polesheep wrote: » Source.
road_high wrote: » I find the "essential" worker lists rather distasteful and divisive. Even though I am one myself, our company has stopped all travel bar very essential/production staff itself. It has given imagined superiority to a group of people in some professions- to my mind all jobs are essential as to the person and dependents in question it is likely the difference between poverty and living a reasonable lifestyle.
trapp wrote: » I'm just wondering has it home what exactly is happening here and worldwide. We're hearing stay at home, clap the frontline, watch netflix, enjoy family life and so forth but it seems fake or forced positivity. In Ireland alone this is what's happening. Thousands of people are now going to unemployed and all the effects of that Many, many shops and businesses will never reopen Very few pubs, restaurants will survive The major sports of this country gaelic games, soccer and rugby are banned indefinitely both for large events and at local level. No more all irelands. Our children can't mix with each other or go to school Our young people can't go to college (online studying is not the same) Our children can no longer play sport. Let that sink in for a second. Funerals, weddings and so on are no more. 18ths, 21sts, 40ths, are no more. Socialising in groups is no more. How do our young people meet a partner? Genuine question. Concerts, festivals, parades, community days are no more. We're heading into a depression, never mind a recession and emigration for a better life is off the table. Many, many people in this country will be dependent on the state. Most people I talk to still think we'll get back to some type of normal soon or that we'll have a vaccine to save the day. That could be years away. Is life as outlined above sustainable or will the **** hit the fan over the summer and into the autumn. I don't think the way we're going is just making a sacrifice for the frontline as it's being portrayed by politicians and in the media. From what I can see it's complete destruction of our lives.
Penfailed wrote: » What a pessimistic post. Very little of what you've posted is permanent. "...complete destruction of our lives"...wise up.
Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: » "Smile," they said, "life could be worse!" So I did And it was.
Strumms wrote: » About doing what YOU can to be part of the solution as opposed to being part of the problem..
trapp wrote: » Lads I think the lockdown if that is what is was is over. It was always relying on the public to obey as our police force is not set up to enforce something like that. Rightly or wrongly it's over and especially as we move in to the summer I can't see the government being able to enforce it. The fear of the virus has gone.
fin12 wrote: » I agree with u, at the start of this I was like only going out once a week to the shops now I’ll go 2 or 3 times a week. I’m still doing all the precautions but definitely going out more.
trapp wrote: » Which parts are not permanent do you think?
Penfailed wrote: » None of it is permanent! There will be weddings, gigs, all-Irelands, etc. Schools, pubs, colleges, restaurants, etc. will reopen. Some things may change...but everything changes eventually anyway.
Glenomra wrote: » What a brilliant summary. Should be posted up on ever one of the coronavirus topics every day. This is the needless reality that people imposed upon themselves .
trapp wrote: » When? A vaccine is years away.
Penfailed wrote: » People imposed upon themselves? How do you work that out? It's not a brilliant summary. It's exaggerated sh1te.
hmmm wrote: » This has given us an interesting view of what living under Communism might be like, along the lines of what the hard-left in Ireland would be proposing for Ireland. We get told which jobs are essential and which are not. We get told which people the government will allow go to work. We are told where we can travel and where we can not travel. Our movements are checked by the police. We queue at supermarkets. Most stores which are "non essential" are closed. We have nightly news briefings. In saying all that, I support what the government are doing, and I think they are doing a good job so far. But I wouldn't want to live the rest of my life like this.
99% of the "rich" do not deserve a lick of what they have. Either family inheretance, or they are good at coding or playing financial games with imaginary numbers. While the rest of us have to slave away to survive. That has to end by any and all means necessary.
gauchesnell wrote: » well wait and see - I work in a university and we expect our students back in October/Novemer. In a different format yes but still back.
road_high wrote: » We/they have to come back. The sooner the better
gauchesnell wrote: » ah here....WTF. Why are we stuck at home again. This is from the journal. AN INTERNAL GARDA investigation is underway after an officer had his uniform and garda hat stolen from his car after he attended a party at a convicted drug dealer’s home. The garda had been socialising with the criminal in a town in the east of the country, and had fallen asleep on a couch in the house. He awoke at 6pm to find his car gone. Gardaí on the beat recognised the garda member’s car and spotted two men in the vehicle that were not their colleagues. One of the people in the car was wearing a garda hat and stab vest with the official garda lettering on it. The car was pulled over and the driver was arrested for drink driving. The garda whose car was stolen has filed a formal statement saying his vehicle was robbed and that the two men who were driving it did not have his permission to do so. Gardaí investigating the case later discovered that a video had been shared on social media showing the arrested man and his friend conducting a so-called callout video. Both men are wearing garda hats and one of them is brandishing what appears to be the official garda ASP (baton). While gardaí are investigating the theft of the vehicle, TheJournal.ie understands that an internal investigation has been launched to ascertain why the serving garda was socialising in the home of a convicted drug dealer. He does not work in the locality but at another station in the east of the country. The drug dealer in question received two suspended sentences last year after pleading guilty to charges of having drugs for sale or supply. A spokeswoman for An Garda Síochána said: “Gardaí are investigating all the circumstances of a number of connected incidents that occurred in [town named] on the 20 April 2020. “An Garda Síochána does not comment on ongoing internal disciplinary investigations.”
LiquidZeb wrote: » ****ing ridiculous. Sure wasn't there a case where a case where a bean Garda was caught snorting that white **** up her nostril in a nightclub and it turned out she had bought it off another Garda. Disgraceful.
