You can make an appeal on arrival, I donāt know the criteria but the line to people that want to travel for something like a funeral, is that they canāt make the appeal until the arrive. There is no guidance on what way that decision will go. Which is ridiculous and callous. Can you imagine having to come home for a funeral say. What Ireland is currently telling people is that they have to book and pay for the MHQ in advance before they can travel, and they can then make an appeal on arrival, āwe might let you go to the funeral, we might lock you up for two weeks while the funeral is on, you wonāt know until you get hereā. Itās sick.
Also, decisions on appeals are currently being made quickly. Wait til we get to big numbers and there massive delay in decision making.
There were a couple of more pieces on it that came out.
But yeah it was probably a sop by NPHET, they knew by keeping it that the question of no end game for this would be asked louder as more strategic countries were added.
Iām not sure how it could stand up anywhere that you could potentially limit those people coming back via flight quotas. Donnelly and Martin casually saying they arenāt ruling out flight quotas should have been front page news this week, itās appalling.
I donāt know how it has gotten this far. No one has shouted stop. The attitude of most people in Ireland is āthatās the rules, fuck themā. People arenāt angry about this, they seem to be generally supportive. Meanwhile for a weak and unpopular government they can try present this as an example of them making hard decisions and taking tough actions, and people are buying it. There is nothing to force them to turn back. The only hope is the courts.
This whole thing has really made me lose a lot of faith in Ireland as country. This not how a developed and sensible democracy acts. We are an international fool.
The aviation regulator had to publically ask for a plan this week for the industry. There isnāt one and Ryan has barely moved his lips on it. He did have time to go to off on one of his hobby horses on climate change and aviation though, and tell everyone how aviation would be greatly reduced going forward. How can someone with that ideological position be put into overseeing an industry on its knees right now?
I wish you could see the shambles this thing is up close. The contradictions in how it is operated are laughable.
One example: passengers coming from Dubai to Ireland are essentially treated like they are radioactive. A cleaner literally follows them and cleans any bathroom they use, any surface they touch. If they are wheelchair-bound, the person pushing the wheelchair is kitted out like a Chernobyl liquidator.
If however, you fly from Dubai to Dublin to transit onwards, you can proceed up to departures and touch all the surfaces you want while you get dinner and a few pints in Marquette.
Egghead is taking a populist stand and has shown more leadership in the past few weeks than Mehole has all pandemic. Is it completely impossible for Egghead to ever become Taoiseach?
In a Machiavelian way Iām not too anti-MHQ because in a few months time transmissions will still be high and to sensible people the zero-covid idea will have been discredited. The problem is that there are no sensible people left and rather than give up on it, the way forward will be forever more restrictions and even more zero-covid by stealth.
Hard cases make bad law ā¦itās a bit rich a country that has a history of looking to other countries to cater for its unemployed and also proactively attracts FDI now wonāt let anyone escape two week hotel quarantine ā¦
