No Masks in Penneys on Henry Street

I was in Penneys today for the first time in 18 months and there were a lot of female customers walking around inside with no masks and nobody asking them to wear a mask.

I wouldn't be surprised to see one or two as there are quite a few ones around that area these days on the rougher side of things but there was over 20 women spread throughout the store with no masks at all and not a care about it.

Are these type of xxxxxxxx common throughout the country or is the Henry Street/Parnell Street of Dublin particularly bad?

On top of that there seemed to be a lot of people around this area today that I suspect were on heroin, it was like a scene from a zombie movie.

Sleeper12

I stayed in a ciny centre hotel last week. Well known 4 star Hotel in Dublin 2 and no one was enforcing covid rules. People walking around without masks and barman taking orders over the bar rather providing table service only. Watching it for a few days Im not surprised that the government is reluctant to open indoor eating and drinking.

XLR 8

whatnow! wrote: »

I was in Penneys today for the first time in 18 months and there were a lot of female customers walking around inside with no masks and nobody asking them to wear a mask.

I wouldn't be surprised to see one or two as there are quite a few ones around that area these days on the rougher side of things but there was over 20 women spread throughout the store with no masks at all and not a care about it.

Are these type of xxxxxxxx common throughout the country or is the Henry Street/Parnell Street of Dublin particularly bad?

On top of that there seemed to be a lot of people around this area today that I suspect were on heroin, it was like a scene from a zombie movie.

That would be Mary St not Henry St.

Good to know:)

Strumms

whatnow! wrote: »

I was in Penneys today for the first time in 18 months and there were a lot of female customers walking around inside with no masks and nobody asking them to wear a mask.

I wouldn't be surprised to see one or two as there are quite a few ones around that area these days on the rougher side of things but there was over 20 women spread throughout the store with no masks at all and not a care about it.

Are these type of xxxxxxxx common throughout the country or is the Henry Street/Parnell Street of Dublin particularly bad?

On top of that there seemed to be a lot of people around this area today that I suspect were on heroin, it was like a scene from a zombie movie.

They’d be quick enough getting people on the case of stock was being nicked to negatively impact the health of their balance sheets but spending a couple of hundred extra a day which is ballpark all it would be to enforce covid rules... nahhh..

John_Rambo

I was in there on Friday and everyone was masked up. The odd mouth breather with the nose sticking out, but that's it.

JPup

John_Rambo wrote: »

I was in there on Friday and everyone was masked up. The odd mouth breather with the nose sticking out, but that's it.

That would make them a nose breather surely :pac:

Cienciano

I was in a mcdonalds in Cabra and 2 skanger girls weren't wearing masks. Guy asked them to wear masks and they had the "medical condition" excuse ready so the staff just let them go ahead.

Sleeper12

Cienciano wrote:

I was in a mcdonalds in Cabra and 2 skanger girls weren't wearing masks. Guy asked them to wear masks and they had the "medical condition" excuse ready so the staff just let them go ahead.

Makes you wonder why infection rates are jumping again

Make a rule that's easily bypassed, people will bypass it.

And that's why we can't have nice things

ligerdub

What horrors some of you have witnessed.

jrosen

Mask compliance isn't as good as it should be.

0lddog

whatnow! wrote: »

I was in Penneys today for the first time in 18 months and there were a lot of female customers walking around inside with no masks and nobody asking them to wear a mask....

So What ?


Its over three months since I went into an Iceland somewhere on the north side of Dublin and observed likewise.


Whats not to like about herd immunity without a massive death toll ?

0lddog

Niner leprauchan wrote: »

...And that's why we can't have nice things

What sort of Nice Things cant you have, Niner ?

We were talking about herd immunity a good while back, hasn't really come up in a while especially when we see how infectious the new Delta strain is and numbers and hospitalisations of young healthy people. You really should make more of an effort to be aware of the facts.

0lddog

0lddog wrote: »

What sort of Nice Things cant you have, Niner ?

So many shiny objects that are in the womens section where I dare not thread

whatnow!

whatnow! wrote: »

We were talking about herd immunity a good while back, hasn't really come up in a while especially when we see how infectious the new Delta strain is and numbers and hospitalisations of young healthy people. You really should make more of an effort to be aware of the facts.

well if they start the J&J jab via pharmacists, we should get there a lot faster

Biker79

whatnow! wrote: »

On top of that there seemed to be a lot of people around this area today that I suspect were on heroin, it was like a scene from a zombie movie.

Its astonishing how many ' drug people ' are in the city center.

They've been dumped by the city council/ HSE into the the various short term accommodation premises from Heuston to Talbot Street. 100s of them.

Then you have all the junkies coming in from the Western suburbs to score in the council flats. They hang around town for a few hours, make a complete mess and then shuffle off. Wednesday is peek zombie day because its dole day.

At least the tents have been cleared from Henry Street.

Biker79

Biker79 wrote: »

Its astonishing how many ' drug people ' are in the city center.

