Covid 19

I know this outbreak was the last thing anyone wants to see,but if there’s any small positive to come from it with queues outside supermarkets and empty shelves for some products it might make people more aware of where food comes from and how delicate the supply chain is.
An added bonus will hopefully be some of the more hysterical climate change shite being pushed into the background.
 
jpt said:
I know this outbreak was the last thing anyone wants to see,but if there’s any small positive to come from it with queues outside supermarkets and empty shelves for some products it might make people more aware of where food comes from and how delicate the supply chain is.
An added bonus will hopefully be some of the more hysterical climate change shite being pushed into the background.
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Few months and people will forget, cheapest shwte will always trump
 
@CORK what are you hearing from the trade about their positions going forward, regarding supplying seed etc. Will it be business as normal, will trade shops close and only essentials available?
 
I wanted to write this post mainly because of the videos over the weekend of people in pubs singing songs etc.

My sister is a nurse and will be working on the frontline of this covid19 respiratory disease. I watched her leave for work this morning with a terrified look on her face. She is worried sick about this disease and for the safety of her family. If i could have taken het place i would in a heart beat. Most of us n the family are involved in farming so we can isolate ourselves with fields as a buffer but she and other professions can't do that.

If you get this disease bad enough it is the ventilator and specialised staff that will help you breath while your bodies immune system fights it but if the hospital admissions peak too fast there won't be enough ventilators for everyone. The best thing we can do for those at the frontline and for ourselves is to keep that social distance.

If this virus is coughed out of an infected person and can't make it to another host it dies in the open environment.

PLEASE, everyone keep that social distance.
 
Ozzy Scott said:
@CORK what are you hearing from the trade about their positions going forward, regarding supplying seed etc. Will it be business as normal, will trade shops close and only essentials available?
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Well everyone is waiting for guidance from government in terms of keeping premises open.

No plans to close anything.

The main issue is that if staff get sick, delivery times could stretch.
 
jpt said:
I know this outbreak was the last thing anyone wants to see,but if there’s any small positive to come from it with queues outside supermarkets and empty shelves for some products it might make people more aware of where food comes from and how delicate the supply chain is.
An added bonus will hopefully be some of the more hysterical climate change shite being pushed into the background.
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people have short memories...as soon as this finishes we will be killing the planet again...
 
Ozzy Scott said:
@CORK what are you hearing from the trade about their positions going forward, regarding supplying seed etc. Will it be business as normal, will trade shops close and only essentials available?
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I am working in a hardware supplier business both trade and retail. No reps allowed call to us and also our reps are off the road. Any staff that can work from home, has kicked in from today...normally where you would have 4 staff behind the counter there are now 2. We where very busy last friday and sat. I am not working today so not sure. Any one that might have an underline medical issue or a family member that has , you can take time off.
No one knows if we will close, I dont think we will close fully unless it's a country shut down. If its quite they will probably cut staff numbers again for a while
 
Kieran97 said:
It will be interesting to see when all this dies down what effect it will have had on the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere
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I assume that it is being measured daily if theres a 70% reduction in the amount of planes travelling daily it should be interesting to see how much of a reduction there will be in the CO2 levels...interesting times
 
headcase said:
are many flights being stopped?
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As far as I know Ryanair have axed a few, and as time goes on I'd say all will stop.

My initial thinking was that industrial output in China seems to have almost ground to a halt

Carrigogunnell said:
I assume that it is being measured daily if theres a 70% reduction in the amount of planes travelling daily it should be interesting to see how much of a reduction there will be in the CO2 levels...interesting times
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Yes, very much so.

Can't blame the cow's then
 
Kieran97 said:
As far as I know Ryanair have axed a few, and as time goes on I'd say all will stop.

My initial thinking was that industrial output in China seems to have almost ground to a halt


Yes, very much so.

Can't blame the cow's then
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I read somewhere that some airlines are running ghost flights to keep their scheduled time on valuable routes
 
They're relaxing the landing slots rules in europe anyway.

Ryanair are grounding 80% of the fleet from Thursday.
 
Heard of one Irish case were the girl had it bad on Thursday till the Sunday. She had aches and pains and went through half a dozen PJs with the sweat and found a fan blowing on her in the bed a great help. She could stomach very little food except yogurt. Paracetamol did not help. From Sunday she felt grand. Guy who got it in Italy from Arklow is now home and also grand. What annoyed me was one of the fools who came back from the Cheltenham went into the local Barbour shop on Saturday and expected a haircut laughing his head off. If i was there i would have drove him out the door with a punch.
 
Carrigogunnell said:
I am working in a hardware supplier business both trade and retail. No reps allowed call to us and also our reps are off the road. Any staff that can work from home, has kicked in from today...normally where you would have 4 staff behind the counter there are now 2. We where very busy last friday and sat. I am not working today so not sure. Any one that might have an underline medical issue or a family member that has , you can take time off.
No one knows if we will close, I dont think we will close fully unless it's a country shut down. If its quite they will probably cut staff numbers again for a while
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I'm in a similar business, yesterday was the busiest Sundays in a long time time, flat out at paint and the garden centre is hopping. All the talk of isolation and distance is falling on deaf ears. Lots of new faces around I think a good few have left the city to go to their holiday homes
 
The double whammy of people looking to keep occupied at home combined with the first decent sunday weather in months must have been a bumper day in the garden centres alright.
 
I was collecting some kit from the main dealers this am and they’re going into full shut down tonight. The only work that’ll be done is breakdowns for equipment that’s absolutely necessary.
There’s a national road running through the farm. That road is always as busy as the old Dublin-Cork/Galway road before the motorways...you could have a game of hurling on it today.
Trying to buy a drop of tractor diesel and suppliers don’t know when they’ll be able to deliver because they’re waiting on deliveries themselves. Seems there was panic buying of fuel last week.
 
thefarminglad said:
Heard of one Irish case were the girl had it bad on Thursday till the Sunday. She had aches and pains and went through half a dozen PJs with the sweat and found a fan blowing on her in the bed a great help. She could stomach very little food except yogurt. Paracetamol did not help. From Sunday she felt grand. Guy who got it in Italy from Arklow is now home and also grand. What annoyed me was one of the fools who came back from the Cheltenham went into the local Barbour shop on Saturday and expected a haircut laughing his head off. If i was there i would have drove him out the door with a punch.
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Read somewhere over the weekend they are saying stuff like paracetamol and ibuprofen could actually make things worse.
Paracetamol etc make you feel better by reducing the fever. Fever is the bodies way of fighting infection (virus don't like it hot).
 
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