13-10-21, 10:33 | #2091 |
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The Irish prime minister is a idiot on the news last night he said that the pandemic is a once in a century event.
No-one saw the current pandemic coming and he's saying that there won't be another pandemic this century that's a load of bull 💩 he has no way of knowing that there won't be another pandemic I'd like to know where he got his crystal ball from that tells him that there won't be another pandemic this century. There could be another pandemic in a few years time while we wait for another pandemic that may or may not happen, we have to deal with the other pandemic that is known as stupid politicians who never think before they speak and are only in the job to line their pockets and enjoy the perks of their jobs and approve excessive pay rises for themselves and their friends while what they view as the little people got scraps from the government table in budget 2022 for example the living alone allowance has been increased by a mere 3 euro and pensioners were given just 5 euro extra from the government. |
18-10-21, 16:21 | #2092 |
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Almost all Coronavirus restrictions are to be lifted in Ireland this Friday.
The likeliest restrictions to remain are Covid certs and mask wearing. It's hoped that nightclubs can finally reopen after being closed for over 500 days I think that they have been closed for 534 days in total. An increase of the number of people that can go to restaurants and pubs is also expected along with extended opening hours, I don't know about weddings I haven't seen anything being said about weddings. The planned easing of restrictions should be the only item on his agenda that the Irish prime minister should be paying attention to, instead he is in Sligo opening a 140 million euro stretch of dual carriageway. His only priority should be the upcoming easing of restrictions and nothing else all other concerns are secondary. |
19-10-21, 11:04 | #2093 |
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It's official the pathetic weak willed spineless Irish prime minister has caved in to NPHETS demands that no restrictions be lifted on Friday and that nightclubs should remain closed.
In what's being called Groundhog Day something that the Irish prime minister denied was happening the majority of restrictions like mask wearing, social distancing and Covid certificates are set to remain until Spring 2022. Deja Flu is another name for it that I saw on the front pages of some of today's newspapers. The need to provide proof of vaccination or immunity or proof of having contracted Covid-19 was supposed to come to an end on Friday. The Irish prime minister should not have caved in to NPHETS demands that restrictions not be lifted, NPHET is supposed to be an advisory only entity but throughout the current Irish prime minister's reign of terror he has abdicated his responsibility to lead the country and make decisions and instead handed over total power to NPHET since day one as prime minister. What we need is a prime minister who isn't afraid to make decisions without relying solely on NPHET who currently make all the decisions while the Irish prime minister serves as NPHETS messenger boy, what we need is a prime minister who will stand up to and defy NPHET and make decisions without relying solely on NPHET instead what we got was a wimp. The Irish prime minister has called for a new moment of reflection after the setback to the planned easing of restrictions the only reflection he should be looking at is his own in the mirror that's if the mirror doesn't crack, the only reaction to the Irish prime minister's demand for a moment of reflection that won't achieve anything will be If only it was possible to impeach and remove from office defective prime minister's who have shown they are not up to the job of leading the country and are incapable of making any decisions. NPHET it seems are incapable of offering clear advice instead going for mixed messages, one minute NPHET are saying that nightclubs must stay closed then says that nightclubs should reopen through use of the Covid certificates so which is it one or the other because NPHET can't have it both ways. It's very likely that people will continue to ignore the government especially after the latest delay to restrictions being eased, over the last several months people have had enough of the Irish governments dithering and mixed messages since the current bumbling Irish prime minister took over and have stopped listening to the government, we are no longer all in this together which the government has repeatedly said throughout the pandemic. Over 90% of the population has been vaccinated and NPHET wants to keep all restrictions in place until Spring 2022, there are 300,000 people that haven't been vaccinated with some refusing to take the vaccine, I overheard a woman last week saying that she wouldn't let her kids get the vaccine, well if one or all of her kids get Covid-19 and are unfortunate enough to not survive she would have no-one to blame but herself. I read some comments somewhere recently I forget where that someone's relative had become an anti vaccine nutcase who told her children who wanted to get the vaccine that if they got the vaccine that she would kick them out of the house and never speak to them again. If those 300,000 people refuse to get the vaccine then maybe they should be rounded up and kept isolated from everyone else maybe even put in the sanctuary districts that I mentioned in the debate section. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Sanctuary_District Last edited by DragonSlayer; 19-10-21 at 11:24. |
22-10-21, 01:07 | #2094 |
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I went online to schedule the booster for Covid and I'm happy to see the website is booked for the first time in a while. Hopefully more folks get vaxxed so we can be out of this mess.