They've been dumped by the city council/ HSE into the the various short term accommodation premises from Heuston to Talbot Street. 100s of them.

Then you have all the junkies coming in from the Western suburbs to score in the council flats. They hang around town for a few hours, make a complete mess and then shuffle off. Wednesday is peek zombie day because its dole day.

At least the tents have been cleared from Henry Street.

Solution?

Biker79

Niner leprauchan wrote: »

Solution?

I don't know.

No country has figured out how to solve the hard drug problem and the rewards for dealing are so great that its worth the risk of watching TV and having your meals served to you in Mountjoy for a while at huge expense to the taxpayer. My heart goes out to the many mothers who are being threatened with physical harm if they don't pay off the debts of their junkie children.

Marcusm

Niner leprauchan wrote: »

Solution?

Injection centres and quality drugs. Don’t have them zombified on methadoneZ. Encourage non-psychosis inducing drugs like heroin rather than the crack epidemic that’s creeping up on us.

athlone573

Methadone users may be annoying and obvious on our streets and thoroughfares particularly in the North inner city

However much better for them and for public health in general to be using methadone than shooting up destroying their veins with God knows what.

Marcusm

athlone573 wrote: »

Methadone users may be annoying and obvious on our streets and thoroughfares particularly in the North inner city

However much better for them and for public health in general to be using methadone than shooting up destroying their veins with God knows what.

I think you missed the statement about quality drugs. Methadone helps no one and has incredibly poor impacts on an addicts health.

athlone573

Marcusm wrote: »

I think you missed the statement about quality drugs. Methadone helps no one and has incredibly poor impacts on an addicts health.

I feel that is unrealistic in the current political environment,
in theory I wouldn't be against it though. Is there anywhere it has been rolled out successfully?

boombang

This drifted off topic quickly.

I've seen mask compliance drop in Tesco Dún Laoghaire. I don't like it at all. Mostly from rough looking young men. Security not doing anything about it, but I'm not sure I blame them that much.

sydthebeat

I'm from a Midlands Town.

Skangers and knackers don't think they need to abide by the rules that everyone else does.

Didn't before covid, won't after it either

athlone573

boombang wrote: »

This drifted off topic quickly.

I've seen mask compliance drop in Tesco Dún Laoghaire. I don't like it at all. Mostly from rough looking young men. Security not doing anything about it, but I'm not sure I blame them that much.

As with other annoying habits like playing tiktoks or smoking on the bus, the path of least resistance involves turning a blind eye.

They go back to the place they hang about and the scum they socialise with and the dealers who keep waving heroin at them and they will take it sooner or later.

Methadone is just a cherry on top for them unless they are in a treatment center.

I've lived in north dublin for a few years so its nothing unusual for me to see but when there is mostly a bunch of teenagers and junkies in Dublin 1 it is really obvious the extent of the problem is huge.

It is really hard for me to come to terms with helping them when it prolongs them from hitting rock bottom and the homeless shelters are full of junkies and many women don't feel safe going to them. The longer I live in Dublin the less sympathy I have towards heroin addicts as they are taking resources away from people who have hit a really hard point in their lives because of bad luck and not having the family and friends around them that most of us take for granted.

sydthebeat

sydthebeat wrote: »

I'm from a Midlands Town.

Skangers and knackers don't think they need to abide by the rules that everyone else does.

Didn't before covid, won't after it either

Longford?:)

0lddog

whatnow! wrote: »

Longford?:)

If only Longford could have a monopoly on that !

Ben D Bus

whatnow! wrote: »

I was in Penneys today for the first time in 18 months and there were a lot of female customers walking around inside with no masks and nobody asking them to wear a mask.

I wouldn't be surprised to see one or two as there are quite a few ones around that area these days on the rougher side of things but there was over 20 women spread throughout the store with no masks at all and not a care about it

Look on the bright side. This time around with the Delta, they're probably going to end up with a shocking dose of the Covid. I pity the hospital staff that will have to take care of them though.

0lddog

0lddog wrote: »

What sort of Nice Things cant you have, Niner ?....

Niner leprauchan wrote: »

So many shiny objects that are in the womens section where I dare not thread

And so an image of Niner starts to be formed









( Klinger - MASH all available from Pennys )

0lddog

0lddog wrote: »

And so an image of Niner starts to be formed








( Klinger - MASH all available from Pennys )

He's looking well

punisher5112

We were told most of last year not to wear masks, they little to no protection, there was no statistics etcetc..... Coming from the top man himself....

What changed....

I've yet to see any statistics from him to show how masks change anything....

Surgery yes that's a different story and changed regularly, this business of seeing so many, dirty masks, handling constantly, touching things then adjustment of mask then back touching things, cough or sneeze into it and don't attempt to block, pull down under their chin etc.... See people drop them, our own transport minister on radio caught cleaning his glasses with his mask and so much much more.


