Opening of "No-Food" pubs pushed out again

GT89 wrote: »

New scientific research shows the difference having a meal makes on the virus versus just having a pint. Truly intringing stuff

I don't think that's a real photo.

GT89 wrote: »

New scientific research shows the difference having a meal makes on the virus versus just having a pint. Truly intringing stuff

So, should I wait for my food to arrive before I get a pint? Does covid hate aperitifs?

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Incredible. Food magically repels Covid. I expect Tony Holohan and his dour band of geniuses at NPHET are a shoe-in for the Nobel Prize for Science 2021.

I don’t get why people push this as if the food rule makes no sense. There is clear logic behind it. Fine if you don’t agree with it but the smart alec posts as if Holohan and the government haven’t a clue are really petty and wilfully ignorant.

Charles Babbage wrote: »

3000 people on this island have died of Covid, something that took the Troubles 25 years to achieve. This kind of thing is not funny or mature.

Did they die of the troubles or with the troubles??

Deleted User wrote: »

Terribly sorry if I hurt your delicate feelings. Who are you exactly? NPHET have been extraordinarily patronising and dismissive of traditional publicans who bent over backwards at great expense to be accommodating. All to no avail, staring down a bleak December losing valuable business. Many of whom won't reopen in 2021. Due in no small part to an utterly deluded and irrational train of thought that an arbitrary €9 food charge is the knife edge between Covid spiralling out of control. Now I don't have to justify my actions on this thread to you, if you're unable to accept that then there's nothing else I can do for you. Sorry for your pedantic troubles.

What part of the eating food and not getting as pissed as without food do you not get? Is it the food part? or the €9 part - seriously. Do you you not understand what the government are trying to achieve?

As a consequence of the government imposing this, is them trying to keep people relatively sober, while in pubs and trying to stop people letting their guard down.
I for 1 want to go for a few pints without having to eat/fork out for food and stay longer that the small time allowed. This is not possible because a few of us seem to think that its ok to have street parties and not ware masks et al.

The few who will ultimately destroy our chances of going back to the pubs will be keyboard warriors and state that he gov have some sort of vendetta against the pubs. It is simply not the case. We, and I use that term loosely, have proven that we cannot behave correctly when p1ssed. I can, I am sure you can but others cannot.
Therefore the masses must be treated as one.
Yes, everyone suffers, publicans, hoteliers and everyone in the service industry is getting it in the neck.
I don't have a solution - honestly I wish I had, but as long as you have people not behaving correctly, not observing S Distancing and just acting like dicks when plastered is affecting us as a whole. We all have to suffer. As far as I can see the gov have no other choice. Well, they do but they will not open everything up when there is a vaccine on the horizon.

Geuze wrote: »

Bear in mind that if you die in a traffic accident crossing the road after getting a positive diagnosis, and you are infected, that will be recorded as a death by/with COVID.

Source?

Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »

Nah, im just pointing out the absurdness of these constant bs posts about covid not recognising meals etc etc blah blah blah. Its been explained over and over why 'wet' pubs are being treated differently, now whether thats right or wrong is neither here nor there but hey there are none so oh whatever.....

My solution? Open all the bars and have the Gardai crack down hard on those that are flouting regulations so the responsible ones can continue to trade but that aint ever happening in this country

Have to agree here - pretty much best solution.

Is the 90 minute rule back in restaurants?

Charles Babbage wrote: »

True. And a hospital procedure may be needed, the other things are not.



Ah that's alright then, only 300 dead then, sure why concern ourselves about that?

So is your solution stay inside at all times unless it's a hospital procedure?

MrStuffins wrote: »

Source?

Although this is absolutely nothing to do with pubs which the thread is about, I'll reply to this one post in the hope the thread isn't derailed further.

https://www.facebook.com/MichaelMcNamaraTD/videos/2520787121544659/

Until formal process has taken place it is recorded as such, following WHO guidelines recording anyone that has passed with covid. Hence when you see denotifications the data has been verified and formal cause of death notified to HPSC

All this scientific waffle is done on assumptions and predictions

One video of a crowded area in Dublin and Cork is enough to shut the whole country down

The flu has been rampant in all areas for 100s of years

Remember that teacher like threat by MM last summer cause of crowds of people drinking in food pubs

PTH2009 wrote: »

All this scientific waffle is done on assumptions and predictions

One video of a crowded area in Dublin and Cork is enough to shut the whole country down

The flu has been rampant in all areas for 100s of years

Remember that teacher like threat by MM last summer cause of crowds of people drinking in food pubs

It is truly depressing that in 2020 we have such attitudes, i give up

PTH2009 wrote: »

All this scientific waffle is done on assumptions and predictions

One video of a crowded area in Dublin and Cork is enough to shut the whole country down

The flu has been rampant in all areas for 100s of years

Remember that teacher like threat by MM last summer cause of crowds of people drinking in food pubs

Had a few pints to celebrate the waterford win have we?