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  • #4772
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    CalamariFritti wrote: »
    Ah well normal services resumed. Being governed by a bunch of clueless bullsh1tters just gauging whatever way the wind blows for their 'decision making'. Even down to the pathetic kite flying.

    I said it after the election, before COVID. How anyone could vote down FG down and these clowns back in is beyond me. Not that I love FG but at least they have shown some competence.

    Obligatory post in case you missed all the others, Sinn Fein are in agreement with the decision.


  • #4773
    na1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 921 ✭✭✭na1


    Be right back wrote: »
    Got these in Dunnes, 5 for a fiver.

    good deal for them!)))

    50x Microfibre Car Cleaning Cloths 30 x 30 cm £10.99

    https://www.ebay.ie/itm/50x-Microfibre-Car-Cleaning-Cloths-Large-Detailing-Towel-Soft-Cloth-Wash-Towels/392789177989


    you can make at least 2 masks of one towel


  • #4774
    na1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 921 ✭✭✭na1


    ExMachina1000 wrote: »
    Who is enforcing the wearing of masks on public transport?

    bus drivers
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/french-bus-driver-dies-after-attack-by-passengers-who-refused-to-wear-masks-1.4302590


  • #4775
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,725 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    No: I don't care enough
    Another Karen story: woman was refused service at a California Starbucks, so she plastered the baristas face online and tried to shame him. Instead, someone set up a go fund me for tips for the barista that raised $105k

    https://lawandcrime.com/crazy/maskless-woman-claiming-discrimination-demands-cut-of-100k-that-people-donated-to-a-barista/

    Here’s the kicker: she wants half. She says she was discriminated against and as evidence for being medically excused from wearing a mask she produced medical records from 2015 when she had an ovarian cyst and documents from her chiropractor. I’m also told she’s an avid antivaxxer, which explains why you would think ovary or spinal pain is a legitimate rise for not wearing a mask. Some people.


  • #4776
    sp00k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 118 ✭✭sp00k


    Is the mask requirement in shops now in immediate effect?


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  • #4777
    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,957 ✭✭✭Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime


    na1 wrote: »
    bus drivers
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/french-bus-driver-dies-after-attack-by-passengers-who-refused-to-wear-masks-1.4302590

    No we're not.

    I've had pricks try to attack me because I wouldn't let them out in the middle of the road

    Try to go for me for asking them to pay their fare

    Gypo scammers trying different types of crap to steal the money

    I am in my hole going to be telling people to wear a mask.


  • #4778
    CalamariFritti
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,309 ✭✭✭CalamariFritti


    Hurrache wrote: »
    Obligatory post in case you missed all the others, Sinn Fein are in agreement with the decision.

    Don't care for them either. But at least they had the decency to disappear in the background knowing they'd make a meal of this.

    Edit: Now I'm beginning to see this is some stupid ongoing joke of yours. You just cost me a couple of minutes of my life. Stop that sh1te.


  • #4779
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,449 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    sp00k wrote: »
    Is the mask requirement in shops now in immediate effect?

    No, legislation required


  • #4780
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,219 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Yes: valved
    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »
    No we're not.
    ....
    I am in my hole going to be telling people to wear a mask.
    It's unfair I think to put this on bus drivers.
    A bus driver in Bayonne, France, was beaten to death when he tried to tell some passengers they needed a mask.
    Instead have Garda do random checks at bus stops.


  • #4781
    ShyMets
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭ShyMets


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    No, legislation required

    Mandatory from Monday. But legislation is not place yet


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  • #4782
    timmy_mallet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,165 ✭✭✭timmy_mallet


    ShyMets wrote: »
    Mandatory from Monday. But legislation is not place yet

    Final nail in the high-streets coffin.


  • #4783
    na1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 921 ✭✭✭na1


    ShyMets wrote: »
    Mandatory from Monday. But legislation is not place yet

    Unless I missed something the legislation is a joke,
    there are too many "reasonable excuses":
    (a) the person cannot put on, wear or remove a face covering – (i) because of any physical or mental illness, impairment, or disability, or (ii) without severe distress,
    there is nothing about specific conditions and the rules can be explained differently.

    also the enforcement is bit unclear:
    Under the regulations, where a passenger is not wearing a face covering, a “relevant person” – including public transport staff such as bus and train drivers, as well as National Transport Authority officials – may request the passenger to wear a face covering, refuse the passenger entry to the public transport vehicle, or may request the passenger to alight from the vehicle.

    In a statement, gardaí said: “In circumstances where a non-compliant passenger, without reasonable excuse, fails to accept the refusal or comply with a ‘relevant person’s’ request, members of An Garda Síochána may be called to assist.”


    While the National Bus and Rail Union has welcomed the move towards mandatory mask-wearing, the union’s general secretary, Dermot O’Leary, said his members would not be policing the regulations. He said if a dispute arose over the non-wearing of masks, transport staff would contact the control centre to call gardaí to the scene.


  • #4784
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,661 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Spend 5 minutes or less in a shop socially distanced, you gotta wear a mask. Can sit in a restaurant for 105 minutes and not be expected to wear one for practical reason such as eating. Makes complete sense to me :rolleyes:


  • #4785
    timmy_mallet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,165 ✭✭✭timmy_mallet


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Spend 5 minutes or less in a shop socially distanced, you gotta wear a mask. Can sit in a restaurant for 105 minutes and not be expected to wear one for practical reason such as eating. Makes complete sense to me :rolleyes:

    Curtain twitchers, haven't left their home since March, emailing their TD begging to impose their will on others of wearing a mask going to the shop 'in case just one, JUST ONE, life is saved' virtue signalling ballix, when the logic of it all utterly fails. And the evidence of the last 4 months suggest masks are pointless in those settings. We all breathed over each other while picking our easy singles in Tesco and guess what, nothing, 0 community transfer. None.


