Covid 19 Part XXII-30,360 in ROI(1,781 deaths) 8,035 in NI (568 deaths)(10/09)Read OP

GooglePlus · 30-08-2020 02:40PM

Funsterdelux wrote: »

Everyone must have a jar of jam theyre never going to eat or is mouldy, put it outside the house close but not too close. It will keep them busy eating, the poor divils have lost their jobs and are hungry, it would drive anyone crazy.

I did that once and they all got stuck. I returned to a strawberry jam graveyard.

Wasps help us pollinate too, people are all about saving the bees these days and have forgotten about the angry old wasp.

Plumbthedepths · 30-08-2020 02:43PM

Ficheall wrote: »

You'll have remembered your two wives then, I guess.

Sure if I don't I have you to remind me. ;-)

the merchant · 30-08-2020 02:47PM

42 cases of beer - 24 Dublin, 6
Limerick, 4 Kildare

ACitizenErased · 30-08-2020 02:48PM

the merchant wrote: »

42 cases of beer - 24 Dublin, 6
Limerick, 4 Kildare

Is this a new supplier?

Jim_Hodge · 30-08-2020 02:48PM

the merchant wrote: »

42 cases of beer - 24 Dublin, 6
Limerick, 4 Kildare

I'm sorry but is this a guess or are figures now available?

Funsterdelux · 30-08-2020 02:49PM

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Is this a new supplier?

Maybe just a bootlegger?

Polar101 · 30-08-2020 02:49PM

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Is this a new supplier?

I hope it's bottles and not barrels.

Oranage2 · 30-08-2020 02:54PM

Low cases if true, the restrictions might be working

ACitizenErased · 30-08-2020 02:58PM

https://twitter.com/rtenews/status/1300069676588859392?s=21

DebDynamite · 30-08-2020 02:58PM

Funsterdelux wrote: »

Maybe just a bootlegger?

Getting in there before the prohibition

Strumms · 30-08-2020 02:58PM

s1ippy wrote: »

When people are still being made go out to work and a huge number of workplaces are unsafe, you can't expect people to not socialise or see anyone. We're not robots, we need to be able to relax. Golf Gate was the end of public compliance.

You can relax without socializing or seeing people. We are not robots and it goes against the grain slightly admittedly but we are in a unprecedented times which require unprecedented discipline, strength, sacrifice and hard work....nobody asked for this but it’s what we are faced with... people got to do the right thing, play their part, end the complaining and BE the solution until medicine can and will. Because the alternative is horrendous.

s1ippy · 30-08-2020 03:08PM

Strumms wrote: »

You can relax without socializing or seeing people.

Just playing devil's advocate now, but why should people be forced to have a tonne of contacts in workplaces, against medical sense in the context of this, but then heavily curtail their own social lives.

Then the government have gala dinners with 81 people and no social distancing.

Again, I'm not saying that I'm going out and flouting the guidelines. I'm just saying that's undoubtedly what's going on with the situation in Killarney and Berlin D2 and countless other places where everyone knew that snitches get stitches and didn't record it.

wadacrack · 30-08-2020 03:11PM

https://twitter.com/GabrielScally/status/1300072035050295296

Micky 32 · 30-08-2020 03:15PM

wadacrack wrote: »

https://twitter.com/GabrielScally/status/1300072035050295296

Yep it’s great that cases are not March level and not rising exponentially like back in March.

I just saw a picture of Scally in that tweet, never saw his picture before. The gas thing is he looks exactly how i imagined lol.

Halfdane · 30-08-2020 03:20PM

Oranage2 wrote: »

Low cases if true, the restrictions might be working

The numbers have been in the hundreds for a few days and they’re always low on a Sunday, so I wouldn’t take any figure today as a sign that restrictions are working.

Especially when nobody is listening to restrictions.

ACitizenErased · 30-08-2020 03:23PM

If the 40 odd cases is right like the poster behind suggests it will be our lowest case number since the 12th of August

Benimar · 30-08-2020 03:23PM

Oranage2 wrote: »

Low cases if true, the restrictions might be working

If the clusters in meat plants are sorted, we are back to ‘random’ clusters so might be back to the lower Sunday/Monday figures with an uptick on Tuesday’s we saw in June/July.

