Relaxation of Restrictions, Part XII *Read OP For Mod Warnings*

Belfast tonight.

More vaccinated here, whats going on? Leader and 2nd in charge gone to ground since the Merrion party.

A disgrace

The israeli case data was a shock to me, i know they got their vaccines quite early, so maybe 3rd shots all around after six months.

The revenue are knocking now for money from self employed, seetec, social welfare very active,

Not sure what the plan is anymore, duck and dive if shots are giving the world 6 to 9 months restbite, unless things sort themselves out.

Dont know anymore.

Revenue don't 'knock' for money. Self assessment isn't due until Oct 31st. You getting a wee bit carried away there.

As for boosters, we're in a completely different place than last Dec/Jan. We have the infrastructure in place and the supplies. We could do all nursing homes in a fraction of the time compared to before. If they are needed.

Discussion ongoing on the relaxation of social distancing but masks in shops and on transport might remain till Spring, pending very strict criteria.

Provided strict targets are met

Ergo this is just talk

As predicted there'll be a raft of caveats and ifs, buts and maybes in this roadmap.

Outline plans discussed last month envisage that moving to this point would be dependent on the disease remaining under control, and extremely high levels of vaccination – upwards of 85-90 per cent of the over-16s. The reproduction or R number, a measure of how many other people a case infects, would have to be close to 1, with key indicators showing the disease was being suppressed, and that hospitals weren’t struggling. Variants of greater transmissibility or vaccine resistance could also hold back progress.

"and that hospitals weren't struggling".

Well that might be a problem in winter, wouldn't it. I wonder if they mean struggling from covid or struggling with covid?

Hospitals not under pressure is a given is it?

Unlike every single winter that we've never known?

This is not exactly a plan for "living with covid"

I guess they actually mean in your own house or someone else's house, which Id imagine no one is wearing masks in those settings anyway. Loads of other countries will be maskless even on public transport this year but we're waiting until Spring for some reason of course.

As the anthropologist David Graeber once wrote:

"The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently".

Play your own small part by not participating in the use of domestic health passes or pay the price when we have a social credit system.

So we'll have upwards of 90% of adults vaccinated within weeks yet by February essentially the only thing that'll change is a reduction of "distancing" from two metres to one metre?

Utterly farcical

They weren't.

Not sure they ever have been, but don't think I've ever checked either, and I'd be surprised if many actually followed it if it was. It's the only thing I can take from private indoor settings though (not sure what else that would be)

A winter of restrictions is ahead of us. A few posters on here have very much pinned their colours to the mast in predicating major easing of restrictions from September onwards including the vaccine pass for indoor hospitality and that all the emergency powers will lapse in November and we will essentially have zero covid restrictions or limitations by Christmas. I hope they are right but don't see it.