China Coronavirus

[Smurfy123]

Have you proof that we would have had?

[Milltown Row2]

Have you proof that we would have had?

Have you proof we wouldn't have?

[Smurfy123]

No I don't

[Milltown Row2]

No I don't

So did people die of Covid or was it something else?

[GetOverTheBar]

The Americans aren't paying too much attention to the oul social distancing during these riots.

Putin and Xi must be on the phone laughing that fate has taken the heat off them big time.

[Smurfy123]

Yes the died of Covid along with probably other underlying issues.
When is this second wave coming? Waiting forever

[Jeepers Creepers]

Yes the died of Covid along with probably other underlying issues.
When is this second wave coming? Waiting forever

For all our sakes I hope it doesn't.

[dublin7]

Dublin 7 you really are dense.
Public service pay rises will mean more money circulating and being spent in local small businesses.
The €260m you mentioned will be around €130m net cost to the Exchequer.
The spending of that €130m will generate around €35m in VAT and Excise etc fir the Exchequer.
The remaining €95m in the hands of local small businesses is the equivalent of c3,000 full time jobs whose PAYE etc will return around €8m to the Exchequer and save paying c€30m unemployment.
But some prefer Independent Newspapers/Young Fine Gael economics instead.

If you give it to SME's they create employment. Every single public servant is going to spend every cent then? None of them will put it in savings? Very public spirited of you all!

Lower earners actually contribute more to the economy as they spend all their money and can't afford to save for the future.

Is there training provided for your self entitlement or is it just engrained in public sevices culture?

[Milltown Row2]

Dublin 7 you really are dense.
Public service pay rises will mean more money circulating and being spent in local small businesses.
The €260m you mentioned will be around €130m net cost to the Exchequer.
The spending of that €130m will generate around €35m in VAT and Excise etc fir the Exchequer.
The remaining €95m in the hands of local small businesses is the equivalent of c3,000 full time jobs whose PAYE etc will return around €8m to the Exchequer and save paying c€30m unemployment.
But some prefer Independent Newspapers/Young Fine Gael economics instead.

If you give it to SME's they create employment. Every single public servant is going to spend every cent then? None of them will put it in savings? Very public spirited of you all!

Lower earners actually contribute more to the economy as they spend all their money and can't afford to save for the future.

Is there training provided for your self entitlement or is it just engrained in public sevices culture?

At what point do they spend their savings? Or does it just get shoved into their coffin? Spend save it all goes in the end

[Rossfan]

Vast majority of public employees are lower income and spend locally.
Our Dublin 7 friend showed his true colours with his last sentence  just a blinkered public service basher.

[Smurfy123]

No new deaths in Spain and 60 odd cases in a population of 50 million is very encouraging news and they are into week 6 of reopening. This virus is very unpredictable. A genuine question here. How does Spain go from 40/50 deaths a day to 2 a day now down to 0 within 2 weeks? I read somewhere they count in real time maybe a day or 2 behind whereas over here deaths can go back 10 days or something along those lines. Genuine question

[Milltown Row2]

No new deaths in Spain and 60 odd cases in a population of 50 million is very encouraging news and they are into week 6 of reopening. This virus is very unpredictable. A genuine question here. How does Spain go from 40/50 deaths a day to 2 a day now down to 0 within 2 weeks? I read somewhere they count in real time maybe a day or 2 behind whereas over here deaths can go back 10 days or something along those lines. Genuine question

Warmer country less cold and flu's about that coughing and sneezing would have spread more? People being more cautious with social distancing?

Or it's just dying off, how many people died in Spain?

[armaghniac]

No new deaths in Spain and 60 odd cases in a population of 50 million is very encouraging news and they are into week 6 of reopening. This virus is very unpredictable. A genuine question here. How does Spain go from 40/50 deaths a day to 2 a day now down to 0 within 2 weeks? I read somewhere they count in real time maybe a day or 2 behind whereas over here deaths can go back 10 days or something along those lines. Genuine question

Once you bring the old folks homes under control the deaths fall quickly.

[Smurfy123]

Up to 30000 or above died in Spain. Just thought it was a very sharp fall from 50/60 only last week down to 2/3s last week then none today. You would have thought it would be a gradual fall and then hit zero deaths around September. Great to see. And I will say yes lockdown worked. Also warmer weather less coughing etc good points.

[larryin89]

90% of covid related deaths in 26 the people had an underlying health condition and the median age is 83 . (Read that on RTÉ site)