Covid in Limerick - Mod Warning in Post #1

Itsdacraic

munstergirl wrote: »

Blaming 1 village in Limerick for the thousands of cases is not right.

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From talking to a healthcare worker friend of mine it seems there were far more cases from people who socialised in Adare in the weeks before Christmas than there was from Rathkeale, but that doesn't suit the narrative.

Jimbob1977

I was in Dunnes Stores Childers Road today.

While the checkout tills were not too busy, the aisles felt very claustrophobic. Lots of trolleys and shelf stocking.

dickface

Jimbob1977 wrote: »

I was in Dunnes Stores Childers Road today.

While the checkout tills were not too busy, the aisles felt very claustrophobic. Lots of trolleys and shelf stocking.

Madness altogether. Trollies and shelf stocking in a supermarket

the_blackstuff

Jimbob1977 wrote: »

I was in Dunnes Stores Childers Road today.

While the checkout tills were not too busy, the aisles felt very claustrophobic. Lots of trolleys and shelf stocking.

The new tills they put into that store don't help either. The person on the till is very exposed now to the person placing food on the next till and vice versa. They seem to be shorter belts as well which means you can't place a full trolley of food on it. Really don't like going in there now as a result.

washman3

dickface wrote: »

Madness altogether. Trollies and shelf stocking in a supermarket

And the next thing you know is they'll be asking you to pay for your shopping on the way out.....;)

Red Silurian

Clareman wrote: »

Banned.

We've given enough warnings at this stage about not bring up this topic but people still insist on doing it.

I'm confused, what happened? Am I banned?

Edit: obviously not...

yop

colmtheperson wrote: »

I'm confused, what happened? Am I banned?

Edit: obviously not...

You see the post he quoted..... That's who was banned.

The_Dave

cee_jay wrote: »

I went to my parents in Limerick (East) for Christmas. I live in Dublin and I had a negative test result before I travelled down.
I was shocked by how busy the shops were down there... I went to Dunnes on Childers Road the evening of 22nd... the amount of people allowed in the store at once was ridiculous - I am comparing this to my local Dunnes here where they have a queue system to get and limit the numbers in the store at any one time. I left, and went across to the Parkway which was much quieter, but quite a number of other customers in the centre were wearing masks under their noses or chins.

The same evening I also went to Smyths to return a damaged online order. I had to ask a man to step back from me in the queue as he decided he would queue right up the back of me. There were other people who didn't seem to remember what social distancing was in the other queue also. Again, people were not wearing masks correctly.

I went to Starbucks in Castletroy on Christmas Eve, both staff who served me were wearing their masks below their nose. The shopping centre looked very busy also, but at least Super Valu looked to be limiting the numbers in the store at any one time.

Everyone has to take person responsibility for protecting themselves and others against the spread. Wear your mask, practice hand hygiene and stay at home. Pointing blame at others doesn't help anything.

I'm sorry, and I see you're a mod but come on... I know the rules were different at the time, but you travelled from Dublin to Limerick, you spent time in Dunnes Childers Road(admittedly maybe not that long), then on to Dunnes Parkway, Smyths, a Starbucks, then presumably back to your parents. It smacks a bit rich to then warn people to stay at home. Again, I admit the rules were different back then

The_Dave

breezy1985 wrote: »

The old thread was full of " I was in a shop and it's a disgrace that everyone else was in the shop" posts

If I had someone staying in these times I wouldn't want them out and about in busy shops/coffee places

Clareman

The_Dave wrote: »

I'm sorry, and I see you're a mod but come on... I know the rules were different at the time, but you travelled from Dublin to Limerick, you spent time in Dunnes Childers Road(admittedly maybe not that long), then on to Dunnes Parkway, Smyths, a Starbucks, then presumably back to your parents. It smacks a bit rich to then warn people to stay at home. Again, I admit the rules were different back then

First off, mods are only mods in their forums, in other forums they are just "normal" posters.

