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

FishOnABike

sadie1502 wrote: »

Well I know that but I'm saying for people who don't have it. Its looking like this could ne rolled out April or may is that correct?

Do you mean April or May next year?

wakka12

Over 4100 cases so far today across the continent

Boggles

Be right back wrote: »

Any talk of the schools being closed?

No, HSE are thinking of putting the parades back on.

LRNM

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.

THIS SO MUCH


Give it a week lads and I reckon we'll know for sure how much of a world of **** we're in or if we're containing it.

I suspect this will be prolonged battle even if we do contain it. How long is it going to take for it to dwindle world wide?



We're already at such a global number of infected that it's going to be months or possibly over a year to properly get control over this virus.



2020 is shaping up to be a wild year.

Acosta

I Am The Law wrote: »

FG voter?

Dyed in the wool I'd say

otnomart

laurah591 wrote: »

I wonder are Italy hitting there testing capacity limits at 1500-2000 cases

New height for daily tests in Italy today, nearly 12400 tests

In one day

namloc1980

landofthetree wrote: »

So should pharmaceutical companies be closed down?

Let people with other health problems die?

That's such a terrible take. Well done.

industry accountant

facehugger99 wrote: »

And an even bigger moron to think that economic devastation doesn't also result in loss of life.

And an even bigger moron to think there is no difference between a conscious decision and an unavoidable side effect

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Boggles wrote: »

Yeah, but the leader of their country is what you would get if a clown fúcked a car alarm.

I wouldn't be looking to them for guidance.

I’m just saying objectively, we’re doing more. We’re not following the UK on this. They are being more lackadaisical. I didn’t suggest looking to them for guidance. I was responding to somebody saying that we are copying what they do.

el Fenomeno

Have the Italy figures been released yet for today?

SlowBlowin

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.

So you agree with Wibbs ?

joe40

pjohnson wrote: »

It takes a special kind of scummer to value the economy over life.

Without an economy we wouldn't have a health service, guards, jobs livelihoods. You can't just separate the two.

amacca

PhantomHat wrote: »

IBEC and the likes are whispering in his ear

I dont doubt it , ironic if the longer they faff around the worse the economic consequences turn out to be.

froog

VinLieger wrote: »

Their death rate screams to many many undiscovered cases, SK have done close to 200k tests which is a big part of why their death rate is so low

i don't know how you guys are reading figures.

in S. Korea, of the resolved cases so far there are 54 deaths and 247 recovered.

so far, of the resolved cases, they have a 21% death rate.

given it will almost certainly reduce over time.

Cw85

Seen a post from a woman on Twitter who said she has a close contact with all the symptoms of corona virus who has been in and out of university hospital Limerick the past week but they won't test for the virus as he hadn't been out of the country

B.A._Baracus

Boggles wrote: »

No, HSE are thinking of putting the parades back on.

Says who haha.
They wouldn't have cancelled it only to put it back on two days later

Chardee MacDennis

el Fenomeno wrote: »

Have the Italy figures been released yet for today?

is this sarcasm?

emmaro

Be right back wrote: »

Any talk of the schools being closed?

Lots of rumours going around about closing Friday. Nothing confirmed.

J Mysterio

Is the peess conference at 6? Any links?

wakka12

St Patricks day parades cancelled in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia

namloc1980

el Fenomeno wrote: »

Have the Italy figures been released yet for today?

+2,313 cases and +196 dead.

sink

Wibbs wrote: »

ceadaoin. wrote: »

This is pretty much what most governments will decide to do IMO. it isn't airborne, we can live our lives as usual for the most part with added awareness and precautions.

Eh, yes, yes it bloody well is. How in christ's name can anyone even with a passing interest with the reports of this virus over the last few months be blindly ignorant on this point? No really, how?

Airborne has a very specific meaning in medicine. An airborne disease is one which can remain suspended in the air for hours or days at a time. It can be spread by the wind and through ventilation systems. Containment requires negative pressure, whereby no unfiltered air can leave containment zone.

The SARS-2 Coronavirus is believed to be spread by droplet infection. The pathogen requires liquid suspension in order to remain active. Micro droplets from coughing, sneezing, talking or heavy breathing can travel distances of up to 10 meters or more but are not buoyant in air and settle on surfaces after short periods (typically a few minutes). They can remain active on surfaces (fomites) and can still be transmitted if a person were to touch the contamination and then their mouth, eyes or food.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_(medicine)#Routes_of_transmission

el Fenomeno

Chardee MacDennis wrote: »

is this sarcasm?

Sorry, my first port of call was BNO Desk and they haven't reported it for some reason. They're typically the first.

I see they've been reported elsewhere.

mcmoustache

PhantomHat wrote: »

Sociopaths are everywhere

and particularly concentrated in the top leadership roles of large organisations.

Still waters

landofthetree wrote: »

So should pharmaceutical companies be closed down?

Let people with other health problems die?

Not to mention more people will probably die from the resulting poverty brought on by a sustained economic crisis, so to put it bluntly a thinning of the herd is preferable to total economic collapse, terrible to say but the show must go on for the want of a better phrase

wakka12

el Fenomeno wrote: »

Sorry, my first port of call was BNO Desk and they haven't reported it for some reason. They're typically the first.

I see they've been reported elsewhere.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
This is a better site

theballz

A complusory work from home policy has been made by the company I work. I live alone and will struggle massively with this.

My parents are old. My father has cancer, I’ve decided not to visit them out of fear of unknowingly giving them something. When will a home testing kit for CoronaVirus become available?

namloc1980

Still waters wrote: »

Not to mention more people will probably die from the resulting poverty brought on by a sustained economic crisis, so to put it bluntly a thinning of the herd is preferable to total economic collapse, terrible to say but the show must go on for the want of a better phrase

"I'm alright Jack"

ThePopehimself

To
The Coronavirus Expert Advisory Group,
The National Public Health Emergency Team,
The Department of Health,
The HSE,
The Tanaiste Simon Covney
and
The Minister for Health Simon Harris;




PLEASE, CLOSE THE SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES NOW

amacca

Cw85 wrote: »

Seen a post from a woman on Twitter who said she has a close contact with all the symptoms of corona virus who has been in and out of university hospital Limerick the past week but they won't test for the virus as he hadn't been out of the country

Heard a number of similar stories today.....

Would love confirmation and then someone to put questions about this and number of undetected cases being linked to very narrow testing criteria to Tony H and co at the press conference this evening.