When will it all end?

El_Duderino 09

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

Well, you've answered your own question in the set up. If the health impacts are minimal then no big problem.

The post was about the fact that we don't know what will happen yet. If there's no problem then, no problem.

Given all the data so far I'm hopeful that even if we have thousands of people with Covid their symptoms will be mild to none.

Micky 32

ujjjjjjjjj wrote: »

Cases are irrelevant, if hospitalisation and deaths are low we move on. Zero covid is a total and utter fantasy. This is an endemic virus.

The poster knows well we’ll never have ‘ZERO’ cases. It’s just his way of saying we won’t be ever going back to normal and i think he has no problem with that scenario. Thankfully we will get normality back. I would take a lot of posts with a pinch of salt.

GoneHome

HalfAndHalf wrote: »

Not this year is my realistic view. Positive view is maybe by Xmas this year.

Vaccine rollout will be slower than they say and then we’ll have supply issues.

The people who haven’t followed the rules so far will go mad in the summer months causing lockdown 4 with the HSE saying we’re too close now to go back to square one.

Just my view of course.

100% agree on this, I reckon it will be at the earliest Jan/Feb 2022 when things will be fully opened up again and people will be able to travel even with the country, but sure look as far as I'm concerned it's all for our safety so I've no issue with it.

El_Duderino 09

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Given all the data so far I'm hopeful that even if we have thousands of people with Covid their symptoms will be mild to none.

I'm sure we all hope for that. Unfortunately, hoping won't have any impact on what will happen. We'll just have to wait and see what happens.

El_Duderino 09

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

I'm sure we all hope for that. Unfortunately, hoping won't have any impact on what will happen. We'll just have to wait and see what happens.

Focusing on worst case scenarios can be helpful for some of us, I've done it myself. Now I'm all about the hope. I just can't for the life of me see a scenario where we have most of us vaccinated but are still living with lockdowns and/or heavy restrictions.

El_Duderino 09

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Focusing on worst case scenarios can be helpful for some of us, I've done it myself. Now I'm all about the hope. I just can't for the life of me see a scenario where we have most of us vaccinated but are still living with lockdowns and/or heavy restrictions.

I’m not focusing on the worst case scenario. Im pointing out that the big questions are around how things will go next winter. I covered the ideal scenarios we both want and a bad scenario which we don’t want.

If you ignore the scenarios you don’t want to think of, then I’m not surprised you can’t imagine those scenarios. We don’t know what will happen yet.

Mr. Karate

Dickie10 wrote: »

people are getting desperate for gloom now if they think restrictions will ever come back in after mid june.

I think its more of a lack of faith on the Govt's part. They certainly carry on like they would leave us in permanent lockdown if they could.

El_Duderino 09

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

I’m not focusing on the worst case scenario. Im pointing out that the big questions are around how things will go next winter. I covered the ideal scenarios we both want and a bad scenario which we don’t want.

If you ignore the scenarios you don’t want to think of, then I’m not surprised you can’t imagine those scenarios. We don’t know what will happen yet.

I can't imagine that scenario because I wouldn't function if I did.

GoneHome

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

I’m not focusing on the worst case scenario. Im pointing out that the big questions are around how things will go next winter. I covered the ideal scenarios we both want and a bad scenario which we don’t want.

If you ignore the scenarios you don’t want to think of, then I’m not surprised you can’t imagine those scenarios. We don’t know what will happen yet.

You are actually pointing out the reality of it, I can't see the country going back to any kind of normality until at the earliest September but I thin realistically it'll be this time next year.

Micky 32

Deleted User wrote: »

I can't imagine that scenario because I wouldn't function if I did.

With the data that keeps emerging from these vaccines it’s unlikely you’ll have to imagine that scenario going forward.;)

Deeper Blue

If people seriously think we're going to have future lockdowns for illnesses other than covid then they've lost their minds.

ypres5

GoneHome wrote: »

100% agree on this, I reckon it will be at the earliest Jan/Feb 2022 when things will be fully opened up again and people will be able to travel even with the country, but sure look as far as I'm concerned it's all for our safety so I've no issue with it.

you seriously think people won't be able to travel within the country until next year? the eu are looking into restarting travel during the summer amongst member states and the uk are planning on restarting international travel in may. what you've just said is borderline parodical

TimeToShine

People in here have lost their minds. The summer is the end of this nonsense. People die, they always have and always will, that's part of life.

Thankfully we will be taking our lead from countries like the UK and US who will steamroll back into business as usual.

ypres5

TimeToShine wrote: »

People in here have lost their minds. The summer is the end of this nonsense. People die, they always have and always will, that's part of life.

