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CoVid-19 Part VIII - 292 cases ROI (2 deaths) 62 in NI (as of 17th March) *Read OP*

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  • #872
    Rjd2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,262 ✭✭✭✭Rjd2


    kevcos wrote: »
    So your theory is that the UKs plan only works in theory?

    https://twitter.com/iandonald_psych/status/1238518371651649538

    Good thread there.

    Its very risky what they are doing, but ignore social media scare mongering , this is Boris listening to the experts, if wrong, well best not to think about it.


  • #873
    Jinglejangle69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,123 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    threeball wrote: »
    All fine and dandy on paper but how do you keep the school kids who I'm sure are already infected in their droves away from Mum and Dad, the doctor, nurse, police officer who are needed without now giving them to granny and grandad. Parents are not gonna watch their kids through the windows of isolated bedrooms and pass jaffa cakes under the door.

    What they are proposing is impossible and they know it.

    Plus they have left it too late to try isolate group A.

    That should have been done weeks even months ago.

    The NHS will be overwhelmwd shortly and people will be left to die like in Italy if you are over a certain age


  • #874
    0127647
    Closed Accounts Posts: 226 ✭✭0127647


    bekker wrote: »
    The Dáil don't seem to want to legislate anything at present. Members apparently have better things to do.

    Coveney seems to think theres as much chance of getting it here as in the UK where nothing is being done

    https://twitter.com/rtenews/status/1239470071392632833

    FG really are useless. Surprised they haven't outsourced decisions like pub closures to the citizens assembly ffs


  • #875
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,374 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    Jin luk wrote: »
    Their is law dating back a long time that enforces the gardai to make sure people stay in lockdown or self isolation, drew harris, garda commisioner has just gone and said this a week and a half ago so yes the OP is false.

    Again with your false claims, that was removed from the statute books a couple of years ago.


  • #876
    Syncpolice
    Closed Accounts Posts: 245 ✭✭Syncpolice


    Can posters please stop saying to leave the Irish in Spain

    We have to take them


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  • #877
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    Jin luk wrote: »
    Their is law dating back a long time that enforces the gardai to make sure people stay in lockdown or self isolation, drew harris, garda commisioner has just gone and said this a week and a half ago so yes the OP is false.

    Yes the law is there to keep people in self isolation who medically refuse to. Someone who doesn't obey medical advice when told to self isolate can be forced to.

    That does not extend to locking down the country. Read up on the quotes and the statue books


  • #878
    UrbanFret
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,051 ✭✭✭UrbanFret


    Jin luk wrote: »
    Waiting myself, or if u listened to morning ireland you would have a better idea, information overload to the public is a key word taking from it, also never denied the post circulating last night state seevices and gps wont be able to do this alone he says, it really is only a matter of time.

    At this stage id say you are hoping it happens so you can say told you so. Absolute bull****.
    How can 10000 military lock down a country?
    Logistically it can't happen even if they did want to do it.


  • #879
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    Other than people?

    Sugar, I forgot to put humans into my "herd immunity calculator"

    I'll just recalibrate there....

    They are f##ked


  • #880
    Jin luk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 389 ✭✭Jin luk


    Hurrache wrote: »
    He did.

    Quote him saying it, because i never heard him say once that any of it was fake he said people need to be careful where they get their news from and then said everything ive put in about 3 posts already not writing it again, if u want to believe everything will be normal go ahead.


  • #881
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Sir Oxman wrote: »
    Ryan Tubridy on radio, yet again setting himself up as national oracle and great seer providing calm for the rabble.
    The "rabble" need someone to be calm, even a radio personality they know can offer some respite. People are caught between the reckless dissemination of nonsense on social media and the equally disconcerting data from authorities. Not a good place to be no matter how mentally tough you imagine yourself to be.


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  • #882
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,374 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    Boggles wrote: »
    Snickers bar to return to its old Marathon name

    I never stopped calling it a Marathon, and I never will.


  • #883
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,458 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Humberto Salazar wrote: »
    Looks like Japan sacrificing honesty and common good to get the Olympics to start on time. They should be cancelled.
    They probably will be (postponed anyway), but they are still over 4 months off and the world could (probably will) be a different place by then. There are discussions taking place this week, but they really do not need to rush into a decision at this stage. They probably want to have a view as to when they could practically be held - is it later in the year, or next year? These things need thinking through.


  • #884
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Syncpolice wrote: »
    Can posters please stop saying to leave the Irish in Spain

    We have to take them
    It is a feature of this thread to have a target, as one goes away another will be found.


  • #885
    Jin luk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 389 ✭✭Jin luk


    UrbanFret wrote: »
    At this stage id say you are hoping it happens so you can say told you so. Absolute bull****.
    How can 10000 military lock down a country?
    Logistically it can't happen even if they did want to do it.

    Its making sure food and pharmacy supplies are getting to everyone not some knobs who goes in a buys 3months worth of food, electrical shops are booming everyone buying chest freezers around here this last week.


  • #886
    storker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,712 ✭✭✭storker


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    Take this as gospel, europecar have said the army are taking control of all the icecream vans

    This will involve re-designating a "99 Flake" as an "88mm".


