Gael23 wrote: » This particular one has to come from a hospital. I’m sore worried if I have a flare up. Do I just go to A&E and skip my GP
Padre_Pio wrote: » People need to get their rubbish dumped. I would have thought this was an essential service? I've seen people use this quote and it's taken completely out of context.
Gael23 wrote: » This is happening. I have a number of chronic illnesses and I’m pretty worried at the moment. I’ve had 3 outpatients appointments cancelled for this month and GPs don’t want you near them. I run out of vital medication on May 3rd and I’ll be in hospital within a few weeks if I can’t get a prescription for it
Cork Boy 53 wrote: » Don`t know if this is valid. If restrictions are lifted too soon and the death rate stabilizes or reduces people will just go back to their old habits and go in droves to shopping centres/large supermarkets again. Also this would most likely lead to a rise in new cases again.
lainey_d_123 wrote: » I'm in the exact same situation, as are a few friends. Oh, but we're so selfish for worrying about the effects of lockdown. We should think of the pensioners and just suck it up for the greater good! :rolleyes:
Tell me how wrote: » Stop being so dramatic. Tony Holohan himself told people last week to not stop seeking care should they need it. You're in UK, has your consultant communicated to you a plan? Have you asked? I'm in US and my consultant contacted me about my appointment which is later this week and said that they are still open to going ahead with it.
HeidiHeidi wrote: » Start your enquiries right now. Don't leave it until the day before. Do not turn up at A&E. Phone, email, google - you'll be able to find out somehow and set it up in time.
Gael23 wrote: » What am I supposed to do if my GP won’t see me?
bubblypop wrote: » Well Finnish people are very isolatary by nature. They don't touch one another & will move far away from other people. They took measures in Finland, shut schools, government buildings, stopped meetings of 10 or more people, closed borders in certain regions. They have less than 100 deaths, Sweden have over 400.
normanoffside wrote: » Finland has a lot less than 100 deaths- it has 28 unless I am missing something?
rm212 wrote: » Also just as a total aside, I'm Type 1 diabetic and it is bloody ridiculous that I have to go to GP every 6 months for a prescription for my usuals; insulin, needles, test strips. The insulin dosage is totally down to myself obviously, it adjusts per meal, I use it to correct when I'm high etc, my GP has absolutely no clue about my dosage regimen as it changes every day. Needles I use roughly the same amount every month etc. Why do I need to get a prescription for these at all, they're marked on my LTI? Pharmacists should have been able to dispense these without a GP prescription for a long time, like in other countries. For long term illnesses like mine, there should be no need for a doctor to say "oh yeah, he's still a type 1 diabetic, give him the exact same meds, he knows how to use them!" every 6 months. Edit: Sorry for the rant but these measures coming in now makes it frustrating when I've been asking why we never had them for a long time (and I bet they'll be reversed again).
topper75 wrote: » To be fair, our position on the world table approximates Sweden's in terms of deaths per million. We are only two places below them. I don't think our shutdown achieved much in relative terms. Not yet anyway one week into April.
lainey_d_123 wrote: » Keep the large shopping centres closed Shopping centres encourage shopping as a hobby and hanging around them spending more and more money on coffee and lunch or whatever. The priority after lockdown should be on essential shops and services.
Tenzor07 wrote: » Large shopping centers also support 10's of thousands of jobs around Ireland and the UK, so while it's fine and dandy to say "uh keep them closed", that money spent on coffee and lunch pays someones mortgage and bills. Keeping them completely shut indefinitely is too restrictive, a step-down to the level of lock down we had in Ireland previous to the 27th of March is more sensible.
robinph wrote: » If lockdowns are relaxed and people are let back to shops normally again relatively soon (next couple of months) then I doubt much will change in peoples shopping habits. However, if we are allowed out but have to do one in one out and keep 2+ meters apart from each other in supermarkets and big shopping centres until this time next year then I can't see those types of massive supermarkets and shopping centres surviving. They depend on a lot of people in and out and spending large amounts of time doing so and then spending larger amounts of money. If you have to queue up for 2+ hours at the major shopping centre before you are allowed in, and then rather than the thousands that they would normally have there at a time are only a couple of hundred in there at a time people will just not bother. They will go to the small shop where they just have to queue for 10 minutes and can get in and buy what they need much more quickly. Last month people might go to whatever big Tesco and fetch their sandwich for lunch, or a couple of items for dinner and then use the self checkout and be in and out in minutes. You are not going to queue up for an hour to do that though, that is only worth doing if you are about to spend hundreds. You'll go to the small shop with two people waiting outside, queue there for a couple of minutes, get your stuff and get on with your day.
robinph wrote: » Large shops benefit the owners of the shops with efficiency in less staff required overall and a higher turnover of merchandise and greater purchasing power with their suppliers. But more people would be employed if there were more smaller local shops nearer to where people lived, although purchase costs would probably increase as a result. Closing a big shop and replacing it with 10 small ones doesn't mean people lose jobs.
scamalert wrote: » someone i know would call you complete idiot - no pun intended, you need to work in retail to know how it works, small shops were the first ones to hike up prices on everything next day since isolation rules were out. large retail chains did the same price increase overnight, not massive as they got good sales but enough to drain wallet. then you forget hospitality services that will see people not having jobs thats 5-15 people for every small to medium place that wont recover any time soon, and if you believe there's no tax increase in Ireland coming end of year to pay for massive loans and spending never mind sectors that weren't affected much will use it as excuse to ramp up prices for services - virus wont go anywhere any time soon, but as months go for people this will become secondary issue. since less income, jobs only in select industries, many places will have to go back to minimum wage, and hike the prices up to stay afloat, and people will think twice before parting with cash, it will be snowball effect that hasn't even began yet, and also dealing with never ending virus existence that will double the burden on all, which is easily year at least at this point, as added bonus stress.
scamalert wrote: » since less income, jobs only in select industries, many places will have to go back to minimum wage, and hike the prices up to stay afloat, and people will think twice before parting with cash, it will be snowball effect that hasn't even began yet, and also dealing with never ending virus existence that will double the burden on all, which is easily year at least at this point, as added bonus stress.
GT89 wrote: » Fine if your just shopping for yourself but if your shopping for a family you'll be buying a fair bit more. No one is going to shop for a family of five in a Spar or a Tesco Express. Also in Dunnes people will do a big shop in order to use their vouchers. They could manage it in a way where there's a separate queue for peopleshopping with or without trollies.
Austria has set out plans to become the first country in Europe to ease its lockdown against the coronavirus pandemic, with shops due to reopen as early as next week.
Tenzor07 wrote: » I don't hear of any similar plans being announced here so I can only guess that the Lockdown in Ireland will continue in full for another period of time...https://www.ft.com/content/d7025074-496e-4609-84c3-22c000cc41d6
