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

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  • #5702
    JRant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,198 ✭✭✭✭JRant


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Trip booked for next August. Will I get to go? No idea but certainly will give myself something to look forward too.

    Just go.

    It's only advisory from the government, similar to the self isolation when you return.

    "Well, yeah, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man"



  • #5703
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    JRant wrote: »
    Just go.

    It's only advisory from the government, similar to the self isolation when you return.

    The advisory doesn't bother me, it's the prevalence of the virus and restrictions that may be in place in my destination. I intend a touring holiday of three countries, two of whom have severe restrictions in place at the moment.


  • #5704
    dalyboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,490 ✭✭✭dalyboy


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    The advisory doesn't bother me, it's the prevalence of the virus and restrictions that may be in place in my destination. I intend a touring holiday of three countries, two of whom have severe restrictions in place at the moment.

    That’s my biggest fear of a holiday abroad.

    Arriving at a hotel with limited bar/restaurant service , closed gym and pool etc would certainly put me off booking at the moment.


  • #5705
    funnydoggy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,065 ✭✭✭funnydoggy


    dalyboy wrote: »
    That’s my biggest fear of a holiday abroad.

    Arriving at a hotel with limited bar/restaurant service , closed gym and pool etc would certainly put me off booking at the moment.




    TBH I think those kinds of places would lift restrictions even faster than other places. They rely almost exclusively on tourism.


  • #5706
    Dr. Bre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,845 ✭✭✭Dr. Bre


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Have to wait to be able to buy clothes, apparently they're non essential. ;-)

    Go nude


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  • #5707
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    Dr. Bre wrote: »
    Go nude

    I need clothes to conceal my sexiness.


  • #5708
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    I need clothes to conceal my sexiness.

    so strange.


  • #5709
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    caveat emptor wrote: »
    so strange.

    Not having your meat and two veg on public display is not strange, it's considered polite by Western society.


  • #5710
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Not having your meat and two veg on public display is not strange, it's considered polite by Western society.

    Couldn't agree more. Your post made me think...



  • #5711
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    caveat emptor wrote: »
    Couldn't agree more. Your post made me think...


    If I was chocolate I'd lick myself. ;-)


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  • #5712
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    If I was chocolate I'd lick myself. ;-)

    You are fvcking mental. Carry on. :eek:


  • #5713
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    caveat emptor wrote: »
    You are fvcking mental. Carry on. :eek:

    Strange times lad, got to have a few laughs even at my own expense.
    Stay frosty. ;-)


  • #5714
    statesaver
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,084 ✭✭✭statesaver


    What are the chances the Government will go back to Level 3 this week or next week, or will they stick to Level 5 until December 1st ?


  • #5715
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    statesaver wrote: »
    What are the chances the Government will go back to Level 3 this week or next week, or will they stick to Level 5 until December 1st ?

    That would be admitting they were wrong to jump to 5 on the say-so of Nphet. Won't happen. I can even see Holohan wanting to extend.


  • #5716
    aziz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 755 ✭✭✭aziz


    Best we can hope for is level 3 plus in December


  • #5717
    acequion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,987 ✭✭✭acequion


    Just been to Dunnes to pick up a few groceries, haven't been in over a week. I see all the fashion part closed off with signs about regulations!

    Heard noise about such nonsense in the media but switched off but jeez WTF??:eek::eek: Have we really lost it in this country?? And people will still try to convince you that we don't live in a hysterical nanny state!


  • #5718
    arctictree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,419 ✭✭✭arctictree


    CruelSummer wrote: »
    When I watched the NPHET press conference Tuesday, they stated it was the Amárach polls they use which they base public opinion on...

    Who answers these polls? I mean if someone I don't know rang me asking me to answer some questions, I'd tell them where to go!


  • #5719
    fm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 673 ✭✭✭fm


    acequion wrote: »
    Just been to Dunnes to pick up a few groceries, haven't been in over a week. I see all the fashion part closed off with signs about regulations!

    Heard noise about such nonsense in the media but switched off but jeez WTF??:eek::eek: Have we really lost it in this country?? And people will still try to convince you that we don't live in a hysterical nanny state!

    And Retail Ireland pushed for that, if their members can't have it no one can


  • #5720
    GazzaL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,395 ✭✭✭GazzaL


    arctictree wrote: »
    Who answers these polls? I mean if someone I don't know rang me asking me to answer some questions, I'd tell them where to go!

    People who have too much time on their hands.


  • #5721
    46 Long
    Closed Accounts Posts: 355 ✭✭46 Long


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    That would be admitting they were wrong to jump to 5 on the say-so of Nphet. Won't happen. I can even see Holohan wanting to extend.

    Course he will. And when this lockdown fails like the last one, Holohan's line will be that the lockdown only failed because we didn't lockdown hard enough and the only solution to a failed lockdown is to redouble our efforts and lockdown again. We could replace him with an African grey parrot or a Magic 8-ball and there wouldn't be the slightest change in our approach.


