Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: john m on March 17, 2020, 08:39:58 pm
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Tonight at 9 I’ll speak to you on @RTE and @VirginMedia_One. This is a Patrick’s Day like no other. We cannot stop the virus but we can push it back. We will always put your life and your health first. In future let them say: when things were at their worst, we were at our best
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I've suspected for ages .....Hes Gay . ???....probably ..coming out
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Watch the panic buying tomorrow....people will show their true colours in self preservation!!
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Just a hand holding exercise...
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You know my opinion of him ..Tonight he made me Proud we have him .
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Compare that with Trump or Boris ...
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You know my opinion of him ..Tonight he made me Proud we have him .
I gotta agree John M, just imagine if we still had Enda in charge ?
The one statement fer me that stood out was; "This is the calm before the storm" !
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John I cant believe your being complementary towards Leo,you'd normally give him a doze of poison
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No lockdown though....i was expecting something along those lines.
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If this is what he refers to as the "Calm" then I am dreading the "Storm" !
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Thats the one part of his speech I WOULD NOT have found comforting when he said its the calm before the storm,although I appreciate his honesty.he didnt dress it up,he told it like it is
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No lockdown though....i was expecting something along those lines.
I was expecting the same but ya can't lock everything down, people must eat, go to doctor, chemist, etc.
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Ya like him now ...its an emotional reaction to fear .....in 2 weeks wen the body bags are piling up outside hospitals and the doctors and nurses are pleading for help ......you'll hate him again
The health service in this country was first attacked by dessie o mally and the fat bird mary barney ...and fianna fail and fianna gowl Finnished the job .....
I'll say it again ...get the fuk home an close the door
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If this is what he refers to as the "Calm" then I am dreading the "Storm" !
The storm just appeared....Joan Byrne doin the weather...if i was that bit of shamrock!!
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Hard to believe there are dispatcher companies who would not tell the drivers to fukk off home and stay in doors
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I was disappointed with the speech, calm before the storm = trying to scare us as usual, brexit, terrorists, etc
Then the bit about how its going to be a lot of money to pay back, yeah obviously we know that, we arent thick, why mention that? just mention the part that we are going to have to borrow the money and leave it at that.
Jesus the dour face on him, we are going to be ok, like why couldnt he be a bit more positive, hes supposed to be the Taoiseach.
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Hard to believe there are dispatcher companies who would not tell the drivers to fukk off home and stay in doors
But we need those companies Dalyer and i'm not talking about some bint getting a delivery from Littlewoods,no need for drivers to have contact with customers unlike taxi drivers who could have the virus and in turn spread it with little or no contact tracing for passengers other than app work.
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The likes of those fukkers dont give a bollox about the drivers welfare,all they want is their ton plus a week.if they had any morality about them at all they would stop trading till this thing is over.they are taking full advantage of hard up drivers who just cant afford to stop
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Just wondering who's going to have to pay for all of this....let me guess...........
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We need to keep supply chains open for important supplies,we can't shut down necessary services and keep as many people as possible employed,what we don't need is thousands of taxi drivers driving around spreading the fukin virus....but we should have taken action weeks ago...not letting 3000 Italians travel over would have been a start and cancel all flights and ferries before Cheltenham started...we couldn't rely on the brits to cancel it....none of those things happened so i'll stop bleating on about it.
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"Never will... so few..do nothing for so much...Is that what ..he said...can't find the link..WTF is the Erm when you need him
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We need to keep supply chains open for important supplies,we can't shut down necessary services and keep as many people as possible employed,what we don't need is thousands of taxi drivers driving around spreading the fukin virus....but we should have taken action weeks ago...not letting 3000 Italians travel over would have been a start and cancel all flights and ferries before Cheltenham started...we couldn't rely on the brits to cancel it....none of those things happened so i'll stop bleating on about it.
I was thinking the same but if we had stopped all flights into Ireland, all ferries etc, the virus would still get in, illegal immigrants would get in some way and it would spread that way, especially if we were seen as being this great place where the virus wasnt present.
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We need to keep supply chains open for important supplies,we can't shut down necessary services and keep as many people as possible employed,what we don't need is thousands of taxi drivers driving around spreading the fukin virus....but we should have taken action weeks ago...not letting 3000 Italians travel over would have been a start and cancel all flights and ferries before Cheltenham started...we couldn't rely on the brits to cancel it....none of those things happened so i'll stop bleating on about it.
