Relaxation of Restrictions, Part IX Read OP For Mod Warnings

LameBeaver · 17-03-2021 03:55PM

Deusexmachina wrote: »

Excellent post. Irish Covid is the most infectious disease known to man. You can catch it by even thinking about going to a pub.
This variant emerged from the confession boxes of 1950's Ireland.

Previously known as the 'venal' sin.
Down with the drink, down with the sex, down with the young people and the dancing and all that.

Good catholics know how to suffer - while them across the water get back to their unholy ways.
Say 3 Hail Marys and lock yourself up.

Waffle.

DopeTech · 17-03-2021 03:56PM

Had to go out to collect the wife from work and you'd swear it's was a regular paddy's day. Crowds walking down to and around my local village. And not a guard in site. Gangs of teenagers everywhere. These resto are an absolute joke. Typically Irish, introduce laws but don't enforce them.

/Rant

Hector Savage · 17-03-2021 03:57PM

DopeTech wrote: »

Had to go out to collect the wife from work and you'd swear it's was a regular paddy's day. Crowds walking down to and around my local village. And not a guard in site. Gangs of teenagers everywhere. These resto are an absolute joke. Typically Irish, introduce laws but don't enforce them.

/Rant

So what do you want ? People locked in their homes with the doors welded shut ?

FintanMcluskey · 17-03-2021 03:57PM

DopeTech wrote: »

Had to go out to collect the wife from work and you'd swear it's was a regular paddy's day. Crowds walking down to and around my local village. And not a guard in site. Gangs of teenagers everywhere. These resto are an absolute joke. Typically Irish, introduce laws but don't enforce them.

/Rant

Chap out and about complains about others out and about

giveitholly · 17-03-2021 03:59PM

DopeTech wrote: »

Had to go out to collect the wife from work and you'd swear it's was a regular paddy's day. Crowds walking down to and around my local village. And not a guard in site. Gangs of teenagers everywhere. These resto are an absolute joke. Typically Irish, introduce laws but don't enforce them.

/Rant

Great to see people out and about on such a fine day

Hector Savage · 17-03-2021 03:59PM

Just had the misfortune to switch on RTE there, they had some program on about trad music, and of course lockdown was shown in a positive light , that they can give classes on zoom and skype, so ironic that they were in a small town talking about 3 pubs in the area that were great live music spots - but no mention of the fact that these pubs may never reopen.

Lockdown is great sure we can give zoom classes for the tin whistle all over the world!!

Ironhead93 · 17-03-2021 04:00PM

niallo27 wrote: »

Why have other countries like the states not been overwhelmed with a lot less restrictions.

I've been racking my brains trying to figure this out, WHY are we punished with harsher and longer restrictions than almost anywhere else?, if anyone can give a convincing and factual answer to this I would die a happy man

TheDoctor · 17-03-2021 04:03PM

Ironhead93 wrote: »

I've been racking my brains trying to figure this out, WHY are we punished with harsher and longer restrictions than almost anywhere else?, if anyone can give a convincing and factual answer to this I would die a happy man

Because we deserve it for being bold, thats why.

gozunda · 17-03-2021 04:07PM

niallo27 wrote: »

Why have other countries like the states not been overwhelmed with a lot less restrictions.

What you mean like Brazil? :rolleyes:

ypres5 · 17-03-2021 04:16PM

gozunda wrote: »

What you mean like Brazil? :rolleyes:

are you seriously trying to compare brazil with ireland? what do you feel we have in common with brazil as a country?

gozunda · 17-03-2021 04:20PM

ypres5 wrote: »

are you seriously trying to compare brazil with ireland? what do you feel we have in common with brazil as a country?

Are you seriously trying to suggest I am "comparing"?

Its an answer to this question - where there's no reference to "Ireland" btw

Why have other countries like the states not been overwhelmed with a lot less restrictions.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-56424611

Hector Savage · 17-03-2021 04:26PM

gozunda wrote: »

Are you suggesting I am "comparing"?

Its an answer to this question - where there's no reference to "Ireland" btw

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-56424611

I think the comparison with Brazil and the US is disingenous, look at living conditions and population density for a start ...

aziz · 17-03-2021 04:30PM

gozunda wrote: »

What you mean like Brazil? :rolleyes:

It’s Brazil this week,Paraguay the next,then maybe Uzbekistan week after that,and so on
Weren’t we the bad whipping boy country at the start of the year

Coillte_Bhoy · 17-03-2021 04:34PM

FintanMcluskey wrote: »

Chap out and about complains about others out and about

Collecting his wife from work isnt 'out and about'

Coillte_Bhoy · 17-03-2021 04:35PM

Ironhead93 wrote: »

I've been racking my brains trying to figure this out, WHY are we punished with harsher and longer restrictions than almost anywhere else?, if anyone can give a convincing and factual answer to this I would die a happy man

Id say rack your brains a lot then if you think this is all about punishment :rolleyes:

gozunda · 17-03-2021 04:37PM

Hector Savage wrote: »

I think the comparison with Brazil and the US is disingenous, look at living conditions and population density for a start ...

You're absolutely right - there's no comparison.

Brazil has only recently overtaken the US ...

SÃO PAULO—Brazil has overtaken the U.S. as the country with the most daily Covid-19 cases and deaths in the world, as an aggressive strain of the disease from the Amazon leaves Latin America’s biggest nation scrambling for space in hospitals and cemeteries.

