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Social distancing Megathread

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  • #1772
    owlbethere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭owlbethere


    From the Galway forum:

    The protest was supposed to be cancelled and it was reported earlier it was cancelled but it looks as if its still going ahead amor there's some sort of a demonstration happening at 2pm on Saturday.


    It doesn't make sense. How on earth are localised protests here in Ireland going to fix what's wrong in America.


  • #1773
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,852 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Dunphy even had someone on to say it was grand.


  • #1774
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,268 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    Has Leo had anything to say since he supported the demonstration ? I am disgusted at the recklessness and actually upset for people who couldn’t attend funerals and postponed weddings
    What does Leo have to say about that


  • #1775
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,852 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    Has Leo had anything to say since he supported the demonstration ? I am disgusted at the recklessness and actually upset for people who couldn’t attend funerals and postponed weddings
    What does Leo have to say about that

    He tweeted about how great the demonstration was and mentioned **** all about anything else. Too busy looking for international belly rubs and **** the rest of us who have done as asked for months.


  • #1776
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,268 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    He tweeted about how great the demonstration was and mentioned **** all about anything else. Too busy looking for international belly rubs and **** the rest of us who have done as asked for months.
    That’s shocking . A slap in the face for us all


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  • #1777
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,090 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    Has Leo had anything to say since he supported the demonstration ? I am disgusted at the recklessness and actually upset for people who couldn’t attend funerals and postponed weddings
    What does Leo have to say about that

    I haven't heard anything from Leo here other than a tweet he sent on it that did not in any way address the breaching of guidelines...

    Harris came out with a half arsed mention of it, just so that he could be seen to addressing it....

    Holohan said something on it yesterday, but he may as well have been wiping his arse for all it was worth...

    And then there are others who could come out to challenge and stand with us; the likes of FF and SF.......As far as I know nothing from them worth a wa&k


  • #1778
    owlbethere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭owlbethere


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    Has Leo had anything to say since he supported the demonstration ? I am disgusted at the recklessness and actually upset for people who couldn’t attend funerals and postponed weddings
    What does Leo have to say about that

    Leo is a scumbag who's clinging on, forgetting half of the electorate who voted in February, don't want him there.


  • #1779
    owlbethere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭owlbethere


    walshb wrote: »
    I haven't heard anything from Leo here other than a tweet he sent on it that did not in any way address the breaching of guidelines...

    Harris came out with a half arsed mention of it, just so that he could be seen to addressing it....

    Holohan said something on it yesterday, but he may as well have been wiping his arse for all it was worth...

    And then there are others who could come out to challenge and stand with us; the likes of FF and SF.......As far as I know nothing from them worth a wa&k

    The mayor of galway came out and he is not happy with the protest on Saturday because of all that's going on with the virus. He's probably the closest thing we have right now on someone stepping up and talking against this.


  • #1780
    keano_afc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    owlbethere wrote: »
    The mayor of galway came out and he is not happy with the protest on Saturday because of all that's going on with the virus. He's probably the closest thing we have right now on someone stepping up and talking against this.

    I saw a tweet from People Before Puberty denouncing the mayor of Galway as "racist". Any idea what thats about?


  • #1781
    um7y1h83ge06nx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,029 ✭✭✭um7y1h83ge06nx


    keano_afc wrote: »
    People Before Puberty

    :D:D:D


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  • #1782
    owlbethere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭owlbethere


    keano_afc wrote: »
    I saw a tweet from People Before Puberty denouncing the mayor of Galway as "racist". Any idea what thats about?
    LOL at People Before Puberty.

    The mayor of Galway is not a racist. He's putting the health and safety of the people of the city and county ahead of a protest on American issues.


  • #1783
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,090 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    keano_afc wrote: »
    I saw a tweet from People Before Puberty denouncing the mayor of Galway as "racist". Any idea what thats about?

    The rantings of a lowlife....


  • #1784
    Cyclonius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 269 ✭✭Cyclonius


    owlbethere wrote: »
    LOL at People Before Puberty.

    The mayor of Galway is not a racist. He's putting the health and safety of the people of the city and county ahead of a protest on American issues.

