Leo Varadkar just reassuring people, they are going with social distancing and to make sure people look out for others.
SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
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Exactly what Italy is saying behind closed doors. The EU will face some difficult challenges when this is all over.
The Irish address by the taoiseach is kinda hitting it home this is bloody massive, like the end of days massive..
I just thought some mad weirdo was camping out in there or something. Still creepy even when I knew the reason because it was slightly isolated.
There were always bats about where I grew up, you rarely see them and they don’t bother you so I kind of like them. It’s a nightmare for people getting them in their roofs though because you not even allowed to have any work done on your roof without having a bat survey by a government approved bat expert, you have to use really expensive bat friendly roofing felt and so on. This is why the farmer used the radio because he knew it would make selling it for development more complicated with bats in.
China helped no one when they were hiding the extent of the epidemy and then letting people come and go from China. And now we have people looking at them like heros. 
My girlfriend is pregnant at the moment and has been told to stay away from work for 12 weeks because of it. I’m self employed though and ideally need to work to pay bills. What’s the best thing for us to do? Should she move back to her parents until the time comes if/when I’m in isolation? Or will she be ok staying with me but running the risk of me coming back from work having picked it up? At least with her parents they will be pretty much isolating anyway. We’ve also got the added complication of her brother having cystic fibrosis, so her going back and forth between the 2 houses isn’t an option.
Why what's been said?
Varadkar pulling no punches there. Calm before the storm and this is going to feck us up for years.
One of the problems is that people tend to make them leave their natural habitat and they end up in even worse places. I seem to remember that it was the case for vampire bats in Mexico.
How does blaming any single nation helpful to what's at stake?
A "this is the calm before the storm" speech. We don't know when this will be over, the effects will be with us for years, the world is in this together, quoted Churchill, etc.
I don't think it would hurt people not to be able to go out to eat. We have no restaurants or bars open here, so you make your own meals and eat at home. If you're talking about fast food places, it wouldn't be a bad thing for people to change their diets for a while!
Italy I can understand, that they are pissed off.
But the Czech Republic? They are at the moment in a better position than all of the western european countries. So shouldnt help from the Cech Republic going to the hardest hit counries in the EU, like Italy and Spain?
fecking hypocrites.
And the problem ist not the EU but the member states, the first reaction of all of them was to go back to the nation state.
Well, shit.
I think you Brits should watch Leo's speech so you can see the stark difference between Boris and a (semi) competent leader.
Nothing much of note just an update but said that it will go on for months and people will die. It was the whole atmosphere of it but was quite scary, I pray we are only preparing for the worst but didn’t seem like it.
Was a bit sad Italy facing that grave situation, Germany banned exporting of masks Italy greatly needed. China sent them to Italy instead.
China have a lot to answer for though.
That and climate change has killed a lot of the insects they used to eat, over here anyway.
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Send her off to her parents. It's going to be difficult not seeing her, but it's for the best.
China helped no one when they were hiding the extent of the epidemy and then letting people come and go from China. And now we have people looking at them like heros.
Desperation, it can't be anything else, no matter what the outcome it's so sad to see this.
And you think they need the world to teach them this? Anyways, this is aftermath talk. The crisis is still yet to peak.
Yup. It's ridiculous. I argued with @Dante about a world wide lockdown ages ago and now we're seeing exactly that. If I could see that as the best solution over a month ago, how could the so called professionals not? I said it before, and I'll say it again, these deaths are the fault of the the powers in charge. No just complacency, incompetency. I'm utterly disgusted with the way this was handled. So many innocent lives lost because no-one had the intelligence or balls to act.
If the government orders all pubs and restaurants shut because of Coronavirus, they still won't be able to claim in a huge percentage of cases.
I used to sell insurance to restaurants and pubs and this sort of thing is just not covered by most policies (and certainly the type of policies small businesses take up, often going for the cheapest they can get that just covers the basics).
They'd be better off burning each others buildings down, as ridiculous as that sounds. Arson is covered, government enforced shutdowns are not.
Boris is a twat but not for this.
China taking advantage of the crisis to undermine the EU, Russia heavily involved in Brexit and Trump election, America eager to bring the UK under its influence. It seems there's an effort from world superpowers to divide the EU, its basically a fourth superpower and the easiest one to break apart. Russia and China will probably turn their attention to the US after.
Heard some insurance spokesman on the radio thr other day say that hardly anyone takes out the insurance to cover this.
I wonder if football clubs do though.
oh for feck sake. This government has been in power for a decade and even then we've known about this virus since January. Not to mention the policies other countries have put forward. No one is asking for acts of God but simply effective governance.
I might be one of the few Irish people who genuinely wants ghost town to be the new national anthem .This did make me laugh
It's a banger of tune and would be the greatest in joke all of time.
I can see why countries want China’s help, yes they were the cause of this but they only went up 21 cases today and currently only have 8000 active cases so they are on the decline while Europe is a mess at the moment
Decent speech by Leo. Hopefully a wake-up call for any eejits still living in denial.
Apologies if already posted, hard to keep up with the thread.
Really big firms often take insurance a lot more seriously, not worrying about saving a small percentage but rather the implications of not being covered. My old firm used to deal with AFC Bournemouth's policy and although I don't know if something like Corona was covered, they certainly had good coverage so maybe.
Your average pub or restaurant owner (in my few years of experience in that particular market) is running on such small margins that any offering of additional covers was met with laughter. I often had to argue to get pub owners to take out cover that was a legal requirement.
Do you imagine other countries would have done better than China? It's hard to imagine for me. Obviously we can criticise their initial approach when even they were not sure what they were facing, but since then their approach has been nothing short of remarkable for me. We've world powers like the UK acting clueless at a stage where they are much, much better informed than China was at the time.China helped no one when they were hiding the extent of the epidemy and then letting people come and go from China. And now we have people looking at them like heros.
Other countries would not have arrested and detained the doctor who was warning the other doctors that a SARS-like virus is infecting people.
Send her to stay with them - and when you visit wear mask and gloves and don't kiss etc.
At least until things (hopefully) settle down.
I agree completely.
Well, China literally let infected people fly all around the world for months. I don't know nor care about whether other countries would have done better but I will not consider the main cause and source of the pandemic as some sort of heroes because they happen to be 1.5bn and therefore have the capacity to mass produce at a higher scale than any one else.
I haven't blamed China, I get that in moments of crisis you can make mistakes, I totally accept but I refure to here feckwits act as if China were righteous and the rest are the villains. That is totally asinine.
Yeah but most governments still wouldn’t of believed him, if I went around beforehand saying this in the UK nobody would believe me. China is the cause of this don’t get me wrong but there approach has been excellent they have 1,3 billion people and 21 cases today them and South Korea have this under control