Churches have started to rebrand as strip clubs in SoCal, as strip clubs have been deemed essential.
So they canāt open but the crescent shopping can load twenty thousand inside
What is socal ?
You have and youāve carried on like a petulant child who doesnāt get his way for the guts of a year
Kerry yadda yadda
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No I havenāt. Iāve made my points. I couldnāt give a fuck if people agree or disagree with them. Thatās their prerogative.
The petulance has come from the other side (especially yourself) who have constantly resorted to name-calling and petty digs
Herr Holohan yadda yadda
Ok mate
Youāve bitched and sniped at every effort to contain the virus
As I said we wonāt know for a long time what the right approach was. I think the adverse effects of lockdowns will outweigh the pros in the long run as do plenty of experts but weāll see. I certainly think the initial lockdown was the right thing to do as Iāve said many times but we were too slow to come out of that in Ireland. I also have lots of issues with many aspects of NPHETāS doings since March but theyāve been stated plenty of times before and Iām not going to rehash them here.
They are using masks to fill shops far more than they did during summer when no masks.
Iāve no idea what science they are operating on in terms of minimum square footage but there does not seem to have been an explosion of cases of shop workers getting it before or after masks.
I was in a couple of restaurants and bars over last few weekends. The bigger places were grand and people were well apart. Smaller places did feel less safe as distance was not as great.
A minimum square footage per person was probably correct way to go but weāve gone for the blunt instrument.
There seems to be no data on where it is spreading so itās finger in the air stuff from NPHET who have taken the view that once people drink alcohol they wonāt behave or maintain social distance.
There is a puritanicalism at play and why expect different from health workers who have a view of alcohol.
I disagree fundamentally with lockdowns
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Iām not sure whoās coming and going from your gaff but thereās just three of us with Brady and Sadie.
There are extenuating circumstances
I was thinking about it there myself today, what the lockdown meant for me. Iām not a particularly social or sociable animal so the isolation side of things havenāt been a big issue for me. I could happily go without ever seeing the inside of a pub again. I can have a drink at home in peace when I want one. I miss having a bite to eat in a restaurant but I wouldnāt lose my shit over that. I had got back into the habit of going to the cinema and I had seen a great run of movies so I miss that. I donāt really have the attention span to watch a movie at home. I love going to gigs and I miss that and going to matches.
On the other hand Iāve got much more interested in the garden and in making things like beer and other things.
All told Iād say the quality of my life is slightly worse due to lockdown but not massively so and I wouldnāt be going on about it.
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Iām after exploring every nook and cranny of the 10k radius. Thereās interesting things all round the place when you go and look.
Found ancient graveyards with names and dates . A load of memorials and monuments youād pass and never look at in normal times.
Theres a monument to soldiers of world wars in the village thatās interesting. One family got wiped out.
Fort Davis was manned during world war 1 and a lot of lads joined the navy as theyād fuck all work
Not far off my own take on itā¦ Swap in nappies for gardening and chai tea for home brew and Iād said itās a like for like of my own stance.
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And a lot of people are in the same boat which is good. You have to balance that though with those people who have lost their jobs or worrying nonstop about their businesses going bust or young people who are having many life experiences taken away from them or older people who are terrified to leave their homes or see their families or people who were not allowed go to loved ones funerals. Itās why the weāre all in it together brigade annoy a lot of people when the reality is lockdowns have meant very different things to different people.
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Christ. Whatās wrong with you?
Itās also really hard for people who are in hospital - lads with terminal cancer diagnosis and cannot see their families is a torture all of its own.
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