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Covid 19 Part XXXIV-249,437 ROI(4,906 deaths) 120,195 NI (2,145 deaths)(01/05)Read OP

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  • #2162
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,426 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    Meeting others outdoors is all very fine but not in gardens is daft .
    I and my friend are a bit too old to sit on the grass so if we sit on a bench we are actually a bit close . So I will be meeting in my garden where we can spread out a bit better and sit on comfy chairs
    And No we wont be sharing spoons or licking the same knife
    And we know where the anti bac wipes are if by any chance she needs to loo


  • #2163
    nocoverart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,354 ✭✭✭nocoverart


    Lollipop95 wrote: »
    When will they open up the restaurants with drinks and the gyms?

    I seen a pub in Lisbon with a barber shop, but I don’t think a restaurant with a gym serving drinks would work :)


  • #2164
    paddyisreal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,892 ✭✭✭paddyisreal


    Lollipop95 wrote: »
    When will they open up the restaurants with drinks and the gyms?

    Pubs will open For a 3 week period in mid July until August with the 9 euro virus protector enforced. Closed down again by mid August so the schools can reopen ok because the vaccines only work 99 percent against some new variant or as Michael calls it new disease and nphet are worried about the hospitals again. Rinse and repeat till we run out of money


  • #2165
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    nocoverart wrote: »
    I seen a pub in Lisbon with a barber shop, but I don’t think a restaurant with a gym serving drinks would work :)

    Barbells and Sixpacks


  • #2166
    bottlebrush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,215 ✭✭✭bottlebrush


    Juliet Loose Underachiever wrote: »
    Devastated I still can't go to Bray!

    Why can two vaccinated people meet indoors? Why not three? Or ten? I don't get it.

    Rte website says people who are vaccinated can meet other vaccinated people indoors but must be from only one other household. If that's the case would it be necessarily limited to 1 per household?


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  • #2167
    techdiver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,600 ✭✭✭techdiver


    Juliet Loose Underachiever wrote: »
    Devastated I still can't go to Bray!

    Why can two vaccinated people meet indoors? Why not three? Or ten? I don't get it.

    Because there is no evidence being used in this country. It's all extrapolated guess work. We don't have an adequate test and trace system in place so instead of that we work off assumptions as opposed to science.

    Not allowing safe outdoor sports whilst simultaneously allowing intercounty training to recommence is not based on any solid science. The whole thing loses credibility as a result.

    It has been decided that we will not live with any risk when it comes to this virus. We have one plan and that is lockdown until we have everyone vaccinated or we have no cases in hospital. NPHET gained serious power due to the Christmas surge and now the government is in a perpetual state of fear of going against anything they say no matter the damage to the economy or society as a whole.

    NPHET have no concern for wider society they are only concerned with covid numbers. The government is supposed to weigh up their recommendations along with what balances with wider society. They no longer do that and fully implement what NPHET demand. It would be akin to handing over public policy to An Garda Síochána during a crime wave.


  • #2168
    celt262
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,972 ✭✭✭celt262


    paddyisreal wrote: »
    Pubs will open For a 3 week period in mid July until August with the 9 euro virus protector enforced. Closed down again by mid August so the schools can reopen ok because the vaccines only work 99 percent against some new variant or as Michael calls it new disease and nphet are worried about the hospitals again. Rinse and repeat till we run out of money

    Do people still think these comments are funny?


  • #2169
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,047 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    Meeting others outdoors is all very fine but not in gardens is daft .
    I and my friend are a bit too old to sit on the grass so if we sit on a bench we are actually a bit close . So I will be meeting in my garden where we can spread out a bit better and sit on comfy chairs
    And No we wont be sharing spoons or licking the same knife
    And we know where the anti bac wipes are if by any chance she needs to loo

    Absolutely agree. We don't have parks anywhere near by but could meet very safely in our garden. There's another couple nearby that we are very friendly with and, like ourselves, are past sitting on the grass somewhere that we'd all have to travel to. I think we may have to meet in the garden, much as it goes against the grain of us keeping to the restrictions to date. We could also meet our grandchildren in our garden much easier than trying to find some neutral venue.


