Covid 19 Part XXXV-956,720 ROI (5,952 deaths) 452,946 NI (3,002 deaths) (08/01) Read OP

Yep. Totally nuts. Sure …..

Straight from the horses mouth .

micheal Martin 24th September 2020 “maybe using more influencers to communicate at the level young people are at in terms of the various platforms they access... I think is key.” 

Same article ….. Fine Gael TD Neale Richmond since indicated influencers could be paid up to €20,000 as part of the campaign, which has caused some public debate over using influencers as online advertisers.

Source - Irish examiner

https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/healthandwellbeing/arid-40053998.html

What are you on about? The level of the proposed restrictions are nowhere near the levels which the country have gone through in the past year. What is proposed is absolutely tame in comparison.

If you wear your old school uniform down the pub can you get an extra few hours boozing?

Your **** joke doesn't work because of the new quote format.

At some point, hopefully, boards posters will evolve beyond the **** joke.

If government agree to this quasi-closure of hospitality, I'll be fairly concerned about my job. We're still barely breaking even after lockdowns, I've already had to cut hours left and right. I'll be genuinely worried we won't come back from this

IMO where we are is a mixture of bad luck and avoidable policy errors.

The bad luck is Omicron and Christmas, but more than that the Omicron wave in the UK combined with steady cases and falling hospitalisations here means that it feels like talk of restrictions is jumping the gun.

On the other hand suprise restrictions go down equally badly with pubs and restaurants wasting stock.

I don't think anyone can claim certainty over what's going to happen with infection over the next few weeks.

"Abundance of caution" is fine but needs to be used sparingly. If we'd opened up and gagged NPET in August people might have more patience now, but that opportunity was wasted.

What we've had here is never ending greyness, and now it's sounding a lot like "Christmas is cancelled".

Talk about alcohol dependent socialising misses the point that Omicron is so transmissible that you'd catch it at a tea party with the windows open.

Antigen tests appear to be unreliable as a precautionary measure, at least anecdotally. So there's not really much people can do to avoid it other than cut out social contact completely.

And a week before Christmas that's just not going to happen.

With the uncertainty of the last few weeks why did they make such an investment? Silly move really

Yep that will definately work.

I guess you haven't ordered furniture recently. There are months of lead time before you receive your order. Maybe they were hoping to attract more customers as the old decor had become worn. Maybe they felt months ago after promises from government that things had changed.

It never ceases to amaze me how detached some people are from the realities of running businesses. Its never black and white, decisions are thought about, probably over thought, second guessed and then you have these clowns pulling the rug from under them at the 11th hour after months of false promises and pandering to their nonsensical requirements and restrictions. The anger on both threads the last 8 hrs is far more than 'lads just wanting pints' .

If this is implemented presumably all the gigs/theatres/events that danced to Tony's tune 2 weeks ago and refunded 50% of tickets will have to refund the other 50% if they were on after 5pm (which Tony will be aware the vast majority were)

"Nothing after 5pm" is a lockdown pure and simple.

My kids are allowed out later than that, we aren't even being treated like children we are being treated like babies.

The Netherlands went with 5pm, that worries me that it might happen.

I would suggest that some sanity would be leaving them alone. There is absolutely no good reason for this measure.

Naw, supermarkets will be getting hit when people stock up.