  • #4786
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,449 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    ShyMets wrote: »
    Mandatory from Monday. But legislation is not place yet

    No its not.

    "The new regulation has not yet been drafted and could take a matter of “days or weeks” to be signed off on, said government sources."


  • #4787
    na1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 921 ✭✭✭na1


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Spend 5 minutes or less in a shop socially distanced, you gotta wear a mask. Can sit in a restaurant for 105 minutes and not be expected to wear one for practical reason such as eating. Makes complete sense to me :rolleyes:

    Didn't you know that bars and restaurants have a natural immune to COVID-19?


  • #4788
    Seanergy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,446 ✭✭✭Seanergy


    Yes: valved
    https://twitter.com/jeremyphoward/status/1283505175206916096


  • #4789
    na1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 921 ✭✭✭na1


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    No its not.

    "The new regulation has not yet been drafted and could take a matter of “days or weeks” to be signed off on, said government sources."

    I wonder, are we allowed to wear the face cover and full eye protection when entering banks and An Post offices? For the sake of Holy COVID?


  • #4790
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,661 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    na1 wrote: »
    I wonder, are we allowed to wear the face cover and full eye protection when entering banks and An Post offices? For the sake of Holy COVID?

    Balaclava and sunglasses is a good look for any occasion but especially hip in banks and post offices I believe. :D


  • #4791
    timetogo1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 892 ✭✭✭timetogo1


    No: I don't care enough
    na1 wrote: »
    I wonder, are we allowed to wear the face cover and full eye protection when entering banks and An Post offices? For the sake of Holy COVID?

    Nah. Most people are not idiots.


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  • #4792
    timmy_mallet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,165 ✭✭✭timmy_mallet


    Seanergy wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/jeremyphoward/status/1283505175206916096

    What I took from that was that masks are a placebo. There is extremely limited evidence they work, but the paradox that wearing them encourages greater compliance with social distancing seems likely the greatest contributor to their efficacy, how odd.


  • #4793
    Ludo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,015 ✭✭✭Ludo


    No: other
    timetogo1 wrote: »
    Nah. Most people are not idiots.

    hmmm...not so sure about that from reading this thread.


  • #4794
    Tork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭Tork


    Yes: to protect others
    timmy_mallet wrote: »
    What I took from that was that masks are a placebo. There is extremely limited evidence they work, but the paradox that wearing them encourages greater compliance with social distancing seems likely the greatest contributor to their efficacy, how odd.

    I clicked through to Jeremy Howard's Twitter account to see what he was talking about. He is very pro-mask.


  • #4795
    moonage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 877 ✭✭✭moonage


    All the masked crusaders on here are being hoodwinked.

    Mandatory mask wearing has more to do with superstition and optics than public health.

    It's all a load of balls and will make shag-all difference.


  • #4796
    timmy_mallet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,165 ✭✭✭timmy_mallet


    Tork wrote: »
    I clicked through to Jeremy Howard's Twitter account to see what he was talking about. He is very pro-mask.

    Well, quite, and am sure that didnt bias his research at all.

    The honking great para about them being a placebo was lovely. But if it works, I guess it works.


  • #4797
    timmy_mallet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,165 ✭✭✭timmy_mallet


    moonage wrote: »
    All the masked crusaders on here are being hoodwinked.

    Mandatory mask wearing has more to do with superstition and optics than public health.

    It's all a load of balls and will make shag-all difference.

    They're a placebo outside of medical settings or inside a house with a source.


  • #4798
    khalessi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,216 ✭✭✭khalessi


    Yes: surgical
    moonage wrote: »
    All the masked crusaders on here are being hoodwinked.

    Mandatory mask wearing has more to do with superstition and optics than public health.

    It's all a load of balls and will make shag-all difference.

    Yes indeed, which is why HCW have worn masks for years on wards to hoodwink the public, the illumanati are involved, something to do with golden ratio and aliens but not prevention of infection, never prevention of the spread of Covid19.


  • #4799
    GoneHome
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,783 ✭✭✭GoneHome


    Yes: surgical
    Must say I'm delighted to hear this, we are by no means in the "at risk" cathegory, both 40s but we both have elderly parents which we see once a week, in the mean time we video call them. As for ourselves with live in a very rural area where with both work remotely from home, we do a big shop once per week, with a possible small shop in between if needed mid-week, everything else we are self-sufficent, We always wear a mask when going for the weekly shop, without an issue.


  • #4800
    timmy_mallet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,165 ✭✭✭timmy_mallet


    khalessi wrote: »
    Yes indeed, which is why HCW have worn masks for years on wards to hoodwink the public, the illumanati are involved, something to do with golden ratio and aliens but not prevention of infection, never prevention of the spread of Covid19.

    Errr, did u read that research paper?


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  • #4801
    Seanergy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,446 ✭✭✭Seanergy


    Yes: valved
    na1 wrote: »
    good deal for them!)))

    50x Microfibre Car Cleaning Cloths 30 x 30 cm £10.99

    https://www.ebay.ie/itm/50x-Microfibre-Car-Cleaning-Cloths-Large-Detailing-Towel-Soft-Cloth-Wash-Towels/392789177989


    you can make at least 2 masks of one towel

    Don't know why your choosing microfiber as your material? 2 masks from one cloth? 1 layer masks so is it? Might aswell wear your jocks up over your face.


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