Coronavirus thread - 19/10/2020 - The Day Ireland Died

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Blueshirts love people complying to their rules and taken money from the poor

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That’s outrageous. There is no legal basis to set up those checkpoints. People going to work/school/making deliveries/going to shops are entitled to go about their lawful business without being boxed in by the Gardai.

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They have to be seen this morning as its supposed to piss rain later in the day.

Cant have them out in the rain like.

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This is scandalous.

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As you referred to last night, it should be pretty worrying for society that Drew Harris said openly at a press briefing Gardai don’t need additional powers to enforce COVID-19 regulations at checkpoints because they can use the checkpoints to target people for other stuff.

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I’ve a feeling a lot of OIUTFers might pivot away from ‘its all a cod!’, to ‘the government have made a balls of this’ when icu departments start getting swamped. Instead of saying 'it wasn’t actually a cod I was completely wrong.

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There you go… a staffing and logistics issue is all we have. Over 6 bastard months they’ve had at it and we’re still at day 1.

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The government have made a balls of this. They’ve turned what should have been a cod into a serious national health emergency.

cc @Arthur

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Thanks mate

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That’s an amazing insight. I’m giving it a like

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That is scandalous

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Its a cod, the goverments handling of it is a cod, the hse is a cod, the historical underfunding of the health service by ffg is a cod, wasting 6 months of prep time for winter is a cod. The situation we are in isn’t because of covid more so covid has shown the wood among the trees with the Irish health service. Covid alone doesn’t warrant this level 3 or and level approach. Therefore its a cod

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That’s also scandalous

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Fuck sake :rollseyes:

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That’s why I said.

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Prior to his bizarre appointment Drew ran with torture and murder squads. A bit of overt harassment is neither here nor there.

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There are still loads of civil servants doing nothi…sorry “working from home” who could help at contact tracing.

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The lads who hunted out Commish Callinan are feeling pretty fucking silly right about now you’d have to think.

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We don’t need any additional powers sure we can abuse the ones we have.

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