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Originally posted by Murdrum View PostIt'll be interesting to see if Oz gets an uptick as it moves into its colder season.
I've read that the virus is structured in a manner similar to that of influenza.
Both have a viral envelope which research shows is more susceptible to changes in weather, it impacts it's ability to transmit in dry weather and extreme heat. Humidity above and below certain percentages can play a part too.
Generally in the Northern Hemisphere, peak flu season should be coming to an end around now so hopefully it has some impact on slowing the virus.
Well lads and ladies, Its been a little while. Short story is we sold up the house and packed in the jobs and decided to travel with the kids for a year. Saw some amazing places and plan was after visiting New zealand to head back through SE Asia and visit a couple of countries we missed on the way down.
We were in Thailand for Christmas and Vietnam for new year as the story started to unfold. We were in Singapore for chinese new year as they had their first case a few days before we left for NZ.
At that point we decided we would go to Australia for a month to see how things went and half way through decided it would be best to avoid Asia and decided to come home through the states via Hawaii. Mrs H1 had always wanted to visit Hawaii and she is 40 tomorrow which is when we were due to land in Honolulu. Had booked a flight to SF and had decided not to book anything else as things were rapidly changing. We still had faint hopes of going when trump put the Schengen ban in but reality soon set in the following day as he added the UK and Ireland.
We rang the Irish embassy in Sydney Monday morning and they made it clear we should get the first available flight home and try our best to be back before midnight Thursday . After 6 hours of the Quantas website crashing we finally managed to book a flight for Tuesday morning and sat the kids down and explained we would be on flights and in airports for 30 hours. The embassy had told us we would be interviewed at the airport have our temps taken and be required to self isolate for 14 days.
As we had no home and the only family members we could stay with either had underlying conditions or caring for family members who had we began a frantic search for accomadation. As it was a sunday evening in Ireland and we were arriving back at 7pm on St Patrick's day it made it very difficult but we have managed to string something together and feel blessed to have been able to get home.As we passed over the various countries on planes we realised there were many people who were not going to get through the next day which was a fairly sobering thought.
We landed in Dublin collected our bags and went looking for the queues for interview and temp check. There weren't any and just some volunteers handing out leaflets and saying we should self isolate.
To answer Murdrums question about Oz when I left my cousins house I said they were probably 10 days behind Ireland in the pattern and attitudes towards the virus. Pubs still open and celebrating St Patrick's day, " Sure we only have a few cases" etc . My cousins son came home Monday and said he was thinking of not going to his job in retail and had his head bitten off him. I imagine things are changing now as numbers ramp up. Funny that they got the panic buying thing early but not the staying in thing.
Great to see that you all seem to be managing ok. We spent 10 of our last 12 days in a camper van in Australia in a campervan so had some preparation for self isolation.
I hear a lot of people quoting that being in Partial lockdown and the measures we have taken will contain this virus quoting Wuhan as reference. When we were on our way back people were texting me saying that it was almost like lockdown here. I watched an interesting programme on BBC world (One world series think it was called life in lockdown) filmed by a volunteer in Wuhan. We are nowhere near what they did there.
Keep safe everyone
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Bit annoying to see RTE reporting completely wrong growth figures for other countries. Spain cases up 16% and RTE are reporting 25%, deaths up 20% and RTE reporting 30%.
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Bit annoying to see RTE reporting completely wrong growth figures for other countries. Spain cases up 16% and RTE are reporting 25%, deaths up 20% and RTE reporting 30%.
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Originally posted by Dice75 View PostYeah great way to keep things on an even keel..
How can we keep people calm and reasonable in this time of panic?
Lets not pay 6300 public employees their wages for the craic"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Just got an email from a scientific equipment distributor offering the quick Corona tests €185 for 25, 99.7% accuracy and 10 minute result. Its a bit strange to get a cold email about but if it works and they can satisfy demand then that's basically game over.
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Back in the office today. Everything going well so far. All non essential operations staff are working from home since Friday (finance, sales, HR, account management, etc). We taken all that free office space and split up all the operations so there is good few metres between people rather than having desks right beside each other.
Sadly, am getting accounts of bizarre stuff going on.