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"Never will... so few..do nothing for so much...Is that what ..he said...can't find the link..WTF is the Erm when you need him
I might be wrong but i believe that was Winston Churchills speech to the brits.
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We need to keep supply chains open for important supplies,we can't shut down necessary services and keep as many people as possible employed,what we don't need is thousands of taxi drivers driving around spreading the fukin virus....but we should have taken action weeks ago...not letting 3000 Italians travel over would have been a start and cancel all flights and ferries before Cheltenham started...we couldn't rely on the brits to cancel it....none of those things happened so i'll stop bleating on about it.
I was thinking the same but if we had stopped all flights into Ireland, all ferries etc, the virus would still get in, illegal immigrants would get in some way and it would spread that way, especially if we were seen as being this great place where the virus wasnt present.
Of course it would have got here but the chinese to their credit took some draconian measures that slowed it's movement and gave mainland europe and us in particular a better chance but i honestly believe we didn't avail of that opportunity.
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We need to keep supply chains open for important supplies,we can't shut down necessary services and keep as many people as possible employed,what we don't need is thousands of taxi drivers driving around spreading the fukin virus....but we should have taken action weeks ago...not letting 3000 Italians travel over would have been a start and cancel all flights and ferries before Cheltenham started...we couldn't rely on the brits to cancel it....none of those things happened so i'll stop bleating on about it.
I was thinking the same but if we had stopped all flights into Ireland, all ferries etc, the virus would still get in, illegal immigrants would get in some way and it would spread that way, especially if we were seen as being this great place where the virus wasnt present.
Of course it would have got here but the chinese to their credit took some draconian measures that slowed it's movement and gave mainland europe and us in particular a better chance but i honestly believe we didn't avail of that opportunity.
yeah some strange decisions made like the pubs and clubs should have been closed last Friday, also how are we supposed to carry out social distancing?
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Hal your rite in wat you said .....I'm actually very afraid ....I've bein looking at the figures in ireland compared to the rest of the world ....and obviously the figures are distorted for many reasons....the first reason is china ....I dont believe they are
Giving the real figures anymore ....
I mentioned Philippines and hong kong the other day when our country went above them in figures ....ireland is in the early stages .....it has has surpassed the figures in hong kong and the Philippines in a few days ...remember the Philippines has 109 million people and ireland is shooting up the table and surpassed the tested positive figures of 10 other country's....
Why is that ?
Dublin airport ( probably the busiest in Europe after Heathrow)
The rugby and the Italians ( absolutely criminal neglect by veradka a supposed well informed doctor
Ireland and immigrants....not blaming the immigrant but it's the place to work ..10s of thousands travel in and out of Dublin airport every week to italy ,france all over Europe to see ther folks or watever...nobody is flocking to Poland or fuking Romania for work ...
Paddy's day .....10 of thousands flocked here for paddy's day from all over the world ...for alot of them they came here a week or even 2 weeks ago and made it an extended holiday
Our business success ..its Europe's tech centre wit business men/women flying in and out every hour
Temple bar and our pub culture ....an example of a flu powder keg unique to ireland ....
Go over to the continent and go into a pub in germany in most towns in the winter ....ther will be a one armed bandit
A dart board and the town drunk ....
The incubation period...anywhere from 3 days to 14 before symptoms they say ....
And the first tested positive case was 2 weeks ago..tested because he was in italy
Now you put that all together wit the worse health service in Europe ( yes repeating meself like a bitch )
And I believe that ireland is in real deep shit trouble ....
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The majority of the taxi fleet are saloons and therefore social distancing is absolutely impossible plus as we now know the virus can surive on surfaces for a few days,bus and rail unions have said their members won't be taking cash but no such representation on behalf of taxi drivers.....the NTA are a useless shower of fuks anyway...we're just a revenue stream to subsidise loss making Dublin Bus.
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Why is that ?
Because as a nation we're a selfish shower of don't tell us what's good for us cunts,
We didn't make the hard decisions early enough.
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I thought that text today was to tell us to stay at home until further notice. if we were supplied with masks and eye protection there is no reason we cant continue working.
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I thought that text today was to tell us to stay at home until further notice. if we were supplied with masks and eye protection there is no reason we cant continue working.
You need to be washing your hands after everytime you touched a surface,money etc.....to use the term that was used to describe those cruise ships....petrie dishes.
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The Brits say 20000 deaths is a good outcome form this.
If we have roughly a tenth of their population we're gonna have at least 2000 deaths.
