Coronavirus Part II - Its arrived - We're Doomed!!! See OP for Mod warnings

melonstar · 28-02-2020 2:37pm

Runaways wrote: »

I’m self isolating and climbing the walls in my room

Did you ring your local GP?

gabeeg · 28-02-2020 2:38pm

Dotsie~tmp wrote: »

So when did they stop. Before or after killing 40 million in the Great Leap Forward? The Cultural Revolution? Another few million. Why is communism so slippery when put into practice for people who defend it?

With the 1978 economic reforms.

Read the wikipedia page first, man. I don't want to talk to you about this any more though I'm afraid.

redsteveireland · 28-02-2020 2:38pm

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Aer Lingus confirm the confirmed case travelled on one of their flights and they are liasing with the authorities.

Kermit, your services are needed dealing with the "s" word over in weather...

Plumbthedepths · 28-02-2020 2:38pm

whisky_galore wrote: »

Since when were school ski trips a thing?

What's educational about them?

They learn to ski, very useful lifeskill.

BanditLuke · 28-02-2020 2:38pm

markodaly wrote: »

The next week will be interesting, as we will see cases skyrocket out of control all around Europe. Which is depressing, as its one of the most advanced and developed regions in the world, well able to handle this situation. But red-tape and inertia meant they were unable to.

Yeah. Unfortunately nurses, doctor, paramedics etc..are all going to be pushed to the absolute limit in these next few weeks and months. Iv'e a family member who works as a paramedic and she and her colleagues have been very downbeat all week.

28-02-2020 2:38pm

whisky_galore wrote: »

Since when were school ski trips a thing?

What's educational about them?

I was going on school skiing trips in the 80s

Loafing Oaf · 28-02-2020 2:39pm

markodaly wrote: »

If they were serious about it, then they would have closed the Italian border a week ago, but that didn't happen

Maybe not close entirely, but ensured people needed a very good reason to get in or out. That should have prevented most of the spread.

whisky_galore · 28-02-2020 2:39pm

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

I was going on school skiing trips in the 80s

Where's the educational value?

Sierra Oscar · 28-02-2020 2:39pm

melonstar wrote: »

Did you ring your local GP?

Local GP just gives you a HSE referral number, that's their only involvement in the whole process.

Titclamp · 28-02-2020 2:39pm

seamus wrote: »

What about a smoke machine?

The "vicinity" of the lab is incidental. If it started in Dublin, you could say it started in the vicinity of the viral lab at UCD.

Most larger cities on the planet have at least one lab involved in researching pathogens.

If Wuhan was a rural backwater of 5,000 people with nothing but a shop and a virus research lab, then maybe it's suspicious.

But it's not. It's a city with a population twice that of Ireland's.

Sure who knows really. Precise rationalism over something theoretical isn't much conviction.

PhantomHat · 28-02-2020 2:40pm

BanditLuke wrote: »

Because it's conspiracy theory guff that's why. It's the kind of stuff people dream up from watching too many hollywood movies.

Conspiracy theory or not its still a possibility. If it's been in a Hollywood movie then it cannot be entertained? That doesn't make sense.

Runaways · 28-02-2020 2:40pm

melonstar wrote: »

Did you ring your local GP?

Yeah.
He said ring the number. Rang the number.
‘Have you called your gp?’

Gas.

Boggles · 28-02-2020 2:40pm

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

I was going on school skiing trips in the 80s

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ednwireland · 28-02-2020 2:40pm

China has 78,824 confirmed cases and the death toll was at 2,788...........................

out of 1.4 billion population

timmyntc · 28-02-2020 2:41pm

Runaways wrote: »

Yeah.
He said ring the number. Rang the number.
‘Have you called your gp?’

Gas.

