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

Stheno

Does anyone know where in Mexico their confirmed case is?

BanditLuke

whisky_galore wrote: »

Since when were school ski trips a thing?

What's educational about them?

Students can learn how to mingle with europes biggest toffs and hobknobs. Vital educational skills to take forward into the future, roight.

wakka12

A 6th passenger on the ship has died. Almost 1% of all those affected have now died with almost three dozen other still in a serious condition

Quantum Erasure

RebelButtMunch wrote: »

First case in Nigeria... it's going to be chaos once it gets embedded in Africa

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

Titclamp

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.

And gene editing was a conspiracy theory was it?

Dotsie~tmp

gabeeg wrote: »

I'm not defending China

It's just that they haven't been communist in decades

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?

seamus

Titclamp wrote: »

Well there's no smoke without fire.

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.

gabeeg

The coronavirus could reach most “if not all countries”, the World Health Organisation said on Friday after Nigeria confirmed sub-Saharan Africa’s first case, Reuters is reporting.

“The outbreak is getting bigger,” WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier told a Geneva news briefing. “The scenario of the coronavirus reaching multiple countries, if not all countries around the world, is something we have been looking at and warning against since quite a while.”

Five more countries have reported their first case of Covid-19, all with travel history connected to Italy - Nigeria, Estonia, Denmark, the Netherlands and Lithuania.

Lindmeier added that the WHO was looking very carefully into reports of some people getting re-infected. “We need to carefully look at how the tests were taken, how the person was examined, if it was maybe overlooked that the person still had the virus somewhere in the residue in the body, whether they got reinfected by different means or ways. We’re not in a position to say it is possible or not to be coming back and being re-infected.

“In general, we would expect that a person who had the coronavirus infection would be immune for at least a while afterwards. But again this is something we do not yet know.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/feb/28/coronavirus-live-updates-latest-news-china-wuhan-stock-markets-update

Runaways

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

Hel be fine. If he was in fear of keeling over he’d hardly be on here talking sh1te with us other gombeens.

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

Kermit.de.frog

Runaways wrote: »

Im a bit delirious and on painkillers. I’m not that stupid haha

You are precisely the specimen they expect on the phone so

melonstar

Runaways wrote: »

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

Did you ring your local GP?

gabeeg

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

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

whisky_galore wrote: »

Since when were school ski trips a thing?

What's educational about them?

They learn to ski, very useful lifeskill.

BanditLuke

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.

whisky_galore

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

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

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

I was going on school skiing trips in the 80s

Where's the educational value?

Sierra Oscar

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

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

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

melonstar wrote: »

Did you ring your local GP?

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

Gas.

Boggles

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

I was going on school skiing trips in the 80s

ednwireland

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

out of 1.4 billion population

timmyntc

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

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

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

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

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

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