Coronavirus - Here come the variants

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

If I was in power I’d open the pubs tonight.

I’d also start raffling the vaccines too maybe a 1000 vaccines a day to lift people’s moral a little.

[fistoffury]

Interestingly the comments underneath seem to think that we will just row back on this in July. (Which I assume is why people generally are ok with the measure). They are of course entirely wrong that we will just knock it on the head in July. The risk of variants doesn’t just disappear in July. This measure is absolute lunacy imo.

[Horsebox]

Just walking down Bath avenue here and there’s a few people standing around supping pints and a guard is going around telling them they can’t stand drinking pints they have to walk around with them we’re actually being trolled lads.

[Biff_Egan]

Is the Bath Pub serving again?

[backinatracksuit]

I don’t give a shit about pubs serving takeaway pints, I’m a bit annoyed about Gardai shutting down a load of independent garden centres in Limerick at the start in f this week but leaving the B+Qs and Coop superstore garden sections open, that’s shitty,

And why the fuck is a garden centre not considered essential within the current constraints

[Horsebox]

Yeah for the last week or two I think.

[Massey]

@BruidheanChaorthainn

I’d also start raffling the vaccines too maybe a 1000 vaccines a day

R Kings are actually raffling 25 AZ vaccines tomorrow

[glasagusban]

I more or less stuck to the regulations. It’s a small bit more planning and admin to travel places but it’s still perfectly feasible of necessary and I see no issue with it. On one of my flights I got tested on the fourth day rather than the fifth day as the rules said at the time but honestly who’s counting and who gives a fuck.

[myboyblue]

@BruidheanChaorthainn

If I was in power

A horrifying prospect

[Appendage]

I’m so glad that this is the last weekend I’ll be restricted to the 5km limit. It’s very restrictive in the country side.

[The_Most_Infamous]

I went over to Portugal last October, I did so knowing it’ll be our last trip abroad for awhile.

I’d have no interest this year with the traffic light system, needing a PCR test or a vaccine for the auld passport.

A week in Kerry and another in Donegal will do the finest.

[alf_stewart]

It would be a roller-coaster ride. Record approval ratings after a 25/1 winner in the last in drogheda of a Friday evening followed by record lows after a long losing streak.

[glenshane]

Some sickener for micheal martin missing st Patrick’s day at the Whitehouse and mountbatten’s fumeral

[Tierneevin1979]

I more or less stuck to the regulations

[myboyblue]

I more or less didn’t break the law

More or less

[glenshane]

There’s a few born again hard lads starting to surface over the last few days.
Its fascinating to watch so it is.

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

@BruidheanChaorthainn

If I was in power I’d open the pubs tonight.

I’d also start raffling the vaccines too maybe a 1000 vaccines a day to lift people’s moral a little.

I’d run the raffle on the six one news instead of the bit where they announce the case numbers.

[Heyyoubehindthebushes]

Give out 100,000 tickets numbered 1-1000. Winning tickets are the ones that match the case number gylnner or Holohan pull out their arse. A jab to the 1000 lucky winners.

[johnnysachs]

They’d somehow manage to fuck up the raffle. It’d be like something out of Father Ted.

[maroonandwhite]

@balbec

If this State was an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and not one of the world’s most globally connected economies sharing a free travel area and single market with 26 other nations that have different policies, and with the extra complication of a sensitive open land border with a geopolitical rival, then the debate in Ireland might have been different. As it is, it would be like trying to implement a zero-Covid policy in Wexford while the rest of the nation’s counties went their own way.

Also, our daily infection rate has barely been below 200 cases for seven months. After 3½ months of the current lockdown, they are stuck near 500 and nobody knows how to get them lower. It is now too late for a zero-Covid approach within the orbit of the highly transmissible UK virus variant.

If you point to New Zealand and argue for a “me too” approach in Ireland without taking account of any of the immovable factors above, either you are not arguing in good faith or your head is in a bucket of sand. I would also prefer to wait and see when, and how successfully, New Zealand unwinds its current policy, before making further judgment on it.

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