Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: watty on February 22, 2022, 01:10:36 pm
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Govt agrees to end almost all Covid measures (https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2022/0222/1282223-coronavirus-ireland/)
The Cabinet has agreed to end almost all remaining health restrictions from next Monday.
This means that mask wearing in schools, in retail settings and on public transport will be voluntary from 28 February, but they will still be required in health care.
There will be advice that people should continue to wear masks on public transport, but it will not be underpinned by law.
Having said that, I think I might wear a mask for another week or two. There's still ~8,000 positive cases a day and ~500+ people in hospital with Covid. It might not kill you but it could give you the 'flu' for a few days. Better safe than sorry with Paddys day week coming up?
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I'd say Freenow and others are only itching to offer a masked driver option.
I'll be glad to see the masks go.They haven't proven that they are effective.The quality of the masks we're wearing aren't great so it's really all in yer head IMO.
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I've only ever worn one at work if I had a front seat passenger - pretty rare these days - who chose to wear one. I guess I'll continue doing what I'm doing... Any thoughts on when (or if) to remove the screen? It does serve to discourage much inane conversation, Bro...
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I've only ever worn one at work if I had a front seat passenger - pretty rare these days - who chose to wear one. I guess I'll continue doing what I'm doing... Any thoughts on when (or if) to remove the screen? It does serve to discourage much inane conversation, Bro...
Hear hear, Wha'?
As for the masks? No one got the flu this year.
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I'm gonna keep the screen for a bit longer.I think it reduces the noise in the car a bit and makes the passengers feel a bit more safe from me..I rarely talk to them unless they start talking to me so it works out fine.
I was in a VW Caddy taxi on Sunday night and the screen was about a foot away from my mush.Felt very claustrophobic as a passenger and was thinking how easy I'd be hurt if the driver slammed on the brakes.So they may not be suitable in all vehlces.
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I'm gonna keep the screen for a bit longer.I think it reduces the noise in the car a bit and makes the passengers feel a bit more safe from me..I rarely talk to them unless the start talking to me so it works out fine.
I was in a VW Caddy taxi on Sunday night and the screen was about a foot away from my mush.Felt very claustrophobic as a passenger and was thinking how easy I'd be hurt if the driver slammed on the brakes.
People get tired trying to engage in small talk through a screen, that's one plus.
Projectile vomiters have less of a chance of covering the back of your neck if the car has a screen, another plus.
Mean with beards look like A 70s porn pussy when wearing a mask, a turn on for some punters...I could go on! 8)
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As long as the NTA don't try to regulate the screens I've no real problem.Anytime they mess with stuff like that it becomes more expensive to instal involving certificates of conformity and all that pricey stuff.
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I've only ever worn one at work if I had a front seat passenger - pretty rare these days - who chose to wear one. I guess I'll continue doing what I'm doing... Any thoughts on when (or if) to remove the screen? It does serve to discourage much inane conversation, Bro...
I'm keepin me screen ....think I'll paint it black aswell ....
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something i used to love doing was growing my hair and beard for a few months and then running the beard trimmer all over my head and my face and jumpin in the bath. lovely fresh feeling. stopped doing it because cunts in the car kept sayin that's not you in the picture. thought about gerrin two IDs with two different pictures. one where i look like sumtin owa the aryan brotherhood and the other where i look like ronnie drew.
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I've only ever worn one at work if I had a front seat passenger - pretty rare these days - who chose to wear one. I guess I'll continue doing what I'm doing... Any thoughts on when (or if) to remove the screen? It does serve to discourage much inane conversation, Bro...
I must say I'm surprised at your attitude, RC. For someone who cares so much about safety on our roads, how could you be so cavalier about the Health Act 1947 (Section 31A – Temporary Restrictions) (Covid-19) (Face Coverings in Small Public Service Vehicles and Certain Premises) Regulations 2020 (S.I. No. 569 of 2020) (https://www.nationaltransport.ie/minister-for-health-extends-the-period-of-effect-of-the-covid-19-face-coverings-regulations-3/) and of course, the Health Act 1947 (Section 31a – Temporary Restrictions) (Covid-19) (Extension of Period of Effect) Regulations 2022. (https://www.nationaltransport.ie/minister-for-health-extends-the-period-of-effect-of-the-covid-19-face-coverings-regulations-3/) :P
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Keeping that screen for as long as I can!!
