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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
    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.


  • #6303
    SlowBlowin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,924 ✭✭✭SlowBlowin


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


  • #6304
    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.


  • #6305
    PLUG71
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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?


  • #6306
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,855 ✭✭✭✭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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  • #6307
    dan786
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,341 ✭✭✭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".


  • #6308
    voluntary
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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.


  • #6309
    16thelegend
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25 ✭16thelegend


    Any sign of building sites closing?


  • #6310
    Cilldara_2000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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.


  • #6311
    dodzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,267 ✭✭✭✭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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  • #6312
    silverharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,854 ✭✭✭✭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



  • #6313
    Augme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,621 ✭✭✭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.


  • #6314
    Spook_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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.


  • #6315
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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.


  • #6316
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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.


  • #6317
    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"


  • #6318
    paul71
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,366 ✭✭✭paul71


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

    Rightly so.


  • #6319
    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


  • #6320
    the deftone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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....


  • #6321
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Huge jump in Switzerland,almost 850 new cases today. Switzerland are also only reporting serious cases now, so that is an enormous strain on the health services there in just the last 24 hours.


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  • #6322
    digitaldr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,573 ✭✭✭digitaldr


    I was in what is possibly Ireland's dirtiest Tesco (Phibsboro) and all the till operatives were wearing gloves which they didn't seem to change or sanitise - utter madness!


  • #6323
    bekker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 912 ✭✭✭bekker


    CIARAN_BOYLE wrote: »
    We will have to try. Or the North will have to change strategies. Or we will have to change strategies.
    The Border will stay open, we are going to have '000s of unemployed young men soon; the last thing we need is for the drums to start beating.

    What we need is for the clueless British Conservative Government and their fanatical advisers to stop relying on so far non-existent antibodies and get with the rest of the world.


  • #6324
    KiKi III
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,653 ✭✭✭KiKi III


    I flew to Dubai last Thursday. It’s weird. At the time, Italy was the only country in lockdown and there was no advisory not to travel, Trump hadn’t instituted the European travel ban. In fact, even now there’s no advice not to travel to or from Dubai afaik.

    I’m really not sure how much social distancing is necessary? I’m not displaying any symptoms, and I haven’t been around anyone with a confirmed case (as in, no one in my second or tertiary circles has been diagnosed)

    Is it really that risky for me to meet friends individually or in small groups of 2-3? I’m talking about coffees and other such activities, not the type of thing you saw in temple bar.


  • #6325
    deisedevil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,252 ✭✭✭deisedevil


    digitaldr wrote: »
    I was in what is possibly Ireland's dirtiest Tesco (Phibsboro) and all the till operatives were wearing gloves which they didn't seem to change or sanitise - utter madness!

    Watch sky news. UK Government putting out the call to companies to make more ventilators. Telling over 70's to self isolate from now on.


  • #6326
    youreadthat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 761 ✭✭✭youreadthat


    Rob A. Bank wrote: »
    Agreed... It affects us far more than the others in Europe.

    While we try to reduce spread as much as possible, north of the border they are trying to infect at least 60% of the population !

    Unbelievable !

    They are not trying to infect 60% of the population...

    I’m starting to see how easy and dangerous fake news is.


  • #6327
    expectationlost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,475 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    16thelegend wrote: »
    Any sign of building sites closing?
    why the gov hasn't order people not to go to work. they can hardly work from home...


  • #6328
    paul71
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,366 ✭✭✭paul71


    the deftone wrote: »
    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....

    https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/66d22e-covid-19-deasp-information-for-employers-and-employees-pdf/

    Yes


  • #6329
    2Mad2BeMad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,792 ✭✭✭2Mad2BeMad


    the deftone wrote: »
    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....

    same boat here, not a barber but business is so bad the last week my employer will most likely close this week if it doesnt pick up (which is definitly wont)


  • #6330
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,627 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    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".

    attended by 135!!


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  • #6331
    thelad95
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,812 ✭✭✭thelad95


    digitaldr wrote: »
    I was in what is possibly Ireland's dirtiest Tesco (Phibsboro) and all the till operatives were wearing gloves which they didn't seem to change or sanitise - utter madness!

    A lot of this kind of stuff is just "corporate signalling" as in look at us we're doing something in reaction to the crisis, without actually thinking through if that will in fact make any difference whatsoever.


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