what extent that differs from what we are used to will be fascinating. Social media was in its infancy when 9/11 came around, so we will not have the same "experiences" from the likes of that (which was also more akin to a short, sharp, shock - this one is more like a long drawn out torture)


  • #96
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Hugh Massive Globe wrote: »
    Please do not get tricked into buying the wrong type of hand-sanitisers. Normal soap and water is the gold-standard. But an alcohol-based (at least 60%) disinfectant will also be effective. (I have seen some hand-sanitisers which have no alcohol, so these are utterly useless). Also, make sure to dry your hands thoroughly afterwards if using soap and water. If you wash your hands a lot, it is advisable to use a hand-moisturiser (not a communal one, as this could spread the infection). This reduces your chances of getting sore and inflamed skin on your hands. And definitely don't use bleach products on your skin (people have used things like dettol wipes to clean their hands). This could damage the skin

    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.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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  • #97
    silverharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,666 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    how bored are some people, they must enjoy queuing

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

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • #98
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,404 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    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 .


  • #99
    Cody montana
    Registered Users Posts: 5,386 ✭✭✭Cody montana


    Work in the food industry.
    We can’t keep up with demand.

    Busiest day in the history of our company.


  • #100
    skimpydoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,956 ✭✭✭skimpydoo


    https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/0312/1121962-self-isolation/


  • #101
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


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

    Probably should set up live-streamin of lessons

    Like i wouldnt expect the kids to learn much,but deos keep em tied down


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