Will there be another lockdown?

We had a meal in a local Asian restaurant last week . Know the owner from going in a few years now . He said he had heard they would probably be closing down again in December . Didn’t get a chance to talk to him afterwards or how he heard it but wasn’t expecting to hear that .

Thank god we weren't going too far

It's so hard to see them allowing pubs to be open for December considering what the festives bring

After summer Christmas is a huge time for the hospitality industry and places need to be open with as many less restrictions as possible

Has there been any mentioning by the government in regards to if/when another lockdown will occur? I prefer to know in advance. It seems as though it would be likely, given the rates and hospitalisation, but yet restrictions are being lifted. It's hard to know what to think about all of it. I tried watching RTE, but it isn't mentioning much more than current reopening schedules and NPHET being very concerned. Nowhere have I read how bad it must get for another lockdown to be considered or if it'll ever be considered again.

With the risk of being very unpopular, I really hope so. The numbers are scary and I work in an acute hospital, it's beyond hectic. Virus spreading like wildfire between patients and staff (all vaccinated too).

No there won't, how are they going to sell a lockdown with our vaccination rate? "Restrictions" like indoor capacity etc may return in some form, but the days of the 5km restrictions and everyone sitting at home won't be back.

No, once the nursing homes were vaccinated that was job done.

Yea but if I pass the flu on to vulnerable people I probably won’t kill them

I’m not saying I want to see it. I was just making the point that this vaccine isn’t protecting us

On one hand they say '' we'll have to live with Covid, its here FOREVER''

On the other hand we still get notified every SINGLE day about the cases '' today there was 2357 new cases of covid'' ........... who gives a fck, 2357 cases of covid, and not a single one of those people even knew they had it, so why on earth do I need to know.

I was repeating the terminology used by the poster I was replying to.

To be fair, there isn't an answer to your question yet. The vaccine means it's a moving target. We don't know how high transmissions can go without the hospitalisation and death rate going too high. I doubt there will be need for full lockdown this year (barring a new variant which throws things into chaos) but there will very likely be restrictions through the winter.

There just isn't certainty, It's not as if there is certainty any nobody is telling us.

Is it possibly a new strain?

Our experts (who are paid to watch for this kind of thing) would hardly have not noticed it - again -would they?.

Shure it must be the unvaccinated/Brits that have caused this.