Coronavirus Thread - Pause before - The Final Battle (Part 1)

[PhattPike]

@Tim_Riggins

@tazdedub

Seems to be a lot of attacks on NPHET today, are people starting to turn against them?

The Christmas travel thing is turning people already as I suspected it would. Everyone knows someone who wants to come home from abroad.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/family-comes-first-galway-locals-divided-on-festive-travel-1.4409983

“If Konor could not come home for Christmas I would be devastated. In a few years, my siblings and I will have our own families and be doing our own thing on Christmas Day, so these are the last years we will have as siblings all together,” says his sister, Danielle.

Konor with a “K” if you don’t mind. He can stay in Glasgow.

[Tim_Riggins]

We’re back to people drinking outdoors and travel again, it’s like July again.

Seán Defoe (SeanDefoe)

[Lazarus]

You really wonder somethimes do these people live in the real world?

Speaking on RTÉ Radio One, public health expert Dr Gabriel Scally said he did not believe Christmas travel would be “worth the trouble if people play it properly and isolate properly for two weeks in advance…that’s not much of a Christmas.

“So I really don’t think travel should be on the agenda this Christmas and I hope people stick to that because we know this virus travels very well, and having people flowing in and out of countries and through airports and all the other travel that it involves is a recipe for disaster,” Dr Scally added.

Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan has also urged those living overseas not to travel home for Christmas, ruling it out even on compassionate grounds, while Tánaiste Leo Varadkar advised people not to book flights “at the moment” due to the pandemic-driven uncertainty.

[Lazarus]

Also they expect people coming home for 2 weeks at Christmas to self isolate for 2 weeks at Christmas.

If you didn’t laugh you’d cry

[carryharry]

Public buyin is at zero?

[carryharry]

Eh Cheltenham

[Horsebox]

Ruling it out even on compassionate grounds

[Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy]

If I was living away I would just focus on work on a few other bits and pieces over Christmas and return home in Feb/March when things ease off again.

[tazdedub]

@Lazarus

Also they expect people coming home for 2 weeks at Christmas to self isolate for 2 weeks at Christmas.

If you didn’t laugh you’d cry

As if anyone will do that.

[Lazarus]

If I was living away, I’d want to come home and see my folks, there might not be a next year, theres a killer virus on the loose

[Bisto]

@Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy

If I was living away I would just focus on work on a few other bits and pieces over Christmas and return home in Feb/March when things ease off again.

Not everyone is as resilient as you pal…Hard times don’t last, but hard guys do…

[glasagusban]

Haven’t you already stated that you don’t really enjoy or value Christmas the way most people do?

[Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy]

Yes.

[Biff_Egan]

You just know that Konor has siblings called Kai, Kaden, Kayleigh and Katrina

[tazdedub]

@Biff_Egan

You just know that Konor has siblings called Kai, Kaden, Kayleigh and Katrina

And they are all Kunts with a K.

[Tim_Riggins]

@Lazarus

Also they expect people coming home for 2 weeks at Christmas to self isolate for 2 weeks at Christmas.

If you didn’t laugh you’d cry

If they really wanted to scare people, they should just say there will be mandatory testing at random at the airport.

If you want to avoid a positive test, keep your head down for the couple of weeks leading up to travel.

And if you want to granny, maybe avoid the pre Christmas drinks with the lads and wait until the 26th.

[starryplough]

Gavan Reilly (gavreilly)

[glasagusban]

You’re not really qualified to comment in that case.

[Tank]

I must head to the offie

[Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy]

@glasagusban

You’re not really qualified to comment in that case.

As qualified as anyone else.

I don’t need society to tell me I can only celebrate and enjoy my friends and family for a one week holiday window in the year.