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

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  • #4142
    Goldengirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,222 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    snowcat wrote: »
    You could say the same about countries etc

    Trade could continue but people quarantined . Don't see that working intercounty though!
    " Won't be home for a fortnight , because have to attend a meeting in Dublin. Give my love to the kids " !


  • #4143
    Cork Boy 53
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    snowcat wrote: »
    Should have been implented from day one. Not this stupid 2km restriction. Dublin should have been locked down and to a lesser extent Cork. The rst of the country never had a serious issue

    That depends on your definition of a serious issue but yes Dublin and Cork have been the areas with the most cases, hospitalisations and deaths due to various factors.


  • #4144
    snowcat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭snowcat


    Goldengirl wrote: »
    I would live to know what some of these posters do in real life.
    A good proportion sitting on their...keyboards , ...bashing public servants and others who have worked through this pandemic , and have had to adapt to all sorts of difficult work practices .

    Oh so you are a public servant. Tried to get a passport today but the passport office is shut. Im sure they could could manage to print a few passports but no. No passports available for as long as they can envisage. Are they on zero pay. I somehow doubt it. Would they love a return to work. I somehow doubt it


  • #4145
    Goldengirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,222 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    snowcat wrote: »
    Should have been implented from day one. Not this stupid 2km restriction. Dublin should have been locked down and to a lesser extent Cork. The rst of the country never had a serious issue

    I would say it'll be quarantining clusters and contacts only .
    Don't think they could lock down a county , especially big ones like Cork and Dublin.

    Unless it got very bad of course...?


  • #4146
    Cork Boy 53
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    Goldengirl wrote: »
    What about people commuting to work from other counties?

    Yes them too which is why I believe that for the foreseeable future many people will continue to work from home where that is practical.


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  • #4147
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,583 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Cork Boy 53 wrote: »
    If there is a second wave surge with a high number of cases in the autumn in Dublin, Cork or wherever else that may have to be implemented.

    Well given Dublin port accounts for 50% of the Republic of Ireland’s trade, and two thirds of all containerised trade, unless the other ports can handle the increased traffic and companies can arrange redistribution from them, the rest of the country might be a little short of materials.


  • #4148
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,686 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    snowcat wrote: »
    Oh so you are a public servant. Tried to get a passport today but the passport office is shut. Im sure they could could manage to print a few passports but no. No passports available for as long as they can envisage. Are they on zero pay. I somehow doubt it. Would they love a return to work. I somehow doubt it

    Passport office is not shut , I work there , been in work every day this week. Shifts being worked 7am -7pm daily. Service has resumed, 1400 hundred passports processed today alone, but there will obviously be a backlog after 3month closure . During Covid emergency staff were working, rest of us we were redeployed to social welfare payments.

    What were you doing ?


  • #4149
    Cork Boy 53
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    Goldengirl wrote: »
    I would say it'll be quarantining clusters and contacts only .
    Don't think they could lock down a county , especially big ones like Cork and Dublin.

    Unless it got very bad of course...?

    Which could well happen in a second or third wave despite the impression that many seem to be under.


  • #4150
    snowcat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭snowcat


    Deleted User wrote: »
    It’s not shut , I work there , been in work every day this week at 7am . Shifts being worked 7am -7pm every day ! Normal service has resumed but there will obviously be a backlog after 3month closure . During Covid we were redeployed .

    Why were ye redeployed? Its not as if a passport was not an essential service? Give me a break And tell us what you were doing from 7am -7pm working from home or the office?


  • #4151
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,686 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    snowcat wrote: »
    Why were ye redeployed? Its not as if a passport was not an essential service? Give me a break And tell us what you were doing from 7am -7pm working from home or the office?

    Passports were not an essential service during a lockdown, Covid payments were.


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  • #4152
    castletownman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,340 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    Tenzor07 wrote: »
    With time limits on visitors coming to the museum, limits on numbers, no coach bus/school tours, no lingering at the exhibits is it really worth opening at all?

    That's the worry. And which is why there shouldn't be catch-all guidelines that every business has to adhere to. Should be adaptable depending on footfall, industry type and other parameters.

