JP Liz V1 wrote: » https://twitter.com/Independent_ie/status/1354515802775547906
The_Brood wrote: » I am honestly going to die laughing. The new measures amount to the gardai only having the power to give you a ring to see if you are abiding by the quarantine. Thats that. This is surreal.
lawrencesummers wrote: » That will be interesting reading for a lot of people here. People have been calling for inbound testing for a long time now. NPHET has recommended it and other actions be taken, This government has completely dropped the ball in relation to travel.
basill wrote: » That figure of 10% is 10% of the people that were tested returned a positive result if I read the article correctly. Not 10% of each and every Brazilian that was on a flight inbound to Ireland. Tonight on RTE news the average positivity rate for Ireland is running at around 8-9%. Unless the entire group of travelers was tested I am not sure you can actually draw any meaningful conclusions other than the bleedin obvious which is the new variants are nastier. Damn lies and statistics they say.
Danno wrote: » I'm sure there's a couple of unused hangars out back in DA. Throw down some of the mattresses from the county council collection schemes on the ground and lock the door. Three meals from KFC, Supermacs and McDonalds each day dropped inside. Send over Zara King to interview them after seven days. Run said footage on RTE News Now on a 24hr loop. Message will get through that travelling outside the state or coming here is not worth it at all.
facts and only facts wrote: » Loads of huff and Puff ....... about Airports and Ferry allowing in visitors etc and how to deal with it. First it is undeniable that it was this that got the virus into Ireland. To ask for a negative test and then away you go to isolate on trust is not the answer. No consequences and to ask of the indigenous population to keep being restricted, while allowing any influx from god knows where is just nuts. Suggestion. Anybody arriving into Ireland from anywhere/coming home deposits €2,500 and is put into dedicated Isolation Hotels for 14 days that the traveler has to pay for. Then if they get ill their medical expenses are also paid for out of the deposit. If they are in contradiction of any laws regarding lock down they forfeit the deposit. That way most people should have no problem with people crossing the border. If potential travel heads think that these conditions are harsh maybe they should forget about traveling and being none accountable!
Cosmo Kramer wrote: » Some of the responses on this thread certainly don't reflect well on the Irish education system anyway.
theguzman wrote: » But it is handy to blame an entire nationality when you make a mess of things here yourself. They had no problems with the Brazilians spending their life savings of English courses and a space in a bunk-bed for €500 per month to fatten up their FF crony landlords. No mention of all the Irish who came in over Christmas and the Irish minority Travelling Community who never wear a mask or behave like decent human beings.... blame the Brazilians, great going bravo to Micheal Martin.
froog wrote: » am i correct in saying our border control strategy right now is sending text messages to people urging them to take a test??
saabsaab wrote: » Drop in a note saying to contact a number in the next 24 hrs!
Bambi wrote: » Sure what does it matter as long as meat is still getting packed? Thanks be to god for Irish politics
dartboardio wrote: » That is brilliant. :pac: Poor Ireland....
gozunda wrote: » Is that laughing with or laughing at 'poor Ireland"
buried wrote: » I don't think anybody is blaming the Brazilian people for this situation. The blame is with our government who have totally relinquished responsibility for the well being of our population by allowing our international ports to be open to anybody to come from, or go to and come back from places thousands of kilometres away, places where new variants of the disease are in circulation or may be in circulation. Add to this, at the very same time the government have decided to make it a criminal offence for anyone here to go 5km from their own home. This is a highly hypocritical and highly dangerous situation. And it is proof this current FF/FG regime have no clue as to what they are doing.
faceman wrote: » Anyone else suspicious that the travel restrictions are coming the same week the Boeing 737 max is approved for use in Irish airspace? :pac:
Happydays2020 wrote: » Funny I thought that our high cases in recent weeks came from increased mixing in hospitality and private homes settings. Given that all these cases came from foreigners arriving, does it mean that we close the airport and can then just open up the whole country, pubs and all? No - our cases did come from increased mixing and the measures taken to stay at home are clearly working. Blaming this on air travel right now is complete nonsense. The narrative around this is to get politicians and people off the hook for bad decisions and complacency.
lawrencesummers wrote: » Between Saturday 16th and Sunday 24th 19,320 people arrived into Dublin airport. If you apply the numbers of positive tests coming from Brazilian travellers of almost one in ten testing positive than you have something in the order of 1932 people that are covid positive coming into Dublin airport in a period of 8 days. Now that’s not proven, and it’s taking liberty with the figures. But it’s also not disproven, or checked by the authorities to be a problem of that scale, so why don’t they actually go an check it. Set up mandatory testing of arrivals for a few days and see how big the problem is. It’s also only arrivals into one airport, albeit our biggest but there are other ways of travelling into the country, and don’t forget that every single case of covid detected in Ireland can be traced back to travel, if you trace far enough.
faceman wrote: » You're just making it up as you go at this point. Less than 1% of cases relate to travel and you have applied a 10% figure to all travellers. Good job! Also you should do you research on the travel sector if you are going to moan about it. PCR testing is now a legal requirement with punitive measures applying. So the cases relating to travel is going to plummet Change the record. Time to focus on something else.
faceman wrote: » ...Less than 1% of cases relate to travel and you have applied a 10% figure to all travellers. Good job!... Change the record. Time to focus on something else.
