FrancieBrady wrote: » That is a constant through all lockdowns. Everyone from SF to the Government made the same mistakes. It does not excuse the lack of restrictions when the experts knew and warned what would happen if they were not there Maryanne. Please stop embarrassing yourself.
smurgen wrote: » We're not vaccinating fast enough because of our unique geographical situation lol. Is there not a conspiracy their forum for nonsense posts?
blanch152 wrote: » No they didn't, please stop embarrassing yourself. When this is all over, there will be an assessment. That assessment will compare how this government did compared to the government in the North and the government in London. We can decide then.
blanch152 wrote: » No, that isn't what I said. We have a porous border with another jurisdiction. That jurisdiction is run by idiotic politicians who prefer to squabble over principles than help their people. Actually, it is not unigue, the Canadians and Mexicans have the same problem dealing with the US on their doorstep that we have with the SF/DUP shambles.
Bubbaclaus wrote: » They projected worst case 1,200 cases a day by mid January if Government went ahead with the opening up. Government obviously weighed that up against all the other considerations and deemed it worth the risk. If NPHET had projected 6k+ cases a day by the 5th of January then clearly the Government would have made a very different decision.
FrancieBrady wrote: » What we have here are politicians and their faithful supporters who think the electorate are 'idiotic' to believe their spin.https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/more-than-54-000-people-flew-into-state-over-festive-period-1.4453610
[Deleted User] wrote: » All the advice and guidelines in the world are worthless if the people ignore them. After all, we cannot each have a personal advisor telling us what to do. Simples.
blanch152 wrote: » There was a bigger problem with people entering the State from Northern Ireland, that is why the figures in the border counties are so high.
FrancieBrady wrote: » And we know who blocked that - the DUP. Never mind their problem...we allowed 54 through the airports alone. That's a disgrace.
Vaccination for GPs will now open on Monday, a leading Cork GP involved with the roll-out has confirmed as glitches in the IT registration system have caused delays. Some nursing homes have said for example saying they are using Excel sheets to record vaccine data currently.
Cluedo Monopoly wrote: » https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-40203755.html IT systems getting the blame for everything. Proper planning would have helped.
smurgen wrote: » If it's pointless as you say I take you advocate lifting restrictions? On top of that too if the government is as useless as you say maybe we should looking at cutting politicians pay immediately and drastically. After all we can just be more responsible and everything will be fine right?
smurgen wrote: » Can you come back and explain this? It seems up to 7000k were predicted by the end of the first week of January. See the NPHET letter to government on November 26th.https://twitter.com/TJRyan_77/status/1347551828586729473?s=19
smurgen wrote: » First case in Ireland came from northern italy. A well known covid hotspot at the time.
smurgen wrote: » An absolute farce. 9 months to get all this in line. Heads need to roll when all this is over- Paul Reid is finished to start.
Jinglejangle69 wrote: » Yeah if we had of stopped travel from Italy in March we would have never had covid here. Do you actually realise what you're posting!!!
Jinglejangle69 wrote: » I read NHPET in that link say it is inevitable there will be household visits and mixing over Xmas. So they basically admitted it didn't matter what restrictions where brought in, people where gonna mix anyway. Case closed.
smurgen wrote: » There needs to be multiple resignations at government after this passes.https://twitter.com/peterdonaghy/status/1348034214311190528?s=19
smurgen wrote: » Varadkar is a liability to our country and his denile of reality makes him unfit for office. He should resign. He is a barefaced liar.https://twitter.com/GraceOSllvn/status/1123695058916605958?s=19
tobsey wrote: » How the **** do you remember and find a tweet from over a year and a half ago? Denile indeed. Pathetic.
tobsey wrote: » Resignations? How do you work that out? My sister flew home from London on 17th December. At the time a test 5 days later would allow her out of quarantine. She got the test on the 22nd and it was negative. By that stage though the government advised all travellers from UK since 8th December should quarantine for 14 days. We ignored that advice and continued our Christmas plans to stay with her and my parents. We also went to my in laws on Christmas Day to swap presents and then to them on Stephen’s day for dinner. We went again for dinner with them on 28th. In the end me, my wife, three of our four kids, my sister, my mother in law and sister in law ended up with positive Covid tests. My sister ended up bringing it back to London having caught it here rather than bringing the new strain over. We suspect my brother in law was the first of us to have it but he never got tested so we can’t be sure. We saw him Christmas Day and on the 28th. The 28th was the only day we broke the one household rule but I’d say I’d already caught it because I got symptoms on 29th. So we chose to break two rules from government and ended up with it spreading rampant. Even if we had obeyed all the rules it looks like we’d have had three same outcome. Except my sister might have escaped it if she’d stayed in her room right through Christmas. I can’t imagine anyone expected that to happen though. So maybe if the government had implemented level 5 before Christmas me and my family would have avoided Covid, and similarly many other families too. We wouldn’t have had the numbers nationally that we’ve seen. But virtually nobody wanted that, not you or any of the other regular government detractors would have wanted it or obeyed it. Hindsight is 20-20, but to lay all the blame at the government is just wrong.
Fann Linn wrote: » He probably uses the same crowd that FG do to trawl through SF posts from years ago. Pathetic.
Brendan Bendar wrote: » Because he does nothing else except scrape Twitter for rubbish, Tee.
Bishop of hope wrote: » indeed!
smurgen wrote: » So you're saying essentially the government took a populist approach and its back fired essentially? Sorry to hear of your family ill. Two of my relatives now have it. One was an essential maintenance worker in building project in Dublin.
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