    It likely won't happen, but he should sue. It's defamation plain and simple. Use our strong defamation laws to apply the proper slap to whichever champaign socialist is running the account, and collect an appropriately sized slice of their Mammy or Daddy's money. Might even drive home the fact that it'd be more beneficial to themselves, and society in general, to do something more productive and useful with their time than being a professional activist.


  • #1785
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,101 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    That’s shocking . A slap in the face for us all

    A kick in the face

    All goodwill is gone


  • #1786
    owlbethere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭owlbethere


    Harris is a weak individual. He was on the news saying roughly that the public need to stay on the path of the road map and not get too ahead of ourselves. Then he went on to talk about protests and what he said was something like this:

    The organisers should reconsider running the events and anyone intending on attending should reconsider going.

    It went something like that.

    He didn't refer to any of the social distancing measures and say the events go against the public health and safety advice. Nothing like that. People should reconsider, that's all he said.


    We know what way that will go. Like the Cheltenham goers and the pub gors before the St Patricks Day parades.


  • #1787
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,735 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    owlbethere wrote: »
    Harris is a weak individual.

    I'm going to go with craven, should never have been given such a role of cabinet responsibility at that age and level of experience. But probably the rest of the cabinet ran away from the poisoned chalice of health.
    His failings are a collective failing.
    I'd be weak too if I was out of my depth with that level of responsibility at that age.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #1788
    um7y1h83ge06nx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,029 ✭✭✭um7y1h83ge06nx


    Rightly or wrongly we as a family have decided that my parents should visit this weekend, they haven't seen my wife or I or their two and only grandchildren here since the end of February.

    My wife and I discussed it first and then I ran it by my brother (he won't be meeting us, don't want 3 households getting together but felt I should consult him as they are his parents too)

    Both houses have been very sensible and we feel any risk is low. It was the protests that started this discussion and comparing that to us meeting for the first time in months. They will have to travel 80km by car but don't think that will cause much issue.

    I admit some may disagree as the distance in particular is against current restrictions. But I feel many will be making similar decisions based on the mass gathering at the weekend.


  • #1789
    Ezra Bewildered Wheat
    Posts: 5,926 ✭✭✭ Ezra Bewildered Wheat


    Apollo Unsightly Underachiever wrote: »
    Rightly or wrongly we as a family have decided that my parents should visit this weekend, they haven't seen my wife or I or their two and only grandchildren here since the end of February.

    My wife and I discussed it first and then I ran it by my brother (he won't be meeting us, don't want 3 households getting together but felt I should consult him as they are his parents too)

    Both houses have been very sensible and we feel any risk is low. It was the protests that started this discussion and comparing that to us meeting for the first time in months. They will have to travel 80km by car but don't think that will cause much issue.

    I admit some may disagree as the distance in particular is against current restrictions. But I feel many will be making similar decisions based on the mass gathering at the weekend.

    I wish you the loveliest time with you’re family at the wkend. You are 100 percent doing the right thing


  • #1790
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,268 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    Leo and Simon have absolutely blown it now . People have lost respect and trust in them over their lack of condemnation for mass gatherings . Why would we listen to their waffling now about social distancing or 20kms or whatever bull they come out with now


  • #1791
    Blaze420
    Closed Accounts Posts: 904 ✭✭✭Blaze420


    Should be zero tolerance for these protests - as in attempt to gather and get your skull cracked with a baton. They seem to be mostly the blue haired student types out to virtue signal and get likes on their social media from like minded imbeciles - should be scared away easy enough if the bats and fists start flying.


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  • #1792
    bucketybuck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,044 ✭✭✭✭bucketybuck


    JL555 wrote: »
    We were asked to cancel weddings, christenings etc, not attend funerals in groups more than 10, lost jobs, suspended our children's education, put off house purchases, shut down the economy, commit ourselves to a huge debt, new parents (mostly fathers from what I can see, acceptable discrimination) not allowed to see and hold their newborns in person, the list goes on and on and on.

    People would be better served realising that measures like these made no sense in the first place.

