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

haydoyo

ACitizenErased wrote: »

The mad thing that this outbreak has shown me is that a lot of people do not clean themselves. Saw a queue for the sink in the men's toilets in a venue in Cork City yesterday for the first time in my life.

Sure think of the door handle in your work place, probably covered in piss and ****e.

A lot of males don't bother.

mick987

I Have Corona NOOOO!!! wrote: »

Whole thing will be under control (in Ireland) by the end of next week. Calling it now.

Here comes the village idiot

Cupatae

jokeshop wrote: »

RIP to this guy. He is surely doomed what with the 94-97% recovery rate from this cataclysmic supervirus.

He might have spread it to his parents or other older people who have underlining issues and for them it would be a fairly devastating "supervirus"...

Good lad

Assetbacked

shinny wrote: »

I missed the one recovered person. Did they mention that at the 6pm briefing?

I read it earlier somehwere. At a quick search, it is reported here https://www.thesun.ie/news/5194822/coronavirus-in-ireland-covid-19-patient-discharged/

gmisk

xabi wrote: »

I know it’s not the flu, but for perspective, during this flu season, we have about 4000 cases with 100 deaths. If flu got the attention that Coronavirus does, we would be panicking.

The problem is we are really likely to get more cases than that and the fatality rate from corona seems to be a lot more than the flu

Tenger

Beacon hospital were turning away visitors for patients yesterday.
I had been referred to A&E then and had to wait 5 mins to get permission to go on up.

Hope the rest of the hospitals are doing the same. I remember seeing people walk around the sanitisers at the doorway in Tallaght 2 years ago. Think it was due to MRSA in the place.
I was visiting a close relative who had chemo so was very diligent in washing my own hands. Was disgusted to see that security there werent stopping people wandering in and not sanitising hands.

smelly sock

s982102 wrote: »

Nowadays, u can trust Chinese figures more than the western ones.

Ye because the independent verification of Chinese figures is water tight.

Hurrache

jokeshop wrote: »

By panicky idiots and chancers who were trying to make a few quid out of said panicky idiots.

Nope, like I said, you've no idea outside of the scope of a desktop.

subpar

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Funsterdelux

xabi wrote: »

I know it’s not the flu, but for perspective, during this flu season, we have about 4000 cases with 100 deaths. If flu got the attention that Coronavirus does, we would be panicking.

Havd you not got the memo?

You cant use the"i know its not the flu" argument

dark crystal

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1237843470074515467

Definitely tuning in for this sh!t show.

I guess Mike Pence hasn't managed to pray it away, like the gay disease.

MCKG

jokeshop wrote: »

RIP to this guy. He is surely doomed what with the 94-97% recovery rate from this cataclysmic supervirus.

Not funny!

shinny

ACitizenErased wrote: »

One person was released from CUH today, that's been confirmed.

Thanks, good news.

amadangomor

LRNM wrote: »

Lads....donated blood has to be tested also.

Everyone go give blood!

Rang them last week because i had donated 10 days before that. Had chesty cough that developed day before and wanted to let them know.

Kermit.de.frog

18 new cases today in Brazil, double that of yesterday.

Bob24

Jinglejangle69 wrote: »

Disgraceful people are been told to be responsible with flying, yet the airlines still have flights on willing to bring people on planes so they don't have to refund money.

They should be the responsible ones and give people their money back.

I suspect quite a few of them would end up bankrupted or very severally affected (they already have many grounded planes).

At the end of the day whether airlines or customers should bear the financial burden doesn’t have a clear answer (and in the long term airlines will have a massive burden no matter what).

And you can’t blame them for running the flights if governments don’t tell them to stop: they have customers who paid for tickets and will want to travel even though the situation isn’t great. Those will be unhappy of flights are cancelled so they can’t please everyone.

PS: I am personally affected as I had a (rather expensive) flight to France later this week and I have decided not to go while taking the financial hit. So I know how it feels.

History Queen

Larbre34 wrote: »

In my opinion, and only in my personal opinion, closing schools and colleges is a mistake. Why?

1) Young people themselves are not susceptible to the most severe effects

2) Closing schools will NOT stop community transfer among the young. Having kids and young adults without anything to do for perhaps 6 months is a very bad idea. They will still congregate, it will foster anti social behaviour, uncontrollable contact with God knows who and possibly lead to other undesirable effects, criminality, STDs or pregnancies, abuse, bullying of minorities associated with the origins of the outbreak. Obviously I don't mean all kids, but enough, and our authorities are going to have too much on their plate to deal with it.

