Relaxation of Restrictions, Part VI - Read OP for Mod Warnings

19-10-2020 10:49PM

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

Completely essential and justifiable. Pair yourself with them as your "bubble" or whatever they are calling it if needed.

Besides, no judge is going to prosecute anyone for going to see their daughter who is distraught and in late stage pregnancy

Thanks...... and to everyone else who said the same.
I just felt sick to my stomach earlier. I will be going to my daughter, come hell or high water, every week between now and the end of these restrictions.... and no Garda checkpoint is going to make me turn back.

funnydoggy · 19-10-2020 10:50PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Thanks...... and to everyone else who said the same.
I just felt sick to my stomach earlier. I will be going to my daughter, come hell or high water, every week between now and the end of these restrictions.... and no Garda checkpoint is going to make me turn back.

Good on you sweetmaggie.

PTH2009 · 19-10-2020 10:53PM

livid

nothing inspired confidence in that speech, waiting for a vaccine ?

We all know 3/4 weeks from now were getting an extension

please please if anyone is suffering mentally from this, loads of services to reach out too. You are not alone and do not do something stupid. Stay safe everyone

Idbatterim · 19-10-2020 10:56PM

The next hundred weeks are critical! that may sound like I am taking the piss and I am, but its actually how I see it panning it, as if they know when a vaccine would become available and even if they had a crystal ball and could tell you. You think they would? Well dear citizens, the vaccine is 21 months away, please bear with us as we continue our comedic policies! LOL!

Idbatterim · 19-10-2020 10:59PM

rusty cole wrote: »

I said it before..someone needs to start a national #notomontrose and finish that cespit

yes, but we can start the process ourselves. Stop watching the ****, and feeding them with the advertising revenue etc...

charlie14 · 19-10-2020 10:59PM

rusty cole wrote: »

Oul charlie14 has been binge watching a few good men...there was no 5.30 flight was there general mcluskey...

At least the last poster made an attempt. You just waffled. And inanely at that.

_Kaiser_ · 19-10-2020 11:00PM

PTH2009 wrote: »

livid

nothing inspired confidence in that speech, waiting for a vaccine ?

We all know 3/4 weeks from now were getting an extension

please please if anyone is suffering mentally from this, loads of services to reach out too. You are not alone and do not do something stupid. Stay safe everyone

I am genuinely going between disgusted with the "it's not that big a deal" message from the RTE luvvies and fuming with the stupidity and weakness of Micheal and Co here tonight.

Add to that the bewilderment of how easily the general public have surrendered their independence (thought, movement and indeed decision making) over this whole issue despite the facts now showing this virus is nowhere near as deadly as first feared and most may not even realise they have it if they do catch it.

FintanMcluskey · 19-10-2020 11:03PM

charlie14 wrote: »

Incorrect.

Perhaps Fintan to whom the question was directed can do better

I wasn’t referring to the positivity rate of tests carried out Charlie

FrankC21 · 19-10-2020 11:05PM

This is what a checkpoint should look like.

19-10-2020 11:05PM

charlie14 wrote: »

At least the last poster made an attempt. You just waffled. And inanely at that.

well Charlie, we all know you have your own angels who lap up your waffle with a sweet dose of ****e syrup.. come now, there's a good piggy..

funnydoggy · 19-10-2020 11:07PM

FrankC21 wrote: »

This is what a checkpoint should look like.

Should look like this:

NIMAN · 19-10-2020 11:07PM

Under this new lockdown, will I be able to cross the border to visit my widowed 80yr old mother who has dementia?
It's a 20km drive to get to the border, perhaps they will fine me for driving so far from home?

It's going to be a balls..

drunkmonkey · 19-10-2020 11:08PM

Are we really going to do this, wait around for the vaccine in rolling 6 week crazy cruel lockdowns.
At least we know NPHET's plan now, I hope it all works out for them, sounds good won't work.

NIMAN · 19-10-2020 11:09PM

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Are we really going to do this, wait around for the vaccine in rolling 6 week crazy cruel lockdowns.
At least we know NPHET's plan now, I hope it all works out for them, sounds good won't work.

They'll still get their big wages, don't worry.

Put them on the PUP too, see how long they continue with their recommendations.

questionmark? · 19-10-2020 11:09PM

NIMAN wrote: »

Under this new lockdown, will I be able to cross the border to visit my widowed 80yr old mother who has dementia?
It's a 20km drive to get to the border, perhaps they will fine me for driving so far from home?

That's allowed. Caring for a relative is called out in the rules.

19-10-2020 11:09PM

They have published what is deemed essential retail. This really stood out to me. So any shop could stick in a tea machine and open as normal.

outlets selling food or beverages on a takeaway basis, or newspapers, whether on a retail or wholesale basis and whether in a non-specialised or specialised outlet.

charlie14 · 19-10-2020 11:10PM

FintanMcluskey wrote: »

I wasn’t referring to the positivity rate of tests carried out Charlie

"1 in 100 had a positive test"

What was it this 1 in 100 tested positive for Fintan ?

FrankC21 · 19-10-2020 11:11PM

funnydoggy wrote: »

Should look like this:

Well i wish we could go back to that.

