CoVid-19 Part VIII - 292 cases ROI (2 deaths) 62 in NI (as of 17th March) *Read OP*

amadangomor

expectationlost wrote: »

is it possible to not get it from your family living together?

If none of your family have it that is true as long as you stay away from sources of the virus. ( It is impossible to tell if your family do not have it as some people can be asymptomatic)

Sources of the virus are people and surfaces that infected people may have touched.

Strazdas

Sierra Oscar wrote: »

That's what he said. There could be an element of preparing people for the absolute worse case scenario and hoping what actually occurs is much less severe.

Not a bad strategy. Frighten the bejaysus out of us into radical social distancing and then nobody will ever know whether he actually believed those figures or not.

Cork Boy 53

IAMAMORON wrote: »

Based on the 30% increase the entire country will have been exposed by the 24 April.

I am calling BS, how come China is not completely saturated at this stage?

Have you forgotten about the complete lockdown in Wuhan during the first outbreak?

Akrasia

IAMAMORON wrote: »

Based on the 30% increase the entire country will have been exposed by the 24 April.

I am calling BS, how come China is not completely saturated at this stage?

I thought you were supposed to be banned from this thread?

stephenjmcd

VinLieger wrote: »

Those daily numbers should start declining if the social distancing has worked by the first week of April.

China did it cus they are authoritaian as fvck

Thats what I was thinking. We would have 2-3 weeks of increases and then a stabilisation of new cases with a slow decline to follow in the month after that

expectationlost

FitzShane wrote: »

Do you not understand what social distancing means.
The problem is not alcohol, it's being in close confined spaces beside each other.

but the CMO again said that restaurants don't need to close,you can limit numbers in both.

cafes were complaining about being very busy, best to spread the people between restaurant, pubs, cafes and fastfood etc.

Hurrache

hotmail.com wrote: »

This is going to lead to issues. So many men rely on the bookies to escape their homes.

Addiction aside, pathetic to use a bookies to "escape" your house.

is_that_so

murpho999 wrote: »

Shouldn't these updates be live on RTE 1 every day?

The time they do it is just not precise. It has been 6.05, 6.20 and I think before 6. RTE News Now is available and doesn't really run to a fixed schedule.

Lundstram

Would it kill RTE to fcuk off with Eastenders and put theses conferences out live? Such hoops you've to jump through to get watchng it.

SomethingElse

Could we be looking at a jump of over 100 today given the projected numbers?

optogirl

hotmail.com wrote: »

This is going to lead to issues. So many men rely on the bookies to escape their homes.

Perhaps those lads need a wake up

pjohnson

VinLieger wrote: »

Those daily numbers should start declining if the social distancing has worked by the first week of April.

China did it cus they are authoritaian as fvck

We should have copied China not Italy



Thats fúcking depressing to hear.

ldy4mxonucwsq6

Did I see correctly that the mortality rate for closed case for Italy is 44% currently??

This shocking, absolutely horrific if that's the real rate.

China not telling the truth at all about this infection, I know we thought the figures were not the full truth but this is proof, this virus is lethal.

Ulysses Gaze

Lundstram wrote: »

Would it kill RTE to fcuk off with Eastenders and put theses conferences out live? Such hoops you've to jump through to get watchng it.

Or shagging Nationwide

greenpilot

This might sound daft, but my missus is a veterinary nurse and she is Willing to help where she can. I wonder if folks with any medical experience would be useful in this situation



*waits for expected slating....*

VinLieger

SomethingElse wrote: »

Could we be looking at a jump of over 100 today given the projected numbers?

Likely to see that by end of week

landofthetree

Hurrache wrote: »

Addiction aside, pathetic to use a bookies to "escape" your house.

Dont mock us. I dont gamble but I used to go watch sky sports football matches for free.

Better than in the pub paying for overpriced drinks( even soft ones) during the day.

Sonics2k

IAMAMORON wrote: »

Based on the 30% increase the entire country will have been exposed by the 24 April.