My guess is the Irish were deliberately allowing loads to get infected in the early stages just like the brits did to build up some immunity but we didn't say it publicly. This not checking at airports is all calculated. Even the travel advisory warnings were dribbled out.
At first it was north Italy then a few days later it was all of Italy and part of Spain. Then everywhere eventually.Bit by bit, very slow.
The truth is a shit load of old folks are going to get this on their death cert. They're just breaking the news softly so they don't look like they don't care. In reality, they can't stop it, just throttle it so it doesn't overwhelm the HSE.
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Why is that ?
Because as a nation we're a selfish shower of don't tell us what's good for us cunts,
We didn't make the hard decisions early enough.
So in conclusion...its up to the individual to protect himself and his family.....
We are on our own ....
Them cnuts in the dail have bein proving to you for years that they are not capable of getting a ride in a bordello....
Do any of you think theyll protect you now
Lock yourself down ...rte and kildare street are as thick as gick
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Hard to believe there are dispatcher companies who would not tell the drivers to fukk off home and stay in doors
Don't think it's up to the dispatchers to send the driver home. But what I do know, and you'll be happy to hear dm is that Cab companies have started to let base staff go because there getting no freight in. Not to many cab companies out would last long without freight off drivers for longer than a month.
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The Brits say 20000 deaths is a good outcome form this.
If we have roughly a tenth of their population we're gonna have at least 2000 deaths.
My guess is the Irish were deliberately allowing loads to get infected in the early stages just like the brits did to build up some immunity but we didn't say it publicly. This not checking at airports is all calculated. Even the travel advisory warnings were dribbled out.
At first it was north Italy then a few days later it was all of Italy and part of Spain. Then everywhere eventually.Bit by bit, very slow.
The truth is a shit load of old folks are going to get this on their death cert. They're just breaking the news softly so they don't look like they don't care. In reality, they can't stop it, just throttle it so it doesn't overwhelm the HSE.
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A lot of people think this has been here (in Ireland) since the start of the year, would you agree?
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It has to be here at least a month for a death to occur.So it's possible.
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I thought that text today was to tell us to stay at home until further notice. if we were supplied with masks and eye protection there is no reason we cant continue working.
You need to be washing your hands after everytime you touched a surface,money etc.....to use the term that was used to describe those cruise ships....petrie dishes.
I do but im not sure that will stop the spread.
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What country has billions to loan? And our children’s children’s children will be paying it off if we get something
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I thought that text today was to tell us to stay at home until further notice. if we were supplied with masks and eye protection there is no reason we cant continue working.
Wrong
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Why is that ?
Because as a nation we're a selfish shower of don't tell us what's good for us cunts,
We didn't make the hard decisions early enough.
So in conclusion...its up to the individual to protect himself and his family.....
We are on our own ....
Them cnuts in the dail have bein proving to you for years that they are not capable of getting a ride in a bordello....
Do any of you think theyll protect you now
Lock yourself down ...rte and kildare street are as thick as gick
Ill be going to work if I get sick ill go to bed get better or Die .I would prefer to be dead than buried alive .I would bet money if I had any at least 10% of deaths will be recorded as flu but will really be suicide .If this lasts 10 years in Ireland it probably wont reach the 400.000 Syrians who died in the last 10 years a little bit of perspective ,more people will die from Malaria but they are not White so nobody gives a Donald .
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Why is that ?
Because as a nation we're a selfish shower of don't tell us what's good for us cunts,
We didn't make the hard decisions early enough.
So in conclusion...its up to the individual to protect himself and his family.....
We are on our own ....
Them cnuts in the dail have bein proving to you for years that they are not capable of getting a ride in a bordello....
Do any of you think theyll protect you now
Lock yourself down ...rte and kildare street are as thick as gick
Ill be going to work if I get sick ill go to bed get better or Die .I would prefer to be dead than buried alive .I would bet money if I had any at least 10% of deaths will be recorded as flu but will really be suicide .If this lasts 10 years in Ireland it probably wont reach the 400.000 Syrians who died in the last 10 years a little bit of perspective ,more people will die from Malaria but they are not White so nobody gives a Donald .
Yes nobody cares ..3000 kids die every day from malaria....