The Continental Op · 19-10-2020 11:13PM

NIMAN wrote: »

Under this new lockdown, will I be able to cross the border to visit my widowed 80yr old mother who has dementia?
It's a 20km drive to get to the border, perhaps they will fine me for driving so far from home?

It's going to be a balls..

Exactly what I'm doing next week and I've got to take the ferry over to the UK.

Will have to isolate for two weeks when I get back but I'm getting used to that will be the third time.

19-10-2020 11:13PM

NIMAN wrote: »

Under this new lockdown, will I be able to cross the border to visit my widowed 80yr old mother who has dementia?
It's a 20km drive to get to the border, perhaps they will fine me for driving so far from home?

It's going to be a balls..

I just stick a bag of non perishable food in the car. If I get stopped I say I am looking after family member’s. Which is technically true.

If they give me hassle, I’ll hand them the bag of food and demand that they deliver it themselves if they won’t allow me to.

Worked during lockdown 1.

charlie14 · 19-10-2020 11:16PM

rusty cole wrote: »

well Charlie, we all know you have your own angels who lap up your waffle with a sweet dose of ****e syrup.. come now, there's a good piggy..

Now rude can be added to your contributions containing nothing other than bitching and moaning.

Rrrrrr2 · 19-10-2020 11:18PM

Deleted User wrote: »

They have published what is deemed essential retail. This really stood out to me. So any shop could stick in a tea machine and open as normal.

outlets selling food or beverages on a takeaway basis, or newspapers, whether on a retail or wholesale basis and whether in a non-specialised or specialised outlet.

Think retail will have to get together and work around the stupid rules...we've a long, immature history of this as a nation (thanks to idiotic useless leadership) of doing this. I said that last time- stick in a shelf of "essential items" and keep your doors open.

Captain_Crash · 19-10-2020 11:20PM

Rrrrrr2 wrote: »

Think retail will have to get together and work around the stupid rules...we've a long, immature history of this as a nation (thanks to idiotic useless leadership) of doing this. I said that last time- stick in a shelf of "essential items" and keep your doors open.

I said it before and I still believe it..... government won’t get us out of this, a public mutiny will! We’re going to go the way of Sweden... we just don’t know it yet! And I can’t wait to gloat about it when it happens

charlie14 · 19-10-2020 11:25PM

Captain_Crash wrote: »

I said it before and I still believe it..... government won’t get us out of this, a public mutiny will! We’re going to go the way of Sweden... we just don’t know it yet! And I can’t wait to gloat about it when it happens

Strange as it may seem to you, Sweden is now considering going the same way as everyone else on lockdown.

Captain_Crash · 19-10-2020 11:28PM

charlie14 wrote: »

Strange as it may seem to you, Sweden is now considering going the same way as everyone else on lockdown.

They are considering targeted localised restrictions..... not a national lockdown like us

19-10-2020 11:31PM

Deleted User wrote: »

RTÉ admitted that lockdown doesn’t work. Even if this lockdown brings case numbers down, they expect them to start rising in January.

So what will we do then? Level 5 again in February?

That's fairly optimistic IMO. I had hoped differently, but 7 months of observation and experience have me now convinced that this stop/start will roll on until we have a vaccine widely available.

So I would guess the current plan is...

Hope to get those daily case numbers down in the next 6 weeks to about half of what they are now...open up enough industries in early December to be able to carve out some kind of Christmas for the kids/political gain...heighten restrictions once again in the first half of January.

Also, in case anyone hasn't copped yet, Bank Holiday weekends are a big 'nope'. I expect the 'lockdown/open' up pattern to follow this trend next year once again.

The longer this goes on, the more I honestly believe that this is all fúcked until 2022. Remember 'Phase 4' and the plan for it? Ah, the good aul days.

46 Long · 19-10-2020 11:34PM

NIMAN wrote: »

Under this new lockdown, will I be able to cross the border to visit my widowed 80yr old mother who has dementia?
It's a 20km drive to get to the border, perhaps they will fine me for driving so far from home?

It's going to be a balls..

I doubt that distance regulations/confinement are legally enforceable. They've intentionally blurred the lines between 'advisory' and 'backed up by legal framework' rules since day one of this nonsense.

charlie14 · 19-10-2020 11:35PM

Captain_Crash wrote: »

They are considering targeted localised restrictions..... not a national lockdown like us

So when is a lockdown not a lockdown ?
When it`s in Sweden.?

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bucketybuck · 19-10-2020 11:37PM

Deleted User wrote: »

That's fairly optimistic IMO. I had hoped differently, but 8 months of observation and experience have me convinced that this stop/start will roll on until we have a vaccine widely available.

Problem being that stop/start technology works for engines, it doesn't work for businesses.

I believe the pattern will be stop - start - stop...

Speaking in general terms, the level of ignorance in this country about economics is quite staggering, its frightening actually.

weldoninhio · 19-10-2020 11:40PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Thanks...... and to everyone else who said the same.
I just felt sick to my stomach earlier. I will be going to my daughter, come hell or high water, every week between now and the end of these restrictions.... and no Garda checkpoint is going to make me turn back.

Good on you, and all the best to your daughter. Must be incredibly hard for her with all this nonsense going on.

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Relaxation of Restrictions, Part VI - Read OP for Mod Warnings