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

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    #6302
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,865 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Cilldara_2000 wrote: »
    Drink driving laws.

    He didn't say he was driving home!

    But seriously, are you that stuck for drink?


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    #6303
    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 17,849 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    Necro wrote: »
    We cannot close the northern border. People need to realise this is not happening.

    We're bad enough with a fcuking virus we don't need to go back to the Troubles alongside that!

    that's not a good argument, NI aren't as deranged as you suggest

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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    #6304
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users Posts: 39,628 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    leahyl wrote: »
    I’m paranoid about every bit of contact now but I assume it’s safe to go outside for a walk with my friend while practicing social distancing of course. I need fresh air.

    Of course it is. The CMO said to do it yesterday. We will go mad otherwise.


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    #6305
    Longing
    Registered Users Posts: 1,041 ✭✭✭Longing


    Spain 443 new cases so far today


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    #6306
    woohoo!!!
    Registered Users Posts: 803 ✭✭✭woohoo!!!


    Necro wrote: »
    We cannot close the northern border. People need to realise this is not happening.

    We're bad enough with a fcuking virus we don't need to go back to the Troubles alongside that!
    The main thing is that it's impossible given that there's so many crossings and there is nowhere near the manpower to enforce.


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    #6307
    CIARAN_BOYLE
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 14,599 Mod ✭✭✭✭CIARAN_BOYLE


    Necro wrote: »
    We cannot close the northern border. People need to realise this is not happening.

    We're bad enough with a fcuking virus we don't need to go back to the Troubles alongside that!

    We will have to try. Or the North will have to change strategies. Or we will have to change strategies.


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    #6308
    Duke of Url
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,662 ✭✭✭Duke of Url


    We need to go into full lockdown until the fucking idiots in this country learn social distancing and learn about hygiene.

    I can’t believe that people still can’t get this into their fat heads.

    We will have cases which is not the issue. It’s about controlling it.


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    #6309
    Heres Johnny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭Heres Johnny


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    In a lockdown scenario for the republic would there be anything stopping me driving up the north where the pubs should still be open ?

    Yeah, the beer is horrible


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    #6310
    jammiedodgers
    Registered Users Posts: 1,402 ✭✭✭jammiedodgers


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    In a lockdown scenario for the republic would there be anything stopping me driving up the north where the pubs should still be open ?

    I wouldn't chance getting behind the wheel of a car with the obvious brain damage you have to be honest.


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    #6311
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    I am not advocating drink driving in the slightest, id imagine b&bs are still open

    Why not just buy a few bottles of toilet duck.


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    #6312
    expectationlost
    Registered Users Posts: 11,772 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    niallo27 wrote: »
    We all lockdown and reverse the incline and then what the lockdown is lifted and it all starts again. I know it will give our health systems more time but it's just a vicious circle every time. A lockdown is pointless.
    yes that why we need a graduated shutdown.


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    #6313
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    gnarbarian wrote: »
    Just watching the live cam at Templebar, the punters dont know what to do with themselves once they realise the place is shut down.. Good enough, the eejits ruined it for everyone last night, it was such a piss take.

    They do - take pictures of one person at a time in front of the pub and it's taking that group of young women fecking ages to do it.

    /checks image again

    Christ they are still there.


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    #6314
    SlowBlowin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,884 ✭✭✭SlowBlowin


    Come on, I can get going today until I know what that sign says....


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    #6315
    Gods Gift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,713 ✭✭✭Gods Gift


    CIARAN_BOYLE wrote: »
    We will have to try. Or the North will have to change strategies. Or we will have to change strategies.

    North can’t be seen to follow the republic as unionists have to follow boris and kin. No matter what.


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    #6316
    PLUG71
    Registered Users Posts: 640 ✭✭✭PLUG71


    So due to health issues i'm classed as at high risk so will be off work without pay.

    Has anything been said regarding paying back credit?


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    #6317
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users Posts: 25,436 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    I am not advocating drink driving in the slightest, id imagine b&bs are still open

    That desperate for a pint? Cant understand this mentality at all.


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    #6318
    dan786
    Registered Users Posts: 3,307 ✭✭✭dan786


    In Austria gatherings of more than five people have been banned. The country's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said that police would enforce the rules in a bid to halt the spread of the coronavirus.

    The tougher measures were decided at an extraordinary session of parliament, during which Mr Kurz called on the population to self-isolate, only move out of doors when absolutely necessary and limit contacts to "the people they live with".