On Monday, I got a call from HR. One of the lads who works for me got a call from his wife, she was told that one of her fellow employee's tested positive. They couldn't say who and requested everyone to stay in work. We sent our guy home straight away as a precaution to work from home, despite having no symptoms. Have since discovered that this company will not allow anybody to work from home, the head guy has come into work sick and is telling staff, it's no worse than the flu, everything will be fine. Some staff are refusing to come in which is causing staff shortages and to make up for it, people are bringing in their kids to help out doing some manual work in the warehouse
Have also heard from a major global player who have done nothing around the whole situation. People are all still working as normal, no seperation, no split breaks, canteen is rammed with people as normal, everyone on top of each other same as always - This company is a globally known name, can't get my head around it.
For all the good some are doing, it'll be all in vein unless everyone cops the fuck on fairly soon.
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Originally posted by Lao Lao View PostBack in the office today. Everything going well so far. All non essential operations staff are working from home since Friday (finance, sales, HR, account management, etc). We taken all that free office space and split up all the operations so there is good few metres between people rather than having desks right beside each other.
Sadly, am getting accounts of bizarre stuff going on.
On Monday, I got a call from HR. One of the lads who works for me got a call from his wife, she was told that one of her fellow employee's tested positive. They couldn't say who and requested everyone to stay in work. We sent our guy home straight away as a precaution to work from home, despite having no symptoms. Have since discovered that this company will not allow anybody to work from home, the head guy has come into work sick and is telling staff, it's no worse than the flu, everything will be fine. Some staff are refusing to come in which is causing staff shortages and to make up for it, people are bringing in their kids to help out doing some manual work in the warehouse
Have also heard from a major global player who have done nothing around the whole situation. People are all still working as normal, no seperation, no split breaks, canteen is rammed with people as normal, everyone on top of each other same as always - This company is a globally known name, can't get my head around it.
For all the good some are doing, it'll be all in vein unless everyone cops the fuck on fairly soon."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Keane View PostI mean that just sounds like someone is pulling your leg?
It's coming from somebody who works there through a guy who works for me (they are married), they are shocked and she has already advised that once we get out of this in a few months, she'll be looking for work elsewhere, she can't get her head around it.
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Originally posted by LuckyLloyd View Posthttps://twitter.com/EricTopol/status...614736384?s=20
Ruh roh South Korea might need a lockdown too.
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I wonder how much lockdown society can take before everyone starts to go mental, and a new approach where the economy isn't completely ground to dust has to take over. Surely by the end of the Easter holidays in Europe we have to move towards isolation of the most vulnerable, rather than everyone, and try to get things moving again.
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Originally posted by hotspur View PostGod the oral Irish exam, I'd forgotten that. What a joke that was. I got an F in pass Irish in the Leaving. Still my most prized academic achievement.
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At what point do we:
1. Round up all the vulnerable people.
2. Lock em in cushy 3, 4 and 5 star hotels, with waiters waiting hand and foot.
3. Purposely infect everyone else.
4. Pay everyone we infected their salaried from gov coffers.
5. Use hospitals for complicated cased from step 3.
6. Two week national holiday to recover.
7. Move on.
it'd be cheaper and faster and ehh... maybe safer? than the current strat?
Would it? lol.This may or may not be an original thought of my own.
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Myself and the missus sat down to watch the Taoiseach deliver his speech the other night, the level of gravitas from it immediately hit home & that we'd need to delay our wedding, for the health of ourselves/family/friends/vendors & the venue staff it was the right move, health over wealth. Up until last week we were thinking that it was 8 weeks away and that it should all work out.
Watching a loved one cry uncontrollably is one of the roughest things anybody can do, I thought with work being cancelled for myself that it was going to be stressful to getting things paid but knowing that you've now got to postpone was an absolute gut punch. The venue have been pretty helpful and when we spoke to them yesterday they said they have dates available for later in the year, they said they had spoken to everybody who was supposed to get married in April and working with them about rearrangements and in the next couple days will be moving onto May weddings.
She has been working from home the last couple days and yesterday got delivery of a makeup palette from the woman who was going to be doing her makeup for the day, I managed to snap a picture of her with a smile on her face admiring it, even in these difficult times for everybody to take some joy from the briefest of moments will outweigh all the madness.
I've been catching up with a bunch of the BBV I've missed over the last while and to see the bond still strong and the outpourings of thanks to one & all has been fantastic to see, stay safe folks"you raise, i kill you" El Tren :{)
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Originally posted by Theresa View PostAt what point do we:
1. Round up all the vulnerable people.
2. Lock em in cushy 3, 4 and 5 star hotels, with waiters waiting hand and foot.
3. Purposely infect everyone else.
4. Pay everyone we infected their salaried from gov coffers.
Self isolaters and those who have been laid off from closures too? Wheres that money coming from?
