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Covid 19 Part XXIV-37,063 ROI (1,801 deaths) 12,886 NI (582 deaths) (02/10) Read OP

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  • #2672
    manniot2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 713 ✭✭✭manniot2


    Happydays2020 wrote: »
    New Years Eve is now cancelled.

    We will all be shamed out of enjoying Xmas too, wait and see.


  • #2673
    GooglePlus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,010 ✭✭✭GooglePlus


    manniot2 wrote: »
    We will all be shamed out of enjoying Xmas too, wait and see.

    It'll be one to remember anyway.


  • #2674
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,583 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Happydays2020 wrote: »
    New Years Eve is now cancelled.

    Really, all I heard was the festival in Dublin was cancelled, not the entire day.


  • #2675
    MerlinSouthDub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,630 ✭✭✭MerlinSouthDub


    schmoo2k wrote: »
    Probably discussed already, but why don't we do a country wide lockdown for two weeks every 3 months? (first two weeks in Oct, Jan etc.)

    Disruption would be minimal since we know well in advance and it would effectively reset the community spread back to what we had during the summer?

    I think that's a great idea. Much better than the current approach anyway, and would allow people to plan.


  • #2676
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    Happydays2020 wrote: »
    New Years Eve is now cancelled.

    So another year of 2020?


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  • #2677
    The HorsesMouth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 517 ✭✭✭The HorsesMouth


    Newbie20 wrote: »
    Completely agree with those saying the more outdoor dining the better. Most of these places have covers and heaters now anyway that are roasting.

    It never ceases to amaze me the amount of people that might be having a pint outside or whatever and then they declare that the group should move inside because its gotten too cold.

    Somebody in another thread was complaining about windows being open in school, saying it’s going to be freezing cold for students, when of course at this time ventilation is more important. I often think if some people didn’t spend all their time actively avoiding the bit of coldness outdoors, they mightn’t be off sick as often as they are. It’s mild quiet often in Ireland even in winter.

    Totally agree here and actually makes me laugh. The "cosy jammies" brigade are beginning to make an appearance. You know the ones, fire on, film on, fluffy pjs, slippers, hot water bottles and a blanket for good measure. And it 9 degrees on a September evening.
    You're right, Irish weather is for the most part mild during winter and if a few more people got out and got active they might built up a bit of resistance to the "cold".


  • #2678
    blade1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,866 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    GooglePlus wrote: »
    It'll be one to remember anyway.

    More like one to forget.


  • #2679
    Gruffalux
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭Gruffalux


    DubInMeath wrote: »
    Really, all I heard was the festival in Dublin was cancelled, not the entire day.

    Nope. This year has more surprises up its sleeves. Trump is going to win. There will probably be a winter lockdown. And it's going to 2020 forever. :D


  • #2680
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    Gruffalux wrote: »
    Nope. This year has more surprises up its sleeves. Trump is going to win. There will probably be a winter lockdown. And it's going to 2020 forever. :D

    Hindsight is 2020 vision


  • #2681
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,455 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    I'd actually love a week of heavy snow hitting the country to give some diversion from the Covid.


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  • #2682
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,042 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    Some "influencer" on the radio saying the government should combine covid19 advice with catchy tunes to help get the message through to the young people..


  • #2683
    Icantthinkof1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 410 ✭✭Icantthinkof1


    Ficheall wrote: »
    Some "influencer" on the radio saying the government should combine covid19 advice with catchy tunes to help get the message through to the young people..

    Jesus wept! The last thing we need is a fecking jingle or a theme song for 2020
    For some reason though the tune for the safe cross code song came into my head when you posted that


  • #2684
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,144 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    growleaves wrote: »
    This is the man who throughout the 80s and 90s tried to convince everyone that many millions of heterosexuals were going to contract HIV/AIDS. I remember ads on the television implying that anyone who had sex without a condom was facing a death sentence.

    You are a very strange person.


  • #2685
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,144 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    growleaves wrote: »
    Because?

    You spend too much time on here spouting complete rubbish.


  • #2686
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    I'd actually love a week of heavy snow hitting the country to give some diversion from the Covid.

    A week? A day would be enough in Ireland


  • #2687
    jojofizzio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,298 ✭✭✭jojofizzio


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    I'd actually love a week of heavy snow hitting the country to give some diversion from the Covid.

    It’s mad to think there’s been really no other “news” for the past 6 months :(


  • #2688
    TonyMaloney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,150 ✭✭✭TonyMaloney


    jojofizzio wrote: »
    It’s mad to think there’s been really no other “news” for the past 6 months :(

    Eh...

