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Relaxation of Restrictions, Part III - **Read OP for Mod Warnings**

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


    road_high wrote: »
    Surely yesterday? Are they not classed as construction workers?

    Don't think so.

    blonde-haired-woman-bob-cut-sitting-near-canvas-painting-blonde-haired-woman-blonde-haired-woman-bob-cut-wearing-150272814.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,337 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    road_high wrote: »
    Why stop at just jail?

    I agree. That poster should have executed them in the carpark. Unacceptable behaviour.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,440 ✭✭✭VonLuck


    My knickers are not in a twist I am in a quite happy mood at the moment I am just trying to break it to people who are still out of work that we NEED to get the country running again.

    As regards the builders they are grown adults on their break not company time there is nothing that can be done about it let us be realistic.
    snowcat wrote: »
    I saw lidl workers out for a cigarette today outside their place of work right beside each other. Maybe even closer than the till positions. I will be reporting those essential workers to the Gardai and hope they get jailed.

    Christ, you people are just looking for an argument. When did I ever say that they should be reported to the guards or that we should be enforcing anything laws on them when their on their own time?

    I said that the construction sector has to be carefully watched. Why? Because construction workers tend to congregate together.


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


    road_high wrote: »
    This poster said your knickers were in a twist which was a tad ironic I have to say given their own concern over reckless builders eating lunches outside

    Well let us be fair chicken rolls I mean that is just foul.:P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,293 ✭✭✭CalamariFritti


    snowcat wrote: »
    I saw lidl workers out for a cigarette today outside their place of work right beside each other. Maybe even closer than the till positions. I will be reporting those essential workers to the Gardai and hope they get jailed.

    I hope you're trying to be funny.

    On those Lidl lads and laddies.
    If this thing was as deadly as some people have us believe sure then wer'e basically throwing those people to the wolves every day.
    They way they deal with hundreds of people in pretty close contact - every single day - handing things to people taking their cash surely they're all on death row.

    But not a moan out of them. They deserve some respect tbh. And of course not just Lidl but all of them.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,722 ✭✭✭kaisersose77


    road_high wrote: »
    Surely yesterday? Are they not classed as construction workers?

    Should have clarified, painters and decorators doing indoor work and not the type CinemaGuy45 mentioned :). Was just wondering if there was more of a restriction on those or if they were just treated as construction like you said.


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


    VonLuck wrote: »
    Christ, you people are just looking for an argument. When did I ever say that they should be reported to the guards or that we should be enforcing anything laws on them when their on their own time?

    I said that the construction sector has to be carefully watched. Why? Because construction workers tend to congregate together.

    We are not most of us who have been working from the start of this have learned to not let things worry us.

    I am posting in a light joking tone the undercurrent of posts is for you to relax and not worry about it.:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    “Construction workers outside spar eating chicken rolls“ is the new “my neighbour is having a bbq with a million friends”
    People thought there would be a massive spike in cases after that “scandal” and there wasn’t. So maybe, just maybe, we’ll be grand and people need to relax a bit.
    When I say “relax” I don’t mean stop washing your hands or stop keeping your distance before I get my bottom smacked


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭snowcat


    I hope you're trying to be funny.

    On those Lidl lads and laddies.
    If this thing was as deadly as some people have us believe sure then wer'e basically throwing those people to the wolves every day.
    They way they deal with hundreds of people in pretty close contact - every single day - handing things to people taking their cash surely they're all on death row.

    But not a moan out of them. They deserve some respect tbh. And of course not just Lidl but all of them.

    I say goodbye to my local lidl girl every day. She must be Covid resistant at this stage. Seriously a lot of respect for those frontline workers that are forgotten about. Its not all ICU doctors and nurses even though they are playing a blinder as well


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭boggerman1


    The fall out of project fear is going to take a long,long time to unwind.some people are it seems just looking for an excuse to give out about people back working or the rest.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,440 ✭✭✭VonLuck


    “Construction workers outside spar eating chicken rolls“ is the new “my neighbour is having a bbq with a million friends”
    People thought there would be a massive spike in cases after that “scandal” and there wasn’t. So maybe, just maybe, we’ll be grand and people need to relax a bit.
    When I say “relax” I don’t mean stop washing your hands or stop keeping your distance before I get my bottom smacked

    I'm not going to get worried about a few irresponsible people breaking social distancing guidance. Although I would be worried if everyone adopted the same attitude.

    If you start accepting this kind of thing as the norm, that's when people get complacent. That's why the construction sector as a whole needs to keep watch of on site activities, to avoid complacency.