As many countries put the worst of the pandemic behind them, Brazil is facing one of its worst humanitarian crises yet as deaths and infections surge, registering in the past week almost 1,000 new cases every 20 minutes—more than 70,000 a day.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/brazil-hit-by-covid-19-variant-surpasses-u-s-in-daily-cases-and-deaths-11615385902

JRant · 17-03-2021 04:42PM

Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »

Collecting his wife from work isnt 'out and about'

It's the very definition of out and about. It's also against the restrictions that they are so keen to see enforced more severely. Popping out in the car to collect the wife is definitely not on the list of essential journey's.

The lack of self awareness of people like that is another classic of this COVID era. Hur hur, I was out today and seen lots of people out, restrictions blah blah blah, enforcement, hur hur. It's incredibly boring at this stage.

ypres5 · 17-03-2021 04:45PM

gozunda wrote: »

You're absolutely right - there's no comparison.

Brazil has only recently overtaken the US ...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/brazil-hit-by-covid-19-variant-surpasses-u-s-in-daily-cases-and-deaths-11615385902

but we could never be in the position brazil are in because we don't have the population size, population density or the megacities brazil have

CruelSummer · 17-03-2021 04:45PM

Hope people are enjoying the fine weather today, and Happy St. Patrick's Day to all. Common sense is needed on the pathway forward, bring the people with them rather than turn them against. Patrick O'Donovan from FG attempting to scaremonger on Prime Time last night is going to have the opposite effect. NPHET claiming we're at a 'crucial' phase of our Covid 'battle' is another reckless approach. We can all see hospitalisations are falling, deaths are falling, the worst of the post Christmas wave is over. This kind of language doesn't help and gives fuel to those who claim this is all a hoax.
Abolish the 5k, allow people to meet outdoors, bring back outdoor sports, outdoor dining until say 8pm in the evening.. This would go a long way towards helping people cope until the vaccination programme picks up pace. Do whatever they have to do to get more vaccines, including pressuring the US today. We need to exit Level 5 in April, for it's symbolism more than anything else.
Also, why is construction still partially closed?! It's an essential service.

themacattack. · 17-03-2021 04:46PM

DopeTech wrote: »

Had to go out to collect the wife from work and you'd swear it's was a regular paddy's day. Crowds walking down to and around my local village. And not a guard in site. Gangs of teenagers everywhere. These resto are an absolute joke. Typically Irish, introduce laws but don't enforce them.

/Rant

its fantastic...i was in maynooth earlier and there was a real buzz around people drinking coffees and chatting...same in lexlip and few other places iv been today...should be encouraged...restrictions are a joke totally agree...

Coillte_Bhoy · 17-03-2021 04:50PM

JRant wrote: »

It's the very definition of out and about. It's also against the restrictions that they are so keen to see enforced more severely. Popping out in the car to collect the wife is definitely not on the list of essential journey's.

The lack of self awareness of people like that is another classic of this COVID era. Hur hur, I was out today and seen lots of people out, restrictions blah blah blah, enforcement, hur hur. It's incredibly boring at this stage.

You have no idea of the circumstances, and anyway i would class it as essential travel, so would most fair minded people

Boggles · 17-03-2021 04:51PM

JRant wrote: »

It's the very definition of out and about. It's also against the restrictions that they are so keen to see enforced more severely. Popping out in the car to collect the wife is definitely not on the list of essential journey's.

Huh?

Don't be silly, travel to and from work is permitted.

You must live in Dublin where they have actual public transport.

Boggles · 17-03-2021 04:52PM

How many showed up at the protests?

CruelSummer · 17-03-2021 04:56PM

Boggles wrote: »

How many showed up at the protests?

Does anyone really care? Protest can happen in a safe way online, through emails to TD's and other media without people congregating in Dublin causing trouble.

gozunda · 17-03-2021 04:59PM

aziz wrote: »

It’s Brazil this week,Paraguay the next,then maybe Uzbekistan week after that,and so on
Weren’t we the bad whipping boy country at the start of the year

Yeah thousands of people dying is all just some type of daft competition :mad:

Boggles · 17-03-2021 05:03PM

CruelSummer wrote: »

Does anyone really care? Protest can happen in a safe way online, through emails to TD's and other media without people congregating in Dublin causing trouble.

I agree.

But some on here predicted 1000s.

So how many showed up, do you know?

JRant · 17-03-2021 05:04PM

Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »

You have no idea of the circumstances, and anyway i would class it as essential travel, so would most fair minded people

Oh, I don't give a shïtê what they do. However, I'm not the one giving out about others being out and about while being out and about myself.

JRant · 17-03-2021 05:06PM

Boggles wrote: »

Huh?

Don't be silly, travel to and from work is permitted.

You must live in Dublin where they have actual public transport.

Yeah but travelling to and from someone's else workplace is not. This is remedial stuff.

JRant · 17-03-2021 05:08PM

Boggles wrote: »

How many showed up at the protests?

I believe there were at least 75 million anti-vax, flat earth, anti-abortion, puppy killing, far right, white supremacist, Trump voters out protesting today.

gozunda · 17-03-2021 05:16PM

ypres5 wrote: »

but we could never be in the position brazil are in because we don't have the population size, population density or the megacities brazil have

Are you on about Ireland again? So the lead story about Brazils health service / intensive care units in hospitals in danger of running out of capacity, could never happen here? Are you sure about that?

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/ireland-covid-19-today-hospital-23299250

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