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Relaxation of Restrictions, Part VIII *Read OP For Mod Warnings*

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    #9902
    Silentcorner
    Registered Users Posts: 6,301 ✭✭✭Silentcorner


    Graham wrote: »
    You get that the hyperbole does nothing at all to further any point you're trying to make.

    They are entertaining though. We should do a top #50 of the best ones.

    You understand that we are only one year in to what will be at least a 3 year incident, the more mistakes a country makes in year one, the bigger the consequences in year 2/3...we have made every conceivable mistake since March...we still aren't using rapid antigen testing in care homes, a year into this...

    I get that indoctrinated folks like yourself, who would rather spend those 2/3 years hiding under you bed ain't gonna listen to a word I say, you are too far gone!!!


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    #9903
    Windmill100000
    Registered Users Posts: 585 ✭✭✭Windmill100000


    SnuggyBear wrote: »
    I've seen people cycle with masks. Someone in their garden with a mask on doing a bit of gardening. Such a sad world we live in now.

    Lots of things make me sad. But seeing someone cycling in a mask isn't up there


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    #9904
    Silentcorner
    Registered Users Posts: 6,301 ✭✭✭Silentcorner


    Graham wrote: »
    Just pure scaremongering,

    Did you seriously think we'd be in level 5 in May of this year?


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    #9905
    SnuggyBear
    Registered Users Posts: 965 ✭✭✭SnuggyBear


    Windmill100000 wrote: »
    Lots of things make me sad. But seeing someone cycling in a mask isn't up there

    Good for you I suppose


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    #9906
    Windmill100000
    Registered Users Posts: 585 ✭✭✭Windmill100000


    Silentcorner wrote: »
    Did you seriously think we'd be in level 5 in May of this year?

    If I knew what our case numbers would be, then yep.


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    #9907
    Boggles
    Registered Users Posts: 40,007 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Silentcorner wrote: »
    You understand that we are only one year in to what will be at least a 3 year incident, the more mistakes a country makes in year one, the bigger the consequences in year 2/3...we have made every conceivable mistake since March...we still aren't using rapid antigen testing in care homes, a year into this...

    Covid: Greater Manchester stops care home tests over accuracy fears


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    #9908
    Neagra
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 146 ✭✭Neagra


    we can meet our loved ones in gardens and parks and even graveyards
    we can keep the numbers small
    we can bring our own picnics
    we can maintain social distance very easily with zero chance of transmission
    tomorrow meant to be ok weather, i will be going to a graveyard to talk to the big man and the twelve apostles.


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    #9909
    end of the road
    Registered Users Posts: 29,073 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    Silentcorner wrote: »
    Did you seriously think we'd be in level 5 in May of this year?




    yes, absolutely.
    it was obvious once we opened up at christmas what would happen.
    it happened and here we are.

    ticking a box on a form does not make you of a religion.



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    #9910
    RGS
    Registered Users Posts: 787 ✭✭✭RGS


    Silentcorner wrote: »
    Niiave? We will be in heavy restrictions next Winter, there will be new variants...I'd bet my house on it, we will be in level 2 or 3 all Summer, unless the people mobilize.

    IMO We wont get near level 2 this year.

    We might go to level 3 in June. The variants will have NPHET and the government concerned and we wont have 80% of the adult population vaccinated.

    Even staycation aren't guaranteed as per Donnelly yesterday.


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    #9911
    themacattack.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 119 ✭✭themacattack.


    its going to be an intresting summer...if government do decide to keep hospitality shut i can see house parties/garden parties/bbqs ect becoming the absolute norm for most people....as regards international travel i think the floodgates will open june july august now that the guards have admitted nothing can be done if you have a medical apointment in another country...


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    #9912
    Doctor Jimbob
    Registered Users Posts: 7,636 ✭✭✭Doctor Jimbob


    Windmill100000 wrote: »
    If I knew what our case numbers would be, then yep.

    You don't know what case numbers will be in May though. No one does. So why are we hearing talk of keeping harsh restrictions until then?


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    #9913
    Silentcorner
    Registered Users Posts: 6,301 ✭✭✭Silentcorner


    end of the road wrote: »
    yes, absolutely.
    it was obvious once we opened up at christmas what would happen.
    it happened and here we are.

    So you don't believe that there is any seasonality factor at all...you've abandoned science.

    This is why people are willing to take to the streets, this is swivel eyed loon stuff!!!


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    #9914
    retro:electro
    Registered Users Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    Looks like the graveyards are going to be the place to be this summer :pac:


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    #9915
    wakka12
    Registered Users Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    The world's last hope of zero covid?
    https://twitter.com/zonkradio20/status/1362722992577511425


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    #9916
    Coillte_Bhoy
    Registered Users Posts: 7,897 ✭✭✭Coillte_Bhoy


    Silentcorner wrote: »
    So you don't believe that there is any seasonality factor at all...you've abandoned science.

    This is why people are willing to take to the streets, this is swivel eyed loon stuff!!!

    Taking to the streets where?


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    #9917
    lee_baby_simms
    Registered Users Posts: 3,426 ✭✭✭lee_baby_simms


    retro:electro wrote: »
    Looks like the graveyards are going to be the place to be this summer :pac:

    Can’t be as bad as being stuck indoors watching RTE.


