Covid-19 .. 5 km travel limit

[CANALI]

Just throwing this out there but in my 'humble' opinion (imagine CANALI being humble... I fall on my sword!!!) ... Anyway .. back to topic .. the 5km restriction is being totally ignored in rural Ireland .. you can go where you like, when you like ... if the reg plate on your car matches the county you are in you'll just be waved through at Garda checkpoints ... you can travel from Wexford to Donegal to visit your 100 year old grandmother and the Gardai will just wave you on ... the whole 5k 'thing' is a joke .... don't know what relevance this thread has on an Escorting Website ... but when I heard Leo tonight talking about extending the 5k rule ... I'm just thinking the 5k rule doesn't exist anyway !!!

[AmbiValent]

You'll definitely be stopped on your Wexford to Donegal trip at some point. I had reason to do a similar journey twice in the last couple of weeks and was stopped three times (and waved on - the Gardai agreed I had a valid reason).

I agree that the fixation with the 5k rule is a joke. Is the virus ready to pounce on you if you stray 5.1k from your house? Is a person driving a few hundred km on his/her own to speak to one other person and then back home again really causing more of an issue than someone staying within their 5k limit but talking to a dozen people?
And that's not even including the fact that the 5k limit hems in a lot of people in high density areas and fines them for leaving them. Is a 5k circle in central Dublin really the same as one in Connemara?

If you keep in mind what a virus is and how it is spread (i.e. person to person with risk multiplying according to how many people you meet) then it's relatively straightforward to do risk mitigation.

Focusing on guidelines which can have quite shaky logic to them and elevating them to some sort of golden rule that must always be obeyed is simply a flawed approach. Start with the science.

[Noregrets]

Just throwing this out there but in my 'humble' opinion (imagine CANALI being humble... I fall on my sword!!!) ... Anyway .. back to topic .. the 5km restriction is being totally ignored in rural Ireland .. you can go where you like, when you like ... if the reg plate on your car matches the county you are in you'll just be waved through at Garda checkpoints ... you can travel from Wexford to Donegal to visit your 100 year old grandmother and the Gardai will just wave you on ... the whole 5k 'thing' is a joke .... don't know what relevance this thread has on an Escorting Website ... but when I heard Leo tonight talking about extending the 5k rule ... I'm just thinking the 5k rule doesn't exist anyway !!!

been up and down to wexford from Dublin countless times and never stopped, been stopped in dublin multiple times but virtually always waved through and if not, just shopping for my mum and away you go

its the meeting multiple people is a far bigger issue

[CANALI]

Back to the 5k rule ... I can only refer to the South East ... but weather permitting there will be hundreds of people in Courtown, Curracloe, Kilmuckridge and Rosslare this weekend ALL living outside the 5k limit ... (the Dub accents are acutely obvious,... a major take on 5k ??) .... but I have to confess my own guilt .. I travel 13k every morning to Curracloe Beach to walk my dogs .. (meeting no one I should add) ...and not a blue uniform in sight ...

[TheFalcon]

There is definitely an element of control and the government taking pleasure in keeping us under the thumb in all of this,

not saying there should be no restrictions but this travel limit from the word go has been more about control than anything else,

most Irish are happy to accept it, not sure about younger folks, but law abiding 30 + ages groups from Ireland were all brought up in the " do as your told culture" and therefore they enjoy rules and regulations and like being told what to do,

Yes I agree though- thankfully it is not being applied too seriously, I had reason to drive through five different counties a round trip of 7 hours yesterday and was not stopped at any point,

[DiamondJim]

Science ?
Mmmm
A security guard in Perth Australia was “ DELIVERING “
Medicine in a Quarantine hotel with a yet diagonised UK
Variant and the whole country went into lockdown for 5 days .
How did he “ deliver “ that medicine
Meanwhile in Ireland we had 8,000 cases a day at that time .

Bolix


Too little too late/ damage control

What is a case? The word case is being used to describe someone who seriously ill when a case is just a positive test - tests which are being taken largely among healthy people because of an increased effort by the government to get people to take the test. Why do people find it so hard to make the simple co-relation that the more people you test the more cases you have.

A case means nothing.

[Barney Rubble]

What is a case? The word case is being used to describe someone who seriously ill when a case is just a positive test - tests which are being taken largely among healthy people because of an increased effort by the government to get people to take the test. Why do people find it so hard to make the simple co-relation that the more people you test the more cases you have.

A case means nothing.

And a head case means nothing....

[TheFalcon]

lol

some message came through to me there "stop having massages"

believe it or not I did not stop for a massage on my trip- thou I was tempted!!

Im over three months now without massage, so enjoying the challenge-how long can I go cold turkey,

not sure if Ill make it to four months though

[DiamondJim]

And a head case means nothing....

A head case would be someone who believes that there is a virus that is dangerous to the majority of the population even though after 12 months of empirical evidence we know that at least 99% of people infected will recover and that average age of death from covid is greater than the average age of death which tells us that covid is not impacting the lifespan of the overall population.

That would be a head case.

[new67]

It’s actually really sad that we live in a island
That Irish fellas are Living in fear ,
Question breaking a 5km lockdown rule ?

That they actually don’t have the balls to question
Anything?

But Eire go breah and all that

Thats a very good point,