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

[Batigol]

Like the pub in the video?

[EstebanSexface]

an IRISH version yes. Not as many blondes like

[Heyyoubehindthebushes]

Jesus I feel awful for that lad Tom from Dublin whos worried about loneliness with another lockdown. So many like him

[Lazarus]

@EstebanSexface

I’ve never run a pub or restaurant (worked in both years ago)

Where did it all go wrong bro?

[EstebanSexface]

someone bought me a laptop. It spiraled from there

[Lazarus]

@EstebanSexface

in my mind it is worse for many of these establishments to be open in the current restrictions, financially speaking. They have to stay open with limited customers etc while paying for staff, rates, bills, stock etc.

if the government closed it down then a lot of that cost is offset to supports from the government.
Either way they’re fucked while the pandemic is ongoing. But some of them might be better off getting supports.

Many if not most open have no choice as getting squeezed by landlord. EWSS helps re staff and theres a holiday re rates. The rest of your post is fairly spot on, it’s actually a bad look , they will all be closed by midnight Sunday

[EstebanSexface]

based on what I saw in the pubs I worked in they basically operated at a loss Monday - Thursday, made small profits on the weekend to cover the week and really depended on the bonanza nights of big matches, local events etc and this was one of the more popular spots in a small town.

[TreatyStones]

It’s all very demoralising.
The fabric of the country is being destroyed.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Tim_Riggins

I’ve noticed this week that there’s been a return to pointing out surface tops are a risk.

Tbh I think it is something that we can got laxer at. There was a big focus early on it but then there was a suggestion that it wasn’t as big a deal and a big focus on contacts.

I think you’ll find that Luke O’Neill was downplaying the risk of surface transmission a fortnight ago.

[Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy]

@Tim_Riggins

I’ve noticed this week that there’s been a return to pointing out surface tops are a risk.

Tbh I think it is something that we can got laxer at. There was a big focus early on it but then there was a suggestion that it wasn’t as big a deal and a big focus on contacts.

We really have to take science for the clarity on this.

[TheUlteriorMotive]

I’m getting my antibody test at 11am tomorrow.

I may be The Cure. If I am it will be Just Like Heaven.

[Lazarus]

No Christmas will kill a lot of pubs esp out the country. Never worked in retail but I’d imagine that its even worse there

[EstebanSexface]

Retail have the option if going online and selling back stock or clear out sales. .

You cant get a pint of plain online or sell it off chape

[Bandage]

I see Philip Nolan has publicly gone after Jack Lambert on twitter in response to the latter’s Irish Times opinion piece today.

A multi-tweet thread in the guise of Tony Connelly’s inadvertently funny 38-part tweets on some Brexit negotiation technicality.

[Lazarus]

Anyone trying for one last hurrah and get serious browning points with their life partners(or if you’re just feeling horny) ahead of an impending lockdown book into a local hotel tomorrow night. Any that are still open are doing deals with this in mind. Your last chance for a while fuck knows how long exactly

[Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy]

Nolan is getting a severe beatdown in it.

[iron_mike]

Then just before dawn at the breaking of the sky
The stranger returned and said
Now I must fly

[Heyyoubehindthebushes]

Hes twitter bio says he’s a cunt on a bike. Enough said

[cluaindiuic]

That honestly reads like parody site!

[Julio_Geordio]

Luke O’Neill told me via Pat Kenny the other week that surfaces weren’t a risk at all and you basically couldn’t catch it that way. It was airborne