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  • #1382
    Lime Tree Farm
    Registered Users Posts: 2,607 ✭✭✭Lime Tree Farm


    I was at the local filling station for a fill up at 5:30pm this evening, it was quite busy at the time. I was pleasantly surprised, I must say, at the amount of young people, probably on their way home from work, who were either wearing masks or donning masks as they entered the convenience store (most wearing black masks, which looked good).


  • #1383
    CHOPS01
    Registered Users Posts: 758 ✭✭✭CHOPS01


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Local young guy tested positive here. God, it ain't going away, is it?

    Just heard about it a while ago. Hope he'll be ok.
    Different when it's close to home


  • #1384
    Injuryprone
    Registered Users Posts: 1,031 ✭✭✭Injuryprone


    There's a wedding not too far from me at the weekend. Have a marquee up at the house. 100+ guests by all accounts. DJ, dance floor, free bar etc all lined up to keep it as normal as possible. I hope it works out for them but it's a bit of a pisstake tbh. No doubt there'll be some mention of social distancing at the start of the evening but without anyone responsible like you would have with a hotel manager, I'm sure it won't be long before any social distancing goes out the window.

    Thankfully the weddings I've to go to have been put off well into next year. I don't know what I'd do if I was supposed to go to this one. You don't want to be falling out with people


  • #1385
    somofagun
    Registered Users Posts: 72 ✭✭somofagun


    Was at a sheep sale this evening and let me tell you its only a matter of time before the marts are closed again. 4 deep at the ring side and stands 80% full, no social distancing at all. Few men wearing masks but alot were not. Was no natural ventilation to speak off as it was a still warm evening so it was prime conditions for a bit of COVID to spread. Glad to get out of the place.


  • #1386
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users Posts: 3,216 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    Why are they locking down Laois Kildare and Offaly and never bother with Dublin when numbers were huge there


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  • #1387
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,362 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    kollegeknight wrote: »
    Why are they locking down Laois Kildare and Offaly and never bother with Dublin when numbers were huge there

    Because its dublin


  • #1388
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,056 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Are the meat factories not closed down that have all the positive cases?


  • #1389
    Water John
    Registered Users Posts: 21,104 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    I think only O'Briens.


  • #1390
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Water John wrote: »
    I think only O'Briens.

    One of the lamb lines in Kildare Chilling as well.


  • #1391
    wrangler
    Registered Users Posts: 11,047 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    somofagun wrote: »
    Was at a sheep sale this evening and let me tell you its only a matter of time before the marts are closed again. 4 deep at the ring side and stands 80% full, no social distancing at all. Few men wearing masks but alot were not. Was no natural ventilation to speak off as it was a still warm evening so it was prime conditions for a bit of COVID to spread. Glad to get out of the place.

    It's taken now that if you go out at the weekend that there'll be a house party when you're thrown out of the pub........ no one is going home at 11pm
    Even a factory worker referred to the house parties on the Indo today, lockdown is pointless now.


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  • #1392
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,056 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    174 new cases. Is that the highest since the outbreak started ?


  • #1393
    Base price
    Registered Users Posts: 11,121 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    whelan2 wrote: »
    174 new cases. Is that the highest since the outbreak started ?
    No, 203 new cases on the 14th of May although the numbers are recorded as 426 for that day - 223 we previous cases.


  • #1394
    jaymla627
    Registered Users Posts: 6,444 ✭✭✭jaymla627


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Because its dublin

    1 new case in Laois today down from 5 yesterday and no patients in portlaoise been treated for covid, its farcical that Laois has been locked down you can understand Kildare, but Laois been shutdown is solely down to the proximity to the direct provision center in Kildare


  • #1395
    naughto
    Registered Users Posts: 7,316 ✭✭✭naughto


    I think it's due to them commuting in to the factory from laois


  • #1396
    Water John
    Registered Users Posts: 21,104 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    We've had 6/7 cases in Cork, both yesterday and today. Time to be vigilant all over.
    I see that one prison in Texas has a 75% of inmates testing positive. Well I presume that qualifies as herd immunity at this point.