Also we have zero reason to believe his figure is correct. He’s not the Beer Baron.

s1ippy · 30-08-2020 03:25PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n-KZPW1ILA

This is like watching some sort of weird league table where you want your team to do badly.

ACitizenErased · 30-08-2020 03:25PM

Halfdane wrote: »

The numbers have been in the hundreds for a few days and they’re always low on a Sunday, so I wouldn’t take any figure today as a sign that restrictions are working.

Especially when nobody is listening to restrictions.

Thats a strange comment to make after everything people are sacrificing

Micky 32 · 30-08-2020 03:28PM

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Thats a strange comment to make after everything people are sacrificing

Maybe he’s reffering to the golfing crowd ;-)

Jim_Hodge · 30-08-2020 03:29PM

Micky 32 wrote: »

Maybe he’s reffering to the golfing crowd ;-)

Then 'nobody' needs editing.

Micky 32 · 30-08-2020 03:30PM

Jim_Hodge wrote: »

Then 'nobody' needs editing.

“Nobody” would usually be used as sarcasm but
Yes i agree there because we all know that “nobody” is false.

blowitupref · 30-08-2020 03:34PM

ACitizenErased wrote: »

If the 40 odd cases is right like the poster behind suggests it will be our lowest case number since the 12th of August

And would be the lowest number of cases on a Sunday since July

ACitizenErased · 30-08-2020 03:42PM

https://twitter.com/skynewsbreak/status/1300080823757045760?s=21

30-08-2020 03:43PM

Thierry12 wrote: »

What do you do that couldn't be done by someone in a lower paid country?

Does it only have Irish based employees?

Mate of mine works for one of the US firms, was originally told it would be January 2021 before they would be back in the office, and was told last week they have pushed this out to July 2021 worldwide. Even then the staff can decide if they want to continue to work mainly from home.

I've worked from home nearly exclusively since 2017 and wouldn't change this unless it was for a job that would be a massive increase in salary.

Most Irish firms are sh1t to work for regardless of the industry they are involved in.

Strumms · 30-08-2020 03:44PM

s1ippy wrote: »

Just playing devil's advocate now, but why should people be forced to have a tonne of contacts in workplaces, against medical sense in the context of this, but then heavily curtail their own social lives.

Then the government have gala dinners with 81 people and no social distancing.

Again, I'm not saying that I'm going out and flouting the guidelines. I'm just saying that's undoubtedly what's going on with the situation in Killarney and Berlin D2 and countless other places where everyone knew that snitches get stitches and didn't record it.

The government have not led by example. If you go out and you see me steal a car... can you say... “Strumms is stealing a nice Merc, I’ll do the same” ? Or will you say.. “well that’s not good, we’d all like a nice new merc but stealing is wrong” ?

Unfortunately the way politicians, pubs and some other sectors of society have behaved is ****e. That doesn’t present a hall pass to the rest of us to rip up all of the hard work that got us this far... if my neighbor is robbing banks, that doesn’t mean I can.

Gruffalux · 30-08-2020 03:53PM

wadacrack wrote: »

https://twitter.com/GabrielScally/status/1300072035050295296

Don't know who this Scally person is, but I concur with his idea that case numbers are ACTUALLY very low now compared to what they were unknowingly before.

He says

It is estimated that in the UK by the end of March there were already 1.7 million cases of infection with COVID-19. Now there are an estimated 2,200 new infections per day in England and Wales. At this rate it would take over 2 years to get another 1.7 million cases.

This is it exactly. (In my opinion). We have what looks like 1/6th or even 1/5th the number of cases of what we had at peak but it is in fact way way WAY fewer.
Which is great!
But no, it does not mean the virus is weaker as some think.
Just far far fewer have it and not that many old people at all.

30-08-2020 03:55PM

The behaviour last night in Killarney was very disheartening to see. I am high risk and live with someone who is very high risk. I already lost my mother to covid in April.

I have spent the last almost six months working from home, shopping online exclusively (which is not cheap) and trying to minimise any trips I make out to essential trips only. Basically I've been putting in every effort I can to stay healthy in that time. Its not easy. It does take self-discipline. I am craving a day out to just browse around my favourite shops so badly, but I remind myself I am doing this because I don't want to risk becoming infected, or transmitting the virus to anyone else if i did become infected.

