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    #4562
    Oscar Madison
    Registered Users Posts: 689 ✭✭✭Oscar Madison


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    We need to open things on Economic grounds from April

    Dig a large rectangular hole in the ground about six feet deep!

    Would that be open enough for ye? :D:D:D


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    #4563
    reni10
    Registered Users Posts: 1,151 ✭✭✭reni10


    Twice now in the last week I have passed by the Ballygunner church during the day to see more than 50 people on both occasions standing outside the church at a funeral.

    It seemed that the funeral was taking place outside the chapel with a microphone and speakers with many people attending.

    I am just leaving this here as fact as I saw it with my own eyes as I passed by walking.


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    #4564
    feckwunker
    Registered Users Posts: 42 ✭feckwunker


    Oscar Madison wrote: »
    Dig a large rectangular hole in the ground about six feet deep!

    Would that be open enough for ye? :D:D:D
    Ok genius, when will it be safe to re-open things? How many deaths from missed diagnosis's are you willing to accept or is it only COVID deaths that matter now? How many businesses need to go under before we can ease up on the reigns?


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    #4565
    Oscar Madison
    Registered Users Posts: 689 ✭✭✭Oscar Madison


    feckwunker wrote: »
    Ok genius, when will it be safe to re-open things? How many deaths from missed diagnosis's are you willing to accept or is it only COVID deaths that matter now? How many businesses need to go under before we can ease up on the reigns?

    If I could provide you with those answers I wouldn't be where I am today!

    This is not going away anytime soon in my opinion. It is here to stay so

    we have to get used to it and the limitations that it imposes on us!

    I'm not happy living with it and the impositions imposed upon my life but

    I'll just have to work my way around it so to speak!


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    #4566
    Flow Motion
    Registered Users Posts: 465 ✭✭Flow Motion


    feckwunker wrote: »
    Ok genius, when will it be safe to re-open things? How many deaths from missed diagnosis's are you willing to accept or is it only COVID deaths that matter now? How many businesses need to go under before we can ease up on the reigns?

    Eh just go back a couple of months bud and look at the pre Xmas shop till ya drop/normal Christmas fare and then see what happened very quickly towards the end of the year resulting in thousands of cases and deaths. TBH I'd place lives and health above business or the economy for now. Rather be alive than a number in the exit column. Wait until mid Summer when a large proportion of the population are vaccinated and then decide to tentatively reopen. The return of the schools and their effect on the case numbers will tell a lot over the next month what with the UK variant now dominant here. If you are looking for a complete return to pre pandemic life any time soon you are not being realistic. Spring 2022 at the earliest. Buckle up!


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    #4567
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    You can tell the numbers are much better.
    <5 today


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    #4568
    Dilbert75
    Registered Users Posts: 4,724 ✭✭✭Dilbert75


    Same for Kilkenny, Wexford and Timperley. It's really good and a long way from where we were.


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    #4569
    PTH2009
    Registered Users Posts: 37,763 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    Dilbert75 wrote: »
    Same for Kilkenny, Wexford and Timperley. It's really good and a long way from where we were.

    and lets hope we never have to darken times like that again

    In saying that we have to be more ambitious for our big reopenings. We learnt from the xmas mess to an extent but also need to learn about our mistakes from lockdown 2 which imo was a little OTT and created that xmas rush in terms of people out shopping/socialsing etc

    Let's hope the Vaccine roll out starts to speed up and the media feck off with there never ending doom and gloom


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    #4570
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,805 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    PTH2009 wrote:
    Let's hope the Vaccine roll out starts to speed up and the media feck off with there never ending doom and gloom

    Nature of the beast, don't engage with it, if it's bothering you


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    #4571
    tommybrees
    Registered Users Posts: 389 ✭✭tommybrees


    The Continental Op wrote: »
    The problem is our herd nature. As soon as it becomes know that you can use the park we herd together and kids out for a walk with parents becomes families mixing with parents stood around talking and kids playing together.

