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Covid-XIX Part VI - 90 cases ROI (1 death) 29 in NI (as of 13 March) *Read OP*

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    #1502
    statesaver
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,084 ✭✭✭statesaver


    Cw85 wrote: »
    Sneezing like mad all evening, pray for me

    Thoughts and prayers.


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    #1503
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    is_that_so wrote: »
    It would be great to see us bucking that trend but as he keeps saying, a lot is still unknown about this virus.

    Exactly, but what we do know is that in most countries it follows the same trend. So gey ahead of the curve


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    #1504
    Abba987
    Registered Users Posts: 312 ✭✭Abba987


    Cw85 wrote: »
    Sneezing like mad all evening, pray for me

    Not a symptom apparently


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    #1505
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    Maxpfizer wrote: »
    I get that but if Merkel is predicting 58 million infections then there is a clear issue regarding the timescale for such numbers.

    It makes it sound like the health system will inevitably become overwhelmed no matter what.

    58 million cases over 5 years is still just under 1 million per month.
    It's ludicrous to think that could be handled.

    So there is mixed messages there.

    We even have people saying that China has it under control now.
    So these predictions of tens of millions of cases are what? Scaremongering?

    The question would be if the health system can handle X cases then how long does the period of restrictions need to be to makes sure that the number of cases doesn't go too far above X?
    BloodBath wrote: »
    There is almost no basis for any of those numbers.

    It's frankly irresponsible of world leaders to be using them without some sort of context.

    I honestly don't know if this is a wind up. Everyone is entitled to an opinion but I believe that it should be weighted when it comes to questions of facts, like science, medicine engineering etc.

    So I'll add Angela Merkel to the list of people who've got this all wrong. As this rolls on I'm starting to think it is a wind up.
    • epidimiologists
    • World Leaders
    • Doctors
    • Mathematicians
    • Twitter
    • Maths
    • Probability
    • Science

    I asked a question a couple of threads back when you commented that some guy is a moron (an epidemiologist) and I didn't hear back.

    What do you know that the whole world doesn't? Serious question.


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    #1506
    fritzelly
    Registered Users Posts: 17,245 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Holohan
    Cases imported from Austria


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    #1507
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,701 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    saabsaab wrote: »
    Passed by a few Italians today seemed very excited about something.

    Were they sweaty?


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    #1508
    Speak Now
    Registered Users Posts: 8,505 ✭✭✭Speak Now


    Ficheall wrote: »
    43 out of 2300 iirc.





    Also, can someone confirm he's just said if A in Ireland passes it to B in Ireland, they're not calling that community transmission because they know how B got it? Is that how it's defined?

    Local transmission is when they can trace who you got it from, community means they dont have a clue. So you could be community and recategorised as local later I guess! Obviously from travel is the 3rd option.


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    #1509
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users Posts: 39,437 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    So one case of the virus was travel from Austria.


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    #1510
    Cw85
    Registered Users Posts: 238 ✭✭Cw85


    Stheno wrote: »
    Are you snotty?

    Nope just wheezy as I have asthma


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    #1511
    ITman88
    Registered Users Posts: 876 ✭✭✭ITman88


    Tomrota wrote: »
    Again, welcome to Ireland under Fine Gael. Laissez-faire Economics is more important than the people of this country. It’s going to cause more economic damage when we end up like Italy.

    There’s always a clown with political ramblings


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    #1512
    Lillyfae
    Registered Users Posts: 1,800 ✭✭✭Lillyfae


    I'm in the Netherlands, Brabant to be specific. About 500 cases in the country and almost half here. The spread since last week has been exponential. The provincial government had advised to stay at home if experiencing symptoms for 24 hours after symptoms had abated last Friday. On Monday we were told to work from home if possible. On Tuesday we were told that companies should make arrangements for as many staff as possible to work from home and events with more than 1000 people should be cancelled. We've been told that daycare and schools will remain open at all costs, even utilising volunteers if necessary because they want to avoid the risk of grandparents being drafted in to help with childcare. Children and healthy adults under 50 may experience a mild or serious cold, elderly or infirm people need to be protected.

    I'm annoyed with my work tbh. I ordinarily work from home once or twice a week, as do the colleagues in my department, but there are other departments where people could or do work from home sporadically who don't seem to have been given the same freedom of choice as we have. Our site manager has written a couple of wishy washy "in agreement with your manager" type emails. I don't think this is enough.

    I ordinarily take a train to work. I've been working from home since Monday and I'm not returning until things look a little more hopeful.


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    #1513
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    Mr.S wrote: »
    But it was classed as a pandemic :confused:

    I guess I think we're all ****ed and I keep thinking of the Spanish flu.

    Were 1.9M people infected in Ireland back then?


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    #1514
    joe40
    Registered Users Posts: 3,811 ✭✭✭joe40


    Graces7 wrote: »
    "The economy" should and at one time did exist to support the people ie for human life. "Money is now their god." and " the love of money is the root of all evil." come to mind.

    When was that? workers right, welfare etc only really became established after ww2. People do have rose tinted view of the past.
    Human life was dirt cheap in years gone by.


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    #1515
    ArchXStanton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭ArchXStanton


    Cw85 wrote: »
    Sneezing like mad all evening, pray for me

    You should be calling the priest to administer last rights


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    KWAG2019
    Closed Accounts Posts: 834 ✭✭✭KWAG2019


    caveat emptor wrote: »
    I honestly don't know if this is a wind up. Everyone is entitled to an opinion but I believe that it should be weighted when it comes to questions of facts, like science, medicine engineering etc.

