Covid-XIX Part VI - 90 cases ROI (1 death) 29 in NI (as of 13 March) *Read OP*

RocketRaccoon

Pintman Paddy Losty wrote: »

https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2020/0310/1121444-10-reasons-not-to-panic-about-the-coronavirus/

Good article by RTE News on why there's no need to panic.

I'll abide by the rules.

Your posts are absolutely ****ing moronic.

Fr_Dougal

Rob A. Bank wrote: »

https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/cases-2019-ncov-eueea



Lower numbers of daily cases in Europe today mainly due to Italy's lower numbers.

Same thing happened on the 3rd of this month.

Perhaps they are too busy with their tsunami of very sick patients.

Are these figures taken at the exact time every day? Even if they are, you cannot count half days like today.

Snow Garden

RocketRaccoon wrote: »

This country needs to be put into lock down, schools need to be closed. Why are people so adamant that this isnt the case?

Lockdown, the most overused word in all 6 threads. I am not even sure anyone knows what it means anymore.

Should we not lock all the grubby children in the schools for 6 weeks and throw them in some Easter eggs every day? They'll learn some great life skills.

RandomName2

Things are starting to get pretty bad in Belgium. 314 cases + first death

They had it contained until the yearly one week school holiday around carnival lasted from February 22nd until March 1st in 2020 where quite a few people went on skiing vacation. The number of detected virus infections therefore sharply rose upon the return of people having resided in the ski resorts of the North of Italy.

The skiing holidays that doomed Europe. :pac:

Funsterdelux

Pintman Paddy Losty wrote: »

https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2020/0310/1121444-10-reasons-not-to-panic-about-the-coronavirus/

Good article by RTE News on why there's no need to panic.

I think I saw that 3 days ago somewhere else

Utter Consternation

Pintman Paddy Losty wrote: »

https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2020/0310/1121444-10-reasons-not-to-panic-about-the-coronavirus/

Good article by RTE News on why there's no need to panic.

This thread definitely needs a bit of positivity!

Clarence Boddiker

RocketRaccoon wrote: »

I know this is a fast moving thread but can someone, ANYONE, PLEASE explain the Irish infatuation with "it's not affecting me so it must not be too bad". It's the same when there's a red weather warning in place, one side of the country could break off and float away due to wind and you'd had idiots on the other coast saying the warning wasn't needed.

This country needs to be put into lock down, schools need to be closed. Why are people so adamant that this isnt the case?

Unfortunately the "I'm alright Jack" attitude is ingrained in the Irish character.

Drumpot

ITman88 wrote: »

There is very little balance in these posts, Whatever the agendas and motivation on here it’s not for the greater good. I’m not sure do people just want to skive from work.
Bottom line is out and about people are worried but no one I’ve spoken to at work (engineering based) will entertain the idea of a lockdown. They all have bills to pay and realise the economy is also vulnerable to an overreaction.
Anyone I’ve spoken to believe the precautionary advice re hand washing and large crowds are sufficient and realistically all we can do short of breaking down society to cave man times.

Birds of a feather flock together

Croohur1

First death in Ireland from Coronavirus - source - Irish Times - Person died earlier today.

Maxpfizer

RocketRaccoon wrote: »

I know this is a fast moving thread but can someone, ANYONE, PLEASE explain the Irish infatuation with "it's not affecting me so it must not be too bad". It's the same when there's a red weather warning in place, one side of the country could break off and float away due to wind and you'd had idiots on the other coast saying the warning wasn't needed.

This country needs to be put into lock down, schools need to be closed. Why are people so adamant that this isnt the case?

OK. So when would you have put the country into "lockdown" and for how long?

How long can any kind of lockdown be sustained before it begins to cause massive problems in itself?

What happens when the lockdown is lifted?

No doubt the country will eventually get to this "lockdown" stage but for now it's not necessary and if it's done too soon it could do more harm than good.

Dr. Colossus

First death here related to Coronavirus just now.

4068ac1elhodqr

A UK Health Minister tests positive, a bad omen perhaps...

namloc1980

Dr. Colossus wrote: »

First death here related to Coronavirus just now.

Source?