We can blame geldof and trocaire for that for saving ther parents 30 yers ago and who an charities for supplying medicine and means to populate these unstustainable uninhabitable wastelands where human beings should never have gone
That's another ting you reminded me john....and yurself and predominantly merc has mentioned on numerous occasions....wat happens to all these new drivers ambassadors who have bought new cars wheelies and adopted new lifestyles with loans etc .......are we going to see a repeat of the 08 depression suicide rate of taxi drivers shooting up ???....the financial impact on them is huge but obviously already ther seems to be a better reaction from the
Government this time ....its still going be hard for some ...
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just say you are a taxi driver in a small town. you get the virus, a few weeks later you are ok. would you be in a better position then? you can tell everyone you have already got the virus, so they wont be scared to get in the taxi with you.
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I think a woman in Japan has gotten it twice but that could have been under special circumstances.
My understanding is after contracting it you get an immunity that lasts a few months.Then your body forgets about the virus and you can get it again.Sounds over my pay grade.
200 a week..
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I think they are pretty sure you are immune to it after you get it.
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I thought that text today was to tell us to stay at home until further notice. if we were supplied with masks and eye protection there is no reason we cant continue working.
Was that text a hoax...there was no link in it and i thought Pat Leahy retired circa 2017...i might be wrong though!!
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not sure, it was very amateurish and seemed like a joke.
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Calm before a storm hmmmm its just about a time call Teresa Mannion
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The Brits say 20000 deaths is a good outcome form this.
If we have roughly a tenth of their population we're gonna have at least 2000 deaths.
My guess is the Irish were deliberately allowing loads to get infected in the early stages just like the brits did to build up some immunity but we didn't say it publicly. This not checking at airports is all calculated. Even the travel advisory warnings were dribbled out.
At first it was north Italy then a few days later it was all of Italy and part of Spain. Then everywhere eventually.Bit by bit, very slow.
The truth is a shit load of old folks are going to get this on their death cert. They're just breaking the news softly so they don't look like they don't care. In reality, they can't stop it, just throttle it so it doesn't overwhelm the HSE.
Merc, if it's the same Brit medic I heard, you'll also note he said that they experience 8000 deaths from Flu annually. Something tells me he slipped that in to get people to wake up and use their heads. He'll be found in his car with a pipe in from the back.....he might have just snapped people out of hysteria.
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I just saw the medical correspondent on Sky News standing in front of a load of facts and figures and graphs.20000 dead was an eye opener.
There's another microbiologist bloke on Sky on the studio everyday and he seems fairly relaxed and thinks we can't do very much about.
They'll probably get rid of him for scaring the public.Wont be long before Sky news are putting the death toll on the weather map the way this is going.
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Add a few on when the looting etc starts.....another couple of million perhaps?
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They'll probably just ask the looters to maintain two meters distance between each other.
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I just saw the medical correspondent on Sky News standing in front of a load of facts and figures and graphs.20000 dead was an eye opener.
There's another microbiologist bloke on Sky on the studio everyday and he seems fairly relaxed and thinks we can't do very much about.
They'll probably get rid of him for scaring the public.Wont be long before Sky news are putting the death toll on the weather map the way this is going.
Of course they will post the scores as the Football is over .Daily Mirror will print a number on page 3 and if it matches the death rate at Noon you win a Beach Holiday to Skegness .The truth is there is no truth nobody knows where this is going .I hope Im right and its Biological Warfare launched by China to destroy the Imperial child murdering Americans and their Lust for Money .If im right they have an antidote and it will be released when the Evil Empire Falls still think CIA dark opps will take Trump out if it looks like he might get re elected .
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They'll probably just ask the looters to maintain two meters distance between each other.
Is it 2 metres now? Fuck me, it'll soon be a kilometre.
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They'll probably just ask the looters to maintain two meters distance between each other.
Is it 2 metres now? Fuck me, it'll soon be a kilometre.
Will you be digging a Moat around the Hut ?
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No need, John.........I'm on price-work at the mo and I'm too expensive for most Shrinks...see you on Strictly Come Dieting next yr...
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Has Kay Burley from Sky doorstepped any grieving family yet?
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Is Kay back on Sky....think I'm getting the horrin
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Didn't know she was gone.....but she was always on the scene when there was a deepening crisis!!
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Hard to believe there are dispatcher companies who would not tell the drivers to fukk off home and stay in doors
Pensions must be paid.
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Fair play to Leo... it was a good address. I'm not a FG supporter or a lover of poofs but credit where credit is due, he does inspire confidence.
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If only he were a Doctor...I'm sure he'd save us all.
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Who do ye reckon wears wears the cape in that relationship?
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More of a smock.
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More of a smock.
H.M.S. Pinafore.