Relaxation of restrictions Part II

peasant · 03-05-2020 10:42PM

timmy_mallet wrote: »

This extremism needs to stop. Its outrageous.

It's not extremism ...it's a reality check

to quote myself:

The virus is extremely contagious
The virus spreads most actively before or just during the onset of symptoms.

So the person that infects you most likely shows no symptoms at all or just a light sniffle that could be anything or nothing.

The virus could kill you...perhaps it won't, perhaps it will

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It's all fine and dandy if you, for yourself, decide that you'd like to have your sex with an extra bit of added risk.

But you're also increasing the risk for your partner and everyone they (and you) get in touch with afterwards.

Are you going to ask all these people for their consent before you engage in your high risk sex ?

No?

So who's the extremist here?

davemckenna25 · 03-05-2020 10:48PM

peasant wrote: »

It's not extremism ...it's a reality check

to quote myself:
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It's all fine and dandy if you, for yourself, decide that you'd like to have your sex with an extra bit of added risk.

But you're also increasing the risk for your partner and everyone they (and you) get in touch with afterwards.

Are you going to ask all these people for their consent before you engage in your high risk sex ?

No?

So who's the extremist here?

Selfish people don't care about others, its in their nature. You won't change their minds through reason and common sense.

the dark phantom · 03-05-2020 10:48PM

Had enough of the bull**** now, I'm going to go about my business as usual once my exams are over. Its going to be a long rotten boring summer and I'm not willing anymore to put up with it. I'm in the at risk category and I couldn't give a ****. More and more this lockdown seems to have an ulterior motive behind it.

Ginger n Lemon · 03-05-2020 10:49PM

peasant wrote: »

It's not extremism ...it's a reality check

to quote myself:
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It's all fine and dandy if you, for yourself, decide that you'd like to have your sex with an extra bit of added risk.

But you're also increasing the risk for your partner and everyone they (and you) get in touch with afterwards.

Are you going to ask all these people for their consent before you engage in your high risk sex ?

No?

So who's the extremist here?

With all due respect peasant you are being extremist. Why is staying 2 metres away from another human a new norm now? Because Simon Harris says? Can i hug my mother when Simon says its ok? I do not live with her.

As to "highly contagious" part, I am unsure thats true. Global cases now is 3m or so, reading this thread, corona was in France in December. With freedom of movement in the normal days, 1 person being able to get to new york from beijing in under 24 hours, I struggle to see how the worldwide cases after 5 months are 3 million. Wouldve expected this figure easily to be 20m, or even 50m if its "highly" contagious.

Ofcourse the flip side of this argument is that many people have already had coronavirus, showed no symptoms and healed and havent been reported. In both cases, we dont really have much to be very afraid of?

gozunda · 03-05-2020 10:49PM

FintanMcluskey wrote: »

You have used thejournal.ie as a reference. I checked out after that. The 1st time

This from the poster who spouts non stop rubbish with no references - fair enough lol

Perhaps read the article - it certainly trumps the social media reports that Swedens infection rate is somehow not an issue.

easypazz · 03-05-2020 10:50PM

FintanMcluskey wrote: »

You have used thejournal.ie as a reference. I checked out after that. The 1st time

He also used anonymous posts on boards.ie as a source as to how severe this illness is.

And he drew some weird WW2 analogies about some other nonsense theory he had.

easypazz · 03-05-2020 10:52PM

gozunda wrote: »

This from the poster who spouts non stop rubbish with no references - fair enough lol
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Pot, kettle, black.

FintanMcluskey · 03-05-2020 10:52PM

peasant wrote: »

It's not extremism ...it's a reality check

to quote myself:
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It's all fine and dandy if you, for yourself, decide that you'd like to have your sex with an extra bit of added risk.

But you're also increasing the risk for your partner and everyone they (and you) get in touch with afterwards.

Are you going to ask all these people for their consent before you engage in your high risk sex ?

No?

So who's the extremist here?

Ah now its not aids.

Its more dangerous to people who are highly unlikely to be still sexually active. And 90% of those over 80 survive it.

We cant stop healthy people having casual sex because of what looking more like a highly contagious flu the more thats discovered about it.

Ginger n Lemon · 03-05-2020 10:54PM

gozunda wrote: »

This from the poster who spouts non stop rubbish with no references. Fair enough lol Perhaps read the article - it certainly trumps the social media reports that Swedens infection rate is somehow not an issue. I

Whats wrong with having high infection rate if ICU isnt overwhelmed? Are we in the business of 100% protecting our population from flu, coronavirus, should we preach to people how to live their lives to avoid getting HIV too?

Life is risk. If you want anything else, you need to stay indoors. If you are very old and have weak immune system, you need to isolate, unfortunately. If you have underlying conditions you need to isolate.

Why would you isolate if you are healthy? everybody in this forum, damn even the country know that % of healthy people are easily 95%, perhaps even 98%. If we open tkmaxx this isnt going to go to 50% infection rates..... people maintain social distancing with strangers. They have done so a long time now, how often do you walk right onto the person and expect them to move out of your way?

