Living Off The Splash wrote: » I didn't know you could get a 90 minute flight business class? From where to where?
CMCXCV wrote: » At the moment, I don't expect to travel anywhere outside of Ireland for the remainder of this year and maybe not until Summer time or Christmas 2021. In the mean time tho, I'm going to do a few weekends away in Ireland instead. Always wanted to visit each County in Ireland and their "tourist spots" such as Clare for Cliffs of Moher etc. So me and the woman have decided on that now instead.
Tenzor07 wrote: » Some wise words here from Dr Jack Lambert a professor of medicine and infectious diseases, Mater and UCD School of Medicinehttps://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/telling-people-not-to-travel-overseas-on-holiday-is-wrong-headed-1.4297275
It is important that we find a middle ground and use a little common sense. We cannot continue isolation as a strategy. We cannot just wait and see what happens in other countries. We have to accept our current lives, as Covid-19 circulates worldwide, as the “new normal”. There is no Covid-19 vaccine, no herd immunity, no hope for “cure” or even real effective treatments. At the moment, masks are the best “vaccine” ; and going on with our lives cautiously is the only solution as we wait for either the to virus die out (we all dream) or the magic vaccine, which I pray will be discovered but fear will never come. Avoiding international travel whenever possible is always good advice. But to tell people to cancel their summer holidays and only take holidays in Ireland is a step too far. Will preventing travel result in us suppressing Covid-19 when we have ongoing circulation of the virus in Ireland in those who have never travelled? We need to focus on what our current level of preparedness is when Covid-19 clusters flare up in Ireland, which they will. We need to continue educating our citizens on prevention. So be safe in everything you do. We cannot continue with lockdown, social distancing, and a ban on travel. We all must go on with our new lives and learn best practice as we go forward.
Assetbacked wrote: » Sensible advice which has been lacking in the IT the past while. Killeen, McConckey and the other flat-curvers/anti-relaxers will fall over themselves reading such reckless words!
The Minister for Transport has said a mandatory quarantine is not possible to enforce for those entering Ireland but stricter control measures are set to be introduced. Eamon Ryan said those measures will include an electronic register and testing of some travellers. Speaking on RTÉ's Today with Sarah McInerney, he said the advice remains that in the wider interests of public health it is best to stay in Ireland and not to travel abroad. He said the Irish approach to Covid-19 is working and the quarantine measures in place are working, but authorities need to remain vigilant and continue to adapt, monitor and review the situation as more people start flying. He said if the number of cases of Covid-19 rise as a result of international travel "we will have to tighten restrictions". Minister Ryan said the Government will look to move from a paper to an electronic register for those coming into Ireland and this will allow a follow up service with text and phone calls to ensure compliance. More in the article...
moritz1234 wrote: » hoping to come home to Ireland from the UK for two weeks in August to see friends and family. The "green list" will be apparently judged on the number of new Covid-19 cases in the past 14 days (from the 6th to 20th July) and the number per 100,000 inhabitants must be close to or below the EU average. Yesterday Rep of Ireland 517 cases per 100,000 UK 420 cases per 100,000 What are the chances of the UK being on the green list ?
spockety wrote: » There's no way that Ireland has had 517 cases per 100,000 on average each day in the last 14 days.... That would mean we had 25,000 cases a day!!
Benimar wrote: » We haven’t had 517 cases in total in the last 2 weeks! Not sure we have had 200. And no, I don’t think England will make the Green List.
bladespin wrote: » Rough (very) count gives me 121 new cases (total) here in the last 14 days.
moritz1234 wrote: » So if you have Covid-19 - how long does it last ? 14 days ? So someone who has it on the 1st July will still have it on the 6th July for stats ? Just trying to work out the criteria that will be used ?
stephenjmcd wrote: » And people thought Shane Ross was badhttps://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/0707/1151833-coronavirus-travel/
Plumbthedepths wrote: » Ryan is and was always a bellend. At least he is consistent.
He said most people who are taking flights now had booked "in the last six months", which he said is not appropriate when everyone knew there was a travel risk.
Tenzor07 wrote: » The Govt/ policy is to blame the public for any failure of the health system to cope with testing and treatment of Covid. Led by Holohan who used his almost unlimited media exposure to push his narrative that we must all "don the green jersey"... and supported ever inch of the way by the Minister for the previous covid 18's Harris... And this statement by Ryan backs that up: Apparently we were all supposed to know the risks of a completely new Virus back in January!?
faceman wrote: » I did a quick back of the envelope calculation based on past 7 days data per 100,000 Ireland approx 2 Spain approx 5 U.K. approx 7
stargazer 68 wrote: » Honestly the more I read the crap from the Government the more pi**ed off I get! I'm a Healthcare worker and have spent that last 5 months at work - covering my own job as well as the jobs of 3 other people who were signed off as vulnerable. All I want is a few days on a beach, with sun, a book and beer! But no, the Government and the HSE have decided I can't have that. I have to spend my holidays here in Ireland in the lashings of rain, costing a fortune, can't use a hotel spa (not opened yet), can't sit in the bar for a few beers - they aren't opened yet either! I can have a beer with my dinner though but can only stay 105 minutes. Jeez thanks! Feck sake!
LilyShame wrote: » I was just thinking of all the health care workers who deserve one month off... Go to the sun for 2 weeks and Lockdown at home for 2 weeks.. At this stage the Government have made an arse of the whole situation. The weather here is just dreadful now. Irish ppl never holidayed in Ireland for 2 weeks... The Americans etc always did that. The travel restrictions is manipulating ppl into feeling guilty about propping up Irish stay cations. Many many ppl booked holidays before any pandemic.. Dont let anyone guilt trip you into losing your hard earned money and enjoy the break away
Irishphotodesk wrote: » Or you could think of it in a way that the Irish government would prefer if we didn’t travel to countries which we can’t monitor/track the interactions between people, so contract tracing becomes impossible. If everyone stays in this country, we have the opportunity to limit the spread within the country, yes, there is a risk that people can travel into Ireland with covid, but if we don’t travel out and return there is less risk of it spreading within this country.
