The household visiting ban does not include plumbers, electricians, builders, upholsterer and painters
This morning.
Tradespeople can continue to work in people’s homes despite the household visiting ban…
Via RTÉ:
Minister for Further and Higher Education Simon Harris said plumbers, electricians, builders, upholsterers, painters should take precautions when entering homes for work.
He also said business owners should show leadership and facilitate their employees working from home in a bid to stop the transmission of Covid-19.
Minister Harris said “we were very good at working from home” [at the start of the pandemic], but said he has noticed a lot more traffic on the roads recently.”
Sorry, Si.
Household ban does not apply to tradespeople (RTÉ)
can Harris ensure that Government Departments aren’t making their employees come in unnecessarily? Maybe even a word in the ear of his fellow Ministers to ensure compliance. Lots of rumblings online about the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Passport Office (amongst others) demanding staff come in to do jobs that could be done from home and doing sweet f-all to protect those staff members when they do come in.
you say “does include” in the caption
yet another example of broadsheet misinformation?
Thanks, Strunk & White, fixed now.
So trades people can come to your house.
You can get takeaway food delivered to your house.
But the kids can’t go trick or treating.
Someone explain that to me
essential services v unnecessary frivolity ?
Yeah, its not that hard is it? It is about reducing contacts not eliminating them to zero which is impossible.
pizza delivered to your door is an essential service?
and let’s not even mention that the delivery driver is hanging out with 10 other delivery drivers while waiting on your food and is then going home to (probably) a house share with another 10 individuals.
that makes no sense and is the very opposite of ‘reducing contacts’.
food would come under the category of ‘essential’, yes
plus lots of people doing deliveries to make ends meet on top of people for whom it’s their regular income
have a think about how it gets delivered and how much contact that person is having with others.
and we can only hope the required level of precaution is being taken
You’d be surprised at the numbers of people who can’t cook…
Or….
Having spent the day trying to work from home with kids running around your feet, and are maybe too tired to cook and need a break….
old, infirm, unwell… so many reasons why food delivery might be essential
not all about a teen on an all-day videogame binge calling out for a pizza
Holy divine!! the old and infirm & unwell are the very last people that should be allowing takeaway food be delivered to their doors!!
it’s a pizza, frank – not a cannister of sarin gas
@clampers I think delivery drivers are pretty obvious vectors of Covid but cod yourself all you want.
I think it’s transmitted through contact Brother…. which is the whole point of this, is it not??? cut down your contacts
cut down your contacts as much as possible, Frank
so cut out stuff that doesnt need to happen – like feral mobs of snotty-nosed kids descending on your doorstep, shoving their grubby, unwashed hands into your face – and proceed with caution with stuff that you really need (like food)
There is no difference in risk nor importance between a food delivery and your regular post. The former is definitely tastier though.
+ don’t lick the bag,
+ put it on a plate,
+ wash your hands,
don’t answer the door then Brother!
@Redundant Proofreaders Society that’s nonsense. You take the food off the delivery guy and probably a cash or card transaction. Before the delivery guy took the food it passed through how many hands in the takeaway. Then the delivery guy has the chats with his mates. It’s a very different transaction than that of the postman. Unless of course you’re riding the postman.
that only happened ONCE
@janet the point is why are kids trick or treating being cast as ‘deadly vectors’ while you can get your fatty takeaway delivered? there is no difference.
I usually throw the sweets in a gushy style arc and watch the survival of the fittest in action from a safe distance anyway
@frank, did somebody say Just Eat?
(dirty chuckle).
My regular wine delivery appeared throughout the initial lockdown and I expect no different this time.
And I’ll fight any person to the death who says fine wines from our Gallic cousins are not essential.
Ruddy hell, I’ve just defended the French !
Nurse !
lidl delivers?
now that was funny
Would you like the explanation in Cunieform or Hieorglyph?
Are you still struggling with the idea that ancient Egyptians tried to cure corona viruses 3500 years ago Dad?
Ancient Egyptian healthcare wasn’t all it was cracked up to be :D
the point Dad won’t accept is that a cure for corona viruses (the cold) has been searched for over 3500 years. It can’t be found.
It won’t be found.
Talk of a vaccine for corona virus is nonsense.
That’s right, son.