SusieBlue · 03-05-2020 10:55PM

davemckenna25 wrote: »

Selfish people don't care about others, its in their nature. You won't change their minds through reason and common sense.

Wanting to have physical contact with you partner is not selfish and it doesn’t mean you don’t care about others. It is a basic primal human need and expecting people to go without it until a minimum of 2021 is insanity and totally unrealistic.

These extremist hard line views do nothing to further your position, if you can’t even understand why a person might want to hug their boyfriend at some point this year then I can only assume you’d be happy holed up in your house for the rest of your life and we therefore aren’t looking at this situation from the same perspective.

gozunda · 03-05-2020 10:56PM

easypazz wrote: »

He also used anonymous posts on boards.ie as a source as to how severe this illness is.
And he drew some weird WW2 analogies about some other nonsense theory he had.

Whoo edgy. Did all that really hit a nerve?

This from the poster who ascribes anonymous opinions about Sweden without any references and then gives us his 'expert opinion that we will all be following Sweden crazy experiment by July.

FintanMcluskey · 03-05-2020 10:57PM

davemckenna25 wrote: »

Selfish people don't care about others, its in their nature. You won't change their minds through reason and common sense.

Yes exactly my attitude. Its completely selfish to isolate the healthy to protect the minority of the vulnerable, especially so, when isolating the healthy wont have any effect on what happens in nursing homes

Ginger n Lemon · 03-05-2020 10:59PM

gozunda wrote: »

Whoo edgy. Did all that really hit a nerve? O

This from the poster who ascribe anonymous opinions about Sweden without any references and then gives us his expert opinion that we will all be following Sweden crazy experiment by July.

Sweden's unemployment rate as result of pandemic is 10%. ours is 22% according to minister for finance. Ours will go down to 14% September onwards, assuming no 2nd lockdown, Sweden's will go down to the usual 6%.

The experiment here, given that death rates are identical in both countries, is going to be how long we can lock our barbers at home for. 4 months. 5?

callaway92 · 03-05-2020 10:59PM

the dark phantom wrote: »

Had enough of the bull**** now, I'm going to go about my business as usual once my exams are over. Its going to be a long rotten boring summer and I'm not willing anymore to put up with it. I'm in the at risk category and I couldn't give a ****. More and more this lockdown seems to have an ulterior motive behind it.

Cool, ok.

I mean... you won’t.. but you might as well say you will for whatever reason.

Haha at ulterior motives - what in the hell..

peasant · 03-05-2020 11:01PM

Ginger n Lemon wrote: »

With all due respect peasant you are being extremist. Why is staying 2 metres away from another human a new norm now? Because Simon Harris says? Can i hug my mother when Simon says its ok? I do not live with her.

It doesn't matter one bit who says so, me, Simon Harris or whoever. The reason why you shouldn't hug your mother is because you don't want to give her the virus.

If you absolutely need to hug your mother, quarantine yourself for two weeks and if you're sure you don't have the virus ...then you can hug her. I'm sure she'd do the same for you.

SusieBlue · 03-05-2020 11:01PM

If the news that has come out about France is true, that changes everything. It confirms the theory that this virus has been around a lot lot longer than first thought and that surely means we’re further along in the timeline than what we were projecting.

Podge201 · 03-05-2020 11:02PM

SusieBlue wrote: »

If the news that has come out about France is true, that changes everything. It confirms the theory that this virus has been around a lot lot longer than first thought.

Link?

FintanMcluskey · 03-05-2020 11:03PM

peasant wrote: »

It doesn't matter one bit who says so, me, Simon Harris or whoever. The reason why you shouldn't hug your mother is because you don't want to give her the virus.

If you absolutely need to hug your mother, quarantine yourself for two weeks and if you're sure you don't have the virus ...then you can hug her. I'm sure she'd do the same for you.

Covid is not a death sentence.
What happens if no vaccine exists for 4-5 years?

SusieBlue · 03-05-2020 11:05PM

Podge201 wrote: »

Link?

Here we go. Not sure if the copied link is for the French or English version, but there’s a tab at the top of the page to switch between the languages. You can find the English version there.

https://actu17.fr/un-patient-etait-positif-au-coronavirus-le-27-decembre-en-france-annonce-le-professeur-yves-cohen/

Edit: the translator only works if you’re using a chrome browser FYI.

stephenjmcd · 03-05-2020 11:07PM

93 patients in ICU across the country tonight. More hospital details here

rob316 · 03-05-2020 11:08PM

the dark phantom wrote: »

Had enough of the bull**** now, I'm going to go about my business as usual once my exams are over. Its going to be a long rotten boring summer and I'm not willing anymore to put up with it. I'm in the at risk category and I couldn't give a ****. More and more this lockdown seems to have an ulterior motive behind it.

You don't lockdown the world for a virus with a mortality rate of 0.1%

the dark phantom · 03-05-2020 11:09PM

callaway92 wrote: »

Cool, ok.

I mean... you won’t.. but you might as well say you will for whatever reason.

Haha at ulterior motives - what in the hell..

