Relaxation of Restrictions, Part VII *Read OP For Mod Warnings*

Silentcorner wrote: »

No, you gave no logical reason other than an assumption that people walking on a beach in January might take it upon themselves to go for a swim...which in my view should be up to the individual not our government to decide....they don't want people travelling outside of a 5km for no particular reason at all...it defies logic given that people are not at risk in traffic, not at risk talking a walk outdoors.

Why are NPHET setting up sub groups...they only have one gear - total lockdown for as long as possible justifying it with what ever data they can twist to suit.

You don't have a leg to stand on so you just throw a few insults.

FintanMcluskey wrote: »

1000 of which contracted the disease in those hospitals if recent reports are correct

Deleted User wrote: »

Thread is hilarious today... let’s fine people a grand for exercising...

The world some people want to live in is bizarre. Thankfully this nonsense will al be over soon.

In terms of the fines, we have criminals with 100+ convictions who are not in jail. Good luck with the fines.

Mr. Karate wrote: »

We can't stop the spread of the flu. Stopping this is a pipe dream. The best thing they could have done was beefed up their emergency rooms and ICUs with beds, ventilators and other equipment so the rest of us could go on with our lives.

Captain_Crash wrote: »

Absolutely they will! People faced with a big fine will get a solicitor who will advise to go to court, but if faced with an amounts less than the cost of a solicitor, they’ll pay it !

If every case was heard bigger fines could be handed out for sure, or the punishment may be a small contribution to the poor box instead. But the whole reason FPN’s were introduced in the first place was because the courts were getting overwhelmed with trivial things (mostly motoring offences at the time) and in order to clear backlogs just dismissed cases in huge numbers and focused on important things like criminal matters etc!

So you can bet your ass that if our courts were under pressure and faced with 1000’s of cases, they’ll just dismiss a few hundred non violent cases to clear the back lot like they’ve done countless times in the past. Anyway, that’s all off topic but the reason FPN’s are low is because it’s deliberately an amount a person is likely to pay in lieu of going to court.

HalfAndHalf wrote: »

It genuinely makes my blood boil, the selfish ignorance of facts, the inability to wear a mask ‘because they don’t work’ even though even the cheapest ones are proven to stop moisture escaping from peoples noses and mouths below the micron level that Covid would fix itself to.

When this is all over, history will prove that the naysayers were the cause of a large percentage of deaths that therefore could have been avoided! All because ‘they wanna get on with their lives’

I find it utterly sickening tbh.

Don't Chute! wrote: »

Totally agree. Remember Lockdown Part 1 when all of these amenities were actually closed off? The car park in the Glen of the Downs was closed Djouce woods closed Glendalough closed all Coillte car parks closed. Even the little car parks on Strand Rd were closed off. If they actually thought it would make a difference they would have done the same this time, but no. They don’t even believe in this lockdown themselves, they’re just going through the motions to be able to say “look we tried everything but the public are too stupid.......”

copeyhagen wrote: »

when you say people arent wearting a mask, where do you mean?

i go to the shops every day, people in masks.
i go to the park with kids every day, most people arent wearing a mask and keeps away from each other. perfectly fine.

im constantly out of the house and have yet to wintess anything that deserves the kind of sour, scare mongering facebook type comments you see on this thread.

MENTAL

Kunta Kinte wrote: »

2 days ago you didn`t think the "nonsense" as you dismiss it will be over soon.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=115939964&postcount=9648

So why have you flip flopped today?

Deleted User wrote: »

It is mild based on the stats. Go have a look at the overall number of known cases and the overall number of deaths. Factor in that we likely have way more cases than reported as the WHO stated.

A new study — believed to be the largest so far in which doctors evaluated patients six months after they became ill — suggests that many people will experience lingering problems like fatigue, insomnia, depression, anxiety or diminished lung function.

The study of 1,733 coronavirus patients who were discharged from a hospital in Wuhan, China, the original epicenter of the pandemic, found that more than three-quarters of them had at least one symptom six months later.
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The most common issue was ongoing exhaustion or muscle weakness, experienced by 63 percent of the patients. About one-quarter of the patients reported difficulty sleeping and 23 percent said they experienced anxiety or depression.

“It shows that a substantial portion of people, far higher than you would expect in the general population, are exhibiting symptoms that are having an impact,” said Dr. Steven Deeks, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, who is leading a study on long-term coronavirus symptoms that will follow patients for up to two years. “And importantly, there’s no specific pathway, there’s multiple different outcomes that occur: mental health stuff and pulmonary stuff and quality-of-life stuff. This provides pretty solid confirmation for what we’re all are seeing.”

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The study involved patients who were sick enough to be hospitalized, but in most cases were not the most severely debilitated. About 75 percent required supplemental oxygen when they were hospitalized, but the vast majority did not need ventilators or even high-flow nasal oxygen, a noninvasive method used in treating respiratory failure.

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The researchers also found that some people who had normal kidney function when they were hospitalized showed indications of diminished kidney function months later.

paw patrol wrote: »

fining people alone on a beach or having a swim isn't about health care or the state of the nation.
It's just tokenism , some meaningless gesture to show the state are taking it seriously but does the square root of fcuk all to combat covid.