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

Today was a bit weird.

Got fed up.
Drove all over the place today, I have stuck to essential journeys up to this, the checkpoints put me off.
Then, no check points anywhere, even in places where they have been before.

It felt a bit like a prisoner waking up and finding his cell door open.
Crept down to the common floors to find no guards.
Out into the exercise yard to find the main gates open, walked out into the street and nothing happened.

It is starting to feel like the beginning of the end. (fingers crossed)

hynesie08 wrote: »

What a brave patriot yelling at a closed building on a Bank Holiday, I'm sure his message was received by the security and cleaners.

That happened on Tuesday and he is not Irish.

dalyboy wrote: »

Wow. I’ve got chills down my spine watching and hearing this guys pain.
Sums up exactly how I personally feel for the last 12 months in a mere 12 second clip.

Yes, that jogger is a hero.

But just watch how the media diagnose this - completely rational - behaviour as a Covid side-effect rather than as a result of gross incompetence/greed by our political elite.

At least they got rid of that f****** ESRI "Worry Index" pr*ck.

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

Had a great day myself..

Up early and drove to Dublin to pick up my new car... nice!! Busy enough on the roads both ways. One checkpoint on the way back but the Gardai had no real interest in stopping anyone anyway.

Played with that for a few hours and went down to the park late afternoon for a bit. Busy enough but fabulous day. Nice to get out for a while.

Came home, made myself a chicken curry and having a few drinks now talking shyte with the lads online for our regular Fri night catch-up

My observation over the last few days anyway is the majority don't care anymore and are only paying the minimum of lip service to the restrictions.

Great to see TBH

Whatcha get?
Happy motoring btw

Did Johnson really say that 2 vaccinated people cant meet indoors.

I'd say NPHET will spit out their morning coffee when they see that

bb1234567 wrote: »

2 insanely ridiculous things happening in schools right now..

My sister is doing her Leaving cert oral in irish and the way it ordinarly works for the sraith pictuir section of the exam is they head over to a table where all 12 page are laid face down, and they choose one randomly, then hold it for the duration of exam and discuss it with the examiner. These pages are recycled and shared with all students coming in throughout the day.

But now with COVID after they've picked up the page and showed the examiner what they have chosen, they must then lay it back down again in the original pile, as they are not allowed to hold it for the duration of the oral in case of COVID contamination of the papers. They must have all 12 pages printed and brought with them to so they have a personal copy of whatever they had chosen . Now maybe it's fair enough in theory but what makes no sense is the fact it's already potentially 'contaminated' when they pick up the page at the beginning anyway, lol.

Secondly..they are doing their oral with masks on..and a big plastic screen between exmainer and teacher. So both parties have to speak into a microphone so that they can actually hear one another. Now this is already ridiculous enough but the examiners aren't external because of COVID..all these precuations are with the teachers they see up close in class every day , where there are not barriers such as the big plastic screen.

Hi, I sat my oral last Monday, I had all my own SP with me hair in case , but the school had laminated their copies so I picked mine and held it for the duration and sanitised after. While it was strange with mics masks and screens it wasn’t an impediment and it wasn’t the school teacher: it was a teacher from another school as they don’t want to be interviewing their own students for fairness so it may be a different teacher holding the interview.

Nice wheels! Lockdown been good for the finances?

suicide_circus wrote: »

Nice wheels! Lockdown been good for the finances?

In some ways yes. More so that I can get some stuff done that I wouldn't have been able to previously. My previous car has 410,000km on it and recently started throwing up errors that it wouldn't have passed its NCT with this month without significant costs. Luckily I was able to save some money towards the cost of replacing it.

Also managed to get my long delayed cataract surgery in January which was even more important.

But just because I have been fortunate enough to have been able to do these things, doesn't mean that everyone else has had that chance. All of our contractors in work were let go over the summer, I know several people who have been put out of work for nearly a year now or lost their jobs entirely, and everyone I talk to is fed up with it all and the strain it's putting on them is significant.

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

Had a great day myself..

Up early and drove to Dublin to pick up my new car... nice!! Busy enough on the roads both ways. One checkpoint on the way back but the Gardai had no real interest in stopping anyone anyway.

Played with that for a few hours and went down to the park late afternoon for a bit. Busy enough but fabulous day. Nice to get out for a while.

Came home, made myself a chicken curry and having a few drinks now talking shyte with the lads online for our regular Fri night catch-up

My observation over the last few days anyway is the majority don't care anymore and are only paying the minimum of lip service to the restrictions.

Great to see TBH

But not you, you are still sticking to them.

Picked up car - essential

Walk in the park

Zoom cans.

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

Well in fairness, Friday night online was a thing long before CV-19 as most of my friends are spread over half the country..

So you hit the ground running. Fair play.

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

At this stage I'm finding it's more that most people are afraid of fines or prosecution than any danger from CV-19. It'll be the same as last year.. As soon as the overtime runs out for AGS the country will reopen regardless of what NPHET think.

So the people you know are not just "paying the minimum of lip service" to restrictions, they are abiding by them because of the threat of fines.

TBF that's what they were designed to do.

normanoffside wrote: »

https://twitter.com/RealMessageEire/status/1377345715144290305

That’s a perfectly safe way to express frustration. Hope he feels better for it.

Fair play to him for getting out for exercise and expressing his feelings in a safe way. Very healthy behaviour.

Ahhh...

What a few days.

Said to myself a month ago that I’d hold out till the April announcement. Nothing changed. They kicked the can further down the road... so I’m done.

Fooké’d off up the motorway toward Galway on Thursday... ducked across to kinvarra, then drove the wild Atlantic way all the way to Spanish point. Christ... it was exhilarating

Some negatives... getting the odd looks from ‘locals’ in empty places like ballyvaughan and doolin, like what are ye 2 doing here... (we stuck out with our dogs & camper) keeping completely to ourselves was in fact the answer.

We loaded up the van with food, water, dogs and diesel. I didn’t meet a sinner. Not one ‘interaction’ with another person. Highlight was walking around the stunning cliffs of moher on our OWN! Bizzare yet beautiful.

Figured where the cops would be... so ducked them at Lahinch and went around Ennis town and out the slip road before the motorway.

Having 2 other couples over later out in the sun, on the deck. Continue this cracking weekend.

TLDR:
You can live WITH covid, if you act responsibly and respect others. And ignore this clueless government.

Now to the most dangerous part of my weekends. Going to a busy off licence to get drink. City and shopping centres are PACKED as people are to afraid to leave their ‘5k’

Rant over

PS
I hear Jesus is being asked to spend 2 weeks more in the tomb just to be sure... Happy Easter

mohawk wrote: »

Covid numbers in Clare are quite low. So I would say you aren’t being responsible if you drove to Clare from an area with higher incidence of Covid. The he more people doing that would result in outbreaks in counties with low case numbers.

And as we all know, counties with low case numbers have much less restrictions than counties with high numbers..

Oh wait.....

Spending a few days with the wife defecating in a van.

Sounds horrendous, but each to their own.