The poster pointed out how social distancing wasn't be adhered to in a number of places that it seemed to have been rife, at the time there wasn't a stay at home order but there were social distancing rules in place which weren't being followed.

Clareman

The_Dave wrote: »

If I had someone staying in these times I wouldn't want them out and about in busy shops/coffee places

Absolutely not, but on the 22nd and 24th of December there were different rules in place, I'm sure there's a lot of situations people were in the week before Christmas that they wouldn't put themselves into now but that's some of the reasons we're in the state we're in now.

Miike

Clareman wrote: »

Absolutely not, but on the 22nd and 24th of December there were different rules in place, I'm sure there's a lot of situations people were in the week before Christmas that they wouldn't put themselves into now but that's some of the reasons we're in the state we're in now.

I think that's his point.

cee_jay

The_Dave wrote: »

I'm sorry, and I see you're a mod but come on... I know the rules were different at the time, but you travelled from Dublin to Limerick, you spent time in Dunnes Childers Road(admittedly maybe not that long), then on to Dunnes Parkway, Smyths, a Starbucks, then presumably back to your parents. It smacks a bit rich to then warn people to stay at home. Again, I admit the rules were different back then

I travelled from Dublin to Limerick after getting a negative Covid test result - I ensured I took precautions before I travelled. I travelled on 19th December - the guidelines allowed for this at the time. I went to Dunnes to do shopping for my parents - this was also allowed. I went at 8pm, thinking the shops would be a bit quieter. They weren't. I went to Parkway instead of Childers Road to do shopping, as I saw how busy Childers road was - a risk assessment for me - I had no plans to go to Parkway Dunnes, but Childers Road Dunnes was too busy. I followed all the guidelines at the time, and the only people I saw over Christmas were my parents. That's it.
And being a mod on a different forum - no idea what the purpose of that was except to have a dig.

cee_jay

Miike wrote: »

I think that's his point.

And my point is all I see on this thread is people blaming everyone for why covid is so rampant everywhere, while all we can be doing right now is taking personal responsibility and just following the current guidelines. Not pointing fingers, and saying oh in this place these people are doing this. It means SFA right now - all it does is gives someone else an excuse for breaking regulations in my opinion, because they don't think what they are doing is as bad (e.g. oh they are really bad in this village and fighting in the streets, I'm only going 10km down the road to meet a friend for a chat). It is all contributing to the spread. Blame doesn't help.

Thinkingalot

Fairly new to boards, so bear with me, please. I'm also new to some of the terminology used here. I see a few posters saying "mod snip"and getting banned. I'm not sure I understand it. What am I missing?

Clareman

Thinkingalot wrote: »

Fairly new to boards, so bear with me, please. I'm also new to some of the terminology used here. I see a few posters saying "mod snip"and getting banned. I'm not sure I understand it. What am I missing?

Sometimes a mod will edit a posters post for a number of different reasons, when the mod does this they'll replace the original post with "mod snip", this isn't in all forums on boards but in the past in Limerick there were complaints of posts being deleted so the "mod snip" is added.

Banned is when a poster has been in breach of the rules and the mod feels the poster should be banned from posting in the forum for a certain amount of time.

Red Silurian

199 cases in Limerick today, not good but massively down on yesterdays figure

It's this a sign of things to come or a weekend blip?

Jofspring

Lough Gur had to be closed today because it got too busy. No way everyone there was from within 5km.

The_Dave

cee_jay wrote: »

And being a mod on a different forum - no idea what the purpose of that was except to have a dig.

I didn't (and still don't) know what forum you were a mod on, not having a dig about that.

Miike

cee_jay wrote: »

And my point is all I see on this thread is people blaming everyone for why covid is so rampant everywhere, while all we can be doing right now is taking personal responsibility and just following the current guidelines. Not pointing fingers, and saying oh in this place these people are doing this. It means SFA right now - all it does is gives someone else an excuse for breaking regulations in my opinion, because they don't think what they are doing is as bad (e.g. oh they are really bad in this village and fighting in the streets, I'm only going 10km down the road to meet a friend for a chat). It is all contributing to the spread. Blame doesn't help.

