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  • #1232
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,094 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    moycullen14 wrote: »
    I think the timing is very unfortunate. If Cheltenham was on last week, it wouldn't have been such an issue, next week and it would have been cancelled. It's a very different world today from last Friday.

    Can't help thinking the brits are being very laissez-faire about the virus, though. Was on to a colleague in the UK yesterday and got no sense of urgency about Covid at all. 'Nah, mate, no cases here', he was amazed that we're all WFH and self-isolating as much as possible. Mind you, he could just be an eejit.

    Is the rugby (WALES/Scotland) still on? Amazing if it is.

    Its brexit mentality, let's not take any measures those EU people are putting into action because we are our own nation bullsh1t. They're setting themselves up for disaster.

    Or, maybe they actually want this. Perhaps they want a "cull"..


  • #1233
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Count as high as you can go. Then try and beat that number.

    Out loud - near your spouse/roomate/dog.


  • #1234
    Cork Boy 53
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    moycullen14 wrote: »
    I think the timing is very unfortunate. If Cheltenham was on last week, it wouldn't have been such an issue, next week and it would have been cancelled. It's a very different world today from last Friday.

    Can't help thinking the brits are being very laissez-faire about the virus, though. Was on to a colleague in the UK yesterday and got no sense of urgency about Covid at all. 'Nah, mate, no cases here', he was amazed that we're all WFH and self-isolating as much as possible. Mind you, he could just be an eejit.

    Is the rugby (WALES/Scotland) still on? Amazing if it is.

    As things stand yes it is and in a full stadium in Cardiff as well.:( That will surely be called off as well though.


  • #1235
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,291 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Was chatting with my local pharmacist yesterday and she was telling me of one woman she knows that has a stockpile of surgical masks who told her she hasn't opened the boxes yet, but has them "just in case" for later. She also told me they got a consignment of masks on Tuesday IIRC that were gone within the day and yet not one person has walked into the pharmacy actually wearing one. That's just how dumb some mo'fos are.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #1236
    Floppybits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,111 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    Football manager

    Try and guide a non league side to the premier league ha

    Or championship manager 01/02. You can lose days with that game.


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  • #1237
    Stark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,207 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    Ficheall wrote: »
    And a thread from 2015 with people discussing their history of Covid-19
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057394059

    Those fecking "I had it before it was a pandemic" hipsters


  • #1238
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    dontpanic wrote: »
    This is the point - DEEP, DEEP down in IMMINENT life or death situations you are probably right.

    Schools closed for a few weeks is not a life or death situation. Not even the virus itself is guaranteed death.

    That's not me downplaying the virus. It's me saying that the intrinsic NEED to survive is being triggered at a very shallow level.

    Edit: My main point that I'm trying to get across is that this behaviour is driven by greed, not survival.

    From a few of the posts am wondering if anyone here has actually suffered a full on panic attack?

    People are scared reading of the deaths. Read the main corona thread. Folk are terrified for their loved ones. and then suddenly are told of more rules. So they literally panic as in sheer terror not about food but about the situation in general.

    Panic demands action.as the only way to deal with it

    And as we read here there are many innocent reasons for the shopping yesterday and today.

    We are in an unprecedentedly scary situation. Need to allow leeway - and to be ready to help old and sick folk to get supplies. As I am sure you strong young ones are doing and as is being done for me. This is all too serious to war on folk. .


  • #1239
    pgj2015
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,080 ✭✭✭✭pgj2015


    id rather get the virus than wear a face mask.

    does anyone on here even know anyone who has it?


  • #1240
    OldRio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,625 ✭✭✭OldRio


    Just back from the shops. Nobody panic buying. Actually the town, Carrick on Shannon was quiet.


  • #1241
    cj maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,063 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    iamstop wrote: »
    Outbreak
    12 Monkeys

    12 monkeys was on the other night!


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  • #1242
    c.p.w.g.w
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭c.p.w.g.w


    biko wrote: »
    Ask your wife, there's a lot to fix around the house.

    Rookie mistake


  • #1243
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    Graces7 wrote: »
    From a few of the posts am wondering if anyone here has actually suffered a full on panic attack?

    People are scared reading of the deaths. Read the main corona thread. Folk are terrified for their loved ones. and then suddenly are told of more rules. So they literally panic as in sheer terror not about food but about the situation in general.

    Panic demands action.as the only way to deal with it

    And as we read here there are many innocent reasons for the shopping yesterday and today.

    We are in an unprecedentedly scary situation. Need to allow leeway - and to be ready to help old and sick folk to get supplies. As I am sure you strong young ones are doing and as is being done for me. This is all too serious to war on folk. .


    Honestly giving into panic right now is the worst thing we can do.

    It will only makes things worse for others. What about parents of young kids who were working all day only to head down to the shops and milk and bread and other essentials needlessly all gone?

    It's mental. Quite selfish in fact.


  • #1244
    BanditLuke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭BanditLuke


    Well it seems like the government are going to have to take more extreme measures to drum in the social distancing thing. Just drove past the local playground here and it was absolutely packed with children playing and parents standing around drinking coffee yapping. This is a pretty affluent area in Dublin also. These people are selfish self centred arseholes.


  • #1245
    irishgrover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,348 ✭✭✭irishgrover


    pgj2015 wrote: »
    id rather get the virus than wear a face mask.

    does anyone on here even know anyone who has it?

    yes, I personally know multiple people who have it and are in hospital. Thankfully mostly during well (they are all youngish and healthy).

    With regards you personal preference for getting it, statistically speaking if you are young and healthy you should be ok. However if you do get in and you don't treat it seriously it's quite probable that you will give it to someone, who will give it to someone, who will die.. a parent, grandparent, someone who has cancer, someone with an existing condition, someone completely unknown to you...