    So I'll add Angela Merkel to the list of people who've got this all wrong. As this rolls on I'm starting to think it is a wind up.
    • epidimiologists
    • World Leaders
    • Doctors
    • Mathematicians
    • Twitter
    • Maths
    • Probability
    • Science

    I asked a question a couple of threads back when you commented that some guy is a moron (an epidemiologist) and I didn't hear back.

    What do you know that the whole world doesn't? Serious question.

    Just hit ignore.


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    #1517
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,687 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Abba987 wrote: »
    Not a symptom apparently

    Youd swear I was Typhoid Mary's sister with the looks I got in the office after I sneezed the other day


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    #1518
    skimpydoo
    Registered Users Posts: 4,840 ✭✭✭skimpydoo


    ArchXStanton wrote: »
    I made a point a few pages back, shouldn't we be seeing people presenting to hospitals with breathing difficulties and mild to severe symptoms included in the figures at this stage if it's out there and spreading?

    Maybe we are who knows?


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    #1519
    is_that_so
    Registered Users Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Mr.S wrote: »
    But it was classed as a pandemic :confused:
    Yeah it spread to a whole lot of countries but killed about 0.01–0.08% of those infected. Mots deaths were in Africa and SE Asia.


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    #1520
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Jim_Hodge wrote: »
    Only 99 cases in Canada from 39million of a population. Their daily number of cases topped 20 today. It's only starting to take hold there and still very early days for them.

    Your post is inaccurate./out of date by a long way. Folk who live there know differently. It has been gaining ground a while now. So much suffering. Why post inaccuracy when I had listed what was going on from daily calls to actual Canadians? Makes no sense does it... ? As they say " Lies, lies damned lies and statistics!"

    Over and out from me on this. This is a difficult time for my family . So much suffering and I cannot be there to support them. So please. over and out as my tears flow free now. Thank you and bless you


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    #1521
    gmisk
    Registered Users Posts: 31,829 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Stevieluvsye wrote: »
    This could be one of the biggest scandals this state has ever seen
    How so? What is the scandal?
    It's a pandemic.


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    #1522
    wakka12
    Registered Users Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    A lot of governemnts are just playing catch up now. The very day most countries introduce any kind of measures to prevent travel to and from Italy dozens of cases worldwide pop up of tourists becoming infected after travelling to Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, USA, Egypt, UK, and more.


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    #1523
    Tomrota
    Registered Users Posts: 336 ✭✭Tomrota


    dhaughton99 wrote: »
    Where does it say that?

    https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/news/health/coronavirus-first-death-confirmed-in-ireland-as-who-declares-a-pandemic-1.4199223%3fmode=amp


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    #1524
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users Posts: 39,437 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Speak Now wrote: »
    Local transmission is when they can trace who you got it from, community means they dont have a clue. So you could be community and recategorised as local later I guess! Obviously from travel is the 3rd option.

    I mean the one case in cork where they there were unable to confirm how the person got it, they did say at that stage they hadn’t confirmed a source for it. Which didn’t mean they subsequently found a link.


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    #1525
    namloc1980
    Registered Users Posts: 18,064 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    Stevieluvsye wrote: »
    This could be one of the biggest scandals this state has ever seen

    Scandal?


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    #1526
    LRNM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 164 ✭✭LRNM


    Lads....donated blood has to be tested also.

    Everyone go give blood!


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    #1527
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,443 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1237812623904776195


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    #1528
    ITman88
    Registered Users Posts: 876 ✭✭✭ITman88


    joe40 wrote: »
    When was that? workers right, welfare etc only really became established after ww2. People do have rose tinted view of the past.
    Human life was dirt cheap in years gone by.

    Yeah people don’t realise we have until now lived the most privileged lives in history.
    It’s over now, society is breaking down


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    #1529
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Maxpfizer wrote: »
    It's quite the knot to be tied up in.

    It would be nice if my excess death is not simply to prop up the economy.
    Yet also I need a healthy economy to prop up my nice retirement.

    As if we haven't all spend years, decades even, enjoying goods provided through more or less slave labor, kids working in horrendous conditions and all kinds of assorted death, destruction, inequality and brutal, absolutely brutal, levels of unfairness.

    NOW it's a problem though. I see.
    Someone implied that MY life isn't priceless so now THAT is a problem.

    No doubt that poster was harsh and cold and shocking to read.
    Now that it's on our doorstep someone stating the cold harsh truth is a "scummer" etc.

    It's hilarious that anyone in Ireland now can suddenly be outraged that "the economy" is being held up as more important than human life. It's been that way for decades! We just refused to see.

    Now someone tells the truth and everyone acts like it's that specific poster who's the bad guy!

    It's all of us. This is the world we live in.

    I wish you good health and hope that you have a wonderful retirement.
    Let's not pretend though that the luxuries you will enjoy once this all blows over are manufactured in some idyllic fantasy land by happy contented workers. They ain't.

    I wouldn't blame that poster for simply stating the truth, as terrible as it is.

    Oh dear.. this has nothing to do with that post of course .


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    #1530
    Stheno
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    Cw85 wrote: »
    Nope just wheezy as I have asthma

    Sneezing is not a major symptom dry cough temperature are


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    #1531
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    ITman88 wrote: »
    Yeah people don’t realise we have until now lived the most privileged lives in history.
    It’s over now, society is breaking down

    How long until a total breakdown?
    No electricity and no shops open?


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