Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

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

1…3031333536…325

Comments

  • #962
    RGS
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 787 ✭✭✭RGS


    TonyMaloney wrote: »
    With cases fairly stable and a substantial ramp up in vaccines going into arms, I'm starting to feel quite positive about where we are for the first time in ages.

    Still a precarious situation, but at the current pace of vaccination, with every week that passes we'll be in a better and better situation.

    The situation with cases rising in kids is a big worry, but the easter holidays will hopefully relieve a bit of pressure there, and by then we should be jabbing huge numbers of people per week.

    It's a pity your positivity isn't shared by NPHET or our government.

    They appear to be dancing around moving the 5km limit to 10km or some other arbitrary distance.


  • #963
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,532 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    MM speech will be fun

    'the end is truly in sight but waffle waffle waffle, new variants waffle'


  • #964
    Red Silurian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,216 ✭✭✭✭Red Silurian


    RGS wrote: »
    It's a pity your positivity isn't shared by NPHET or our government.

    They appear to be dancing around moving the 5km limit to 10km or some other arbitrary distance.

    The key will be when they stop monitoring


  • #965
    hynesie08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,318 ✭✭✭✭hynesie08


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    MM speech will be fun

    'the end is truly in sight but waffle waffle waffle, new variants waffle'

    Don't watch it so, just do what you do best and get mad at what you imagine he's going to say.


  • #966
    normanoffside
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,234 ✭✭✭✭normanoffside


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    MM speech will be fun

    'the end is truly in sight but waffle waffle waffle, new variants waffle'

    It's a new Virus yet somehow the vaccines designed against the old virus work against it too.


  • Advertisement
  • #967
    hynesie08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,318 ✭✭✭✭hynesie08


    Carefree88 wrote: »
    Damn, all most had Hotel booked, when are NI opening indoor dining, gym zoos etc? England are April 12th

    Not announced yet, Scotland is opening indoor drinking with food or outdoor drinking the 26th

    If I was a betting man, may bank holiday?


  • #968
    Locotastic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 754 ✭✭✭Locotastic


    hynesie08 wrote: »
    Don't watch it so, just do what you do best and get mad at what you imagine he's going to say.

    You mean predict what he's going to say :D

    I'm thinking next weeks speech will be the straw that breaks the camels back. Many in this country won't accept anything less than a swiftly executed reopening of the entire country.

    It will be a big mistake for them to consider prolonging or introducing further restrictions.


  • #969
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,532 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    hynesie08 wrote: »
    Not announced yet, Scotland is opening indoor drinking with food or outdoor drinking the 26th

    If I was a betting man, may bank holiday?

    Bank holidays here are also a major no no for NPHET

    In that case Mid August might be the case for Hospitality opening here


  • #970
    hynesie08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,318 ✭✭✭✭hynesie08


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    Bank holidays here are also a major no no for NPHET

    I'm going to explain this slowly.

    Northern.... Ireland..... Is.... Not...... The...... Republic....


  • #971
    Red Silurian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,216 ✭✭✭✭Red Silurian


    normanoffside wrote: »
    It's a new Virus yet somehow the vaccines designed against the old virus work against it too.

    It's a new mutation of the existing virus, vaccines work with less efficacy


  • Advertisement
  • #972
    Aph2016
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 495 ✭✭Aph2016


    Those in the media must go to bed every night feeling conflicted, on one hand their ratings are doing very well, which keeps them in jobs, but on the other hand the more they feed into this crap the longer it will go on.

    Travel restrictions need to be fully removed, they're being completely ignored anyway. MM needs to grow a set and stop letting 'scientists' run the country.


  • #973
    Red Silurian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,216 ✭✭✭✭Red Silurian


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    Bank holidays here are also a major no no for NPHET

    In that case Mid August might be the case for Hospitality opening here

    If they're smart they'll open outdoor hospitality long before that... They're not smart though


  • #974
    hynesie08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,318 ✭✭✭✭hynesie08


    Locotastic wrote: »
    You mean predict what he's going to say :D

    I'm thinking next weeks speech will be the straw that breaks the camels back. Many in this country won't accept anything less than a swiftly executed reopening of the entire country.

    It will be a big mistake for them to consider prolonging or introducing further restrictions.


    By all accounts they're not so that's good.


  • #975
    Red Silurian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,216 ✭✭✭✭Red Silurian


    Aph2016 wrote: »
    Travel restrictions need to be fully removed, they're being completely ignored anyway. MM needs to grow a set and stop letting 'scientists' run the country.

    What scientist runs the country? Also what scientist would be worse than the idiot we currently have as Taoiseach?


