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

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    #6032
    cnocbui
    Registered Users Posts: 20,054 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Payton Hissing Rakish wrote: »
    Scotland isn't a country.

    This historical quirk will soon be rectified.


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    #6033
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 13,502 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    The WHO just said that countries need to aggressively contain to stop the spread.


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    #6034
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,716 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Here the answer for your supplies folks

    https://twitter.com/ChinaDaily/status/1231209525757255681


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    #6035
    2ygb4cmqetsjhx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 564 ✭✭✭2ygb4cmqetsjhx


    cnocbui wrote: »
    This historical quirk will soon be rectified.

    Oh I believe it.


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    #6036
    josip
    Registered Users Posts: 13,945 ✭✭✭✭josip


    tara73 wrote: »
    what is helicopter money???


    Money someone pays you for doing a 'helicopter'


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    #6037
    pc7
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,121 Mod ✭✭✭✭pc7


    Call Me Jimmy wrote: »
    Our Mike from WHO "Health systems around the world are not ready" "We've already seen in quite sophisticated countries who've had a rapid rise in cases in the last week are having trouble coping with the clinical case loads... Health systems around the world, north and south are just not ready"




    This is what I was saying in the original thread from day 1, when people would say its 'only the flu'. Its the strain, what happens if you have a heart attack and cant get into hospital, cancer patients can't get treatment, road traffic accidents etc. can't get into hospital nevermind wanting to be in a hospital that is over run with Covid. I think its going to need a monumental mind shift from Governments world wide to combat this. I really hope I am wrong and that this is a storm in a tea cup.


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    #6038
    Blueshoe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    fritzelly wrote: »
    WHO - we have linked epidemics
    In other words a pandemic

    Give over with all the stock market crap, last 2 pages full of it

    Degiro is the way to go. Il check it out later.


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    #6039
    quokula
    Registered Users Posts: 3,620 ✭✭✭quokula


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Here the answer for your supplies folks

    https://twitter.com/ChinaDaily/status/1231209525757255681

    No chance I'm gonna convince my cat to do that.


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    #6040
    Mac-Chops
    Registered Users Posts: 293 ✭✭Mac-Chops


    wakka12 wrote: »
    First case in Iceland
    https://grapevine.is/news/2020/02/28/breaking-first-confirmed-case-of-coronavirus-in-iceland/



    Seems like Rep Ireland might be one of the last in Europe to announce a case. Just a couple of other countries have not so far, Scotland ,Portugal, Poland , Hungary, Czech Republic

    Rats.. thought I'd be OK there of all places next week. Oh well!


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    #6041
    ballsdeep69
    Registered Users Posts: 252 ✭✭ballsdeep69


    gabeeg wrote: »
    Oh that's a relief. Thanks for letting us know.

    We were all getting a bit ahead of ourselves.

    Shows over folks. Lets go home

    no need to be sarcastic, as i said its the info i have never said it was correct, hence the fact i came to discussion tread, please enlighten me if you know !!!


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    #6042
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,716 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Here the answer for your supplies folks

    https://twitter.com/ChinaDaily/status/1231209525757255681

    ...maybe not

    https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1233385630924668932


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    #6043
    Strazdas
    Registered Users Posts: 18,657 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    wakka12 wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1233413464208691200

    From the exact same source though :

    https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1233415566809092097


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    #6044
    Ficheall
    Registered Users Posts: 9,033 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    wakka12 wrote: »
    Seems like Rep Ireland might be one of the last in Europe to announce a case.
    I guess our best chance of winning that prize is simply to not test anyone.


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    #6045
    OneEightSeven
    Registered Users Posts: 1,340 ✭✭✭OneEightSeven


    Payton Hissing Rakish wrote: »
    Scotland isn't a country.
    Yes, it is. The UK is a union of 4 countries.


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    #6046
    gabeeg
    Registered Users Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭gabeeg


    antodeco wrote: »
    The WHO just said that countries need to aggressively contain to stop the spread.

    They're right and it's going to be awful


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    #6047
    Call Me Jimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    pc7 wrote: »
    This is what I was saying in the original thread from day 1, when people would say its 'only the flu'. Its the strain, what happens if you have a heart attack and cant get into hospital, cancer patients can't get treatment, road traffic accidents etc. can't get into hospital nevermind wanting to be in a hospital that is over run with Covid. I think its going to need a monumental mind shift from Governments world wide to combat this. I really hope I am wrong and that this is a storm in a tea cup.

    Aye three days ago the Dr. who headed the investigation said it but people on this thread get told their doomers for pointing out what he is pleading the world to cop on to.


