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.

[Eagle87]

You'll definitely be stopped on your Wexford to Donegal trip at some point.

Canali travels by helicopter so he's grand.

[philipkntz]

Canali travels by helicopter so he's grand.

I've travelled some long distances unquestioned and I've been stopped within my 5k. But anpr cameras are running and taking notes. If your car is making a lot of journeys there's a higher chance that you will be questioned. If you have a regular pattern, you might even find them set up waiting for you, and they know where you have been.

[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

[philipkntz]

I'm no angel myself, I've broken a few rules, but if everyone could just stick to the rules for the same few weeks, this virus could be stopped in its tracks and life could return to normal.
There is a real danger that if this virus isn't contained, some people will catch multiple variants at the same time, which could lead to further evolution of the virus, leading to a super bug.
Do we really want to take that risk?

[TommyH123]

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 !!!

Don't sweat it, the 5k rule is just a smoke show, a joke, I had a legitimate reason for travel this week, cruised from Donegal to Dublin and met one checkpoint on the border and was waved on, then nada for the next 3 hours, I saw a single checkpoint while in the city and my DL car was waved on and that was it.
The hotel was like Fort Knox though, buzzed in and buzzed out, lots of questions but still made a change from sitting at home for ever and the few pints were a bonus.
Life is what you make of it, follow the crazy rules if you want but they are not being enforced and I'd not let them worry you.

[BarryD]

Don't sweat it, the 5k rule is just a smoke show, a joke, I had a legitimate reason for travel this week, cruised from Donegal to Dublin and met one checkpoint on the border and was waved on, then nada for the next 3 hours, I saw a single checkpoint while in the city and my DL car was waved on and that was it.
The hotel was like Fort Knox though, buzzed in and buzzed out, lots of questions but still made a change from sitting at home for ever and the few pints were a bonus.
Life is what you make of it, follow the crazy rules if you want but they are not being enforced and I'd not let them worry you.

Pass on the in-call to the hotel for you so Tommy!

[pegmyass85]

I gave up on the 5km limit months ago. Made no sense that i had to limit my travel when others arriving in the country by plane or ship could go wherever they like. To escape the bordem of everything being closed I go for a drive on my days off. Gets me out out of the house and out from under the misses feet who's working from home. I keep myself to myelf so who am I hurting?

[BarryD]

I gave up on the 5km limit months ago. Made no sense that i had to limit my travel when others arriving in the country by plane or ship could go wherever they like. To escape the bordem of everything being closed I go for a drive on my days off. Gets me out out of the house and out from under the misses feet who's working from home. I keep myself to myelf so who am I hurting?

As far as I am aware the general concept of the km restriction is to limit contacts and the spread of the virus