  • #887
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    is_that_so wrote: »
    The "rabble" need someone to be calm, even a radio personality they know can offer some respite. People are caught between the reckless dissemination of nonsense on social media and the equally disconcerting data from authorities. Not a good place to be no matter how mentally tough you imagine yourself to be.
    Oh yeah, the same calmer who one week ago applauded McConkey for saying 'go to the pub, go to the restaurants, enjoy yourselves'
    The guy should shut up and play some music instead of wittering on about candles in windows.


  • #888
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    Amelie Dazzling Cow wrote: »
    What’s illegal about it?

    The government outlawed the wet markets a few years ago.


  • #889
    Beasty
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    a_squirrelman wrote: »
    A man from the Restaurants Association on Radio 1 now saying "we want to close but the government need to tell us to close"

    What?
    They may have insurance, but that is unlikely to cover "voluntary" closures. That's why a lot of organisations have been seeking ideally direction, but possibly recommendations, from relevant authorities. That way they and their employees may have a business/livelihood to return to


  • #890
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,374 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    Jin luk wrote: »
    Quote him saying it, because i never heard him say once that any of it was fake he said people need to be careful where they get their news from and then said everything ive put in about 3 posts already not writing it again, if u want to believe everything will be normal go ahead.

    The word "false" obviously means something different to you than everyone else.


  • #891
    storker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,712 ✭✭✭storker


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    With respect 'pretty much stated' isn't good enough.[...] We also need a statement as to what measures will be there to help those who rent. Not 'pretty much saying'.

    Quite. Weasel words are "pretty much" useless in this situation.


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  • #892
    Boggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,457 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Jin luk wrote: »
    Its making sure food and pharmacy supplies are getting to everyone not some knobs who goes in a buys 3months worth of food, electrical shops are booming everyone buying chest freezers around here this last week.

    Markup on a freezer would be 10-20%, if that is all they have been selling, they are fúcked.


  • #893
    kevcos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 220 ✭✭kevcos


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    That's my theory! :pac:

    I am not sure people can be so disciplined. People will give up isolating.

    Lock-downs and isolation's are no more than a short term solution, it may provide breathing space for citizens sentiment I suppose.
    This cant and wont be enforced long term due to social or God forbid I say it economic reasons.

    The UK's approach is what all countries will end up implementing.


  • #894
    Axfrderr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 82 ✭✭Axfrderr


    is_that_so wrote: »
    It is a feature of this thread to have a target, as one goes away another will be found.
    Yea, in troubled times lots of people need someone or something to blame or lash out against, it gives them a sense of control in an uncontrolable situation.


  • #895
    Drumpot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭Drumpot


    https://twitter.com/Schwarzenegger/status/1239383795205169152

    Arnie, with his mini pet horse and donkey in his kitchen with a very important message. What’s not to like!


  • #896
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,447 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    Jin luk wrote: »
    Waiting myself, or if u listened to morning ireland you would have a better idea, information overload to the public is a key word taking from it, also never denied the post circulating last night state seevices and gps wont be able to do this alone he says, it really is only a matter of time.

    11am you said wasn't it? Waiting here on tenterhooks!!


  • #897
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    RocketRaccoon wrote: »
    What character are you from Father Ted? Perfectly happy to announce you were in a pub yesterday.

    One who doesn't think the sky is falling down. FFS. What is the difference between a half empty pub, with the seats spaced out by a metre or so and the full bus I was on this morning, with people sitting right beside me and right in front and behind me??


  • #898
    UrbanFret
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,051 ✭✭✭UrbanFret


    R
    Jin luk wrote: »
    Its making sure food and pharmacy supplies are getting to everyone not some knobs who goes in a buys 3months worth of food, electrical shops are booming everyone buying chest freezers around here this last week.

    Explain how the numbers would work? Almost 50000 towns and villages with multiple supermarkets. Can you imagine a 19 year old armed reserve policing a supermarket?
    The local gun club would be more believable.


  • #899
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,495 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    A lot more testing will be going ahead according to reports. Are we looking at high 40s today, maybe high 50s for positives today?


  • #900
    NSAman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,481 ✭✭✭NSAman


    Finally things are getting serious here in the States.

    People are the dumbest on the planet by far, many still think this is a flu with mild symptoms.

    Testing will not start until later this week. Already they have seen an increase in Illinois to 69 cases. .... with no testing.

    Talking to neighbours they say it is ridiculous that everything is closing, where are we going to eat?

    have had the office and staff off since last week and skeletal staff (including myself) isolated from everyone IN the office with lots of hand sanitizer. No one gets in and those inside cannot go to large meetings/gatherings.

    I was called an alarmist last week because people were not being allowed in.......


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  • #901
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Sir Oxman wrote: »
    Oh yeah, the same calmer who one week ago applauded McConkey for saying 'go to the pub, go to the restaurants, enjoy yourselves'
    The guy should shut up and play some music instead of wittering on about candles in windows.
    I don't get Liveline but it serves a useful purpose for people, just like his show does.


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