    People are just too stupid. For example they don't just stand around talking they stand around talking in the groups blocking the paths leaving others to squeeze past them.

    If you give any leeway then people take the p!ss.

    And are all these people standing around talking and mixing dropping dead? Cop on. You give the government any leeway and they have well and truly taken the piss


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    #4572
    91wx763
    Registered Users Posts: 522 ✭✭✭91wx763


    tommybrees wrote: »
    And are all these people standing around talking and mixing dropping dead? Cop on.
    It's not napalm, it's a virus. How did the hospital get so full ?
    tommybrees wrote: »
    You give the government PEOPLE any leeway and they have well and truly taken the piss
    Corrected that for you. Christmas was only 10 weeks ago................


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    #4573
    zerosugarbuzz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭zerosugarbuzz


    Oscar Madison wrote: »
    If I could provide you with those answers I wouldn't be where I am today!

    This is not going away anytime soon in my opinion. It is here to stay so

    we have to get used to it and the limitations that it imposes on us!

    I'm not happy living with it and the impositions imposed upon my life but

    I'll just have to work my way around it so to speak!

    Can you explain to me why supermarket workers and their families seem to be fairly immune to the corona virus? Surely if they should have been dropping like flies since last March. But no, very much mostly people In hospitals and care homes.!


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    #4574
    gman2k
    Registered Users Posts: 4,076 ✭✭✭gman2k


    zerosugarbuzz wrote: »
    Can you explain to me why supermarket workers and their families seem to be fairly immune to the corona virus? Surely if they should have been dropping like flies since last March. But no, very much mostly people In hospitals and care homes.!

    They are not. I know of one supermarket (Irish owned) in the Midlands that had a large outbreak amongst staff, and was strongly suspected of being responsible for causing infection if many customers.
    Also, people in care homes/hospitals have compromised immune systems, live in congregated settings, and have multiple staff providing them with close contact and often intimate care.


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    #4575
    tommybrees
    Registered Users Posts: 389 ✭✭tommybrees


    91wx763 wrote: »
    It's not napalm, it's a virus. How did the hospital get so full ?


    Corrected that for you. Christmas was only 10 weeks ago................

    Hospitals were full for any amount of reasons, not just Covid.
    Like every year, tell me when was the last time hospitals weren't full of sick people?

    And remember 1 year ago it was just for 2 weeks to flatten the curve they said. Now it's cases, next it'll be the vaccines aren't effective enough.


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    #4576
    The Continental Op
    Registered Users Posts: 6,187 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    tommybrees wrote: »
    Hospitals were full for any amount of reasons, not just Covid.
    Like every year, tell me when was the last time hospitals weren't full of sick people?

    And remember 1 year ago it was just for 2 weeks to flatten the curve they said. Now it's cases, next it'll be the vaccines aren't effective enough.

    You missed out the next major virus mutation.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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    #4577
    spaceCreated
    Registered Users Posts: 385 ✭✭spaceCreated


    tommybrees wrote: »
    And are all these people standing around talking and mixing dropping dead? Cop on. You give the government any leeway and they have well and truly taken the piss

    Yes its all a conspiracy to keep us inside and tank the economy, politicians and the government love tanking the economy really increases their votes.


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    #4578
    Asdfgh2020
    Registered Users Posts: 1,385 ✭✭✭Asdfgh2020


    spaceCreated wrote: »
    Yes its all a conspiracy to keep us inside and tank the economy, politicians and the government love tanking the economy really increases their votes.

    All these vaccines asking contain a micro chip that will enable the government to fully track and trace every move a vaccinated person makes. The virus was created by the Chinese for this purpose and every other nation decided to follow suit and release it on the population so as to get complete control....:)


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    #4579
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,805 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Asdfgh2020 wrote:
    All these vaccines asking contain a micro chip that will enable the government to fully track and trace every move a vaccinated person makes. The virus was created by the Chinese for this purpose and every other nation decided to follow suit and release it on the population so as to get complete control....

