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So what are the positives surrounding the Covid19 coronavirus?

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  • #782
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 413 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Dr. Bre wrote: »
    My dishwasher is sick off me


    Then make sure you remember to take her out for dinner and buy her something nice when all of these restrictions end.


  • #783
    Antares35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Antares35


    maxsmum wrote: »
    I think a positive is a lot less interest in what 'celebs' are at, influencers and the like, because they're doing f*&k all like the rest of us, thank goodness for the news finally highlighting something of interest rather than what lip gloss so-and-so has been gifted

    Yeah there have been a few milk and water attempts by some to shimmy their way back into the limelight - off the top of my head - Ronan Keating spawned another child, yer one (Duffy?) drip feeding more "clues" about her ordeal and Linda Martin mentioning she "might have had the virus a month ago". :pac:


  • #784
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Dr. Bre wrote: »
    My dishwasher is sick off me

    wash up at the sink, another chore that will help to keep you active


  • #785
    pinkyeye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,293 ✭✭✭pinkyeye


    Snow Garden wrote: »
    I think there must be a lot more small birds around this Spring. I imagine there are much fewer getting killed by cars as they go around building nests etc. Nature is getting a chance to breathe.

    God that's a good one, also a lot less roadkill around. I live rurally now and usually have to close my eyes a few times a day at cats, foxes and rabbits dead on the road.

    Just realised there's far less now. :)


  • #786
    topper75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    pinkyeye wrote: »
    ... a lot less roadkill around. ...
    Depends who nature is. The poor jackdaws and rats won't get any €350 per week to lockdown.


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  • #787
    Slim Charles
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 621 ✭✭✭Slim Charles


    pinkyeye wrote: »
    God that's a good one, also a lot less roadkill around. I live rurally now and usually have to close my eyes a few times a day at cats, foxes and rabbits dead on the road.

    Just realised there's far less now. :)

    You may be consequently causing more.


  • #788
    FloatingVoter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    topper75 wrote: »
    Depends who nature is. The poor jackdaws and rats won't get any €350 per week to lockdown.


    Aye, but the seagulls are cleaning up. Clever ****ers.


  • #789
    AllForIt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,760 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    pgj2015 wrote: »
    The whole thanking health care workers is strange, it is their job, that is what they signed up for, what are they going to do? quit their jobs because there is a pandemic? if there were riots every day would the police all quit as well or would they expect a round of applause and celebs making cringy videos thanking them?

    Nothing wrong with publicly acknowledging the work of the NHS personal, but taking it cringe level is just that, cringe.

    There was a video on Twitter the other day of a health worker in tears saying she quite her job for lack of PPE. Like you say pgl, this is what they signed up for and to quit for not being 100% protected seems to go against the noble reason we are told ppl go into healthcare. Imagine if the firefighters who looked for bodies in Ground Zero said hey I'm not doing that, it's too dangerous. And of course many did die.


  • #790
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    crime rate is down


  • #791
    Tell me how
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,462 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    AllForIt wrote: »
    Nothing wrong with publicly acknowledging the work of the NHS personal, but taking it cringe level is just that, cringe.

    There was a video on Twitter the other day of a health worker in tears saying she quite her job for lack of PPE. Like you say pgl, this is what they signed up for and to quit for not being 100% protected seems to go against the noble reason we are told ppl go into healthcare. Imagine if the firefighters who looked for bodies in Ground Zero said hey I'm not doing that, it's too dangerous. And of course many did die.

    A lot of what I'd like to say in this post, I've just said in my mind.

    Nurses signed up to a role in which they expected they would have the tools to do their job.

    How do you think firefighters would feel if there were no helmets and fireproof clothing available for them.


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  • #792
    AllForIt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,760 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    Tell me how wrote: »
    A lot of what I'd like to say in this post, I've just said in my mind.

    Nurses signed up to a role in which they expected they would have the tools to do their job.

    How do you think firefighters would feel if there were no helmets and fireproof clothing available for them.

    I'm not sure if you are agreeing or disagreeing with me.

    I would expect firefighters and health care workers to do what they signed up no matter what.


  • #793
    beggars_bush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭beggars_bush


    Snow Garden wrote: »
    I think there must be a lot more small birds around this Spring. I imagine there are much fewer getting killed by cars as they go around building nests etc. Nature is getting a chance to breathe.

    Definitely
    Have been out digging the garden the last few weeks and I've seen so many
    Lovely bird song in the morning too

    And now the house martins have arrived, followed soon by swallows


  • #794
    Tell me how
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,462 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    AllForIt wrote: »
    I'm not sure if you are agreeing or disagreeing with me.

    I would expect firefighters and health care workers to do what they signed up no matter what.

    Ok, so, they have no helmets or protective clothing, but they still run towards something which will put them at a vastly increased risk because of this fact.
    Would you commend them for this, or shrug your shoulders and say that's their job?

    Would you expect an electrician to work on live conductors without insulated tools because that's the job he signed up for?


  • #795
    KaneToad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,925 ✭✭✭KaneToad


    AllForIt wrote: »
    I'm not sure if you are agreeing or disagreeing with me.