But when you are putting in so much effort and then see so many carelessly ignoring the basic things asked of them, and the likes of the behaviour in Killarney last night or in Berlin last weekend, you can't help but get angry and upset.

There is no way we are "all in this together". There can be no easing of restrictions for me, I can't risk dropping my guard while other people are being idiots and not playing their part. And the sad thing is, it is possible to socialise without being an asshole.

This is not about being a "killjoy" though no doubt that is what I will be accused of being. If everyone played their part, it would be safer for ALL, including those of us who are high risk, to return to something closer to the normality we had before. Because that is ultimately what we want too. I increasingly feel invisible and that the risk to my life is unimportant to those outside my four walls.

It was working. We had cases down to less then 10 per day at one point, then it all went to hell. And now winter is coming and cases are over a hundred a day again even before the schools go back. I'm starting to despair that this will never be over.

Strumms · 30-08-2020 03:58PM

Deleted User wrote: »

The behaviour last night in Killarney was very disheartening to see. I am high risk and live with someone who is very high risk. I already lost my mother to covid in April.

I have spent the last almost six months working from home, shopping online exclusively (which is not cheap) and trying to minimise any trips I make out to essential trips only. Basically I've been putting in every effort I can to stay healthy in that time. Its not easy. It does take self-discipline. I am craving a day out to just browse around my favourite shops so badly, but I remind myself I am doing this because I don't want to risk becoming infected, or transmitting the virus to anyone else if i did become infected.

But when you are putting in so much effort and then see so many carelessly ignoring the basic things asked of them, and the likes of the behaviour in Killarney last night or in Berlin last weekend, you can't help but get angry and upset.

There is no way we are "all in this together". There can be no easing of restrictions for me, I can't risk dropping my guard while other people are being idiots and not playing their part. And the sad thing is, it is possible to socialise without being an asshole.

This is not about being a "killjoy" though no doubt that is what I will be accused of being. If everyone played their part, it would be safer for ALL, including those of us who are high risk, to return to something closer to the normality we had before. Because that is ultimately what we want too. I increasingly feel invisible and that the risk to my life is unimportant to those outside my four walls.

It was working. We had cases down to less then 10 per day at one point, then it all went to hell. And now winter is coming and cases are over a hundred a day again even before the schools go back. I'm starting to despair that this will never be over.

Well said, 100% how I feel and 100% how it is out there...

Gruffalux · 30-08-2020 03:59PM

Deleted User wrote: »

The behaviour last night in Killarney was very disheartening to see. I am high risk and live with someone who is very high risk. I already lost my mother to covid in April.

I have spent the last almost six months working from home, shopping online exclusively (which is not cheap) and trying to minimise any trips I make out to essential trips only. Basically I've been putting in every effort I can to stay healthy in that time. Its not easy. It does take self-discipline. I am craving a day out to just browse around my favourite shops so badly, but I remind myself I am doing this because I don't want to risk becoming infected, or transmitting the virus to anyone else if i did become infected.

But when you are putting in so much effort and then see so many carelessly ignoring the basic things asked of them, and the likes of the behaviour in Killarney last night or in Berlin last weekend, you can't help but get angry and upset.

There is no way we are "all in this together". There can be no easing of restrictions for me, I can't risk dropping my guard while other people are being idiots and not playing their part. And the sad thing is, it is possible to socialise without being an asshole.

This is not about being a "killjoy" though no doubt that is what I will be accused of being. If everyone played their part, it would be safer for ALL, including those of us who are high risk, to return to something closer to the normality we had before. Because that is ultimately what we want too. I increasingly feel invisible and that the risk to my life is unimportant to those outside my four walls.

It was working. We had cases down to less then 10 per day at one point, then it all went to hell. And now winter is coming and cases are over a hundred a day again even before the schools go back. I'm starting to despair that this will never be over.

That is really fecken tough. I'm very sorry about the loss of your mother. And the extra strain you have with you and your partner being high risk.
Mind yourself.

Covid 19 Part XXII-30,360 in ROI(1,781 deaths) 8,035 in NI (568 deaths)(10/09)Read OP

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