Reopen the counties - the COVID-19 Edgy thread

No, the measures that were taken were designed to slow down the rate of infection and not overload the hospitals all at once. None of us have any idea how many were already infected in Ireland before any measures were taken in mid March, it could be 1K, 10K, 100K or a million. At least 50% have no symptoms, and most people have mild to moderate symptoms. Unless you know this number you have no idea of the mortality rate or how serious the threat is.

I think the best way to think about this is it is more lethal than the flu for the elderly and a very small subset of younger people. There are a lot of younger people being hospitalized, but almost all are recovering. The major question is related to the appropriate response, and there you have to be reasonable in your thinking. Is it reasonable to shut down the whole economy until there is no threat of further deaths from COVID-19?

The first question to ask is what number of possibly avoidable deaths are acceptable? Before you explode in anger, we already as a society determine this. We accept several hundred to a few thousand deaths from the flu every year in Ireland (up to 30k in the UK), when many of those deaths could be avoided with the measures we have in place now. Of the number of people who die each year, I believe half could be delayed at least by some kind of preventative measures.

These are valid questions to ask.

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@Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy - you might need to step in here soon

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See, there you go again with more hysteria.

My daughter is doing well, thanks for asking. Putting her health on the line to help old and fragile people, I’m very proud of her.

You don’t actually understand what the opening poster is saying, so maybe step away from the keyboard as you are making an ass of yourself. I think the people who liked his post understand what he is saying, unlike yourself. You seem a seriously dimwitted individual.

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What’s he saying so?

It looks to me like he is saying the “experiment” to save old people has failed.
So hes basically saying this isn’t real or a threat.

Is this some kind of cryptic shit that only lunatics can understand or something?

I don’t think you understand what hysteria means

The people who liked the post isn’t exactly a ringing endorsement of your thesis

If you don’t know how many have had the virus you don’t know how many people have had the virus and have had no symptoms.

That’s fairly basic stuff.

Take one slug from a can of Tuborg.

It isn’t even remotely close to it

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An entire generation of 80 and 90-year-olds have died senselessly?! You’re a gas man. If only they had locked down sooner, old Mrs. Bianchi, despite her underlying medical conditions and her 99 years, could have knocked about for another 20 years.

a mickey mouse lockdown

I see lads at home on Strava going for 2 runs a day and a cycle, how is that a lockdown? aswell as going to shop 3 times a day, there is minor infringement of civil liberties in Ireland

You’re an unmitigated freak, I won’t be engaging with you

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Well he should answer for himself, but I believe he’s questioning the numbers that people have taken for granted as if they are gospel, like potentially 500k dead in the UK and 2 -3 million dead in the US.

He’s questioning a response that may well result in a global depression that could actually cost millions or tens of millions of lives, in response to a disease that may not be as serious as we are led to believe. Yes, it’s killing older people, but is it killing older people at a rate that’s more than the normal rate of age related mortality?

There are all kinds of moral issues at play here, questioning them does not make one a mass murderer.

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Will do.

Ok guys, pack it in.

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Why didnt he just say that then and not encode in hate speech. I’m amazed you were able to decipher all that from “we need to let all the old people die”

i think you have to lady bird this even more for him

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More hysteria.

Is it acceptable to you that Ireland allows 300-1,000 deaths from the flu every year, when if we were to lockdown from October to March, at least half of that number could be potentially saved?

Think about your answer.

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he didn’t say that all

There’s a lot of lads on here who just read things literally and have no sense of nuance.

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lads are gone hysterical

Magnificent

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