Had to cancel guests booked on guided tour today who just arrived from the US and didn’t think 14 days self isolation was ‘mandatory’. I know we are in tourism but I’m just not willing to risk it for staff and other guests. These people are in the country and socialising
— E-Whizz (@e_whizz) July 12, 2020
Nope.
Meanwhile…
US Tourists To Be Quarantined In Carrolls Gift Shop For 2 Weeks https://t.co/bQtI8jZHT5
— WWN (@WhispersNewsLTD) July 13, 2020
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Fair play to this guy.
Why the hell are we letting Americans in? It’s this kind of blasé that has left them reeling. Tourism at all costs apparently.
…err…I think it’s a she/her*
*Am I a terf?
Sorry, meant it in a non-gendered them sense.
…hah…no problem…don’t even know what a tref is…
Looks like the FFG owned Gimp Min for Transport Eamon Ryan, as there is not a word from him, is happy to carry out his FFG bosses instructions to allow in all visitors from the most Covid 19 infected countries to create a deadly surge here resulting in deaths. But hey!, being a Green he will be happy to be rewarded with bicycle lanes in exchange…
Minister for Transport and Health, is it?
Oh Lord. It’s Waterford Whispers, david.
So – the information for US visitors – is it given to them before leaving the US, en-route from the US, or upon arrival at Shannon/Dublin?
Or is it given to them at all?
Or why would they come at all if they knew there’s a 2-week self-isolation period here (which would use up their holidays) and probably a similar self-isolation period upon their return to the US?
Exactly. Has anyone known any American tourist to ever spend more than 2 weeks here? And do you think Americans are flying all the way across the Atlantic to spend 2 weeks in an Irish hotel?
There should be a blanket ban on USA visitors right now. Their president has wrecked their response to a Pandemic, and risked the lives of millions with anti-Science idiocy. No thanks, back you go now and flatten the curve.
we should get youngflehs off the scratch by employing them to kick american tourists in their fat arses all the way back to dublin airport. we’ll give them a proper, official boot and everything so they won’t be mistaken for scobies.
tellin yis, sooner i’m taoiseach the better we’ll all be.
No need to be a scum bag
Yes there is Mary, don’t be so repressed. Go into your local shop and nick a mars bar, then get back to me.
It seems like everyone is in agreement (for once) that a 2 week quarantine should be enforced for visitors from high covid areas, such as USA. So why is the government not following this up? It has been rolled out very effectively in other countries like NZ & Iceland, so why not just copy their models? It seems like they’re so afraid of missing out on those US dollars they’re willing to chance a second wave. Or is it that the new government are all so distracted by their shiny new jobs, that they’ve taken the eye off the ball?
Yes, clearly their hesitation so far is a sign that they value US tourist dollars more than the safety of our own people with health conditions and old people. Good to know where we stand.
Its glaringly obvious that all the Irish government’s travel advice is not based on public health concerns but on maximising revenues in the remaining tiurist season.
Advise/ Tell all Irish to holiday at home while welcoming all outsiders in to spend spend spend!!!
No one with even a ounce of cop on or common sense in America is leaving their homes, never mind getting on a plane and going Ireland,they going to be free, free spread their germs.
Its truly only the dumbest.most stupid,idiotic,reckless yanks going.
I was fascinated by New York and America so I’d ask my grandad how come he stayed home, his brother moved Boston ?
He would patiently explain that his dad had lined up all the kids and sent the most stupid,loser to America as anyone could make to there-they coming home now….
So Irish people should stay home and not travel abroad but the government allows people to travel to Ireland from a country where covid is almost completely out of control. The classic Irish solution to an Irish problem.