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Had enough of this lockdown am I the only person feeling like this?

CinemaGuy45

People from the North free to move all over Ireland.
Scab slave labour being flown in on flights.

Travellers totally free to do what they want when they want where they want.

I am working long hours which are deemed essential.

I am going to get out for a decent drive this weekend and head for a beauty spot and get out for a walk and enjoy the sun.

Before you shut me down mods can you answer what harm I will be doing?

This is a discussion forum we are not living in China or North Korea.

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gormdubhgorm

begbysback wrote: »

There are large parts of society who have always been in lockdown, they only venture out for shopping, and spend most of the time watching tv, for these there is no visible difference in their quality of like, there is nothing abnormal about the situation.

See above - re grandkids etc. Also it is a bit of generalisation to say thier quality of life is not affected.
As those you speak of require more medical help than most. But the health system is now under pressure because of the covid19 also the issues of home help and so on. Many elderly are fearful at the best of times the covid19 has added another layer. Even getting prescriptions now has an added layer of difficulty for the elderly. Example only two per time in the chemist.

Ballso

phormium wrote: »

The initial ads on tv about cocooning etc said you 'must ' stay at home then about week or two ago they were changed to you 'should' stay at home. Definitely the impression was given initially that elderly were not allowed out.

What did you think was going to happen, were the army going to flood the streets cos aul Paddy went for a paper?

gormdubhgorm

weldoninhio wrote: »

Incorrect, it's been well documented that NPHET were against advising/allowing over 70s to go out. The Govt over ruled them.

That's not what Coveney says -

https://extra.ie/2020/05/05/news/irish-news/simon-coveney-nphet-cocooners

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But I am sure most over 70's are sensible anyway - and can make thier own decisions based on thier health conditions.

AulWan

magic17 wrote: »

I've definitely had enough. 25km from nearest family. Boyfriend lives 1.5 hours away. At this rate I'll be very lucky to see them before June. How is that fair? .

I just lost a second precious member of my family to Covid-19 this morning. I'll never get to see them again.

How is that fair?

Ballso

AulWan wrote: »

I just lost a second precious member of my family to Covid-19 this morning. I'll never get to see them again.

How is that fair?

Sorry for your loss

weldoninhio

gormdubhgorm wrote: »

That's not what Coveney says -

https://extra.ie/2020/05/05/news/irish-news/simon-coveney-nphet-cocooners

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But I am sure most over 70's are sensible anyway - and can make thier own decisions based on thier health conditions.

Didn't he base Ireland having a travel ban on the feelings of other countries?? "How would Ireland feel if Italy stopped all of our flights?" :rolleyes:

Hardly a bastion of sense.

Edit: Here’s NPHETs recommendations

https://twitter.com/philip_ryan/status/1257566053179195393?s=21

suicide_circus

As someone who is expecting to get some very unpleasant news regarding the future of my job within the next 2 weeks, having worked in various forms since i was 14, i can safely say that i,ve had enough and that i increasingly suspect that we waaaay overcooked these restrictions.

Ballso

suicide_circus wrote: »

As someone who is expecting to get some very unpleasant news regarding the future of my job within the next 2 weeks, having worked in various forms since i was 14, i can safely say that i,ve had enough and that i increasingly suspect that we waaaay overcooked these restrictions.

How many more should we have let die to protect your income?

suicide_circus

Ballso wrote: »

How many more should we have let die to protect your income?

your income is all good, yeah?

Ballso

suicide_circus wrote: »

your income is all good, yeah?

It's great thanks.

weldoninhio

Ballso wrote: »

How many more should we have let die to protect your income?

How much has our death rate risen in comparison to the same period last year??

Ballso

weldoninhio wrote: »

How much has our death rate risen in comparison to the same period last year??

It's risen enough to kill two family members of a poster a couple of posts before yours.

Nobody is asking you ****ing autists to think, just do what you're told.

Jayesdiem

Ballso wrote: »

It's risen enough to kill two family members of a poster a couple of posts before yours.

Nobody is asking you ****ing autists to think, just do what you're told.

If you think this lockdown is so great why don’t you do yourself a favour and hide in your house all day long? A good number of people would rather not tip toe around this virus anymore. Those who want to have more than a good justification to do so. Some people’s livelihoods ARE their lives.