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22-10-21, 10:17 | #2095 |
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The easing of restrictions for the entertainment and hospitality sectors in Ireland has been described as being as clear as mud.
Further chaos has centered around what people can do in a nightclub and can't do in a pub. Hundreds of people can go into a nightclub and order drinks at the bar the same can't be said of pubs where up to 10 people have to sit at a table and can't order drinks at the bar, people can dance in a nightclub but people aren't allowed to stand up in a pub also pubs with live music can only have music playing if everyone is sitting down this bizarre restriction doesn't apply to nightclubs. #oneruleforall #differentrulesforpubsandnightclubs People can drink at the bar and dance in a nightclub but in a pub people have to sit at a table and were initially told that they wouldn't be allowed near the bar, after a backlash to not being allowed near the bar in a pub while people are allowed at the bar in nightclubs the Irish government said that socially distanced queues will be allowed at bars in pubs. When asked why people can dance in nightclubs but must sit down throughout a live performance in a pub the Irish prime minister said that if people really need to stand during a live performance in a pub they can stand on their chairs if they like. When announcing the easing of restrictions for the entertainment and hospitality sectors earlier in the week the Irish prime minister had the nerve to ask the entertainment and hospitality sectors to work with the government saying that he understood and accepted the need for clarity. I think that he doesn't understand the need for clarity even though he said he did, that hasn't stopped him from creating and causing confusion for both the entertainment and hospitality sectors This coming from the idiot whose government had repeatedly refused to work with and provide clarity to the entertainment and hospitality sectors throughout the pandemic consistently ignoring requests for clarity and continually refusing to meet with officials from both the entertainment and hospitality sectors. He's asking a lot of both those sectors that he deliberately ignored and disregarded throughout the pandemic since he took office. His time as prime minister will be remembered as Captain Kirk's got control of the bridge and he's gone insane and the lunatics are running the asylum. Edit. The Irish government is after putting another obstacle in the way of nightclubs that are reopening for the first time in almost 2 years by demanding that nightclubs and other venues should only allow entry to people that have bought tickets in advance and ordered that tickets not be sold at the door which will also apply to underage events such as teenage discos. The guidelines come as nightclubs prepare to reopen this evening after almost 600 days of being closed. The Licensed Vinters Association said that the new rules requiring advance ticket bookings for nightclubs as completely unworkable and the Vintner's Federation of Ireland said that the new guidelines would lead to confusion and be impossible to implement. The VFI Chief Executive Padraig Cribben said this has really been a shambolic process from the press conference last Tuesday to this last minute senseless U-turn. There remains simple questions that cannot be answered. How will this be managed in late bars? How will music and dancing be regulated in traditional pubs? Simple questions but officials remain unable to explain what guidelines pubs should implement. IMO the officials are not only unable to explain what guidelines pubs should implement but are also unwilling to explain because they don't want to admit that they don't have a clue what they are doing and also don't want to admit that they are making things up as they go along and appear to be making decisions hastily without thinking things through beforehand. The Irish government is making things up as it goes along and seems to be determined to make things as difficult as possible for nightclubs that are reopening for the first time in almost 2 years after almost 600 days of being closed. Last edited by DragonSlayer; 22-10-21 at 19:18. |
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The UK Government (England) may have to reintroduce mask wearing indoors, and cut down on crowded area entertainment once again. Here in Scotland we have still to wear masks in indoor areas, like supermarkets, and r rate is not quite as bad as England. Unfotunately covid is not beat yet |
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That's what the Irish government has done without consulting anyone from the entertainment and hospitality sectors, the Irish government went ahead and did it despite being told by both the entertainment and hospitality sectors that it was unworkable. The Irish prime minister said that buying tickets online was for the purposes of contact tracing something that was not mentioned before last Friday, IMO this is less about contact tracing and more about the Irish government wanting to be Big Brother to keep tabs on people and what they are doing and who they are doing it with, they are forcing this last minute restriction on businesses because of rumours that some businesses aren't taking details of customers for contact tracing purposes but that's all they are rumours. #policestate It's typical of the Irish government announce something without planning for it or having a system