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

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  • #32192
    Amadan Dubh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,604 ✭✭✭Amadan Dubh


    It results in issues because they are terrible at managing resources and overreact to COVID.



  • #32193
    Penfailed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,881 ✭✭✭Penfailed


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118820076#Comment_118820076

    I was quoting someone else who was quoting from an inaccurate source, so, no, I didn't say that earlier.

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  • #32194
    bear1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,924 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118820484#Comment_118820484

    Yeah because we all know wearing them stopped cases in their tracks. Oh wait.



  • #32195
    Penfailed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,881 ✭✭✭Penfailed


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118820183#Comment_118820183

    Would you ever stop.

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  • #32196
    Penfailed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,881 ✭✭✭Penfailed


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118820239#Comment_118820239

    It would. It's not happening though so don't worry yourself needlessly.

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  • #32197
    Penfailed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,881 ✭✭✭Penfailed


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118820260#Comment_118820260

    Back to making up scenarios again?

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  • #32198
    Penfailed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,881 ✭✭✭Penfailed


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118820297#Comment_118820297

    Based on what?

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  • #32199
    Penfailed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,881 ✭✭✭Penfailed


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118820303#Comment_118820303

    Thanks for the 'education'. You can't back up your statement then? Okay.

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  • #32200
    Penfailed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,881 ✭✭✭Penfailed


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118820337#Comment_118820337

    Stop watching/reading media. Problem solved.

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  • #32201
    Penfailed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,881 ✭✭✭Penfailed


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118820448#Comment_118820448

    Exactly.

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  • #32202
    Penfailed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,881 ✭✭✭Penfailed


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118820484#Comment_118820484

    Weren't you the poster that was totally against nightclubs reopening?

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  • #32203
    Penfailed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,881 ✭✭✭Penfailed


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118820548#Comment_118820548

    Tell that to my taste buds and olfactory nerves. It's definitely physical.

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  • #32204
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 895 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118820448#Comment_118820448

    Not saying they want them back but RTE have never got rid of them; just look at their live audiences. I’d say the mask is wanted back by a lot in RTE tbh.

    Virgin themselves have had a good few journalists profiting from Covid with books and podcasts. Not saying they want anything back, but restrictions don’t do them any harm.



  • #32205
    Red Silurian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,566 ✭✭✭✭Red Silurian


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118820484#Comment_118820484

    You could argue that wearing masks, closing pubs at 8pm and restricting sports crowds to 5,000 was a failure also given the huge case numbers we had in January

    So I accept that removing restrictions doesn't work and neither does keeping them



  • #32206
    Red Silurian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,566 ✭✭✭✭Red Silurian


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118820512#Comment_118820512

    I'd say more than 50% is incidental, the way the HSE work 50% is last week's figure



  • #32207
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,264 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I think it's clear a full lockdown is needed. This time do it properly. Everyone needs to wfh. If you need some groceries, set up a zoom call with one of your local supermarkets sales staff and order it there. You can have a safe chat with the person helping you so you can get your daily social contact in at the same time to combat loneliness.

    Same with the postie, schedule a time with him or her when you can safely pick up your post from the wheely bin outside their gaff.

    If you need a haircut, zoom with your local barber and he'll guide you through it. It's important to remember that things are reversed when looking in a mirror.

    5 or 6 months of this and we'll be on the other side of it. Now is not the time to be complacent.



  • #32208
    Don't Chute!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭Don't Chute!


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118820439#Comment_118820439

    I knew these “customers” of yours didn’t actually exist. This is you saying these things. You’ve got form for it. It’s over, deal with it.



  • #32209
    darconio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 935 ✭✭✭darconio


    In all this theater whatever happened to the get 1,2,3 doses of vaccine so you won't catch covid, so you won't transmit it to other people, so you won't go to the hospital, so even if you get it you won't feel a thing, so that you definitely won't end up in ICU, so that even if you do you definitely won't die.. and on and on... I mean if the mask was the solution we should have just mandate it.. oh wait



  • #32210
    corcaigh07
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,961 ✭✭✭corcaigh07


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118820678#Comment_118820678

    Still pleading ignorance? Right so.



  • #32211
    Red Silurian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,566 ✭✭✭✭Red Silurian


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118820778#Comment_118820778

    Locking down now when we are likely very close to the peak of this wave makes no immunological sense whatsoever, the right time to lockdown would have been at the start of the wave but that passed us by without anybody realising it



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  • #32212
    waterwelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,232 ✭✭✭waterwelly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118820484#Comment_118820484

    Yeah we only had about 500000 cases a week around Christmas, masks really worked then.



  • #32213
    Quags
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,411 ✭✭✭Quags


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118820778#Comment_118820778

    😂



  • #32214
    Allinall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,552 ✭✭✭Allinall


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118820838#Comment_118820838

    They stopped us having 1000000 cases a week.



  • #32215
    NedsNotDead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 313 ✭✭NedsNotDead


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118820847#Comment_118820847

    I suppose you can prove that



  • #32216
    waterwelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,232 ✭✭✭waterwelly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118820912#Comment_118820912

    No chance, the lad is a beaten docket.



  • #32217
    Don't Chute!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭Don't Chute!


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118820809#Comment_118820809

    That was a sarcastic post. He thinks it was hilarious. It wasn’t.



  • #32218
    Red Silurian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,566 ✭✭✭✭Red Silurian


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118820847#Comment_118820847

    Unlikely, no masks now for the last few weeks and a more transmissible variant with a tenth of your predicted case numbers



  • #32219
    AlekSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,002 ✭✭✭✭AlekSmart


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118821014#Comment_118821014

    Best thing that could happen now is for all Covid "testing" to stop immediately. It's only purpose is to continue an income stream for the National Virus Reference Lab in UCD. Cilian de Gascún's outfit has certainly done well out of Irish noses.

    What we now have is the HSE's annual collapse,not worth a politicans interest ordinarily,but whip up a bit of Covid frenzy and it's all to play for.

    End the testing...ditch the remaining masks,and see how humanity (including most of the "Vulnerable") waltzes right on by !

    It's either that or surrender to the permanently bothered ! 😷😤😷


    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)



  • #32220
    Bit cynical
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,338 ✭✭✭Bit cynical


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    Cases not really rising significantly over last few months despite relaxation of restrictions.



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  • #32221
    lawred2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,890 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118820778#Comment_118820778

    zzzzzzzzzz



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