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

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  • #482
    niallo27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,145 ✭✭✭✭niallo27


    Ballso wrote: »
    How many more should we have let die to protect your income?

    Lazy lazy reply. Lets never leave our houses again. Thank **** nobody ever died before this corona virus.


  • #483
    Hibernicis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,374 ✭✭✭Hibernicis


    degsie wrote: »
    So, did the op go for the auld spin?


    Still waiting to hear how he got on...... Could be that some terrible fate befell him ......

    boards.ie needs your help to survive. Subscribe HERE.



  • #484
    Nika Bolokov
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 651 ✭✭✭Nika Bolokov


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    Got a link to your in-depth study of peoples normal vs pandemic activities?? Must be a fascinating read.

    Ah boards. No wonder it's in the gutter.


  • #485
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    AulWan wrote: »
    So easily said when you're not the one burying your family members.
    true. but i'm not wholly convinced it is that simple with no shades of grey.


  • #486
    owlbethere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭owlbethere


    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.

    I'm sorry to read of your news about your work.

    This virus is going to mess with all of our lives, it's not just your job.

    The lockdown was not overcooked. The lockdown was to slow the spread of the virus, so the health service doesn't collapse and for the medical and science professionals to catch up with this virus. It's a novel coronavirus. This is our generation of polio or whatever other disease you would like to pick out from the past. Also no one knows the long term implications of this virus will be on people. Like will survivors be looking at organ transplants in 5/10 years time. This disease has to be slowed down.

    So far, the medical and science professionals have learned that this virus will effect older people and people with underlying conditions. If the virus was allowed to go rampant through society, already this would be a lot of people wiped out. Perhaps seeing entire families wiped out. Or young children being left parentless. How do we deal with something like that?To see death from different circles - family, friends, colleagues, neighbours?

    We also see the medical and science professionals trailing drugs for the treatment of this disease. We also see the professionals working on vaccines.

    The lockdown bought us time for so much:
    To minimise as much people from catching the virus
    For the science and medical professionals to catch up with the novel virus.


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  • #487
    Nika Bolokov
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 651 ✭✭✭Nika Bolokov


    The OP is probably at bursting point like a lot of us. Hopefully the extra 3k is a help.

    It's tough but worth it in the end.

    Well only know in 5 or 6 years after France announced today they have had cases since December what the real death rate is whether is 0.37 percent like a recent German study or lower or higher so for now its best to just grin and bear it.

    Staying in for a bit more is a better option then letting this virus rip and our crap health service fall apart


  • #488
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 81,524 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    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.

    Mod

    Do not post in this thread again.

    "The robin in the garden,

    That was me,

    I'm still here, Loving you..

    Until we meet again. "



  • #489
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    owlbethere wrote: »
    I'm sorry to read of your news about your work.

    This virus is going to mess with all of our lives, it's not just your job.

    The lockdown was not overcooked. The lockdown was to slow the spread of the virus, so the health service doesn't collapse and for the medical and science professionals to catch up with this virus. It's a novel coronavirus. This is our generation of polio or whatever other disease you would like to pick out from the past. Also no one knows the long term implications of this virus will be on people. Like will survivors be looking at organ transplants in 5/10 years time. This disease has to be slowed down.

    So far, the medical and science professionals have learned that this virus will effect older people and people with underlying conditions. If the virus was allowed to go rampant through society, already this would be a lot of people wiped out. Perhaps seeing entire families wiped out. Or young children being left parentless. How do we deal with something like that?To see death from different circles - family, friends, colleagues, neighbours?

    We also see the medical and science professionals trailing drugs for the treatment of this disease. We also see the professionals working on vaccines.

    The lockdown bought us time for so much:
    To minimise as much people from catching the virus
    For the science and medical professionals to catch up with the novel virus.
    yes i'm very familiar with the narrative. and i continue to obeyed the restrictions but i reserve the right to query authority. my job is neither here nor there but i am one of many.


  • #490
    Lefty Bicek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,625 ✭✭✭Lefty Bicek


    AulWan wrote: »
    So easily said when you're not the one burying your family members.

    Sorry for your loss and all that, but I for one, don't think your unique perspective is decisive in any of this.

    Actually, I think what you're doing here is bad form.

    I wouldn't be posting here at all this evening if I'd
    just lost a second precious member of my family to Covid-19 this morning.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=113352124&postcount=468

    But sure, we're all different I suppose.


  • #491
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    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 cant answer the question, you can just say so, rather than throwing insults and anecdotes.


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  • #492
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    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.

    We don’t have any epidemiologists on NPHET or in government.


  • #493
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 413 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    And I doubt any credible economist would agree with the current government plan either.


  • #494
    beggars_bush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,464 ✭✭✭beggars_bush


    I'm enjoying the lockdown

    There, I said it


  • #495
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    beggars_bush wrote: »
    I'm enjoying the lockdown

    There, I said it

    I read Terry Prone is aswell.