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  • #5722
    Zebra3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,107 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    acequion wrote: »
    Just been to Dunnes to pick up a few groceries, haven't been in over a week. I see all the fashion part closed off with signs about regulations!

    Heard noise about such nonsense in the media but switched off but jeez WTF??:eek::eek: Have we really lost it in this country?? And people will still try to convince you that we don't live in a hysterical nanny state!

    Yep, beyond belief.

    All those people out of a job as a result.

    Can't get socks for kids, but grabbing a bottle of wine? No bother.

    Hard to see a GE happening before it's due as FFFG will be made pay by people whose lives they've destroyed.


  • #5723
    Happydays2020
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭Happydays2020


    Did NPHET meet today and recommend Level 6? For 6 weeks?


  • #5724
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/harris-agrees-unvaccinated-children-should-be-barred-from-school-1.3855556


  • #5725
    stargazer 68
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭stargazer 68


    Zebra3 wrote: »
    Yep, beyond belief.

    All those people out of a job as a result.

    Can't get socks for kids, but grabbing a bottle of wine? No bother.

    My son works in one of the supermarkets. He needs a new jumper for work but cant get one even though he can see them beside the staff locker room! Daft!!!


  • #5726
    Tenzor07
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,383 ✭✭✭Tenzor07


    46 Long wrote: »
    Course he will. And when this lockdown fails like the last one, Holohan's line will be that the lockdown only failed because we didn't lockdown hard enough and the only solution to a failed lockdown is to redouble our efforts and lockdown again. We could replace him with an African grey parrot or a Magic 8-ball and there wouldn't be the slightest change in our approach.

    It's been obvious since Holhan returned that this Level 5 lockdown is just the start...
    They will do what the UK are doing now which is to completely abandon the "Living with Covid" levels and go straight to a complete lockdown, schools, construction sites and elite sports closed/suspended. Only supermarkets/pharmacies open. Off-licences with reduced hours, and a night time curfew also...
    I would also guess that they will bring in a complete travel ban by bringing in some "emergency" law which "temporarily" suspends the right to leave the country...
    Once there's some sort of a vaccine in the country they will make it mandatory also, just look at Harris' comments about unvaccinated kids in school.

    This is going to be a long hard winter and Holohan won't be taking their foot off the Gas anytime soon... No Government minister/leader will stand up to them again after the Varadkar charade..


  • #5727
    funnydoggy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,065 ✭✭✭funnydoggy


    MelbourneMan wrote: »
    Hello. I am sorry poster, but I must pull you up right there on that preposterous posting. Have you studied that data at all ? This is the very type of completely misleading, alarmist, and downright baseless type of misinformation it behoves us all to call out and work to improve the quality of information and understanding in the wider public. Please, I request you delete your posting. (it can be done in the 'edit' mode if you use the 'Go Advanced' function).

    Nox?


  • #5728
    Don't Chute!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭Don't Chute!


    MelbourneMan wrote: »
    Hello. I am sorry poster, but I must pull you up right there on that preposterous posting. Have you studied that data at all ? This is the very type of completely misleading, alarmist, and downright baseless type of misinformation it behoves us all to call out and work to improve the quality of information and understanding in the wider public. Please, I request you delete your posting. (it can be done in the 'edit' mode if you use the 'Go Advanced' function).

    G’way to **** will you! The adults are talking!


  • #5729
    patnor1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,301 ✭✭✭patnor1011


    Christmas 2020. NPHET version.

    dublin.jpg


  • #5730
    CruelSummer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,336 ✭✭✭CruelSummer


    patnor1011 wrote: »
    Christmas 2020. NPHET version.

    dublin.jpg

    I’m not sure if any on here saw the trailer to a new Michael Bay Covid movie, Songbird. It certainly didn’t run with a relaxation of restrictions into the future. Its storyline details Covid never left, it is now Covid 23. Not only is it a police state, it’s army state...the stuff of horrors.


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  • #5731
    vafankillar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 591 ✭✭✭vafankillar


    acequion wrote: »
    Just been to Dunnes to pick up a few groceries, haven't been in over a week. I see all the fashion part closed off with signs about regulations!

    Heard noise about such nonsense in the media but switched off but jeez WTF??:eek::eek: Have we really lost it in this country?? And people will still try to convince you that we don't live in a hysterical nanny state!

    I absolutely didn't want a level 5, but I work in a supermarket and if we're in level 5 those are the regulations. I honestly dont get why people think it should be any different. clothes shops are closed, and then rightly so should non-essential sections in supermarkets.

    those sections being open leads to more customers coming in and more time browsing in the store. it really does add up in how much extra time is being spent in the stores daily , which increases likelihood of transmission.


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