Coronavirus ROI/NI number 4

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I don't believe it, would it ever go away!

Considering how many people have returned from London this week for Christmas, far less than in a normal year granted, but I know of quite a few, what are the chances that this new strain is here already? NPHET must be testing their hair out over this.

There are lots of new strains though. I don't think it has been proven yet that this one is worse - it's possible it's just media click baiting.
Hopefully.

It's not worse but it is much more easily spread than the form we have here, 70% more transmissible according to the UK govt.

Still no word from the Executive. What are they playing at?
Everywhere else has met today and made a decision except them. It was always a terrible idea to let people travel all over for Christmas and even worse with this new strain. But people will be getting ready to travel in a couple of days and they need to decide now.

No change to Christmas rules
Can’t believe it. And schools going back at the usual time.

Hospitals already over 100% capacity for the last 5 days and they allow 5 days of Christmas mixing and people to being the new strain over if it’s not here already.

Just because there is no change to to "rules" it doesn't mean people can't use some common sense!

Waiting for the NI executive to make a decision is pointless.

@hopeishere

Just because there is no change to to "rules" it doesn't mean people can't use some common sense!

Waiting for the NI executive to make a decision is pointless.

Exactly- use your common sense or cop on.

I have vulnerable family members that I really wanted to spend Christmas with (possibly last Christmas with one).

Based on the newest info, we're going to do an at home, small christmas here. Have a notion of driving the 70minutes on Christmas morning, just to say hello through the window, and come home again in time for lunch. Not what I want, but, so be it.
Couldn't forgive myself if I passed it along to them.

The Dutch are banning flights from the UK to stop the new strain.

I am using my common sense, it’s other people not using theirs that worries me.

@SilverLiningSearching

The Dutch are banning flights from the UK to stop the new strain.

Very sensible of them.

Yep, the Dutch government are entirely right to ban fights from the UK. We are in a unique position in Europe of being an Island nation, giving us better control over our borders unlike most of Europe which is Landlocked.
But the government won't do it, ignoring scientific advice and by doing so putting many lives at risk which could be prevented.
Pathetic.

Belgium too are banning flights and trains originating in UK.

Our government won't do it !

Remember Cheltenham

I am in UK and know someone from a tier 3 area travelling to Cork to stay with family over Christmas. How many more will be doing the same? Decisive action needs to be taken by the Irish government.

16 flights from London to Dublin today apparently

I’d say it’s over here already, for sure

Looks like the govt might actually do something, but will people just fly into Belfast instead I wonder

God l hope so that the government are considering a Ban from the UK, Donegal has the highest rates in lreland at the moment. But the vile Arlene will continue to metamorphorically suck Johnsons cock for votes.

Ban for flights to be reviewed after 48hrs on RTÉ news website

Yeah, it looks that way, people will fly into Belfast and go down south into Ireland, which thankfully has one of the lowest cases in the EU due to restrictions. It will not change unless Arlene and her pathic attempts are brought into line, there are people being treated in an A+E ambulance carpark due to her. She won't ban fights from the UK. Her reputation as a Unionist matters more to her, than any lifes she could save.
Fuck her.

I assume cargo and mail flights are going ahead. I know someone flying to Belfast from Yorkshire today, so he should be ok. Someone else was expecting his son and Dil to fly from Scotland to visit in Cork. They have been wfh in a small apartment all year. Wfh is ok if you have dedicated work space, not if you have to sleep in your office.

764 cases today, that's a crazy increase in a matter of days

I was expecting things to get worse in January, not this soon. This is very worrying.

Also, I wish politicians would have the desire/will/gumption to agree and implement an all-island approach to the Covid crisis. It's in all our interests.

I was thankfully wrong. The government have banned flights and ferries from UK.
Now all we need is the all Ireland approach.
Arlene are you listening.

IsFuzzy they took an all island approach during the BSE crisis. You would think saving lives would be more important than saving the beef industry.