Relaxation of Restrictions, Part VIII Read OP For Mod Warnings

Skipduke · 19-02-2021 01:19AM

Off topic but who here is single, living with their parents and wasting the sexiest years of their life away... &#55357;&#56877;

ypres5 · 19-02-2021 01:19AM

Graham wrote: »

I'm not sure what you're asking ypres5, which part confuses you?

third time's the charm what are the few million petri dishes that have you worried and why does it only apply to Ireland? is this going to be a repeat of the construction workers thing?

PTH2009 · 19-02-2021 01:20AM

How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, and how many times must the cannonballs fly
Before they're forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind
Yes, and how many years must a mountain exist
Before it is washed to the sea?
And how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
Yes, and how many times can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn't see?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind
Yes, and how many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
And how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, and how many deaths will it take 'til he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind

retro:electro · 19-02-2021 01:23AM

Lundstram wrote: »

They're doing this sneaky thing now where if there's a day where a person dies under the age of 50 they announce age ranges. Think they had age ranges of 47-105 the other day.

It's a very clever tactic. One person under 50 dies while the rest are over 80.

It's designed to have people thnking there's lots of younger people dying with it when in fact it couldn't be further from the truth.

I noticed that the day the 18 year old died. I thought it was strange to add the age since they never do it with any other age range. Usually they’ll just announce the deaths but on the days when someone is under 50 they will make sure to casually assert the age range. It’s quite manipulative.

19-02-2021 01:23AM

growleaves wrote: »

Respiratory illness and deaths peak in mid-January every year.

We're over the annual mid-January peak but expected to spend most of the year, bar mid-summer, in 'severe lockdown'.

Some peak this year. Especially with no flu

https://mobile.twitter.com/seamuscoffey/status/1360180696912961537

Lundstram · 19-02-2021 01:24AM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

The data is available if you want to check it out

I do.

Problem is the vast majority don’t go further than the info their given in the press conference.

NPHET also know this.

Graham · 19-02-2021 01:24AM

ypres5 wrote: »

third time's the charm what are the few million petri dishes that have you worried and why does it only apply to Ireland? is this going to be a repeat of the construction workers thing?

I've still no idea what you're asking and what I've suggested that only applies to Ireland.

The petri-dishes comment refers to the daft idea we can just remove restrictions without consequence as one of the obvious consequences would be much much higher numbers of infections which means much much hire chances of new mutations/variants.

That applies to most countries, certainly not Ireland specific.

Now if you're alluding to the fact this isn't a consideration for BoJo, probably better to wait and see what the UK actually announce before proclaiming enthusiastically that they're doing it better.

ypres5 · 19-02-2021 01:24AM

retro:electro wrote: »

I noticed that the day the 18 year old died. I thought it was strange to add the age since they never do it with any other age range. Usually they’ll just announce the deaths but on the days when someone is under 40 they will make sure to casually assert the age range. It’s quite manipulative.

like when tubridy had that man's widow on talking about her loss in such a show of journalistic moral bankruptcy it'd make the sun look like the washington post by comparison

Bigfatmichael · 19-02-2021 01:25AM

PTH2009 wrote: »

How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, and how many times must the cannonballs fly
Before they're forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind
Yes, and how many years must a mountain exist
Before it is washed to the sea?
And how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
Yes, and how many times can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn't see?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind
Yes, and how many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
And how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, and how many deaths will it take 'til he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind

Yesterday
All my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they're here to stay
Oh, I believe in yesterday
Suddenly
I'm not half the man I used to be
There's a shadow hangin' over me
Oh, yesterday came suddenly
Why she had to go, I don't know, she wouldn't say
I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday
Yesterday
Love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away
Oh, I believe in yesterday
Why she had to go, I don't know, she wouldn't say
I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday

hynesie08 · 19-02-2021 01:25AM

PTH2009 wrote: »

How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, and how many times must the cannonballs fly
Before they're forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind
Yes, and how many years must a mountain exist
Before it is washed to the sea?
And how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
Yes, and how many times can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn't see?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind
Yes, and how many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
And how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, and how many deaths will it take 'til he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind

Please for the love of christ tell me you are not comparing covid to the plight of black slaves in civil war America?

