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Can we have some fcuking control on the airports from high risk countries please?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,751 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    What is your new magic date? September?


    No magic, imported variants have delayed us. Probably would have been end of June otherwise. Now end of August, unless we import a newer variant.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 605 ✭✭✭a_squirrelman


    saabsaab wrote: »
    No magic, imported variants have delayed us. Probably would have been end of June otherwise. Now end of August, unless we import a newer variant.

    You may close that border with the north. It’s clear as day that’s where the variants are coming from.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭Diarmuid


    You may close that border with the north. It’s clear as day that’s where the variants are coming from.

    I can't believe that some here still haven't found the ignore button for certain posters


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    saabsaab wrote: »
    No magic, imported variants have delayed us. Probably would have been end of June otherwise. Now end of August, unless we import a newer variant.
    Actually, they haven't. A decision by NPHET based on their view of said variant is what's doing it and of course the government following their advice.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,222 ✭✭✭Valhallapt


    saabsaab wrote: »
    We can thank the travel variants for the delays in reopening.

    You should email Tony, have him make Michael Martin pull up the train tracks crossing the border and dig up the roads.


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  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 10,123 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tenger


    py2006 wrote: »
    The missus and aunt work in the airport. Social distancing while queuing is non existent.

    The UK/US flights were next to empty last year and most of this year. Fairly full nowadays.

    So no actual access to the data then?

    I have access to the data from one airline. Doesnt mean I know the data from the rest of them.
    And a lapse in social distancing while queuing is a fault of the airline/airport staff who should be encouraging passengers to adher to the clear guidance given.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,235 ✭✭✭0lddog


    Valhallapt wrote: »
    You should email Tony, have him make Michael Martin pull up the train tracks crossing the border and dig up the roads.


    Mary Lou's crowd used to be great at doing that...maybe try her first ?


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,676 CMod ✭✭✭✭faceman


    Not introducing MHQ for India brought Delta here

    Australia called and said hold my beer


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,235 ✭✭✭0lddog


    faceman wrote: »
    Australia called and said hold my beer Fosters


    FYP


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,344 ✭✭✭Blut2


    faceman wrote: »
    Australia called and said hold my beer

    The Australians are now talking about being in and out of lockdowns, with full border closure, until March 2022 at the earliest. And thats presuming they manage to keep getting a lid on the outbreaks every time they happen. Another year of covid madness while the rest of the developed world opens up this summer...

    How anyone could want to emulate their system is beyond me.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,751 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    Blut2 wrote: »
    The Australians are now talking about being in and out of lockdowns, with full border closure, until March 2022 at the earliest. And thats presuming they manage to keep getting a lid on the outbreaks every time they happen. Another year of covid madness while the rest of the developed world opens up this summer...

    How anyone could want to emulate their system is beyond me.


    Worked ok for them so far but they would need to vax their population.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,845 ✭✭✭py2006


    Tenger wrote: »
    And a lapse in social distancing while queuing is a fault of the airline/airport staff who should be encouraging passengers to adher to the clear guidance given.

    That's ridiculous.

    We are not talking about children in a playground, we are talking about grown adults who have made the choice to travel during a pandemic.

    The airport can only leave out guidelines and markings for social distancing and sanitiser etc they can't physically force it.

    Most people who have travelled up to of late really couldn't care less about covid etc


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,678 ✭✭✭Multipass


    py2006 wrote: »
    That's ridiculous.

    We are not talking about children in a playground, we are talking about grown adults who have made the choice to travel during a pandemic.

    The airport can only leave out guidelines and markings for social distancing and sanitiser etc they can't physically force it.

    Most people who have travelled up to of late really couldn't care less about covid etc

    My Mum (in her 80s) just came back from a trip to the uk - the queues for document checks in the airport meant that the passengers on her flight had to queue on the tarmac after disembarking. I’d have thought that was a safety risk in itself.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭maestroamado


    Multipass wrote: »
    My Mum (in her 80s) just came back from a trip to the uk - the queues for document checks in the airport meant that the passengers on her flight had to queue on the tarmac after disembarking. I’d have thought that was a safety risk in itself.

    Dublin Airport is Crazy. Passport control has to check Passport, passenger locator and Covid result.
    There is clearly no proper system in place... No QR scanners to automatically scan documents...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭ginoginelli


    Blut2 wrote: »
    The Australians are now talking about being in and out of lockdowns, with full border closure, until March 2022 at the earliest. And thats presuming they manage to keep getting a lid on the outbreaks every time they happen. Another year of covid madness while the rest of the developed world opens up this summer...

    How anyone could want to emulate their system is beyond me.

    I've read a lot of dumb posts on here but this one takes the biscuit.

    Australia is the envy of the world to any sane person. Sure, they're vax program is a little slow but they will catch up. In the meantime they're living with the lowest covid rates In the world.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,344 ✭✭✭Blut2


    I've read a lot of dumb posts on here but this one takes the biscuit.

    Australia is the envy of the world to any sane person. Sure, they're vax program is a little slow but they will catch up. In the meantime they're living with the lowest covid rates In the world.


    They're living under the constant threat of new full lockdowns being imposed, they're repeatedly having new outbreaks of corona, and their borders have been shut for almost a year and a half already - keeping the tens of millions of Australians with foreign family separated from their families, missing vital life events like funerals and births. And they have massive widespread vaccine hesitancy, with a large percentage of the public simply refusing to be vaccinated.

    And they're now facing another year at least of all of this prison sentence, while the rest of the world goes back to normal.

