Relaxation of restrictions Part II

FintanMcluskey

FintanMcluskey wrote: »

Read elsewhere today that if you get stuck for a mask going to the bottle bank you can improvise by wearing a sanitary pad as a makeshift mask.

or pick a couple up from the side of the road, or the ditches! Just back from a walk and there are plastic gloves dumped everywhere!! :mad::mad:

Cork Boy 53

LiquidZeb wrote: »

Did you ask them? Hope they told you to feck off.

I didn`t need to ask them. It was obvious they were not from the same family or same house.

Balf

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

I was on a bicycle, if that makes it any better. I was only commenting on the volume of car traffic.

Did you stop at a local shop and have coffee and sandwiches with three other cyclists?

If so, could you tell Cork Boy 53 if you were all from the same household? Because he's pretty pissed about it.

Thelonious Monk

Balf wrote: »

Did you stop at a local shop and have coffee and sandwiches with three other cyclists?

If so, could you tell Cork Boy 53 if you were all from the same household? Because he's pretty pissed about it.

lol, I'm not one of those cyclists, not many of them in Coolock

normanoffside

Cork Boy 53 wrote: »

If many people go to them at the same time and don`t wear masks or gloves they become a likely breeding ground for spread of the virus.

Bottle banks will become breeding grounds?
Jesus wept, do you think they all go around licking each other’s bottles?

FintanMcluskey

Cork Boy 53 wrote: »

I didn`t need to ask them. It was obvious they were not from the same family or same house.

Im intrigued. I can never tell if 4 cyclists are from the same house or not.

Thelonious Monk

FintanMcluskey wrote: »

Im intrigued. I can never tell if 4 cyclists are from the same house or not.

Well you don't really get 4 middle aged men sharing a house, and they're usually middle aged men

normanoffside

Cork Boy 53 wrote: »

I was at the local shop today and there were a group of 4 cyclists all jammed together drinking coffee and eating rolls at an outdoor table with no social distancing whatsoever. Disgraceful selfish behaviour.

What were you doing at the local shop anyway? Don’t you know you are only allowed to go to the multi national supermarket once a fortnight for one big shop?

almostover

GazzaL wrote: »

Comical. No mention of it on RTE news yet, just the same pontificating **** panicking that people are no longer listening to them, threatening us with social and economic obliteration, and trying to move goalposts because we've already smashed the R0 target.

The R0 target isn't a static goal. We have to stay below an R0 value of 1. If we don't continue to take measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 it will spike again. Better than we acknowledge that now and act accordingly rather than have to learn about it the hard way by paying with the lives of Irish people

LiquidZeb

Cork Boy 53 wrote: »

I didn`t need to ask them. It was obvious they were not from the same family or same house.

Hey Cork boy I need to go up to my recycling bin. Just checking if that's ok with you?

GazzaL

almostover wrote: »

The R0 target isn't a static goal. We have to stay below an R0 value of 1. If we don't continue to take measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 it will spike again. Better than we acknowledge that now and act accordingly rather than have to learn about it the hard way by paying with the lives of Irish people

Most people have no problems taking precautions. There's hand sanitiser everywhere now and people use social distancing and try to maintain 2m where at all possible.

There were lots of businesses and building sites operating with these precautions prior to the lockdown.

normanoffside

LiquidZeb wrote: »

Hey Cork boy I need to go up to my recycling bin. Just checking if that's ok with you?

No, those places are breading grounds for the virus. Cork Boy said so. He'll be alright though because he is better than everyone else. His self-righteousness gives him immunity.

bazermc

Fairplay to the two meatheads in my local park using the locked kids playground for their exercise routines. arseholes

normanoffside

bazermc wrote: »

Fairplay to the two meatheads in my local park using the locked kids playground for their exercise routines. arseholes

Spreading the disease all over the equipment no doubt. The kids will pick it up off the swings when CorkBoy and Bandit luke finally let them back in there in 6 months time.
It might cause a 2nd wave.

Arseholes.

Cork Boy 53

normanoffside wrote: »

Bottle banks will become breeding grounds?
Jesus wept, do you think they all go around licking each other’s bottles?

Hilarious.:rolleyes: The point is that if a lot of people are gathering together at bottle banks, amenity centres etc, and are not wearing masks or gloves and if there is just one person carrying the virus present then several more are likely to become infected by inhaling virus particles from said person. You do know this virus is airborne?

