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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,881 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    Haven't read the term 'due to covid' in relation to hospitalizations. Of those 39 we have no idea why they are receiving treatment.




    14 in ICU, so feck all


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,881 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    zackory wrote: »
    I supported restrictions in March 2020 and January 2021.

    However closing construction for so long was a thundering disgrace.

    Stuff like non essential retail could have resumed sooner.

    Outdoor dining could have resumed a month earlier in my view, especially in non alcohol establishments like coffee shops.

    A lot of people are happy with restrictions because it means WFH, or the PUP or PUP and cash nixer on the side etc.

    No school runs either so a few beers on a weeknight.

    People may support restrictions but what is their motive?




    School runs still exists


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,881 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    Edz87 wrote: »
    Poll Question "Do you want to kill granny?"



    Granny had her vaccine so is ok


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 324 ✭✭zackory


    School runs still exists

    While the schools were closed? Didn't realist that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,024 ✭✭✭✭Baggly


    I call absolute bull****

    https://www.thejournal.ie/public-wanted-stricter-lockdown-esri-5473598-Jun2021/



    I suppose if you are very selective about who you ask those questions, you will get data skewed enough to support your viewpoint.

    In reality though saying a majority supported it is complete nonsense, the only people who could have wanted more restrictive measures are the introverted ****ing losers who were in heaven with a lockdown scenario where everyone else was being forced to mirror their pathetic lonely existences.

    Mod

    Dont post in this thread again


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,679 ✭✭✭Penfailed


    zackory wrote: »
    I supported restrictions in March 2020 and January 2021.

    However closing construction for so long was a thundering disgrace.

    Stuff like non essential retail could have resumed sooner.

    Outdoor dining could have resumed a month earlier in my view, especially in non alcohol establishments like coffee shops.

    A lot of people are happy with restrictions because it means WFH, or the PUP or PUP and cash nixer on the side etc.

    No school runs either so a few beers on a weeknight.

    People may support restrictions but what is their motive?

    Egg-zackory. I agree with most of that ^^^

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,881 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    zackory wrote: »
    While the schools were closed? Didn't realist that.


    In fairness you didn't say for just those months, you ranted about alot of things.


    Like WFH is ongoing since March 2020 not just the two months!!


    Anyhow I agree with alot of things you said there


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    zackory wrote: »
    I supported restrictions in March 2020 and January 2021.

    However closing construction for so long was a thundering disgrace.

    Stuff like non essential retail could have resumed sooner.

    Outdoor dining could have resumed a month earlier in my view, especially in non alcohol establishments like coffee shops.


    A lot of people are happy with restrictions because it means WFH, or the PUP or PUP and cash nixer on the side etc.

    No school runs either so a few beers on a weeknight.

    People may support restrictions but what is their motive?

    None of that is unreasonable.

    it does not however mean anyone who believes that we shouldn't just ignore everything from here on out loves lockdowns or are living in fear


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,889 ✭✭✭User1998


    Those polls are complete bollox

    Young people don’t fill out surveys or complete polls, especially on the likes of the journal.ie

    The only people I know who even read the journal are my parents, both 50+

    Its obviously an older cohort of people who are taking part in this surveys and skewing the results

    I can tell you now everyone I know only supported restrictions in March 2020 and post Christmas 2020. No other time

    To say that 80% of the ENTIRE population were in continuous support of the restrictions is absolutely absurd


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Some relaxation of restrictions

    https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/3-500-people-to-attend-ireland-s-first-big-music-festival-for-16-months-1.4600372

    Imagine the shock that the "pilot event", was just that a pilot, and not how everything was going to be forever more


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,136 ✭✭✭✭niallo27


    None of that is unreasonable.

    it does not however mean anyone who believes that we shouldn't just ignore everything from here on out loves lockdowns or are living in fear

    99.9999% of people here don't want to ignore everything, they just think we are being so over cautious. I don't understand your posting style, you believe we opened stuff too slowly but castigate anyone who suggests we opened too early.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    niallo27 wrote: »
    99.9999% of people here don't want to ignore everything, they just think we are being so over cautious. I don't understand your posting style, you believe we opened stuff too slowly but castigate anyone who suggests we opened too early.

    Who do so by castigating anyone who suggests any understanding for some continued measures are somehow living in fear/ brainwashed by RTE / loving lockdown etc, rather than countering points using reason and logic.

    An there is nothing contradictory in holding what some judge as two contradictory positions. The opinion that some aspects of society could have opened more quickly is not mutually exclusive of the opinion the continued caution while relaxing restrictions is appropriate


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,445 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    Some relaxation of restrictions

    https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/3-500-people-to-attend-ireland-s-first-big-music-festival-for-16-months-1.4600372

    Imagine the shock that the "pilot event", was just that a pilot, and not how everything was going to be forever more

    That's a bit more like a proper test event. Not like that farce in the Iveagh Gardens which was neither a pilot nor a test, just some Covid theatre.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,209 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    namloc1980 wrote: »
    That's a bit more like a proper test event. Not like that farce in the Iveagh Gardens which was neither a pilot nor a test, just some Covid theatre.

