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

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  • #512
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Restrictions maybe lifted sooner than expected. From the main thread.


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

    In other words the restrictions have been a disaster and the government is trying to save face.

    People in the at risk group need to isolate healthy should not be locked up or made feel guilty.

    The people who should have been protected had sick people discharged into their care homes.

    I am given this lockdown two fingers and I am not interested in the nasty venom from the pro lockdown zealots.


  • #513
    ChelseaRentBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 473 ✭✭ChelseaRentBoy


    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.

    Yeah yeah. You've made the same point about a million times.

    We get you.


  • #514
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    In other words the restrictions have been a disaster and the government is trying to save face.

    People in the at risk group need to isolate healthy should not be locked up or made feel guilty.

    The people who should have been protected had sick people discharged into their care homes.

    I am given this lockdown two fingers and I am not interested in the nasty venom from the pro lockdown zealots.

    My reaction on seeing this post.

    It's funny how black and things are too people. It's either one extreme or the other but nothing in the middle. You don't agree with lifting restrictions, you're a pro lockdown zealot. You agree with a moderate but not full lifting of restrictions, you're shouted down as a pro lockdown zealot.

    You see the same on politics threads. People shouting far right or looney left at posters they disagree with. Abortion debate threads the same.

    The answer is usually in the middle.

    Shouty nonsense has ruined internet debate.


  • #515
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    My reaction on seeing this post.

    It's funny how black and things are too people. It's either one extreme or the other but nothing in the middle. You don't agree with lifting restrictions, you're a pro lockdown zealot. You agree with a moderate but not full lifting of restrictions, you're shouted down as a pro lockdown zealot.

    You see the same on politics threads. People shouting far right or looney left at posters they disagree with. Abortion debate threads the same.

    The answer is usually in the middle.

    Shouty nonsense has ruined internet debate.

    I had people on this thread say they wanted be to be in a fatal crash for going out for a drive on my on and a walk on my on now that is extreme.

    I was fully in support of the lockdown at the start we need to get the country moving again.

    Keeping vulnerable people safe would seem like the sensible thing now with over 50% of the deaths in care homes.

    Sick people got discharged into care homes by the HSE this is a fact.

    Sporting events big shopping malls should be avoided for now but the 85,000 deaths warning looks beyond silly now.

    Old and vulnerable people have other health conditions and these have been neglected during this lockdown.

    How many cancer deaths are we going to have because of all of this?
    How many chronic conditions have been neglected during this time?


  • #516
    Tork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,782 ✭✭✭Tork


    Sod that rant. Did you or did you not put your money where your mouth is and take that road trip?


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  • #517
    magic17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 154 ✭✭magic17


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Restrictions maybe lifted sooner than expected. From the main thread.


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


    It's only a matter of time before this happens. The numbers are falling. Either we get to a point where things are near 0 in both daily cases and deaths and the government accelerates everything or people get fed up and start going back to normal themselves.



    Nobody will be accepting these restrictions in 3-4 weeks when our numbers have fallen significantly. Probably sooner.


  • #518
    Mr. teddywinkles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,727 ✭✭✭Mr. teddywinkles


    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.

    Thinking about this yesterday. If people have lost their jobs due to this come the 1 phase. Will they give a ****e about restrictions at all.


  • #519
    Ballso
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 465 ✭✭Ballso


    Sephiroth_dude wrote: »
    Mod

    Do not post in this thread again.

    Sorry teacher


  • #520
    jonnny68
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,670 ✭✭✭jonnny68


    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    I had people on this thread say they wanted be to be in a fatal crash for going out for a drive on my on and a walk on my on now that is extreme.

    I was fully in support of the lockdown at the start we need to get the country moving again.

    Keeping vulnerable people safe would seem like the sensible thing now with over 50% of the deaths in care homes.

    Sick people got discharged into care homes by the HSE this is a fact.

    Sporting events big shopping malls should be avoided for now but the 85,000 deaths warning looks beyond silly now.

    Old and vulnerable people have other health conditions and these have been neglected during this lockdown.

    How many cancer deaths are we going to have because of all of this?
    How many chronic conditions have been neglected during this time?

    yet again your one of the few making absolute sense here mate


  • #521
    TheCitizen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,219 ✭✭✭✭TheCitizen


    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    In other words the restrictions have been a disaster and the government is trying to save face.

