Covid 19 Part XXXV-956,720 ROI (5,952 deaths) 452,946 NI (3,002 deaths) (08/01) Read OP

Not that a poll in the indo is anything to go by, but that poll is currently 49/47 in favour of more restrictions

Its like the Fr Ted and the Chinese episode at this stage with "More Drink" being replaced by "More restrictions".

These clowns need to play what is in front of them from here on in, in terms of hospitalization rates, and quit spinning the bottle to see what to do next, because they haven't and never had any iota of an idea what comes next with this thing.

Im not sure of the numbers but did thousands die last Xmas? Let’s be honest if what happened last Xmas was the worst case then with vaccines it must be a lot less this year even if we stayed open.

The only people panicking are the clowns in government

No idea, I meant thousands between them both, i'll reword that.

Have they only been hearing about the NPHET letter since 8 am? Were they not watching TV3 last night?

Sorry wasn’t having a go at you. It’s just people see last Christmas as some sort of end of world scenario. Last Xmas was the same as this Xmas we were protecting the health service from been over run and we made a mess of it.

But we need to get some perspective if what happened last Xmas was to happen again we would have the protection of the vaccines so we shouldn’t have the same outcome.

Numbers are already dropping and you can bet more people are socialising this year with vaccination and more of the economy open.

So and I’m not advocating this but if we were to carry on like the run up to Xmas last year we already have an idea of the worst case outcome in the real world as we did it last year without vaccination.

So let me get this straight?

We are given a vast array of predictions from mr Snake Oil based on his modelling and asked to curtail our activities to to lower hospital numbers etc.

We do all that, not only do we do all that we actually end up wayyyyy way lower than what Mr Snake Oils modelled as the most optimistic scenario.

However still not enough for NPHET who have a meeting, leak everything to the media before even sending the letter to the government who rather than being rational are now doing the political equivalent of bending over it seems.

This is madness, like at this satge no one can be under any illusions as to where the power in the country is falling, we are basically being run on the whims of one group of people headed up by someone who has a history of ........ oh sorry i almost forgot, not allowed talk about saint Tonys past on here.

This is sick.

This is I think a major drive as well behind restriction acceptance. I personally know a lot of people who work from at home fully paid, no commute, no child care, have people over not for parties just visits, and are happy to have there life restricted for a couple of months of the year and then go on holiday but new car home improvements with the money saved. I really only heard them complain when schools closed and they had the kids at home 😂😂😂😂

Wtf is the messaging here.

"Go get your vaccine so you can travel and enjoy indoor hospitality"

Actually you still need a professional test to travel and actually we are closing hospitality as its too dangerous.

I believe that NPHET and the government are very wary of anything close to a lockdown as they fear that mass non compliance will occur and the spell will be permanently broken as it were.

Omicron was probably seen by many as an ace card that would scare enough of the public into essentially achieving a lockdown by stealth. That isn’t looking likely.

This could be why we have panic this morning.