  • #976
    SnuggyBear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 965 ✭✭✭SnuggyBear


    Locotastic wrote: »
    Who are the people actually going to get tested!? Have they really got nothing else to be doing with their lives. I mean even in lockdown a trip to the local test centre for the craic.

    They interviewed them in rte the other night. A lot of them saying sure ya never know if you have it. Down there for the craic basically. One woman said she hasn't left the house in a year cos she's high risk so she decided to go down there.


  • #977
    SnuggyBear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 965 ✭✭✭SnuggyBear


    Red Silurian wrote: »
    If they're smart they'll open outdoor hospitality long before that... They're not smart though

    Outdoor hospitality is useless


  • #978
    Real Donald Trump
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,862 ✭✭✭Real Donald Trump


    I have a feeling Tony will return tomorrow :eek:


  • #979
    Red Silurian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,216 ✭✭✭✭Red Silurian


    SnuggyBear wrote: »
    Outdoor hospitality is useless

    Howso?


  • #980
    paddyisreal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,718 ✭✭✭paddyisreal


    SnuggyBear wrote: »
    Outdoor hospitality is useless

    It is but it might stop a lot of gatherings indoors in houses.


  • #981
    SnuggyBear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 965 ✭✭✭SnuggyBear


    Red Silurian wrote: »
    Howso?

    It's not viable for most places


  • Advertisement
  • #982
    Red Silurian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,216 ✭✭✭✭Red Silurian


    paddyisreal wrote: »
    It is but it might stop a lot of gatherings indoors in houses.

    Exactly


  • #983
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,532 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    SnuggyBear wrote: »
    Outdoor hospitality is useless

    In terms of numbers it is as it can be quite hard to find somewhere


  • #984
    paddyisreal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,718 ✭✭✭paddyisreal


    Red Silurian wrote: »
    Exactly

    As you said if they were smart they should be looking at this in the next few weeks but as per usual they won't until they are forced to. That will happen when Northern Ireland opens hospitality


  • #985
    normanoffside
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,234 ✭✭✭✭normanoffside


    Real Donald Trump wrote: »
    I have a feeling Tony will return tomorrow :eek:

    If he hears of any restrictions being lifted

    38144033ff3b9e8bcbdb157442204ef6.gif


  • #986
    RobitTV
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,517 ✭✭✭RobitTV


    Tony will make his return very soon. Just like he did the last time and we went straight to level 5 restrictions.

    The previous change in restrictions (level 3 to 5) were so fast even the government were surprised by this recommendation from Tony and NPHET.


  • #987
    normanoffside
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,234 ✭✭✭✭normanoffside


    RobitTV wrote: »
    Tony will make his return very soon. Just like he did the last time and we went straight to level 5 restrictions.

    Level 5 didn't work. This time it will be level 6


  • #988
    Red Silurian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,216 ✭✭✭✭Red Silurian


    SnuggyBear wrote: »
    It's not viable for most places

    Most places I know of have fine big outdoor seating areas, any that don't could easily take in part of the public footpath outside their door, councils have a role to play there too


  • #989
    newuser99999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 378 ✭✭newuser99999


    paddyisreal wrote: »
    It is but it might stop a lot of gatherings indoors in houses.

    It won’t, not if there’s the stupid €9 rule and only having a place for an hour and a half before you’re told to move on. Why would people bother?


  • #990
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 949 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Russman wrote: »
    Ahh come on, there’s more nuance to it than that.

    That's a matter of opinion and philosophy.

    My personal opinion is that the most precious aspect of our society is the liberty we have, grounded in philosophy and culture that can be traced back for millennia. The same philosophy and culture that assured that not a single one of the pandemic plans we had in place prior to covid included anything compulsory or legally enforced, and instead, involved plans for strong communication and information, and letting the rest up to the risk tolerance of the citizenry.

    Instead, we have allowed a cohort of weak politicians, motivated entirely by personal preservation, and a committee of people who belong to a profession that often (during times of crisis and strife) tends toward the authoritarian (See: doctors being the most likely profession to join the Nazi party) to import heavy-handed, doctrinaire restrictions from parts of the world that have no respect whatever for the notion of liberty, and implement them here. And our constitution and legal framework as it stands has proven useless in the face of it.

    I consider every legally enforceable Covid restriction to be immoral.

    I do not believe there is more nuance to it than that.

    Your mileage may vary.


  • Advertisement
  • #991
    Red Silurian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,216 ✭✭✭✭Red Silurian


    newuser99999 wrote: »
    It won’t, not if there’s the stupid €9 rule and only having a place for an hour and a half before you’re told to move on. Why would people bother?

    If hospitality is outdoors only the €9 rule becomes pointless


This discussion has been closed.
Advertisement