When I say I will do something I will, Soon as exams are over I'm heading up to my son and his brother and I'll drive the backroads and over the mountains to do so. I survived death last year and the fact is my 'medicine' is unavailable here now thanks to AGS so **** them too

RugbyLad11 · 03-05-2020 11:11PM

stephenjmcd wrote: »

https://twitter.com/cecileollivier/status/1256966423919935491?s=19

Quite huge news out of France this evening, French doctor on BMFTV in France has said he retested all PCR normal flu swabs after having a patient with pneumonia in hosptial on 27th December, retest postive for covid. Now if its verified and they've said they'll publish the data in medical journals next week then this has been around a hell of a lot longer than people think

This shows the the lockdown is OTT, people were not dropping like flies when it was around in December

Ginger n Lemon · 03-05-2020 11:11PM

peasant wrote: »

It doesn't matter one bit who says so, me, Simon Harris or whoever. The reason why you shouldn't hug your mother is because you don't want to give her the virus.

If you absolutely need to hug your mother, quarantine yourself for two weeks and if you're sure you don't have the virus ...then you can hug her. I'm sure she'd do the same for you.

I do have to admit I lured you into that one. My mother already had covid19, she got it from her partner who is a nurse in Naas hospital. Both recovered and doing well, she said she just had weakness as 1 symptom and high temperature. They are 57 and 63 respectively.

I am unsure whether Garda will accept this explanation when I try to make my way to Laois from Dublin though. Is hugging my mother essential? a bit of sarcasm on last point

peasant · 03-05-2020 11:16PM

FintanMcluskey wrote: »

Covid is not a death sentence.
What happens if no vaccine exists for 4-5 years?

Yes, Covid-19 is not Ebola or the zombie apocalypse. In a way that's part of the problem. It's too easy to think that it won't affect you, and if it did it probably wouldn't be too bad.

That may well be true for you (perhaps even me), but it certainly isn't true for everybody. And because this virus is so very contagious and so very sneaky in its infection we can't just let it run rampant because then it would really affect everybody very quickly and kill a lot more people than it is now (while everybody is trying to keep some form of lid on it)

If there is no vaccine?
We will have to learn to live with it as best we can.
That also means that we need to get over ourselves and get this idea out of our heads that it is us against them ..the bunker-sitters against the pub-goers; the conspiracy theorists against the sheeple...the virus doesn't give a sh1t about our little fights amongst ourselves..it infects regardless. The sooner we understand that, the better.

easypazz · 03-05-2020 11:17PM

Ginger n Lemon wrote: »

Sweden's unemployment rate as result of pandemic is 10%. ours is 22% according to minister for finance. Ours will go down to 14% September onwards, assuming no 2nd lockdown, Sweden's will go down to the usual 6%.

The experiment here, given that death rates are identical in both countries, is going to be how long we can lock our barbers at home for. 4 months. 5?

He is past the point of rescue I feel.

Salty · 03-05-2020 11:18PM

ceadaoin. wrote: »

Lol, they definitely aren't over. People will do what they want regardless of the social distancing guidelines. You think its ok for the government to dictate that people can't have sex or start relationships and that its acceptable for healthy young people to put their lives on hold like that? Even Dr Fauci said that of course people can take a date home if they so wish because stopping people from forming relationships would be complete government overreach.

Absolutely - riding is an essential part of life and it will continue regardless!

Myself and my other half don't live together. We were each at home saving for a mortgage, and I recently had to move 3 hours up the country for a job

I am back at home now since the start of the lockdown and we haven't seen much of each other

But whenever I have to move back to restart my job, you can be sure that I will be travelling home at the weekend and spending time doing whatever I want with him...ahem...

We are together over three years now. People can't be expected to take a vow of chastity over this thing ffs :rolleyes:

gozunda · 03-05-2020 11:22PM

Ginger n Lemon wrote: »

Whats wrong with having high infection rate if ICU isnt overwhelmed? Are we in the business of 100% protecting our population from flu, coronavirus, should we preach to people how to live their lives to avoid getting HIV too?

Life is risk. If you want anything else, you need to stay indoors. If you are very old and have weak immune system, you need to isolate, unfortunately. If you have underlying conditions you need to isolate.

Why would you isolate if you are healthy? everybody in this forum, damn even the country know that % of healthy people are easily 95%, perhaps even 98%. If we open tkmaxx this isnt going to go to 50% infection rates..... people maintain social distancing with strangers. They have done so a long time now, how often do you walk right onto the person and expect them to move out of your way?

You just dont get it do you?

If you get it - you risk passing it on to others. Your parents, your friends who may have long term conditions you know nothing about, those that get the infection anyway and end up in Hospital.

Yes we can vaccinate against flu. Yes people at risk from HIV infection is one if the reasons why advice re limiting partners and safe sex is now the norm.

But sure go ahead. Get yourself infected.

If everyon does that then ICU will be overwhelmed for sure.

SNNUS · 03-05-2020 11:24PM

What a change we have had in a few months, Lockdown FFS! No Sex FFS! , Tony is the new Catholic Church

Wtf ? · 03-05-2020 11:26PM

rob316 wrote: »

There will be plenty lads and lasses that take their chances for the ride.

Doggy would have to be the choice so.:rolleyes:

Relaxation of restrictions Part II

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