China Coronavirus

[armaghniac]

Firstly, the ski resorts in the locked down area of Italy as closed, so you cannot go there. Resorts near the French and Austrian borders are in less affected areas.
People have to exercise responsibility, just because you paid for it doesn't mean you have to go.

[Taylor]

Dublin St Patricks Day Parade cancelled

[armaghniac]

Dublin St Patricks Day Parade cancelled

The issue with this is that if you cancel a parade with x number of people at it, not Dublin but a smaller place, then how can you justify having games with x attending or other big events?

In reality the parade was less dangerous than the pubs.

[Hound]

Age of Coronavirus Deaths
COVID-19 Fatality Rate by AGE:
*Death Rate = (number of deaths / number of cases) = probability of dying if infected by the virus (%).

That is completely incorrect as it assumes that everyone currently affected by the virus that has not yet died, won't die.


nDead/(nDead+nRecovered) is not right either - as there is a time period between "point-nearest-death" and discharged as recovered that the recovering patient won't contribute to nRecovered, but dying patients will add onto nDead.

All the % figures have to be taken with a pinch of salt. There's an unquantifiable amount of people who have contracted the virus and have only had minor symptoms so they've never been diagnosed.

My relative in a UK hospital said they've had a planning meeting re how they'll operate when 1/3rd of staff are unavailable.
They really don't want school closures as that will mean a lot of staff having to stay home and mind kids.
He said that it's in poo, so again more on the handwashing being so important.
Reckons too that there have been cases in western European universities where people working on a cure have inadvertently being infected by the samples they are working on. Wouldn't say where!

Hound the main method of transmission is most definitely not via poo.

I never said it was the main method! Everyone already knows the main method is via coughing and sneezing.

[Milltown Row2]

Dublin St Patricks Day Parade cancelled

The issue with this is that if you cancel a parade with x number of people at it, not Dublin but a smaller place, then how can you justify having games with x attending or other big events?

In reality the parade was less dangerous than the pubs.

Games are fixed for Croke Park next weekend, Antrim playing Kerry in league final! huge game for both teams, no doubt a big enough crowd form both counties and neutrals heading to Croke, now they'll all be mingling around the pubs and cafes and travelling down/up in buses .

Do we cancel it?

[BennyCake]

Won't those pesky foreigners coming for St Patrick's Day, still come anyway? I'd imagine they've booked months in advance and will probably lose their money, which I'd imagine is quite a bit! (If coming from the US, Canada etc)

[AFM]

Firstly, the ski resorts in the locked down area of Italy as closed, so you cannot go there. Resorts near the French and Austrian borders are in less affected areas.
People have to exercise responsibility, just because you paid for it doesn't mean you have to go.

What about travel agencies and governments exercising responsibility, what's the point of flying in somewhere and not been able to go to your resort, fact is if flights are allowed in travel agencies don't have to facilitate refunds, it's all about money. 

[Hound]

I see Trump has gone the "it's not as bad as flu" route with his latest tweet

So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!

[GetOverTheBar]

Dublin St Patricks Day Parade cancelled

The issue with this is that if you cancel a parade with x number of people at it, not Dublin but a smaller place, then how can you justify having games with x attending or other big events?

In reality the parade was less dangerous than the pubs.

Games are fixed for Croke Park next weekend, Antrim playing Kerry in league final! huge game for both teams, no doubt a big enough crowd form both counties and neutrals heading to Croke, now they'll all be mingling around the pubs and cafes and travelling down/up in buses .

Do we cancel it?

The GAA will be under pressure to be seen to be doing something. But it's their stadium, their event. Can/Do/Will the Government influence the GAA?

The NFL finals are due at the end of the month, you are talking 30-40k people there. That is big money for Dublin in March especially now with the St Patricks Day cancellations.

[armaghniac]

Firstly, the ski resorts in the locked down area of Italy as closed, so you cannot go there. Resorts near the French and Austrian borders are in less affected areas.
People have to exercise responsibility, just because you paid for it doesn't mean you have to go.

What about travel agencies and governments exercising responsibility, what's the point of flying in somewhere and not been able to go to your resort, fact is if flights are allowed in travel agencies don't have to facilitate refunds, it's all about money.

Whatever about governments, travel agents are a business, their job is to make arrangements not decide whether you should go.
There is a set of places between those the government says "don't go, whoever you are" and those places where it is appropriate to go at present. It isn't quite black and whate.

[AFM]

Firstly, the ski resorts in the locked down area of Italy as closed, so you cannot go there. Resorts near the French and Austrian borders are in less affected areas.
People have to exercise responsibility, just because you paid for it doesn't mean you have to go.

What about travel agencies and governments exercising responsibility, what's the point of flying in somewhere and not been able to go to your resort, fact is if flights are allowed in travel agencies don't have to facilitate refunds, it's all about money.

Whatever about governments, travel agents are a business, their job is to make arrangements not decide whether you should go.
There is a set of places between those the government says "don't go, whoever you are" and those places where it is appropriate to go at present. It isn't quite black and whate.

My child's school spoke to 9 public health and education authorities, no one will make a decision, it's unfair that the principal in the end will have to call it off.  Just heard a GAA player in a a northern club tested positive so in the end no one will probably escape.

[angermanagement]

Belfast GAA club  in lock down as a precaution.

[armaghniac]

[Itchy]

France v Ireland rugby off.

I am sensing there must be a big spike on the horizon as suddenly action is being taken.

[johnnycool]

Belfast GAA club  in lock down as a precaution.

Block MR2 from the discussion.....