SafeSurfer

First death in Ireland

pc7

Has this been posted? Cross your fingers boardsies, some good news hopefully
https://twitter.com/mir_ocall/status/1237746362122452993?s=21

dougm1970

quokula wrote: »

0.0007% of the population of the island have the virus. That means you'd want to have a good hundred thousand people turn up at the home before there was a likelihood of some of them having the virus. And since the people that do have the virus or are suspected of having it are already being isolated, that chance is even lower.

There's a reason why most experts aren't recommending condemning elderly people to isolation and enormous mental health damage for what is still a vanishingly small chance of causing harm. If the numbers change, the advice will change.

well, depending who you listen to...10 times the number of positive tests have the virus, but couldnt get tested...either for not meeting criteria for testing, or not having bad enough symptoms to get tested (which is still being a carrier)

yes...numbers are small.....but when you look at china / italy and what small numbers become...at this stage, do you become proactive or wait for it to grow and become reactive.....we can look over our shoulder at whats gone on already in other countries to see what can happen.

Stevieluvsye

Croohur1 wrote: »

First death in Ireland from Coronavirus - source - Irish Times - Person died earlier today.

Quick, close the schools, shut everything down is what's coming next

Mic 1972

Jim_Hodge wrote: »

Some perspective on Italy's record on Deaths due to seasonal flu
From the International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Volume 88, November 2019, Pages 127-134

How long are people willing to delude themseves with the flue coomparisons?

bodhrandude

RIP to the first Irish casualty.

solidasarock

Can you imagine the Garda trying to enforce a lockdown.

el Fenomeno

namloc1980 wrote: »

Source?

Irish Times push notification, will be up on their site shortly.

4068ac1elhodqr

Iran +1,000 cases and 63 deaths in 24hrs.

Also assuming the wash their actual numbers down a bit, they're defo doing something wrong.

MadYaker

tobefrank321 wrote: »

Its going to be massive either way.

Had Harris and the government shut down Italian flights 2 or 3 weeks ago, banned travellers coming to rugby matches that didn't exist, enforced isolation for anyone returning from Italy, advised employers to do the same, we'd be looking at miniscule numbers now. Daily life and the economy could have continued as normal.

Instead they failed to implement those early measures and now we have to move to the "nuclear" lockdown phase because the numbers will be too many, the contact tracing impossible and the isolation inadequate.

They procrastinate and delay at every stage.

Not really. As monetioned a million times cancelling a few flights would have made no difference, the virus is here and it's going to spread and there isn't anything the government could have done about it apart from cutting us off completely from the outside world for months. So it isn't really their fault imo. It's like the tide there's no stopping it.

utyh2ikcq9z76b

Reports in from Dublin Zoo that the apes have started speaking

ITman88

Drumpot wrote: »

Birds of a feather flock together

Yeah that’s your opinion. It still makes more sense not to have a total lockdown, but people who are vulnerable to self isolate.
It makes more sense to isolate the minority than the majority.
It’s a win win situation, the economy survive and serves to protect the vulnerable, while those who aren’t at as much risk can continue to work while a vaccine is tested

MD1990

UK I think will be even worse than Italy in 3-4 weeks.

Cheltenham going ahead is a disgrace that will cost possibly thousands of lives. Will affect Ireland as well
Thousands of Madrid fans in Liverpool as well today.
London another place where it can easily take off rapidly.

Crazy decisions.
US as well will be in a terrible way.

Both have leaders more interested in the economy than people's health.

Dr. Colossus

namloc1980 wrote: »

Source?

Irish Times app alert.

Renjit

pc7 wrote: »

Has this been posted? Cross your fingers boardsies, some good news hopefully
https://twitter.com/mir_ocall/status/1237746362122452993?s=21

thats because the death in most cases is a result of cytokine storm due to hyper inflammation. your immune system itself causes the damage to organs.

these rheumatoid drugs may work as anti-inflammatory or suppressing the hyper immune response.

4068ac1elhodqr

Stevieluvsye wrote: »

Quick, close the schools, shut everything down is what's coming next

Which is likely standard and expected pre-planned protocol when moving to Phase2.

MadYaker

solidasarock wrote: »

Can you imagine the Garda trying to enforce a lockdown.

I suspect they may surprise you. Do you know anyone who is a garda? You should ask them about it.