    People not attending their spouses funerals, dads not attending the birth of their kids, throwing kids educations right in the bin, its all a load of bollocks and those sort of measures will hurt even more when pretty soon people start drifting back to the old ways regardless of what anybody says.

    Imagine missing your mothers funeral because you think it is the right thing to do when all over the country hundreds of thousands of people are still working away, its really going to stick in the throat when they cop on to how meaningless that sacrifice actually was.

    People angry about some silly protest are angry about the wrong thing.


  • #1793
    jackboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,083 ✭✭✭jackboy


    bucketybuck wrote: »
    People angry about some silly protest are angry about the wrong thing.

    It’s not the protest itself that has angered people. It’s the fact that we have relentlessly been told to follow the restrictions for weeks now but these protesters were allowed to break them on mass without any serious condemnation.The restrictions are only for certain sections of the community.


  • #1794
    owlbethere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭owlbethere


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    Leo and Simon have absolutely blown it now . People have lost respect and trust in them over their lack of condemnation for mass gatherings . Why would we listen to their waffling now about social distancing or 20kms or whatever bull they come out with now

    Its smack in the face for sure but going forward I will be continuing to do what's right for me and my family and my partner and my work. I will continue to live with these restrictions and reduced movements in public/crowded spaces.


  • #1795
    bucketybuck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,044 ✭✭✭✭bucketybuck


    jackboy wrote: »
    It’s not the protest itself that has angered people. It’s the fact that we have relentlessly been told to follow the restrictions for weeks now but these protesters were allowed to break them on mass without any serious condemnation.The restrictions are only for certain sections of the community.

    Like I say, angry about the wrong thing.

    You seem more upset that they got away with something you didn't, when you should be thinking about the real need for those restrictions in the first place.

    Put it this way, if there had been no protest at the week people should still be critically evaluating those restrictions and what they are supposed to be achieving.


  • #1796
    httpete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 208 ✭✭httpete


    The upcoming protest in Dublin has NOT been cancelled. Supposedly the account saying it is cancelled is a fale account.

    The organisers of the protest confirm it is still going ahead. Unbelievable.


  • #1797
    httpete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 208 ✭✭httpete


    This selfish recklessness by Black Pride Ireland, MERI, and MASI will not be forgotten by the people of Ireland who have sacrificed so much. I would be all for this protest in normal times but it is completely ridiculous when we are facing the worst health and economic situation in this country in probably centuries.


  • #1798
    jackboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,083 ✭✭✭jackboy


    bucketybuck wrote: »
    Like I say, angry about the wrong thing.

    You seem more upset that they got away with something you didn't, when you should be thinking about the real need for those restrictions in the first place.

    Put it this way, if there had been no protest at the week people should still be critically evaluating those restrictions and what they are supposed to be achieving.

    We have been bombarded with information from politicians, scientists, doctors, guards and the media that equated breaking the restrictions with causing the deaths of the vulnerable. That all came crashing down with the lack of condemnation of the protest. That is why people are angry. The appropriateness of the restrictions is a separate matter.


  • #1799
    ThunbergsAreGo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,399 ✭✭✭✭ThunbergsAreGo


    httpete wrote: »
    The upcoming protest in Dublin has NOT been cancelled. Supposedly the account saying it is cancelled is a fale account.

    The organisers of the protest confirm it is still going ahead. Unbelievable.

    MASI appear entitled and dangerous, often leading online abuse.

    This is reckless, all the while funded by the state no doubt


  • #1800
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,090 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    Leo and Simon have absolutely blown it now . People have lost respect and trust in them over their lack of condemnation for mass gatherings . Why would we listen to their waffling now about social distancing or 20kms or whatever bull they come out with now

    They’re a disgrace..

    Keep tweeting them I say!!


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  • #1801
    owlbethere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭owlbethere


    httpete wrote: »
    The upcoming protest in Dublin has NOT been cancelled. Supposedly the account saying it is cancelled is a fale account.

    The organisers of the protest confirm it is still going ahead. Unbelievable.

    That's unreal. Why would someone make a fake account and throw off the public by saying the protest is cancelled when it's not.


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