They seem hell bent on destroying jobs, livelihood, people's homes in jeopardy, no jobs to go to and the country will be so unbelievably screwed for creating more jobs and debt is out of control....

Something is seriously wrong when there was a huge increase in billionaire and millionaire over the last year, 18 months....

The guy that brought in the ventilators that were faulty for the HSE paid €14 million, that for trash and yet he still has his app as the one used by the HSE for the tracking of covid and get a nice payment for that too.


So what if young people are out enjoying themselves it has gone way too far now.

They fcuked up from the start and didn't look after the elderly in homes or hospital, they knew it would attack these harder....
Young death rate is so low it's not even showing as a statistical part on any graph....

Unfortunately some have died I'm not disputing that but its way out of proportion to what is actually going on.

0lddog

Niner leprauchan wrote: »

He's looking well

Yup, class uniform :P

( did he come from Toledo ? or was that Radar ? )

Marcusm

athlone573 wrote: »

I feel that is unrealistic in the current political environment,
in theory I wouldn't be against it though. Is there anywhere it has been rolled out successfully?

Switzerland, Zurich in particular. Many of the addicts lead productive lives with daily access to drugs. Unlike cocaine and similar psychoactive drugs (or other hallucinogenic) heroin results in sharp euphoria followed by sedation, sleep effectively. There is a need to have access to a next and then a next again high but psychosis usually only arises through anxiety to get drugs. Criminal behaviour is avoided as there is a ready supply of drugs. There is an escalating dosage possibly required which can result in significant harm.

Marcusm

athlone573 wrote: »

As with other annoying habits like playing tiktoks or smoking on the bus, the path of least resistance involves turning a blind eye.

I’m kind of with you in this one; I’ve generally got a very low tolerance for rule breaking, I’ll challenge people who park dangerously etc. People who leave off masks are generally itching for attention. I don’t like giving them what they seek.

Marcusm

0lddog wrote: »

And so an image of Niner starts to be formed









( Klinger - MASH all available from Pennys )

No he’s buying tasseled bras and stuff to wear under the uniform. He doesn’t need it on show!

AndrewJRenko

Marcusm wrote: »

I think you missed the statement about quality drugs. Methadone helps no one and has incredibly poor impacts on an addicts health.

Handy cash cow for the GPs though.

crooked cockney villain

whatnow! wrote: »

I was in Penneys today for the first time in 18 months and there were a lot of female customers walking around inside with no masks and nobody asking them to wear a mask.

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Given that the virus now has less chance of killing elderly people than the winter flu does it's probably high time this mask nonsense was put to bed.

Think I'll bin mine on July 19th. That's when the UK is doing it, I see no reason why we should be any different.

AndrewJRenko

crooked cockney villain wrote: »

Given that the virus now has less chance of killing elderly people than the winter flu does it's probably high time this mask nonsense was put to bed.

Think I'll bin mine on July 19th. That's when the UK is doing it, I see no reason why we should be any different.

Not sure that the UK is a great role model for us

https://twitter.com/AndrewPRLevi/status/1411051383332159490?s=19

TheRiverman

There is constant Government and NPHET bashing, but the biggest problem we still have is the reckless behaviour of quite a lot people that are continuing to spread the virus.

The ones I seen aren't waiting to go back to work.

John_Rambo

I was back in Pennys on Henry St. today. Everyone wearing masks.

Ben D Bus

Not Penneys, but a related issue. I've dined in at 2 cafés in the city centre in the last few days and neither was interested in seeing my Covid passport.

AMKC

Yep there is still a lot of selfish ignorant idiots out there and that is why cases have been so high recently. If it keeps going up we will be having another lockdown and they will be sorry then. Only yesterday I was on the local Go-AHead bus and there was two idiots in front of me one with his mask below his nose and the other selfish prick with no mask on at all except to get on the bus and even then he did no wear it right. I said to them getting off I hope both of you get long covid if you survive your covid dose. That will teach them. Stupid looking heads on them.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117755220#Comment_117755220

So much bitterness and anger in 1 post. Unbelievable.

crooked cockney villain

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117755220#Comment_117755220

LOL.

Long Covid is largely an imaginary condition favoured by left wingers who want to live off illness benefit rather than going back to work.

"cases so high recently" who cares. Deaths are so low the HSE refuses to release daily death figures because the fear factor would disappear seeing as most days have no deaths.

I feel sorry for people like you who still believe this fairy tale.

AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117756811#Comment_117756811

It's no fairy tale and long Covid is not some made up thing either. You need to take you hand out from under the sand mister. There is at least 43 people in ICU with covid and that no joke. They will have to learn how to walk and even speak again. Not fun that as well as missing out on months of there life being in the coma.

AndrewJRenko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117756811#Comment_117756811

Presumably, yer man from Harvard (that bastion of pinko liberals) is one of the left wingers planning to live off non-existent US welfare? https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/04/harvard-medical-school-expert-explains-long-covid/