Relaxation of Restrictions, Part X Read OP For Mod Warnings

average_runner · 31-03-2021 09:26AM

normanoffside wrote: »

It seems like groundhog day.
It was exactly the same this time last year.

Pictures of people sitting out in a park in sunny weather are being reported as 'shameful scenes'

https://twitter.com/DublinLive/status/1376995395356688385

Its ok they be last to get vaccinated now that we are going by age group.

fin12 · 31-03-2021 09:26AM

Il be off to another protest this weekend .

This pandemic has really shown Sinn Feinn up for what they truly are a bunch of cowardly weasels. Only make noise when they are screaming for more social benefits . Thank f*ck I woke up about them a long time ago .

pjohnson · 31-03-2021 09:28AM

fin12 wrote: »

Il be off to another protest this weekend .

This pandemic has really shown Sinn Feinn up for what they truly are a bunch of cowardly weasels. Only make noise when they are screaming for more social benefits . Thank f*ck I woke up about them a long time ago .

Oh christ are they still organising those feckin "protests?"

fin12 · 31-03-2021 09:29AM

pjohnson wrote: »

Oh christ are they still organising those feckin "protests?"

Clearly if I said I’m going to one

Boggles · 31-03-2021 09:30AM

fin12 wrote: »

Clearly if I said I’m going to one

Light a candle for me please.

average_runner · 31-03-2021 09:31AM

fin12 wrote: »

Il be off to another protest this weekend .

This pandemic has really shown Sinn Feinn up for what they truly are a bunch of cowardly weasels. Only make noise when they are screaming for more social benefits . Thank f*ck I woke up about them a long time ago .

So who do you vote for now to make a difference? There is no other big party.

Always said Lab/Greens/SF/FF/FG are all the same

pjohnson · 31-03-2021 09:33AM

fin12 wrote: »

Clearly if I said I’m going to one

Hadnt heard of any happening this weekend so thought they'd copped on. Gardai will just have to be ready again.

fin12 · 31-03-2021 09:34AM

average_runner wrote: »

So who do you vote for now to make a difference? There is no other big party.

Always said Lab/Greens/SF/FF/FG are all the same

I might give up voting all together

pjohnson · 31-03-2021 09:35AM

average_runner wrote: »

So who do you vote for now to make a difference? There is no other big party.

Always said Lab/Greens/SF/FF/FG are all the same

National Party are the only anti-lockdown party also big fans of pandemic protests!

Sharpyshoot · 31-03-2021 09:38AM

Less than 65 in icu and we are locked down for the greater good it seems. Is it nphet or the government that are making clowns out of us.

opinionated3 · 31-03-2021 09:38AM

fin12 wrote: »

I might give up voting all together

That's what I'm doing..... I'll still turn up but I'll be spoilIng my vote. Sick of being made a mug of each time there's an election. None of them deserve my vote

scamalert · 31-03-2021 09:39AM

average_runner wrote: »

And the amount of homes up for sale and lying idle is high also!!!

And if you believe construction is closed, you haven't venture far.

Plenty of building work going on in residential areas.

Then there is the home maintenance work, 4 of our neighbours are getting attics done right now, builders said they never been busier!!!

House over by the inlaws got knocked down in Jan, almost rebuilt now. Wasn't essential work either as the family live in USA and will be only returning to Ireland in August for a month!!

have u actually looked for house to buy in the last 6 months ?
its easy to open daft punch in area and see few dozen houses, reality is if your interested in some property its prob either sold and the ad is kept, or its some **** hole with outdated pics.
Its easy to say sure theres plenty of houses in the middle of nowhere, but given Ireland youll be back to 1950's most places still dont have proper infrastructure forget getting decent BB or any other services for that matter.
As sure they are building houses and are keeping with the numbers, but supply is nowhere anywhere close to current demands, and these lockdowns over 2 years now will only create bigger backlog.

as other user stated where's any data to backup that builders are in any way affected by covid or at risk. Since goverment took out approach to close almost all necessary and relevant sectors businesses, for the sake sure its safer - without any clear proof that it posed any danger.
Since from start of this year anyone in the market would been shopping like if it was ebay bidding, virtual viewings as no EA's are letting people in :cool: if thats ok in your head to carry and suppress people for the sake of sure we need to keep people locked up for foreseeable future and fck housing or hospitality, retail, then you probably need serious help to think its alright to keep carrying like this.

average_runner · 31-03-2021 09:39AM

pjohnson wrote: »

National Party are the only anti-lockdown party also big fans of pandemic protests!

