GT89 wrote: » By that logic it couldn't be as serious as the fear mongers would have you believe as those people who didn't know they had it would be either be dead or permanently incapacitated. If that's the case why were the hospitals not overwhelmed?
robinph wrote: » A country with zero cases in the community for over three months has just gone back to imposing various levels of restrictions again after a family has become infected and ill. How many people were carrying the virus before that family caught it badly enough to be symtomatic that they then got a test? Other people who that family encountered since becoming infected have also since tested positive. How far has it travelled before being detected and can they get it back under control before anyone in an at risk category catches it? Has that person already caught it and just doesn't know it yet? But maybe it's all nothing to worry about because it didn't get you yet.
MadYaker wrote: » I have a suspicion that this event is just too big and complicated for some people to comprehend and as a result the guidelines and restrictions seem mental. I was trying to explain asymptomatic transmission to a guy in work yesterday who was wondering why we still have to wear masks all the time and he just wasn’t getting it.
xhomelezz wrote: » Article on zero covid approach. To me sounds much better than what's happening now..https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/news/ireland-sleep-walking-toward-major-coronavirus-outbreak-unless-theres-a-radical-strategy-change-expert-warns-39449741.html
Galwayguy35 wrote: » Was in Aldi today and the only crowd not wearing them were the ethnic minority, waited to see would anything be said but not a word from the cashier when they went to pay for the slab of Galahad. Rules the rest of have to follow don't apply to them as usual.
shaveAbullock wrote: » Who exactly? The Indian and Pakistani's in my town have been adhering to it.
Galwayguy35 wrote: » Surprised you don't know who the ethnic minority are. Travellers FYI
shaveAbullock wrote: » Are they currently the only one in Ireland? I wouldn't paint them all with the same brush. Also I don't believe it's up to the staff in a business to enforce this. Did you have a word with them?
Galwayguy35 wrote: » Why would I have a word with them? I don't own the shop.
shaveAbullock wrote: » Presumably nether does the cashier
Galwayguy35 wrote: » No but we are all being told we have to wear them, something I'm not too happy about but I was doing it because I thought we had to do it, today I saw that isn't the case.
shaveAbullock wrote: » I was told driving above the speed limit was illegal. You can imagine my surprise when I see some people not adhering to it.
Galwayguy35 wrote: » Not a great analogy there, better luck next time.
shaveAbullock wrote: » Then come up with a better one. Name a law that is never broken or is enforced 100% of the time?
timetogo1 wrote: » Walk into a shop smoking a cigarette.
Away With The Fairies wrote: » Anyone else sick of the HSE and their advice? Go on about social distancing and hand washing which businesses are meant to be following. Put a few stickers on the floor, hand sanitizers at entrances and that's all that is required of other places without mandatory masks. I took up a job and I'm putting myself at risk working in a place that they didn't make masks mandatory. I don't know what to do, not much happened with my complaint to the HSA. I had someone stand over me without a face mask yesterday and now that I have a job, I can't leave and get social welfare. This workplace is causing me a huge amount of stress and I'm only there a week. Am I thick or something but the virus leaves the mouth and nose, is there something I don't understand with the HSE? Looks like their main goal is killing off as much people as possible.
GT89 wrote: » If your that anal about it then leave
Hunky Monster wrote: » It’s a brilliant analogy. Not wearing a mask in a shop is like someone driving 61 in a 60mph zone. The reason you don’t absolutely lose your mind with the driver is because you don’t have 24/7 news/social media telling you how much of a terrible human being you are for going over the speed limit. I said it before and I’ll say it again, if you’re vulnerable or are in close contact with people are vulnerable feel free to wear a mask, please let the rest of us get on with life.
extra gravy wrote: » How exactly does wearing a mask prevent you from getting on with your life? The amount of whining from grown men over such a mild inconvenience is pathetic.
GT89 wrote: » If you don't wear your worse than a murderer or a rapist in some of these people's eyes.
GT89 wrote: » It's not a minor inconvenience if your work requires it. Do you speak for everyone now?
