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

pc7

Right I’ll say night now, as thread will melt when this breaks on 9 o’clock news.

lawrencesummers

I would like for a journalist to ask them for details on testing.

How many tests a day are being done?
How long do the results take?
What is the max capacity that the labs in Ireland have for daily testing? Ie what’s the most amount of tests a day that can be done?

SleetAndSnow

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Love it that Cork is the only place that wasn't given a Provincial name.

Not East, not West, no it's Cork, CUH to be precise it seems. (Donegal is forgotten as always, god love them because they are North).

Hope all will be well for those affected. We may be next, remember that. Who knows at this stage?

Its because they don't know where it came from or how people got it

tillyfilly

Bob24 wrote: »

Shocker, central banks cutting interest rates can't stop a pandemic :-)

you can't fake health! Humanity is now sick and obviously less productive, the central banks think pumping in liquidity will fix us

Darc19

Pseudonym121 wrote: »

This is really wrong-headed. Ireland is so small that you should simply assume you will be in contact with people with COVID19 as it is now circulating in the community. The idea that you’d be safe in Louth or Donegal if it was in CUH is incorrect.

Containment is done, you need to assume it is circulating and that 12 months now roughly 2/3rd of the population will have had it with a commensurate death rate. That works out to roughly 40,000.

If we are lucky and really socially isolate it’ll be much lower but I can’t see it being less than 2,000 over the course of the year.

So there is no point obsessing over whether it is in Cork or Galway or Louth. It is in Ireland, it is in the community and you need to behave as though people you interact with on a daily basis have it no matter where you live.

OH fucc, the crazy posts are getting crazier

Ulysses Gaze

Andrew00 wrote: »

Cannot stand the HSE

Too many jobsworths in there with no clue what they are doing, drawing down six figure salaries.

Should have been gutted when the Troika were here over a decade ago.

amadangomor

ricero wrote: »

We're in trouble folks. The HSE are incompetent. I reckon we will be over 100 confirmed cases by a fortnight.

Will be 100 surely sooner than that.

wakka12

Andrew00 wrote: »

The numbers are shooting up for a population of our size, compared to the numbers in England.

Shocking

Iceland has 36 in 48 hours! That is huge for a nation of 360,000

05eaftqbrs9jlh

The number of cases quadrupled yesterday and doubled today and is still too small to gear up our plans with regards to travel in spite of the fact that there will likely be a flood of Italians coming in tomorrow.

Community transmission is now different to local transmission? He's right that ordinary people will take issues with his definition.

Scuid Mhór

Say what you want about the impending horrors of covid19, but I can't deny it's done wonders for my post-to-thanked-posts ratio.

skimpydoo

whisky_galore wrote: »

Oh we can't stop flights from N Italy because Schengen this and peoples rights that.

We aren't in Schengen.

Dyr

Are we going to need a TD to stand up in the Dáil to read out where these cases are actually happening instead of this the east -the west

Absolute clowns.

JP Liz V1

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Is this a pisstake, won't say where they are, expected it to happen, everything is grand wash your hands...

I'll have no skin left from washing and scrubbing

Pseudonym121

ricero wrote: »

We're in trouble folks. The HSE are incompetent. I reckon we will be over 100 confirmed cases by a fortnight.

You’re a supreme optimist if you think it’ll take a fortnight to get to 100 cases. We will get there much more rapidly than that.

the butcher

He can't even properly describe which case hes talking about because we've no locations.

fritzelly

Community transmissions is not community transmission because we know where it came from

Jaysus these guys are incredulous

Dubh Geannain

Them and their "low risk" bullsh1t.

Then today. "This was anticipated"

circadian

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Maybe the admins could put a note at the top of the forum of do's and dont's.

A mask for the public is pointless unless you are a carrier of the virus, when you should be indoors anyway.

A mask of relevant standard has been proven to provide some protection against viruses. Obviously good hygiene is also needed for this, there's no point in throwing a mask on and saying that's me sorted.

is_that_so

harr wrote: »

“Confident of no more cases , travel ban wouldn’t help stop it .. still saying it’s small number and still in containment stage”

Do these lads really believe that people have confidence in them

13 is a small number and only one seems to be community contracted. All the other cases can be explained.

Blueshoe

Has the virus spread to Africa?

Dyr

SeaBreezes wrote: »

In fairness, doctor him/herself should have known. Its the height of hubris..

Of ALL people he would have known the situation in Italy, AND that he was endangering his patients who are only seeing him due to 'underlying issues' ..

Should be strung up tbh

Of course according to the HSEs guidelines he did everything perfectly right...

ArchXStanton

Is it just me or is that baldy fella in the press conference just parroting the same thing over and over?

namloc1980

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Is this a pisstake, won't say where they are, expected it to happen, everything is grand wash your hands...

Rte website says, 4 in the East related to travel in Italy, 2 in the west related to contact with infected person and 1 in cork with unexplained infection (presumably community infection).

leahyl

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Love it that Cork is the only place that wasn't given a Provincial name.

Not East, not West, no it's Cork, CUH to be precise it seems. (Donegal is forgotten as always, god love them because they are North).

Hope all will be well for those affected. We may be next, remember that. Who knows at this stage?

That’s the second time you’ve said that now - what’s your issue with Cork being named? Was Clare and Dublin not named with the other cases?

Jinglejangle69

I see the mass panic has set in.

BloodBath

Pseudonym121 wrote: »

This is really wrong-headed. Ireland is so small that you should simply assume you will be in contact with people with COVID19 as it is now circulating in the community. The idea that you’d be safe in Louth or Donegal if it was in CUH is incorrect.

Containment is done, you need to assume it is circulating and that 12 months now roughly 2/3rd of the population will have had it with a commensurate death rate. That works out to roughly 40,000.

If we are lucky and really socially isolate it’ll be much lower but I can’t see it being less than 2,000 over the course of the year.

So there is no point obsessing over whether it is in Cork or Galway or Louth. It is in Ireland, it is in the community and you need to behave as though people you interact with on a daily basis have it no matter where you live.

Bull**** numbers. There is absolutely nothing to back up that kind of infection and death rate.

There's enough people panicking without this kind of nonsense speculation.

Pseudonym121

Darc19 wrote: »

OH fucc, the crazy posts are getting crazier

No darcc, just that some posts are based in an understanding of epidemiology and virology. Come back in a year and compare my numbers to the numbers then.

whisky_galore

skimpydoo wrote: »

We aren't in Schengen.

Common travel area or whatever the fück it is.

Any excuse not to control flights coming from a hot spot.

Necro

Chong wrote: »

I do believe though his hands are tied here and he is being hung out here to dry as a scapegoat.

Yeah he has the real air of pantomime villain to him alright.

05eaftqbrs9jlh

lawrencesummers wrote: »

I would like for a journalist to ask them for details on testing.

How many tests a day are being done?
How long do the results take?
What is the max capacity that the labs in Ireland have for daily testing? Ie what’s the most amount of tests a day that can be done?

Just being done. Terrible, dismissive response given, indicative of their inadequate testing capacity.