MOR316 · 19-02-2021 01:25AM

Lundstram wrote: »

I do.

Problem is the vast majority don’t go further than the info their given in the press conference.

NPHET also know this.

That's always the way though.

People are just accepting of anything the TV or newspapers tell them, regardless of whether it's the truth or not. Not just about Covid, everything!

copeyhagen · 19-02-2021 01:26AM

Can't sleep. Lying there ****ing eyes wide open.
Never felt trapped in my life like this.
Have two weeks annual leave to use up now next month... Can't even do anything with it.

Can't even escape with the wife and kids to my parents place in Spain. This isn't living...

I wonder is this their plan
Announce 9 weeks on a Thursday casually
Public go insane

Announce 6 weeks next Tuesday
Public say "thank god, 9 weeks was bad"
And that's that..no protests

They have done that lots in the past

RobitTV · 19-02-2021 01:27AM

Me tonight...

19-02-2021 01:27AM

Parachutes wrote: »

Yeah we were wearing stupid cloth masks made in China, squirting hand gel and doing social distancing when it suited us so I guess there was not one case of flu in the whole country.... but covid is everywhere.

Would ya ever wake up.

Guess the only winter with zero confirmed cases of influenza in 20 years worth on the hspc site?

https://www.hpsc.ie/a-z/respiratory/influenza/seasonalinfluenza/surveillance/influenzasurveillancereports/

All this detail is easily accessible

MOR316 · 19-02-2021 01:27AM

hynesie08 wrote: »

Please for the love of christ tell me you are not comparing covid to the plight of black slaves in civil war America?

Obviously he/she doesn't know the meaning of the song and is just citing the lyrics as it's a melancholic, thought provoking tune...

Calm

ypres5 · 19-02-2021 01:28AM

Graham wrote: »

I've still no idea what you're asking and what I've suggested that only applies to Ireland.

The petri-dishes comment refers to the daft idea we can just remove restrictions without consequence as one of the obvious consequences would be much much higher numbers of infections which means much much hire chances of new mutations/variants.

That applies to most countries, certainly not Ireland specific.

Now if you're alluding to the fact this isn't a consideration for BoJo, probably better to wait and see what the UK actually announce before proclaiming enthusiastically that they're doing it better.

did i ever say to remove restrictions graham? between this and the travel thing i think you must be reading someone else's posts and then responding to me. either that or youre putting words in my mouth. also the UK are doing better than us considering it's been said several times that this is their final lockdown meanwhile in our fair isle we've lost another 5 months of the year and that's just what we know of so far.

Graham · 19-02-2021 01:28AM

Lundstram wrote: »

I do.

Problem is the vast majority don’t go further than the info their given in the press conference.

For a lot of people it's a case of don't know, don't care, just want it to be over. That's understandable but it doesn't make for particularly well informed decisions.

I think most just scan the headlines while others go directly to the source data rather than rely on the press releases.

Graham · 19-02-2021 01:29AM

ypres5 wrote: »

did i ever say to remove restrictions graham? between this and the travel thing i think you must be reading someone else's posts and then responding to me. either that or youre putting words in my mouth. also the UK are doing better than us considering it's been said several times that this is their final lockdown meanwhile in our fair isle we've lost another 5 months of the year and that's just what we know of so far.

Like I said, the UK haven't actually announced their plans.

I'd say put the pom-poms away for now, the cheerleading is a little premature.

RobitTV · 19-02-2021 01:29AM

Come on guys we are nearly there! :pac::p

9 more weeks and we can meet outside.

Silentcorner · 19-02-2021 01:30AM

copeyhagen wrote: »

Can't sleep. Lying there ****ing eyes wide open.
Never felt trapped in my life like this.
Have two weeks annual leave to use up now next month... Can't even do anything with it.

