Coronavirus Part III - 9 cases across the Island - 503 errors abound!! *read OP*

aloevera33

What hospital are these clare people been treated at ? Ennis, Galway or Limerick?

old_aussie

Mic 1972 wrote: »

from 1 case to 2 to 6 in one single week, it's moving fast here too
I dont see the point in closing off airports at this point, the virus has traveled already. By looking at other countries no one has been able to contain it. They all started with small numbers and then moved to hundreds and thousands

yeah, keep the carriers coming ...... never ending story.

dan786

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1235491687063007240?s=20

Snow Garden

2lazytogetup wrote: »

positive #9 - with equities nose diving, it is a bit of a lesson to the 1% who own all the wealth

The Dow Jones index is currently at 27000.

It was lower than that from March to October last year.

eviltimeban

I need to stop reading this thread and obsessing over the news. It's taking over my mind and I can't deal with it anymore.

If this virus didn't exist, and I'd read that four people in the west had the flu, I wouldn't care. And I've probably got as much chance of catching flu as I am anything else.

I'm observing good hygiene (always did tbh), washing hands, getting the kids to do the same, avoiding large crowds, and getting on with life.

Good luck to all, stay safe and stay healthy.

facehugger99

lainey_d_123 wrote: »

It seems to be that people are either going to one extreme or the other. Either going totally mental and stockpiling toilet paper and masks, or not caring at all, being complacent about hygiene and coughing and sneezing without covering mouth. Why is this? Are most people just a bit thick? Is it some psychological phenomenon?

Hardly anyone seems capable of doing what you're supposed to do - stay calm, wash hands often, use hand gel if you can't get to a sink right away, be responsible about coughing/sneezing, stay at home if you don't feel well, maybe throw some extra fruit or veg in the diet so your immune system is as good as it can be, get plenty of sleep. How hard is that? Why is it all one extreme or the other?

I think you're confusing social media with real life.

Mic 1972

Death Rate confirmed at 6% today, the trend is still negative but it's not dropping much anymore. It may plateau around this figure or slightly less at this point

is_that_so

Mic 1972 wrote: »

from 1 case to 2 to 6 in one single week, it's moving fast here too
I dont see the point in closing off airports at this point, the virus has traveled already. By looking at other countries no one has been able to contain it. They all started with small numbers and then moved to hundreds and thousands

No, it's a family in the west, a cluster.

Mic 1972

old_aussie wrote: »

yeah, keep the carriers coming ...... never ending story.

There are probably dozens of infected people in Ireland by now. There is no way to stop this, it's a virus. What you don't want is stopping the economy from functioning, that will be worse

Mic 1972

is_that_so wrote: »

No, it's a family in the west, a cluster.

Same happened in Italy, same story. Small cluster infected small village, within a week it was everywhere
Do you think the family hasn't had any contact with locals since they been back?

facehugger99

Mic 1972 wrote: »

from 1 case to 2 to 6 in one single week, it's moving fast here too
I dont see the point in closing off airports at this point, the virus has traveled already. By looking at other countries no one has been able to contain it. They all started with small numbers and then moved to hundreds and thousands

Yep - It's gone from 0.0000022% of the population to 0.000013%.

Very concerning.

Funsterdelux

gozunda wrote: »

They're still complete crap - no matter how you spread them out. Eejits spamming the thread with infantile type logic doesn't help.

Logically he/she aint wrong.

It just goes against the inbuilt grain of current western society,.

Just one point if you would have asked a "Futurist" 40/50 years ago would people in 2020 be working on average 5 days 40 hours a week, they would of laughed said no, because of technological advancement we would be working much less.

But we re still here slogging along to feed the economy

The Nal

Mic 1972 wrote: »

from 1 case to 2 to 6 in one single week, it's moving fast here too

On an island with 6.5 million thats not moving fast.

Doctor Jimbob

Wibbs wrote: »

Indeed. I have often found those who use "Darwinism" in an argument have eff all clue what t actually means or how it works.

2lazytogetup wrote: »

i was asked about darwinism. i mean by that, the superiors will survive the weak will perish.

