SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)

arnie_ni said:
Yea made a quick edit there. The link said per capita but the table is actually total.

Didnt actually know that. With the housing crisis, the bailout from the eu etc, just never felt like ireland fully recovered
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The bailout was paid off back in 2015 or something. We've generally recovered really well from the recession. Unemployment is low, growth has been high.

Housing and health are our main issues and a big failing of the government since the recession but both of those have arguably been brought on by our return to prosperity and being a boiling point for other countries due to the big wages in areas like IT and finance. Also the housing crisis gets overblown, most wealthy countries have the same problem in their main cities. The likes of London, Amsterdam, Stockholm are just as bad.
 
We've just had a notice from our friend here who acts as an official point of contact for the immigrants like us - beaches, parks, playgrounds and public gardens are now all closed (there's been a problem with people gathering on beaches and in parks).

Any walking for health or to exercise pets must be done very close to your home, and you have to go out alone.
 
Nogbadthebad said:
It's not just behaviour that needs to change, it's mindset.

This is Barclays in the US, but its just leaked there, I have no doubt our financial institutions are doing exactly the same.

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These people need to be strung up and publicly executed. They are everything that's wrong with the world.
 
France has tightened the rules of who can go out by banning cycling and demanding runners and walkers limit the distance they take from home to a maximum 1-2km and 20minutes.
 
Siorac said:
What the hell is a "mainstream country"?

I'm kinda picturing mass-produced countries, designed to appeal to the widest possible audience while in shadowy corners of Europe hide the hipster nations where everyone has a beard and a flannel shirt.
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"Your England's, your France's, your Germany's, your Spain's"
 
Massive Spanner said:
The bailout was paid off back in 2015 or something. We've generally recovered really well from the recession. Unemployment is low, growth has been high.

Housing and health are our main issues and a big failing of the government since the recession but both of those have arguably been brought on by our return to prosperity and being a boiling point for other countries due to the big wages in areas like IT and finance. Also the housing crisis gets overblown, most wealthy countries have the same problem in their main cities. The likes of London, Amsterdam, Stockholm are just as bad.
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The housing and health is virtually all you hear about up here when it comes to Ireland.

If they can sort it to some degree i really could see a united ireland some day. Not to stray of topic to much
 
Di Maria's angel said:
What grates me is when I hear people around me talk about how hard it is to isolate. Holy feck, you have a roof on your head, food, entertainment etc. and you can't sacrifice your social life to save lives?
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That's an unsurprisingly simplistic view of the problem. I have two very ill relatives in their 70s up north who I am worried about, but cannot visit for several reasons. Not everyone is just at home bored of their latest PS4 game.
 
O'Neills factory on strabane has shut down laying of 750 staff. They make all the gaa gear and a good amount of rugby gear across the country.

Surprised the didnt hold of until the chancellor speaks tonight
 
Quite a lot of reports of american senators selling of stock in February after a behind closed doors meeting on the virus.

Anyone have more on this, surely thats insider trading?
 
KiD MoYeS said:
China reporting a second successive day without any new cases, there is good news out there.

Also, people are not respecting social distancing so I have decided to cough anytime someone comes near.
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The latest I saw from them was +39. Which is obviously still good compared to a lot of countries.
 
RonaldoVII said:
Are you quarantining due to precaution or have you had symptoms? Are there any local facebook support groups or anything like that?
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A mix of both. Have had a cough for ten days so went into self imposed quarantine ten days ago, but by the time it was clear it wasn’t corona, the entire place was on lockdown anyways .
 
Massive Spanner said:
The bailout was paid off back in 2015 or something. We've generally recovered really well from the recession. Unemployment is low, growth has been high.

Housing and health are our main issues and a big failing of the government since the recession but both of those have arguably been brought on by our return to prosperity and being a boiling point for other countries due to the big wages in areas like IT and finance. Also the housing crisis gets overblown, most wealthy countries have the same problem in their main cities. The likes of London, Amsterdam, Stockholm are just as bad.
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The bailout was refinanced for the most part. We just owe the money to different people

We have a national debt of €200bn.

This crisis will need a 15 billion bailout.

https://m.independent.ie/business/i...e-financial-pain-of-coronavirus-39059859.html

It's another decade of austerity on the way.
 
KiD MoYeS said:
China reporting a second successive day without any new cases, there is good news out there.
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Meanwhile, the UK has the second steepest mortality curve of any country on the planet. In the least surprising development of all time, it turns out that those "herd immunity" twats have completely f*cked us.
 
Maybe an important study starting at the University of Utah: https://attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/covid-19-physics/

They're building mock Covid-19 cells and testing how they react to a variety of temperature and humidity changes. Hopefully it doesn't take long to complete and discovers that the little feckers disintegrate when it's damp and/or warm.
 
Siorac said:
What the hell is a "mainstream country"?

I'm kinda picturing mass-produced countries, designed to appeal to the widest possible audience while in shadowy corners of Europe hide the hipster nations where everyone has a beard and a flannel shirt.
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arnie_ni

;)
 
Fully Fledged said:
I’ve got high blood pressure. In runs in my family everyone over the age of 40 has it.
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Serious question: Do you have high blood pressure or do you take medication which results in you having normal blood pressure? I'm the latter but don't know if I still fall into the 'having high blood pressure' camp. Technically I don't, but...
 
Smores said:
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The problem with the US & their for profit healthcare system is that if those that pay for healthcare will expect to get admitted/treated no matter how mild the symptoms are & the doctors/hospitals are happy to do so because they can charge their services.
 
Skills said:
The problem with the US & their for profit healthcare system is that if those that pay for healthcare will expect to get admitted/treated no matter how mild the symptoms are & the doctors/hospitals are happy to do so because they can charge their services.
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It's been the same trend in other countries so i think it now has to be taken at face value that a significant amount of those below 55 will be in hospital with this.

It just reiterates that no one should take this lightly.
 
Does anyone know of retired doctors or nurses returning to work?

Fairly certain i remember boris saying this way back at the start
 
Deery said:
Yes, not far outside Derry
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What do you make of oneills closing yesteday (strabane) before the chancellor announces the government's help for businesses today?

750 people laid off, temporarily hopefully, but id have hope businesses just waited until today to see if real help comes their way
 
My missus just went into town, busy as always and full of older women meandering about.

Something has to be done to get them to stay inside and that has to be a police presence.
 
Smores said:
My missus just went into town, busy as always and full of older women meandering about.

Something has to be done to get them to stay inside and that has to be a police presence.
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They're everywhere these old folks, went to the local shops yesterday and it was wall to wall with the retiree aged.
 
Sweet Square said:
For better and for worse, I can't see Europe accepting this level of government oversight or that such oversight is even possible without an authoritarian state.
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Nogbadthebad said:
One of the key Italy patients, one of the first handful to get and spread it, is 33 and a marathon runner, extremely fit and healthy. Last I heard he was being kept alive by a vent and various HIV drugs.

I think that the most dangerous idea out there is that only the already ill or old are at risk.
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Marathon runners are often immuno suppressed, doing that much intensive exercise isn't healthy!
 
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