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new coronavirus outbreak China, Korea, USA - mod warnings in OP (updated 24/02/20)

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    #8972
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    all about the mane wrote: »
    As if there isn’t enough hysteria on here....

    Where is the hysteria?


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    #8973
    BanditLuke
    Registered Users Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭BanditLuke


    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    No, it doesn’t. If there is one place that should be working 24/7 it’s the foreign office. Even if it’s to direct to the HSE website or whatever. The uk website is in a completely different league.

    And regardless of the lack of government it is the civil servants who run the show so where are they?

    Looking at their pensions and laughing?

    That flight from Milan arrived at 7:45 They'll be just strolling into Dublin now with zero checks.


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    #8974
    all about the mane
    Registered Users Posts: 1,401 ✭✭✭all about the mane


    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    Where is the hysteria?

    ^^


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    #8975
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    all about the mane wrote: »
    ^^

    That poster is just pointing our the lack of sensible checks in Dublin Airport.


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    #8976
    givyjoe
    Registered Users Posts: 3,287 ✭✭✭givyjoe


    all about the mane wrote: »
    As if there isn’t enough hysteria on here....

    Jesus wept, what hysreria? You do know there's an actual pandemic developing?


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    #8977
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,953 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    I don't think it can or will be contained now, having jumped Continents as we speak.

    Air travel being the one thing that may (will) spread it really.


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    #8978
    olestoepoke
    Registered Users Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭olestoepoke


    It's ok don't worry, Simon Harris will save us if the virus gets here.


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    #8979
    EltonJohn69
    Registered Users Posts: 4,275 ✭✭✭EltonJohn69


    We need global warming to do us a favour and start kicking in


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    #8980
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    Spanish Eyes wrote: »
    I don't think it can or will be contained now, having jumped Continents as we speak.

    Air travel being the one thing that may (will) spread it really.

    Check the HSE website all is fine.:D


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    #8981
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users Posts: 39,878 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    So am I right that the cases in Italy have no link to China which is why there is worry.


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    #8982
    BanditLuke
    Registered Users Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭BanditLuke


    all about the mane wrote: »
    As if there isn’t enough hysteria on here....

    Yeah because you know better than an actual guy who's job it is to know these things.


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    #8983
    BanditLuke
    Registered Users Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭BanditLuke


    olestoepoke wrote: »
    It's ok don't worry, Simon Harris will save us if the virus gets here.

    By blaming SF?


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    #8984
    [Deleted User]
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    Itssoeasy wrote: »
    So am I right that the cases in Italy have no link to China which is why there is worry.

    I don’t think they know who started the spread there. I’d hazard a guess that when the first case is confirmed in Ireland, the poor lad or lass will not have had any contact with China either.


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    #8985
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,953 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    Check the HSE website all is fine.:D

    To be honest Cinema Guy, I couldn't be ar$ed to do that, although I am sure your post was tongue in cheek given the efficiency of HSE in everything else.

    But it is not confined to Ireland either. Flights are landing all over from everywhere. Nothing can be done. Sooner or later our country will have positive tests.

    Sighs with abject raising of eyebrows now.


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    #8986
    all about the mane
    Registered Users Posts: 1,401 ✭✭✭all about the mane


    BanditLuke wrote: »
    Yeah because you know better than an actual guy who's job it is to know these things.

    An ‘actual guy’...fair enough


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    #8987
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    Spanish Eyes wrote: »
    To be honest Cinema Guy, I couldn't be ar$ed to do that, although I am sure your post was tongue in cheek given the efficiency of HSE in everything else.

    But it is not confined to Ireland either. Flights are landing all over from everywhere. Nothing can be done. Sooner or later our country will have positive tests.

    Sighs with abject raising of eyebrows now.

    No you're right my post was tongue in cheek.

    It's a pandemic now I think the only reason we have no confirmed cases here is because the HSE have the testing as well organised as their website.


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    #8988
    Duke of Url
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,662 ✭✭✭Duke of Url


    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    I don’t think they know who started the spread there. I’d hazard a guess that when the first case is confirmed in Ireland, the poor lad or lass will not have had any contact with China either.

    I’m not a betting man but I think the first case will show up in a Multinational here.


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    #8989
    scotchy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,193 ✭✭✭scotchy


    Irish couple from the cruise ship are quarantined in the Wirral in UK.

