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

Boggles

Hamsterchops wrote: »

Friday 13th March.

UK /NHS 590
IRL /HSE 070

So who's taking the correct approach?

The UK (with good medical advice) has decided not to press the "shut the schools button" just yet, while Leo & Co have decided (with good medical advice) that the time is NOW!

Maybe they're both right? Maybe it doesn't matter.

*Breaking News, Everton's entire football team gone into lockdown due to the virus spreading.

Ireland.

They are dropping like flies in the UK, they taking the Italian route.

whisky_galore

namloc1980 wrote: »

Did they invoke Dunkirk or the blitz spirit yet?!?

People looted and robbed the dead during the Blitz.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/society/2010/aug/29/blitz-london-crime-flourish-blackout

(To be even handed about it, Irish people looted during 1916 and the Burning of Cork too)

Mic 1972

What's the shops like today?

Duke of Url

With https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Shouldnt Ireland be:

Total Cases - 70
Total Deaths - 2
Total Recovered - 1
Active cases - 67

icanmunch

icanmunch wrote: »

A friends employer has given him two options: purchase more days off from the company in order to stay home or else take unpaid leave until business resumes. No option to work from office or home. Does anyone know if that’s above board?

What does purchase more days off mean?

Jet Black

Mic 1972 wrote: »

What's the shops like today?

Worse from what I'm seeing.

Unearthly

Lord TSC wrote: »

Saw that the German league is weighing up...

No league winner.
Top 4 get CL spots
No teams relegated.
Some teams promoted
Next year, run an extra large league and relegate an extra few teams to compensate.

That seems about the only thing you can do really out of a real crap situation

namloc1980

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

What does purchase more days off mean?

Take extra unpaid holiday days off I'd say. We can do that in our place

Graces7

faceman wrote: »

Buying enough for 4 meals isnt really panic buying, a weekly shop or even a Christmas shop would be no different.

Unrelated to the virus, the MI5 in the UK assume that society is only ever 4 meals away from anarchy. So best to have an extra meal just in case.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/mark-fletcherbrown/riots-remember-the-four-m_b_927882.html

something amiss with your arithmetic there, 4 + 4 and for how many people?

Doctor Shipman

Mic 1972 wrote: »

What's the shops like today?

Large q to enter Tesco Liffey Valley

namloc1980

Mic 1972 wrote: »

What's the shops like today?

Complete chaos again.

Stheno

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

What does purchase more days off mean?

Some employers allow you to buy extra holidays each year

I worked in one where you could buy six extra days

It came out of our salary

blade1

tobefrank321 wrote: »

Is that really a vaccine though? Sounds more like treatment of severe symptoms or prevention of severe symptoms appearing. Vaccines encourage an immune response.
Still sounds positive though. Doctors in Italy really are throwing the kitchen sink at this.

Let a little bit of positivity simmer will ya!!:)

Mic 1972

Jet Black wrote: »

Worse from what I'm seeing.

oh god, i'm going to aldi now to take a look

KWAG2019

Gradually we are coming to some realisations:
Most of us will get it
Most of us will survive
We need to manage load on the health service
We need to act sensibly for the sake of the old and the immune compromised.
This is not going away quickly or easily.
This may recur in the winter
There may be need for lockdowns later in the year again.
The rhythm of our lives has changed
There are no real treatments yet
In time there will be.
Most of us will get beyond this.

grouchyman

When you're at home - child minding/WFH etc are you supposed to try to practice social distancing with the other people in the house? Genuine question

Drumpot

https://twitter.com/moneillsf/status/1238423526589202438

Good to see our Northern comrades putting pressure on UK to follow suit. I really hope they unilaterally just do it and take their own steps.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Beasty wrote: »

It can be frozen from here to eternity

I won't be around to test it's quality when defrosted though, but it could be an interesting experiment

Typically stuff put into our freezer gets forgotten about until we start hacking the ice away:(

I’m a consummate bread-freezer as I don’t eat much of the stuff. Freezing degrades the quality a bit but it’s perfectly edible.

tobefrank321

tobefrank321 wrote: »

Is that really a vaccine though? Sounds more like treatment of severe symptoms or prevention of severe symptoms appearing. Vaccines encourage an immune response.
Still sounds positive though. Doctors in Italy really are throwing the kitchen sink at this.