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    #9918
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,670 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Silentcorner wrote: »
    Stay at home Save Lives

    It is simple and powerful, repeated everywhere, pushed everywhere...

    Now people think it is dangerous for Grand parents to hug their grand kids...I hope those of you who have succumb to hysteria will one day hang your heads in shame, denying Grand parents a hug from their grand kids is something I'll never get over, that took a lot of hysteria to get us there!!!

    How many pints were involved in the making of this post? :D


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    #9919
    lee_baby_simms
    Registered Users Posts: 3,426 ✭✭✭lee_baby_simms


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    How many pints were involved in the making of this post? :D

    Pints? Where?


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    #9920
    Windmill100000
    Registered Users Posts: 585 ✭✭✭Windmill100000


    Doctor Jimbob wrote: »
    You don't know what case numbers will be in May though. No one does. So why are we hearing talk of keeping harsh restrictions until then?

    I'm guessing it's because what our case numbers are now and the length of time it is predicted it will take to see them substantially drop and the subsequent drop in hospital admissions. Christmas is still fresh in people's minds and how quickly things can escalate. Not a hope we'd be rushing to open up knowing that.


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    #9921
    TobyHolmes
    Registered Users Posts: 429 ✭✭TobyHolmes


    lee_baby_simms wrote: »
    Can’t be as bad as being stuck indoors watching RTE.



    or stuck indoors trying to watch rte player :cool:


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    #9922
    [Deleted User]
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    end of the road wrote: »
    yes, absolutely.
    it was obvious once we opened up at christmas what would happen.
    it happened and here we are.

    If a slight easing of restrictions for 3 weeks leads to a half year and possibly longer lockdown, then we might as well concede defeat to the virus.

    We’d have let a virus with a tiny death rate destroy humanity.


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    #9923
    SnuggyBear
    Registered Users Posts: 965 ✭✭✭SnuggyBear


    Windmill100000 wrote: »
    I'm guessing it's because what our case numbers are now and the length of time it is predicted it will take to see them substantially drop and the subsequent drop in hospital admissions. Christmas is still fresh in people's minds and how quickly things can escalate. Not a hope we'd be rushing to open up knowing that.

    I'm other words this lockdown is making f all difference


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    #9924
    gozunda
    Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Cerlan wrote: »
    Seems there is something planned in Cork.

    Gemmas moved to Cork now :pac:


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    #9925
    Silentcorner
    Registered Users Posts: 6,301 ✭✭✭Silentcorner


    Deleted User wrote: »
    If a slight easing of restrictions for 3 weeks leads to a half year and possibly longer lockdown, then we might as well concede defeat to the virus.

    We’d have let a virus with a tiny death rate destroy humanity.

    It's like looking out at the horizon and thinking the earth is clearly flat...."we opened up in Dec therefore we can't open up again"

    The only alternative to opening up slightly at Christmas, was to keep us in level 5 from mid Oct to May....f**king mental!!!


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    #9926
    end of the road
    Registered Users Posts: 29,073 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »
    Taking to the streets where?


    on facebook and boards.

    ticking a box on a form does not make you of a religion.



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    #9927
    gozunda
    Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Graham wrote: »
    Just what the pandemic needs, a bunch of tinfoil hatters organising a protest.

    Their Facebook page ready like an A- Z of COVID conspiracy theories. :rolleyes:

    Great idea that tbf. I mean what good possibly go wrong ...


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    #9928
    Hellrazer
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,667 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hellrazer


    wakka12 wrote: »
    The world's last hope of zero covid?
    https://twitter.com/zonkradio20/status/1362722992577511425

    Tanzania's President John Pombe Magufuli has ruled out a possibility of a lockdown to contain coronavirus and declares 3 days of National prayers against the pandemic


    It will have the exact same effect as a lockdown!!!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQU6e-r06Z4

    Ah feck it!!


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    #9929
    LuckyLloyd
    Registered Users Posts: 36,313 ✭✭✭✭LuckyLloyd


    SnuggyBear wrote: »
    I'm other words this lockdown is making f all difference

    It takes quite the piece of mental gymnastics to say lockdown isn’t working given what happened in December / Christmas. Stunning really.


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    #9930
    SnuggyBear
    Registered Users Posts: 965 ✭✭✭SnuggyBear


    LuckyLloyd wrote: »
    It takes quite the piece of mental gymnastics to say lockdown isn’t working given what happened in December / Christmas. Stunning really.

    If it takes 6 months to get numbers it's pretty crap


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    #9931
    Penfailed
    Registered Users Posts: 7,571 ✭✭✭Penfailed


    end of the road wrote: »
    we didn't tank the economy, never mind intentional, and especially not for a mild virus that isn't actually mild but is unable to do the damage it could thanks to minimisation spread and public health measures.
    the economy would be less strong but for those control measures, as while it has taken quite a dip, as i said it's a small few sectors which really keep the show on the road here and without controls on spread minimisation, those sectors are at more risk of effects.
    if we shut those sectors and reopened the shut ones we would be actually in some bit of real trouble.
    we are in a good position to recover from this, our economy was in good shape coming up to this and isn't in bad shape currently dispite our situation, couple that with penned up demand we will do reasonably well i reccan.

    i reccan [sic] that ^^^ is a load of nonsense.

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