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

bodhrandude

Empty_Space wrote: »

Why are death rates so high in italy?

Too many people critical at the one time that the hospitals can handle.

Duke of Url

Heres Johnny wrote: »

In the billions already, 3 billion was the initial amount put aside wasn't it?

They will simply redirect none essential project budget into this topic

Ulysses Gaze

Soulsun wrote: »

How many weeks will it be before we are over the worst of Covid 19?

The British CMO said between 10 to 12 weeks until the peak of the virus.

otnomart

PSG supporters practising social distancing

https://twitter.com/PSG_English/status/1237812836308586497

cnocbui

ForestFire wrote: »

Is he turning what's left of the bread loafs and fishes fingers that are left into mass supplies for all?

Jesus loves you, but asks that you please keep back 3m, thank you.

billybonkers

Not sure if legitimate

ITman88

is_that_so wrote: »

Human cost will be low, the economic can take a lot longer to fix and produce a great human cost to boot, that's the balancing act they are working on.

Yep a lot to balance, a rotten few years ahead

Boggles

What steps have Britain introduced to delaying it?

They were saying today that they are 4 weeks behind Italy. Is that based on the fact they are making the same mistakes as Italy and doing fúck all about it or have they just chucked in the towel?

Bojo just looks completely disinterested by the whole thing.

antodeco

I think everyone is afraid of me. I've a very persistent cough with sore sides. (no fever though so assuming just a cough!).

Our work has now told everyone today that we all work from home until March 29th at the earliest. Everything is now done over video. At least I can reduce my need to mingle with other people. Will be doing 11pm shopping!

Beasty

Cohen Obnoxious Eel wrote: »

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Stop spamming this thread with these requests

BLIZZARD7

Worst day for the Dow Jones since black monday 1987. Same for the FTSE 100.

retro:electro

Please support my petition for Super Value Knocknacarra to restock their Graham Norton Sav B and Fitzgerald’s bagels please, thanks

drunkmonkey

Soulsun wrote: »

How many weeks will it be before we are over the worst of Covid 19?

Originally Posted by Phibsboro View Post
I don't know if you saw my earlier post, but 9 new cases from 34 is a 27% increase, which implies the cases will more than double ever 3 days. Just to do the math for you a little:

13/03/20 53
14/03/20 68
15/03/20 87
16/03/20 110
17/03/20 140
18/03/20 179
19/03/20 227
20/03/20 289
21/03/20 368
22/03/20 468
23/03/20 596
24/03/20 759
25/03/20 966
26/03/20 1,229
27/03/20 1,564
28/03/20 1,991
29/03/20 2,534
30/03/20 3,225
31/03/20 4,104
01/04/20 5,223
02/04/20 6,648
03/04/20 8,461
04/04/20 10,769
05/04/20 13,706
06/04/20 17,443
07/04/20 22,201
08/04/20 28,256
09/04/20 35,962
10/04/20 45,769
11/04/20 58,252
12/04/20 74,139
13/04/20 94,358
14/04/20 120,092
15/04/20 152,845
16/04/20 194,530
17/04/20 247,584
18/04/20 315,106
19/04/20 401,045
20/04/20 510,420



Considering were now gone ahead of the curve, we might peak at the end of April...was looking like it would take longer yesterday but we're making a right balls of it so should finisher sooner...

retro:electro

retro:electro wrote: »

Please support my petition for Super Value Knocknacarra to restock their Graham Norton Sav B and Fitzgerald’s bagels please, thanks

That sounds like a great night in

Bob24

BLIZZARD7 wrote: »

Worst day for the Dow Jones since black monday 1987. Same for the FTSE 100.

And worst day in history on the French stock market.

theological

Boggles wrote: »

What steps have Britain introduced to delaying it?

They were saying today that they are 4 weeks behind Italy. Is that based on the fact they are making the same mistakes as Italy and doing fúck all about it or have they just chucked in the towel?

Bojo just looks completely disinterested by the whole thing.

At the start they were pretty good at isolating cases from China. They have done a pretty good job at keeping the public informed and pushing advice about hygiene and encouraging home working. They've also done a pretty good job of tracing a lot of cases. I don't count that as doing nothing.

I don't know why people want the UK to do a load of rash things that don't really have an impact on the virus spreading anyway.

Some people want to rush to do pointless and even destructive things just to be seen to be doing something. The best policy is to stick with what the experts are saying.

littlemac1980

Soulsun wrote: »

How many weeks will it be before we are over the worst of Covid 19?

My guess is 6-9 months if status quo is maintained, if they implement measure to successfully lower the contagion rate in Ireland, then I’d guess about 18 months. Hopefully the latter would spread the critical patients out enough to allow the health system cope somewhat, though that’s a tall order, it really will be a hellish situation for all front line medical staff in the coming months. Don’t see it being over in 12 weeks at all, just getting started in Ireland now, but will pick up pace at a frightening rate.

JRant

The panicked buying we all saw today was a direct result of how poorly the closures were communicated. It should have been a staged approach with parents given more than a couple of hours notice that schools and creches were to close today.