  • #2170
    redarmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,870 ✭✭✭redarmy


    Three travellers staying in mandatory hotel quarantine have tested positive for Covid-19 and have been moved to a ‘Covid wing’ within the Crowne Plaza Hotel near Dublin Airport.


  • #2171
    nocoverart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,354 ✭✭✭nocoverart


    WoollyRedHat wrote: »
    Barbells and Sixpacks

    What a great name for it. Scrap what I said, a restaurant with a gym serving drinks sounds like a great idea!


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  • #2172
    Tails142
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,120 ✭✭✭Tails142


    What is the problem with inter county travel ffs, I haven't seen my mother since before Christmas, it's a two hour drive that I can easily do without stopping, ridiculous crap that's gone on long enough


  • #2173
    paddyisreal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,892 ✭✭✭paddyisreal


    celt262 wrote: »
    Do people still think these comments are funny?

    Not meant to be funny, it's the truth just wait and see.


  • #2174
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,047 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    landofthetree wrote: »
    A plan by definition has to have proper information.

    You dont pay for a set of plans from an architect and just get a nice picture of a building.

    A detailed map or diagram is only one definition of a plan. It's also an intention or decision about what one is going to do.


  • #2175
    r93kaey5p2izun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,962 ✭✭✭r93kaey5p2izun


    bottlebrush wrote: »
    Rte website says people who are vaccinated can meet other vaccinated people indoors but must be from only one other household. If that's the case would it be necessarily limited to 1 per household?

    Yeah I see now it's two households rather than two people. Still don't get why there's any limit though.


  • #2176
    h2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,424 ✭✭✭h2005


    Tails142 wrote: »
    What is the problem with inter county travel ffs, I haven't seen my mother since before Christmas, it's a two hour drive that I can easily do without stopping, ridiculous crap that's gone on long enough

    I thought you’re allowed visit parents? I have been anyways.


  • #2177
    Lucas Hood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,206 ✭✭✭Lucas Hood


    Be interesting to hear the estimate on the r number on Thursday. I didn't see it being over 1 like they said.


  • #2178
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,121 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Tails142 wrote: »
    What is the problem with inter county travel ffs, I haven't seen my mother since before Christmas, it's a two hour drive that I can easily do without stopping, ridiculous crap that's gone on long enough

    Just pick a reason from all the exclusions and go.


  • #2179
    Allinall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,810 ✭✭✭Allinall


    paddyisreal wrote: »
    Of course it makes sense, I can hardly break restrictions down here to play 5 a side football when the facilities are all closed. I will probably go to the gym as well.

    Why not just break into the facilities?


  • #2180
    muddypuppy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 322 ✭✭muddypuppy


    Benimar wrote: »
    It was only for exercising up to April 12th

    To be fair Donelly mentioned going for a walk/run and then a coffee, which can be seen as a quite lax definition of exercise.


  • #2181
    speckle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭speckle


    Flowergirl201 wrote: »
    I hate the term/phrase roadmap.

    Grass routes? :D


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  • #2182
    MerlinSouthDub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,634 ✭✭✭MerlinSouthDub


    Lucas Hood wrote: »
    Be interesting to hear the estimate on the r number on Thursday. I didn't see it being over 1 like they said.

    IIRC, the R calculation on Thursday will be based on case data up to Monday. It probably will still be slightly above 1.

    But anyway, their modelling is pretty irrelevant. If case numbers actually start going down again that would be great.


  • #2183
    giveitholly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,228 ✭✭✭giveitholly


    So Leo Varadkar said they would look at hospitality at the end of June, I presume this means that cafes,restaurants in shopping centres that don't serve alcohol and sit down areas in the likes of Supermacs or Delis can't open either?