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Keeping that screen for as long as I can!!
(https://i.postimg.cc/Hjcb7qFw/babby.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/Hjcb7qFw)
(https://i.postimg.cc/qtDCNwLD/Drunk.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/qtDCNwLD)
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Govt agrees to end almost all Covid measures (https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2022/0222/1282223-coronavirus-ireland/)
The Cabinet has agreed to end almost all remaining health restrictions from next Monday.
This means that mask wearing in schools, in retail settings and on public transport will be voluntary from 28 February, but they will still be required in health care.
There will be advice that people should continue to wear masks on public transport, but it will not be underpinned by law.
Having said that, I think I might wear a mask for another week or two. There's still ~8,000 positive cases a day and ~500+ people in hospital with Covid. It might not kill you but it could give you the 'flu' for a few days. Better safe than sorry with Paddys day week coming up?
Beard wanker with a mask:
(https://i.postimg.cc/jwg5gS98/beard-wankers.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/jwg5gS98)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QjrBjdb2T8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QjrBjdb2T8)
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I only went back when my full-time PUP was withdrawn, Watty. Most folk, myself included, were vaccinated at that stage and I figured the screen negated the need for a mask in the vast majority of cases. I didn't catch COVID '19 anall to my knowledge anyway... although I did have a weird health episode shortly before it became a thing... so I could have acquired some degree of immunity from that if it was COVID '19 anall, I guess.
Also, I did advocate masks for taxi drivers before vaccination and long before public health / NTA advised the same... while others on here and elsewhere saw fit to hurl abuse at those drivers who elected to provide a service during the early waves.
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Dont give a flyin' fuck .
I will continue to wear a mask and I will insist on passengers wearing one as well,regardless if they are no longer mandatory.
Its nonsense to say that covid is gone, it's not.
While omnicron might be "less" harmful than Delta in so far as its affects your upper respiratory area,it still can cause severe illness and in some cases death.
Even if you do get it,many people are suffering with long covid,which long term results are unknown.
Continue to mask up I say
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You can't force them to wear masks as it won't be a legal requirement from next week.If ya refuse service without a valid reason you risk getting dragged into the NTA or possibly losing any Airport permit or app privileges. It's unlikely, but some grumpy bastard passenger might decide to make a point and complain.
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Thank Fook there nearly gone, sick shite of the yokes !
Every day ya pay your money and take your chances leaving your front door.
Some though accident or disease will never return home.
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Welcome back, JIT. How are you finding business in the city?
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Turn right…then left and drive around for a while
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Probably better off holding for an app job the way fuel prices are going.... unless you're in the ultra-smug EV gang.
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Covid: 5,919 new cases on ‘milestone’ day as mask-wearing rules end (https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/covid-19-milestone-day-for-the-country-as-rules-on-mask-wearing-end-1265774.html)
The vast majority of Covid-19 restrictions lifted at midnight in a move hailed as a “milestone” for the country.
The changes come as 5,919 new cases of the virus were reported to the Department of Health on Monday.
As of 8am on Monday, there were 610 patients in hospital with the virus, 47 of whom were in ICU.
However, people are still advised to wear masks on public transport and in healthcare settings.
Still ~6k infected people wandering around... Hopefully it's receding, albeit slowly. Just in time to be replaced by the flu :P
I think I'll keep wearing the mask for another little while!
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Covid: 5,919 new cases on ‘milestone’ day as mask-wearing rules end (https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/covid-19-milestone-day-for-the-country-as-rules-on-mask-wearing-end-1265774.html)
The vast majority of Covid-19 restrictions lifted at midnight in a move hailed as a “milestone” for the country.
The changes come as 5,919 new cases of the virus were reported to the Department of Health on Monday.
As of 8am on Monday, there were 610 patients in hospital with the virus, 47 of whom were in ICU.
However, people are still advised to wear masks on public transport and in healthcare settings.
Still ~6k infected people wandering around... Hopefully it's receding, albeit slowly. Just in time to be replaced by the flu :P
I think I'll keep wearing the mask for another little while!
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I was at my mate's Dad's funeral in Blanch today, only a few of us wore masks. Still, there was the normal amount of coughing in church and I wasn't taking chances.