    I would expect firefighters and health care workers to do what they signed up no matter what.

    I wouldn't. I wouldn't expect "no matter what" to apply to any job. A job is just a job.


  • #796
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,819 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    suppose all the quizzes that are been run online during this time on social media

    Some are only real for fun and dont have answer sheets/apps but i have played ones which use Google Forms and Kahoot

    https://www.goosesquizzes.com/

    this is the one i play often and is pretty good and pretty challenging


  • #797
    AllForIt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,760 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    Tell me how wrote: »
    Ok, so, they have no helmets or protective clothing, but they still run towards something which will put them at a vastly increased risk because of this fact.
    Would you commend them for this, or shrug your shoulders and say that's their job?

    Would you expect an electrician to work on live conductors without insulated tools because that's the job he signed up for?

    You made a terrible analogy there. Electricians don't sign up to be an electrician to save lives.

    I think you are deliberately missing my earlier point.


  • #798
    AllForIt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,760 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    KaneToad wrote: »
    I wouldn't. I wouldn't expect "no matter what" to apply to any job. A job is just a job.

    You are proving my point for me. Going into medicine or equally a firefighter, is not 'just a job'.

    Why are we clapping for them if it's 'just a job'.


  • #799
    Tell me how
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,462 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    AllForIt wrote: »
    You made a terrible analogy there. Electricians don't sign up to be an electrician to save lives.

    I think you are deliberately missing my earlier point.

    So, you think anybody who has signed up to save a life, is willing to jeopardize theirs in order to do so. In fact, they must jeopardize their life if it is a choice between saving someone or protecting themselves. Is that your view?


  • #800
    AllForIt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,760 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    Tell me how wrote: »
    So, you think anybody who has signed up to save a life, is willing to jeopardize theirs in order to do so. In fact, they must jeopardize their life if it is a choice between saving someone or protecting themselves. Is that your view?

    Yes


  • #801
    Tell me how
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,462 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    AllForIt wrote: »
    Yes

    Ok. Do you know what the Safety Health and Welfare at Work Act is?

    Do you think it shouldn't apply to front line medical staff, gardai, ambulance crew, firemen?


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  • #802
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Tell me how wrote: »
    Ok. Do you know what the Safety Health and Welfare at Work Act is?

    Do you think it shouldn't apply to front line medical staff, gardai, ambulance crew, firemen?

    Of course not. They should be willing to work naked if they want to save lives.


  • #803
    wheresthebeef
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 887 ✭✭✭wheresthebeef


    AllForIt wrote: »
    Yes

    I can tell you now that when I signed up to be a nurse, the risk of dying on the job was not made clear. If I wanted to get killed in my line of work, I'd have joined the army or become a crash test dummy.


  • #804
    Danzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,242 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    AllForIt wrote: »
    I'm not sure if you are agreeing or disagreeing with me.

    I would expect firefighters and health care workers to do what they signed up no matter what.

    Many will die but it is a sacrifice you are willing to make.

    We salute you brave Sir.


  • #805
    deathbomber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 332 ✭✭deathbomber


    AllForIt wrote: »
    Nothing wrong with publicly acknowledging the work of the NHS personal, but taking it cringe level is just that, cringe.

    There was a video on Twitter the other day of a health worker in tears saying she quite her job for lack of PPE. Like you say pgl, this is what they signed up for and to quit for not being 100% protected seems to go against the noble reason we are told ppl go into healthcare. Imagine if the firefighters who looked for bodies in Ground Zero said hey I'm not doing that, it's too dangerous. And of course many did die.

    What a twat, myself and my wife contracted the virus, she is a nurse and got the virus in work. She has the right to have the necessary ppe available when dealing with contagious diseases, her hospital was short of ppe. You just have no clue mate, stop posting crap


  • #806
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,171 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Animals not getting blasted with shotguns, hunted with dogs and coursing meetings off.


  • #807
    Snow Garden
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Snow Garden


    Have ye noticed the number of large bumble bees around? I guess there are less cars around to mow them down. They do seem quite big this year.


  • #808
    BoatMad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,506 ✭✭✭✭BoatMad


    Snow Garden wrote: »
    Have ye noticed the number of large bumble bees around? I guess there are less cars around to mow them down. They do seem quite big this year.

    Was seeing them myself yesterday , great little creatures , I’d say wildlife this year will be profuse , Garda boat turning back fishing boats on Shannon lakes , the pike will be well fed this year


  • #809
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    an increase in funny video's on youtube...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVFL6GtKDA0


  • #810
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Snow Garden wrote: »
    Have ye noticed the number of large bumble bees around? I guess there are less cars around to mow them down. They do seem quite big this year.

    Now that you say it, 3 enormous bumble bees in my house the last few days. Two I managed to set free but one met death by dog


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  • #811
    Hoffmans
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭Hoffmans


    Nature will benefit it is probably nature fighting back against the thumping it's being taken in past decades, have Noticed lot more birds singing in the trees
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8109819/Coronavirus-lockdown-Italy-leads-notable-drop-air-pollution.html


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