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

BorneTobyWilde

Trump said on fox news, death rate is probably below 1% as not everyone will even report feeling ill as it's so mild and not worth a doc visit or a hospital visit.

YFlyer

the butcher wrote: »

I've been following the HSE/dept of Health guidelines.

I just spend 14 minutes 59 seconds with people and I haven't been infected yet.

Put your trust in them!

How did they estimate this 15 minute period? That its the average time a person would cough or sneeze at least once if infected?

branie2

I hope the Easter Ceremonies aren't cancelled

Fr_Dougal

RandomName2 wrote: »

'If you are traveling to Idlib in Syria you should be concerned'
'YOURE NOT THE BOSS OF ME!'

You made a mistake earlier in a post, probably didn’t mean any malice. But you should drop it now before you dig a deeper hole.

skimpydoo

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

Interested to hear your perspective. Are you worried or not?

I am slowly getting worried. I live in the Silicon Docks area and have a few multinationals as neighbours plus the IFSC just 5 minutes walk from my apartment. I have had to cancel going to various events and I am not going too far from my apartment. Luckily I work from home.

Next Monday afternoon I have to go to the Mater to get blood's done as I am seeing my haemotologist to get a checkup 2 weeks later. My first one since I finished treatment. How are you handling it?

Charles Babbage

Wesser wrote: »

Confirmed case in trinity college

Will that be counted with Britain?

05eaftqbrs9jlh

Weepsie wrote: »

Then Iceland must have 100s times the rate

360,000 population, 36 cases?
0.001% of population infected I think, although my maths has been known to be absolutely crap.

reegis12345

owlbethere wrote: »

I have a question for you if you don't mind.


Some people wrote here or in the previous thread that they got a bad dose of a heavy cold or flu already. Earlier on this year. Would it have been possible it would have been this Covid-19 doing the rounds already in Ireland? Back in January.

Interestingly, I was just talking to my partner about this. At the start of February, she came down with an illness that bears many similarities to covid19: very high temperature; fever; muscle aches; difficulty breathing; etc. She has had the flu before but said this felt different.

Also, her job is unique in that she serves and is in close physical contact with a lot of customers who travel from all parts of China, specifically to come to this store. Possibly could have been passed on to her by one of them? Who knows.

Of course, this is all theoretical and it could have been the flu - we can't be sure. But interesting to think about. Either way, two weeks of solid rest and she recovered.

tillyfilly

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Trump said on fox news, death rate is probably below 1% as not everyone will even report feeling ill as it's so mild and not worth a doc visit or a hospital visit.

Gospel according to Tramp

fritzelly

Pseudonym121 wrote: »

To be fair at this early stage a lot of data is preliminary. The data on pregnant women comes from a paper with a cohort of 18 women, 19 babies.

I think that it isn’t possible to say their conclusions are wrong especially when we know RNA viruses mutate so readily and the more people they infect and the longer they’re out there the more likely strains are to develop.

COVID19 developing a new strain isn’t something unlikely. It should be expected so when a paper says it has it isn’t exactly saying something surprising has happened.

Of course you’re entitled to tour opinion but every incontrovertible medical truth once started out as a paper awaiting peer review. And of course they could be wrong but are you really saying that over the course of one to two years you don’t expect multiple strains to develop?

While RNA viruses have a higher mutation value it does not mean they suddenly become a highly dangerous virus.
There is no evidence of the two strains identified are any different in their workings - as seen in the cases across Europe and the US (ignoring Iran for obvious reasons). Even S Korea has very little deaths and they are on the ball for reporting.

For the time being anything coming out of China needs to be taken with a large pinch of salt. If you want to see some of the crack pot ideas coming from Chinese scientists check more of the submitted papers - you would find it hard to believe these people even qualified as a doctor/specialist

Atlantic Dawn

smelly sock wrote: »

Paddys day parade will surely be postponed?

That will just mean more people spending the day in the boozers, worst possible result.

CinemaGuy45

gmisk wrote: »

Link?

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

The kind of people you're responding to don't give a **** about people who are actually at risk, they only care about being as dramatic as possible.

My dad is recovering from cancer and has asthma. He's 74. His reaction to all of this is taking the piss and talking about how it only impacts old people.

It’s cos anyone with a serious illness becomes unflappable in order to deal with the endless crap thrown at us. It’s very hard to be bothered about coronavirus after five years of cancer symptoms and gruelling treatments.

froog

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Trump said on fox news, death rate is probably below 1% as not everyone will even report feeling ill as it's so mild and not worth a doc visit or a hospital visit.

he got in big trouble earlier for seeming to suggest people a little bit sick should still go to work. came out with a frantic backtracking tweet later after his handlers had a word with him.

Sober Crappy Chemis

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

Fairly sure cilldara is being sarcastic there

This oul virus has me sarcasm detector down. Apologies

Gods Gift

tillyfilly wrote: »

Can’t help but wonder about Russia, are they not testing ?

Russia haven’t a great track record on testing people.

tuxy

smelly sock wrote: »

Paddys day parade will surely be postponed?

