Relaxation of Restrictions, Part IV - **Read OP for Mod Warnings**

Goldengirl wrote: »

Have to say because my skin is sore from wearing masks at work , I would not have been in favour of wearing them off work .
Except for public transport , or if indoors in a crowded shopping centre I don't see the rationale if social distancing rules apply.
Are they giving up on the 2 m distance , do you reckon?

And by the way , I do not think the virus is gone as some do , but manageable if we are careful.

I agree on the virus but it's likely to be in very small pockets now, certainly not everywhere we go. On the 1m I think we'll see it if the decline continues, perhaps with the next phase but I reckon it will be the case by the final phase in July.

Cork Boy 53 wrote: »

I see the narkiness is strong with you today padawan. Come and join me over on the weather forums during a weather alert and I`m sure you will fit right in with some of the more ahem opinonated posters over there during such occasions. It would be right up your street I`d say.:cool:

Ah is Kermit over there as well?
I really miss him here .

road_high wrote: »

The curtain twitchers had their last hurrah I think today with Penney’s reopening and mad first day back queues. With all retail opened from next week that’s pretty much it.
Oh the faux outrage online from those with supposedly superior lives and “have they nothing better to be doin”? Lol

I guess the faux concern over mental health will finally be forgotten about. That was an awful bandwagon to try and latch onto to get support. Although the mental health adovates on this thread often forgot about it a few minutes later themselves :pac:

Benimar wrote: »

Oh they will fly off into the sunset. Probably to Lanzarote which was always the end game anyway. They didn't fool anyone.

It was just a scummy tactic but I think most decent folk quickly saw past it. The holliers and the pints were the only priority.

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

I always find it bemusing when posters feel they're scoring some sort of point by trawling someone's posting history or username. Have you anything to actually contribute? Every post seems to be one personal attack or another

The country has pulled together and broken the back of the threat posed by this virus. That's not to say that it's over but we're in a far better place and attention MUST now shift to the next phase - living alongside this for possibly a long time to come while still doing what we need to.

I honestly do not understand why posters like yourself and others think this is a negative thing and want to pull us back into measures that are wholly unnecessary at this point.

If you read my posts instead of looking for fodder for attack , you would see there is a lot more than attacking other posters. I will fight back , sorry if that upsets you.

Also if you read the posts you would see that people " like me" are not against lifting of restrictions.
On the contrary I am quite happy with the progress as it is and hope it will improve further.
It's the abject lack of reason by some, not all , which irritates, who want restrictions gone ..yesterday..full stop.

You have literally jumped on the bandwagon attacking posters, whos opinions are not those of the majority here , it appears without even reading their posts .
You just see a name , and row in . But you probably are only reading this because it is addressed to you , right?

Cork Boy 53 wrote: »

Indeed this thread does tend to attract the more ahem opinionated permanently outraged types who seem to congregate together here but who by comparison are rarely active over there. Small mercies and all that I suppose.

Yes. I have felt like any with a differing view to the anti lockdown groupthink here, was the focus , when no matter what was said , posts were taken out of context or ignored and another meaning imposed on them to suit whomever was on the attack , and a lot if others piling in to attack, without reading the original post .
Very tiring,
Having said that , we could leave the thread ...but it would only be an echo chamber then ...

Cork Boy 53 wrote: »

Indeed this thread does tend to attract the more strongly opinionated permanently outraged types who seem to congregate together here but who by comparison are rarely active over there. Small mercies and all that I suppose.

The first few versions of it consisted of people banned from the main covid thread due to their illogical screeching about "only a flu" "be grand" etc. A fair few got site banned since :pac:

Goldengirl wrote: »

Point is a lot of posters here feel there is no risk from infection, therefore no need.
How do you feel about that?

There is low risk.
Not no risk though it's not far off zero in some counties.

Masks in public will reduce the risk.
Certainly those queues for Penneys needed masks.

Cork Boy 53 wrote: »

In fairness it has to be acknowledged that many of the open everything now posters do have valid concerns about mental health, the economy etc, but there is a certain cohort that are only really concerned about what you state in the above posts and others who have issues with following rules and regulations. Some are very blatantly obvious about it.

Nah they might have used it as a prettier mask but when you see them loling at "curtain twitchers" a few words after expressing their "mental health worries" its pretty clear what they are at, and it aint concern for anyone but themselves.

pjohnson wrote: »

Nah they might have used it as a prettier mask but when you see them loling at "curtain twitchers" a few words after expressing their "mental health worries" its pretty clear what they are at, and it aint concern for anyone but themselves.

I agree, laughing at people who were afraid and also at people who genuinely had a reason to be afraid, like elderly or sick , calling names like mouth breathers ..using mental health as a cover , to be honest .

acequion wrote: »

And me, plenty of them. But let's not get in the way of the back slapping.:rolleyes:

It generally wasnt the "pro lockdown" with the faux concern for others well being while simultaneously insulting/mocking the same people. They pro lockdown were busy actually being responsible.

pjohnson wrote: »

It generally wasnt the "pro lockdown" with the faux concern for others well being while simultaneously insulting/mocking the same people. They pro lockdown were busy actually being responsible.

Oh I never saw the best one of all, emboldened, a stand alone study in arrogance. Brilliant!! :pac::pac: