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Another full lockdown looming? - mod warning in OP

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    #392
    GT89
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭GT89


    GreeBo wrote: »
    There is no 100% method of avoiding it, what if they try their best but still catch it from you?

    Well then they obivously weren't trying hard enough were they? How the hell can they catch it from me if they stay in their house can covid come in by opening a window now?


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    #393
    GT89
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭GT89


    GreeBo wrote: »
    You are still missing the point, you want to risk others but those others don't want you to risk them!

    The only way you can risk catching it is to interact with others, by doing so you are, by definition, also risking them.

    Plenty of people don't give a sh1t anymore perhaps never did in the first place even


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    #394
    Dempo1
    Registered Users Posts: 26,977 ✭✭✭✭Dempo1


    Stheno wrote: »
    Its simply unbelievable is all

    Supervalu, Tesco, Lidl and Dunnes all do home deliveries.

    And I see again no acknowledgement by you of other peoples efforts on behalf of people like you

    Sickening tbh

    Whilst it's true these business's do offer home delivery, it's not as straight forward as is being suggested. I live rural and due to a bad accident in May, I tried numerous times to get home delivery and just gave up. Some were NOT taking any new customers, Some were offering slots up to 3 weeks after order, Some didn't have half the items needed and Some delivering at absurd times.

    I get the concept of shopping online for groceries but its only practical if you live in urban areas, have basic computing skills and have a pretty rigid regular shopping list.

    I reverted to www.greatneighbor.com in the end

    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




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    #395
    Stheno
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    Dempo1 wrote: »
    Whilst it's true these business's do offer home delivery, it's not as straight forward as is being suggested. I live rural and due to a bad accident in May, I tried numerous times to get home delivery and just gave up. Some were NOT taking any new customers, Some were offering slots up to 3 weeks after order, Some didn't have half the items needed and Some delivering at absurd times.

    I get the concept of shopping online for groceries but its only practical if you live in urban areas, have basic computing skills and have a pretty rigid regular shopping list.

    I reverted to www.greatneighbor.com in the end

    The poster i replied to stated they live in Dublin so hardly rural


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    #396
    pjohnson
    Registered Users Posts: 23,547 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    GT89 wrote: »
    Plenty of people don't give a sh1t anymore perhaps never did in the first place even

    The vast majority of people do. Only a few diehard demented fringe conspiracists are still rambling about plandemic/just a flu etc.


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    #397
    GreeBo
    Registered Users Posts: 27,161 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    GT89 wrote: »
    Well then they obivously weren't trying hard enough were they? How the hell can they catch it from me if they stay in their house can covid come in by opening a window now?

    Ah, so you want them to sacrifice everything so that you can go do what you want?
    What if they work in a shop or drive a bus?


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    #398
    jam_mac_jam
    Registered Users Posts: 4,726 ✭✭✭jam_mac_jam


    Stheno wrote: »
    The poster i replied to stated they live in Dublin so hardly rural

    It can be hard to get a slot. I live in an urban area and there were times it was booked up for weeks. I was only trying Supervalu but they had no slots sometimes when I was looking.


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    #399
    Dempo1
    Registered Users Posts: 26,977 ✭✭✭✭Dempo1


    Stheno wrote: »
    The poster i replied to stated they live in Dublin so hardly rural

    True but I spoke to friends in Dublin (we're I'm from originally) and similar experiences. I'm not doubting the merits of online grocery shopping, just pointing out, not as straightforward as it seems and admitidly demand soared which offered it own challenges.

    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




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    #400
    GreeBo
    Registered Users Posts: 27,161 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    GT89 wrote: »
    Plenty of people don't give a sh1t anymore perhaps never did in the first place even

    Clearly a minority act like anti social assholes, the fact that we aren't overrun by this virus shows that it's not "plenty" of people though.

    Typically in my experience, people who use language like that are trying to justify their own actions.


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    #401
    pjohnson
    Registered Users Posts: 23,547 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    Dempo1 wrote: »
    True but I spoke to friends in Dublin (we're I'm from originally) and similar experiences. I'm not doubting the merits of online grocery shopping, just pointing out, not as straightforward as it seems and admitidly demand soared which offered it own challenges.

    Iirc shops started asking people to not do online shopping unless they were cocooning such was the level of demand. Shops couldnt keep up.


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    #402
    Stheno
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    pjohnson wrote: »
    Iirc shops started asking people to not do online shopping unless they were cocooning such was the level of demand. Shops couldnt keep up.

    That was in March

    Since then the shops have caught up

    Anyone in the likes of Dublin saying they cannot do grocery shopping online now is an outlier tbh


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    #403
    arccosh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 624 ✭✭✭arccosh


    GT89 wrote: »
    Well then they obivously weren't trying hard enough were they? How the hell can they catch it from me if they stay in their house can covid come in by opening a window now?

    anytime I see your posts I just think "what an awful selfish arsehole"....

    you're either just really thick or on the sociopathic scale... and have been fortunate enough not to have been affected by COVID other than the Government's lockdown measures..

    no matter how much people explain their point or rationale, you revert back to the "me me me I'm being attacked" mode


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    #404
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    jam_mac_jam wrote: »
    It can be hard to get a slot. I live in an urban area and there were times it was booked up for weeks. I was only trying Supervalu but they had no slots sometimes when I was looking.

