Covid 19 Part XXV-44,159 ROI (1,830 deaths) 21,898 NI (598 deaths) (13/10) Read OP

polesheep wrote: »

How dare you imprison me in my own home! Do you honestly believe it's ok to lock me and others up, depriving us of a portion of our day, of our life, in order to extend yours? Are you royalty? Have I woken up in an Ireland where there is some sort of caste system making one life more valuable than another? We are all given a certain number of days on this planet and I will not sacrifice any of mine to extend yours.

I wear a mask, wash my hands, social distance and willingly go without things that are important to me to help protect the life of others, but I will not give up precious time from my life to help you live to be 95.

The selfishness on both sides of the divide in this pandemic is breathtaking. Thankfully, in real life the vast majority of people are not so extreme.

OK, now I have heard all I need from you to know that you are the problem, as you seem to think you can carry on as if nothing is happening around you, and you refuse to accept and acknowledge that life has massively changed for a short period of time for all of us as a direct result of the arrival of a new pandemic called Covid 19.

So be it, and unfortunately, there are too many other people like you that are denying that there has to be massive change for a short period of our lives.

Just to clarify things.

IF IT HAPPENS, CURFEW IS NOT ABOUT ME LIVING TO 95, IT'S ABOUT ALL OF US DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO PREVENTING COVID KILLING A LARGER NUMBER OF PEOPLE OF ALL AGES AS A RESULT OF THE HEALTH SERVICE BEING OVERWHELMED AND BEING UNABLE TO ADEQUATELY TREAT BOTH COVID AND NON COVID PATIENTS AS A RESULT OF A SHORTAGE OF BEDS AND A SHORTAGE OF STAFF WELL ENOUGH TO TREAT THOSE PATIENTS.

I too don't like the things we have to do to stay safe, I don't want to be spending money on masks, sanitiser, gloves etc.

I like even less that I've not been able to see some of my family for over 9 months.

I don't like that we can't give our grand children the hugs and friendship and attention that they are used to and are wanting to give us.

I don't like that we were unable to attend a wedding of a very close friend because of the limits on numbers.

I don't like that we can't attend things like music concerts.

I don't like that we can't have a meal out with a few friends, maybe to celebrate a special occasion.

I don't like that I can't have a relaxing drink in a local pub with a few friends after an event that we've all been part of.

I don't like that a huge number of events we were supposed to be part of this year have been cancelled and may not now ever happen.

I don't like that I have to be very careful about what I touch when I am out of the house, as I have no way of knowing who else has been touching the same thing.

I don't like that Covid is revealing just how fractured society has become, and how brutal the effects of Covid have already been on some groups in our supposedly caring society.

I don't like that there are too many ignorant slobs that dump their masks and other protections on the ground or in the supermarket trolly after they've been used.

There are plenty of other things I could add to the list above, but given what I'm hearing about the way Covid is spreading at the moment, wether I like it or not is irrelevant.

As a caring society, which most of us were the last time I checked, we ALL have to do a hell of a lot more to prevent Covid killing signifcantly more OF ALL AGES than it has so far, and to help reduce the workload on hospitals that will struggle to deal with their normal work load if overloaded by covid.

And yes, I am repeating myself, in the forlorn hope that it might actually get through to you and others that seem to be unable to accept that "normal" can't happen for quite some time to come.

I also don't like the longer term financial and mental health implications of what has been happening, and what's coming yet before things can start returning to something approaching a normal life.

Curfew is a better alternative to closing even more of the economy down, we need to keep as much of the economy going as possible, to avoid even bigger problems for a larger number of people.

You are not "being imprisoned", and certainly not by me, you are possibly going to be expected to stay at home for 8 hours a day, and for most of those hours, if you are anything like normal, you will be asleep anyway.

If it happens, it will because people who DO have a better understanding of how to limit the damage that Covid is doing have decided that they have no choice left if they want to limit the problems that Covid is causing.

Curfew is nothing new, it has been used in (among other places) Melbourne, and they are now at last seeing the result of the hard actions they have taken.

And in closing, given your recent hostility towards me in multiple posts from you, I will be adding you to my ignore list in a few moments, your verbal diarrhoea of posts that are almost exclusively in the Covid section over the last few months have said nothing that I want to hear, and I have neither the time or interest to read the all of the massive volume of posts that are arriving in this thread.