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Relaxation of restrictions

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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭C__MC


    Do the new powers expire monday at 23:59 or do they continue if lockdown is extended regardless

    Honestly the amount of young ones floatiing around housing estates along with air and ferry ports being open, gardai and government have to cover these avenues as well rather then just police the roads


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    ITman88 wrote: »
    All at once?

    Maybe I’ll space it out, very hard concentrate on a movie doing all the rest!!

    Well a movie of a particular genre and masturbation go hand in hand.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,123 ✭✭✭✭normanoffside


    Don't worry lads if there's a depression that means we'll be guaranteed someone will save us by building motorways and job guarantees followed by military armament and looking for some lebensraum after all a good world war is how we got out of the last one :D

    Heil Mary Lou!

    Bressie will save us from depression, don't worry.


  • Registered Users Posts: 915 ✭✭✭never_mind


    C__MC wrote: »
    Do the new powers expire monday at 23:59 or do they continue if lockdown is extended regardless

    Honestly the amount of young ones floatiing around housing estates along with air and ferry ports being open, gardai and government have to cover these avenues as well rather then just police the roads

    Ferry ports and airports can’t close... we need stuff from abroad! Check out the radar apps.. not a plane in the sky


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    KiKi III wrote: »
    I've been very open about this: I don't have the answers. Anyone who thinks they do is kidding themselves.

    This is an unprecedented situation and I am relying on people with much greater expertise than myself to make the decisions. They might not get all of it right all of the time, but I think they'll get most of it right most of the time.

    Just out of curiousity who are these people with much greater expertise you wish to defer too?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,123 ✭✭✭✭normanoffside


    C__MC wrote: »
    Do the new powers expire monday at 23:59 or do they continue if lockdown is extended regardless

    Honestly the amount of young ones floatiing around housing estates along with air and ferry ports being open, gardai and government have to cover these avenues as well rather then just police the roads

    My impression is that these measures were brought in to stop people going mad over bank holiday weekend and get the message out in advance.

    My feeling is that some restrictions will slowly be lifted from next week, not in any way getting back to 'normal' but slowly letting more businesses reopen.


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,049 ✭✭✭✭martingriff


    ITman88 wrote: »
    I don’t want to dampen your spirits but I think holidays abroad are off the radar for a few decades

    I would not say that long


  • Registered Users Posts: 876 ✭✭✭ITman88


    My impression is that these measures were brought in to stop people going mad over bank holiday weekend and get the message out in advance.

    My feeling is that some restrictions will slowly be lifted from next week, not in any way getting back to 'normal' but slowly letting more businesses reopen.

    I do agree here, unless the ICUs come under serious pressure in the next few days


  • Registered Users Posts: 915 ✭✭✭never_mind


    I would not say that long

    No way will it go that long. I’ve friends in air travel and all are kinda thinking July/August for ‘normal’ flights but it won’t be a full schedule.


  • Registered Users Posts: 876 ✭✭✭ITman88


    I would not say that long

    I can see nobody having confidence to fly for a long time, there is no way the airline industry will survive with planes grounded.

    I think cheap flying is gone for a considerable amount of time.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 65 ✭✭Lwaker.


    I would not say that long

    They should be off the radar anyway

    I think we'll see a change in attitude after this


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,653 ✭✭✭KiKi III


    Just out of curiousity who are these people with much greater expertise you wish to defer too?

    Doctors, epidemiologists, healthy policy officials, economists, analysts, senior civil servants. People who have significant academic qualifications backed up by decades of experience in their fields.

    Why, who do you think should be making the decisions?


  • Registered Users Posts: 876 ✭✭✭ITman88


    rafatoni wrote: »
    Full lockdown for 6 months and most companies will go under, even the ones that are doing fine today would'nt be able to keep the wolf from the door that long. You would have half the country on the dole be like the 1500's.

    We have to open back at some point, risks will have to be taking at some point its just about timing.

    Penny’s are the most valuable Irish company, and they are suggesting things ain’t good.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,807 ✭✭✭Jurgen Klopp


    Well I'll tell you if start allowing passenger flights and don't introduce mandatory 14 day quarantine at a hotel we may as well not have bloody bothered

    Whatever China is like covering up if they hadn't done it they'd be riddled again


  • Registered Users Posts: 915 ✭✭✭never_mind


    ITman88 wrote: »
    Penny’s are the most valuable Irish company, and they are suggesting things ain’t good.

    I know it’s not their model but why the hell aren’t they delivering?!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,950 ✭✭✭polesheep


    ITman88 wrote: »
    I can see nobody having confidence to fly for a long time, there is no way the airline industry will survive with planes grounded.

    I think cheap flying is gone for a considerable amount of time.

    Thank Christ I booked my flights before all this. Doh!


  • Registered Users Posts: 876 ✭✭✭ITman88


    KiKi III wrote: »
    Doctors, epidemiologists, healthy policy officials, economists, analysts, senior civil servants. People who have significant academic qualifications backed up by decades of experience in their fields.