Fans of fireworks also!!

31-03-2021 09:40AM

normanoffside wrote: »

It seems like groundhog day.
It was exactly the same this time last year.

Pictures of people sitting out in a park in sunny weather are being reported as 'shameful scenes'

https://twitter.com/DublinLive/status/1376995395356688385

Look at the second word in first three paragraphs: "Disgraceful", "scandalous", "shocking".

For some reason I'm put in mind of that cartoonish Batman series from the 60s, "ka-pow!", "thwack!", "oof!" during the obligatory dust up between hero and villain.

DublinLive dropped an almighty clanger with such shrill hyperbole, you can hear the "crash!" of their journalistic integrity.

ninebeanrows · 31-03-2021 09:45AM

Sharpyshoot wrote: »

Less than 65 in icu and we are locked down for the greater good it seems. Is it nphet or the government that are making clowns out of us.

Leo was going to open the pubs when the ICU number got below 50, remember that?

Fat chance of that.

growleaves · 31-03-2021 09:45AM

Level 42 wrote: »

demand > supply due to the governments policies hence price increases sellers know a lot of people have been hoarding money for over a year prices are going up and up

Some of those people who have been hoarding money will be unable to buy even yet because the price increases have been so dramatic.

Our monetary policy bids up asset prices deliberately, and that is across the globe.

MarketWatch had an article earlier this month saying home ownership will be a 'luxury' from now. This is what Ben Bernake means when he calls the post-covid economy an era of 'personal austerity'.

I was a Sinn Fein supporter previously but am no longer. I haven't developed an aversion to social spending, after all why do we collect taxes, but I think now it would be a mistake to run up the deficit even further after 2008 and covid. The deflationary drag this borrowing creates helps cause the problems it is supposed to solve.

What we need imo is debt renegotiation - preferably unconditional debt cancellation.

Or for wages to rise in line with (real, though hidden) inflation. Every 'crisis' is an excuse for wage cuts and wage stagnation. Why are employees in Big Pharma taking pay cuts when that industry is booming?

TL;DR: We need a haircut on our debt but haircuts are hard to come by.

Boggles · 31-03-2021 09:50AM

growleaves wrote: »

Why are employees in Big Pharma taking pay cuts when that industry is booming?

Are they, citation?

fin12 · 31-03-2021 09:52AM

Boggles wrote: »

Are they, citation?

I heard Dell ( EMC) made huge profits last year yet let a load of staff go. That’s from an employees mouth .

facehugger99 · 31-03-2021 09:54AM

0.0014% of the population in ICU but sure let's keep Construction closed another few weeks and we'll 'look at' hospitality in June.

It makes my blood boil to see these cowards destroy this Country in such a cavalier fashion.

A Country that had been brought back from the brink by the hard work of its citizens following the collapse of the Celtic Tiger just over a decade ago.

All those years of work getting the economy back on track just pissed away.

growleaves · 31-03-2021 09:55AM

Boggles wrote: »

Are they, citation?

My source is a poster on this thread, raind.

I can't remember how much of a reduction he took. If he comes on and sees this we can ask him. I believe he has said he is in pharma or possibly something like medical devices - a health-adjacent industry which is booming.

Idbatterim · 31-03-2021 09:58AM

suicide_circus wrote: »

https://m.independent.ie/business/personal-finance/chronic-shortage-of-property-for-sale-sees-average-priceof-a-home-surge-by-20000-in-a-year-40258880.html

Clowns. Absolute ****ing clowns.

What did I say a few pages back? Another easy way for them to inflate prices. Never vote ffg again and destroy them for good, for their disgraceful governance for decades and the covid19 farce to top it off. Why are any of them going into politics, if they cant lead or make decisions?

rovers_runner · 31-03-2021 10:07AM

This morning we've seen FG Achilles heel come back to haunt them.
Children's shoes, the very mention of it sends them for cover.

Image a protest mid summer, each person brings a pair of children's shoes to tie to the gates of Leinster house in protest at the ongoing restrictions........

Keyzer · 31-03-2021 10:15AM

facehugger99 wrote: »

0.0014% of the population in ICU but sure let's keep Construction closed another few weeks and we'll 'look at' hospitality in June.

It makes my blood boil to see these cowards destroy this Country in such a cavalier fashion.