Hey, tell us again about how you had Covid. Love that story.
there’s a very fulsome account here dad: https://www.broadsheet.ie/2020/10/15/u-turn-please/
Full of something alright, son.
what are you struggling with now dad?
Mime please Bob.
Did anyone think
Like back last February / March
That it would come to this nonsense?
Asking for a friend
what????
something you’re not claiming you predicted a year ago?!?!?
What nonsense? Allowing tradespeople to continue to provide essential services while asking people not to have social visitors now that we have passed the original peak?
We were asked not to have visitors to our homes in March so yes in March I would fully expect that restriction to return during a second wave.
The still humming n’ hawing about lockdowns
Masks
Testing
Green lists
Hospitals still not able for a surge
Golfgate
That sorta stuff
Seriously did anyone think – say last Easter, that they’d all still be making it up as they go along in October
And eff off you Brother
; )
I’d have been surprised if they had got their P** together
We have hospital overcrowding every year so yes that is expected.
There’s no nonsense with masks except for a few idiots protesting.
The whole country is level 3 so travel abroad shouldn’t be happening right now but we are signing up the new EU wide system for travel which has just been agreed.
There are challenges with testing but we aren’t doing too badly there compared with some others. The UK was asking us to bail them out recently.
You say “making up as they go along” but it is responding to a constantly changing situation.
I will grant you one thing: I certainly didn’t predict that a golf dinner in August would be happening in October.
ah hang on now
No, I’m not letting you have your own way on this
The HSE got a 3 bill top up this year to increase capacity to manage the additional intake, yet still can’t manage, despite everyone staying away, and cancelling everything from Screening to Electives. Plus the Private Hospital Beds Plus Citywest
WHO have all but reversed their position on Masks, and our crowd hang off their every word. I’ll throw in Luke O’Neill who is being treated like a sleb in the media here, but not for the dramatic jump in his own personal wealth since March, oh no
They spun that much PR out of all the Testing Centres set up around the Country, from Croke Park to De Pairc, and none of them were nor are at any level of capacity
Same for recruiting Staff
As for Air Travel, there was more resources put into sending Social Welfare out to the Airports than put into quarantine/ tracking of arrivals or even testing arrivals. Which remains the case
They made a hames of the Leaving Cert, and reopening schools & colleges – and we’re still not done with that.
They savaged PUP, and awarded themselves a pay bump
Yet entire business sectors have been wiped out and will never return to any sensible arrangement
This includes farming / food & agri btw so its not just wet pubs and dance halls
And still no programme or strategy for how we are going to live and work with this virus amongst us until there is a vaccine
The current prediction for the Exchequer is a 23.4 billion swing by YE 2020
and we’ve got 16 extra ICU beds and 64 special advisors to show for it
‘ara go way out that
and all that’s before I mention the B word
“Barnabas”?
we will have none of that common sense around here V
the X ited one
not the X rated one (he thinks anyway)
So, this is part of Harris’ ministry? Maybe he might concentrate of his 3rd level one.
Maybe check if students in university accommodation who have contracted Covid are being asked to keep it ‘under their hat’ by the university?
Do you want him to refuse to answer questions from the media? I don’t think people would be happy with that.
PS the links in the post are backwards
Maybe the media should direct their questions about Covid-19 rules/regulations to Donnelly, and questions about 3rd level education to Harris. I don’t see Donnelly being asked about 3rd level education
It’s nice to know we can still have people using the tradesman’s entrance if they want!
Oh! er! missus!
Well you’ve been talking out of yours for months
Phew, Lady Charger will be relieved.
Our Slovakian gardener is due in this weekend to trim her privet hedge before the winter.
only attends once a week?
Good man Walter. Isn’t she lucky to have an active partner in such a DIY guy as yourself. Those window pots need tending regularly.
your missis has an overgrown bush, then?
Given that she’s imaginary, she can have anything she wants, except satisfaction.
There was a mention of biscuits?????…..
Has anyone any experience with the current checkpoints – is there any legal basis for Garda to make you turn around and what are they generally making people do
Genuine question for someone planning on visiting family in another county
yup, no bother, just smile and say you are shopping for an auld one
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/tds-given-severe-rebuke-over-failing-to-comply-with-covid-rules-39628533.html – enough said