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

Ireland will be in a full lockdown very shortly, just like a few lads in here very definitely said would not happen.

I have to say I really don't see the point of a lockdown if Omicron is as transmissible as reported. It would need to last for months otherwise every single time you reopen the cases will shoot up again within days. And it would need to be very severely enforced otherwise it will just spread anyway even with the reduced contacts. In a country that is sick of restrictions and no longer trusting the government people will flout the lockdown terms and cases will shoot up within days.

It is a fools errand if you ask me, but here we are.

I naively thought that kind of stuff was all behind us. Ugh.

Worse than NOTHING.

Why would the HSE's OWN report in 2009 set out clear unambiguous requirements and targets regarding Critical Care and ICU requirements for the country if,AT THAT JUNCTURE it was'nt already an urgent requirement ?

These people had 11 YEARS before Covid arrived,and in those 11 years of constantly expanding funding,they decided to do NOTHING !

Is nobody in your world now allowed to ask WHY ? or seek an explanation as to WHY action was NOT sanctioned then,and WHO took the decisions to do NOTHING back then ?

As you said,"It takes along time"....how damn "long" do you want ? 5,10,15.....ah sure why not say 1,000 years,and then sit back and watch the current HSE crew "start work" on ensuring whatever target you pick will indeed become a MULTI-MULTI-MULTI Year plan,with only those involved in the Planning Disciplines seeing any reward,as the Professional Fees & Charges,and Consultancy Work renumeration head towards the next galaxy.

To sit there in December 2021, and type that our Current Government have STARTED WORK on (yet another) multi-year plan quite simply shows a reality short-circuit of incredible proportions.

People will,eventually wake up from the current well planned and instituted Torpor,and start asking the questions which have lain unasked for nearly 20 years.

If these remain unasked & unanswered,then forget about regaining any form of normality,and we can continue as we generally prefer...as sure'n it could be worse ! 😰

Shockingly late with the booster roll out. Ireland done great to be fair, but can you imagine some of the Eastern European countries and even worse the USA if this thing turns out bad.

Fair points. I think Omicron all but guarantees that things will be back to normal by the next election. It's so ultra-contagious that, whether it's as severe as Delta or not, it will have swept the country in short order. So we will either have endemic Covid with lots of additional deaths or endemic covid with few additional deaths.

I think (sincerely - I'm not being glib) that a lot of people are going to need some support to move from pandemic covid to endemic covid, because the immense propaganda over the last two years has created a "stop all deaths from covid in particular at ANY cost" outlook in some people, as well as the pernicious idea that it is right to attribute "fault" in the passing of communicable disease. Which is not their fault, but people are always going to be dying of covid (even if Omicron is a "common cold" as the most optimistic assessments seem to suggest - plenty of people die from pneumonia after a common cold every year).

You’re so cool

So Holland will go into lockdown from Sunday until January 14th and Paris is cancelling its New Year’s Eve fireworks display presumably to stop people from gathering in large crowds in that city. It’s a shame that things seem to be sliding backwards but it’s not a total shock either.

I passed the local pub at 5 this evening and the place was hopping, it was absolutely infuriating to not be there with them

Any better source for that?

You'd think Macron would be treading lightly with this nonsense since he's up for re-election next year and Le Pen is on his heels. Plus he had two near escapes from the Yellow Vesters getting their hands on him previously.

We're all very impressed with you.

The link to the Reuters article is the fourth line in the GP article.

Sorry for bursting your bubble that you and the OP dumping that crap here lap up anything without any critical thinking.

Think it's important other users reading these posts understand where this stuff comes from.