Covid19 Part XIX-25,802 in ROI (1,753 deaths) 5,859 in NI (556 deaths) (21/07)Read OP

I see Harris himself refused to be tested.

What’s getting to me is the strategies seem chaotic and as per Fergal Bowers piece, a lot of the measures seem inconsistent and even contradictory.

I know it’s beyond our control but what’s stressing me out is that there’s no end in sight. I’ve been watching a mixture of Irish, UK and French news (I have French free to air tv) and it’s really the same picture from all three - an air of caution about impending second waves and bubbles of outbreaks appearing here and there. Most people are taking it very seriously and a minority aren’t and a lot of people seem very frightened by it.

France is also much more heavily impacted by loss of American tourism. It’s a huge deal in some places and it’s unlikely to return any time soon due to chaotic American politics being unlikely to deal with it.

I’m seeing very similar discussion in French and Irish media, often more alike than what I see in the U.K.

I think we are imagining things are being handled better or differently on the continent. They’re not. It seems very similar and life is still a long way from normal.

The most stressful part for me is just the lack of clarity and lack of any horizon where this will end. I’m feeling like I’m totally trapped. You can’t realistically go anywhere and the economic prospects both here and in any of the places I would consider going, be it for a holiday or to even just move for a while aren’t looking great.

It’s hard to explain but it feels like the rest of Europe and the world in general has suddenly become very remote and inaccessible and that really is getting to me and it’s being made a million times worse by the lack of any realistic plans to bring back safe travel.

In know it may sound a bit nuts but I’ve never, ever felt this trapped and I really feel nervous about how out of sync with the rest of Europe and Schengen the Irish government has gone on travel restrictions and failure to enforce checks on incoming flights from “hot zones”, failure to open travel to the rest of the EU in sync with it.

It just feels like we’ve reverted to island mentality and being at the whim to our what was our 19th century unpredictable, illogical, jingoistic former ruling class in Britain all over again as we can’t risk the CTA and for some reason we’re imagining we will offend Americans (which we won’t) by imposing any kind of testing or restricting of inbound passengers.

Then to top all that off, at work at the moment it’s Brexit, Brexit and more Brexit and unpredictable policies from London and just trying to come up with ways of protecting ourselves (without huge cost) yet no idea how trade is going to work as a bunch of morons in London haven’t any notion of coming up with realistic plans and seem intent on crashing out.

Then Trump throwing tantrums on a daily basis, including ones that deeply impact trade.

Whole thing is nuts. The Cold War was more relaxing! Even the 2008 economic crash wasn’t this bad.

I’ve never felt more fed up in my entire life. Really at the stage I don’t even feel like getting out of bed most of the time. Stuck working from home opening a laptop and it’s like a Pandora’s box of nightmarish problems I can’t figure ways around.

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Speaking to people lately they say they have long memories and will not forget Ryanair’s complete and utter recklessness

They really won't, if people really had long memories FF wouldn't even exist let alone be a party of government.
When travel opens fully again the same people you are talking about will forget what they said and buy that cheap seat to Malaga.