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#Coronavirus

y va marquer

The complacency here in Ireland is bordering on stupidity.
Sure there's no need for hysteria and bating people down the supermarket aisle over a roll of toilet paper but basic stuff, like if you're a GP and have just returned from a trip to Northern Italy you DO NOT rock up for your shift at the local A&E.

Coronavirus patient worked shift in emergency department in west of Ireland

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/news/health/coronavirus-patient-worked-shift-in-emergency-department-in-west-of-ireland-1.4193756%3fmode=amp

jones

Not sure why ofty but whenever you tell a story about your work place it sounds a lot like The Office.

goon

😆

QuincyAbeyie

😆

y va marquer

Mirth wrote:
Personally I'm actually ok with the response here - the gov have obviously starved the NHS of funds for a decade so it's always going to struggle in the face of a pandemic but since this thing has spread they've chaired COBRA meetings and the NHS have done more tests than anyone else in Europe bar Italy (I suspect this is partly because they know the infrastructure won't cope once an outbreak does happen).

Our health service here couldn't cope with the seasonal flu outbreak through Christmas and January. We had an elderly relative staying with us and he ended up in hospital requiring tests, he was kept in one hospital and then ferried by ambulance at 4 am for scans in another hospital over 20 miles away. Post scan he was left for hours on a trolly with numerous others, in a pitch dark corridor. He told me he didn't know if they were alive or dead, and nobody came near him until 9am when he was despatched, by jeep, back to the first hospital. And we considered him one of the lucky, well treated ones.

There is no way on earth that our health service can manage what's to come, even if it's not a worst case scenario.

Mirth

jones wrote:
Not sure why ofty but whenever you tell a story about your work place it sounds a lot like The Office.

😆

KingslandBarge

Anyone understand what kind of negative impact this will have on markets for the next 6 months? Aside from Andrex and Purell swimming in a pile of gold.

Segway

y va marquer wrote:
The complacency here in Ireland is bordering on stupidity.
Sure there's no need for hysteria and bating people down the supermarket aisle over a roll of toilet paper but basic stuff, like if you're a GP and have just returned from a trip to Northern Italy you DO NOT rock up for your shift at the local A&E.

Coronavirus patient worked shift in emergency department in west of Ireland

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/news/health/coronavirus-patient-worked-shift-in-emergency-department-in-west-of-ireland-1.4193756%3fmode=amp

That is crossing the line of stupidity. That is deeply irresponsible.

Clrnc

arsedoc md wrote:
Condoms and Insecticides...as spermicide?

No... but people are using condoms here for this purpose.

Mirth

Prof Whitty told MPs that the government is planning heavily for the final “mitigate” stage of the outbreak, which will be adopted if the outbreak continues to spread. He said this will involve the government taking action to minimise pressure on the NHS and to lessen the social cost of the outbreak.

He pointed out that 20 per cent of people in Hubei in China, where the outbreak began, had contracted the virus, offering a guide to how far the virus could spread in the UK.

He also said that modelling suggests 50 per cent of cases will probably happen during a three-week period and 95 per cent within a nine-week period, potentially resulting in high numbers of cases “way overtopping the ability of the NHS to put everyone in beds”.

According to Prof Whitty, the mortality rate of coronavirus is estimated to be around 1 per cent but for over-80s this likely rises to 8-9 per cent, he said.

I imagine the same model applies for most countries - looks like there's going to be a couple of scary weeks this year.

Qwiss

y va marquer wrote:
The complacency here in Ireland is bordering on stupidity.
Sure there's no need for hysteria and bating people down the supermarket aisle over a roll of toilet paper but basic stuff, like if you're a GP and have just returned from a trip to Northern Italy you DO NOT rock up for your shift at the local A&E.

Coronavirus patient worked shift in emergency department in west of Ireland

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/news/health/coronavirus-patient-worked-shift-in-emergency-department-in-west-of-ireland-1.4193756%3fmode=amp

My Granny is in her 80's and has a heart and lung issues. She's getting a bit forgetful to so the other day she wasn't sure how many tablets she'd taken. My aunt that lives with her brought her to the doctor and they sent her to the hospital for tests. At the hospital they told her they don't do those tests there go back to your GP, then the GPs office again told her to another hospital, my aunt said fuck that and brought her to the private hospital in Blackrock where they didn't test her because the doctor just checked the prescription and said it didn't matter if she took too much. They could have done that in the docs office. Instead she travelled twice from Wicklow to Dublin. If she gets coronavirus it'd almost certainly kill her. Absolutely ridiculous.

Tam

But Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the government's scientific advisory group for emergencies (Sage) had told him that closing schools and stopping big gatherings "don't work as well perhaps as people think in stopping the spread".

He told ITV's This Morning programme: "One of the theories is perhaps you could take it on the chin, take it all in one go and allow the disease to move through the population without really taking as many draconian measures. I think we need to strike a balance.

I can't believe he actually said that.

Mirth

Never one to be out done:

Klaus

The two fascist heffalumps seem very eager to kill off a significant portion of their respective population. It's almost as if picking off the weak was one of the tenets of their brown-coloured worldview.

MistaT

I kept waiting for Trump to make a point, but I should know better. Amazing how he just trails off.

jones

Segway wrote:
y va marquer wrote:
The complacency here in Ireland is bordering on stupidity.
Sure there's no need for hysteria and bating people down the supermarket aisle over a roll of toilet paper but basic stuff, like if you're a GP and have just returned from a trip to Northern Italy you DO NOT rock up for your shift at the local A&E.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/news/health/coronavirus-patient-worked-shift-in-emergency-department-in-west-of-ireland-1.4193756%3fmode=amp

That is crossing the line of stupidity. That is deeply irresponsible.

You think that's bad? In Aachen an intensive care nurse was diagnosed with the virus, has been in contact with 45 other staff and is STILL working in the premature baby ICU because the hospital is so badly understaffed it can't lose any staff.

Basically our only hope is an early warm spring because if we have to depend on privatised and cut down public health departments there will be deaths in the thousands.

Shady

The most shocking thing here is that Qs has a granny in her 80s.

I thought HE was in his 50s.

y va marquer

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All outpatient appointments in Cork University Hospital have been cancelled tomorrow due to 'Infection Control.' It's being reported that a patient in Cork has contracted the Coronavirus COVID19 and is NOT related to travel to the affected areas.

And so it begins.
Pretty clear that behind the scenes they've known that there's been "community spread" for a few days now.

jones

Shady wrote:
The most shocking thing here is that Qs has a granny in her 80s.

I thought HE was in his 50s.

Right I knew something else made me uncomfortable in that post.

Segway

jones wrote:
Segway wrote:
That is crossing the line of stupidity. That is deeply irresponsible.

You think that's bad? In Aachen an intensive care nurse was diagnosed with the virus, has been in contact with 45 other staff and is STILL working in the premature baby ICU because the hospital is so badly understaffed it can't lose any staff.

Basically our only hope is an early warm spring because if we have to depend on privatised and cut down public health departments there will be deaths in the thousands.

That is fucking nuts. Isn't that a huge scandal in Germany?

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