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

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  • #5612
    growleaves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,007 ✭✭✭growleaves


    There's no way we will still be in this situation in December. People just won't be able to take it. Even the elderly and the vulnerable.

    Self-isolation hastens the onset of dementia.

    The health effects of staying in for even a few months could be devastating.

    All the idiots on this thread are going to spend their summer forgoing sunshine, Vitamin D and humid air. They'll be ready to drop dead by the time next winter rolls around.


  • #5613
    Sam Quentin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,237 ✭✭✭Sam Quentin


    I understand some of you are angry about us joggers,.but is it ok if I do my regular 70k cycle as I can't face cooking or diy I'm not a lazy blastard as I love my jog-in-ing and cy-clin-ing....I also plan to play golf-in-ing when I retire from my job. My wife still adores me tho!?


  • #5614
    skimpydoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,074 ✭✭✭skimpydoo


    Niner leprauchan wrote: »
    Not essential so

    Journalists are seen as essential but I mainly work from home. Any work I have done out and about has been curtailed.


  • #5615
    BoatMad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,702 ✭✭✭✭BoatMad


    cnocbui wrote: »
    Seems the lockdown is the high horse many have been praying for. Didn't take them long to climb aboard and give a dig of their spurs.

    No doubt the Guards will soon be getting calls about neighbours out mowing their lawns and cleaning their gutters.

    It’s an inevitable consequence of the idiots congregating together, that we have all seen evidence of in the last two weeks


  • #5616
    skimpydoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,074 ✭✭✭skimpydoo


    pgj2015 wrote: »
    I dont see why it matters to be honest. I am self employed and it is a necessary service.

    It does matter when you are spouting guff on here.


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  • #5617
    paul71
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,369 ✭✭✭paul71


    Niner leprauchan wrote: »
    I'm beginning to lose faith in our education system. Aren't Irish people supposed to be intelligent and educated?

    Is this such a high concept area of science?

    Nope we are 17th on the table of average IQ in the EU.


  • #5618
    BoatMad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,702 ✭✭✭✭BoatMad


    Sam Quentin wrote: »
    I understand some of you are angry about us joggers,.but is it ok if I do my regular 70k cycle as I can't face cooking or diy I'm not a lazy blastard as I love my jog-in-ing and cy-clin-ing....I also plan to play golf-in-ing when I retire from my job. My wife still adores me tho!?

    Just what part of “ STAY AT HOME” are you having trouble understanding


  • #5619
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,369 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    growleaves wrote: »
    Self-isolation hastens the onset of dementia.

    The health effects of staying in for even a few months could be devastating.

    All the idiots on this thread are going to spend their summer forgoing sunshine, Vitamin D and humid air. They'll be ready to drop dead by the time next winter rolls around.

    Back garden, front garden, patio, balcony..... Jesus, stick your head out a window if you need to!


  • #5620
    skimpydoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,074 ✭✭✭skimpydoo


    Don't you hate it when people hate the new restrictions and then claim they do essential work but won't say what this work is?


  • #5621
    pgj2015
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,026 ✭✭✭✭pgj2015


    skimpydoo wrote: »
    It does matter when you are spouting guff on here.



    the point i was making is we arent all the same, some people are like children, they need to be bossed around or they dont know what to do. others dont thrive in this kind of situation.


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  • #5622
    FishOnABike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,872 ✭✭✭FishOnABike


    doylefe wrote: »
    What's the difference between walking 2km from your home vs driving somewhere nice and secluded and going for a walk, like up a mountain.

    People acting like it's airborne and you'll catch it if you go outside. Ridiculous.
    Keeping within a 2km radius limits the area any cluster can spread to and will limit the rate and distance of any further geographic spread.

    If people drive to 'somewhere nice and secluded' they may cross paths with others who had the same idea who have travelled to the same spot from somewhere else (think Glendalough or any of a number of beaches or walks last weekend). Suddenly there's the possibility of one infected, possibly asymptomatic, person infecting others and seeding a number of new community transmitted clusters with little or no traceability back to the infecting person.

    If we want to get the spread of this under control we need to stop any non essential movement and interaction outside our own household. The virus doesn't spread on its own, we spread it.

    The message is simple, "Stay at home".


  • #5623
    [Deleted User]
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    paul71 wrote: »
    Nope we are 17th on the table of average IQ in the EU.

    We were 16th before this thread ðŸ˜


  • #5624
    Witcher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,323 ✭✭✭✭Witcher


    pgj2015 wrote: »
    the point i was making is we arent all the same, some people are like children, they need to be bossed around or they dont know what to do. others dont thrive in this kind of situation.

    Stop talking bollocks will ya? Cheers


  • #5625
    [Deleted User]
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    growleaves wrote: »
    All the idiots on this thread are going to spend their summer forgoing sunshine, Vitamin D and humid air. They'll be ready to drop dead by the time next winter rolls around.