  • #496
    ChelseaRentBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 473 ✭✭ChelseaRentBoy


    beggars_bush wrote: »
    I'm enjoying the lockdown

    There, I said it

    Wouldn't say I'm enjoying it but yeah I've definitely become a lot more relaxed of recent and am sleeping like a log. I've never felt more relaxed actually.

    Actually no I am enjoying it 😁


  • #497
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    owlbethere wrote: »
    I'm sorry to read of your news about your work.

    This virus is going to mess with all of our lives, it's not just your job.

    The lockdown was not overcooked. The lockdown was to slow the spread of the virus, so the health service doesn't collapse and for the medical and science professionals to catch up with this virus. It's a novel coronavirus. This is our generation of polio or whatever other disease you would like to pick out from the past. Also no one knows the long term implications of this virus will be on people. Like will survivors be looking at organ transplants in 5/10 years time. This disease has to be slowed down.

    So far, the medical and science professionals have learned that this virus will effect older people and people with underlying conditions. If the virus was allowed to go rampant through society, already this would be a lot of people wiped out. Perhaps seeing entire families wiped out. Or young children being left parentless. How do we deal with something like that?To see death from different circles - family, friends, colleagues, neighbours?

    We also see the medical and science professionals trailing drugs for the treatment of this disease. We also see the professionals working on vaccines.

    The lockdown bought us time for so much:
    To minimise as much people from catching the virus
    For the science and medical professionals to catch up with the novel virus.

    We could have directed all our attention and resources towards both cocon ing the elderly and providing them with the necessary health response


  • #498
    beggars_bush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,464 ✭✭✭beggars_bush


    I enjoy not going to the shop as often
    Planning our meals for the week.
    Cooking new recipes and baking

    Not actually watching much t.v.
    Reading a lot in evenings
    Plenty of jobs in the garden and painting house etc


  • #499
    AulWan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,652 ✭✭✭AulWan


    Lefty Bicek wrote: »
    Sorry for your loss and all that, but I for one, don't think your unique perspective is decisive in any of this.

    Actually, I think what you're doing here is bad form.

    I wouldn't be posting here at all this evening if I'd

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=113352124&postcount=468

    But sure, we're all different I suppose.

    Wow, thats sounds sincere. Well its not as if I can go an be with my family, seeing as thats not allowed, my parents are cocooning and I am high risk. But yeah, sure, have a go anyway.

    I actually made a request to Boards Admin a few days ago, to put up a thread on the Covid-19 forum where those of us who have lost family could post, do you know what they told me?

    "It would be inadvisable, as it would be trolled." Imagine that.

    But I guess given the tone of your reply, they know what they're about.


  • #500
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 413 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    AulWan wrote: »
    Wow, thats sounds sincere. Well its not as if I can go an be with my family, seeing as thats not allowed, my parents are cocooning and I am high risk. But yeah, sure, have a go anyway.

    I actually made a request to Boards Admin a few days ago, to put up a thread on the Covid-19 forum where those of us who have lost family could post, do you know what they told me?

    "It would be inadvisable, as it would be trolled." Imagine that.

    But I guess given the tone of your reply, they know what they're about.

    Perhaps consider setting up a private Facebook group for those that have lost loved ones in this crisis perhaps then the mods of this forum could then put up a link to it here.


  • #501
    Lefty Bicek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,625 ✭✭✭Lefty Bicek


    AulWan wrote: »
    Wow, thats sounds sincere. Well its not as if I can go an be with my family, seeing as thats not allowed, my parents are cocooning and I am high risk. But yeah, sure, have a go anyway.

    I am sincere. I would not be posting here this evening if I had lost a 'precious' member of my family this morning.

    I am also sincerely telling you that even if I had, I would not be posting in the manner you did, here -

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=113352124&postcount=468

    You highlighted your own intent.

    Sniping on the internet at people with a different perspective to your own, is an odd way to mourn.
    I actually made a request to Boards Admin a few days ago, to put up a thread on the Covid-19 forum where those of us who have lost family could post,

    That's your business, not mine. It's also irrelevant.
    do you know what they told me? "It would be inadvisable, as it would be trolled." Imagine that.

    You didn't get the thread you wanted, and against advice you played the card anyway. That's on you.
    But I guess given the tone of your reply, they know what they're about.

    You not getting what you want here does not constitute trolling on my part. I am certainly not doing so.


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  • #502
    Macdarack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 816 ✭✭✭Macdarack


    This half lockdown is the job. Off the cigarettes and boos, the family life is very harmonious, the weather has played a blinder. Working a 3 day week. Its all good.


  • #503
    gormdubhgorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,383 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    Gal2glam wrote: »
    It’s not just about income. It’s about people’s routines, their sanity, their mental health. Not everything is one dimensional.

    Come on, there are plenty of people who had to recover from serious surgery a lot longer than this has gone on so far.
    Personally I think it is the 'me me me' generation that is doing the most whining about a little loss of freedom.