Nailed it Wibbs.

Gynoid

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

:gets out the dictionary:

Pestilence
Sanguine
Atavistic

Heh, sorry. My oldest has often said to me over the years, eh mam, wtf, no one else talks like that in real life

ceadaoin.

Mic 1972 wrote: »

Death Rate confirmed at 6% today, the trend is still negative but it's not dropping much anymore. It may plateau around this figure or slightly less at this point

No, there is way to "confirm" the death rate at this time. I would imagine after it's all said and done it will be way lower than that. Lower than sars even. Actually I wouldn't imagine, I'd put money on it.

Like, relax people ffs. Even in China, the worst hit country, it's a small percentage of the population infected. And that's confirmed cases, obviously a lot more had mild illness which is an even better sign. It's not the end of humanity.

Dytalus

Mic 1972 wrote: »

Death Rate confirmed at 6% today, the trend is still negative but it's not dropping much anymore. It may plateau around this figure or slightly less at this point

Do you have a source for that? Most recent WHO announcement I can find says 3.4%.

Mic 1972

The Nal wrote: »

On an island with 6.5 million thats not moving fast.

if you familiar with mathematical progressions you'll see the pattern

cefh17

Mic 1972 wrote: »

Death Rate confirmed at 6% today, the trend is still negative but it's not dropping much anymore. It may plateau around this figure or slightly less at this point

Source?

the butcher

Drumpot wrote: »

he explains why he thinks a regular reasonable dosage Vitamin D may help against the virus.

Make sure it's D3. Some evidence for Vitamin D3 to impact ARDS, which as you know is one of the ways that COVID-19 kills ->
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/clinical-guidance-management-patients.html

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) developed in 17–29% of hospitalized patients, and secondary infection developed in 10%.

D3 has also been shown to aid general healing in the lungs and increasing the rate at which the lungs can recover.

Vitamin D deficiency may affect the immune system as vitamin D plays an immunomodulation role (6), enhancing innate immunity by up-regulating the expression and secretion of antimicrobial peptides (7–8), which boosts mucosal defences. Furthermore, recent meta-analyses have reported a protective effect of vitamin D supplementation on respiratory tract infections (9–12).

https://www.who.int/elena/titles/commentary/vitamind_pneumonia_children/en/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6186338/

is_that_so

Mic 1972 wrote: »

Same happened in Italy, same story. Small cluster infected small village, within a week it was everywhere
Do you think the family hasn't had any contact with locals since they been back?

Italy is fast becoming a poor comparison for most countries and our cases are directly linked back to travel in that area. We are still very much in containment mode despite the enthusiasm in some quarters to see it go nationwide.

Doctor Jimbob

Mic 1972 wrote: »

Death Rate confirmed at 6% today, the trend is still negative but it's not dropping much anymore. It may plateau around this figure or slightly less at this point

Confirmed at 6%? By who?

It's 5.78% at the moment, down from 5.91% yesterday, and as you say it's trending downwards.

Why would you assume it will plateau?

cherryghost

10 cases in Greece, and they have announced school closures and public gatherings in 3 districts in the west of the country.. they are more reactive than proactive and I hope it pays off. How long til we do it here (if at all...)?

Mic 1972

Dytalus wrote: »

Do you have a source for that? Most recent WHO announcement I can find says 3.4%.

Worldometer

closed cases fatality rate is 6%, this is based on a 50K people sample, that's a large sample. The 3.4% includes unresolved cases

batman_oh

is_that_so wrote: »

Italy is fast becoming a poor comparison for most countries and our cases are directly linked back to travel in that area. We are still very much in containment mode despite the enthusiasm in some quarters to see it go nationwide.

Italy were very much in containment mode not that long ago too.

Mic 1972

Mic 1972 wrote: »

Death Rate confirmed at 6% today, the trend is still negative but it's not dropping much anymore. It may plateau around this figure or slightly less at this point

Overall? Source? South Korea had 5328 cases (thats known about) yesterday with 32 deaths. Mortality rate from that is 0.6%.

Beasty

New thread just started, so I'm closing this one up