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

Fr_Dougal

Wonder how many more times posters are going to inform us that it’s been declared a Pandemic...

adocholiday

wakka12 wrote: »

Well do you have a cough? Whether you have a 'wet' cough, runny nose, and other 'wet' features usually distinguishes flu from COVID. Trouble breathing properly can also be a symptom of flu.

There are a lot of people out there at the moment with cold/flu, including myself and honestly googling it has provided little to no info as to what symptoms one should be concerned with and what should be chalked down to common cold

statesaver

kalkat2002 wrote: »

As usual on this country all problems for the taxpayers...those on the voluntary dole watching movies on sky tv

Ya wha ?

frillyleaf

SAM SO NITE wrote: »

Daltry is getting a bit big for his boots isn't he.

Who is Daltry?

EarlyStorms

The country needs strong leadership from the government that of course we wont get. County should go into lock down as soon as possible, it'll save thousands of lives.

Mic 1972

Mic 1972 wrote: »

this is what you are concerned about?

Yeah. You're concerned with stats and making them as scary as possible. I'm coming from a more decent angle on the whole thing.

kalkat2002

GooglePlus wrote: »

This will be all problems for everyone. Tax will be the least of your worries in a few weeks.

Yeah only the rats will survive...

Wibbs

Professor Moriarty wrote: »

No problem. Let us leave Wikpedia aside. This is from the European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention:

Coronaviruses are believed to be transmitted in most instances from person-to-person through inhalation or deposition on mucosal surfaces of large respiratory droplets. Other routes have also been implicated in the transmission of coronaviruses, such as c ontact with contaminated fomites and inhalation of aerosols, producedduring aerosol generating procedures. The highest risk of healthcare-associated transmission is in the absence of standard precautions, when basic infection prevention and control measures for respiratory infections are not in place, and when handling patients where 2009-nCoV infection is yet to be confirmed. Although there is so far no evidence of airborne transmission, we recommend a cautious approach due to lack of studies excluding this mode
of transmission.

That makes near zero sense P. See bolded bits above. Aerosols are by definition a suspension of solids or liquids in a gas, in this case viral particles in the air. This makes it airborne as a means of transmission. There was a preliminary study in the previous thread which suggested that it could hang around in the air for more than an hour.

ThePopehimself

The WHO tell us a few minutes ago that it is a Pandemic.

And we know that those who don't head straight to the lifeboats are left to jump into the feezing waters.

And Italy is telling us to PLEASE learn from them.

And Poland is showing us what to do.

And today, we had our first death.

Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Think for yourselves.

It’s time to start acting unilaterally now. I’m sure as hell not waiting around for the Mitigation phase – I’m getting me and mine safe NOW.

The chiding of adults today as if they were naughty children for not towing the unilateral line just beggars belief! It defies all logic!
‘Experts’ telling Trinity College Dublin, Irish Nursing Homes and the UHL Group to get back in line!

No!

My disabled adult son is home here with me and will not be going back to Adult Day Services until it is safe.

Make up your own minds people.

This is a Pandemic.

I for one will not be 'Acting in Concert'. Fk that.

BorneTobyWilde

Professor Moriarty wrote: »

Walk on.

Everyone of them returning should be put into a forced lock down, Government should be taking over hotels, they're empty anyway with no on travelling, and use those hotels as holding areas for thousands of high risk would be spreaders. It's what china did, of course they built a hotel in a day, yes it fell down a month later , but still

fly_agaric

GooglePlus wrote: »

I've been told that we will be working from home next week but I work in a department where everyone has a mobile device.

Fair enough. Seems a very sensible move if you have the capability.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

BloodBath wrote: »

A quick google didn't find it because it's very far from a fact. Your source link is probably not in the first 100 pages of google in Ireland.

People need to start understanding how science works before they claim everything some study finds as a fact.

There's a lot more bad science than good science.

That same poster said covid was a combo of SARS and HIV. Yup.

PaybackPayroll

Croohur1 wrote: »

They wont have the programs needed installed on their own laptops

They might be able to use remote desktop connection.

Our company had a few customers now wanting to change to our cloud version of our software. I guess more and more people are working from home.

skimpydoo

I had mentioned the tweet you can see below on here last night and it is trending high on Twitter. I also got interviewed earlier by RTE1 TV news about this.

https://twitter.com/Tweetinggoddess/status/1237456130575646721?s=20

dougm1970

frillyleaf wrote: »

Who is Daltry?

roger ?

fritzelly

WHO briefing with sound you can actually hear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw5lkLYsG4c

HalloweenJack

Out of curiosity, anyone know what are the implications from an insurance point of view of it being labelled a pandemic?

I had my suspicions that this was one reason behind the reluctance to call it what it is.

pad199207

Pandemic now. Can’t see the schools remaining open much longer

Wibbs

ThePopehimself wrote: »

My disabled adult son is home here with me and will not be going back to Adult Day Services until it is safe.