Ring the HSE number again, but this time threaten to go to A&E if they dont contact you back

Kermit.de.frog · 28-02-2020 2:41pm

ednwireland wrote: »

China has 78,824 confirmed cases and the death toll was at 2,788...........................

out of 1.4 billion population

Of course it does

SafeSurfer · 28-02-2020 2:41pm

redsteveireland wrote: »

Kermit, your services are needed dealing with the "s" word over in weather...

Would Boards.ie implode if we had snow and a confirmed coronavirus case simultaneously?

Sierra Oscar · 28-02-2020 2:42pm

Runaways wrote: »

Yeah.
He said ring the number. Rang the number.
‘Have you called your gp?’

Gas.

The HSE Public Health Team are meant to be managing this on the ground, the briefings GP's have been given specifically state this.

However what I'm hearing on the ground is that the HSE are telling people to ring their GP after the GP has already given them the information as set out by the HSE. Your experience seems to confirm this. Local Public Health teams don't seem to know what they are meant to actually do.

There's a fair bit of chaos on the ground at the moment.

ardinn · 28-02-2020 2:42pm

Off topic but on this topic - Is this thread one of the faster or fastest moving thread over time on boards. I remember the first thread early on, normal pace, now its around a page every two minutes!

PhantomHat · 28-02-2020 2:42pm

Runaways wrote: »

Yeah.
He said ring the number. Rang the number.
‘Have you called your gp?’

Gas.

The suited testing personnel are probably readying up to travel to your location for swabbing

Runaways · 28-02-2020 2:43pm

timmyntc wrote: »

Ring the HSE number again, but this time threaten to go to A&E if they dont contact you back

No way. That would be irresponsible even if this is just a normal flu.

Say my name · 28-02-2020 2:43pm

Titclamp wrote: »

Well there's no smoke without fire. How is this dismissed so easily?

People believe their own little bubble is the same the world over.
Except anything goes where state organised organ harvesting and sale from prisoners and morals don't exist.
It's a part of the world where to kill any opponents by any means where it looks natural is heavily researched.

Anyway it's all elsewhere on the internet.
As ye were..

Widdensushi · 28-02-2020 2:43pm

whisky_galore wrote: »

Where's the educational value?

sex education

Plumbthedepths · 28-02-2020 2:43pm

SafeSurfer wrote: »

Would Boards.ie implode if we had snow and a confirmed coronavirus case simultaneously?

Yes, I believe it would.

28-02-2020 2:44pm

whisky_galore wrote: »

Where's the educational value?

Physical activities were always a big part of education when I was growing up. I grew up in London though

ardinn · 28-02-2020 2:45pm

ardinn wrote: »

Off topic but on this topic - Is this thread one of the faster or fastest moving thread over time on boards. I remember the first thread early on, normal pace, now its around a page every two minutes!

I just did the maths - 1.1 posts per minute over the last 4 days - thats incredible.

Runaways · 28-02-2020 2:45pm

Sierra Oscar wrote: »

The HSE Public Health Team are meant to be managing this on the ground, the briefings GP's have been given specifically state this.

However what I'm hearing on the ground is that the HSE are telling people to ring their GP after the GP has already given them the information as set out by the HSE. Your experience seems to confirm this. Local Public Health teams don't seem to know what they are meant to actually do.

There's a fair bit of chaos on the ground at the moment.

Seems so. No doubt they’re probably getting a lot of calls too. You wouldn’t know though.
Apparently There is a series of questions that feed an algorithm which indicates if you need testing or not.
Depending on how many questions it might well be a big backlog of calls.

8-10 · 28-02-2020 2:45pm

A lot of Europe kiss on the cheek as a greeting. It's easy to see how physical contact can spread these sorts of things quickly. I'm glad that isn't the cultural norm here.

morebabies · 28-02-2020 2:45pm

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-british-passenger-from-diamond-princess-cruise-ship-dies-11945226

No details yet on the passenger's age. First British death from coronavirus.

skimpydoo · 28-02-2020 2:46pm

ednwireland wrote: »

China has 78,824 confirmed cases and the death toll was at 2,788...........................

out of 1.4 billion population

And you trust those figures? :rolleyes:

whisky_galore · 28-02-2020 2:46pm

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

They learn to ski, very useful lifeskill.