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https://www.nationaltransport.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/SPSV-Industry-Note-Issue-55-Feburary-2022-Final-for-Web.pdf (https://www.nationaltransport.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/SPSV-Industry-Note-Issue-55-Feburary-2022-Final-for-Web.pdf)
Face coverings are no longer legally mandated. However, Public Health advice remains that you should wear them on public transport (including SPSVs). We would strongly recommend that you continue to manage the ongoing Covid risk and protect yourselves and your passengers by wearing face coverings. This is particularly important for vulnerable passengers and drivers.
** You should put on a mask immediately if asked to do so by a passenger.
** Where you require passengers to wear masks, you should carry new masks to give to those who do not carry them.
** If a passenger will not wear a mask at your request, our compliance team will review any passenger refusal complaint on a case by case
So the NTA strongly recommends we wear masks but,
- if a passengers ask, we have to put on a mask.
- If we ask a passenger to wear a mask, we should supply it free of charge.
- And if the passenger won't wear the requested mask, you can throw them out...maybe
What could possibly go wrong? ::fds
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I know we've been brainwashed for the last two years to be afraid of Covid but the risk of getting proper sick from Omicron is minimal.
I'll happily wear a mask if the odd person requests one but it seems pointless when I can walk into any bar in the city and be surrounded by hundreds of potentially unvaccinated customers with no social distancing or screens.
I'd like to see the NTA trying to force drivers to wear a mask if it's not a legal requirement.They'd be told to get lost.
Don't forget the masks are only meant to stop you spreading the virus to someone else while coughing.I cant remember the last time I coughed around another person since covid.
Before covid I'd take a deep breath in a stressful situation to calm down a little.With the masks I just got dizzy.Glad to see them gone.
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Just be carefull you don't accidentally swallow them masks . some folks will swallow anything !
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Just be carefull you don't accidentally swallow them masks . some folks will swallow anything !
Only 8,071 cases of Covid were reported this week.
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I think it's 6-8k new cases per day, every day.
(Wed) https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2022/0302/1283986-coronavirus-figures/ (https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2022/0302/1283986-coronavirus-figures/)
The Department of Health has been notified of 7,694 new cases of Covid-19. The new figures consist of 3,342 PCR-confirmed cases and 4,352 positive antigen tests registered through the HSE portal. As of 8am today, 653 Covid-19 patients are in hospital, up 37 from yesterday, of whom 46 are in ICU, down two from yesterday. Meanwhile, in Northern Ireland 2,407 new cases of the virus have been reported.
A lot more info here - https://covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com (https://covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com)
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@mercenary for hire, been unvaccinated makes no difference to catching covid. I didn't take the vaccine got covid no symptoms. It turns out people who got it bad were deficient in vitimin D3.
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Yeah I know C5 but the NPHET lads were saying at one point the vaccinations helped reduce transmissibility.I thought that was bollox but they still said it.
Even though I got Covid at Christmas now I have to get my third jab just so I can get a covid cert for me holidays in May.Pain in the arse really.
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Yeah I know C5 but the NPHET lads were saying at one point the vaccinations helped reduce transmissibility.I thought that was bollox but they still said it.
Even though I got Covid at Christmas now I have to get my third jab just so I can get a covid cert for me holidays in May.Pain in the arse really.
They inject in the arm.
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Only if you ask them nicely SB..
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Only if you ask them nicely SB..
Am I the only one not to catch Covid? I'm not doing a poll. 8)
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I had an oul fella in the car who had COPD and he was a fat bollix.This bloke got Delta and Omicron and said Delta hit him way harder.Omicron was very mild for him anyway.Hopefully if/when ya do get it you'll be alright.
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Yeah I know C5 but the NPHET lads were saying at one point the vaccinations helped reduce transmissibility.I thought that was bollox but they still said it.
Even though I got Covid at Christmas now I have to get my third jab just so I can get a covid cert for me holidays in May.Pain in the arse really.
Yer arm will be sore as well.
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The first Jab I got from the new girl on her first day jammed the needle into the bone.That really hurt.Second one was grand.Probably be safer to get jabbed in the arse...bigger target and all.Less chance for errors.
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The first Jab I got from the new girl on her first day jammed the needle into the bone.That really hurt.Second one was grand.Probably be safer to get jabbed in the arse...bigger target and all.Less chance for errors.
Don't let RC do the injection. I've seen him play darts, he couldn't hit a cow's arse with a banjo! 8)
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That was before COVID '19 anall... I'm much worse now.