sterz wrote: » What makes you think it'll be before Wednesday?
Gael23 wrote: » The past few days are showing people won’t tolerate and more and have been pushed as far as they will go. Peoples illingness to cooperate is wearing thin
normanoffside wrote: » The nursing home scandal will turn out to be a massive stain on Leo and Simon. They were looking in the wrong place for the virus (similar to Bandit Luke looking at the sweat left by joggers on the footpaths).
martingriff wrote: » We will hear about them before Wednesday. While I agree about the increase you know people were allowed to go and walk around
_Kaiser_ wrote: » I've noticed a steady increase in local footfall and activity outside the window here in the last few days, cumulating yesterday in kids out playing and people walking around in the sunshine while a Garda strolled by without any issue with this. Lockdown is effectively already over because the objective was achieved - allow the health service time to respond, get people's attention, and reduce the rates of infetction to manageable levels. FG are being rapidly exposed in this new phase and that too is annoying people who are remembering why they didn't vote for them only a few weeks before this started. If they don't announce sensible but less restrictive measures from the 5th, I think any remaining patience in most people (who aren't sick and are low risk anyway) will evaporate in the face of seeing their families mental and financial wellbeing desroyed for another decade.
Bobtheman wrote: » Building sites , factories and some shops May 5th. Thats it and then reviewed in 2 weeks
FintanMcluskey wrote: » We implemented restrictions to lower the Ro. We have achieved that. Thays all we were asked to do. Staying at home is now doing more damage. This is not a death sentence. 0.1% of those over 65 are at risk. Every death is a tragedy. And before Covid every death is a tragedy. And after Covid every death will be a tragedy. But the world doesnt stop as per W.H Auden.
JoeA3 wrote: » No. They’ve admitted it’s not in the community. R0 close to zero. No community spread in a fortnight. We’ve done all we can do and now they’re moving the goalposts because they’re still flappping around, deferring real decisions for more weeks. Harris is probably reading up Wikipedia on the previous 18 Covids.... All this bleating about people becoming complacent and “stay the course” is a smokescreen for their complete cock ups in nursing homes, farcical testing cock ups and the PPE equipment fiasco.
JoeA3 wrote: » I honestly feel that Varadkar, Harris, the CMO and RTÉ are speaking to the nation like we are all fcuking simpleton lemmings. If I hear one of them bleat about “staying the course” or “stay at home” one more time, I swear.... I’m very weary of it. It’s only been 6-7 weeks but it feels like it’s been 6 months. I think the message they are feebly trying to bat us over the head with is rapidly losing meaning. I didn’t see tonight’s CMO conference but Tony was completely ridiculous lastnight. R0 down to near zero. No spread in community for 2 last weeks. Yet he’s speaking to us like some disapproving school teacher, that we’re still on “detention”. The media, including our national broadcaster are putting their own convenient spin on it. Here in the West of Ireland we’ve had the most miserable fcuking 6-7 months of endless rain and storm after storm. The lockdown just happens to coincide with a long overdue decent spell of sunshine. Quelle surprise. People are out and about enjoying the sunshine. Yet this is being reported like the people doing so are villainous cretins. It’s completely ludicrous, a spin to suit an agenda. It’s clear I’m not alone in this, judging by this thread and what I see all around me every day, particularly the last few days. Honestly I probably was a bit nervous about it all for about a week but it’s long since passed. I’m not worried about the virus. I don’t feel threatened by it. I don’t perceive it to be a threat at all in my community. What I am worried about is, what’s going to be left to go back to when this spineless government finally relent and let people get back to their livelihoods. Or what’s left of them.
Downlinz wrote: » I expected and hoped for easing restrictions on May 5th but at this point I think the lockdown is likely to continue for another couple of weeks and would agree with that outcome. The numbers haven't dropped quick enough and I think the goal from all this should be to ensure that this is the one and only lockdown, with the information we have on reoccurences in places like Singapore I think it's fair to say that if we re-open soon we're going to wind up in a state of flux bouncing between open and lockdown for the rest of the year which would be a horrible situation. Patience from everyone and locking down May and I think we'll see the path back to something resembling normality in June.
It’s clear I’m not alone in this, judging by this thread and what I see all around me every day, particularly the last few days. Honestly I probably was a bit nervous about it all for about a week but it’s long since passed. I’m not worried about the virus. I don’t feel threatened by it. I don’t perceive it to be a threat at all in my community.
martingriff wrote: » The paragraph about the good weather I admit I got wrong did not read it properly but the first bit I dont think so
titan18 wrote: » There were articles saying we didn't have enough PPE in hospitals. How would spreading that amount amongst more people have been done? Nursing homes were complaining nurses were being recruited by HSE. Where would the extra nurses have come from if we didn't do that? There was huge backlogs in testing at the start. How would we have tested more people when we already couldn't test fast enough? The ban on healthy people going out was so we wouldn't overwhelm hospitals. If we let people out and didn't close pubs, or reduce the reproductive rate, how would our hospitals cope with more cases along with the idiots in a&e cos they're drunk. As it is with the first set of restrictions before pubs closed, we had temple bar and other pubs packed, we had people flocking to beaches and parks. If our population could be responsible adults, it'd have been grand but there's far too many idiots here to leave things go. Even now cos we haven't enforced fines etc people are taking the piss.
normanoffside wrote: They could have prioritised nursing homes and hospitals (let's be honest, nursing homes are effectively hospitals for very vulnerable people) and worried less about letting healthy people go outside and getting on with their lives.
JoeA3 wrote: » Eh what? I think my post sailed over your head Martin.
JoeA3 wrote: » I honestly feel that
fin12 wrote: » Does he not appear to have got the most mildest case of the virus ever? He literally was back on that late late sh*t show two weeks later.
martingriff wrote: » So who would you listen to. Maybe if we get someone of the families that died or the families of those who are still in ICU. Maybe Mary Lou might actually make you think though she probably does not have to think of her mortgage like Tubridy
martingriff wrote: » They are talking to people like simpletons because they have to make sure they are getting to everyone. It looks like some (yourself includes) this is serious. It has killed over a thousand people in only 3 months. At that is with the restrictions. What do you think it be like if they say f it just open it back up. Your last paragraph is the reason we might have this lockdown longer I dont get you bit of the surprise of a lockdown during good weather. Are you suggesting they manufactured it this way. That is some conspiratorial stuff
Spencer Brown wrote: » Jesus man, stop posting when drunk.
FintanMcluskey wrote: » For some unknown reason Ryan Tubridys incessant stay at home you fools s##te is boiling my pi##. Im sure 500k a year means hes not thinking towards his mortgage payments in Summer, so hes in no position to judge any normal folk