    People in the at risk group need to isolate healthy should not be locked up or made feel guilty.

    The people who should have been protected had sick people discharged into their care homes.

    I am given this lockdown two fingers and I am not interested in the nasty venom from the pro lockdown zealots.

    LOL at the keyboard hardman. I'd like to see you go ahead and stick two fingers up at the Gardaí if you deliberately try to break the restrictions we are being asked to abide by. On you go :pac:

    "Pro lockdown zealots", what are you blathering about. No one is "pro lockdown", most of us are complying with the restrictions primarily because the health service can not become overwhelmed. As the health service gears up the restrictions are being lifted. The roadmap is there and if things go well it may be fast-tracked. What are you panicking about?


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  • #522
    TheCitizen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,219 ✭✭✭✭TheCitizen


    jonnny68 wrote: »
    yet again your one of the few making absolute sense here mate

    Absolutely ridiculous the support that panic merchant is getting on here. He sounds like a Gemma Doherty convert. A "look at me" panic merchant loon.


  • #523
    Widdensushi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,254 ✭✭✭Widdensushi


    TheCitizen wrote: »
    Absolutely ridiculous the support that panic merchant is getting on here. He sounds like a Gemma Doherty convert. A "look at me" panic merchant loon.

    seems like the kettle calling the pot black


  • #524
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    TheCitizen wrote: »
    Absolutely ridiculous the support that panic merchant is getting on here. He sounds like a Gemma Doherty convert. A "look at me" panic merchant loon.
    The irony.


  • #525
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    Just back form my local town, very busy . Even saw trucks heading into the local Mart.
    Seems people are deciding themselves that destroying the future of the country is not a good idea.
    Wonder will Professor Nolan explain his tweet from yesterday at today's conference.


  • #526
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,464 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »

    I am given this lockdown two fingers and I am not interested in the nasty venom from the pro lockdown zealots.

    We got the Irish “Martin Luther King” right here.:rolleyes:


  • #527
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    TheCitizen wrote: »
    LOL at the keyboard hardman. I'd like to see you go ahead and stick two fingers up at the Gardaí if you deliberately try to break the restrictions we are being asked to abide by. On you go :pac:

    "Pro lockdown zealots", what are you blathering about. No one is "pro lockdown", most of us are complying with the restrictions primarily because the health service can not become overwhelmed. As the health service gears up the restrictions are being lifted. The roadmap is there and if things go well it may be fast-tracked. What are you panicking about?

    “I'd like to see you go ahead and stick two fingers up at the Gardaí if you deliberately try to break the restrictions we are being asked to abide by. On you go“ - I have 2 fingers to the Gardai in Saturday. Me and friends went for bbq and beers on the beach. Great craic.

    Should the sky be falling down yet??


  • #528
    road_high
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,558 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Just back form my local town, very busy . Even saw trucks heading into the local Mart.
    Seems people are deciding themselves that destroying the future of the country is not a good idea.
    Wonder will Professor Nolan explain his tweet from yesterday at today's conference.

    Bills to pay, loans to honour...happy clappy ****e from NPHET and the government won't cut when property is being re-possessed. Their so called "plan" is a shambles and people are voting with their feet and wallets. Because they have to


  • #529
    Breezin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 698 ✭✭✭Breezin


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Just back form my local town, very busy . Even saw trucks heading into the local Mart.
    Seems people are deciding themselves that destroying the future of the country is not a good idea.
    Wonder will Professor Nolan explain his tweet from yesterday at today's conference.


    I had to look that up. For those off the pace like me...

    One can argue that social distancing alone would have been enough to suppress the spread of COVID-19 in Ireland; but in w/b 20 March, the number of people in ICU was doubling every 3.5 days, and 4214 new cases were detected. It was no time for half measures, or experiments.



    So, a roundabout and rather cute hoor way of saying we don't need a lockdown. Not that the lockdown itself wasn't a very costly experiment.


  • #530
    Breezin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 698 ✭✭✭Breezin


    Oh, and the car park near my house, empty for weeks, is now full again. Back to business as usual.