    Listening to the BBC news, sounds like they are from the south as opposed to NI. How come they weren’t brought home?

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    💙 💛 💙 💛 💙 💛



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    #8990
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,953 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    No you're right my post was tongue in cheek.

    It's a pandemic now I think the only reason we have no confirmed cases here is because the HSE have the testing as well organised as their website.

    LOL.

    I think we just have to go live our lives without panic, and hope for the best.

    We obviously will not be alone anyway.


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    #8991
    cameramonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,220 ✭✭✭cameramonkey


    Duke of Url wrote: »
    I’m not a betting man but I think the first case will show up in a Multinational here.


    Aldi or Lidl?


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    #8992
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    scotchy wrote: »
    Irish couple from the cruise ship are quarantined in the Wirral in UK.

    Listening to the BBC news, sounds like they are from the south as opposed to NI. How come they weren’t brought home?

    .

    If they were ISIS fighters the Government would send the jet for them.


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    #8993
    fr336
    Registered Users Posts: 10,179 ✭✭✭✭fr336


    So what defcon level are we at today folks?


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    #8994
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    fr336 wrote: »
    So what defcon level are we at today folks?

    Yellow alert.

    Brown alert on hold for now.


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    #8995
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    Duke of Url wrote: »
    I’m not a betting man but I think the first case will show up in a Multinational here.
    There was something on the news a week or two ago, Indeed™ told 1,000 staff (Ire & Aus) to work from their PJ's (at home), as one visitor/consultant was in China, Singapore or somewhere before visiting Dub/Syd.

    Heard somewhere that something like 90% of the bigger MNC's are non-nationals (another subject there for another day), imagine many might do a bit of air travel from month to month.


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    #8996
    scotchy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,193 ✭✭✭scotchy


    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    If they were ISIS fighters the Government would send the jet for them.

    I think the Government jet can be set up as a medi vac from what I remember.

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    #8997
    greenfield21
    Registered Users Posts: 983 ✭✭✭greenfield21


    https://twitter.com/HayekAndKeynes/status/1231652842903089156


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    #8998
    cnocbui
    Registered Users Posts: 20,047 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    No, it doesn’t. If there is one place that should be working 24/7 it’s the foreign office. Even if it’s to direct to the HSE website or whatever. The uk website is in a completely different league.

    And regardless of the lack of government it is the civil servants who run the show so where are they?

    Working from home?


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    #8999
    fr336
    Registered Users Posts: 10,179 ✭✭✭✭fr336


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    These face masks are stupid.
    They don't work and only add to the drama.

    Just stay at home if you feel unwell.

    Why are the police officers and all those in authority wearing masks if they don't work?


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    #9000
    gozunda
    Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Carol25 wrote: »
    Public awareness is very poor in relation to this, people are still flying over and back to Northern Italy with no restrictions or awareness of what’s happening. I think this is a bad tactic to employ, and it will stoke panic and mistrust in the authorities. We need decisive action from the people in charge, not leaflets and out of date information on the HSE website.
    1. Acting minister for health or director of the HSE needs to call a press conference and state what measures, if any people could take now. Eg, hygiene, hand washes, not going into work if you have information that you might have been exposed, etc, NOT to go into a crowded GP waiting room or A & E and what numbers to ring.
    2. Update your website information!! Don’t keep passing the book to the WHO and European CDC which have so far proved to be utterly inadequate. Update travel information to pretty much all of Asia, Italy& Iran do it regularly to show you’re actually keeping a track of this threat & are acting efficiently.
    3. Advise people to keep in touch with the news over the next few days. Develop an app or government information system to communicate to the public in areas that might become affected.
    4. Set up temperature checks at Dublin airport, it will help slow spread a little and is not a pointless exercise. Time is what we need now, or the services here will be completely overwhelmed.

    There could well be more cases of Coronavirus in Europe but perhaps Italy are testing more people now they're aware it is circulating.

    Would he fek away off with your logic and common sense! Sure it'll be grand. The media have this one covered. ;)


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    #9001
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,953 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    Yellow alert.

    Brown alert on hold for now.

    I do hope that yellow alert does not refer to our Chinese friends, but the brown alert is something else altogether. Would not be allowed at all because of the R word.

    But I know what you mean :cool:


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