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Title: Would you carry suspect covid passengers?
Post by: taxi1990 on March 29, 2021, 01:53:17 pm
would you or have you carried these passengers to get tested?

if you have, how did it go? did you end up catching covid from them?
Title: Re: Would you carry suspect covid passengers?
Post by: silverbullet on March 29, 2021, 01:55:55 pm
would you or have you carried these passengers to get tested?

if you have, how did it go? did you end up catching covid from them?
If I HAD to work then the answer would be NO.

I've no intention of becoming a plague Rat.



Title: Re: Would you carry suspect covid passengers?
Post by: mercenary for hire on March 29, 2021, 01:58:33 pm
Hse are already advising people who need to go to the isolation centers in Citywest to take a taxi instead of using the bus.They've been doing that since last year.
Title: Re: Would you carry suspect covid passengers?
Post by: Jack Meoff on March 29, 2021, 02:03:42 pm
Done a few
Title: Re: Would you carry suspect covid passengers?
Post by: taxi1990 on March 29, 2021, 02:07:08 pm
Done a few



any tips for carrying them?
Title: Re: Would you carry suspect covid passengers?
Post by: silverbullet on March 29, 2021, 02:11:23 pm
If you could turn back the clock:

https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/family-tallaght-taxi-man-michael-17999355 (https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/family-tallaght-taxi-man-michael-17999355)
Title: Re: Would you carry suspect covid passengers?
Post by: Bob Shillin on March 29, 2021, 02:48:57 pm
Done a few



any tips for carrying them?
Assume that everyone who gets into your car has it, mask up, you and them, put them in the back.Open diagonal windows, and fit a screen if you think that will keep you safer. Oh, and have a contact tracing app on all your phones.
Title: Re: Would you carry suspect covid passengers?
Post by: john m on March 29, 2021, 03:04:14 pm
Done a few



any tips for carrying them?
Assume that everyone who gets into your car has it, mask up, you and them, put them in the back.Open diagonal windows, and fit a screen if you think that will keep you safer. Oh, and have a contact tracing app on all your phones.


Tracking app me bollox I had it logged in every day to update it but from December 24 till the 29th it was not updated as there was no staff available .So this thing is so important in stopping the fever the staff took the Crimbo off .Doc says its  all a load of bollox.
Title: Re: Would you carry suspect covid passengers?
Post by: Dr. Martin Gooter Bling on March 29, 2021, 03:46:49 pm
It's all a loada bollocks.
Irish Expat DESTROYS Lockdown Policy In Ireland - Newstalk FINALLY Agrees (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEfIJXb9_VE&t=0m0s#)
Title: Re: Would you carry suspect covid passengers?
Post by: watty on March 29, 2021, 05:51:35 pm
There's loads of asymptomatic people floating around so you can't tell if thy're diseased just by looking at them.  Also, kids were called superspreaders at the beginning of all this but now that the Govt wants them back in school, they'll apparently not infectious?  They're blaming the spread in schools on the mothers at the school gates!

As already said, just assume everyone is infected and behave accordingly.
Title: Re: Would you carry suspect covid passengers?
Post by: Cool Boola on March 29, 2021, 07:15:51 pm
SAY NUTTIN TO NOBODY!
Title: Re: Would you carry suspect covid passengers?
Post by: Cool Boola on March 29, 2021, 07:19:44 pm
Big   rofl rofl rofl
Title: Re: Would you carry suspect covid passengers?
Post by: Rat Catcher on March 29, 2021, 07:21:30 pm
How many taximen/drivers have died from COVID '19 so far?
Title: Re: Would you carry suspect covid passengers?
Post by: Cool Boola on March 29, 2021, 07:22:54 pm
Maybe 9
Title: Re: Would you carry suspect covid passengers?
Post by: Jack Meoff on March 29, 2021, 09:29:41 pm
Done a few



any tips for carrying them?

Dropped a few to the drive in test centres.
They got the test done in the back of my car.
Also a good few to the private test centres.
Title: Re: Would you carry suspect covid passengers?
Post by: vandriver on March 29, 2021, 11:43:35 pm
I've done loads to and from Randox at the airport,St Vincent's,Clonskeagh Hospital and City West.
I take the same precautions as with every other passenger:in the back,mask on,my mask on,screen installed,windows open.
That's 10 months now and thousands of passengers.
Title: Re: Would you carry suspect covid passengers?
Post by: Jack Meoff on March 30, 2021, 12:07:51 am
Have the screen
Wear a mask
Car cleaned down after passenger.
Dettol and wipes with gloves.
Wash yer hands/ hand sanitizer 
Title: Re: Would you carry suspect covid passengers?
Post by: Punter on March 30, 2021, 10:03:19 am
Are HSE paying a Premium for service ?

Reckon with a Life Insurance Policy/Permanent Health Policy might be in stum with the T&C s as engaging in work that contains a specific risk to health/life. 
Title: Re: Would you carry suspect covid passengers?
Post by: mercenary for hire on March 30, 2021, 10:21:43 am
If yer going to work you have a good chance of picking it up from anyone.If yer already on the road then you're only pretending to give a bollox.
Title: Re: Would you carry suspect covid passengers?
Post by: john m on March 30, 2021, 10:33:47 am
Are HSE paying a Premium for service ?

