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

Deleted User wrote: »

Nobody has concerns like Ireland does.

We flat out refuse to try living with this virus. Only a fool would try to suggest otherwise.

Show me other countries that have tried to dictate how far you can travel, how long you can spend at a place, how much money you need to spend on food, how many people you can have in your own house...

I can't think of any country that has tried to baby / micro manage its people.

odyssey06 wrote: »

Scotland, Italy, France, Spain, England, Florida...
You don't think other countries had restrictions on how far you could travel, for what reason, whether you could even have visitors, when you could leave your house and for what reason; whether you could leave your province.

In Florida they were tracking the VAT receipts on only allowing primarily food based pubs to open.

You need to pay more attention.

This is from Scotland:
https://www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-what-you-can-and-cannot-do/pages/seeing-friends-and-family/#:~:text=up%20to%203%20households%20can,to%20observe%20this%20daily%20limit&text=stay%202%20metres%20apart%20from,need%20to%20distance%20from%20anyone

If meeting socially indoors (for example in your home or in a pub, café or restaurant):
up to 3 households can meet at a time, up to 8 people in total
do not meet more than 4 other households a day, except for under 18s who do not need to observe this daily limit
you can stay overnight
stay 2 metres apart from people outside your household, except for under 12s who do not need to distance from anyone
you can use the toilet in someone else's house

From France:
The basic premise of the lockdown in France is that you are only allowed out of your home to make essential trips, and on every trip you need to have with you a signed, dated and timed permission form.

https://www.thelocal.fr/20200331/can-i-contest-a-fine-for-breaking-lockdown-rules-in-france

That's one I hadn't heard about Florida doing checking of VAT receipts to allow only food pubs to open - can you link something on this, sorry can't find it (not suggesting it's incorrect).

Jack Daniels point is absolutely fair imo. You'll find lots of countries doing certain things, but Ireland is doing it all. His main points about how long you can spend at a place, how much money you need to spend on food are OTT precautions only applying here. Scotland as you linked has a limit on people, which is worldwide, but isn't saying get the feck out after 1.5 hours and make sure you eat a substantial meal worth €9 (jesus, even the cost factor is bureaucratic nonsense, I'd nearly understand a minimum amount of calories e.g. plate of chips ).

The France reference is from last March, not sure if it is still in place today.

Regardless, the Government response led by Varadkar/Harris (neither of whom I like, but am beginning to admire when faced with MM and SD), called on the Irish people to make sacrifices to flatten the curve, and while not eradicating the virus, allow our health services to cope. Achieved. What's going on now is a feckin mess, there's no two ways about it. And most of the population are rightly getting sick of it.