put in place for it and leave everyone else to figure out how to pick up the pieces caused by the chaos caused by the Irish governments lack of preparedness. Businesses that are just reopening after being repeatedly kept closed by the Irish government over the last 18 months while other sectors of the economy opened up have had yet another obstacle put in their way by the Irish government. It's impossible to win the race if the finish line is always being moved. Several times over the last 12 months businesses in both the entertainment and hospitality sectors have had possible dates for reopening dangled in front of them by the Irish government resulting in those businesses spending tens of thousands of euro buying food and drink and hiring staff only to be told at the last minute that the Irish government wouldn't allow them to reopen. All that time and money wasted on preparing to reopen and time spent on hiring staff only for the Irish government to say no we won't allow you to reopen, these are people's businesses and jobs that the Irish government repeatedly disregarded throughout the pandemic. Both the entertainment and hospitality sectors were the first to close and the very last to reopen because of the Irish government's reluctance to allow both those sectors to reopen. Even though the Irish government has made reopening difficult with very last minute restrictions being imposed on businesses that didn't stop the Irish prime minister from showing up for an ego stroking photo opportunity last Friday it did not go well IMO in one of the pictures linked below it appears that he snatched someone's musical instrument for a photo opportunity and the guy who's instrument he snatched appears to be annoyed it's the second picture. https://mobile.twitter.com/MichealMa...7Ctwgr%5Etweet On the subject of not allowing things to reopen there's the Irish prime minister's refusal to allow Cancer treatment services to resume until the very end of this year something else that he is determined to keep closed as long as possible for whatever reason, several months ago the Irish prime minister was asked when Cancer treatment services would resume he was visibly annoyed by the question and the only thing he would say is that it was inappropriate to ask him questions like that during a pandemic, he clearly thought that Cancer treatment services were of secondary importance and weren't as important as giving himself and friends massive pay rises for doing very little work during the pandemic. Also the Irish government's plan to reward people working in hospitals throughout the pandemic is nothing more than giving them one day off from work, instead they should be paying them for the work they did throughout the pandemic a day off work won't put food on the table or pay rent or pay the bills, they deserve a hell of a lot better than what the Irish government is offering them. We didn't have a clap for the carers like they did in the UK, I do recall there being an eventual change of opinion against the clap for the carers with people saying that it wouldn't put food on the table. People working in the health services regardless of what country they are in deserve better than what they get, politicians may make decisions about the health service and what goes on in hospitals but it's the people working in hospitals that deserve the recognition not some overpaid airhead politician. The Irish government failed to prepare and failed to plan just like always so it's nothing new that the Irish government has managed to make a mess of things as usual like they have done over the last 18 months. For weeks the Irish government knew that October 22nd would be the reopening date and didn't bother to prepare or plan ahead, instead the Irish government chose to do nothing ahead of reopening and on the day that nightclubs finally reopened after being closed for almost 600 days the Irish government announces a new very last minute restriction that nightclubs will have to sell tickets online, something that nightclubs weren't prepared for because the government didn't engage with the entertainment and hospitality sectors ahead of reopening. It's been almost a week since the very last minute restriction that tickets for nightclubs must be bought online and there has still been no clarity from the government on how the online ticket system should be implemented which has naturally led to confusion for businesses. Both the entertainment and hospitality sectors asked the government for a two week grace period before implementing the online ticket system to give businesses in both sectors time to put in place systems to buy tickets online, it was in the news today that the Irish government has refused the request made by both sectors and that the online ticket system must be implemented immediately and will come into force tomorrow night. If the Irish prime minister continues to make stupid decisions like introducing a new restriction at the very last minute that does nothing but make things harder for businesses reopening for the first time in almost 600 days he will annoy a lot of people in both the entertainment and hospitality sectors. Last edited by DragonSlayer; 27-10-21 at 16:39. |
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One of my neighbours has sadly been one of these cancer victims that had no treatment, and died of upper spine cancer this month. He was a very quiet man never telling of his troubles, so it was a bit of a shock to me, from me only knowing he had it by being taken into hospital last month, and then dying. His chances of survival was nil, having had no treatment at all, since the first lockdown. Another friend bites the dust |
