Relaxation of Restrictions, Part X Read OP For Mod Warnings

Hooked · 03-04-2021 12:25PM

Vicxas wrote: »

Could be worse, could spend a few days with a van defecating on the wife.

Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it

SnuggyBear · 03-04-2021 12:29PM

Boggles wrote: »

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

Sounds horrendous, but each to their own.

Some people aren't completely joyless and enjoy doing something besides post on boards 24/7

funnydoggy · 03-04-2021 12:31PM

Hooked wrote: »

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

That sounded absolutely magic and zero risk to you or anyone else.

Enjoy later

Stormyteacup · 03-04-2021 12:31PM

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.

Especially in a van as it has a larger surface area than a car, therefore many more virus particles can stick to it and fly off onto passersby, and now there’s virus all over the Cliffs too.

Hooked · 03-04-2021 12:32PM

SnuggyBear wrote: »

Some people aren't competently joyless and enjoy doing something besides post on boards 24/7

Cheers for the support

Hooked · 03-04-2021 12:34PM

funnydoggy wrote: »

That sounded absolutely magic and zero risk to you or anyone else.

Enjoy later

Cheers. It was.

Though I felt guilty at times. Like I shouldn’t have been there when no one else was... but look.., I pay my van tax/insurance... I just put it through the CVRT.., my job had to shut up thurs and Friday and my wife badly needed a break after a year of working at home and not seeing colleagues.

So the only real risk was meeting a checkpoint!

M_Murphy57 · 03-04-2021 01:10PM

Stormyteacup wrote: »

Especially in a van as it has a larger surface area than a car, therefore many more virus particles can stick to it and fly off onto passersby, and now there’s virus all over the Cliffs too.

Flying covid particles from a rogue vanlifer probably killed Fungi

03-04-2021 01:11PM

SnuggyBear wrote: »

Some people aren't competently joyless and enjoy doing something besides post on boards 24/7

If other people didn’t quote Boggles, he basically wouldn’t exist to me.

Heartily recommend using the ignore button for people who are not here to add anything to the conversation.

Penfailed · 03-04-2021 01:34PM

bear1 wrote: »

Just disband nphet, get that gob****e Martin off the television and get him a job in one of the sectors he insists on being closed but keep tellin him to hang firm with 300e a week.
Then get that bald lad from nphet and put him in a 10m2 room for two weeks, charge him and then turf the ****er out of the country.
Better off without them.
Why can't they just reopen everything, keep the masks until we are all vaccinated and be ****in done with it.

You want to reopen everything with only masks as a mitigation measure? No restricted numbers in restaurants and pubs and venues? What about festivals and sporting events? Full stadiums?

_Kaiser_ · 03-04-2021 01:42PM

Penfailed wrote: »

You want to reopen everything with only masks as a mitigation measure? No restricted numbers in restaurants and pubs and venues? What about festivals and sporting events? Full stadiums?

Unless we want to spend the next decade or longer recovering from the financial mess this has caused, that's exactly what'll have to happen yet.

Those who are ACTUALLY at potential risk, or just those who are worried, can continue to distance, mask up, stay home or whatever they need to to feel safe.

Everyone else can get back to living their lives, supporting the economy AND those in the group I referred to above.

FintanMcluskey · 03-04-2021 01:48PM

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

Unless we want to spend the next decade or longer recovering from the financial mess this has caused, that's exactly what'll have to happen yet.

Those who are ACTUALLY at potential risk, or just those who are worried, can continue to distance, mask up, stay home or whatever they need to to feel safe.

Everyone else can get back to living their lives, supporting the economy AND those in the group I referred to above.

But those people are vaccinated already

They started vaccinating 30 year old kidney recipients last week

I believe we are now seeing evidence of crippling fear across swathes of the population that are still in support of many of the current suppression measures.

Self risk analysis is gone for many people, they have to wait until the chap with the glasses on the TV tells them it’s safe.

I honestly think the damage is irreversible for many, they will never the self confidence to stand in a crowd for the rest of their lives

Royale with Cheese · 03-04-2021 02:10PM

There are a couple of public tennis courts near me that were padlocked at the start of lockdown, the locals have obviously had enough though as the door was forced open a few weeks back and people have been using them. I was on them earlier today and two guards on bikes were cycling past, I was expecting an argument but they just kept on cycling and didn't bother us. Fair play to them.

mohawk · 03-04-2021 02:27PM

Stormyteacup wrote: »

Especially in a van as it has a larger surface area than a car, therefore many more virus particles can stick to it and fly off onto passersby, and now there’s virus all over the Cliffs too.

Most people at some stage when away will go into shops, petrol stations etc. Two people doing it is no big deal but west Clare is full of Dublin regs the last few days. Most of them are going to be in and out of shops getting their few things.

Many people break the 5km to go walking and it’s no big deal but if your going a good bit away the more likely your going into businesses

facehugger99 · 03-04-2021 03:11PM

Boggles wrote: »

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

Sounds horrendous, but each to their own.

It's funny to see the mask slip.

Joyless people with nothing going on in their lives cheerleading the lockdown from the comfort of their keyboards.

Graham · 03-04-2021 03:45PM

facehugger99 wrote: »

Joyless people with nothing going on in their lives cheerleading the lockdown from the comfort of their keyboards.

You're posting telekinetically I suppose?

