CoVid19 Part XI - 2,615 in ROI (46 deaths) 410 in NI (21 deaths)(29/03)*OP upd 28/03*

Strazdas wrote: »

And another variation on the same theme :

https://twitter.com/SamanthaLibreri/status/1243668837972787202

Tell that to the black & white sidekick walking tepeatedly across the parked traffic spitting on cars today - about ten yards uo from the garda station - open. Or to the 8 dossers spinning ribbons and spread sitting on the footpath outside rhe grda station blocking everyone from using it without stepping over them. Oh yea - very proactive. Locked inside eating Tayto I’d say.

JustAThought wrote: »

I’ve no TV - maybe someone could assist - have gone back to page 310 of this thread and no specific or link. Of course on the gov.ir Covid 19 page there has been no update since March 24th.

Maybe someone could tell me, please.

Are we not allowed out now without a permit or something?

It’s simple , one person at a time can travel for food and medicines , other then that only within a 2Km radius for recreation

Scary times

Please christ hope people listen and we get over this once and for all

JustAThought wrote: »

thanks a mil. Are beaches and parks closed now? Or ‘just’ a 2k restriction? Many thanks.

Open, if they're within 2km of your home.

FVP3 wrote: »

It will stop consumer price deflation. If we get to 20% unemployment then rents, and everything else will drop in price, people cant pay rents when laid off. They will eventually (post lockdown) leave the country, or go back to their parents house. Rents fell post 2008.

The government will pay HAP anyway, which is money borrowed from the future, although that too can be monetised by the ECB.

Even the US is doing that.

Rents might not rise in absolute terms but they will rise in percentage of disposable income.

I actually think helicopter money will happen as politically it is a very easy sale (“give the money to the people instead of giving it to the rich”). And to be clear I perfectly understand that feeling and indeed agree QE, low rates, repo operations all benefit to people with expensive assets. But while it will feel good at first I am convinced it will not serve “the people” in the end as it will destroy the value of currency and thus of their savings and pensions; while never really helping them because as I said the value of money is relative to what others have so if everyone gets more no one really has more purchasing power.

Risteard81 wrote: »

The post I responded to claimed that it was the "elected government". Clearly that is wholly untrue.

No, you called it a junta. Whereas it is clearly the constitutional government of this country, and the bill was passed by the elected Dail, approved by the constitutionally appointed/elected senad, and signed into law by the elected president.

Bob24 wrote: »

Rents might not rise in absolute terms but they will rise in percentage of disposable income.

I actually think helicopter money will happen as politically it is a very easy sale (“give the money to the people instead of giving it to the rich”). And to be clear I perfectly understand that feeling and indeed agree QE, low rates, repo operations all benefit to people with expensive assets. But while it will feel good at first I am convinced it will not serve “the people” in the end as it will destroy the value of currency and thus of their savings and pensions; while never really helping them because as I said the value of money is relative to what others have so if everyone gets more no one really has more purchasing power.

I seriously think helicopter money is a real possibility by the end of this crisis, the employment support is essentially that at one level

JustAThought wrote: »

Tell that to the black & white sidekick walking tepeatedly across the parked traffic spitting on cars today - about ten yards uo from the garda station - open. Or to the 8 dossers spinning ribbons and spread sitting on the footpath outside rhe grda station blocking everyone from using it without stepping over them. Oh yea - very proactive. Locked inside eating Tayto I’d say.

Well according to the new restrictions, no groups of any size can congregate together as of midnight. Two or three teenagers walking along a road or standing together is not allowed (they must be on their own)

ChikiChiki wrote: »

I like a run and have been running up until today on open wide spaces with not too many people.

But I'll take one for the team and try YouTube workouts for 2 weeks anyway. Literally need to stay at home as much as possible given the severity.

I suppose being out just encourages others to be out. Can't do a whole lot of running in 2 km anyway.

Run 2km out then 2km back . 2km the other way and 2km back ,still within the guidelines .

dan786 wrote: »

The public transport is restricted to essential workers only.

what about people with no cars who want to go get food? can they not get a taxi etc?