Relaxation of restrictions Part II

GoneHome · 26-04-2020 12:58AM

LiquidZeb wrote: »

Glad to see she's doing well but people are facing destitution and unemployment. People might lose their homes and businesses. Telling them to smile comes across as utterly tone deaf.

But really it doesn't, jesus if you or a member of your family were in ICU in hospital dying from Covid-19 then you would realise that work/the economy etc means f-all, perspective needed here brother

JoeA3 · 26-04-2020 12:58AM

road_high wrote: »

https://www.facebook.com/518620081515968/posts/3356570704387544/

This is what you’re up against with the “foreva lockdown” types. Absolutely mind numbingly idiotic people out there going by those comments. Granted it’s journal.ie layabout types but still gives a flavour.
Clearly never worked a day in their lives or in any remotely responsible business capacity

Oh Jesus... wish I didn't click on that. Its pornhub for CorkBoy and Bandit :eek:

easypazz · 26-04-2020 12:58AM

poolboy wrote: »

Absolutely people are thinking about it and rightly so but Principals have not been told anything more than us that's all I'm saying.

never_mind wrote: »

I’ll vouch for this. I’m close to people on roles like this and no one knows more than the rest of us.

Agreed. It is good to see most people that matter, from principals to publicans, reading between the lines and trying to get their head around what is required into the future.

The stainers on Monica's dress around here are a tiny minority.

KrustyUCC · 26-04-2020 12:59AM

Gardaí cannot arrest NI visitors for breaches of Covid-19 restrictions

Garda Headquarters has informed senior officers all over the country that the restrictions on movement to stop the spread of the coronavirus do not apply to people on day trips from Northern Ireland and that powers of enforcement cannot be used on them.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/0425/1134822-garda-headquarters-restrictions/

Brilliant

Great loop hole from Leo, Simon and Co

A visitor from the North can travel to Cork and back no bother for non essential travel but I can't visit friends 3km away

Bloody jokeshop

timmy_mallet · 26-04-2020 01:00AM

GoneHome wrote: »

But really it doesn't, jesus if you or a member of your family were in ICU in hospital dying from Covid-19 then you would realise that work/the economy etc means f-all, perspective needed here brother

I wouldn't begrudge anyone else getting on with their lives if I or my kids were sick, no. No matter what illness it was.

LiquidZeb · 26-04-2020 01:01AM

GoneHome wrote: »

But really it doesn't, jesus if you or a member of your family were in ICU in hospital dying from Covid-19 then you would realise that work/the economy etc means f-all, perspective needed here brother

I have plenty of perspective brother. That still doesn't change the fact people's lives will be ****ed up by this. They don't need to have lost someone to the virus for their suffering to matter as you are implying. Losing your job or home isn't some trivial little matter.

GoneHome · 26-04-2020 01:02AM

alwald wrote: »

Be careful, Norman and his followers might blame you for breathing nevermind living in a house.

I know I just got a lash of that

timmy_mallet · 26-04-2020 01:02AM

easypazz wrote: »

Agreed. It is good to see most people that matter, from principals to publicans, reading between the lines and trying to get their head around what is required into the future.

The stainers on Monica's dress around here are a tiny minority.

And yet here we are arguing with them !!!1!1!1

road_high · 26-04-2020 01:03AM

JoeA3 wrote: »

Oh Jesus... wish I didn't click on that. Its pornhub for CorkBoy and Bandit :eek:

I was expecting the brain-dead comments given the publication. Think they’re an extension of Journal.ie.
Many readers even enjoying the lockdown- heaven i suppose if your idea of “living” is eating junk all day watch Netflix and sky evidently

road_high · 26-04-2020 01:04AM

GoneHome wrote: »

This puts it totally in persective, jesus people it's not that difficult, myself and OH have been off work with a month now and we're really relishing it, we've got all those long finger jobs done around the house and garden, reading all the books we never had time for before, watching great tv series, listening to music, going for long walks, cooking and baking nice food and all the while getting €350 each from the government with nothing to spend it on only €100 once a week in Dunnes on food, relax people and stay at home.

