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

They are having a few St Patrick's Day parties over in the Irish bars in Sweden if anybody is up for it.

The rest of the world will be celebrating our national holiday :pac:

"Years to come we will parade again and gather in celebration'"

Uh-oh....

SnuggyBear wrote: »

Serious amount of right wing boogie man

Real moral panic pearl clutching going on

RTE running scare stories to try and discourage people from peacefully protesting the restrictions at the top of their website.

What a disgrace they are.


No doubt a tiny minority of imbeciles will do something today and allow RTE to portray the entire demonstration as some nut-job convention.

It's frightening to see how far down the road to totalitarianism we have traveled in a year.

Your democratic rights and civil liberties now only exist at the whim of the current Government, who can outsource those decisions to a group of non-elected, single-issue fanatics.

Sharpyshoot wrote: »

Don’t forget the bring the cans.

No chance, D'Variant loves cans. I heard it especially loves to hide in the widgets of guinness cans.

RTE have come up with a list of things to do at home for St. Patrick's Day - you can even take part in a virtual parade (for the second year in a row)

How about downing a few pints of water.

Ryan Tubridy has promised Late Late viewers "the cream of Irish traditional music" for St. Patrick's Day celebrations this Wednesday on RTÉ One at 9:30pm.

Elessar wrote: »

From Martin on the Independent:



So there we have it. He's already decided the April restrictions won't be anything like what he's already mentioned.

I'm calling it - Sports allowed but everything else remaining until May at the earliest.

He's dead right as well. I remember back in November when we had 600,000 vaccines administered covering HCWs and nursing homes. Sure it was a disaster back then and nothing at all has changed since November at all.

It is also fair to say opening shops, gyms, hairdressers, golf courses is the very definition of going wild. Imagine all those people out and about doing things. It's enough to scare the bejaysus out of ya. No, we must stay in level 5 until we get everyone vaccinated twice now, to be sure to be sure. To do otherwise would be completely reckless.

I've done my Phillip Nolan modelling calculations on the back of a napkin and I can say with as much certainty as he would that at least 1 million people will die if we even attempt to open golf courses on April 5th.

We need to be cautiously cautious as we double our efforts to prevent a concerning rise in cases. In 10 weeks we could be in a much worse scenario and 10 weeks after that it could be completely different again. Therefore the only sensible approach is to stay locked down to prevent another lockdown.

statesaver wrote: »

I agree with people saying these restrictions are not to protect the public from the virus but rather protect the HSE from the virus.

protect the hse management from being exposed as the inept looting morons that they are

gansi wrote: »

Coming out of the pandemic he says yet not celebrating St Patrick’s day properly for years to come, completely contradictory.

It's not contradictory because that's not what he said.

Morries Wigs wrote: »

then national anthem at 1115 pm say your prayers and lights off

and thank God dr tony saved your soul from the evils and temptations of pre marital sex and alcohol

suicide_circus wrote: »

Careful now, more than 2 pints of water per hour over several hour can lead to water intoxication, kidney failure and even death.

We need to lock down the water supply to prevent this, 6 weeks should do it.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/health/easing-of-level-5-on-april-5-at-risk-from-st-patricks-day-demonstrations-and-gatherings-warns-harris-40203084.html

Simon floating ongoing lockdown after April 5th. I'm sure we'll be told we're at a critical juncture.