A Country that had been brought back from the brink by the hard work of its citizens following the collapse of the Celtic Tiger just over a decade ago.

All those years of work getting the economy back on track just pissed away.

Nearly every country in Europe has amassed debt due to Covid. Debt per person per country has increased for nearly all countries in Europe due to Covid.

Covid is a load of bjollox, its economic impact has been disastrous but we're not alone in our debt burden.

Tenzor07 · 31-03-2021 10:15AM

Deleted User wrote: »

DublinLive dropped an almighty clanger with such shrill hyperbole, you can hear the "crash!" of their journalistic integrity.

In all reality "Dublin Live" are in the gutter when it comes to Journalistic excellence, more akin to the Toilet paper that even the "Irish Mirror" would use to wipe their behind.

Putting up pics of people sitting in a park and labeling them as Criminals will be lapped up by many and shows you the sort of society we have now after 1 year of Lockdown...

Anger sells - More controversy = More clicks for advertisers....

17larsson · 31-03-2021 10:16AM

Boggles wrote: »

Domestic construction isn't shut, but anyway, even when large swatches of construction were actually shut in the Q2 of 2020 there was 3,290 completions.

But using those figures of 10k we were target of building 35,000 domestic dwellings in 2021? Really?

Domestic construction isn't shut?
I work on four housing estates. All closed since January. I'll give all the workers a call and tell them they've been sitting at home for no reason for the last few months

Allinall · 31-03-2021 10:18AM

Idbatterim wrote: »

What did I say a few pages back? Another easy way for them to inflate prices. Never vote ffg again and destroy them for good, for their disgraceful governance for decades and the covid19 farce to top it off. Why are any of them going into politics, if they cant lead or make decisions?

Who should we vote for instead?

GPoint · 31-03-2021 10:18AM

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

Actually, taking your comment seriously, what we DO need to do is improve access to GP services and their effectiveness, and address the two-tier health system where those who can't afford expensive private health care are effectively abandoned unless critical.

Take myself as an example. When I moved to my current town I found it impossible to register with a GP because none of them were taking new patients. When I finally did find one, he was more interested in talking about testing me for all sorts of unrelated things than the reason I had visited him.

In the end I ended up sitting in A&E for three 8 hour stints over 2 months in order to get treated for something that, had it been managed at that GP level, probably wouldn't have had me taking up a seat/trolley at all.

Here is the problem with a system where GP's are the only point of contact for a patient. There should be an outpatient clinic accessible to everyone where you have access to all sorts of medical professionals like ENT, surgeons, opticians etc. Clearly, a specialist will do a better job at diagnosing than a GP.

Boggles · 31-03-2021 10:19AM

17larsson wrote: »

Domestic construction isn't shut?
I work on four housing estates. All closed since January. I'll give all the workers a call and tell them they've been sitting at home for no reason for the last few months

I'll be passing the 2 sites on my road later, I'll shout out at them they are all ghosts.

Keyzer · 31-03-2021 10:21AM

Idbatterim wrote: »

What did I say a few pages back? Another easy way for them to inflate prices. Never vote ffg again and destroy them for good, for their disgraceful governance for decades and the covid19 farce to top it off. Why are any of them going into politics, if they cant lead or make decisions?

Correct me if I'm wrong but you're saying the Government are preventing the building industry recommencing work in order to intentionally inflate housing prices?

scamalert · 31-03-2021 10:24AM

where the fck do all these media journos get off

this constant no data/stats based waffle about people hoarding cash during pandemic, dont know a single person be it WFH, or those still lucky in jobs to claim they have saved any money, yet media puts out rubbish as if someone gets loaded from this so if its not average working class person whos making any money out of this ?
as seen my bills nearly double since last March, still have to buy petrol pay car taxes, heating/electricity/food went up as more time spent at home, just finished 6mo of work during this so called pandemic and after commute taxes food i was lucky to bring in just barely 400e a week.

so who are those lucky ones raking in cash, as sure as fck i didnt get pup or any welfare, and yes i might not splashed 1-2k on holidays and few drinks in the last year, but didnt save any more out of this disaster done to economy. as in the market for house, and in same area just 8 months later prices rocketed 30-50k and its not even remotely fancy in any way, just because theres f all supply coming into market, were made to believe every regular Paddy and Joe are getting mint out this disaster is disgusting.

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Relaxation of Restrictions, Part X Read OP For Mod Warnings