I am calling BS, how come China is not completely saturated at this stage?

Why are we suddenly so keen to trust China?

A country that's famous for lying about so damn much that happens in the country, a place so damn locked down you can't even mention Tienanmen Square without being thrown in a jail cell. A country with a human rights record so bad even the Saudi's think they need to chill out.

murpho999

is_that_so wrote: »

The time they do it is just not precise. It has been 6.05, 6.20 and I think before 6. RTE News Now is available and doesn't really run to a fixed schedule.

I think they could work something out and interrupt Eastenders. It's important to keep the public informed and RTE News Now is not watched by many as it doesn't feel like a proper news channel to me.

WriteThings

Anywhere to watch the announcements live?

Strazdas

VinLieger wrote: »

Likely to see that by end of week

The prediction is the high hundreds by the end of the week.

spookwoman

greenpilot wrote: »

This might sound daft, but my missus is a veterinary nurse and she is Willing to help where she can. I wonder if folks with any medical experience would be useful in this situation



*waits for expected slating....*

They do says vets are probably better at diagnosing becuase their patients can't speak. Fair play to her

is_that_so

stephenjmcd wrote: »

Yeah likewise I cant see where the 30% figure is coming from.

People are quite clearly keeping distance from each other and most non essential services and offices are basically shut down already with people working from home.

It sounded like they now have a model and that's what it is telling them is the potential.

Tootsie_1

greenpilot wrote: »

This might sound daft, but my missus is a veterinary nurse and she is Willing to help where she can. I wonder if folks with any medical experience would be useful in this situation



*waits for expected slating....*

id say so probably most people will be used to contact trace

unplayable

Just drove past about 500 plus young people heading into a gig in Camden tonight. Boris and the lads will be haunted by their lack of action for a long long time.

KathleenGrant

greenpilot wrote: »

This might sound daft, but my missus is a veterinary nurse and she is Willing to help where she can. I wonder if folks with any medical experience would be useful in this situation



*waits for expected slating....*

What slating? I'd be happy to have a vet see me. Highly trained professionals adept at diagnoses and people are members of the animal kingdom after all.

statesaver

WriteThings wrote: »

Anywhere to watch the announcements live?

RTE News Now

Monkeynut

When will the give today's numbers?
I thought at the live conference they would have said it.

Donald Trump

Griffin Tasteless Floor wrote: »

Did I see correctly that the mortality rate for closed case for Italy is 44% currently??

This shocking, absolutely horrific if that's the real rate.

China not telling the truth at all about this infection, I know we thought the figures were not the full truth but this is proof, this virus is lethal.

I'm not sure where you are calculating those figured from.

Do you just mean that the number who have recovered is about double those who have died? That isn't quite comparing like with like.


I would imagine that "recovered" means a few negative tests for the virus on subsequent days, regardless of your symptoms.

r93kaey5p2izun

greenpilot wrote: »

This might sound daft, but my missus is a veterinary nurse and she is Willing to help where she can. I wonder if folks with any medical experience would be useful in this situation



*waits for expected slating....*

Already been suggested, and derided by a pharmacist here.

Personally I think it's perfectly sensible.

Ger Roe

Lundstram wrote: »

Would it kill RTE to fcuk off with Eastenders and put theses conferences out live? Such hoops you've to jump through to get watchng it.

They could put up a screenflash on RTE 1 and 2 to say that there is an announcement going out over on News Now - just like the newsflash in the old days.

Hurrache

landofthetree wrote: »

Dont mock us. I dont gamble but I used to go watch sky sports football matches for free.

Better than in the pub paying for overpriced drinks( even soft ones) during the day.

In fairness, I'll accept your scabbiness!

astrofool

Griffin Tasteless Floor wrote: »

Did I see correctly that the mortality rate for closed case for Italy is 44% currently??

This shocking, absolutely horrific if that's the real rate.

China not telling the truth at all about this infection, I know we thought the figures were not the full truth but this is proof, this virus is lethal.

Present your maths, them jump to scaremongering, less of the faux concern.