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



  • #504
    GazzaL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,395 ✭✭✭GazzaL


    gormdubhgorm wrote: »
    Come on there are plenty of people who had to recover from serious surgery a lot longer than this has gone on so far.
    Personally I think it is the 'me me me' generation that is doing the most whining.

    The "me me me" segment of the population which spans multiple generations are those who are rubbing their hands with glee as they get €350 for sitting on their holes watching Netflix, blissfully ignorant of the social and economic carnage going on around them.


  • #505
    Lefty Bicek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,625 ✭✭✭Lefty Bicek


    gormdubhgorm wrote: »
    Come on, there are plenty of people who had to recover from serious surgery a lot longer than this has gone on so far.
    Personally I think it is the 'me me me' generation that is doing the most whining about a little loss of freedom.

    Silly comparison.

    And calling it a 'little loss of freedom' is beyond ridiculous.


  • #506
    AulWan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,652 ✭✭✭AulWan


    Lefty Bicek wrote: »
    I am sincere. I would not be posting here this evening if I had lost a 'precious' member of my family this morning.

    I am also sincerely telling you that even if I had, I would not be posting in the manner you did, here -

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=113352124&postcount=468

    You highlighted your own intent.

    Sniping on the internet at people with a different perspective to your own, is an odd way to mourn.

    That's your business, not mine. It's also irrelevant.

    You didn't get the thread you wanted, and against advice you played the card anyway. That's on you.

    You not getting what you want here does not constitute trolling on my part. I am certainly not doing so.

    Well if you want someone to think you're sincere here's a tip.

    Don't offer your condolences by saying "Sorry for your loss, and all that." like you couldn't even be bothered to formulate the proper words.

    Yet you're perfectly able to formulate the sentences to have a go at me for posting when you think I shouldn't be here.

    I'm not playing any cards. I asked for a thread, the mod said it wasn't a good idea as it would be trolled, and I accepted that. But I feel its very unfair that the one voice that isn't being heard in all this is the voices of the families of the deceased. Maybe if it was heard it might make those who've been lost seem a bit more then a "statistic" to those of you who think this has all been blown out of proportion.

    But here is the link, anyway, in case anyone is bothered looking. If you feel like it, you can click on a name and light a candle.

    IrelandRemembers

    Now I'm out.


  • #507
    gormdubhgorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,383 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    GazzaL wrote: »
    The "me me me" segment of the population which spans multiple generations are those who are rubbing their hands with glee as they get €350 for sitting on their holes watching Netflix, blissfully ignorant of the social and economic carnage going on around them.

    I am sure they will eventually have to watch Pandemic or that mini-series on Covid19.
    Lefty Bicek wrote: »
    Silly comparison.

    And calling it a 'little loss of freedom' is beyond ridiculous.

    How is it beyond ridiculous? There are disabled people for example who adapt to an able bodied world no whinging, no matter what thier disability. They make the best with what they can do within those limits.

    Yet able bodied people cannot sit back for a few months without moaning (yes I realise many people fear for thier jobs - that I understand) But besides those who fear for thier jobs, the rest of the whingers really need to cop themselves on. The idea is to save lives in the long run.

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



  • #508
    Lefty Bicek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,625 ✭✭✭Lefty Bicek


    gormdubhgorm wrote: »
    How is it beyond ridiculous? There are disabled people for example who adapt to an able bodied world no whinging, no matter what thier disability. They make the best with what they can do within those limits.

    They have no choice, and their limitations are imposed by their condition, not by human decree.

    Perhaps you would like to complete your condescension towards them by giving them an 'expert' seat on NPHET.
    Yet able bodied people cannot sit back for a few months without moaning

    It would be far more odd if they could do.
    (yes I realise many people fear for thier jobs - that I understand) But besides those who fear for thier jobs, the rest of the whingers really need to cop themselves on.

    Be nice if your admiration for 'disability' could run as far as empathy for mental well-being.

    It is not normal what is being asked, it is by no means a 'little loss of freedom'.

    It is political diktat, not physical deformity, and so not beyond criticism. 'Moaning' as you put it.

    It is on those grounds that I find your comparison, as I said, silly.
    The idea is to save lives in the long run.

    Actually, the idea is to save the health service in the short run.


  • #509
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    Hibernicis wrote: »
    Still waiting to hear how he got on...... Could be that some terrible fate befell him ......

    Nah I enjoyed the drive and the walk in the sun and I was not the only person out and I came into contract with nobody.

    Those wishing for me to be in a fatal crash are total filth.


  • #510
    PCeeeee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,449 ✭✭✭PCeeeee


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

    I don't have the answer to your question re Ireland but the below has some interesting data. Excess deaths analysis from the economist. EuroMOMO dataset includes Ireland.

    https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/04/16/tracking-covid-19-excess-deaths-across-countries

    I'm sick of it too. But I'm not sure what else could have been done.


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  • #511
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    Restrictions maybe lifted sooner than expected. From the main thread.


    https://touch.boards.ie/thread/reply/2058075500/post/113355476


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