St Patrick's Day parades cancelled across Ireland due to Coronavirus fears
 

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St.Patrick's day parades have been cancelled across Ireland amid concerns about the Coronavirus outbreak in Ireland.

Parades in towns across Cork, Sligo, Tipperary, Laois, Kerry and Kildare have been cancelled and postponed until further notice.

Health authorities have released a set of guidelines in order for people to be protected from the Coronavirus. These guidelines have been reviewed and considered by the organisations of the above parades in order to make an educated and safe decision as the health and welfare of citizens becomes top priority.

Sinn Féin Leader Mary Lou McDonald has stated that she believes the Dublin Parade will not go ahead due to health and safety concerns.

https://www.longfordleader.ie/news/h...rus-fears.html

All snakes right now.

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Makes good sense

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Still going ahead in London I believe, come on over :wavey:

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seems like an over reaction

Better to err on the side of caution, I mean it's just a Parade :shrug:

its business for thousands and it feeds in to the general panic

You seem awfully sure that it's an over reaction, you couldn't possibly know that you're correct about that.

and neither could the people who cancelled the event so why cancel it?

Ridiculous :bored:

If it makes people feel safe, fair enough I guess. But for me, this is unneeded fear mongering. Still think most people have either had it, or currently have it, or will get it soon and its nowt to worry about with the huge majority. Do parades get cancelled in flu season? :suspect:

Also agree on businesses. 'Just a parade' yeah, but that parade brings in possibly a lot of businesses main income for the year! Like if pride was cancelled in London, a lot of businesses would lose a lot.

All the Paddies will be at Cheltenham and take it it back with them...run Niamh :omgno:

im going to be with 50,000 people on Thursday

all in close proximity and all expelling a lot of air and stuff out of their mouths in an exaggerated fashion

There will be riots when Glastonbury is cancelled..

Ha, extremely understated I think. Closer to 500k, at least, and constantly growing

to err on the side of caution...

I do get that side of it.

But realistically, we are waaaaaay past the point of containing this. We have not much option than to let it run its course now, so just go about life as usual, but with extra hygiene.

Do people get any immunity to this after catching it actually, not something I have read about but thats usually how viruses work :suspect:

i dont really see much difference in a parade and a saturday shopping/sat night out in a Town centre, and that isnt being cancelled?

We still only have 21 cases in ireland

Wasn't there a Japanese woman who caught it twice?

no i mean i am going to the football:joker:

Actually a disco my son was supposed to be going to next week has also been cancelled.

I guess they can't really order independent businesses to shut up but they can stop events like Parades from going ahead

Proper flu, as opposed to a bad cough and cold will kick the crap out of you for a week mixed between fever and chills. This is 30 times more contagious and 30 times more lethal. No way have the majority of people already had it.

Gav had to say no to those Liverpool tickets as well. decided it's not a good idea to fly probably

most of that death rate stats comes from China where people smoke like crazy and healthcare is not the same as in the west so id take that stat about death rates cautiously