    You're not going to be able to control peoples behaviour, only educate them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,858 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    boggerman1 wrote: »
    The fall out of project fear is going to take a long,long time to unwind.some people are it seems just looking for an excuse to give out about people back working or the rest.

    Indeed. I think the busybodies badly need to get back to work (if they work that is) so they won’t have the time to be “worried “ about what everyone else is doing or where they are going.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,266 ✭✭✭Juwwi


    Should have clarified, painters and decorators doing indoor work and not the type CinemaGuy45 mentioned :). Was just wondering if there was more of a restriction on those or if they were just treated as construction like you said.

    No technically unless they are working outside painters outside of construction sites aren't allowed back .

    They haven't really clarified fully what stage the likes of painters / tilers or people who work in home renovations can return .

    I suppose if the house was empty it wouldn't be a problem but Tony was asked last Friday and he said " kitchen makeovers " aren't allowed yet


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


    boggerman1 wrote: »
    The fall out of project fear is going to take a long,long time to unwind.some people are it seems just looking for an excuse to give out about people back working or the rest.

    Yellow Belly foul a wing and a prayer there is a joke in there somewhere but I give up.:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 784 ✭✭✭daydorunrun


    snowcat wrote: »
    I say goodbye to my local lidl girl every day. She must be Covid resistant at this stage. Seriously a lot of respect for those frontline workers that are forgotten about. Its not all ICU doctors and nurses even though they are playing a blinder as well

    What the f**k are you doing in there every day???

    “You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.” Homer.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,388 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/hardware-stores-can-be-accessed-only-for-emergencies-says-minister-1.4232565
    Hardware stores may reopen as essential retailers during the Covid-19 pandemic but people can only visit them for “emergencies”, Minister for Business Heather Humphreys has said.
    ...

    Speaking on This Week on RTÉ Radio 1 on Sunday, Ms Humphreys said: “Hardware stores can operate. I want to stress, this is in a very limited and restricted way.

    “It’s not the case that hardware stores should be open to the general public but if you need something as an emergency, for example, if you have a burst pipe in your house, or if there’s a hole in your roof and the rain is coming in, or the fridge gives up.

    “Obviously, in emergency cases like that, you and your tradesman are going to need to be able to access certain materials from the hardware shops to fix the problem.

    “So I want to stress in cases like that, it should be done by delivery or on an emergency call-up basis. So basically if there’s an emergency or you need to get something the hardware stores can provide that to you.”

    Meanwhile I see Woodies have an ad on facebook and the only thing they specifically advertise having is that they "yes, we have paint" !!, must be that special Dulux emergency paint.

    https://www.facebook.com/WoodiesIE/

    you'd think they would be a bit more discrete about it! big company like that.

    It'd be like Charlie Chawke with his pubs opening since they have restaurant licences putting out an ad saying "come drink as much as you want, all you have to buy is a small cheap starter"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,858 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    What the f**k are you doing in there every day???

    Essential trip to buy essential supplies within 5 km of the posters home


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,440 ✭✭✭VonLuck


    boggerman1 wrote: »
    The fall out of project fear is going to take a long,long time to unwind.some people are it seems just looking for an excuse to give out about people back working or the rest.
    road_high wrote: »
    Indeed. I think the busybodies badly need to get back to work (if they work that is) so they won’t have the time to be “worried “ about what everyone else is doing or where they are going.

    Are you not fearful? Not of the virus itself, but that these restrictions could be extended even further.

    Do you not think that with the current phasing plans that there is every likelihood that the government could delay phases or even go back a phase? I don't know about you, but I'd like to keep those figures low enough to keep everyone working, myself included.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,858 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    rubadub wrote: »
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/hardware-stores-can-be-accessed-only-for-emergencies-says-minister-1.4232565



    Meanwhile I see Woodies have an ad on facebook and the only thing they specifically advertise having is that they "yes, we have paint" !!, must be that special Dulux emergency paint.

    https://www.facebook.com/WoodiesIE/

    you'd think they would be a bit more discrete about it! big company like that.

    It'd be like Charlie Chawke with his pubs opening since they have restaurant licences putting out an ad saying "come drink as much as you want, all you have to buy is a small cheap starter"

    What did you think they’d be selling, ventilators?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,445 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    What the f**k are you doing in there every day???

    Chatting up the Lidl girl of course.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,858 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    VonLuck wrote: »
    Are you not fearful? Not of the virus itself, but that these restrictions could be extended even further.

    Do you not think that with the current phasing plans that there is every likelihood that the government could delay phases or even go back a phase? I don't know about you, but I'd like to keep those figures low enough to keep everyone working, myself included.