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    #6319
    voluntary
    Registered Users Posts: 871 ✭✭✭voluntary


    Necro wrote: »
    We cannot close the northern border. People need to realise this is not happening.

    We're bad enough with a fcuking virus we don't need to go back to the Troubles alongside that!

    The Republic's strategy to isolate infected etc will not work with fully open borders with the North if they apply the UK strategy to let the virus infect majority of the population. We either stop the traffic or involuntarily adapt their strategy.


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    #6320
    16thelegend
    Registered Users Posts: 25 ✭16thelegend


    Any sign of building sites closing?


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    #6321
    Cilldara_2000
    Registered Users Posts: 1,189 ✭✭✭Cilldara_2000


    niallo27 wrote: »
    People will die anyway, how long should we go into lockdown for. A month, 6 months, a year. We will run out of money, mass lay offs. Imagine the suicide rates after this for a country that really struggles with mental health issues.
    Signore Fancy Pants wrote: »
    You are just getting worse.

    "People will die anyway"

    You should be afcukingshamed of yourself.

    Have to agree with the reply here. In any case, the nation as a whole will not run out of money. People's well-being which includes their financial affairs will be looked after.

    And on the far side, the economy will get moving again. It will have hastened the end of certain sectors which were not going to be viable in future anyway. Harsh but the reality in the modern world and has been for centuries, EG we don't see a whole lot of farriers and blacksmiths any more.

    On the flipside, many companies might be concerned about how so much of the world's economic output depends on one country and we might see a small resurgence of manufacturing in Europe. Having said that, I won't be crying if the amount of plastic tat that's produced every year is greatly reduced.


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    #6322
    dodzy
    Registered Users Posts: 9,932 ✭✭✭dodzy


    SlowBlowin wrote: »
    Come on, I can get going today until I know what that sign says....

    12.35pm. Doors not open. Guess we know what the sign says now.


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    #6323
    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 17,849 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    woohoo!!! wrote: »
    The main thing is that it's impossible given that there's so many crossings and there is nowhere near the manpower to enforce.

    you don't have to get everyone, easy enough to put concrete blocks down on minor roads and set up whatever on the main roads

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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    #6324
    Augme
    Registered Users Posts: 5,233 ✭✭✭Augme


    niallo27 wrote: »
    Get your head out of the sand man, do you think a few weeks of lockdown and this will magically disappear.

    No thinks he will disappear ffs. The point of the lock down is too slow down the spread and thus slowdown the impact on the hospitals. The only way to save lives is to spread the rate of infection out over a longer time scale.

    For example 1,000 people getting infected over a month is far better than 1,000 people getting infected over a day.


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    #6325
    Spook_ie
    Registered Users Posts: 10,896 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie


    all about the mane wrote: »
    Would be awful if someone with that mindset crashed and died on the way back.

    As long as they died and didn't occupy an ICU bed.


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    #6326
    is_that_so
    Registered Users Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    PLUG71 wrote: »
    So due to health issues i'm classed as at high risk so will be off work without pay.

    Has anything been said regarding paying back credit?
    Talk to your bank/card provider.


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    #6327
    wakka12
    Registered Users Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Now more cases outside of China than inside. Number of active cases has also now outnumbered recovered cases for the first time in a few days.


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    #6328
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    dan786 wrote: »
    In Austria gatherings of more than five people have been banned. The country's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said that police would enforce the rules in a bid to halt the spread of the coronavirus.

    The tougher measures were decided at an extraordinary session of parliament, during which Mr Kurz called on the population to self-isolate, only move out of doors when absolutely necessary and limit contacts to "the people they live with".

    So the family dinner is just about doable for most but not all

    "Hey kid you're eating in the hall, the bottom of the stairs is good enough for you"


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    #6329
    paul71
    Registered Users Posts: 3,122 ✭✭✭paul71


    is_that_so wrote: »
    So, I went to the pub is very much a trigger point for many at present!

    Rightly so.


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    #6330
    Gooey Looey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,297 ✭✭✭Gooey Looey


    16thelegend wrote: »
    Any sign of building sites closing?

    I have a cousin who said there's whispers coming from the CIF that they are to prepare to be advised to shut down after Tuesday


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    #6331
    the deftone
    Registered Users Posts: 317 ✭✭the deftone


    Im a barber, just found out the shop has closed. Will I be able to get some sort of jobseekers payment? I know my employer wont be able to keep paying me....


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