Coronavirus - Dig In, It's going to be a while yet

[Tank]

Eamon Ryan is having a mental breakdown you bollocks

[Dziekanowski]

It’s a tough time for those of us who like to use salad bars in supermarkets the odd time.

[Dziekanowski]

It’s not a good idea to self-congratulate in this situation.

https://twitter.com/boucherhayes/status/1241396855348609025

[farmerinthecity]

Scaremongering prick.

[anon60384913]

This is nonsense surely? The key is when was the first test and how many tests were done.

[Julio_Geordio]

This obsession with comparing days on a timeline is absolutely bizarre

[Dziekanowski]

@farmerinthecity

Scaremongering prick.

It’s nonsense, it’s all just PROJECT FEAR!

[Bisto]

He tweeted two more a few minutes afterwards backtracking somewhat …

[anon60384913]

If trump did this you’d be up in arms. You are deliberately misleading people. You don’t seem to grasp how serious this for some of your fellow posters who may be looking for some reassurance

[flattythehurdler]

@anon7035031

… seen. The flu kills about 650,000 worldwide each year. This is a lot more contagious, so what we are seeing is deaths of at least that magnitude or greater, but compressed into a shorter time frame. If we get lucky and containment and mitigation efforts work we might contain it to a few million dead.

It’s 590000 give or take, and they were talking 250000 deaths total.
My mate, (mentioned previously) just had an alarming visit from HMG about warehouse space, but I’ll say no more here.

[anon7035031]

Lads like Sid and Laz can’t wait for millions to die so they can blame Trump for not stopping this in January. Even though they themselves were saying it was only the flu in February.

[flattythehurdler]

@anon7035031

Yeah, but it kinda puts paid to the notion that only old people are getting really sick.

Less than 0.9% chance of requiring hospital treatment if you are young and fit and catch it.

[eoghanruadha]

Refrigerated space?

[flattythehurdler]

Along those lines.

[Dziekanowski]

There is no reassurance. Nobody knows exactly what the future will bring. The point is that people need to be aware of what could happen and thus change their behaviour so they contribute towards a disaster not happening.

Eejits like you and a few others here are happy to throw out the “ah, shure it’ll be grand” line.

That’s the fucking problem in this situation, complacent eeejits.

At the end of all this, if those predicting that an Italy type situation could happen here are wrong, they’ll have still been right, because fear is our friend in this situation. It’s more warnings we need, not more Nero style fiddlers peddling complacency, and not people butchering the English language calling people “scaremongerers”.

People are warning the public precisely because they want to avoid an Italy type situation.

Rhetoric from complacency mongers like we have here makes an Italy type situation more likely.

[eoghanruadha]

[flattythehurdler]

@Fagan_ODowd

The Don has this thing nearly cracked.

Unfortunately azithromycin isn’t an antiviral, just a very good antibacterial. It’ll help prevent a superimposed bacterial pneumonia. The hydroxy may suppress the damaging part of the immune response a little, but trump is an idiot.

[flattythehurdler]

@anon60384913

Is that good or bad?

Depends whether you’re one of them or not.

[flattythehurdler]

Indeed.

[Copper_pipe]

I’m going for between 796 and 830 total cases