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

And we couldnt even get the schools open in the summer term of 2020 eventhough other European countries managed to open schools by April.

We closed themagain in january and what happened to make them safereventilation,that was three monthsin 2020, the whole summer holidays of 2020 and then the three months the schools were closed in 2021.

And we couldnt even fit HEPA fliters so we had thousands of cases, this meant so many people forced to go back to sitting on a bed with a laptop instead of working in their offices, who cares about them and their mental health,its all about saving a dysfunctional hospital system.

So when will people get back to work, whenwill be towns and city centres be lively again,when canwe plan a family occasionwithout fearingthat restrictions will come in with three days notice.

Is there ever going to come a pointinour lives when we arent reminded everyday to "behave ourselves"so the hospital system isnt overrun, is this it every winter going forward because no matter how many people take any number of vaccines our hospitals are so badly managed panic sets in once cases of sniffles reach acertain number.

How would they enforce it,most people dont care about covid anymore, they are jabbed and increasingly boosted and for them this is it.

They are taking their lives back and will fight to get on packed buses and trains to do their christmas shopping,they will have as many other families totheir houses as they like and will use antigentesting toprotect older relatives.

We could of course have free good quality masks and free antigen tests available everywhere like normal mature countries do,but no , thats releasing the tight control overt he population,better to just shut the economy down.

The shops will be closed once the millions of euros land in the till, its completely insane to close sit down restaurants at 8pm while crowded shops are open twenty four hours, none of this makes sense anymore,not that it ever did, snake oil antigen tests and using butter to fake them, yes, thats the height of it.

The issue here is the huge numbers were have over eighty five and most with underlying conditions.

We also have so many hugely obese unhealthy people, we have young people who are in their early twenties and already with cardiac problems due to their weight. If enough of that cohort arent vaccinated then we have a problem. hopefully by now those that are likely to end up very ill with covid will take steps to protect themselves, they should know the score by now.

While the average age is South Africa is 27 their vaccinations rates are low.

We have 92 per cent of the adult population vaccinated and all the vulnerable boosted so this should offset the disadvantage we have or having so many obese people.

If the Government genuinely think January 2022 is going to be as bad as Jan 2021 then everything we have done so farhas come to nought,all those livelihoods destroyed,the mental health carnage,the money spent on vaccinations,the divisiveness over the covid passes.

There will be nothing for it now but to accept we have to build the equivalent of fever hospitals and treat covid patients there.

We cant go in and out of these restrictions for the forseeable future because we have an inadequate health service,every young person with a sellable skill will leave and then we have no nurses, no teachers, no doctors, no tradespeople,the exodus is happening already.

The most dpressing part of all of this was Leo Varadkar basically saying this is our future, a half lived life with defined periods when we can have the freedoms we took for granted in 2019,he actually said this on Friday.