    That's a good start, surly we can work a good sex scandal into this one, as they say, sex sells


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    #4580
    gw80
    Registered Users Posts: 1,002 ✭✭✭gw80


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    That's a good start, surly we can work a good sex scandal into this one, as they say, sex sells

    Like somebody was having sex with a bat?


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    #4581
    zerosugarbuzz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭zerosugarbuzz


    gman2k wrote: »
    They are not. I know of one supermarket (Irish owned) in the Midlands that had a large outbreak amongst staff, and was strongly suspected of being responsible for causing infection if many customers.
    Also, people in care homes/hospitals have compromised immune systems, live in congregated settings, and have multiple staff providing them with close contact and often intimate care.

    1 supermarket in the entire country, in a while year. Proves my point.


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    #4582
    OhToBeByTheSea
    Registered Users Posts: 200 ✭✭OhToBeByTheSea


    Asdfgh2020 wrote: »
    All these vaccines asking contain a micro chip that will enable the government to fully track and trace every move a vaccinated person makes. The virus was created by the Chinese for this purpose and every other nation decided to follow suit and release it on the population so as to get complete control....:)

    I've been wondering why I keep hearing the Microsoft Windows start up sound when I wake up every morning, instead of my alarm.


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    #4583
    The Continental Op
    Registered Users Posts: 6,187 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    OhToBeByTheSea wrote: »
    I've been wondering why I keep hearing the Microsoft Windows start up sound when I wake up every morning, instead of my alarm.

    What about when you plug your USB drive in?

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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    #4584
    Dilbert75
    Registered Users Posts: 4,724 ✭✭✭Dilbert75


    zerosugarbuzz wrote: »
    1 supermarket in the entire country, in a while year. Proves my point.

    Two bigger supermarkets where I live both had outbreaks among staff. They were hardly going to advertise it though - wouldn't want people shopping elsewhere.


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    #4585
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    After I'm vaccinated I fear BSOD and having to phone India.


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    #4586
    The Continental Op
    Registered Users Posts: 6,187 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    After I'm vaccinated I fear BSOD and having to phone India.

    There could be a lot of blue people walking around.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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    #4587
    Aquos76
    Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 9,026 Mod ✭✭✭✭Aquos76


    zerosugarbuzz wrote: »
    1 supermarket in the entire country, in a while year. Proves my point.

    Just because you didnt hear of any cases doesnt mean there are none. Like has been said already, no supermarket is going to publicly state that they have had an outbreak. Shur employers arent even informing their staff of outbreaks in factories, offices and the likes, why would you thing supermarkets are any different.

    I know of a particular shop in Waterford City where the owners got Covid and never told their staff, when the staff found out, they complained and were told none of them were close contacts, despite the owners working in the shop on a daily basis, Eventually the Gardai visited the shop and ordered them to close, pointless really as the shop reopened then the following day.


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    #4588
    tommybrees
    Registered Users Posts: 389 ✭✭tommybrees


    spaceCreated wrote: »
    Yes its all a conspiracy to keep us inside and tank the economy, politicians and the government love tanking the economy really increases their votes.

    Ah yes, wasn't it only 12 years ago Fianna fail drove us over a cliff and have been voted in again.
    They have no fear of the electorate because they no they will be voted in again.


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    #4589
    gman2k
    Registered Users Posts: 4,076 ✭✭✭gman2k


    zerosugarbuzz wrote: »
    1 supermarket in the entire country, in a while year. Proves my point.

    This response is why I need to stop engaging with people on the internet


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    #4590
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,805 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    tommybrees wrote:
    Ah yes, wasn't it only 12 years ago Fianna fail drove us over a cliff and have been voted in again. They have no fear of the electorate because they no they will be voted in again.

    Oh i think the tide is turning there, as both ffg are defaulting to their normal positions


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    #4591
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    5 cases (8 yesterday)


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