  • #1397
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Just on the 3 County lockdown.
    https://twitter.com/MonahanFintan/status/1292223955542188032?s=19


  • #1398
    Base price
    Registered Users Posts: 11,121 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    Buford T. Justice XIX wrote: »
    One of the lamb lines in Kildare Chilling as well.
    Kildare Chilling have suspended operations as of today according to RTE on Twitter. I don't know how to link a Tweet :o


  • #1399
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Base price wrote: »
    Kildare Chilling have suspended operations as of today according to RTE on Twitter. I don't know how to link a Tweet :o

    There's a half square with an arrow pointing upwards on the bottom right of a tweet on the laptop and a V turned sideways on the mobile that you press and the option to copy link to the tweet comes up. Press copy and then paste it into the post and it will embed itself.


  • #1400
    Base price
    Registered Users Posts: 11,121 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    Buford T. Justice XIX wrote: »
    There's a half square with an arrow pointing upwards on the bottom right of a tweet on the laptop and a V turned sideways on the mobile that you press and the option to copy link to the tweet comes up. Press copy and then paste it into the post and it will embed itself.
    I will try it now to see if it works and you can delete the post after, if you don't mind.
    https://twitter.com/ciaranmullooly/status/1292429292329209858?s=20


  • #1401
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    I just came across this tweet this evening, a German government funded investigation about a large cluster in a meat factory.
    https://twitter.com/Care2much18/status/1292432971539132421?s=19


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  • #1402
    Water John
    Registered Users Posts: 21,104 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Seems to support the idea of superspreaders. But it also seems to indicate aerosol spread not just droplets. Would that be a fair conclusion?


  • #1403
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Water John wrote: »
    Seems to support the idea of superspreaders. But it also seems to indicate aerosol spread not just droplets. Would that be a fair conclusion?
    Yeah, I would say so.

    I think the advice to stay 2m away from others is due to aerosol spread. But the advice was always to remain as far away from others as possible to reduce the exposure level to the virus should be remembered as well.


  • #1404
    alps
    Registered Users Posts: 4,922 ✭✭✭alps


    Check this out on Agriland - Carroll Cuisine to suspend operations https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/carroll-cuisine-to-suspend-operations/

    Must have been a "slight" bit of pressure put on here..


  • #1405
    yosemitesam1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,927 ✭✭✭yosemitesam1


    alps wrote: »
    Check this out on Agriland - Carroll Cuisine to suspend operations https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/carroll-cuisine-to-suspend-operations/

    Must have been a "slight" bit of pressure put on here..

    We should shut all the meat factories just in case for a few months...
    Views wouldn't be long changing on here then!


  • #1406
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,026 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    yosemitesam1 wrote: »
    We should shut all the meat factories just in case for a few months...
    Views wouldn't be long changing on here then!

    ;)

    Social welfare offices and post offices are closing due to clusters in the que. :p

    Greta has done marvellous work.

    *Joking. Though I shouldn't.


  • #1407
    Base price
    Registered Users Posts: 11,121 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    yosemitesam1 wrote: »
    We should shut all the meat factories just in case for a few months...
    Views wouldn't be long changing on here then!
    I heard on the news that there is going to be blanket testing in all the meat factories so it is probable that more factories will close if clusters are found.


  • #1408
    Water John
    Registered Users Posts: 21,104 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    yosemitesam1 wrote: »
    We should shut all the meat factories just in case for a few months...
    Views wouldn't be long changing on here then!

    If a factory has a large number of positives, it could reopen relatively quickly, as in a fourteen days, with all those who are positive returning to work if they feel ok.


  • #1409
    yosemitesam1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,927 ✭✭✭yosemitesam1


    Water John wrote: »
    If a factory has a large number of positives, it could reopen relatively quickly, as in a fourteen days, with all those who are positive returning to work if they feel ok.

    The whole point of restrictions all along was to prevent a mass spreading/incubation before mass movement into the community.

    Only about 1000-1500 cases have been recorded in meat factories so far out of a workforce of what? 5-10,000?

    If government logic was to be consistent with everything else so far, meat factories should be on a par with the pubs and closed until further notice.


  • #1410
    greysides
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 8,971 Mod ✭✭✭✭greysides


    [Hint]Mod: Some off-topic posts removed. [/Hint]

    The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert

    The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It's to promote critical thinking.

    Adam Grant



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  • #1411
    Water John
    Registered Users Posts: 21,104 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    A meat factory has a closed workforce, a pub has different members of the public in each day, totally different.
    A meat factory would be nearer to a school and every effort is being made to open those.


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