    You're going to get a shock when you pick up a paper


  • #2689
    owlbethere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭owlbethere


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    I'd actually love a week of heavy snow hitting the country to give some diversion from the Covid.

    With the way 2020 has turned out so far, this will happen yet. We will probably get a big massive freeze after Halloween and get snowed in for a few months and we will be snowed in and locked down for Christmas without a turkey in sight.


  • #2690
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    'Massive Turkey shortage for Christmas 2020, leads families to declare "We're Goosed". '

    ' Back to basics, board and parlor games back in popularity as massive internet outages lead people to involuntarily reducing their internet social contacts and arguments halt between strangers on the internet about effectiveness of masks.

    'I wish 2020 would just end' by Wizzard rises to top of chart's, making it the bands second most popular hit of all time.'


  • #2691
    Happydays2020
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭Happydays2020


    WoollyRedHat wrote: »
    'Massive Turkey shortage for Christmas 2020, leads families to declare "We're Goosed". '

    ' Back to basics, board and parlor games back in popularity as massive internet outages lead people to involuntarily reducing their internet social contacts and arguments halt between strangers on the internet about effectiveness of masks for now'

    'I wish 2020 would just end' by Wizzard rises to top of chart's, making it the bands second most popular hit of all time.'

    And to think of all those hypocrites celebrating the New Year on 1 January 2020.


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  • #2692
    Happydays2020
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭Happydays2020


    owlbethere wrote: »
    With the way 2020 has turned out so far, this will happen yet. We will probably get a big massive freeze after Halloween and get snowed in for a few months and we will be snowed in and locked down for Christmas without a turkey in sight.

    That will probably lead to a run on frozen turkeys and toilet paper.


  • #2693
    Longing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,273 ✭✭✭Longing


    We can have up to 50 family over for Christmas dinner.

    The funeral for the Turkey.:p


  • #2694
    What Username Guidelines
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,139 ✭✭✭What Username Guidelines


    Will roll past 1,000,000 deaths in the next couple of hours. Prewritten articles and tweets are likely gonna flood in soon.


  • #2695
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    Ficheall wrote: »
    Some "influencer" on the radio saying the government should combine covid19 advice with catchy tunes to help get the message through to the young people..

    Think it has been done alright.



  • #2696
    Eod100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,302 ✭✭✭✭Eod100


    Not sure value in floating this. It's a highly infectious disease and there's community transmission so hard to see how people could change their behaviour enough between now and Thursday if that's when measures will be examined. Hoping none of them have to have restrictions. https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40055624.html?type=amp&__twitter_impression=true


  • #2697
    Gods Gift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,713 ✭✭✭Gods Gift


    Ex bishop in cork could be onto something.
    We’ve been looking in the wrong place all along.

    Which one of you is him?


  • #2698
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,117 ✭✭✭✭Strumms




  • #2699
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,290 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I live alone and have already booked a solo Christmas with a difference in one of the top luxury lodges in Center Parks (own hot tub, sauna, steam room, log fire etc), to compensate for the Caribbean cruise which was booked and paid for almost two years ago at a considerable discount. Will get my money back on that. Ordinarily I might have gone to one of the cousins for Christmas, but there are vulnerable family members and I couldn't live with myself if I contributed in any way to the spread of Covid to them or the fear they might have. They won't be wanting me anyway, I'm quite sure, so I'm making myself unavailable to the usual invites. Of course there will probably be a lockdown that prevents me travelling from Dublin to Longford, even though Center Parks would be a very suitable place if one sticks to the forest walks & outdoors. I'm sure they are setting it up to be all outdoors, and when you want your heat you retreat back to your lodge.


  • #2700
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Dublin needs than to get the 7-day rate to half of the current 14-day rate of 147 cases for restrictions to ease I.E 73 or less. The current 7-day rate is 78. Presuming a decision won't be made until next Sunday evening at the earliest. Hopefully we can exceed expectations and get it to low 60s. It's day 10 and there has been a stabilization, now we need to see the drop in daily cases for the capital.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/coronavirus-donnelly-cautiously-optimistic-about-dublin-1.4365732?mode=amp


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  • #2701
    s1ippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭s1ippy


    It's well and good saying "counties need to have less than this many cases every day for the next 5 days to avoid requiring a lockdown" but that's a feat that requires two weeks of actual action to succeed.

    Anyway there's very so little difference between what people are doing now and what they'll be doing at level 3 that as a response, it pales into insignificance.


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