How long do you think the €350 per week is going to last?

timmy_mallet · 26-04-2020 01:06AM

road_high wrote: »

I was expecting the brain-dead comments given the publication. Think they’re an extension of Journal.ie.
Many readers even enjoying the lockdown- heaven i suppose if your idea of “living” is eating junk all day watch Netflix and sky evidently

And when you go out to replenish your stock of 2l bottles of coke and a jogger, a JOGGER ON THE PATH, risks destroying your health, then you go back home and pour another glass and rant about them

Smegging hell · 26-04-2020 01:06AM

road_high wrote: »

I was expecting the brain-dead comments given the publication. Think they’re an extension of Journal.ie.
Many readers even enjoying the lockdown- heaven i suppose if your idea of “living” is eating junk all day watch Netflix and sky evidently

Says the fellow who has spent the entire day posting on boards.ie?

road_high · 26-04-2020 01:06AM

GoneHome wrote: »

But really it doesn't, jesus if you or a member of your family were in ICU in hospital dying from Covid-19 then you would realise that work/the economy etc means f-all, perspective needed here brother

Do you think that ICU runs on fresh air and all the staff are volunteering?

LiquidZeb · 26-04-2020 01:07AM

timmy_mallet wrote: »

And when you go out to replenish your stock of 2l bottles of coke and a jogger a JOGER ON THE PATH, risks destroying your health, then you go back home and pour another glass and rant about them

And also complain about how packed the shop is but somehow you're exempt from this because you're important. I swear to God some people have no sense of self awareness.

road_high · 26-04-2020 01:08AM

Smegging hell wrote: »

Says the fellow who has spent the entire day posting on boards.ie?

It’s Saturday hun- chillax. Nice to be noticed and followed though - thanks !

LiquidZeb · 26-04-2020 01:08AM

road_high wrote: »

How long do you think the €350 per week is going to last?

Well apparently we can borrow as much money as we like and never have to repay it so I guess there is your answer.

GoneHome · 26-04-2020 01:09AM

LiquidZeb wrote: »

And what happens when that €350 inevitably gets cut? A lot of people relishing this are in for a very rude awakening when that happens.

Even if it goes down to the €203 per week each we'd still survive, we live a rural area 45 minutes - 1 hour from Limerick city where we both work, small mortgarge for a lovely house and an acre of garden. There's a lot to be said for living in the sticks, we were just talking about it today and we were saying jesus imagine being above in Dublin stuck in a small 1 bedroom apartment, no thanks.

JoeA3 · 26-04-2020 01:09AM

road_high wrote: »

I was expecting the brain-dead comments given the publication. Think they’re an extension of Journal.ie.
Many readers even enjoying the lockdown- heaven i suppose if your idea of “living” is eating junk all day watch Netflix and sky evidently

When the €350 a week of free money dries up, these neanderthals will be in a real pickle.

I cannot believe 500k people "like" Liberal.ie. I never heard of it until 5 minutes ago. There's a whole world of space cadets out there... the few on here are only a tiny proportion of them it seems.

road_high · 26-04-2020 01:11AM

LiquidZeb wrote: »

Well apparently we can borrow as much money as we like and never have to repay it so I guess there is your answer.

So it seems. The money markets will of course keep doing this because we are special and must wait to see if other less important countries die off first. If not we may or may not decide to get back to work. But better wait another few months. Just in case

road_high · 26-04-2020 01:12AM

JoeA3 wrote: »

When the €350 a week of free money dries up, these neanderthals will be in a real pickle.

I cannot believe 500k people "like" Liberal.ie. I never heard of it until 5 minutes ago. There's a whole world of space cadets out there... the few on here are only a tiny proportion of them it seems.

Jesus you can sing that. They make the space cadets here look like Stephen hawking

timmy_mallet · 26-04-2020 01:13AM

GoneHome wrote: »

Even if it goes down to the €203 per week each we'd still survive, we live a rural area 45 minutes - 1 hour from Limerick city where we both work, small mortgarge for a lovely house and an acre of garden. There's a lot to be said for living in the sticks, we were just talking about it today and we were saying jesus imagine being above in Dublin stuck in a small 1 bedroom apartment, no thanks.

Itll be the person stuck in the 1 bed in Dublin filling the exchequers pockets to pay for your mortgage, just remember that when raking your weeds.

LiquidZeb · 26-04-2020 01:13AM

GoneHome wrote: »

Even if it goes down to the €203 per week each we'd still survive, we live a rural area 45 minutes - 1 hour from Limerick city where we both work, small mortgarge for a lovely house and an acre of garden. There's a lot to be said for living in the sticks, we were just talking about it today and we were saying jesus imagine being above in Dublin stuck in a small 1 bedroom apartment, no thanks.

