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

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  • #1052
    DellyBelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,572 ✭✭✭DellyBelly


    Boggles wrote: »
    Eilish reported a lot of NPHET what to reduce the 5km to 2km???

    I don't believe that.

    Christ I hope that's not the case. I'm praying to God it goes to 10km. I'll be so so grateful if that what they decide to do.


  • #1053
    SnuggyBear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 965 ✭✭✭SnuggyBear


    DellyBelly wrote: »
    Christ I hope that's not the case. I'm praying to God it goes to 10km. I'll be so so grateful if that what they decide to do.

    lol


  • #1054
    km79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48,490 ✭✭✭✭km79


    Getting less and less optimistic we will be able to start building our home before June now. Along with lots and lots of other families . Who will all want tradesmen and materials at the same time . What could possibly go wrong .......


  • #1055
    titan18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,052 ✭✭✭✭titan18


    I just want to get a haircut (legally)


  • #1056
    Kivaro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,105 ✭✭✭Kivaro


    DellyBelly wrote: »
    Christ I hope that's not the case. I'm praying to God it goes to 10km. I'll be so so grateful if that what they decide to do.

    While I understand your sentiment, we should not be "grateful" by the extra 5 km that they may give us. They had no right to impose that type of restriction in the first place. There were other ways to manage this pandemic other than imprisoning the population in 5 km square areas over long drawn out periods not seen anywhere else in the world. Lockdowns were acceptable but not to the extent that the Irish government used them.


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  • #1057
    FintanMcluskey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,647 ✭✭✭FintanMcluskey


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I wouldn't say that it is meaningless. If c-19 is spreading amongst the younger healthier people, there is a bigger chance for mutations. Can't say I am aware of what is going on in the hospital this week as I had to use AL. It's nice to be able to spend some time at home.

    Put the feet up Dazzler you earned it


  • #1058
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    FintanMcluskey wrote: »
    Put the feet up Dazzler you earned it

    Got a promotion too last week, 2021 has been a oddly great year professionally too.

    Keep falling upwards, eh?


  • #1059
    Busi_Girl08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,553 ✭✭✭✭Busi_Girl08


    km79 wrote: »
    Getting less and less optimistic we will be able to start building our home before June now. Along with lots and lots of other families . Who will all want tradesmen and materials at the same time . What could possibly go wrong .......

    I'm in a similar boat waiting for the stupid "go sale agreed before you can view a house" rule. I'm not going to fork out thousands of Euro (refundable or not) based on a video of handful of photos on Daft ffs. :mad:


  • #1060
    Locotastic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 754 ✭✭✭Locotastic


    DellyBelly wrote: »
    Christ I hope that's not the case. I'm praying to God it goes to 10km. I'll be so so grateful if that what they decide to do.

    You'll be grateful if NPHET instruct you as to how far you can go from your home to exercise, and praying they'll let you go further? Ok :eek:

    You do realise there's not many paying attention to this limit at this stage if there ever were.


  • #1061
    corcaigh07
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,807 ✭✭✭corcaigh07


    DellyBelly wrote: »
    Christ I hope that's not the case. I'm praying to God it goes to 10km. I'll be so so grateful if that what they decide to do.

    Here fishy fishy.


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  • #1062
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    boetstark wrote: »
    I'm disappointed
    Angry
    Embarrassed
    Frustrated
    I cannot believe people aren't up in arms over this debacle. Our problem is not so much the virus, it's the lack of vaccine rollout. Our politicians have proved once again incapable of running a country.
    I look at other countries progress and initiatives and it fills me with envy. Irish people are unfortunately such a subservient race of people. Ireland will be the backwater of Europe

    I agree with you, but I think the main problem with Ireland is the lack of a functioning fourth estate. There's zero balance in the Irish media.

    I was reading about the 72 hour lockdown in Queensland over 7 cases (how the Australian approach is sustainable, I don't know, but that's a separate issue) and Sky News Australia was all over it. They were interviewing government ministers about it, analysing it etc. Imagine if Ireland were Queensland and locked down for 72 hours. There would be zero criticism or interrogating of government ministers or NPHET. It doesn't particularly matter whether people like Sky News Australia or not. The point is that they serve as a balance to other news' stations in Australia. You can't have a functioning democracy without a fourth estate. And you see the consequences of that in the case of Ireland. A shutdown for the guts of a year, zero criticism. zero questioning etc.


  • #1063
    FintanMcluskey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,647 ✭✭✭FintanMcluskey


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Got a promotion too last week, 2021 has been a oddly great year professionally too.