    So what the government is doing is it is trying to limit everything to protect us all, especially the vulnerable


  • #1246
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,714 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Started watching Utopia again last night..

    There's only like 13 episodes.. very relevant..

    Exceptional tv..


  • #1247
    FishOnABike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,920 ✭✭✭FishOnABike


    Surprised nobody has suggested just keeping up with the main Covid thread in Current Affairs / IMHO. It's a full time activity all in itself!


  • #1248
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,714 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    FishOnABike wrote: »
    Surprised nobody has suggested just keeping up with the main Covid thread in Current Affairs / IMHO. It's a full time activity all in itself!

    It was taken for granted that you were contributing manically..


  • #1249
    archer22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,116 ✭✭✭archer22


    _Brian wrote: »
    Just out of Aldi. I usually do weekly shop Thursday evening but it was a zoo so skipped it.

    Busy but not manic at all.

    Didn’t see one person panic buying. Small amount of loo roll on shelves but not loads.

    Quite a few shelves still empty from yesterday’s rush and I heard staff saying that what is out is what the shop has, nothing in stores to go out.

    No frozen veg or chips, not a sausage other than that vegan muck.

    Plenty of meat, cheese, bread, alcohol, milk, butter, yougherts

    No hand soap, hand steriliser, certain types of nappies, no eggs, no flour. No cat food
    Hmm that's a bit rich!...it wasn't Vegans that caused all this, it was the "muck" that meat eaters consume.

    I think I will be happier eating the "Vegan muck" from now on, it's much safer ;)


  • #1250
    no.8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 821 ✭✭✭no.8


    pgj2015 wrote:
    does anyone on here even know anyone who has it?

    pgj2015 wrote:
    id rather get the virus than wear a face mask.


    That's a very odd philosophy. Im sure you would wear one if you knew those walking around you had it. Its not only the risk of you getting it, it's the risk of you passing it on.


  • #1251
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,741 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    No sport
    No gigs
    Pubs possibly closed next

    https://youtu.be/e6dcQqbUuQ0


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  • #1252
    GetWithIt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭GetWithIt


    Wibbs wrote: »
    Was chatting with my local pharmacist yesterday and she was telling me of one woman she knows that has a stockpile of surgical masks who told her she hasn't opened the boxes yet, but has them "just in case" for later. She also told me they got a consignment of masks on Tuesday IIRC that were gone within the day and yet not one person has walked into the pharmacy actually wearing one. That's just how dumb some mo'fos are.
    Sounds like there's a market out there for surgical mask boxes .....


  • #1253
    AulWan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,652 ✭✭✭AulWan


    Just back from Supervalu (Knocklyon). Definitely very busy, and shelves getting low on some things but they were restocking.

    No problem with queues getting in or finding a parking space. Picked up my order but went in for a few more bits. There was loo roll available, but apparently ladies hygiene products are in demand, so stock up, ladies!


  • #1254
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,336 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    REM - It's the End of the World as We Know It


  • #1255
    BanditLuke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭BanditLuke


    FishOnABike wrote: »
    Surprised nobody has suggested just keeping up with the main Covid thread in Current Affairs / IMHO. It's a full time activity all in itself!

    That thread is a farce. I got roundly abused on it a couple of weeks ago and decided to walk away when i pleaded for more awareness and pro action against the virus.

    Said people needed to prepare and educate themselves on what was happening in China, abused.

    Said it was right to cancel the rugby, abused.

    Said it was right to cancel flights from Italy, abused.

    Said it was right to cancel Cheltenham, football, close the schools etc.., abused.

    Good few really good posters got banned from it early doors for "creating panic" apparently. Funnily enough a renowned doctor from Denmark was on the radio yesterday saying the ridiculous push back against "panic" has caused more harm than good and lead people into a false sense of security.

    Yeah but absolute sh itshow in there for a long while tbh. But sure we'll be grand, it's just a cold bro.


  • #1256
    xzanti
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,464 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    Can see a good album coming of all this.

    Now That's What I Call a Pandemic.


  • #1257
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,735 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    Make a baby.
    2021 babies will be abundant.

    To thine own self be true



  • #1258
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    Pubs possibly closed next

    there would be rioting in the streets


  • #1259
    Man Vs ManUre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,750 ✭✭✭Man Vs ManUre


    Day Lewin wrote: »
    i confidently predict a baby boom in nine months time.

    There will be many sets of twins called Corvo and Corona.

    I will name my child ‘Cyrus the Virus’.


  • #1260
    Randle P. McMurphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 157 ✭✭Randle P. McMurphy


    Feisar wrote: »
    Just on the general topic, do people not keep a decent stock of stuff at home regardless of the current scenario?


    I like to buy extra non perishables when they are on special offer, so am well stocked anyway. I've been stocking up more than usual over recent weeks due to what's coming. I'm in the at risk group and most likely won't survive if i catch it. I am self isolated since last week and won't be going anywhere for the duration.


    I didn't panic buy yesterday as I'm well prepared already. I can see why some people did panic though. A certain proportion of the till workers are bound to get infected and pass it on before they show any symptoms. I can understand people wanting to stock up so they don't have to go near a shop for a while. Especially now that parents will be dragging their carrier kids around shopping. Not to mention the young people with mild symptoms ambling in to buy their coffee and deli sandwiches.


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  • #1261
    hardybuck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,174 ✭✭✭hardybuck


    Man Vs ManUre wrote: »
    I will name my child ‘Cyrus the Virus’.

    Who becomes a pretty decent right back.


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