I'm glad you can last in that situation but many people simply can't. Also thousands of people losing their jobs is depressing to both the economy and people themselves. It's a kick to people's self esteem and especially so if you're in the hospitality, restaurant or pub sector where it looks as if you'll be shuttered for the rest of the year.

GoneHome · 26-04-2020 01:15AM

JoeA3 wrote: »

When the €350 a week of free money dries up, these neanderthals will be in a real pickle.

I don't really know why you're putting everyone in the same boat there but just for some perspective, myself and my OH have been getting the €350 each for the past few weeks, yes it's a lot less than what we'd be usually earning a work but we're at home and staying safe and thank god we're not in dire need of money, so please don't paint everyone with same entitlement brush

LiquidZeb · 26-04-2020 01:15AM

road_high wrote: »

So it seems. The money markets will of course keep doing this because we are special and must wait to see if other less important countries die off first. If not we may or may not decide to get back to work. But better wait another few months. Just in case

It's only a matter of time before someone plays the 'sure we're the Irish everyone loves us' card.

timmy_mallet · 26-04-2020 01:16AM

LiquidZeb wrote: »

I'm glad you can last in that situation but many people simply can't. Also thousands of people losing their jobs is depressing to both the economy and people themselves. It's a kick to people's self esteem and especially so if you're in the hospitality, restaurant or pub sector where it looks as if you'll be shuttered for the rest of the year.

I mean, who do they think the government will get the money from to give them to pay their mortgage? And read all those wonnnndeful books they just haven't got around to. I was just saying to my OH today, aren't we lucky were not stuck with an OH like that!

da_miser · 26-04-2020 01:18AM

i work in a job that has been deemed "essential", believe me i am being martyred agains my will, i would gladly take 350 a week to stay at home.
I see the videos of Indian Police with bamboo sticks hitting the legs of Covidiots and think Garda should be given chimney sweeping rods with a nice brass fitting on the end to beat the shît out of Irish Covidiots.
The 10% of the population that are morons need to be beaten to comply with the guidance that will save lives, thats a reality, but the bleeding hearts wont have it

GoneHome · 26-04-2020 01:23AM

[,QUOTE=timmy_mallet;113273465]Itll be the person stuck in the 1 bed in Dublin filling the exchequers pockets to pay for your mortgage, just remember that when raking your weeds.[/QUOTE]

I don't really understand the anomosity here, we both work in fairly modistley paid jobs, we live in a house in a very rural area which if you wanted to buy it now would cost you about €150,000 just because of the rural location, if we were in Dublin we wouldn't get a garden shed for that, so ya we're happy here in the sticks and long may the €350 a week last

26-04-2020 01:48AM

SNNUS wrote: »

I have no problem complying with the restrictions until 5th May, plan was to lockdown to get R0 below 1 it's now 0.5 or so and little community transmission.

Where are you getting this little community transmission notion from?

of those for whom transmission status is known: community transmission accounts for 48%, close contact accounts for 48%, travel abroad accounts for 4%

https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/6e638a-statement-from-the-national-public-health-emergency-team-saturday-25/

trapp · 26-04-2020 03:17AM

GoneHome wrote: »

But really it doesn't, jesus if you or a member of your family were in ICU in hospital dying from Covid-19 then you would realise that work/the economy etc means f-all, perspective needed here brother

Dear oh dear oh dear my poor man speak for yourself.

You do know every single person will die sometime.

When family members of mine died I counted my blessings I had a job to go to and take my mind away from the reality.

There was a 57% increase in male suicide during the last economic crisis.

Unemployment kills indirectly and it strips people of their hopes, dreams and dignity.

We can't ignore Covid but we need to find a balance to avoid another disaster of a different kind.

Wake up my poor man.

trapp · 26-04-2020 03:22AM

GoneHome wrote: »

This puts it totally in persective, jesus people it's not that difficult, myself and OH have been off work with a month now and we're really relishing it, we've got all those long finger jobs done around the house and garden, reading all the books we never had time for before, watching great tv series, listening to music, going for long walks, cooking and baking nice food and all the while getting €350 each from the government with nothing to spend it on only €100 once a week in Dunnes on food, relax people and stay at home.

What a self centred and selfish way of thinking

What is not difficult for you might be very hard for others.

Some empathy and awareness would go far my poor friend.

Relaxation of restrictions Part II

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