    Keep falling upwards, eh?

    Ah that’s great news

    Every cloud and all that


  • #1064
    paw patrol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭paw patrol


    km79 wrote: »
    Getting less and less optimistic we will be able to start building our home before June now. Along with lots and lots of other families . Who will all want tradesmen and materials at the same time . What could possibly go wrong .......

    if its a stand alone family home and you've nowhere to go, can it not be classified as essential


  • #1065
    km79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48,490 ✭✭✭✭km79


    paw patrol wrote: »
    if its a stand alone family home and you've nowhere to go, can it not be classified as essential

    Nope
    Only social housing .......


  • #1066
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Kivaro wrote: »
    While I understand your sentiment, we should not be "grateful" by the extra 5 km that they may give us. They had no right to impose that type of restriction in the first place. There were other ways to manage this pandemic other than imprisoning the population in 5 km square areas over long drawn out periods not seen anywhere else in the world. Lockdowns were acceptable but not to the extent that the Irish government used them.

    I agree. I see a very real danger of people forgetting that our rights are fundamental ones and accepting Glynn's 'degree of normality', which is the heavily restricted level 1. I find it concerning that there's no level 0 in that plan.


  • #1067
    Chivito550
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,697 ✭✭✭Chivito550


    It's like a game of Texas Hold em poker. They've gone in heavily on a pair of 5s. But after the flop, they've nothing better. Rather than fold, and cut their losses, they go in again. Then comes the turn, still nothing but they up the stakes again. The river follows and still all they have is a messily pair of 5s. Again, rather than fold, they go in again. To fold and cut their losses would be to admit they got it wrong, and that will never happen. So we will be the last country in Europe to come out of all this.


  • #1068
    RunningFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 406 ✭✭RunningFlyer


    JRant wrote: »
    Maybe so but looking at their previous form over the past 12 months I just can't see it. MM is about as weak a leader as you will see anywhere. There are jellyfish in the Irish sea with more backbone than him. It's easier for him to hide behind D'Variant, case numbers, and NPHET, than to actually make a decision.

    That made me chuckle :pac:

    I'll actually be flabberghasted if our reward for the past few months is they only increase the 5km a small bit - it will just prove they are on a completely different planet. It is completely redundant at this stage. As many have noticed, I've seen so many people ignore the restrictions now. In my local supermarket at the weekend there were people openly chatting in the aisles saying how they were going to parties that evening, and was similar on Friday evening a load of young ones and lads glammed up buying booze, no doubt off to a party.

    Everyone is already meeting up outdoors for walks, takeaway coffees etc. I also was sent contact details for a barber yesterday who is doing house visits if I wanted...

    Time to change the metrics and finally learn to 'Live with COVID'. Wont hold my breath though! :rolleyes:


  • #1069
    facehugger99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,878 ✭✭✭facehugger99


    SnuggyBear wrote: »
    lol

    He posts the same sh:te every couple of weeks in this thread looking for a reaction.


  • #1070
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,639 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Kivaro wrote: »
    Listening to the early news this morning, RTE is making every possible effort to stop the increase of the travel limit beyond 5 km. They had the union rep from the Garda sergeants & inspectors on the bulletin asking her that if the government increases the travel limit restriction beyond 5 km, will it not be harder for the Gardai to enforce the restrictions?

    Their "surge in cases" claim a couple of days ago has also now morphed into a new claim of 2% increase of cases "every single day". RTE is making a concerted effort to stop any easing of restrictions in our country. When this is over, we should all remember RTE's role is making life for us as difficult as possible, and there should be an investigation of the blatant lies that they claimed to be fact, and the biased/partial nature of how they presented the pandemic to the people of Ireland.

    Covid 19 brought to RTÉ in 2020 a very rare thing for them - a profit.

    I'm disgusted at their behaviour, but not one bit surprised unfortunately.


  • #1071
    honda boi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,697 ✭✭✭honda boi


    Meant to be moving into a house in about a week.
    Was hoping this 5km would be relaxed. Absolutely draining it is.
    Sickened as plenty of good stuff on adverts and done deal for the house but obviously they way beyond this 5km.
    Don't know what the Garda would say about picking up furniture/ kitchen stuff


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  • #1072
    Kiith
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,442 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    Seeing the UK opening makes it even harder this morning. Brother out for a round of golf this afternoon, and my boss has his first 7-a-side game of football tomorrow night. How such minor things can seem like luxuries is just crazy.


