Relaxation of Restrictions, Part XII Read OP For Mod Warnings

jackboy · 22-08-2021 07:31PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117790048#Comment_117790048

That was contrived. Obligatory fake interview to get the point across.

growleaves · 22-08-2021 07:32PM

The streets would be empty if people were afraid but they aren't.

Name another 'global pandemic' from history where people had to be penned in against their will for 2-3 years.

Don't Chute! · 22-08-2021 07:36PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117790064#Comment_117790064

I know that. And it makes it even worse.

Ozvaldo · 22-08-2021 07:37PM

Director of croke park was on rte news today at 1 saying you had to wear a mask at the game barely anyone wore one which was good to see.Marty morrissey was on abt covid the minute he got the mike ,later on the gaa president was on abt covid just before he gave the Limerick captain the cup.

This country is totally obsessed with this sh1t

PTH2009 · 22-08-2021 07:42PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117790094#Comment_117790094

Yep easy for them to say when there pay and work life was not affected

22-08-2021 07:55PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117789109#Comment_117789109

We have over 11,000 hospital beds and out of a population of five million we have three hundred people with covid in hospital, am I getting this right.

Are the HSE releasing the number of total beds occupied, I heard from a hospital worker that hospitals arent very busy at all.

We have 54 people in ICU beds, are these 54 people part of the 300 with covid in hospital so in effect we are counting them twice.

Seriously what sort of a system are we funding to the tune of millions if the HSE is on a worry meter about 300 out of a population of five million being in hospital, what is Paul Reid going to be tweeting in October.

I really wish I could go to sleep in September and wake up next April, these health bureaucrats are destroying the mental health of the citizens of this country.

Are we testing way more than other European countries, how come we have millions to spend on this testing of a disease thats rampart all over the country, is out testing giving us the highest number of cases in the EU, can we for the love of God stop this testing, we might as well burn this money.

Why cant antigen tests be sent to every household in the country and just stop the PCR testing, its pointless now.

mohawk · 22-08-2021 08:21PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117790066#Comment_117790066

I would tend to agree with you. Kids are still having their birthday parties. People planning Confirmations and Communions are giving out about restrictions in numbers and not one bit worried about Covid. Maybe not in cities but in some rural areas the rules on covid certs, music, closing times etc is being completely ignored. In some places the rules on numbers at funerals etc may as well not be there. The fear is gone for so many people.

mariab21 · 22-08-2021 08:43PM

https://twitter.com/backbeatireland/status/1429528682285215756?s=19

You can have your own mini concert outside Croke Park

User1998 · 22-08-2021 08:47PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117789778#Comment_117789778

Great to see

Red Silurian · 22-08-2021 08:52PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117790066#Comment_117790066

We haven't hit 2 years here yet so.... None...

Dr. Bre · 22-08-2021 09:36PM

Hang on in there only a few years to go now

PTH2009 · 22-08-2021 09:38PM

The new roadmap will be delayed or else changed a lot because of the high numbers

Beechwoodspark · 22-08-2021 09:41PM

Is this confirmed or speculation

Red Silurian · 22-08-2021 09:45PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117790592#Comment_117790592

Meanwhile our nearest neighbors have their full freedom? Can't see that going down too well

PTH2009 · 22-08-2021 09:46PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117790614#Comment_117790614

Ban travel to and from there

Penfailed · 22-08-2021 09:51PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117790592#Comment_117790592

You don't know this. How about you wait and see instead of spamming this thread with your doom mongering? Every other post is you trying to enlighten us with your forecasts of misery.

Red Silurian · 22-08-2021 09:56PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117790620#Comment_117790620

Can't ban travel to there as that's a British decision, can't ban travel back either as the EU have that sown up with the digital cert

Red Silurian · 22-08-2021 09:59PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117790620#Comment_117790620

My point is the public backlash here would be way too much, it would never work to delay the reopening roadmap

PTH2009 · 22-08-2021 10:09PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117790664#Comment_117790664

Could use the 'essential and non essential travel'

irishguy1983 · 22-08-2021 10:17PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117790645#Comment_117790645

To be fair based on past 18 the poster is probably correct....Just because it is not something we don’t want to hear/a bit pessimistic doesn’t mean it is wrong....Yes let’s wait and see but doesn’t look good...

Red Silurian · 22-08-2021 10:17PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117790709#Comment_117790709

We could but it didn't work for us very well in the past so I can't see them going down that road either

crooked cockney villain · 22-08-2021 10:19PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117790676#Comment_117790676

Until businesses openly defy shutdown orders and until the 2000 or so lunatics who turn up to listen to nutters like Gilroy and Dolores Cahill are overwhelmed by 200,000 people turning up to hear rational thinkers like Martin Feely, Jack Lambert and Michael McNamara, nothing will change. FF TD's know they are done for anyway, FG TD's know that allowing that gobdaw Mehole to keep this nonsense up gives them fuel for the next election "we knew that the restrictions were excessive and that the country had been ceded to unelected NPHET officials but FF weren't for turning".

It's becoming increasingly hard to see where the next government will come from. The obvious result was SF with FF as minority partner, but FF might not get enough seats to even make that one viable, their handling of this crisis has just been staggering. FG and Greens will never get into bed with SF and SF will never, I hope, get into coalition with the extreme left parties, so it really is hard to see where the next one comes from.

Frankly I'd have rather spent the whole of 2021 in prison. It must be a great existence, instead of being out here living through the will they won't they here's your pub back but we might take it back again in October nonsense.

crooked cockney villain · 22-08-2021 10:33PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117790763#Comment_117790763

To be honest I'd be more concerned about how anyone can be logically expected to pay fines for violating the distance from home laws when the wasters who organised the George Floyd protests and the 14 day picket outside Blanch Garda Station haven't been touched. The DPP has basically decided you are allowed to organise whatever you want as long as it's in memory of some waster, dependent on skin tone of said waster.

Bear in mind all public protests are technically illegal untl at least November as things stand. State of emergency to prevent public order, it's like something out of a North African dictatorship- I seem to recall that during the 2011 Arab Spring the likes of Algeria and Tunisia had been under a temporary state of emergency since the early 90s. How long will we get?

corcaigh07 · 22-08-2021 10:43PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117790645#Comment_117790645

Sadly, I see it as realism

crooked cockney villain · 22-08-2021 10:43PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117789789#Comment_117789789

And what, exactly, is the worrying number?

As with everything, we never get a figure on exactly what the worrying number is.

Ah_well. · 22-08-2021 11:14PM

Why is it that England can drop absolutely every restriction and have life completely back to normal and we can’t ? Is it that the health system over there is so superior to ours? I genuinely am desperate to know the answer to this .