Christy42

Griffin Tasteless Floor wrote: »

Did I see correctly that the mortality rate for closed case for Italy is 44% currently??

This shocking, absolutely horrific if that's the real rate.

China not telling the truth at all about this infection, I know we thought the figures were not the full truth but this is proof, this virus is lethal.

It kills you a lot quicker than you get better. That'll drop dramatically. Italy is still not that long into this no matter how it feels. The death rate at the start is also made look worse as it will be the worst cases being checked at the start. As testing and tracking comes into play we get more and more mild cases coming into the figures.

greenpilot

spookwoman wrote: »

They do says vets are probably better at diagnosing becuase their patients can't speak. Fair play to her

Hmmm....so that's why she married me...

BorneTobyWilde

If anyone here said 15000 will have it soon they'd be banned, but the Taoiseach pulls that number out of his arse and it's taken seriously. What an idiot.

threeball

Was looking at the infection rates and deaths stats there and came across Thailand. They have less cases and deaths than us. How is this possible given it's global position.

Also somewhere like north Korea must be decimated. No health care, constant famine. Is there any anecdotal evidence of what's happening there.

statesaver

Monkeynut wrote: »

When will the give today's numbers?
I thought at the live conference they would have said it.

8 o'clock.

Strazdas

Monkeynut wrote: »

When will the give today's numbers?
I thought at the live conference they would have said it.

That wasn't the HSE press conference.....it must be coming after

Akrasia

Griffin Tasteless Floor wrote: »

Did I see correctly that the mortality rate for closed case for Italy is 44% currently??

This shocking, absolutely horrific if that's the real rate.

China not telling the truth at all about this infection, I know we thought the figures were not the full truth but this is proof, this virus is lethal.

The final figures won't be anywhere near 44% but that is a devastating loss for the people of Italy. I am not looking forward to seeing this replicated over here.

If Ireland have 15k cases having closed all of our schools and cancelled all public gatherings, how many cases will NI have given that their government are doing literally nothing to stop this spreading?

If it gets really bad in the North, will people start trying to take refuge down south?

dan786

French President Emmanuel Macron has ordered people to stay at home from midday Tuesday except for necessary reasons such as shopping, saying any violations of the stricter rules to battle the coronavirus would be punished.

In a 20-minute address to the nation, he said the French had to "severely restrict movements for the next 15 days at least" and limit social contacts as much as possible. Any violation of this new regime would be "punished," he said.

Hurrache

spookwoman wrote: »

They do says vets are probably better at diagnosing becuase their patients can't speak. Fair play to her

Some time next week we'll see an unexplained jump of the parvo virus into humans.

hotmail.com

Hurrache wrote: »

Addiction aside, pathetic to use a bookies to "escape" your house.

It's the reality. Some live alone and some don't like their wives.

Snowbiee21

WriteThings wrote: »

Anywhere to watch the announcements live?

What’s app

is_that_so

Lundstram wrote: »

Would it kill RTE to fcuk off with Eastenders and put theses conferences out live? Such hoops you've to jump through to get watchng it.

It's on RTE News Now!

JanuarySnowstor

Would agree on the jumping around of timings is ridiculous. Surely they can agree a time like 630 and go live on rte1 as well as news now

Dymo

Monkeynut wrote: »

When will the give today's numbers?
I thought at the live conference they would have said it.

It doesn't look like they're going to probably keeping with their policy of keeping the areas affected secret maybe now the numbers.

KathleenGrant

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

If anyone here said 15000 will have it soon they'd be banned, but the Taoiseach pulls that number out of his arse and it's taken seriously. What an idiot.

Hardly pulled it out of his arse.
Wonder who is the idiot?

kevin12345

is_that_so wrote: »

It's on RTE News Now!

Looks like it's being pushed back?

https://twitter.com/JackHoJo/status/1239638344839106561

Happy4all

Conchy wrote: »

Boylesports is closing on Wednesday night until the 30th of March. Not sure why they are waiting until Wednesday though.

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