    Why, who do you think should be making the decisions?

    I would say doctor/economists.

    Health does not exist without wealth.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 452 ✭✭Logan Roy


    KiKi III wrote: »
    Doctors, epidemiologists, healthy policy officials, economists, analysts, senior civil servants. People who have significant academic qualifications backed up by decades of experience in their fields.

    Why, who do you think should be making the decisions?

    That's all well and fine but unfortunately nobody has any experience of this.


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,683 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    Well I'll tell you if start allowing passenger flights and don't introduce mandatory 14 day quarantine at a hotel we may as well not have bloody bothered

    Will there not be quick turnaround tests available fairly soon? They would make the business of screening those coming in so much easier...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,950 ✭✭✭polesheep


    KiKi III wrote: »
    Doctors, epidemiologists, healthy policy officials, economists, analysts, senior civil servants. People who have significant academic qualifications backed up by decades of experience in their fields.

    Why, who do you think should be making the decisions?

    History is littered with examples of the populace burning experts at the stake. In the end, the politicians will be led by the people... as always.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,122 ✭✭✭c montgomery


    ITman88 wrote: »
    I can see nobody having confidence to fly for a long time, there is no way the airline industry will survive with planes grounded.

    I think cheap flying is gone for a considerable amount of time.

    I'll be going on holidays the first opportunity I get.

    In fact ill he taking multiple holidays once this is over.

    I've been saving a fortune this past few weeks, can't wait to blow it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 876 ✭✭✭ITman88


    never_mind wrote: »
    I know it’s not their model but why the hell aren’t they delivering?!

    The amount of s*** my other half would buy off them if they delivered!


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,385 ✭✭✭lainey_d_123


    Some of the major parks in London are reopening this weekend.

    Looks like the Boards.ie lockdown fanatics were totally wrong. As I tried to explain, shutting down open spaces in an overcrowded city where so many people live in high rises without gardens or balconies only moves the problem elsewhere - to the pavements and streets. Overcrowded footpaths with people exercising on them are a far greater danger and risk than a few people having a picnic or hanging around for a chat.

    At least the councils are seeing sense. Closing parks was a huge mistake.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 206 ✭✭Oberkon


    KiKi III wrote: »
    Read a book. Do some yoga. Call a friend. Mix yourself a tasty beverage. Masturbate. Watch your favourite movie. Watch a new movie. Do an online exercise class.

    Someone told me Monday, someone told me Saturday
    Wait until tomorrow and there's still no way
    Read it in a book or write it in a letter
    Wake up in the morning and there's still no guarantee


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    KiKi III wrote: »
    Doctors, epidemiologists, healthy policy officials, economists, analysts, senior civil servants. People who have significant academic qualifications backed up by decades of experience in their fields.

    Why, who do you think should be making the decisions?

    The government is basing it's actions predominantly on the advice chiefly of the CMO and his team,Mr Holohan. This is the same person who castigated the nursing homes association for its unilateral decision to restrict visiting. He asked them to lift the restrictions as he felt they were not warranted. Where at present this is where the majority of the clusters and deaths are happening. He got the advice spectacularly wrong then.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,653 ✭✭✭KiKi III


    polesheep wrote: »
    History is littered with examples of the populace burning experts at the stake. In the end, the politicians will be led by the people... as always.

    Can you give me a few recent examples of this in the Western world? Might be true of China or maybe Saudi, haven't seen it happen in Europe in some time?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,807 ✭✭✭Jurgen Klopp


    Will there not be quick turnaround tests available fairly soon? They would make the business of screening those coming in so much easier...

    Certainly would.

    One would tell if positive, another hopefully if you've had it

    However a grey area id worry is te test to check if you are currently positive tell might not be able to detect if you were only infected within the previous day etc? Could be dodgey

    Then you'd worry about faulty tests, imagine some yank gets all clear and tours the country


  • Registered Users Posts: 876 ✭✭✭ITman88


    Oberkon wrote: »
    Someone told me Monday, someone told me Saturday
    Wait until tomorrow and there's still no way
    Read it in a book or write it in a letter
    Wake up in the morning and there's still no guarantee

    Had to google that, thought you lost the plot!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 206 ✭✭Oberkon


    ITman88 wrote: »
    Had to google that, thought you lost the plot!


    Couldn’t resist it , suits the mood


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,653 ✭✭✭KiKi III


    The government is basing it's actions predominantly on the advice chiefly of the CMO and his team,Mr Holohan. This is the same person who castigated the nursing homes association for its unilateral decision to restrict visiting. He asked them to lift the restrictions as he felt they were not warranted. Where at present this is where the majority of the clusters and deaths are happening. He got the advice spectacularly wrong then.

    There undoubtedly have been and will be mistakes. It's bound to happen in a situation without precedent.

    But who else would you have the government take its advice from? Random posters on Boards?


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