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

smelly sock

Stocked up on about 3 months of pastas, Rice, saices etc. Also a bit of frozen stuffs and bread mixes. I really dont like how this could go. If you need to self isolate you will need supplies.

nocoverart

Fook this Coronavirus! my Mother is weak as a kitten and my Father is due for bypass surgery in Two Weeks. Thanks 2020, you’ve been great so far.

Funsterdelux

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Question Time on BBC 1 NOW

Are the Dimblebys still going?

igCorcaigh

We will be approaching the point soon, where the daily numbers become meaningless.

Just be sensible and follow the recommended advice.

This is not the plague people, just be careful on how you go about your day.

Pseudonym121

fritzelly wrote: »

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

I’m sure re; the crackpot ideas. Again though just cause it is from China doesn’t mean it is wrong. After all their system will allow trialling anything and everything which will help us a lot as the shotgun approach inevitably finds some gold.

I do fully accept the gist of your point with the sole exception that the shotgun approach will probably yield some gold so we should keep an open mind.

tuxy

ArchXStanton wrote: »

I was talking to another guy tonight and he said the same, me and him had some fcuked up type of flu, it lasted about 3 months for me and 3 rounds of antibiotics that did nothing, I went through various different stages from phlegm, muscle, aches, back pain, feeling weak and headaches. I only managed to shake it about 2 weeks ago... I've never had anything even close to it

The influenza going around Christmas time was a really nasty one!
It really shook people, especially people who had never had influenza and expected it to be like the common cold.

05eaftqbrs9jlh

Exclamation Marc wrote: »

The good news is that Ireland are sneaking up into the automatic qualification spot for the next virus outbreak. Typically though, we're relying on imports.

We definitely have as many as France and Germany now. This selective testing business is brilliant for keeping the figures down.

New Home

igCorcaigh wrote: »

We will be approaching the point soon, where the daily numbers become meaningless.

Just be sensible and follow the recommended advice.

This is not the plague people, just be careful on how you go about your day.

Except that it is.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Are there any figure or facts in relation to the virus and smokers, for example would smoking kill the virus? We always here people who smoke are less susceptible to colds/flus. I know when I smoked I never ever got colds or flus but since I’ve given them up 13 years ago I get one or two colds every year and had flu earlier this year that knocked me out for near 3 weeks.

I’m not going to start smoking again, even if it were proven to prevent C19 but just wondered?

Pseudonym121

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

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.

They feel really hard done by in Cock University Hospital.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

skimpydoo wrote: »

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?

Pretty well, I think. I’m taking precautions. I already wash my hands religiously so no problems there. I’m going to avoid very crowded places but I’m not going to cloister myself either. I’m training myself to sneeze into my arm and not touch my face. I’m disinfecting my phone and door handles periodically. That’s all I can do really. To be honest, I already had some of these habits from being very immunocompromised a year ago. If I get it, I get it.

skimpydoo

Computer Science Student wrote: »

Yeah there's at least 40 to my knowledge of cases that are about to be announced but hse has to go through the rigmarole of sussing out the fiber details before they are as kind as to let us know. Then there's the hundreds that have it and have not been tested. This thing is already far beyond containment. It's here, and it's going nowhere.

Why am I not surprised. Two words come to mind. Rabbit headlights.

Gael23

The problem in the US will be there is no welfare so infected people will continue working

Doctor Jimbob

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I dunno. They write like a doctor would write. I think the pandemic thing could have been a slip of the tongue. He said he worked in medicine so could forgive him that as infectious diseases is a different area.

Maybe, but specifically claiming that the current situation is a pandemic while 2009 wasn't seems like a ridiculous claim to make.

Computer Science Student

There's some easy thanks going round here though, very enjoyable.

namloc1980

Trinity opening as normal tomorrow. The building where the infected person was is going to get partially cleaned.

tuxy

New Home wrote: »

Except that it is.

Plague is caused by bacterium, this is a virus.

gabeeg

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

Are there any figure or facts in relation to the virus and smokers, for example would smoking kill the virus? We always here people who smoke are less susceptible to colds/flus. I know when I smoked I never ever got colds or flus but since I’ve given them up 13 years ago I get one or two colds every year and had flu earlier this year that knocked me out for near 3 weeks.

I’m not going to start smoking again, even if it were proven to prevent C19 but just wondered?

Not only does smoking make you immune, but I've cured people by blowing smoke rings at them

New Home

Whoosh, Tuxy.

Fr_Dougal

Pseudonym121 wrote: »

They feel really hard done by in Cock University Hospital.

They’re talking about erecting a special quarantine unit.

namloc1980

Gael23 wrote: »

The problem in the US will be there is no welfare so infected people will continue working

No welfare and ludicrously high medical bills mean people will go to work and avoid going to a doctor/hospital at all costs.

Away With The Fairies

branie2 wrote: »

I make sure to wash my hands after I come home from town or wherever I've been.

Are you not afraid of sitting down at a restaurant table and picking up the virus on the table?

Gods Gift

An bhfuil seachtain na gaeilge still goin ahead.

Kermit.de.frog

Germany +281 cases for the day

Frank Bullitt

ChikiChiki wrote: »

Some people are so clueless it beggers belief. What's your argument against my statement?

I stand by what I said. An undetected infected person(s) in a currently overcrowded and under resourced A&E department could bring down the whole operation nationwide.

Because it would get to the point resources have to be utilised and moved all over.

No, give over with this OTT drama crap. This isn't a movie you saw on Netflix, it is real life.

If you were to get sick, depending on your general health already you would either be at risk or not. You are making this out to be a lethal virus of unknown capabilities and all it does is show you know nothing about it, and love a bit of panic.

Stand by what you said all you want, just know it's a stupid thing to say.

Sober Crappy Chemis

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

They’re talking about erecting a special quarantine unit.

Get a grip man.

SSeanSS

Andrew00 wrote: »

All I wanna say is

F*ck you Italy, f*ck you.

Very unparliamentary language

igCorcaigh

New Home wrote: »

Except that it is.

It's not.

This is our first experience of a pandemic.
It will be tough, but it's not the one we have been fearing.

But it will test our society.

branie2

Away With The Fairies wrote: »

Are you not afraid of sitting down at a restaurant table and picking up the virus on the table?

Like I said, I wash my hands

reegis12345

ArchXStanton wrote: »

I was talking to another guy tonight and he said the same, me and him had some fcuked up type of flu, it lasted about 3 months for me and 3 rounds of antibiotics that did nothing, I went through various different stages from phlegm, muscle, aches, back pain, feeling weak and headaches. I only managed to shake it about 2 weeks ago... I've never had anything even close to it

Yep she had all those symptoms too, and antibiotics did nothing. I remember at one point during the night, she woke up coughing and I gave a backrub - I couldn't believe how overheated she felt. Never felt a fever like it. I'm pretty convinced it was covid tbh.