Still good to see it though. Keeping people alive for now is the only thing that counts. Long term effects will just have to be considered later to be frank.

Duke of Url

Special Delivery Unit TrolleyGAR 13/3/2020

Daily Figures (excluding Children's Hospitals)

Acute Hospitals Today - 57 with (25 over 9hrs)
Acute Hospitals Same Day Last Year - 254 with (100 over 9hrs)

This represents a 77.56% decrease in trolley waiters versus last year. (excluding Children's Hospitals)

namloc1980

Duke of Url wrote: »

Daily Figures (excluding Children's Hospitals)

Acute Hospitals Today - 57 with (25 over 9hrs)
Acute Hospitals Same Day Last Year - 254 with (100 over 9hrs)

This represents a 77.56% decrease in trolley waiters versus last year. (excluding Children's Hospitals)

Bed blockers not going to A&E is a positive out of all this.

facehugger99

UK approach looks far more sensible and will have much less impact on the economy.

We'll have the same lads that are on here crying and moaning wondering what's happened to their pay checks in 12 months time.


Get the oldies and vulnerable to isolate and get the herd immunity established in the population. It's the only way to combat it. Our politicians are too spineless to take this approach unfortunately.

ArchXStanton

retro:electro wrote: »

I know someone working in an electrical goods shop. She said they were out the door yesterday with people buying freezers. If you are the kind of tart to buy another fcuking freezer to squeeze all your goodies into so there’s none left for people who need it, you’re a wojus arsehole of the highest order. I wouldn’t wish coronavirus on you but I do wish you a good dose of the ****s. A dose so bad you’ve to use up all your spare bog roll

Sadly news has just reached me, that the first member of my local community has sadly died because of the Coronavirus. In his house they found 500 cans of assorted food, 100kg of pasta, 75kg of rice, 200 toilet rolls and 30L of hand sanitiser which he had panic bought from Aldi “just in case!”
The whole lot collapsed and buried the daft bastard!

walshb

What's the view on Cheltenham galloping away with not a care in the world?

caveat emptor

Deleted User wrote: »

Ok, but is it not a good thing to see the figure climb though?

Fair question but to be blunt no. Due to the fact it is an exponential curve, it grows far quicker that cases being resolved. So it is behind the curve. i.e number who have it is always behind those who are serious.

It's like people on here who were dividing number of cases by population. Not useful in this scenario. Luckily the ancient greeks / Egyptians /Newton came up with a way to do this kind of maths.

Calculus

Calculus, originally called infinitesimal calculus or "the calculus of infinitesimals", is the mathematical study of continuous change, in the same way that geometry is the study of shape and algebra is the study of generalizations of arithmetic operations.


"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus"

the butcher

boars wrote: »

So it has aerosol transmission… No wonder the Chinese couldn't contain it.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.09.20033217v1

the above is not peer-reviewed (yet).

Would explain why the Chinese were blasting the roads with disinfectant.

Andrew00

walshb wrote: »

What's the view on Cheltenham galloping away with not a care in the world?

Big racing fan here but even im shocked its went ahead. Doesn't make any sense

namloc1980

facehugger99 wrote: »

UK approach looks far more sensible and will have much less impact on the economy.

We'll have the same lads that are on here crying and moaning wondering what's happened to their pay checks in 12 months time.


Get the oldies and vulnerable to isolate and get the herd immunity established in the population. It's the only way to combat it. Our politicians are too spineless to take this approach unfortunately.

And when the health service is overwhelmed what happens then? People with other medical needs won't be treated. Anyway looks like sporting and other organisations in the UK are going to take matters into their own hands now. Wouldn't be surprised to see schools closing unilaterally over there also.

youreadthat

facehugger99 wrote: »

UK approach looks far more sensible and will have much less impact on the economy.

We'll have the same lads that are on here crying and moaning wondering what's happened to their pay checks in 12 months time.


Get the oldies and vulnerable to isolate and get the herd immunity established in the population. It's the only way to combat it. Our politicians are too spineless to take this approach unfortunately.

People can’t even do the first thing the government said and not panic buy, but think an indefinite lockdown of the country is going to work.

s7ryf3925pivug

New policing patterns will be announced today.