ReginaldSmythV wrote: » Can't blame them in fairness. The roll out has been somewhere between a joke and criminal.
is_that_so wrote: » 350K shots last week, similar enough this week, over 40% fully vaccinated, heading for 60% with at least one dose so yeah "somewhere between a joke and criminal".
ReginaldSmythV wrote: » GP's being allowed to hand them out to whoever they like while other older people wait.
Pintman Paddy Losty wrote: » ["NPHET presented some stark warnings to Government last night - the most severe of which predicted hundreds of thousands of cases between July and September and more than 2,000 deaths as a result of Covid-19.".
Tenzor07 wrote: » Well, more or less official now.... Pushed out again until the 19th...https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/indoor-dining-delayed-until-july-19-while-vaccine-cert-system-is-developed-40591472.html
bladespin wrote: » This is madness, what has Ireland done that has made it more of a risk here than anywhere else?
Tenzor07 wrote: » Just go up the North or book into a hotel, the Delta variant can't get you there, or just go to a house party completely unregulated can't get you there either..
giveitholly wrote: » Lads what will happen to all the kegs that have been delivered to pubs/restaurants? Will the breweries take them back or have they a long shelf life?
ShooterSF wrote: » Jesus no! Have you seen the threads where people were going mad cause someone 38 in Cork got jabbed and they're in Dublin, 40 and not. And thats just to protect yourself from covid, never mind if you added access to indoor drinking onto it. There'd be killings Plus you probably now need a dedicated door person as you're essentially carding everyone coming in like a nightclub. And I haven't had one yet but assume a vaccine cert only has a name on it, no photograph, if so then all these 40+ have to start carrying passports, licenses or age cards again (well for the first time for most of that age group).
bladespin wrote: » Meh, could fly to Brummy with work and back same day, be grand.
Pintman Paddy Losty wrote: » Do kegs go off that quickly? Would have presumed a keg of like a can. Fine if unopened.
Tenzor07 wrote: » No good for the staff, they can't do that... Unelected officials on €150,000+ making decisions to keep people out of work without having a clue about how business works.... I mean expecting young unvaccinated staff to go serve vaccinated and unvaccinated indoors and outdoors... Hotels open for a number of weeks now for indoor dining and no Delta outbreaks.. Ireland the outlier time after time, destroying the economy to keep case numbers low...
saabsaab wrote: » It would promote taking the jab. Anyway it won't suit every pub but I've heard that in some areas all over 18 are vaccinated now.
ShooterSF wrote: » I can't believe it is actually going to happen tbh. I used to work in a place that did pensioner pints and it was embarrassing asking for ID. The idea of asking everyone who enters for ID and a cert to get served sounds horrible and open to more arguments from the type who post here bragging about how they told the staff this and that.
PTH2009 wrote: » Fuming i bet they will want to close outdoor hospitality soon No way will they reopen indoor on the 19th July.
MOH wrote: » Even an age-based approach would make (marginally) more sense. Open indoors for e.g. over-50s or over-60s, on the assumption they're old enough to make their own risk assessments if they're not fully vaccinated. Reduce the age limit by 5 years every week or two as younger cohorts get vaccinated. Indoor gets to open, at least some older people get to avail of it, without sharing with riskier younger cohorts. It's got most of the same problems as a vaccine cert in that it's discriminatory and there's a whole host of implementation issues. But at least age-based restriction is an existing concept in pubs. Plus you're not going to have to start hassling pensioners for ID. But the whole concept is ridiculous.
MrMusician18 wrote: » They will most likely repurpose the EU vaccine passport scheme for this reopening.
PommieBast wrote: » All signs I see is that the Irish state doesn't even have a vaccine passport scheme to repurpose.