  • #2184
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,775 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Why do they keep emphasizing golf at these "roadmaps to freedom", as if it were the must-have morsel of freedom the entire population seeks to enjoy; or some barometer of success against COVID-19?


  • #2185
    podgeandrodge
    Site Banned Posts: 5,975 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    Meeting others outdoors is all very fine but not in gardens is daft .
    I and my friend are a bit too old to sit on the grass so if we sit on a bench we are actually a bit close . So I will be meeting in my garden where we can spread out a bit better and sit on comfy chairs
    And No we wont be sharing spoons or licking the same knife
    And we know where the anti bac wipes are if by any chance she needs to loo

    Your ignorance of the well known dangers of sitting in gardens is shocking!


  • #2186
    BobbyMalone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭BobbyMalone


    h2005 wrote: »
    I thought you’re allowed visit parents? I have been anyways.


    As in you can travel wherever you want as long as it's to see your parents? I don't think so, but you can travel across county-lines to visit a grave. Or if you've formed a bubble with someone living on their own.


  • #2187
    speckle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭speckle


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Why do they keep emphasizing golf at these "roadmaps to freedom", as if it were the must-have morsel of freedom the entire population seeks to enjoy; or some barometer of success against COVID-19?

    Theyre trying to rehab golf in our minds after golfgate...or maybe rubbing it in cos the edjits got caught by the public? :D


  • #2188
    speckle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭speckle


    BobbyMalone wrote: »
    As in you can travel wherever you want as long as it's to see your parents? I don't think so, but you can travel across county-lines to visit a grave. Or if you've formed a bubble with someone living on their own.

    Also for caring/health/emergency reasons etc


  • #2189
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,047 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Why do they keep emphasizing golf at these "roadmaps to freedom", as if it were the must-have morsel of freedom the entire population seeks to enjoy; or some barometer of success against COVID-19?

    I feel somewhat the same but there are lots of activities vying for attention. Why are GAA inter County teams getting to train when other sports can't? Why are pubs not opening?
    Everybody has their own priorities. At least let them open the ones carrying less risk.


  • #2190
    podgeandrodge
    Site Banned Posts: 5,975 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    Germany stopped AstraZeneca again for under 60's:

    "On Tuesday morning hospitals in four German states, including Berlin’s Charité clinic, suspended use of the vaccine on staff members under 60, in particular women, after registering 31 cases of a rare blood clot in the brain among those who had received an AstraZeneca jab.

    He added that public trust in the British-Swedish vaccine was likely to be affected negatively after this second halt in its use. A survey last week suggested that nearly a quarter of Germans would be wary of accepting the AstraZeneca jab.

    Among 31 German cases of blood clots which lead to its suspension were some 19 cases of thrombopenia, where a lower-than-normal level of blood platelets lead to symptoms including excessive nose bleeds. All but two cases involved women between 20 and 63. The two men affected were 36 and 57 years old    ."

    Irish Times:

    "Germany’s Covid-19 vaccination timetable was thrown into disarray yet again after its vaccine commission recommended a temporary halt on the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine in people below 60 years of age.

    The announcement on Tuesday afternoon followed a similar decision by Canada to suspend the use of the vaccine in adults younger than 55.

    Chancellor Angela Merkel held an emergency meeting with state leaders on Tuesday evening to discuss the consequences of the ban. Germany’s health authorities have promised a decision by the end of April about how to proceed with people who are awaiting their second AstraZeneca jab    ."


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  • #2191
    h2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,424 ✭✭✭h2005


    BobbyMalone wrote: »
    As in you can travel wherever you want as long as it's to see your parents? I don't think so, but you can travel across county-lines to visit a grave. Or if you've formed a bubble with someone living on their own.

    I’ve been stopped twice going cross country. Both occasions I said I’m visiting my parents and they just waved me on. I’d rather visit them now than go visit their graves.


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