It wasn't given until 11:30 either, probably because the king of spin was over in DC for his photo op instead of being back here doing his job.

boege

Some thoughts on one of my roughest days in work.

I work in a third level institution and run a team of about 8 staff. We are very externally focused.

Today I got 6 hours notice that we were closing down until 29th March. I had two hours to confirm that all my team could work from home with the innuendo that this was required to ensure payroll would continue.Two hours later my office administrator heard that all the catering staff on campus had been taken off payroll, effective immediately. Her partner was one of them.

Over the course of the afternoon my team self actuated into a raft of contingency arrangements and I cannot say how proud I am of their actions today.

Tomorrow is a new day and we all work from home. Our work is very interactive with our customers and we do a lot of legal work with a lot of associated hard copy paper. We have a lot of unknowns to deal with and we will work through these as the days ahead develop.

The expectation is that we will not come back to work on the 29th March and my son who is in a final year in another college has more or less being told that the he will probably not be coming back into college this semester.

There is no doubt that there will be a significant impact of this virus but I do fear that the bigger impact will be an economic one.

To finish in a more positive note, the Italian prime minister indicated today that the extreme quarantine measures implemented in the first two regions in northern Italy have worked and that no new positive cases were recorded today.

So there is hope and we do need to take personal responsibility but we are all in this together and what I saw in my office today lifted me out of a fairly shook state when the initial announcement was made.

titan18

Anyone manage to get a refund from Aer Lingus, even in the form of flight vouchers?

Seamai

LRNM wrote: »

Wondering how many millions this is going to cost the country?

I'm more concerned about how many deaths we will have.

Gynoid

ironingbored wrote: »

As someone who speaks Italian, this scares the **** out of me. The translation doesn't do justice to the anxiety and nervousness in their voices.

The reportage out of Italy is very sobering indeed. It was Dr Daniele Macchinni's social media post on conditions in Lombardy that first gave me a sense of concern. It is so hard to untangle the hype from the hysteria from the realism, but reading of first class ICUs so utterly overwhelmed by a single illness in such a short time is very stark.

Regardless of how all this pans out in 6 months, or a year, I think there will be a traumatic imprint in our collective psyches. All over the world ordinary people are on average more fretful now about their newborns, their elderly parents, their immuno compromised friends or selves. People are suddenly aware of our collective vulnerability as a species to disease in a way that we have not been aware for a couple of generations because we have been scientifically on top of so many threats with things like antibiotics etc. This in and of itself, even with best case covid scenario unfolding, is a trauma.

The uncertainty and fluidity of the situation has put many people under sudden, very unexpected pressures with crazy, random questions arising - from what to do re employees, should they come to work, should I go on a plane, should I visit my elderly relative, should I stockpile food, is this hype, is this airborne, why has the media gone mad, what is fibrosis, what is ECMO, is this an engineered escaped virus, why are the people in power so scared by this particular thing, is normal life possible anymore, will half of all people really be infected etc etc etc - questions a mere month ago we would have been embarrassed about if they even passed through our mind!
And yet, even with the very best intentions to remain calm, here we are now, a growing number of us with a creeping sense of "what the blooming heck" in our minds..

spookwoman

Bannasidhe wrote: »

Have you a source for this?
Everything I am reading still says 1 Death in Ireland

There was a newspaper report this morning from indo that said 2nd person died but that had now got nothing in the article about it. I do remember it saying male cork elderly

File attached

threeball

Duke of Url wrote: »

Can you do that?

They've done it before for other crisis like the meltdown in 2008 as far as I remember.

mloc123

littlemac1980 wrote: »

My guess is 6-9 months if status quo is maintained, if they implement measure to successfully lower the contagion rate in Ireland, then I’d guess about 18 months. Hopefully the latter would spread the critical patients out enough to allow the health system cope somewhat, though that’s a tall order, it really will be a hellish situation for all front line medical staff in the coming months. Don’t see it being over in 12 weeks at all, just getting started in Ireland now, but will pick up pace at a frightening rate.

And yet... China and South Korea have it under control within 10 weeks?

Jinglejangle69

To think this virus will be gone in a year or two for good is wishful thinking.

What's to stop it popping up again each year like the flu etc?

littlemac1980

mloc123 wrote: »

And yet... China and South Korea have it under control within 10 weeks?

In case you hadn’t realized we’re not in China or South Korea lol

CinemaGuy45

tobefrank321 wrote: »

The Chinese and Italians had it far worse than us and their food shops remain open.

Your post is such an Irish response to something like this. A stampede to the shops to strip them bare. A couple of weeks from now people like you will look very foolish when the shops are still open.

Some people really just don't get it.:rolleyes:


The supermarkets will restock and people can only stockpile so much but do you fancy popping down to the shops at the peak of the outbreak?

Myself and others are stocked up not because we are afraid of food running out it wont the supermarkets will restock what we are afraid of is running out for food in the hight of a virus outbreak.

Logan Roy

Jinglejangle69 wrote: »

To think this virus will be gone in a year or two for good is wishful thinking.

What's to stop it popping up again each year like the flu etc?

There will be a vaccine and immunity in the general population, the problem is we have neither right now.

BLIZZARD7

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