I have no idea why this is a reply to my comment, to be honest. I'm not blaming any one group or person. In fact I haven't even made reference to a single group or person... Your points are very valid and there was no attempt to detract from that on my behalf. Appears to be some kind of misunderstanding?

colmtheperson wrote: »

199 cases in Limerick today, not good but massively down on yesterdays figure

It's this a sign of things to come or a weekend blip?

There was a couple of significant clusters identified in Limerick in the past few days so hopefully the numbers will start dropping now. Fairly harrowing numbers across the region though, even if one was to discount the aforementioned clusters.

Red Silurian

Jofspring wrote: »

Lough Gur had to be closed today because it got too busy. No way everyone there was from within 5km.

So firstly our supermarkets can introduce a queuing system to keep numbers down, why can't our council do the same?

Secondly if you see a crowd of people just turn around and walk the other way FFS!

Thirdly the 5km limit is a recommendation, not a legally enforced restriction so nobody there was breaking the law - they were just being incredibly silly

Jofspring

colmtheperson wrote: »

So firstly our supermarkets can introduce a queuing system to keep numbers down, why can't our council do the same?

Secondly if you see a crowd of people just turn around and walk the other way FFS!

Thirdly the 5km limit is a recommendation, not a legally enforced restriction so nobody there was breaking the law - they were just being incredibly silly

Agreed. I wasn't there myself but saw posts on social media of people there and the requests from Lough Gur. I can't understand how so many people during these restrictions were converging on one location. Lough Gur had requested anyone outside the 5km to please stay away. Not the law but should still be adhered to.

Everyone here knows that everyone isn't a saint. If someone says they have stuck to every restriction they are either a bulls*****r or they are lying to themselves.

No one was breaking the law but common sense should have prevailed in people. Right call by the council to close it.

Hopefully the storm has passed now as far as numbers rising goes and we start to see the drop off.

kilburn

On the clusters in Limerick some more nursing homes in the city are in really bad shape now with numbers of cases.

While case numbers are dropping which is good as we may be passed the peak of new cases but hospital admissions will lag 10-14 days behind, here's hoping everything goes well.

I believe it's approx 3k cases in Limerick since start of the month big chunk of the population when you consider it's more than likely another 3 or 4k have it and didn't get tested due to lack of symptoms.

Cartman78

Jofspring wrote: »

Lough Gur had to be closed today because it got too busy. No way everyone there was from within 5km.

Was that due to over-crowding or the fact that the eejits that were there insisted on walking on the frozen lake??

Anyway, had my weekly trip to Dunnes yesterday morning....things seemed a lot less frenetic than a couple of weeks ago

Jofspring

Cartman78 wrote: »

Was that due to over-crowding or the fact that the eejits that were there insisted on walking on the frozen lake??

Think a combination of both. People were walking on the lake and there was a queue of traffic to get into Lough Gur.

Red Silurian

Cartman78 wrote: »

Anyway, had my weekly trip to Dunnes yesterday morning....things seemed a lot less frenetic than a couple of weeks ago

Something to do with Christmas perhaps?

Cartman78

colmtheperson wrote: »

Something to do with Christmas perhaps?

Possibly....you could be on to something there.

Red Silurian

Cartman78 wrote: »

Possibly....you could be on to something there.

In fairness a quieter Dunnes isn't a bad thing for our virus numbers so yay!

adaminho

https://twitter.com/FintanYTWalsh/status/1348320340276084740

Red Silurian

adaminho wrote: »

https://twitter.com/FintanYTWalsh/status/1348320340276084740

Over double the 199 cases yesterday suggests reporting is becoming an issue... Of course the actual number is probably much higher