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    #6048
    Ficheall
    Registered Users Posts: 9,033 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    WHO - "The greatest threat is fear itself." :rolleyes:


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    #6049
    Runaways
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭Runaways


    MarkY91 wrote: »
    Have you been isolating?

    If so, since when? Has family been leaving food at your door? Have you been sharing bathrooms?

    You're young so I guess you're not so worried but if you do hey a positive result, do you think you could have passed it onto elderly family members?


    Only seen my housemate and my dog. Haven’t left the house. I haven’t been eating much at all no appetite but the presses are almost empty
    This is about to get tricky


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    #6050
    ballsdeep69
    Registered Users Posts: 252 ✭✭ballsdeep69


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Here the answer for your supplies folks

    https://twitter.com/ChinaDaily/status/1231209525757255681

    he gets breakfast then becomes dinner


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    #6051
    MadYaker
    Registered Users Posts: 12,218 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    ballsdeep69 wrote: »
    no need to be sarcastic, as i said its the info i have never said it was correct, hence the fact i came to discussion tread, please enlighten me if you know !!!

    This is a terrible place to get info go to the hse website


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    #6052
    wakka12
    Registered Users Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Strazdas wrote: »
    From the exact same source though :

    https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1233415566809092097

    Thats interesting. Wonder why they believe it. I find it hard to believe several thousand cases worldwide in a few days is not spreading freely


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    #6053
    Cupatae
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭Cupatae


    pc7 wrote: »
    This is what I was saying in the original thread from day 1, when people would say its 'only the flu'. Its the strain, what happens if you have a heart attack and cant get into hospital, cancer patients can't get treatment, road traffic accidents etc. can't get into hospital nevermind wanting to be in a hospital that is over run with Covid. I think its going to need a monumental mind shift from Governments world wide to combat this. I really hope I am wrong and that this is a storm in a tea cup.

    We're reaping what the past governments have sown for us now, imagine if it takes off in this country, Place will be wrote off.


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    #6054
    cnocbui
    Registered Users Posts: 20,054 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Call Me Jimmy wrote: »
    From the WHO Report "Remarkably, more than 40,000 HCW (Health Care Workers) have been deployed from other areas of China to support the responsein Wuhan."

    Yes, 40,000. I had thought it was around 2 - 5,000

    A clear sign that numbers of new cases are falling and that they have got this. Are you sure they aren't headed for Beijing?


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    #6055
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 30,179 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Runaways wrote: »
    Only seen my housemate and my dog. Haven’t left the house. I haven’t been eating much at all no appetite but the presses are almost empty
    This is about to get tricky

    If your housemate can't help \ is keeping their distance, can you get an online delivery from a tesco or supervalu or local shop?

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #6056
    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    ballsdeep69 wrote: »
    so the info i have, is its basically just a bad flu for most people, people who are dying from it are over 50 or have problems with there lungs,

    correct me if i am wrong..
    Yeah pretty much.

    If you're under 60 and otherwise healthy you have very little to worry about. Young children seen to be the most robust.

    Over 60 the mortality rates are not to be sniffed at.

    If you do get it and you're under 60, it's quite important to isolate yourself from anyone you know might be at risk. Tell your parents/grandparents to stay away, and get stuff delivered to you if at all possible to avoid spreading it outside.


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    #6057
    Snow Garden
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Snow Garden


    ballsdeep69 wrote: »
    so the info i have, is its basically just a bad flu for most people, people who are dying from it are over 50 or have problems with there lungs,

    correct me if i am wrong..

    80% of people get mild symptoms - many will not even know they have it.


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    #6058
    Runaways
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭Runaways


    frash wrote: »
    Would you ring again?

    I will. Let the clock run down tho


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    #6059
    fritzelly
    Registered Users Posts: 17,510 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Runaways wrote: »
    I will. Let the clock run down tho

    They'll be going home soon


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    #6060
    gabeeg
    Registered Users Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭gabeeg


    fritzelly wrote: »
    They'll be going home soon

    It's a Friday, they're probably in the pub already


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    #6061
    harr
    Registered Users Posts: 4,485 ✭✭✭harr


    Ok so no one in Ireland has it yet ( not officially) but how are the HSE going to know if they are not testing a lot of people presenting with symptoms, I know a couple who returned from Italy last week ( south) and one of them has started to feel unwell , granted it’s probably not the virus but they did contact GP as a precaution who told her to contact HSE who in turn told her to ring GP .. when she contacted GP again he told her
    “ you will be grand it’s probably only normal flu or chest infection “

    I honestly don’t have much faith in the HSE to manage this.


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