3) Have them in school and college, teach and implement daily hygiene routines and remove any students or teachers who are immunocompromised.

I don't know where to begin to point out the issues I have with this post. In the interest of full disclosure I am a post-primary teacher. But on point 2 alone..... seriously....when have you last interacted with a teenager? And why do you think "authorities" should deal with them??? How about parents actually parent? And what antisocial issues do you envisage with primary school students?

Also, young people do catch and spread the virus although the vast majority don't seem to suffer too much themselves, the people they unwittingly spread the virus to might. Schools are rife with community transmission of all sorts of seasonal ailments. In my classroom alone I have between 160 and 230 students per day. In social areas at lunch upwards of 300 students are eating/socialising in close proximity. How exactly am I/the school meant to prevent transmission in those circumstances?


Most teachers, do our best and want the best for our students. Which is why I, and many of my colleagues, spent all day today trying to start the mammoth task of creating work for my students that they will be able to do reasonably independently if the schools close.

hawkwing

haydoyo wrote: »

Really think there going to shut down pubs and clubs?

Most of them are already shutdown/closed outside of urban areas so it doesn't matter much

Quantum Erasure

jokeshop wrote: »

RIP to this guy. He is surely doomed what with the 94-97% recovery rate from this cataclysmic supervirus.

about the same odds of survival as racing a Formula One season in the 60's and 70's,

Multipass

ACitizenErased wrote: »

I'm surprised at the number of cases in Iceland.

They take a lot of holidays abroad

smelly sock

haydoyo wrote: »

Really think there going to shut down pubs and clubs?

Why wouldnt they?

namloc1980

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

18 new cases today in Brazil, double that of yesterday.

Mostly in Sao Paulo. Daytime temperatures 30 degrees at the moment.

patsman07

For anyone that's interested in the Science behind a lot of the actions our government is taking I'd recommend a listen here: https://samharris.org/podcasts/190-respond-coronavirus/

I felt a lot more reassured after listening to this. Judging by the expert guest on the podcast we are doing a good job so far. School closures are very useful when necessary, as they keep children from spreading the virus but also force a certain percentage of parents to stay at home, which reduces social interactions. He also states, without saying why it's the case, that all the models show that shutting down air travel has a very minimal impact on the spread of the virus.

The lack of community transmission so far is a major plus for us, although I do worry about lots of Irish people returning from Cheltenham. I hope they are advised to self isolate for a fortnight. We are in a far better situation than many countries at the minute. America in particular I think will be ravaged by this. We have very good public awareness, hopefully we can avoid the worst of it.

JJayoo

Cases in Iceland are mostly down to a large group who traveled back from Italy.

Blueshoe

Today I was in Limerick and Tipperary with work. Handling foodstuffs. Tomorrow I will be in Kildare and Westmeath. Again handling foodstuffs.

I'm seeing lots of shops with no hand sanitizer out , staff handling coins and a general no real difference.
In the beginning I wasn't overly concerned. Now that I'm taking note of how people are acting I am.

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Tenger wrote: »

Beacon hospital were turning away visitors for patients yesterday.
I had been referred to A&E then and had to wait 5 mins to get permission to go on up.

Hope the rest of the hospitals are doing the same. I remember seeing people walk around the sanitisers at the doorway in Tallaght 2 years ago. Think it was due to MRSA in the place.
I was visiting a close relative who had chemo so was very diligent in washing my own hands. Was disgusted to see that security there werent stopping people wandering in and not sanitising hands.

Got my temp checked on the way into an appointment at the beacon today, glad to see it.

Hurrache

Hurrache wrote: »

Nope, you obviously have no idea about the amount of work that went into it.

Oh no, I known exactly how much work went into heading off the impending doom of Y2K, every company in the world had teams working on it because all the PCs were going to crash at midnight and planes were going to fall out of the sky. Seriously, you must be the only person left on the planet who actually still believes it.

Xertz

Meanwhile AIB decides to start charging for contactless transactions ... Great timing to discourage use and push people back over to cash!

Axfrderr

Hurrache wrote: »

Nope, you obviously have no idea about the amount of work that went into it.

The best comparison I heard was, FFS after spending all that money on getting my boiler fixed my house didn't even blow up.

namloc1980

Xertz wrote: »

Meanwhile AIB decides to start charging for contactless transactions ... Great timing to discourage use and push people back over to cash!

1c per transaction isn't the end of the world.