    It's bull**** that a smaller place like ourselves could be force to close due to rules more suitable for busier, everyday environments.


  • #4153
    snowcat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭snowcat


    Deleted User wrote: »
    That’s exactly why we were redeployed ;). Because passports were not an essential service during a lockdown, Covid payments were.

    Its great to know you worked 7am - 7pm in the office for the Covid effort. We self employed people thank you. I have 3 sisters who are teachers 1 friend a teacher 1 university lecturer who have all testified to me what a great summer they were having during the lockdown. I personally am not too bothered but this idea that the public service have had it terrible is someway biased.


  • #4154
    dundalkfc10
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,719 ✭✭✭dundalkfc10


    In the meantime Fine Gael hopes that all cancers hold off infecting people until they can get screening services back up and running in the autumn after these vital services which never should have been stopped, were stopped because of Covid.

    “Thousands of patients have missed out on screening services since BreastCheck, CervicalCheck, BowelScreen and Diabetic RetinaScreen were paused in March.”


  • #4155
    Bits_n_Bobs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭Bits_n_Bobs


    snowcat wrote: »
    Why were ye redeployed? Its not as if a passport was not an essential service? Give me a break And tell us what you were doing from 7am -7pm working from home or the office?

    So was the passport office shut or not? You seem to be obfuscating with a diatribe of offence nonsense


  • #4156
    Cork Boy 53
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    Bits_n_Bobs wrote: »
    So was the passport office shut or not? You seem to be obfuscating with a diatribe of offence nonsense

    sweetmaggie already stated that it has been open for all this week but that there is a backlog of cases. That reminds me. My passport is due to expire very soon not that I expect I will be needing it any time soon but I suppose I should get it renewed.


  • #4157
    Ginger n Lemon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,447 ✭✭✭Ginger n Lemon


    Goldengirl wrote: »
    Ah leave him alone , he's only 12..eh typo... 32 !

    :D

    Brilliant, lockdown merchant who has no 2nd waves to post about just keeps rambling on about individual posters. I am surprised you havent accused me of thinking some elderly are beyond their means, something you did repeatedly yesterday. :pac:


  • #4158
    Cork Boy 53
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    Ginger n Lemon wrote: »
    :D

    Brilliant, lockdown merchant who has no 2nd waves to post about just keeps rambling on about individual posters. I am surprised you havent accused me of thinking some elderly are beyond their means, something you did repeatedly yesterday. :pac:

    I assume this post was meant to be directed at me rather than the poster you quoted but anyway nice attempt at deflection bud. Any chance of a reply to my previous post to you? I know you FLIP FLOP quite a bit lately a lot but an old explanation would be handy just the same.


  • #4159
    ChelseaRentBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 473 ✭✭ChelseaRentBoy


    Our number of deaths per million is absolutely appalling, one the worst in the world I believe.


  • #4160
    Ginger n Lemon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,447 ✭✭✭Ginger n Lemon


    This is strange, all over RTE yet no one posted here, heard Tony H and Simon Harris confirmed today masks WONT BE MADE MANDATORY.

    Less rules for me to break huh.

    Leo also announced Ireland wont go into any 2nd lockdowns (clearly wants to re assure foreign investors)

    Amount of good news coming out every day now just unreal.


  • #4161
    FintanMcluskey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,664 ✭✭✭FintanMcluskey


    Goldengirl wrote: »
    I would live to know what some of these posters do in real life.
    A good proportion sitting on their...keyboards , ...bashing public servants and others who have worked through this pandemic , and have had to adapt to all sorts of difficult work practices .

    Some of those posters lost livlivelihoods and struggled with mortgage payments while Leo confirmed the public sector pay rise will go ahead as planned.

    I've more than 1 teacher in my immediate family, my father has done excellent work around the house since March, on full pay of course. He was out with a toothbrush cleaning a gate the other day


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  • #4162
    Ginger n Lemon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,447 ✭✭✭Ginger n Lemon


    Cork Boy 53 wrote: »
    Why did you sign this petition then bud?

    https://crushthecurve.ie/

    For the craic was it?