Gal2glam

Ballso wrote: »

How many more should we have let die to protect your income?

It’s not just about income. It’s about people’s routines, their sanity, their mental health. Not everything is one dimensional.

suicide_circus

this simplification of the whole issue down to a binary choice between good and evil is somewhat revealing.

Ballso

Nobody gives a **** about your braindead waffle lads. People with actual skills and qualifications in the area are running the show, your pub-bore level input is not required. Just shut the the **** up.

suicide_circus

lol

Ballso

suicide_circus wrote: »

lol

Enjoy the dole, it'll give you plenty more time to go on the internet to contradict your betters with your stupid ill-informed ****.

[Deleted User]

Ballso wrote: »

Nobody gives a **** about your braindead waffle lads. People with actual skills and qualifications in the area are running the show, your pub-bore level input is not required. Just shut the the **** up.

Is anyone forcing you to read this thread? Also people are right to question the so called experts while they are making life and society changing decisions.

suicide_circus

Ballso wrote: »

Enjoy the dole, it'll give you plenty more time to go on the internet to contradict your betters with your stupid ill-informed ****.

i like this guy

Ballso

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Is anyone forcing you to read this thread? Also people are right to question the so called experts while they are making life and society changing decisions.

Another one. "So-called experts", says Tracy, 26, who works on a checkout part time but has a new hobby contradicting the advice of epidemiologists and economists on the internet in her spare time.

Brain dead *****. Dunning Kruger in full effect.

sabat

Ballso wrote: »

Nobody gives a **** about your braindead waffle lads. People with actual skills and qualifications in the area are running the show, your pub-bore level input is not required. Just shut the the **** up.

"Remember this is coronavirus Covid-19 - that means there have been 18 other coronaviruses and I don’t think they have actually successfully found a vaccine for any,”

Simon Harris 22/4/2020

Zeek12

suicide_circus wrote: »

As someone who is expecting to get some very unpleasant news regarding the future of my job within the next 2 weeks, having worked in various forms since i was 14, i can safely say that i,ve had enough and that i increasingly suspect that we waaaay overcooked these restrictions.

Sorry to hear about your job worries and hope it doesn't pan out that way.

But its very easy at this juncture to claim we way overdid it.
The death toll was controlled (relatively speaking) due the very restrictions a lot of people are knocking.
The alternative Italian-type situation where the virus could "run wild" in the early weeks, could have been disastrous.

I sympathise with your predicament.

As someone who was made redundant in our last big recession (actually in the same week that the IMF landed in this country), I also know from experience the most depressing unemployment scenario can be turned around in time with perseverance and proper government job strategies.

Jobs can be replaced. Sadly human life cannot.

begbysback

Ballso wrote: »

Nobody gives a **** about your braindead waffle lads. People with actual skills and qualifications in the area are running the show, your pub-bore level input is not required. Just shut the the **** up.

Politicians? Whats this qualification you speak of?

suicide_circus

yep i understand all that. it's no more than an impression I have and we cannot know what might have been but we can leave that to the historians of the future. time will tell if the medicine was worse than the disease.

[Deleted User]

Ballso wrote: »

Another one. "So-called experts", says Tracy, 26, who works on a checkout part time but has a new hobby contradicting the advice of epidemiologists and economists on the internet in her spare time.

Brain dead *****. Dunning Kruger in full effect.

So we should just ignore the effects the lockdown is having on everyday working people? These expert's are not god's they can and do make mistakes.

Will you give me an apology in a years time when the data eventually comes back to confirm my suspicion that the model the government uses is wrong and overstated the death rate of this virus?

Anyway enjoy the upcoming recession and all the cutbacks to health and other public services.

nthclare

Sam Hain wrote: »

Sounds ****e.

Better than what you're at I'd say....

Danzy

It's a shi77er, expect to be down 30% in income this year and probably next or more, will survive but we'll have several austere and hard years ahead.

Sick of it but not going to make it worse for short term nice.

AulWan

suicide_circus wrote: »

time will tell if the medicine was worse than the disease.

So easily said when you're not the one burying your family members.

Plumbthedepths

Ballso wrote: »

Nobody gives a **** about your braindead waffle lads. People with actual skills and qualifications in the area are running the show, your pub-bore level input is not required. Just shut the the **** up.

Like Simon?