Depends on the impact to the economy.

igCorcaigh

branie2 wrote: »

I hope the Easter Ceremonies aren't cancelled

I hope they are.

Cilldara_2000

smelly sock wrote: »

Paddys day parade will surely be postponed?

The evil corporate overlords have decided that people need employment where they’re paid with money rather than hot air. And Leo is enthralled to them so don’t hold your breath.

Srsly though, I would imagine it will be.

IspeakcozIcan

Boyfriend went to the GP today. Most probably doesn't have coronavirus, and is just unwell. He is prone to sore throats.

GP said even if he thought he had it, e.g. came back from Northern Italy, he would not be tested because he is young and they don't have resources to test the young. Young people just go home and wait it out.

There's hundreds of people already infected. Tests are not a reflection of actual numbers.

BorneTobyWilde

What is latest on Cock University Hospital, is that ground zero tonight. The mistake we all worried about, and it was a Doctor who caused it.

fritzelly

the butcher wrote: »

I've been following the HSE/dept of Health guidelines.

I just spend 14 minutes 59 seconds with people and I haven't been infected yet.

Put your trust in them!

Come back in 2 weeks and tell us that

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

igCorcaigh wrote: »

I know. I'm also in that group, just wish we could get along here, the next few weeks will be testing.

Let's keep it together boardsies.

It needs to be monitored. There’s a balance to be struck. I just find some posts of this thread very OTT.

Quantum Erasure

tillyfilly wrote: »

Can’t help but wonder about Russia, are they not testing ?

in soviet russia, coronavirus tests you




(for those who missed when i made the same joke last night...)

owlbethere

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

How come no one gives advice to just wear gloves? If you wear gloves out and about you can then dispose of them when you get home. Lots of disposable gloves one could wear.

My hands were so so so sore back in January. It's from washing my hands regularly band the cold. Some time before this Covid-19 kicked off, I wore disposal gloves. I got more comfort from lathering with hand cream and covering with latex gloves.

In relation to infection control, you would have to change them regularly.

Doctor Jimbob

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Pseudonym 121. I get ya with concern about its ability to cause encephalitis. Your post just came across a bit ambiguous about the "cured patient" aspect. I understand that you had doubts about this statement but there was nothing in the study to suggest the patient had been cured of COVID-19 so was unsure why you mentioned that aspect.

The poster you're referring to claimed earlier that the 2009 swine flu outbreak wasnt a pandemic. They're on a wind up.

stephenjmcd

Trinity must be 1 of the 4 cases in the east anyway.

Email doing the rounds but it also says college is open and operating as normal

10000maniacs

gmisk wrote: »

Rough populations

Ireland
4.75m 13 cases
1 per 365k

UK
66.5m 116 cases
1 per 573k

So yeah nothing like 16 times the infection rate even if you want to put the NI cases in with ROI

At this stage, the numbers are meaningless.

New Home

Janey, I don't follow boards for a couple of hours and this thread goes into space... anyway, re these:

harr wrote: »

Our child has four different hospital appointments next week .. for each one we will be sitting in packed waiting room for hours full of children who would have poor immune systems. Rang today to see if anything has changed or if they were going to reschedule. The answer I got was “ sure why would we be rescheduling appointments “ she nearly laughed at me for asking. Is anyone in different HSE departments talking to each other.

Reminds me of the hotel that was demolished and buried by an avalanche in the Alps a couple of years ago - when people rang the emergency services looking for help, they were told to stop being so gullible and believing everything they heard, the hotel was fine. Except that it wasn't, by a long shot. This is the same thing. If anyone is interested, look up "Hotel Rigopiano".

Hector Savage wrote: »

Only a matter of time before Italy's health service breaks - I reckon they'll have 50K cases by the end of the month - and what is happening in ITaly is a blueprint for the rest of europe.

This is a civilisation ender.

I know a doctor who works in ICU in one of the major hospitals in Italy - they said the health system is on its knees and it won't be long before they won't be able to care for everyone and will have to pick and choose who to cure. Very, very, very grim indeed.

FishOnABike wrote: »

I guess they could have a portable supplementary oxygen supply like people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - basically a small oxygen bottle on a trolley and a tube looping around the head and supplementing the air supply via short nasal tubes.

I suppose there could be issues with supply and the added fire risk of having a significant additional number of oxygen bottles in the community with people who are not used to the extra care that might be needed around them.

Except that most people who are in ICU with this won't just need oxygen, they need to be intubated.

TheyDidWhat?! wrote: »

The escalation in Italy is incredible.

I was in Treviso and Venice at the end of January. Glad I went when I did and not a few weeks later.

Ehhh... how do I put this....

Hector Savage wrote: »

I'd believe it , the only possible explanation for such a fast spread in Italy is that it was there for months, I read someplace else they think it's been in Italy since October.

I said as much in the previous thread as I had heard/read it, too, but I was only able to find supporting documentation online saying it's been around since October in China. If you do find the rest, do let me know, please.

ITman88

Maddox Jealous Yard wrote: »

360,000 population, 36 cases?
0.001% of population infected I think, although my maths has been known to be absolutely crap.

Think it’s 0.005% in Italy, we love the percentages on this thread