  • #531
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    Comments from Paschal and Regina should start concentrating a few minds.

    https://www.facebook.com/45441411157/posts/10157408826511158/


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  • #532
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 42,996 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    I had people on this thread say they wanted be to be in a fatal crash for going out for a drive on my on and a walk on my on now that is extreme.

    I was fully in support of the lockdown at the start we need to get the country moving again.

    Keeping vulnerable people safe would seem like the sensible thing now with over 50% of the deaths in care homes.

    Sick people got discharged into care homes by the HSE this is a fact.

    Sporting events big shopping malls should be avoided for now but the 85,000 deaths warning looks beyond silly now.

    Old and vulnerable people have other health conditions and these have been neglected during this lockdown.

    How many cancer deaths are we going to have because of all of this?
    How many chronic conditions have been neglected during this time?
    I'd be happy with things starting to unlock if we did things right in the first place like quarantine for anybody coming into the country, a law that you must wear a facemask in urban areas, shops etc. and then social distancing which most of us are abiding to.
    Thing is that it's too early to tell if this thing is going to go away.
    Spain have offered themselves up as the guinea pigs for a second wave and we'll start to see the results of that in about 10 days time.
    We shouldn't be making any plans until we see what happens in Spain.

    Our government have shown themselves to be lacking from the very outset of this thing. They should have told people they were not going to Cheltenham or on holidays to Italy or Spain They should have immediately imposed a quarantine on anybody entering the country and not this shoddy, we trust you will self-isolate approach.
    We still need to quarantine anybody coming in here before we can start to get back on the street. I think the person should have to pay for that quarantine. It'd be another layer of deterrent against people coming in here which would be good.
    Our government have never taken on board the successful plans from other countries such as New Zealand, Australia or the Czech Republic. You might say that Australia and New Zealand are far more remote so it's not comparable but their plans can be looked at to improve our own which has not happened.

    Anybody wanting out now and thinking it's the right move either hasn't a clue or is just acting like a spoiled child or maybe just put money above people's lives.
    We need to take our time. We all want things back to normal but not at the expense of thousands of lives.


  • #533
    TheCitizen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,219 ✭✭✭✭TheCitizen


    Widdensushi wrote: »
    seems like the kettle calling the pot black

    How so?


  • #534
    TheCitizen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,219 ✭✭✭✭TheCitizen


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    The irony.

    Irony? Where’s the irony?


  • #535
    paw patrol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭paw patrol


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Comments from Paschal and Regina should start concentrating a few minds.

    https://www.facebook.com/45441411157/posts/10157408826511158/

    beautiful not only do they shut down peoples job but not they are actually hellbent on making them destitute too


  • #536
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    TheCitizen wrote: »
    Irony? Where’s the irony?

    Moaning about someone else moaning. That's ironic.


  • #537
    degsie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,831 ✭✭✭degsie


    YATCT (Yet Another Toxic Covid Thread)


  • #538
    Ballso
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 465 ✭✭Ballso


    degsie wrote: »
    YATCT (Yet Another Toxic Covid Thread)

    Its grand sure, the intellectual giants on here have it sorted - we're going to ignore the HSE & the WHO and instead follow the advice of random internet gob****es who are not important enough to stay employed, but somehow are better placed to tell us all what we should be doing.


  • #539
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    Ballso wrote: »
    Its grand sure, the intellectual giants on here have it sorted - we're going to ignore the HSE & the WHO and instead follow the advice of random internet gob****es who are not important enough to stay employed, but somehow are better placed to tell us all what we should be doing.

    Didn't you get banned from another thread for similar language yesterday?


  • #540
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Ballso wrote: »
    Its grand sure, the intellectual giants on here have it sorted - we're going to ignore the HSE & the WHO and instead follow the advice of random internet gob****es who are not important enough to stay employed, but somehow are better placed to tell us all what we should be doing.

    you're not the messiah, you're a very naughty boy


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  • #541
    Ballso
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 465 ✭✭Ballso


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    you're not the messiah, you're a very naughty boy

    That doesn't even make sense Dr. Circus, you must be having an off day. Should you not be looking for a job? Although businesses are likely crying out for someone with your level of expertise in hugely complex unprecedented global pandemics, so you'll be grand when you're let go from driving the van or whatever it is you do


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