    One or two people might have the genius idea of spending time in their gardens. Whisper it gently, I don't want that secret gaining traction.


  • #5626
    pgj2015
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,026 ✭✭✭✭pgj2015


    Witcher wrote: »
    Stop talking bollocks will ya? Cheers




    you must be one of them?


  • #5627
    [Deleted User]
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    pgj2015 wrote: »
    the point i was making is we arent all the same, some people are like children, they need to be bossed around or they dont know what to do. others dont thrive in this kind of situation.

    Answer the question! You used your occupation to back yourself, now answer.


  • #5628
    growleaves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,007 ✭✭✭growleaves


    Don't you hate it when people hate the new restrictions and then claim they do essential work but won't say what this work is?

    Why should they share employment info on a web site? There's no way to verify it anyway.


  • #5629
    [Deleted User]
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    skimpydoo wrote: »
    Don't you hate it when people hate the new restrictions and then claim they do essential work but won't say what this work is?

    Nah, I'm rather unsurprised. A well-trodden path we have been down before, never expect a straight answer from a spoofer.


  • #5630
    growleaves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,007 ✭✭✭growleaves


    One or two people might have the genius idea of spending time in their gardens.

    Not everyone has a garden.


  • #5631
    BoatMad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,702 ✭✭✭✭BoatMad


    growleaves wrote: »
    Not everyone has a garden.
    So what


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  • #5632
    pgj2015
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,026 ✭✭✭✭pgj2015


    Niner leprauchan wrote: »
    Answer the question! You used your occupation to back yourself, now answer.




    look at the list of essential services and pick one. as others have said there are still a lot of essential services that are permitted to work.

    you are just being nosy.


  • #5633
    Need a Username
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭Need a Username


    Tell me how wrote: »
    Just watched some of Simon Harris's Q&A specifically targeted at children from RTE News Now on YouTube. On a day when he started with speaking to Pat Kenny about the situation, was no doubt heavily involved in discussions and meetings all day, attended the press conference this evening and was tweeting close to midnight both thanking people for their effort and reminding them to keep it up he still found some time to record the copy for the broadcast.
    And, the comments are turned off on YouTube for that particular video while other videos from RTE relating to the virus have comments open.

    I find it somewhat upsetting that given all the above, some people would use a children's video on YouTube to spout some bile or nonsense leading to them being closed.

    This episode we are experiencing is showing many people to be heroes, it is also showing some others (vastly the minority I believe thankfully) to be severely deficient in some part of their lives.

    The comments being turned off doesn’t necessarily mean anything bad was posted. Comment section may have been disabled from the start.


  • #5634
    rosiem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 273 ✭✭rosiem


    pgj2015 wrote: »
    the point i was making is we arent all the same, some people are like children, they need to be bossed around or they dont know what to do. others dont thrive in this kind of situation.

    No the point you are making us you think you are above the rules and know better than the leading experts in these fields


  • #5635
    khalessi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,216 ✭✭✭khalessi


    There is another reason for staying at home

    Our hospitals are expecting to be overrun from next week onwards. So all the cyclists go for cycles and the drivers go for drives all saying I'm doing no harm and then there is a crash. You will be assisted by overstretched paramedics nurses and doctors all because you couldn't stay at home.

    Dont become a statistic and dont cause a statistic

    Stay at home


  • #5636
    growleaves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,007 ✭✭✭growleaves


    So what

    Er so they might want to leave their house/apartment (within 2km) if they don't want to compromise their health. Especially if a mutated strain next winter is a serious possibility.


  • #5637
    [Deleted User]
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    growleaves wrote: »
    Why should they share employment info on a web site? There's no way to verify it anyway.

    Well personally I'm curious what self employed position is covered by 'essential worker' considering it's a pretty defined list.


  • #5638
    growleaves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,007 ✭✭✭growleaves


    There is another reason for staying at home

    Our hospitals are expecting to be overrun from next week onwards. So all the cyclists go for cycles and the drivers go for drives all saying I'm doing no harm and then there is a crash. You will be assisted by overstretched paramedics nurses and doctors all because you couldn't stay at home.

    Most accidents take place in the home. Its well-known.


  • #5639
    khalessi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,216 ✭✭✭khalessi


    growleaves wrote: »
    Most accidents take place in the home. Its well-known.

    SPeaking as somebody who worked in A&E I beg to differ, they are overrun and busy for a reason

    Why add to it?


  • #5640
    growleaves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,007 ✭✭✭growleaves


    Well personally I'm curious what self employed position is covered by 'essential worker' considering it's a pretty defined list.

    Could be something to do with medical supplies, or food production.


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  • #5641
    Xertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭Xertz


    Need a Username wrote: »
    The comments being turned off doesn’t necessarily mean anything bad was posted. Comment section may have been disabled from the start.

    Basically because YouTube comments have a tendency to be a real cesspool, a lot of media organisations and even individuals turn them off. It’s nothing unusual.


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