It is, yeah.

GooglePlus · 28-02-2020 2:47pm

whisky_galore wrote: »

Where's the educational value?

Where's the educational value in most school trips away?

They're usually paid for by the students parents and done outside school hours, like midterms and that.

It's not about education, it's recreational.

Runaways · 28-02-2020 2:47pm

whisky_galore wrote: »

It is, yeah.

It’s a (scam) holiday fo the teachers let’s be honest

2ndcoming · 28-02-2020 2:47pm

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

thats the first in sub saharan Africa, you could be right

Given the lower life expectancy in many African countries and the age profile of the most vulnerable they should have lower than average death rates in reality.

Of course they have already been battling an ongoing Ebola outbreak, which is a much more serious illness, but no one really gave a sh1t because it didn't upset the Dow Jones I suppose.

TheValeyard · 28-02-2020 2:48pm

morebabies wrote: »

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-british-passenger-from-diamond-princess-cruise-ship-dies-11945226

No details yet on the passenger's age. First British death from coronavirus.

Jaysus, that really is the cruise ship from hell.

YFlyer · 28-02-2020 2:48pm

SafeSurfer wrote: »

Would Boards.ie implode if we had snow and a confirmed coronavirus case simultaneously?

People be self isolated then.

Goldengirl · 28-02-2020 2:49pm

Runaways wrote: »

It’s nothing at all to do with greed. Pretty sure there aren’t even any laws allowing govt (or any Eu govt) to close borders/ports of entry. This is unprecedented remember.

And even if they did, you end up with mass panic on a truly big scale. And that’s a whole other nightmare situation you then have to handle when you actually don’t have to create it in the first place.

Less of the hysteria today please. We’ve enough of it.

Less of the condescension please.

Borders have been closed for Foot and Mouth disease to protect cattle industry!
Government ,even the present caretaker government, can pass emergency legislation in the public interest.
It is greed not to affect markets and tourism , especially coming up to St Patrick's Day / weekend .

At the very least people need to be checked at entry points for symptoms, at this stage.
Latest case was not a success as Tony Holohan said, as that person should have made themself known at Dublin Airport and not travelled on infected and to infect others. He is not credible anymore after saying that on Prime Time.
More panic when the whole country ends up closed down due to quarantine because of laid back," sure what's the fuss" attitude now .

And by the way, the hospitals will not cope with the 20% seriously affected that have to be admitted . NO staff , no beds, no ICU beds . Chris Luke in CUH said it last night, Michael O'Dwyer in Vincent's yesterday, and we all know what the A&E departments around the country are like.

Head in the sand talk from some people here.
By all means joke away , lighten the mood , if it doesn't pan out like it is in other countries then that's great. But as someone who works in the healthcare sector I agree with a lot of posters who are rightly concerned and , not , as you put it hysterical.

TheValeyard · 28-02-2020 2:49pm

Runaways wrote: »

It’s a (scam) holiday fo the teachers let’s be honest

How?

Giving up your week off to spend it with 80 or 90 hormonal sixteen year olds?

Fcuk that.

ITman88 · 28-02-2020 2:50pm

ardinn wrote: »

I just did the maths - 1.1 posts per minute over the last 4 days - thats incredible.

Wow. It would be worth counting how many posts aren’t the ramblings of preoccupied lunatics who say things like, “when this hits we are going to know about it”
or “the authorities have done nothing in Ireland to stop this”
“An ambulance in Galway won’t remove a patient outside the hospital”
I think the thread should be renamed “The thoughts of Walter Mitty”

khalessi · 28-02-2020 2:50pm

Runaways wrote: »

It’s a (scam) holiday fo the teachers let’s be honest

trying to keep a bunch of horny and wanna be drunk teenagers in line would not be my idea of a scam holiday. I know someone who did it once and they said never again!!

