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

They didn't drop them in Summer because they were still vaccinating, they should have opened in August but they didn't because they didn't want to have to rollback restrictions. The current changes are happening because of the rapid growth of omicron and the assumption that it is as severe but has a higher transmission rate, if it's less severe, then hospitalisations should keep on dropping and restrictions dropped along with them.

I don't believe they're necessary as I'm hopeful that Omicron is a lot less severe.

But that's the data being worked off.

I'd do 50 for a bet, whichever charity, can post the donation, passes gone internally by July 31st (they'll still be needed for international travel). I'm betting against there being any new significant variants between now and then of course :)

50 for a charity of your choice if vaccine passports/restrictions on unvaccinated are gone internally in Ireland by July 31st 2022

The way I see it panning out, the carrot for younger people to get vaccinated was to get into pubs/restaurants. If pubs are closed during January and February, what will be the carrot for U30s to get the booster? Maybe keeping them closed and saying get the booster and we'll reopen the pubs will be that carrot.

Classic good cop, bad cop play by the govt...

Bad cop - NPHET (close at 5pm)

Good cop - Govt (close at 9/10pm)

Its fcuking pathetic....

We will have the state mouthpiece RTE and scare byrne getting onto publicans etc about how relieved they must be now that the govt has saved them...

Psychological bollexology....

London cases are kicking off, 23k cases yesterday, over 50% of them are omicron, 9k was the average last week for comparison, hospitalisations increasing slightly also

Ha! Nah, you replied at 1am...I was catching zeds.

But seriously, what else would you expect from career medics like these?

If the government were to go on the advice of medics for everything, then you could imagine the type of policy government would have suggested for them... No cars, no alcohol, no cigarettes, no activity with a degree of risk.. mountain biking, paragliding, sky jumping etc etc any physical contact in sport would be heavily questioned etc etc

The issue here is that government has got itself into a knot whereby these medics are the sole source of advice. There's no balance whatsoever.

That's before you get into the personality stuff. Tony Holohan has his own axes to grind and he's grinding them.

Martins slow opening policy from the summer is coming back to bite him now. He should have opened up during the summer once all the over 60's and other vulnerable people were vaccinated. The failure to do that has led to this position. Time now for Martin to stand up and say no more restrictions.

Lisa Chambers, Barry Cowan, Dilly O Wee and Regina Doherty all publicly opposed to these changes

The opposition have not opposed any measures either. SF can be high in the polls, and good luck to them but they are playing along with every restriction too, unless they have a different Covid restriction policy that I am unaware of. Same goes for Labour and Independents, PBP, Soc Dems etc.

So there is no point getting angry, as I have already said resistance is futile.

Hopefully this is the straw that breaks the camels back then

A SF led government would have implemented more widespread antigen testing and probably would have improved the quality of our hospitals so they probably wouldn't have needed these latest restrictions as we would be in a better place COVID-wise now

we are really only at the beginning of the pandemic according to Red Faced Ryan of the WHO