Thankfully we will be taking our lead from countries like the UK and US who will steamroll back into business as usual.

according to a poster here you won't be able to leave your county until more or less this time next year at which point our economy would be borderline amish. it's like there's a competition as to who can dream up the most drawn out unrealistic timeline

GT89

Deeper Blue wrote: »

If people seriously think we're going to have future lockdowns for illnesses other than covid then they've lost their minds.

Climate lockdown is next

GoneHome

ypres5 wrote: »

you seriously think people won't be able to travel within the country until next year? the eu are looking into restarting travel during the summer amongst member states and the uk are planning on restarting international travel in may. what you've just said is borderline parodical

Look I'm just giving it to you from what I'm reading etc, it actually doesn't bother me to any great extent, both me and my partner are working from home, we haven't really met up with family or friends for the last 12 months, we're living in a very rural area of Co Limerick and have adapted to this way of living with restrictions and accepted that it's going to be the way for a good few months to come. The way I see it, our elderly parents are safe and well with these restrictions and that's the main thing.

Charles Babbage

TimeToShine wrote: »

People in here have lost their minds. The summer is the end of this nonsense. People die, they always have and always will, that's part of life.

Thankfully we will be taking our lead from countries like the UK and US who will steamroll back into business as usual.

Yes indeed, we should take our cue from Boris Johnson and the governor of Texas, that is is the way forward.

GoneHome

Charles Babbage wrote: »

Yes indeed, we should take our cue from Boris Johnson and the governor of Texas, that is is the way forward.

Look that's your opinion but from my point of view I lost a first cousin to covid back last year, a guy in his 50s, so no I don't want to see any rushing back into lifting restrictions like what happened at Christmas

sabat

TimeToShine wrote: »

People in here have lost their minds. The summer is the end of this nonsense. People die, they always have and always will, that's part of life.

Thankfully we will be taking our lead from countries like the UK and US who will steamroll back into business as usual.

The worry is that they'll open for summer to "reward" the public then restart the lockdown sh1te in the autumn using spurious reasons like new variants.

GoneHome

sabat wrote: »

The worry is that they'll open for summer to "reward" the public then restart the lockdown sh1te in the autumn using spurious reasons like new variants.

But sure it's obvious that is going to happen like last year, the UK are being overly optimistic on the whole opening up of the country, no regard for the many new variants that will strick in the coming months.

GT89

Slowly but surely this is coming to an end. An increasing number of people are no longer wearing masks. I've seen a good few people now in the shop I work not wearing masks. Tonight a bus went past me with two passengers not wearing masks.

Micky 32

sabat wrote: »

The worry is that they'll open for summer to "reward" the public then restart the lockdown sh1te in the autumn using spurious reasons like new variants.

No, there will be no lockdown sh1te in he autumn once the masses are vaccinated. Take with a pinch of salt the doom on this thread. MM said himself once we open up we ‘must stay open’

GT89

GoneHome wrote: »

But sure it's obvious that is going to happen like last year, the UK are being overly optimistic on the whole opening up of the country, no regard for the many new variants that will strick in the coming months.

Are you suggesting we live like this forever?

GoneHome

GT89 wrote: »

Slowly but surely this is coming to an end. An increasing number of people are no longer wearing masks. I've seen a good few people now in the shop I work not wearing masks. Tonight a bus went past me with two passengers not wearing masks.

But sure what's the logic in that, people not wearing masks will just prolong the spread and thus the lockdown

Micky 32

GT89 wrote: »

Are you suggesting we live like this forever?

The poster seems to be happy in lockdown. :rolleyes: take no notice.

GoneHome

Micky 32 wrote: »

The poster seems to be happy in lockdown. :rolleyes: take no notice.

I am by no means happy in lockdown, as I said we can't get to visit out parents who are in there 70s and 80s, we're both into Trad music which we haven't been able to get involved with in a year now at this stage so no we are induring lockdown for what it is and keeping ourselves and our families as safe as we possibly can.

GT89

GoneHome wrote: »

But sure what's the logic in that, people not wearing masks will just prolong the spread and thus the lockdown

You clearly don't realise if no one complies with lockdown then there is no lockdown.

GoneHome

GT89 wrote: »

You clearly don't realise if no one complies with lockdown then there is no lockdown.

Oh right, good man, I presume you were in Grafton Street last weekend as well

GT89

GoneHome wrote: »

Oh right, good man, I presume you were in Grafton Street last weekend as well

Lots of construction going on despite non essential construction work being closed too.

Deeper Blue

GoneHome wrote: »

many new variants that will strick in the coming months.

Let me guess, ones that haven't been discovered yet that'll render the vaccines useless?

Change the record, I'm bored of that one.