Can't even escape with the wife and kids to my parents place in Spain. This isn't living...

I wonder is this their plan
Announce 9 weeks on a Thursday casually
Public go insane

Announce 6 weeks next Tuesday
Public say "thank god, 9 weeks was bad"
And that's that..no protests

They have done that lots in the past

It wouldn't be unlike them to float a kite before the weekend, allowing them time to readjust.

But they are playing with fire, people are at the end of their rope with this, and who could blame them, this is the most inhumane Government Policy ever inflicted on people...if they pull stunts like that then they are kidding themselves of they think they can get away with it...

This is like being in an abusive relationship.

ypres5 · 19-02-2021 01:33AM

Graham wrote: »

Like I said, the UK haven't actually announced their plans.

I'd say put the pom-poms away for now, the cheerleading is a little premature.

yeah they're doing it this coming Monday so I'll keep my pom poms on hand for when they make ****ing idiots out of us and the rest of the eu for a second time.

Bigfatmichael · 19-02-2021 01:33AM

Hopefully the minister for Beer Gardens will sort us out.

Parachutes · 19-02-2021 01:33AM

I'm off to bed. Always remember: It only ends when we stop complying.

Graham · 19-02-2021 01:35AM

Silentcorner wrote: »

this is the most inhumane Government Policy ever inflicted on people

It's probably fair to say that's just hyperbolic tosh.

On the scale of government committed atrocities, our current restrictions wouldn't even rank.

Graham · 19-02-2021 01:36AM

ypres5 wrote: »

yeah they're doing it this coming Monday so I'll keep my pom poms on hand for when they make ****ing idiots out of us and the rest of the eu for a second time.

Pics or it didn't happen

In fairness to the UK, their vaccine program does look like it's progressing nicely.

MOR316 · 19-02-2021 01:37AM

They're into harsh restrictions,
Closed schools and shopping malls
They make false predictions
Zara King, asking utter balls

Mental health across the nation
Has gone to utter ****e
Landlords make an eviction
Rents late, a fortnight

They'll close all your pubs off and make drink out in the rain
They'll make your life so crazy, agonizing mental pain
Like a bullet to your brain
Come on!

Micheál Martin,
Livin' Da Vida Lockdown
Tony Holohan
Livin' Da Vida Lockdown
They will wear you out
Livin' Da Vida Lockdown

Neddyusa · 19-02-2021 01:38AM

Silentcorner wrote: »

It wouldn't be unlike them to float a kite before the weekend, allowing them time to readjust.

But they are playing with fire, people are at the end of their rope with this, and who could blame them, this is the most inhumane Government Policy ever inflicted on people...if they pull stunts like that then they are kidding themselves of they think they can get away with it...

This is like being in an abusive relationship.

That's exactly what it is.

And been that since last May.

Government communications and "guidance" is like textbook controlling abusive partner behaviour

garycoyle1 · 19-02-2021 01:38AM

U watching Mel Gibson on netflix

MOR316 · 19-02-2021 01:38AM

RobitTV wrote: »

Come on guys we are nearly there! :pac::p

9 more weeks and we can meet outside.

Where is this in Dublin

fin12 · 19-02-2021 01:39AM

MOR316 wrote: »

They're into harsh restrictions,
Closed schools and shopping malls
They make false predictions
Zara King, asking utter balls

Mental health across the nation
Has gone to utter ****e
Landlords make an eviction
Rents late, a fortnight

They'll close all your pubs off and make drink out in the rain
They'll make you life so crazy, agonizing mental pain
Like a bullet to your brain
Come on!

Micheál Martin,
Livin' Da Vida Lockdown
Tony Holohan
Livin' Da Vida Lockdown
They will wear you out
Livin' Da Vida Lockdown

Ha that’s very good. I sang it.

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Relaxation of Restrictions, Part VIII Read OP For Mod Warnings