Glebee · 03-04-2021 05:29PM

Id say NPHET are praying for the weather to break. If theres a decent spell you can forget about people staying at home. Im sort of done with this pandemic restriction stuff. Weve done it since the first lockdown and gave up a lot of stuff over the past year. Our families are sticking to ourselfs and meeting outsides at each others houses locally. If the best the government can do after 12 months is tell society to stay locked down I think ill move on. Each to their own.

normanoffside · 03-04-2021 05:44PM

Glebee wrote: »

Id say NPHET are praying for the weather to break. If theres a decent spell you can forget about people staying at home. Im sort of done with this pandemic restriction stuff. Weve done it since the first lockdown and gave up a lot of stuff over the past year. Our families are sticking to ourselfs and meeting outsides at each others houses locally. If the best the government can do after 12 months is tell society to stay locked down I think ill move on. Each to their own.

If the weather is bad they'll just meet indoors instead, but at least we'll be spared the virtue signalling videos of groups of people outside.

growleaves · 03-04-2021 06:15PM

SONNET 31

Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts,
Which I by lacking have supposed dead;
And there reigns love and all love’s loving parts,
And all those friends which I thought buried.
How many a holy and obsequious tear
Hath dear religious love stolen from mine eye,
As interest of the dead, which now appear
But things remov’d, that hidden in thee lie!
Thou art the grave where buried love doth live,
Hung with the trophies of my lovers gone,
Who all their parts of me to thee did give;
That due of many now is thine alone:
Their images I lov’d I view in thee,
And thou (all they) hast all the all of me.

-William Shakespeare

Sharpyshoot · 03-04-2021 06:56PM

Time to turn off the WiFi as the bbq is getting going. If you can’t be good be good at it in the 5(00)km and all. Nice evening out.

Graham · 03-04-2021 07:36PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Do you honestly have such a level of linguistic intelligence that you couldn’t understand what the poster was saying? It feels often that there’s a lot of intentional misunderstanding going on in this thread.

I understood completely, he was having a pop about posters he disagrees with posting from the comfort of their keyboard while doing exactly the same.

I'm sure you didn't really need that explaining to you. Intentional misunderstanding?

Anyway, I'm back off outside to make the most of the fine evening.

03-04-2021 07:40PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Do you honestly have such a level of linguistic intelligence that you couldn’t understand what the poster was saying?

A simple ‘yes’ would have sufficed.

noserider · 03-04-2021 07:50PM

mohawk wrote: »

Most people at some stage when away will go into shops, petrol stations etc. Two people doing it is no big deal but west Clare is full of Dublin regs the last few days. Most of them are going to be in and out of shops getting their few things.

Many people break the 5km to go walking and it’s no big deal but if your going a good bit away the more likely your going into businesses

Add to this a lot of people in Clare will not travel to the coast out of respect to the communities and people they call friends there.
But yet you have absolutely no problem travelling there and bragging about it on line

ypres5 · 03-04-2021 08:39PM

noserider wrote: »

Add to this a lot of people in Clare will not travel to the coast out of respect to the communities and people they call friends there.
But yet you have absolutely no problem travelling there and bragging about it on line

Coming from someone living in clare I don't care that he visited and I hope he enjoyed himself. He behaved responsibly, he and his wife kept to themselves bar the interaction with the odd local busybody and how is anyone going to catch or spread covid on a windy beach? It seems logic has died a death amongst the 'follow the science' crowd

CruelSummer · 03-04-2021 08:51PM

noserider wrote: »

Add to this a lot of people in Clare will not travel to the coast out of respect to the communities and people they call friends there.
But yet you have absolutely no problem travelling there and bragging about it on line

This post is everything that is wrong with Ireland & the population’s response.
Shaming, respect for ‘communities’ - neglecting to recognise the poster said they interacted with NO-ONE.
Roman Catholic Ireland & its use of policing & shaming has been replaced with Covid policing and shaming. None of it based on science whatsoever, just control.

corcaigh07 · 03-04-2021 08:58PM

facehugger99 wrote: »

It's funny to see the mask slip.

Joyless people with nothing going on in their lives cheerleading the lockdown from the comfort of their keyboards.

Citation?

03-04-2021 09:07PM

corcaigh07 wrote: »

Citation?

Harvard medical school of common sense.

Ask a silly question, expect a response in kind. 'Facehugger99' has his feet planted firmly on the ground, invested with cop on and pragmatism. You can quote me on that for future reference.

AlekSmart · 03-04-2021 09:10PM

normanoffside wrote: »

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

and that's him after only the first dose of THE Vaccine !!! :eek:

CrowdedHouse · 03-04-2021 09:11PM

corcaigh07 wrote: »

Citation?

A small luxury jet aircraft made by Cessna?

AlekSmart · 03-04-2021 09:18PM

retro:electro wrote: »

Micheál at an event honouring his father in December:

“Take off your mask; take off your mask,” he said, while the pair posed for photos.
While photographers took pictures of Martin and Desmond, voices off camera reminded them to spread apart from each other, and a laughing Martin told Desmond to maintain a distance from him “just so people won’t be talking – social distancing and all that”.

What an absolute fcuking moron.

Perhaps.....or then again Mr Martin & assoc may know a tad more about this "Emergency" than any mere ordinary citizen...?

AlekSmart · 03-04-2021 09:26PM

facehugger99 wrote: »

It's funny to see the mask slip.

Joyless people with nothing going on in their lives cheerleading the lockdown from the comfort of their keyboards.

It might be a bit premature to rush to judgement here.

The effects of prolonged imposed restrictions,on commonly used freedoms can often result in depressive tendencies,that particular response could perhaps be viewed in that context ?

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