Covid 19 Part XXXIII-231,484 ROI(4,610 deaths)116,197 NI (2,107 deaths)(23/03)Read OP

seamus

There's that hairdresser in Balbriggan this morning.

It's only the start of it, IMHO. Other businesses will start opening and will make less of a song and dance about it to avoid detection.

10km limit, non-essential retail; even putting these things on the map with a semi-firm date might be enough to convince people to hold fort.

"Level 5 will remain until at least 5th April at which point we will review", just won't cut it.

FlubberJones

So Feb not even finished and we are not even going to see March, how ****ing useless and lazy this government is...

Like a broken record playing a long ****ty song that never gets anywhere and bores the piss out of people.

ninebeanrows

seamus wrote: »

There's that hairdresser in Balbriggan this morning.

It's only the start of it, IMHO. Other businesses will start opening and will make less of a song and dance about it to avoid detection.

10km limit, non-essential retail; even putting these things on the map with a semi-firm date might be enough to convince people to hold fort.

"Level 5 will remain until at least 5th April at which point we will review", just won't cut it.

It is bonkers to think that is what currently looks like they are about to offer!

Are they for real!?

Are they gambling on holding us in and then over delivering for the late spring and summer. Must be!

timmyntc

seamus wrote: »

There's that hairdresser in Balbriggan this morning.

It's only the start of it, IMHO. Other businesses will start opening and will make less of a song and dance about it to avoid detection.

10km limit, non-essential retail; even putting these things on the map with a semi-firm date might be enough to convince people to hold fort.

"Level 5 will remain until at least 5th April at which point we will review", just won't cut it.

Agreed - if you dont give people an outlet they will end up disregarding all the regulations collectively. If they got rid of the stupid 5k limits and allowed for travel within your county it would go a long way to placating people.

Right now I recognise the 5k rule as totally stupid, and if I'm going to break that covid rule I dont really care too much about breaking others either.

is_that_so

ninebeanrows wrote: »

It is bonkers to think that is what currently looks like they are about to offer!

Are they for real!?

Are they gambling on holding us in and then over delivering for the late spring and summer. Must be!

They may well have factored that reduction in compliance into their thinking. NPHET after all warned about it.

Tacitus Kilgore

seamus wrote: »

There's that hairdresser in Balbriggan this morning.

It's only the start of it, IMHO. Other businesses will start opening and will make less of a song and dance about it to avoid detection.

10km limit, non-essential retail; even putting these things on the map with a semi-firm date might be enough to convince people to hold fort.

"Level 5 will remain until at least 5th April at which point we will review", just won't cut it.

Ben Gilroy doing great recruitment for his hateful shower of shitehawks now, sickens me that these nutjobs are gathering followers from genuine people in genuine despair.

This craic will be over soon folks, let's not all become tinfoil hat wearing fascists just yet... please..

ednwireland

ninebeanrows wrote: »

Are they gambling on holding us in and then over delivering for the late spring and summer. Must be!

NAh NPHET want us locked down until the waiting lists are cleared :D:D

PmMeUrDogs

is_that_so wrote: »

They may well have factored that reduction in compliance into their thinking. NPHET after all warned about it.

They may well have, in which case they're yet again punishing those who stick to restrictions.

is_that_so

PmMeUrDogs wrote: »

They may well have, in which case they're yet again punishing those who stick to restrictions.

I'd still look on it as an attempt to help us all out but I'd like to know where we are going please. There's really nothing to be gained from blaming those with lower levels of social cohesion.

Eod100

Dunno can much be read into this, could just be picking end of June so businesses and workers have certainty but interesting anyway

https://twitter.com/MichealLehane/status/1364266177279705089

political analyst

igCorcaigh wrote: »

I had to Google gript...
John McGuirk. Ok. Enough said!

He's a social conservative but not a fundamentalist.

is_that_so

Schools

https://twitter.com/RTENewsPaulC/status/1364262538138046469

retro:electro

“Ministers don’t expect any meaningful reopening of society after April 5th”

According to Richard Chambers on Virgin Media just now

Doctor Jimbob

is_that_so wrote: »

Schools

https://twitter.com/RTENewsPaulC/status/1364262538138046469

Ah so it turns out we can have dates after all. Only for schools though, for some reason.

Any date for construction? I would expect so, since it didn't close anywhere else.

Doctor Jimbob

retro:electro wrote: »

“Ministers don’t expect any meaningful reopening of society after April 5th”

According to Richard Chambers on Virgin Media just now

Good luck to them.

Sweet.Science

retro:electro wrote: »

“Ministers don’t expect any meaningful reopening of society after April 5th”

According to Richard Chambers on Virgin Media just now

Great . Schools are back though that's no 1 priority

is_that_so

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

Ah so it turns out we can have dates after all. Only for schools though, for some reason.

Any date for construction? I would expect so, since it didn't close anywhere else.

This guess says April 5th but a nice "far from guaranteed" in there to cool your jets!

https://twitter.com/MaryERegan/status/1364259093704228867

Cody montana

is_that_so wrote: »

This guess says April 5th but a nice "far from guaranteed" in there to cool your jets!

https://twitter.com/MaryERegan/status/1364259093704228867

From march, I'm not complying anymore.

Doctor Jimbob

is_that_so wrote: »

This guess says April 5th but a nice "far from guaranteed" in there to cool your jets!

https://twitter.com/MaryERegan/status/1364259093704228867

Come late March it'll be copy, paste, find "April", replace with "May", publish revised plan.

SPDUB

45 Deaths

575 Cases

TV3

shinzon

Cody montana wrote: »

From march, I'm not complying anymore.

Whose the rebel fight the power and all that :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Shin

How Soon Is Now

Least can get the kids back to school and some kinda routine for them.

Wasn't expecting much else be stupid to think otherwise.

Doctor Jimbob

Micheál Martin on the distance restrictions last year:

'On the travel restrictions, Martin said “there is no remaining serious justification for the 5 kilometre limit”.

“The public health concern is how people behave around others – not how far they are from their home. In fact, the research shows that this limit may in fact be forcing people in urban areas into more crowded situations.”'

https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/other/miche-c3-a1l-martin-says-there-is-no-serious-justification-for-the-5km-and-20km-limit/ar-BB14FCaY

Can someone tell Micheál Martin?

MD1990

Cody montana wrote: »

From march, I'm not complying anymore.

some people need to get some perspective.

over 1000 people died in january from just 2 weeks of opening.

more people with your attitude & we are in big trouble

SEPT 23 1989

What time is Mr Martin addressing the nation?

Always_Running

7 day average in cases is 749 (it was 889 last Tuesday)

Cody montana

shinzon wrote: »

Whose the rebel fight the power and all that :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Shin

What?

Enough is enough.
We can't stay in lockdown for another few weeks.

JP Liz V1

SPDUB wrote: »

45 Deaths

575 Cases

TV3

RIP those 45

Doctor Jimbob

MD1990 wrote: »

some people need to get some perspective.

over 1000 people died in january from just 2 weeks of opening.

more people with your attitude & we are in big trouble

Last summer hardly anyone died despite widespread reopening.

Why is January treated as the only relevant example of what will happen if we reopen?

How Soon Is Now

Cody montana wrote: »

What?

Enough is enough.
We can't stay in lockdown for another few weeks.

What are you gonna do come March so?