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

They could end all restrictions tomorrow and nothing would happen, we’re gripped by a mass psychosis.

Unfortunately covid doesn’t respect our plans/wishes - i wish it wasn’t so but it is

Ronan needs to speak to my boss, not me!

Sarcasm

This time next week **** all will be after changing and we'll be debating about how the new date of November 19th will not happen and closer to the date the usual feelers will be out saying 'another delay is coming and we may need to bring in more restrictions with winter coming'

And your stalker will be telling us that we are just doom merchants, that there is no indication that things won't reopen on the 19th November as planned...

It goes beyond nightclubs though. People will have been reopening coffee shops and increasing staff numbers etc. as office works slowly return.

Now Glynn has kicked that back to wfh again.

So all these lives have been tossed about again.

A lot of retailers are in a similar predicament, people popping into a shoe shop on their lunch break etc., won't be doing it when wfh.

There was no ambiguity.

It's interesting though that you still see no issue with the original statement that inferred that the vaccine bestowed absolute protection.

I won't be responding to you putting words in my mouth and trying to construct narratives that don't exist again.

Numbers not going the way we want them for the 22nd Oct reopening

Plenty of ammunition there for NPHET and the likes to postpone it and that's with a week out from it

I didn't miss the point though. You're making a different point.

I usually try to keep a positive spin on things and try to be more optimistic than pessimistic...but that's a step too far for me...

You don’t. The government is paying for them from our taxes.

The longer this goes on, by pure work of numbers the most vulnerable will come in contact with the Virus. And those who are not really vulnerable now, they may become vulnerable over the next 6month to a year. Especially with how cancer treatments have been delayed. The vulnerable category is being replenished, probably quicker than the deaths.

If the NPHET Government won't lift restrictions now, we are stuck until March/April. By then if we have case numbers like last year (maybe more) 400-500 a day, if we are lucky. Between 10,000-15000 a month. Keep that going until the Summer, it adds up to near 100,000 cases leading up until next September. The vulnerable category being constantly replenished.

This stuff isn't ending if we continue the attitude towards it. It's war-time. During war you have to accept that people will die, usually the weakest of them all. The war has been lost. We cannot save them. They can be helped with vaccines but the war has been lost.