  • #1073
    Busi_Girl08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,553 ✭✭✭✭Busi_Girl08


    honda boi wrote: »
    Meant to be moving into a house in about a week.
    Was hoping this 5km would be relaxed. Absolutely draining it is.
    Sickened as plenty of good stuff on adverts and done deal for the house but obviously they way beyond this 5km.
    Don't know what the Garda would say about picking up furniture/ kitchen stuff

    Moving home should absolutely be essential travel. You should be fine.


  • #1074
    Kiith
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,442 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    Moving home is considered essential, as i did it in January. Not sure driving to pickup extra furniture would be though, so you may get stopped for that.


  • #1075
    mr zulu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89 ✭✭mr zulu


    What happened to this idea?

    How high is too high?
    The higher the percent positive is, the more concerning it is. As a rule of thumb, however, one threshold for the percent positive being “too high” is 5%. For example, the World Health Organization recommended in May that the percent positive remain below 5% for at least two weeks before governments consider reopening. If we are successful in bringing coronavirus transmission under control, this threshold might be lowered over time. To further relax social restrictions and allow very large gatherings or meetings of people traveling from many different areas, for example, we would want a lower threshold.


  • #1076
    FintanMcluskey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,647 ✭✭✭FintanMcluskey


    Kiith wrote: »
    Seeing the UK opening makes it even harder this morning. Brother out for a round of golf this afternoon, and my boss has his first 7-a-side game of football tomorrow night. How such minor things can seem like luxuries is just crazy.

    Meanwhile our team of progressive scientists are meeting later to decide if we can reopen construction next week

    A year after the rest of the globe decided its safe

    France imposed severe regional restrictions last week that limited its citizens to within 10km of their homes

    Hopefully our scientists allow us the freedom to to continue as the EUs most suppressed nation

    Of course no need to take into account the vaccination of HCW’s and 500,000 vulnerable when brainstorming the recommendations


  • #1077
    Hellrazer
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,086 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hellrazer


    Checkpoint outbound on the N4 again from this morning. Looks like theyre setting up for a few days / weeks.

    Very convenient that its there the day before an announcement - Id say its to stop a mass exodus from Dublin this weekend - meanwhile us ordinary working people will have to put up with hours of delays trying to get home.

    Disgraceful that theyve went back to this sh1t while we`re on the final stretch.


  • #1078
    Thinkingaboutit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,259 ✭✭✭Thinkingaboutit


    FintanMcluskey wrote: »
    Meanwhile our team of progressive scientists are meeting later to decide if we can reopen construction next week

    A year after the rest of the globe decided its safe

    France imposed severe regional restrictions last week that limited its citizens to within 10km of their homes

    Hopefully our scientists allow us the freedom to to continue as the EUs most suppressed nation

    Of course no need to take into account the vaccination of HCW’s and 500,000 vulnerable when brainstorming the recommendations

    Honestly it'll never end until enough people start refusing to accept the insanity.


  • #1079
    honda boi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,697 ✭✭✭honda boi


    Busi_Girl08 wrote: »
    Moving home should absolutely be essential travel. You should be fine.
    Ye moving to the house is fairly confident it's all above board.
    I see the issue is getting stuff for the house. There's nothing in the house. No appliances, furniture. Pre covid not an issue getting 2nd hand bargains. Now though it seems we all need to get brand new stuff, which is not financially possible.
    Kiith wrote: »
    Moving home is considered essential, as i did it in January. Not sure driving to pickup extra furniture would be though, so you may get stopped for that.
    Ye not sure what we going to do as it means that we need to buy everything brand new to make it legal. Which is insane.


  • #1080
    lawred2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,777 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Hellrazer wrote: »
    Checkpoint outbound on the N4 again from this morning. Looks like theyre setting up for a few days / weeks.

    Very convenient that its there the day before an announcement - Id say its to stop a mass exodus from Dublin this weekend - meanwhile us ordinary working people will have to put up with hours of delays trying to get home.

    Disgraceful that theyve went back to this sh1t!!!

    It's almost as if there is a leadership vacuum


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  • #1081
    darem93
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 200 ✭✭darem93


    Seeing the UK reopening ahead of us was always going to be a bitter pill to swallow, but it coming on top of all the negativity and fearmongering coming out this week makes it even harder.

    Yes of course their vaccine rollout is miles ahead of ours, but that is not the fault of the Irish public. This is why people are fed up of the constant finger pointing and blame game. The reason for these ridiculous and prolonged restrictions are a slow vaccine rollout and a poorly managed health service that seems to become "overran" way too easily, not "play dates" between children and people sitting in pubs and cafes that haven't been open in months...


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