    I know where I'd rather be living for the next 12 months, and its sure as hell not in Australia. Its literally anywhere else in the developed world.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭maestroamado


    Does anyone know what Belfast Airport is like as Dublin is not up to speed with what is needed.
    It may be they will get the equipment needed as it was too slow on arrivals last week.
    I think i read here people queued on tarmac....


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,676 CMod ✭✭✭✭faceman


    I've read a lot of dumb posts on here but this one takes the biscuit.

    Australia is the envy of the world to any sane person. Sure, they're vax program is a little slow but they will catch up. In the meantime they're living with the lowest covid rates In the world.

    With only 3% of their population vaccinated, a high degree of vaccine hesitancy, uncontrolled outbreaks of covid and a lack of ability to leave the country for any reason, I’m not sure who is envying Australia.

    We will have reached herd immunity and they will be still a way behind.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭maestroamado


    faceman wrote: »
    With only 3% of their population vaccinated, a high degree of vaccine hesitancy, uncontrolled outbreaks of covid and a lack of ability to leave the country for any reason, I’m not sure who is envying Australia.

    We will have reached herd immunity and they will be still a way behind.




    We need to look after here.... Think this thread about control at Airports.
    No Aus airports around here....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,370 ✭✭✭joseywhales


    Flying in this evening with a few friends.

    https://images.app.goo.gl/7XtEgchijKAPxMxMA


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,002 ✭✭✭✭AlekSmart


    Blut2 wrote: »
    They're living under the constant threat of new full lockdowns being imposed, they're repeatedly having new outbreaks of corona, and their borders have been shut for almost a year and a half already - keeping the tens of millions of Australians with foreign family separated from their families, missing vital life events like funerals and births. And they have massive widespread vaccine hesitancy, with a large percentage of the public simply refusing to be vaccinated.

    And they're now facing another year at least of all of this prison sentence, while the rest of the world goes back to normal.

    I know where I'd rather be living for the next 12 months, and its sure as hell not in Australia. Its literally anywhere else in the developed world.

    Australia's Covid response (along with New Zealand ) is made so much easier by their Geographical situation and ease of Isolation,just ask any of their guests on Papua New Guinea.

    Quite what their economy will look like in 12 months time is as yet an unanswered question,but then again Ireland's may be equally scuppered unless we wake up and make some Coffee to smell !!


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,751 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    Know a fella that flew out to Spain last month un vaccinated said it was just as bad here as there but he now has Covid! Recovering now, but it was a bad dose.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 738 ✭✭✭gral6


    saabsaab wrote: »
    Know a fella that flew out to Spain last month un vaccinated said it was just as bad here as there but he now has Covid! Recovering now, but it was a bad dose.

    I know a fella, who took luas from Tallaght to Point 2 weeks ago, he has covid now! He is un vaxxed, recovering now from running nose!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,186 ✭✭✭Cosmo Kramer


    Does anyone know what Belfast Airport is like as Dublin is not up to speed with what is needed.
    It may be they will get the equipment needed as it was too slow on arrivals last week.
    I think i read here people queued on tarmac....

    Both Belfast Airports I believe are fine. I'm at a loss as to why anyone would fly from Dublin Airport rather than one of the Belfast ones at the moment if a similar destination is available. It is entirely possible to follow the current Irish Government requirements while flying from the North to avoid the mess at Dublin airport at present.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,676 CMod ✭✭✭✭faceman


    saabsaab wrote: »
    Know a fella that flew out to Spain last month un vaccinated said it was just as bad here as there but he now has Covid! Recovering now, but it was a bad dose.

    Greetings from Spain again! The local clinic that does testing for travellers next to my gym, I got chatting to them last week. Asked them how many positive cases they get per week on average. No word of a lie, she said:

    “Per week? We haven’t had a positive test result in months”

    Don’t forget to tell your mates this story too for balance ;) (and it’s true)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    AlekSmart wrote: »
    Australia's Covid response (along with New Zealand ) is made so much easier by their Geographical situation and ease of Isolation,just ask any of their guests on Papua New Guinea.

    Quite what their economy will look like in 12 months time is as yet an unanswered question,but then again Ireland's may be equally scuppered unless we wake up and make some Coffee to smell !!

    Last I checked in Autstralia, wages went up and property prices went down. I wonder why.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,299 ✭✭✭tabby aspreme


    Does anyone know what Belfast Airport is like as Dublin is not up to speed with what is needed.
    It may be they will get the equipment needed as it was too slow on arrivals last week.
    I think i read here people queued on tarmac....

    I came through on Wednesday lunchtime and there were no delays. The lad at the booth next to me announced he had no documents, don't know how that plan works at the moment, with covid testing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,234 ✭✭✭✭normanoffside


    Given that Ireland now has the third highest Covid rates in the EU and all EU countries cases are almost equally divided by the Alpha and Delta variants, what has Mandatory Hotel Quarantine achieved other than create hardship and xenophobia?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,086 ✭✭✭theguzman


    Given that Ireland now has the third highest Covid rates in the EU and all EU countries cases are almost equally divided by the Alpha and Delta variants, what has Mandatory Hotel Quarantine achieved other than create hardship and xenophobia?

    It seemed to placate the wokerati on Twitter for a while with their purple hair and Vote Yes badges.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,222 ✭✭✭Valhallapt


    Given that Ireland now has the third highest Covid rates in the EU and all EU countries cases are almost equally divided by the Alpha and Delta variants, what has Mandatory Hotel Quarantine achieved other than create hardship and xenophobia?

    The only people who champion MHQ at this stage are uneducated racists


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