Agree on masks. I've only heard of restaurants refusing people who admitted they havn't isolated, which is fair enough - proof is much harder. Any one of 400 million EU citizens can come in without a passport stamp, not to mention the Brits....
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Replying to @NiallOSuill @AdmiralHip
And that's before you start trying to distinguish tourist from resident; do you force anyone non-white or with a non-Irish accent to produce their visa or evidence of a home address? It quickly becomes unworkable.
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Replying to @NiallOSuill
If people are being required to isolate from certain countries then I assume they are being provided some kind of document to prove this, otherwise it’s unworkable by the government too.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
There's no document being provided, all self-isolation on entry to the country is effectively voluntary (you need to provide address and contact details, I think) - it's been criticised as unworkable/not working since May
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Replying to @NiallOSuill
Well I’m not sure what the solution is to the tourist problem if they aren’t wearing masks otherwise. At the very least though, TCD’s plans for the autumn and reopening do not seem to be putting safety ahead of all other things.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
Do we actually know anything about their plans for the autumn though? As far as I was aware, all that was announced was that all lectures would be online + start dates. I agree it's not looking good for compulsory masks based on library/B of Kells, but is there any more detail?
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Replying to @NiallOSuill
Tutorials, seminars, and labs will be in person when possible. The GSU and SU have told me a few times that masks will be made mandatory but most of the advice coming from them doesn’t talk about masks.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @NiallOSuill
I heard that TCD is still hung up on sanitizing surfaces and such. But when I asked the GSU VP about masks in the library right now, she said they should be mandatory but has since deleted her tweets.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
Again, that all sounds (largely) like rumours and leaks (albeit maybe from reliable sources) rather than confirmed actions. The words "where possible" are doing an awful lot of heavy lifting and give college basically unlimited wiggle room, one way or the other.
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Replying to @NiallOSuill @AdmiralHip
I won't predict what they're going to do, their current stance on masks is bad and the ongoing secrecy isn't ideal, but my impression is that the college reaction has been conservative up to now (they're still re-opening well behind the rest of society) and will stay that way
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I hope so, but the impression I got was that admin is caught up with what is termed "hygiene theatre" so sanitising surfaces and such are big points, whereas mask wearing is not pushed as hard. The government mandates today don't help either.
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