tayto lover wrote: » In fairness it’s hardly their fault if the manufacturers put Methylene into their product instead of Ethylene. Just to be fair minded about it.
Away With The Fairies wrote: » I hope the Oxford vaccine helps when it comes out. But when do people see normal back again? We're almost at the end of 2020, soon into 2021 and I still don't see any normal for 2021 yet. Maybe the end of next year but is that too optimistic at this stage?
micks_address wrote: » you'd have thought someone might have ran down the list of ingredients and thought hmm maybe this isn't suitable or at least used it themselves first... local primary had been using it and its taken paint off doors and discolored floors... any of the staff that have used they have their skin peeling off their hands.. most knew it was rank and brought their own in...day one they said it was awful smell etc but no one cared. its a hugely disappointing thing to let happen... telling everyone that kids are safe in school while poisoning them with dept sourced hand sanitizer.. im sure there will be lawsuits over it and quite rightly so
ShineOn7 wrote: » Depends on what you accept as "normal" again I think There'll be no magical day when everyone says "it's over!", more so a (very) slow fade back to things somewhat "normal"
Gael23 wrote: » Life before March would be my definition
Sconsey wrote: » Jesus would ya listen to yourself, it's a faulty product, there is now a product recall out for it. Maybe you should be having a go at the company that made a balls of it instead of blaming the government.
Irish Stones wrote: » There will be no normal again
stephenjmcd wrote: » Germany preparing to roll out Pfizer then. You can be dam sure these vaccination centres will be unbelievable well set up and run. Everyone could learn something from the Germans organisation. We can only hope that the HSE & Dept of Health have some sort of plan
iguana wrote: » My hope, and I believe it's how it should go. Is that this lockdown should get numbers down, though school closures may be necessary, and it could (probably will) take longer than 6 weeks. Then as we start to open up again, it should hopefully be in conjunction with a vaccine roll out. By January/February we should be in the same place we were in, July with a majority of businesses/society able to open. That would give a few months before the virus numbers start to rise to dangerous levels again. In those months though, enough people should have the vaccine that the same danger to the health service isn't there. That way we won't have to shut anything down again. Masks will probably still be recommended indoors for a while. But at some point in late spring/early summer something very close to normality should be back. Complete freedom of travel and mass gatherings may take a little longer. That will depend on vaccine efficacy and how fast everyone can get it and any possibly necessary booster.
ShineOn7 wrote: » That's actually a very realistic outlook I just really hope our "government"/HSE don't fúck up the rollout
ShineOn7 wrote: » Nonsense 2025 would like a word with your statement
Irish Stones wrote: » My opinion is that, like all other pandemics, our life style and habits will be modified by what is happening/has happened, so the new normal will include a new set of habits that won't be what it is now. It happened before, it will happen again. In 5 years for now, we'll be so used to social distancing, masks, hand sanitizers, and other weird things, that we won't even remember what it was before. I think that not hand-shaking, looking at others like sick potential sick people, etc, will become intrinsic to our new way of living.
JimmyVik wrote: » People recover fast. We'll all be hugging and kissing and shaking hands again before you know it.
Away With The Fairies wrote: » You might. I'm staying away from that shíte. It's absolutely disgusting shaking hands when people are constantly touching their mouth and nose.
JimmyVik wrote: » Do you think there are many people as opposed to it as yourself in general?
Away With The Fairies wrote: » Seeing people's behaviour during this pandemic, I might be the only one!
Irish Stones wrote: » There will be no normal again, there will be a new normal and we will adapt to it. Those who are very young kids now will grow up in this new norm and they won't care. For those who are older (or much older) it might be harder to adjust to a different life style. All pandemics have led to a new normal. Most of us aren't old enough to remember what life was before the last pandemics. Most of us know this "normal", which is different to what was the "normal" before that.
Gael23 wrote: » I think the government will want to allow retail open for Christmas. Public opinion will turn strongly against them otherwise
Strumms wrote: » I don’t think so at all... “Yeah I can’t wait until I can spend hours trawling through packed and sweaty shops for hours at a time” is NOT something you are going to hear. Shopping will be done in the main early as in from around now and online. Older people without the ability or access to go online will avail of help as in younger family, neighbors... I’ll be doing all my parents Xmas shopping online. They aren’t a fan as they are old school and like to ‘see what they are buying’ but it’s for one year and the alternative is grim. The business community will no doubt kick off but we’ve seen what a bunch of selfish and disingenuous fûckers many of them are... couldn’t care less about covid stats, only spreadsheet stats. Fûck em.
Irish Stones wrote: » There will be no normal again, there will be a new normal and we will adapt to it. Those who are very young kids now will grow up in this new norm and they won't care. For those who are older (or much older) it might be harder to adjust to a different life style.All pandemics have led to a new normal. Most of us aren't old enough to remember what life was before the last pandemics. Most of us know this "normal", which is different to what was the "normal" before that.
Strumms wrote: » I don’t think so at all... “Yeah I can’t wait until I can spend hours trawling through packed and sweaty shops for hours at a time” is NOT something you are going to hear. Shopping will be done in the main early as in from around now and online. Older people without the ability or access to go online will avail of help as in younger family, neighbors... I’ll be doing all my parents Xmas shopping online. They aren’t a fan as they are old school and like to ‘see what they are buying’ but it’s for one year and the alternative is grim.