Reckon with a Life Insurance Policy/Permanent Health Policy might be in stum with the T&C s as engaging in work that contains a specific risk to health/life.


Good call Punter T&Cs   .Had a medical procedure years ago claimed on insurance to pay Mortgage as I was hospitalised .Insurance refused to pay up as they said what I was suffering from was genetic I inherited it so when I filled out the original application for insurance I said I was in Good health ,this was deemed to be a false declaration .Im returning next week when my taxi insurance clicks back in as I opted out last month .I wont be fitting Screen Found them claustrophobic and restrictive as I need to set my seat forward to facilitate entry for passengers .If I really believed that I needed a screen ,Gloves,Dissinfectant ,windows open .I dont think i would return .Havent heard of to many Girls on minimum wage working in shops getting it .Most of the people crying about catching Covid in Work are Civil Servants ar state Workers who get paid if they work or Not .Im thinking Priority for Certain workers is only to make them feel special or more worthy than others ,like Doctors ,Nurses .I see Pharmacists invaded a vaccine center in Cork looking for the Jab more of a PR stunt as I havent heard the Pharmacists union complaining or calling their members out on strike bit like the Teachers all mouth about Covid spreading in schools while they were getting paid to work from home .They are back now and not a word from their Unions about sick teachers .I wont be going out looking to catch it but I also wont be going out in a mobile prison cell to try earn a coin .I will wear a mask if somebody is in the car .
Title: Re: Would you carry suspect covid passengers?
Post by: mercenary for hire on March 30, 2021, 10:57:16 am
If yis seen what the hospital staff and ambulance drivers wear when in contact with potentially infected patients you'd never leave the gaff.

 I was recently in the hospital with someone and they won't let you in the room without wearing proper medical grade masks, rubber gloves and one of those medical disposable aprins.If you leave the room they make you throw it all in the hazardous waste bin and put on new equipment.You'd think it was Ebola they way they manage it.You can wipe down the taxi 50 times a day and you still might get it.Doesnt mean it will kill you.

Any of yis thinking a shitty screen and a 20 cent Chinese mask is gonna stop you picking isn't thinking ratonally.You have to be prepared to get it to go into work.As soon as the Covid money dries up we will be all happy to take our chances.With a bit of luck the weak will be vaccinated by then.



Title: Re: Would you carry suspect covid passengers?
Post by: Cool Boola on March 30, 2021, 11:08:44 am
If you could turn back the clock:

https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/family-tallaght-taxi-man-michael-17999355 (https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/family-tallaght-taxi-man-michael-17999355)

Good Ould Mick the Moan...He never thought he would get it.. RIP..Stay safe....Stay in bed
Title: Re: Would you carry suspect covid passengers?
Post by: john m on March 30, 2021, 11:17:22 am
Ask your Granny about TB in the 40s or 50s more virulent than Covid .This is the first Internet Pandemic .Do you remember RTE with pictures of Ambulances and staff in full muclear fallout gear if they were picking up passengers suspected of having the fever now the advise is take a Taxi to get checked out .In the Words of the Great Doc .ITS ALL A LOAD OF BOLLOXXXXXXXXXXX
Title: Re: Would you carry suspect covid passengers?
Post by: john m on March 30, 2021, 11:25:40 am
All Pubs reopen this afternoon .Will you wear a mask only go for a pint if the windows are open and there is a screen around the table  and Big Dommos birds godchild comes around wiping the table every few minutes with a dettol soaked rag .Or will you sit up at the Bar telling Covid DIY stories of how you fixed the hinge on the hot press door at the height of the pandemic and wallpapered the scullery .?
Title: Re: Would you carry suspect covid passengers?
Post by: mercenary for hire on March 30, 2021, 11:26:34 am
Nobody will bother trying to sue a scruffy taxi driver but as we see on the telly week after week the HSE pay out millions in compo for negligence.That's why they get the good expensiv medical masks that work and taxi Drivers arent even offered the vaccine.I know my place I'll wait it out.
Title: Re: Would you carry suspect covid passengers?
Post by: Shallowhal on March 30, 2021, 04:45:43 pm
Was on the beach in Clogher earlier,tide was in so couldn't do my usual walk from Termo beach to Clogher and back,had to settle for a short stroll on Clogher beach and back to the new Beach Hut cafe for a mocha choca hokey cokey halpocino with the chungwan,good crowd on the beach,good few swimming....back at Casa Hal in me budgie smugglers sittin in me suntrap....so fuk the dizzeezed fuks!!
Title: Re: Would you carry suspect covid passengers?
Post by: silverbullet on March 30, 2021, 07:51:51 pm
Ask your Granny about TB in the 40s or 50s more virulent than Covid .This is the first Internet Pandemic .Do you remember RTE with pictures of Ambulances and staff in full muclear fallout gear if they were picking up passengers suspected of having the fever now the advise is take a Taxi to get checked out .In the Words of the Great Doc .ITS ALL A LOAD OF BOLLOXXXXXXXXXXX

TB is still here, killed 1.5 million last year. You're probably safe because you got the BCG.  Remember, they didn't know how dangerous it was at the beginning of the outbreak, choosing to err on the side of caution.

My paternal Grandfather succumbed to Tuberculosis at the tender age of 55. (although he left 14 kids behind). I could never work it out, was he a good Catholic, or a sloppy protestant. 8)