Coronavirus Part IV - 19 cases in ROI, 7 in NI (as of 7 March) *Read warnings in OP*

Boggles

If Leo has decided that it's business as usual.

Then he needs to get his arsé on the 6 o'clock news and explain exactly how and why that decision has been made.

They can wheel out the HSE afterwards.

Time for actual leadership from the leader of the country.

Frank Bullitt

solidasarock wrote: »

Why does this government value human life so little?

This thread is like a comments section under a news article on Facebook.

Mic 1972

BLIZZARD7 wrote: »

How so?

because they are almost half of yesterday's

Kermit.de.frog

DrumSteve wrote: »

The Italian's figures are cause for some slight optimism

They are higher than yesterday but not that much - flattening? .

That's the only vague optimistic note.

Otherwise pretty disasterous.

blade1

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Get lost

Mic 1972 wrote: »

you understand it's people you are talking about? it's not a video game
WTF mate?

He should have said hop it

Pudsy33

DrumSteve wrote: »

The Italian's figures are cause for some slight optimism

Only if it continues to trend downward tomorrow.

DrumSteve

BLIZZARD7 wrote: »

How so?

They didn't double.

Kermit.de.frog

Mic 1972 wrote: »

because they are almost half of yesterday's

The figures are an increase on yesterday.

Acosta

flynnlives wrote: »

Further to Leo's disasterous decision.
Should he have cancelled it, would people be up in arms saying he overreacted?
i doubt it. Id say many would defend and welcome it. You know being proactive and displaying leadership. Triats you would expect.

So hes obviously been persuaded by other concerns; monetary concerns, notably hoteliers and the vintners.

We don't have leaders, just the highest paid caretakers in the world.

Above all else, Paddy must get paid.

Wouldn't it be great if our national holiday was more than just another excuse for greed and tax revenue? Our health is our wealth and maybe putting the health of Irish people in front of any other vested interest, for one day, in one year, might be the good political and ethical decision to make?

Call Me Jimmy

Pseudonym121 wrote: »

Actually they’ll be out into those positions. What is going to happen is mass infection of health care workers - eg I fully expect to be infected - and the returnees will be slotted in to replace staff who are self-isolating and sick.
.

60 in one go was rough today.

Hector Savage

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/06/this-is-surreal-italian-towns-struggle-under-coronavirus-lockdown

The heavily pregnant wife of “patient 1”, the 38-year-old man who was Italy’s first confirmed locally transmitted case, was dismissed from hospital on Thursday; her husband, a marathon runner and amateur footballer, remains in intensive care.

what the actual ****? that 38 year old fit lad is still in ICU .... jesus h fu*cking christ on a bike ...

Kermit.de.frog

Pudsy33 wrote: »

Only if it continues to trend downward tomorrow.

Downward?

They have gone up!?

spurious

Beasty wrote: »

Posted somewhere in thread II, iPads are where it's at for all the techie youngsters around. Should slide nicely between the cheeks.....

Lovely for spreading things too.

jill_valentine

spookwoman wrote: »

Also add

NEW: Varadkar says Ireland may ask retired health workers to return to service in the weeks ahead if the need arises

A group that would be in the higher risk bracket.....

Great, we're about to start calling up the Fukushima Fifty, but the parade's still grand.

daheff

BLIZZARD7 wrote: »

That's a 4.25% death rate...

nope. thats new cases vs closed cases. anything between 0 and 100% of those new cases could result in death.


italy as of yesterdays data had 4747 diagnosed, 414 cured and 148 dead. thats 148/414 =35.75% mortality rate.

Tomrota

DrumSteve wrote: »

They didn't double.

It could simply be that the scale of Italian health officials to test for COVID-19 has reached capacity, perhaps?

flynnlives

Deleted User wrote: »

Wouldn't it be great if our national holiday was more than just another excuse for greed and tax revenue? Our health is our wealth and maybe putting the health of Irish people in front of any other vested interest, for one day, in one year, might be the good political and ethical decision to make?

If me and you and others concluded this then so did Leo, yet he choose the other course.

Says it all really.

Hector Savage

I think I'd rather go under reactor 4 of Chernobly and roll about in the corioum of the Elephants foot than go to bleedin Italy !!

BLIZZARD7

Mic 1972 wrote: »

because they are almost half of yesterday's

What are you talking about? They have increased and the deaths are up +25% on yesterday.

Larbre34

I agree with the acting Taoiseach fully. Even the public health professionals on TV every night were saying setting off an economic bomb would hurt more people indirectly than the virus itself.

Yes I understand about vulnerable groups, senior citizens and those with underlying conditions, but its far better that those people limit their own interaction with general population than the whole Country stop normal life. For St Patricks week each event needs to be taken on its merits and considered prudent or not, not a blanket ban.

Call Me Jimmy

Hector Savage wrote: »

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/06/this-is-surreal-italian-towns-struggle-under-coronavirus-lockdown



what the actual ****? that 38 year old fit lad is still in ICU .... jesus h fu*cking christ on a bike ...

Not just that, the ICU stays can be as much 20 - 28 days. Dr Mike Ryan was warning the world the other day, implying these lengthy stays weren't complete outliers.

frillyleaf

Mic 1972 wrote: »

They often have excellent hospitals, but you need money to access them. Same in US

Yes, people most can’t access the healthcare

EICVD

There’s a load of Italians on my bus home from the airport, that’s it I’m f*****d!

Pablo Escobar

Mic 1972 wrote: »

because they are almost half of yesterday's

You should stay clear of the numbers

The cause for optimism, I think, is that the rate of increase has dramatically slowed. We'd need to see a continuation of slowing growth and/or decline in growth numbers over the next few days for it to be justified.

solidasarock

I do love the tone of the news

Everything is fine and we see no need to cancel the Patricks day festival.

Oh and we might need the armed forces to be called in and recently retired medical professionals to come back to work "soon"

Mic 1972

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

The figures are an increase on yesterday.

Italy had more than 1K new cases yesterday, today a lot less

Wibbs

Boggles wrote: »

Time for actual leadership from the leader of the country.

Ah jaysus B, that's too sensible and too much to ask from an Irish politician, never mind someone like Leo. He's grand at the glad handing and supporting fashionable causes, so long as he knows the wind of the electorate and the media are blowing behind him on said causes, but beyond that... So no real change from most politicians.

Wibbs

Hector Savage wrote: »

I think I'd rather go under reactor 4 of Chernobly and roll about in the corioum of the Elephants foot than go to bleedin Italy !!

:pac::pac::D

niallo27

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Downward?

They have gone up!?

Yes but they havent doubled which people thought they would, it doesn't have to be all bad news.