CoVid-19 Part VII - 169 cases ROI (2 deaths) 45 in NI (as of 15 March) *Read OP*

France to close most shops, cafes, restaurants and cinemas – Philippe

France will shut down cafes, shops, restaurants and cinemas to stem the spread of the coronavirus outbreak, prime minister Éduoard Philippe has announced.

Philippe said public transport will be kept open but asked citizens to limit their use, reported Reuters news agency.

The closures will come into effect at midnight on Saturday.

He told a news conference that exceptions on the shop ban would include food stores, pharmacies and gas stations.

What we should be doing

fritzelly wrote: »

The way it's going we're seeing the money grabbing pubs - open til they're forced to shut

Very simple to revoke or void all liquor licences

jam_mac_jam wrote: »

Many people still have to go to work. You don't have to go to the pub.

They are a social outlet and we shouldn't be completely hiding away. The issue with pubs is not that they are open but that social distancing is not being observed properly.

MrMusician18 wrote: »

Won't it have exactly same outcome? Completely fair.

If you're willing to travel in those dirty disease boxes, you have no moral high ground to stand on.

So you want rural people to be starved out of it?


Go to UK if you want that you drip.

fin12 wrote: »

Well we are doing a hell of a lot more than the uk.

If the UK are doing such a bad job then we should suspend flights to and from the UK no?

Poland, Austria, Denmark, Slovakia, Czech Republic have all suspended flights from affected areas or completely shut down entry.
These are all in the EU yet our 'leaders' say we can't stop people from entering due to us being in the EU.
How utterly weak and profoundly dangerous, they've basically discarded the safety of the Irish people out of lickspittle subservience to the EU whilst other nations have clearly put their own people first. Its an absolute disgrace and its beyond me how people cannot understand this.

autumnbelle wrote:

The people working in the labs are unreal from 600 a week to 600 tests a day

Medical Scientists

gmisk wrote: »

What are you on about.
My point is not all people can choose not to get public transport, they can however choose not to go to the pub ..reducing their chance of exposure

My point is closing the pubs without shutting down public transport is little use. It would be another half ass measure like we have done from the start. Such measures probably only marginally slow the spread of the virus.

In a mad way the 90 odd people who have it now and are confirmed are lucky as they probably have a much better chance of recovering than people who get in a weeks time when beds are all taken,
Obviously doesn't apply two the poor women who have died but you get what I mean

If people won’t listen to stay out of the pubs then only one option is to shut them . Pubs aren’t listening to advice about having less than 100 indoors .. the temple bar pub packed all this week as we could see on the webcam until suddenly the webcam stopped working yesterday. My local was packed last night, was talking to a barman and he said it was busier than a regular Friday.
People won’t listen and the government are afraid to upset the IVF and publicans .

is_that_so wrote: »

How can that be done "simply", pray tell? And what would we do about all of these licences once this has passed?

Revenue national excise license office. Suspend licenses on temporary basis

Natasha Warm Teacup wrote: »

At least there's this. Any suggestions for what they could call themselves? My immediate thought is "The Cuntonas" after the other popular drink. Or maybe they could just call themselves The Script or The Blizzards, because all of those sh!t bands are just indistinguishable from each other.

The Generic Irish Rock Band.

I can confirm there is a huge number of actual hospital beds on the way into the country,
No idea about new ventaltors