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Edit forgot to add one of the people on Gogglebox Ireland said he was talking to someone he knows who is a farmer who won't get the vaccine, the guy who won't get the vaccine was vaccinating his animals against something or other so guy vaccinates his animals but won't get the vaccine himself, if he does get the Coronavirus and ends up dying he'll be thinking I wish I got the vaccine when I could have. Now onto the rest of my post. Cancer treatment services should resume immediately IMO, it's unrealistic of the Irish prime minister to expect to be able to keep them closed until the end of the year especially as 90% of the population have been vaccinated. Almost everything that was closed at the start of the first lockdown in March 2020, retail, nightclubs and so on have reopened full capacity weddings can also resume so why cancer treatment services are being kept closed is a mystery. In the early days of the pandemic the Irish government reportedly spent 16 million euro a month renting private hospitals to deal with people that got the Coronavirus and to keep the pressure off public hospitals and then didn't use them instead letting public hospitals bear the brunt of Coronavirus cases, a field hospital that was built somewhere to deal with patients that got the Coronavirus that was built to take patients from hospitals that were over-run with Coronavirus patients also wasn't used even though public hospitals were under a lot of pressure with the number of patients they had to deal with every day. The Irish government could learn a few things from Japan who in less than a week built a field hospital to deal with Coronavirus patients while here in Ireland it can take a lot longer to build a hospital for example the Children's Hospital planned for Dublin won't be open until 2024 as a result of falling behind schedule for reasons unknown at a cost of 1.4 billion euro and AFAIK construction hasn't started yet it's very likely that it'll go way over budget and will probably end up costing 10 billion euro or more, I wouldn't be surprised if that happens. The Irish government has a tendency to spend money on things no-one needs or wants except the idiot who came up with the idea like a plan to build a white water rafting facility in Dublin for 25 million euro that has not been built yet and it was recently announced on dublinlive.ie that 20 million euro is for some reason to be spent building a bus hub and let's not forget that a former Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern wanted to spend/waste/squander an unknown amount of taxpayers money building a Stadium that he wanted named after himself, he wanted it to be called the Bertie Bowl it was never built. That 25 and 20 million euro would be better spent on the health service and on building houses for people, it could also be spent on completely renovating the possibly tens of thousands of empty houses all over the country for people to live in, the fact that money is being spent/wasted/squandered on things that people don't need shows just how out of touch politicians are building things that are of little use to anyone, a white water rafting facility and a bus hub would be of little use to me. The Irish government has been slow to deal with the pandemic right from the first lockdown and the government's only real strategy to deal with the pandemic has been repeated lockdowns which eventually had a cry wolf effect, the repeated refusal of the current Irish prime minister to say anything about the eventual easing of restrictions going into and throughout most of 2021 after he was burned by his meaningful Christmas plan where he opened up the country 3 weeks before Christmas a decision which led to us being back in lockdown before New Year's Eve, it was his going on radio silence throughout most of 2021 that led to increased resistance to more lockdowns and a significant decrease in support for the government's handling of the pandemic. The narrative the Irish prime minister was going for was that he saved Christmas which spectacularly backfired as outlined above, it was his decision to reopen the country 3 weeks before Christmas that allowed the Delta variant to sweep across the country. If the Irish prime minister continues to annoy people particularly those working in the entertainment and hospitality sectors with very last minute restrictions being imposed on both those sectors which have just reopened after being closed for almost 600 days, he might just get a very painful lesson in what it's like to be cancelled he is very unpopular and despised and there would probably be a queue extending the length of the country of people that would like a piece of him. He has to make decisions but making very last minute restrictions that make things more difficult for businesses that are finally reopening for the first time in almost 600 days is only going to make him even more unpopular than he already is even more so when he refused a request from both the entertainment and hospitality sectors for a two week grace period so that they could put systems in place to sell tickets online for entry to nightclubs he said no and that the online ticket system will come into effect today October 28th. Last edited by DragonSlayer; 28-10-21 at 02:01. |
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