LiquidZeb

normanoffside wrote: »

Spreading the disease all over the equipment no doubt. The kids will pick it up off the swings when CorkBoy and Bandit luke finally let them back in there in 6 months time.
It might cause a 2nd wave.

Arseholes.

ONLY 6 MONTHS!!! DO YOU WANT TO KILL EVERY SINGLE OLD PERSON IN THE COUNTRY?!!! JUST STAY AT HOME AND WATCH NETFLIX STUPID!!!

Thelonious Monk

Cork Boy 53 wrote: »

Hilarious.:rolleyes: The point is that if a lot of people are gathering together at bottle banks, amenity centres etc, and are not wearing masks or gloves and if there is just one person carrying the virus present then several more are likely to become infected by inhaling virus particles from said person. You do know this virus is airborne?

I was the only person there in fairness! I would have thought disposing of your rubbish is considered essential anyway, plus it's only like 100m from my house.

LiquidZeb

Cork Boy 53 wrote: »

Hilarious.:rolleyes: The point is that if a lot of people are gathering together at bottle banks, amenity centres etc, and are not wearing masks or gloves and if there is just one person carrying the virus present then several more are likely to become infected by inhaling virus particles from said person. You do know this virus is airborne?

Yeah I know all the cool kids hang out at the bottle bank.

FintanMcluskey

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

I was the only person there in fairness! I would have thought disposing of your rubbish is considered essential anyway, plus it's only like 100m from my house.

How did you carry empty bottles and recycling on a bicycle? Sounds hazardous at best.

Jurgen Klopp

normanoffside wrote: »

Bottle banks will become breeding grounds?
Jesus wept, do you think they all go around licking each other’s bottles?

Thelonious Monk

FintanMcluskey wrote: »

How did you carry empty bottles and recycling on a bicycle? Sounds hazardous at best.

I always do it. A bag on each handlebar and some in my backpack. I'd say there was maybe 80 x 500ml bottles.

Jurgen Klopp

normanoffside wrote: »

Spreading the disease all over the equipment no doubt. The kids will pick it up off the swings when CorkBoy and Bandit luke finally let them back in there in 6 months time.
It might cause a 2nd wave.

Arseholes.

Don't forget Monk waddling through on the bike trying to balance all those bottles while shouting at them

FintanMcluskey

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

I always do it. A bag on each handlebar and some in my backpack. I'd say there was maybe 80 x 500ml bottles.

Coupled with tight lycra it was an odd looking sight in Coolock I'm sure

Thelonious Monk

Jurgen Klopp wrote: »

Don't forget Monk waddling through on the bike trying to balance all those bottles while shouting at them

Why would I be shouting at anyone?

Thelonious Monk

FintanMcluskey wrote: »

Coupled with tight lycra it was an odd looking sight in Coolock I'm sure

We don't do lycra in coolock, unless you're female and walking to the dole office

Jurgen Klopp

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

I was the only person there in fairness! I would have thought disposing of your rubbish is considered essential anyway, plus it's only like 100m from my house.

You must be in a very bad way if you a bicycle to go 100m

LiquidZeb

Jurgen Klopp wrote: »

You must be in a very bad way if you a bicycle to go 100m

It's so he doesn't have to share the pavement with the unwashed hordes.

Balf

Some folk are quick to accuse any questioner of the lockdown as lacking empathy. How many deaths do you want, they ask. And I've been trying to think of a way of communicating that its empathy that makes us question it.

The thread title is a story by Ursula K. Le Guin about the utopian city of Omelas, whose prosperity depends on the perpetual misery of a single child.

And here's a story from the Journal, about children suffering without relief in abusive homes because of the lockdown

https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/coronavirus-mental-health-child-welfare-5067329-Apr2020/

We know that difficulties often intensify for children and young people when they do not have the safe refuge of school. This is the place they learn, meet their friends and often where they eat and receive support too. With little warning, all of this was gone.

We in Childline expected an increase in demand for our service – but not to the extent which has been experienced.

So how many damaged children is the lockdown worth? Is it worth one? Which one?

Strumms

We noticed that there were people breaking into the locked tennis courts in my local park to play tennis. The courts had been closed and locked in line with restrictions. But fence hoppers... my friend happened to mention this to somebody with council connections and the nets were all removed today when i went over... you are literally having to babysit knuckle draggers with zero abilty to understand the magnitude of their behaviour just after a cure for their inability to sit around and understand and be team players.

Quantum Erasure

Balf wrote: »

So how many damaged children is the lockdown worth? Is it worth one? Which one?

how many deaths is lifting restrictions worth?