5. Use hospitals for complicated cased from step 3.
Hospitals can't take that. And how will you staff it with everyone infected?
6. Two week national holiday to recover.
Two weeks just?
7. Move on.
it'd be cheaper and faster and ehh... maybe safer? than the current strat?
Would it? lol.airport, lol
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Originally posted by Theresa View PostAt what point do we:
1. Round up all the vulnerable people.
2. Lock em in cushy 3, 4 and 5 star hotels, with waiters waiting hand and foot."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostI'm assuming you're joking here, or else don't know what the term 'vulnerable people' comprise?
Like clockwork, he's back in the sitting room after a few mins.
And I have to start all over again. He doesn't do well in isolation. He can quite happily sit and watch telly all day but needs someone around.
If you put put him in a hotel in isolation, he'd crack.People say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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Originally posted by Theresa View PostAt what point do we:
1. Round up all the vulnerable people.
2. Lock em in cushy 3, 4 and 5 star hotels, with waiters waiting hand and foot.
3. Purposely infect everyone else.
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostI'm assuming you're joking here, or else don't know what the term 'vulnerable people' comprise?This may or may not be an original thought of my own.
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I would also like to propose a name change for the site.
Things getting blocked in work now, I think its gonna happen to more people VPN'ing in from work laptops at home.
And tbh, even despite the recent uptick in poker, do we even really talk about poker?
IrishFogeyBoards.This may or may not be an original thought of my own.
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UK ahead of where Italy were at similar stage and the idiots still really haven't got the message. Will be very dark times over there by April 1st.
IMG_20200319_183741.jpgProfit before people.
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Originally posted by eamonhonda View PostAt what point do we:
1. Round up all the vulnerable people.
2. Lock em in cushy 3, 4 and 5 star hotels, with waiters waiting hand and foot.
3. Purposely infect everyone else.
4. Pay everyone we infected their salaried from gov coffers.
Self isolaters and those who have been laid off from closures too? Wheres that money coming from?
5. Use hospitals for complicated cased from step 3.
Hospitals can't take that. And how will you staff it with everyone infected?
6. Two week national holiday to recover.
Two weeks just?
7. Move on.
it'd be cheaper and faster and ehh... maybe safer? than the current strat?
Would it? lol.
1. Would it be cheaper to do, and pay whatever we need to from exchequer than prolong it.
So weight the cost of paying peoples salaries (who can't work due to complicated covid symptoms or just can't work from home ) for two weeks until those we infect get over it would be less than cyclic lockdowns for the next however long? Or even for one lockdown for 6 months... since thats what we are trying to do flatten the curve.
2. Since all the vulnerable people are locked away, and the remaining cases will mostly have mild symptoms. The number that will need hospital care will be less? or will it?
3. Two weeks seems to be the accepted timeline. for example, china thinking of lifting lockdown after two weeks of no new cases. Admit this could change, but again, its just a though experiment.
The overall goal would be to get to herd immunity without the cost the UK are willing to pay.
So locking up the people in nice hotels while the rest of us contract and get over it is an interesting way to build that immunity.
Again, half joking... but meh, bored at home. shoot me.This may or may not be an original thought of my own.
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Meanwhile China have won - no new domestic cases today and no remaining suspected cases. People allowed out in Wuhan for the first time in six weeks. What a national effort."Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally." - John Maynard Keynes
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I mean do we have enough hotel rooms.
Who gets the four seasons?
Dibs on minister for locking away vulnerable people.This may or may not be an original thought of my own.
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Originally posted by LuckyLloyd View PostMeanwhile China have won - no new domestic cases today and no remaining suspected cases. People allowed out in Wuhan for the first time in six weeks. What a national effort.People say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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Originally posted by LuckyLloyd View PostNumbers out of Italy are terrifying. No other way to put it.
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Originally posted by noname1255 View Posthopefully there is info we arent sure about like the amount of tests done and speed of results right?
so it might not be as bad,i mean its not great whatever way
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Originally posted by LuckyLloyd View PostWhere’s the original of that? Is it your own?
Opr
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostYikes. I guess Ryanair has already let all the contracted pilots go. But these are real cuts? Any whisper numbers on the paycuts in Aer Lingus?airport, lol
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