    I didnt sign any petition. Jesus you really have nothing to post do you? :eek:


  • #4163
    Penfailed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,696 ✭✭✭Penfailed


    Cork Boy 53 wrote: »
    I assume this post was meant to be directed at me rather than the poster you quoted but anyway nice attempt at deflection bud. Any chance of a reply to my previous post to you? I know you FLIP FLOP a lot but an old explanation would be handy just the same.

    I don't think it was directed at you to be fair to G 'n' L.

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  • #4164
    Allinall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,354 ✭✭✭Allinall


    Ginger n Lemon wrote: »
    This is strange, all over RTE yet no one posted here, heard Tony H and Simon Harris confirmed today masks WONT BE MADE MANDATORY.

    Less rules for me to break huh.

    Leo also announced Ireland wont go into any 2nd lockdowns (clearly wants to re assure foreign investors)

    Amount of good news coming out every day now just unreal.

    They never said masks would be mandatory, or even hinted at it.

    How do you think this is news, good or otherwise?


  • #4165
    Cork Boy 53
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    FintanMcluskey wrote: »
    Some of those posters lost livlivelihoods and struggled with mortgage payments while Leo confirmed the public sector pay rise will go ahead as planned.

    I've more than 1 teacher in my immediate family, my father has done excellent work around the house since March, on full pay of course. He was out with a toothbrush cleaning a gate the other day

    So are you mocking your own father with this post? Wow.:rolleyes:


  • #4166
    Ginger n Lemon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,447 ✭✭✭Ginger n Lemon


    Allinall wrote: »
    They never said masks would be mandatory, or even hinted at it.

    How do you think this is news, good or otherwise?

    Not them.

    The other crowd, the same crowd that thought travel from China in January was a good idea.

    WHO envoy calls for mandatory face masks on public transport
    Dr David Nabarro tells Oireachtas committee coverings are best protection against Covid-19

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/who-envoy-calls-for-mandatory-face-masks-on-public-transport-1.4276769?mode=sample&auth-failed=1&pw-origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fnews%2Fhealth%2Fwho-envoy-calls-for-mandatory-face-masks-on-public-transport-1.4276769

    And, yes, it is good news.


  • #4167
    Cork Boy 53
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    Penfailed wrote: »
    I don't think it was directed at you to be fair to G 'n' L.

    I don`t know about that. I was reprimanded by him for a similar comment the other day.


  • #4168
    Ginger n Lemon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,447 ✭✭✭Ginger n Lemon


    Goldengirl wrote: »
    I would live to know what some of these posters do in real life.
    A good proportion sitting on their...keyboards , ...bashing public servants and others who have worked through this pandemic , and have had to adapt to all sorts of difficult work practices .

    You are as controversial as ever.


  • #4169
    Goldengirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,222 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    snowcat wrote: »
    Its great to know you worked 7am - 7pm in the office for the Covid effort. We self employed people thank you. I have 3 sisters who are teachers 1 friend a teacher 1 university lecturer who have all testified to me what a great summer they were having during the lockdown. I personally am not too bothered but this idea that the public service have had it terrible is someway biased.

    They couldn't go to work just online classes and lectures, grading Leaving Certs , preparing new curricula for work in September..yes easy living , lol. Do you think maybe they were winding you up ?
    On the other hand the rest of the public service is at work .


  • #4170
    Ginger n Lemon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,447 ✭✭✭Ginger n Lemon


    Now I know Ireland is not mentioned, but extremely worrying times nonetheless, if anything happens to Zara on Henry St then we are looking at 2 large empty buildings side by side for years to come

    The owner of Zara will close as many as 1,200 stores around the world as the clothing retailer tries to boost online sales during the chaos wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic.

    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jun/10/zara-owner-to-close-up-to-1200-fashion-stores-around-the-world


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  • #4171
    ZX7R
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,393 ✭✭✭ZX7R


    Cork Boy 53 wrote: »
    sweetmaggie already stated that it has been open for all this week but that there is a backlog of cases. That reminds me. My passport is due to expire very soon not that I expect I will be needing it any time soon but I suppose I should get it renewed.

    Yes the the passport office resumed business from Monday but are only processing online application only.
    Postal applications not to be processed on till the next phase


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