    Still not overly convinced

    Sure it's a bigger attendance but social distancing still very much exists


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


    Got to love the cherry picking of when to look to the rest of EU. Where's the benchmarking against EU when it comes to antigen testing, international travel, mass gathering events (e.g. Euro 2020) and the general imposing and easing of restrictions? What a fraud.

    https://twitter.com/CMOIreland/status/1407013918405496833?s=19


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,209 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    Chivito550 wrote: »
    Got to love the cherry picking of when to look to the rest of EU. Where's the benchmarking against EU when it comes to antigen testing, international travel, mass gathering events (e.g. Euro 2020) and the general imposing and easing of restrictions? What a fraud.

    https://twitter.com/CMOIreland/status/1407013918405496833?s=19

    Tony knows best


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 324 ✭✭zackory


    Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has said there is no reason to panic just yet around the further reopening scheduled for July 5 as concerns grow due to the spread of the Delta variant.

    In all honesty, can these people just stop.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,074 ✭✭✭prunudo


    amlinopta wrote: »
    RTE in full Delta variant mode this morning. Morning Ireland and now Claire Byrne Live. Scaremongering at its worst

    There has definitely been a ramping up in the media of Delta fear in the last 24hrs. First time watching the Tonight Show last night and was surprised at the level of fear and concern the guests were trying to stir up. Same on various radio news' i caught earlier today.
    People may say the cmo only advises but it is as clear as day that as soon as he says or tweets something the rest of the media contuine to pedal the same angle for days afterwards.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 859 ✭✭✭OwenM


    Should be on the newstalk website.. he stated this morning that there should be no travel until the whole world is vaccinated ! another 2years he says...

    https://open.spotify.com/episode/0VaOxwLPiWqvDyEWrYJYAs?si=a1f20faf9a3649f9

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anecdotal%20evidence
    evidence in the form of stories that people tell about what has happened to them
    

    I think this interview is reasonable evidence of cognitive decline in Scally, or else he is so unused to being challenged that he could not accept he was mistaken.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,445 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    So many kites being flown by Tony and government today. Preparing us for a delay in lifting some of the next level of the restrictions.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 324 ✭✭zackory


    namloc1980 wrote: »
    So many kites being flown by Tony and government today. Preparing us for a delay in lifting some of the next level of the restrictions.

    They are absolutely cranking themselves into making irrational decisions here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 859 ✭✭✭OwenM


    I'm really starting to viscerally hate the media and their eternal scaremongering.

    17 likes: https://twitter.com/irishexaminer/status/1406901593266524162

    6.3k likes: https://twitter.com/TomClonan/status/1406918128727212035


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,949 ✭✭✭Sweet.Science


    No need to panic 'just yet'

    Am I missing something ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,892 ✭✭✭the kelt


    OwenM wrote: »
    I'm really starting to viscerally hate the media and their eternal scaremongering.

    17 likes: https://twitter.com/irishexaminer/status/1406901593266524162

    6.3k likes: https://twitter.com/TomClonan/status/1406918128727212035

    This is the thing, wasnt 90% uptake across the population seen as generally what was expected or even above expectation?

    How is this a story?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 859 ✭✭✭OwenM


    the kelt wrote: »
    This is the thing, wasnt 90% uptake across the population seen as generally what was expected or even above expectation?

    How is this a story?

    There is no story, the examiner were called out trying to put a negative slant on vaccine uptake intentions.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,209 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    A lot of people won't be able for another big lockdown me included

    All and good for NPHET/Government among others who will be unaffected by it and still earn there massive salaries


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,940 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    A lot of people won't be able for another big lockdown me included

    All and good for NPHET/Government among others who will be unaffected by it and still earn there massive salaries


    Alot of people wont accept it, there will be mass public disobedience if one is attempted


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,241 ✭✭✭✭hynesie08


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    A lot of people won't be able for another big lockdown me included

    All and good for NPHET/Government among others who will be unaffected by it and still earn there massive salaries
    VinLieger wrote: »
    Alot of people wont accept it, there will be mass public disobedience if one is attempted

    Good thing it's not happening so.......


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,338 ✭✭✭Bit cynical


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    Still not overly convinced

    Sure it's a bigger attendance but social distancing still very much exists
    Yes and it won't look like the photograph the Irish Times used to illustrate it.

    image.jpg


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,190 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    A lot of people won't be able for another big lockdown me included

    All and good for NPHET/Government among others who will be unaffected by it and still earn there massive salaries
    VinLieger wrote: »
    Alot of people wont accept it, there will be mass public disobedience if one is attempted

    What's with the fearmongering?

    There's not even the slightest inkling of a new lockdown on the horizon.


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