China Coronavirus

Started by lurganblue, January 23, 2020, 09:52:32 AM

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Milltown Row2

I'm heading to pub on Saturday for 12 pm and not leaving till ten! Will bring my own sarnies
None of us are getting out of here alive, so please stop treating yourself like an after thought. Ea

imtommygunn

Quote from: johnnycool on September 22, 2020, 08:40:53 PM
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on September 22, 2020, 08:29:45 PM
Boris says another 6 months! f**k me!

A stitch in time does indeed save 9 (or 50K deaths) but that time was early march you f**kín moron.

Has he any redeeming qualities?

None. Not enough bad words could be said about him

armaghniac

Quote from: JohnDenver on September 22, 2020, 06:51:22 PM
The theory of testing everybody and trying to identify any instances of the virus here is all well and good. But the problem is those travelling through airports and potentially bringing it in again from other countries.

Test them on arrival and again after 5 days.
If at first you don't succeed, then goto Plan B

sid waddell

#7503
Yer wan from Oxford on PrimeTime was some wagon

Sunetra Gupta is her name

Slagging off Tomas Ryan's estimates of how many people have already had the virus in Ireland

Gupta herself claimed that as many as half of Britain had already got Covid - not now, in September, but back in March

She doesn't have much of a record of accuracy with this sort of thing

She gets a lot of praise from the usual professional contrarian suspects on Twitter, bots and that

Strangely enough, one of the professional contrarian arguments is that a lot of the people who are testing positive now are not really positive at all

And yet they claim herd immunity can be achieved - so simultaneously they claim that a lot more people have got the virus than the figures show, and also that a lot less people are getting it than the figures show

Another professional contrarian argument was that cocooning was destroying the lives of the elderly

Yet now the professional contrarian argument is that the elderly and vulnerable can be effectively cut off from all other human contact indefinitely as the virus runs rampant, no problem, no siree

None of it makes sense

Almost like it's all a grift driven by right-wing politics

sid waddell

Good article written in plain English by an epidemiologist

Rod Jackson: Why Covid is at least 10 times more deadly than the flu

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12366565

Rod Jackson is Professor of Epidemiology at the School of Population Health Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland.

armaghniac

#7505
220 new cases of Coronavirus in Northern Ireland, there have been 1,078 positive tests during past 7 days.
It hasn't gone away, although people seem to be behaving as if it has, in Belfast, Derry and Newry the R number of the virus has risen to close to 2!
If at first you don't succeed, then goto Plan B

Milltown Row2

Quote from: armaghniac on September 23, 2020, 02:45:56 PM
220 new cases of Coronavirus in Northern Ireland, there have been 1,078 positive tests during past 7 days.
It hasn't gone away, although people seem to be behaving as if it has, in Belfast, Derry and Newry the R number of the virus has risen to close to 2!

Are we getting an age profile with those numbers? and how many ICU are being used for this? at this rate we'll be locked down for Halloween
None of us are getting out of here alive, so please stop treating yourself like an after thought. Ea

imtommygunn

Nowhere in the world has this thing under control. There have been varying degrees of success and then it comes back to bite people.

JoG2

Quote from: armaghniac on September 23, 2020, 02:45:56 PM
220 new cases of Coronavirus in Northern Ireland, there have been 1,078 positive tests during past 7 days.
It hasn't gone away, although people seem to be behaving as if it has, in Belfast, Derry and Newry the R number of the virus has risen to close to 2!

How could it not be? Far too many folk won't wear a mask. You could be in a Spar with 20 other shoppers, maybe 2 wearing masks. Restaurant staff bouncing from table to table not wearing masks either.

Taylor

A number of cases have been linked to students returning home from University in Belfast or indeed from young ones that dont go to Uni but spent a few days up there socialising.

Spreading like wildfire however it does seem to be mostly under 20's with it however it has been passed onto the parents in some instances (most of these are under 50)

Next in line will be grandparents & the vulnerable and then we will really see the hospital admissions rise

Rois

It has spread like wildfire in Strabane, supposedly stemming from a group of six lads who went to Spain and didn't quarantine when they got back.


Smurfy123

Armagh the cases are going up but ICU has not changed one bit still at an all time low
Hospital admissions very low also
Belgium will now only count people who are admitted to hospital as a case and rightly so
Imagine firing out daily numbers for a common flu
Imagine the numbers we were only seeing were admissions to hospital
Think about it

Dire Ear

Quote from: Smurfy123 on September 23, 2020, 05:52:02 PM
Armagh the cases are going up but ICU has not changed one bit still at an all time low
Hospital admissions very low also
Belgium will now only count people who are admitted to hospital as a case and rightly so
Imagine firing out daily numbers for a common flu
Imagine the numbers we were only seeing were admissions to hospital
Think about it
Yip,  something very strange going on

Rossfan

#7514
Ahhhh so I hadn't the flu back in December 2017 after all seeing as I hadn't to go to Hospital.
Professor Smurf is back ::)
Davy's given us a dream to cling to
We're going to bring home the SAM