    No. I don’t live by fear. It’s a dreadful way to live. I just dont buy into all this ****e about lockdowns and I’ve zero faith in Nphet, Harris or the hse.
    Confident there will be war if they try re impose this rubbish again so that’s what keeps me going. I view it as like being a cracked dam now, once the cracks appeared and water started flowing there’s no going back. And there isn’t. Tony’s “threats” are counterproductive.

    Business closed without a whimper last March as it was the “right thing to do” according to pressure from the social media baying mobs. They won’t roll over and die so easily next time. I can’t see the likes of this ever being allowed to happen again tbh


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,090 ✭✭✭prunudo


    rubadub wrote: »
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/hardware-stores-can-be-accessed-only-for-emergencies-says-minister-1.4232565



    Meanwhile I see Woodies have an ad on facebook and the only thing they specifically advertise having is that they "yes, we have paint" !!, must be that special Dulux emergency paint.

    https://www.facebook.com/WoodiesIE/

    you'd think they would be a bit more discrete about it! big company like that.

    It'd be like Charlie Chawke with his pubs opening since they have restaurant licences putting out an ad saying "come drink as much as you want, all you have to buy is a small cheap starter"

    And yet again we see the government and the general public at seperate stages of easing restrictions. From what I've heard from Varadkar, Harris, amd Hoolahan over the last few days, they're way off the mark of where the rest of country thinks they are.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 784 ✭✭✭daydorunrun


    road_high wrote: »
    Essential trip to buy essential supplies within 5 km of the posters home

    It is not essential to replace every item in the press as it used Also do people still not realise the 5k element relates to exercise and not shopping? People who live 6k from a shop are not expected to starve to death.

    Ps I was having a bit of fun, I presume the op means every day as in every day they are in there. I also endorse their sentiment in terms of kudos to shop workers.

    “You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.” Homer.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,440 ✭✭✭VonLuck


    road_high wrote: »
    No. I don’t live by fear. It’s a dreadful way to live. I just dont buy into all this ****e about lockdowns and I’ve zero faith in Nphet, Harris or the hse.
    Confident there will be war if they try re impose this rubbish again so that’s what keeps me going. I view it as like being a cracked dam now, once the cracks appeared and water started flowing there’s no going back. And there isn’t. Tony’s “threats” are counterproductive

    Well I mean, you don't really get to call the shots on the lockdown, regardless of whether you buy into it or not. You're going to (and have been) impacted by it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,388 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    road_high wrote: »
    What did you think they’d be selling, ventilators?
    No, but I did not expect them to effectively blatantly give 2 fingers to the Ministers request, everybody knows people won't be obeying the ministers wishes and just going in for a browse and to buy some stuff which is not essential. But you don't have to rub it in the governments face.

    I am just amazed they do not even attempt to make out that they want to comply. I expected the ad to list some things related to things she mentioned, if anything at all. Those head shops with their "bath salts, not for human consumption ;);)" were more discrete!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    prunudo wrote: »
    And yet again when see the government and the general public at seperate stages of easing restrictions. From what I've heard from Varadkar, Harris, amd Hoolahan over the last few days, they're way off the mark of where the rest of country thinks they are.

    It happened at the start when restrictions were being put in place, the public moved ahead of them. It's happening again now with the unwinding. Hence the constant soundbites of "this will or could get worse" "it'll be here for years to come". All to try and get public compliance


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


    bush wrote: »
    I'm sick of this at this stage. According to the roadmap I can't work until the 20th of July and the virus is basically non existant. Depressing.

    To claim it is basically non existant is nothing short of ****ing idiotic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 784 ✭✭✭daydorunrun


    snowcat wrote: »
    Google is your king

    So Code of Federal Regulation or an airport in northern France ;)

    “You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.” Homer.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,858 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    VonLuck wrote: »
    Well I mean, you don't really get to call the shots on the lockdown, regardless of whether you buy into it or not. You're going to (and have been) impacted by it.

    In a democracy (Ireland hasn’t been one through this) I believe everyone’s views should be expressed and represented. I certainly don’t feel that was the case here (despite admitting I vote FG, they only have 35 seats but have been making unprecedented decisions). I abide by the majority of it but that doesn’t mean I agree with it. Some I’ve no choice in like supporting closed businesses, others like the barmy 5 km thing I view as complete and utter ****e and don’t stick to.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,447 ✭✭✭Ginger n Lemon


    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    To claim it is basically non existant is nothing short of ****ing idiotic.

    This is d sort of thing Tony would say.

    In all seriousness when 0.01% of population represents live cases... I think OP has a point.


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