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

I don`t see people taking offence that some want all restrictions removed immediately. If anything those here that seem easiest offended are those that would like us all to believe we are singly the worst in the world when it comes to restrictions, where even today from just two first-hand accounts of other jurisdictions that is clearly not the reality.

I believe most people who have seen the same being said from the outset by some regarding the dropping of restrictions, without even a half credible alternative, now just look on the same old same old as just noise from a broken record from people who appeared to believe there was some automatic trip-switch that would return life to 2019 by just dropping restrictions. Especially now that restrictions have been eased, and as things stand will, other than limited restrictions on face-mask wearing, be gone in a few weeks.

Big bad variants is one of the reasons we're waiting another 6 weeks and of course to get the hospitals ready if there is another big surge oh wait

Quick answer? No.

Weird, the same person said open up early to avoid a winter wave and yet: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/10/boris-johnson-publish-covid-blueprint-difficult-winter

No Idea, I never inferred they did or did not. I was just pointing out the fact that the UK (I guess mainly England) decided to open up early to avoid a winter wave seems likely to have created a winter wave. Kinda the reverse of lockdown to avoid lockdown. So open up and allow a wave and have no vaccine passports and then say there's going to be a winter wave and the passports that could have limited the peak in winter, we'll just do away it them. I'm just baffled. Could be going the Macron route though.

You've no idea if they work or not but then claim they could be used to suppress a winter wave.

There's a job for you in the Irish government.

If they did try to bring them in you would of seen riots never mind protests. They know that, they are not stupid. It is just wrong.

When they had their freedom day, the plan was to prevent a winter spike by having the spike in autumn and the tail would be heading into the winter with cases on the decline. Remember they predicted a spike of 100k a day and then upgraded it to 200k a day, it never even came close. So now it's looking like they will have high cases heading into winter season.

Most of the population of the UK has been living fully open, restriction free life for almost 2 months now and their 14 day cases per 100k are 397 as of yesterday. Ireland, despite having huge parts of society still closed down, has a 14 day cases per 100k rate of 433. And our government is still maintaining we need to wait another 6 weeks to open up because...?

Its pretty damn hard to claim they're doing it wrong and we're doing it right these days.

How can you say that you have no idea if vaccine passports actually work in supressing the virus, and then 5 lines later say that they could have limited the peak in winter?

Huge parts of society? Almost everything is open.

...and? That's completely different from, "having huge parts of society still closed down." Isn't it?

Turns out you are wrong in that case.