TheValeyard · 28-02-2020 2:51pm

ITman88 wrote: »

Wow. It would be worth counting how many posts aren’t the ramblings of preoccupied lunatics who say things like, “when this hits we are going to know about it”
or “the authorities have done nothing in Ireland to stop this”
“An ambulance in Galway won’t remove a patient outside the hospital”
I think the thread should be renamed “The thoughts of Walter Mitty”

I think we should step back a minute to remind ourselves how disappointing we all are that this is not the zombie pandemic hollywood promised us.

Call Me Jimmy · 28-02-2020 2:52pm

8-10 wrote: »

A lot of Europe kiss on the cheek as a greeting. It's easy to see how physical contact can spread these sorts of things quickly. I'm glad that isn't the cultural norm here.

Now I'm not saying it but...

carq · 28-02-2020 2:52pm

Stheno wrote: »

Does anyone know where in Mexico their confirmed case is?

Mexico city

Runaways · 28-02-2020 2:52pm

Goldengirl wrote: »

Less of the condescension please.

Borders have been closed for Foot and Mouth disease to protect cattle industry!
Government ,even the present caretaker government, can pass emergency legislation in the public interest.
It is greed not to affect markets and tourism , especially coming up to St Patrick's Day / weekend .

At the very least people need to be checked at entry points for symptoms, at this stage.
Latest case was not a success as Tony Holohan said, as that person should have made themself known at Dublin Airport and not travelled on infected and to infect others. He is not credible anymore after saying that on Prime Time.
More panic when the whole country ends up closed down due to quarantine because of laid back," sure what's the fuss" attitude now .

And by the way, the hospitals will not cope with the 20% seriously affected that have to be admitted . NO staff , no beds, no ICU beds . Chris Luke in CUH said it last night, Michael O'Dwyer in Vincent's yesterday, and we all know what the A&E departments around the country are like.

Head in the sand talk from some people here.
By all means joke away , lighten the mood , if it doesn't pan out like it is in other countries then that's great. But as someone who works in the healthcare sector I agree with a lot of posters who are rightly concerned and , not , as you put it hysterical.

You hadn’t read the posts from poster I was replying to evidently.
I am taking it seriously. Back from Cambodia a week and sick in bed with a mystery flu bored off my face.

BanditLuke · 28-02-2020 2:53pm

ednwireland wrote: »

China has 78,824 confirmed cases and the death toll was at 2,788...........................

out of 1.4 billion population

Maybe, maybe not but if they do it's testament to the draconian measures they've taken measures that won't be taken in Ireland or Europe.

Should be fun when it get's to America and they try to do what the Chinese have done with their populace what with all the gun nuts over there.

carq · 28-02-2020 2:53pm

Call Me Jimmy wrote: »

Now I'm not saying it but...

All about those sweet sweet views baby!

Runaways · 28-02-2020 2:53pm

khalessi wrote: »

trying to keep a bunch of horny and wanna be drunk teenagers in line would not be my idea of a scam holiday. I know someone who did it once and they said never again!!

Good point

Loafing Oaf · 28-02-2020 2:53pm

ednwireland wrote: »

China has 78,824 confirmed cases and the death toll was at 2,788...........................

out of 1.4 billion population

So far. If they're telling us the whole story...

timmyntc · 28-02-2020 2:54pm

Runaways wrote: »

No way. That would be irresponsible even if this is just a normal flu.

Oh no I don't suggest actually doing it. Stay at home.
But if you threatened to maybe they'd take it seriously and stop trying to shift the work onto someone else to get testing this bucko

Plumbthedepths · 28-02-2020 2:54pm

8-10 wrote: »

A lot of Europe kiss on the cheek as a greeting. It's easy to see how physical contact can spread these sorts of things quickly. I'm glad that isn't the cultural norm here.

Lots of ass kissing is this country, also cheeks.

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