    Have you a GAA club near you?? They'd be happy to collect your "click and collect" and deliver it. People are just too socially awkward to ask for help. It's there for anyone that needs it.


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    #405
    jam_mac_jam
    Registered Users Posts: 4,726 ✭✭✭jam_mac_jam


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    Have you a GAA club near you?? They'd be happy to collect your "click and collect" and deliver it. People are just too socially awkward to ask for help. It's there for anyone that needs it.

    I don't need help I am replying to people who are implying a poster is lying about not being able to get a delivery because there were no slots.


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    #406
    Dempo1
    Registered Users Posts: 26,977 ✭✭✭✭Dempo1


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    Have you a GAA club near you?? They'd be happy to collect your "click and collect" and deliver it. People are just too socially awkward to ask for help. It's there for anyone that needs it.

    Is this true? If so very nice to hear, I wasn't aware.

    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




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    #407
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    Dempo1 wrote: »
    Is this true? If so very nice to hear, I wasn't aware.

    https://www.gaa.ie/api/pdfs/image/upload/zrmzqqcth3zvq7xfr87b.pdf


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    #408
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    jam_mac_jam wrote: »
    I don't need help I am replying to people who are implying a poster is lying about not being able to get a delivery because there were no slots.

    There are other ways to get deliveries that were well reported. GAA clubs is the one I remember most. Nobody, anywhere was in a position that there was no way to get food delivered.


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    #409
    faceman
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,601 CMod ✭✭✭✭faceman


    Irish Times reporting today full level 5 lockdown is on the cards according to government sources

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/coronavirus-government-may-impose-full-level-5-restrictions-due-to-concern-at-number-of-hospitalisations-1.4446673


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    #410
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users Posts: 15,547 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    faceman wrote: »
    Irish Times reporting today full level 5 lockdown is on the cards according to government sources

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/coronavirus-government-may-impose-full-level-5-restrictions-due-to-concern-at-number-of-hospitalisations-1.4446673

    So back to like it was in April!?


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    #411
    [Deleted User]
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    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    So back to like it was in April!?

    That seems to be where most of Europe is heading. Schools likely to close in England as (surprise surprise), SAGE says that they are significant drivers of infection


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    #412
    Sammy2012
    Registered Users Posts: 1,240 ✭✭✭Sammy2012


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    That seems to be where most of Europe is heading. Schools likely to close in England as (surprise surprise), SAGE says that they are significant drivers of infection

    If the virus is rampant in the community how could it not be in schools? Our politicians really are not that smart if they think it will stay outside of the walls of schools....just because they are schools!!


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    #413
    Jinglejangle69
    Registered Users Posts: 7,363 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    Sammy2012 wrote: »
    If the virus is rampant in the community how could it not be in schools? Our politicians really are not that smart if they think it will stay outside of the walls of schools....just because they are schools!!

    Noone ever claimed what your post says.

    What a load of nonsense.


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    #414
    daniel_t1409
    Closed Accounts Posts: 366 ✭✭daniel_t1409


    Whatever happens with this new lockdown, I highly doubt they'll close the schools


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    #415
    emo72
    Registered Users Posts: 6,273 ✭✭✭emo72


    Well the government is loath to close the schools. It's the only thing they claim they got right. If the schools close, they basically got nothing right and they won't admit that.

    Can't see how they can remain open myself. But they'll persevere with it rather than look incompetent.


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    #416
    [Deleted User]
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    That seems to be where most of Europe is heading. Schools likely to close in England as (surprise surprise), SAGE says that they are significant drivers of infection

    Well then, the great deflection is finally revealed. NPHET/Government would have us believe the schools are natural kryptonite for Covid, while multiplying with alarming effect in the hospitality sector. Nothing to do with currying favour with parents who to want avoid minding children indoors during the winter months. Some truly appalling double standards here.


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    #417
    GazzaL
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    Could we open pop-up shops and pubs in schools so that people can continue to make a living while benefitting from the immunity provided by school buildings?


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    #418
    Jinglejangle69
    Registered Users Posts: 7,363 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Well then, the great deflection is finally revealed. NPHET/Government would have us believe the schools are natural kryptonite for Covid, while multiplying with alarming effect in the hospitality sector. Nothing to do with currying favour with parents who to want avoid minding children indoors during the winter months. Some truly appalling double standards here.

    Love to see the evidence again that NHPET and the government claim covid doesn't exist in schools.

    More lies and fake news.


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    #419
    Jinglejangle69
    Registered Users Posts: 7,363 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    So it's secondary schools only SAGE are saying should stay closed.

    So not all schools like some here would lie and have you believe.


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    #420
    zerosugarbuzz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭zerosugarbuzz


    GreeBo wrote: »
    You are still missing the point, you want to risk others but those others don't want you to risk them!

    The only way you can risk catching it is to interact with others, by doing so you are, by definition, also risking them.

    Had a conversation with the lady on the checkout of my local supervalu last night. All staff fully exposed to the torrents of shoppers since March, none confirmed with COVID let alone sick from it. All ages up to 65 working there.


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    #421
    zerosugarbuzz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭zerosugarbuzz


    Dempo1 wrote: »
    Is this true? If so very nice to hear, I wasn't aware.

    Local Garda Station will do it too.


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