Make up your own minds people.

This is a Pandemic.

I for one will not be 'Acting in Concert'. Fk that.

+1. I was a carer myself for many years and if that was still in play no way in hell would they be going next nor near a respite centre until the so called "authorities" pulled their collective fingers out of their tax payer funded fat holes and actually started to act with some authority.

Drumpot

ThePopehimself wrote: »

The WHO tell us a few minutes ago that it is a Pandemic.

And we know that those who don't head straight to the lifeboats are left to jump into the feezing waters.

And Italy is telling us to PLEASE learn from them.

And Poland is showing us what to do.

And today, we had our first death.

Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Think for yourselves.

It’s time to start acting unilaterally now. I’m sure as hell not waiting around for the Mitigation phase – I’m getting me and mine safe NOW.

The chiding of adults today as if they were naughty children for not towing the unilateral line just beggars belief! It defies all logic!
‘Experts’ telling Trinity College Dublin, Irish Nursing Homes and the UHL Group to get back in line!

No!

My disabled adult son is home here with me and will not be going back to Adult Day Services until it is safe.

Make up your own minds people.

This is a Pandemic.

I for one will not be 'Acting in Concert'. Fk that.

This is the most sobering and authoritative conference I have watched from WHO the last 2 months.

This is actually horrible as its all been sort of hypothetical until now, their message is basically everybody has to do their part and start doing what needs to be done to get through this. This is a wartime rally call, people need to get that into their heads. This is going to affect us all regardless of what we do, but getting it wrong could cost us alot more financially and socially in the long run.

Feels like UK and US are getting an indirect kick in the bollox for their approachs thus far.

Downlinz

kalkat2002 wrote: »

As usual on this country all problems for the taxpayers...those on the voluntary dole watching movies on sky tv

It's a problem because business interests and government don't want the economic wheels to stop spinning and are willing to sacrifice the taxpaying hamsters to as far an extent as they feel they'll get away with. That's where your concern should directed.

People on the dole have their own problems at the moment since they can't afford to gather weeks of supplies the rest of us are stockpiling.

JP Liz V1

I think no one should be leaving the country or coming in from highly infected countries which now seems to be every country, containing means a lockdown

the butcher

I think it's going to look pretty bad with Leo jetting off to Washington to give a bowl to a President who said the virus will just magically disappear one day while cases and deaths unfortunately grow in both the USA and here.

fritzelly

WHO declare pandemic and the heavens open up - scary coincidence...

wakka12

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

I think no one should be leaving the country or coming in from highly infected countries which now seems to be every country, containing means a lockdown

How do you define an infected country anymore.
Egypt has a few dozen confirmed cases but has infected more tourists coming out of the country than that.

jimmycrackcorm

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

Thoughtful question.

I went to my local cafe to get lunch today as I felt the need to support them. I was happy to see that they were quite busy though.

Wait for a month or so until we are in Italy territory.

In other news, coronovirus seems to have solved our homeless crisis as we never hear anything about that now.

ChikiChiki

fritzelly wrote: »

WHO declare pandemic and the heavens open up - scary coincidence...

We were thinking the same here in the office. It got incredibly dark quickly. A real sense of doom.

I remember the last time something like that happened was sitting in a meeting room when i was being made redundant years back.

splinter65

splinter65 wrote: »

Yes, this is the communist group think. Let all the people who are a burden on society die, the old who have outlived their usefulness, the disabled of all ages who have never been useful at all and should have been aborted before they were born.
The best way to achieve equality for all is to eliminate as many of the parasites as possible, leaving only contributors who can share resources equally between themselves.
You can eliminate them by letting them die of the corona virus or you can murder them like Pol Pot did.
It’s very difficult for someone who has bought into the whole socialism concept hook line and sinker to understand why, in a crisis, we wouldn’t just let the old and the disabled just die, but personally I’m glad that we seem to be resisting that temptation.

Emm so most of the governments around the globe are communists and socialists now? What your describing is capitalism and neo liberal economic thinking.

Professor Moriarty

Wibbs wrote: »

That makes near zero sense P. See bolded bits above. Aerosols are by definition a suspension of solids or liquids in a gas, in this case viral particles in the air. This makes it airborne as a means of transmission. There was a preliminary study in the previous thread which suggested that it could hang around in the air for more than an hour.

If we refer back to your Wiki definition:

An airborne disease is any disease that is caused by pathogens that can be transmitted through the air by both small, dry particles, and as larger liquid droplets.

So far, it seems as if Coronavirus is not transmitted via anything smaller than droplets - which means it's technically not airborne. Airborne would include transmission where the virus hangs around in the air.

wakka12

https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/9vdxgM/forsta-svenska-dodsfallet-i-nya-coronaviruset
Person who died in Sweden had not travelled abroad, had no personal contacts with COVID and did not use public transport.

https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/sa-planerar-de-att-stoppa-coronaviruset2/
Almost 250 cases in Stockholm alone