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

Ill take speeches that didnt age well for 5 Bob

What was it again that you were saying the other day about attacking posts, not posters?

Well if that was supposed to be an April fools joke its certainly a strange sense of humour.

At this stage surely someone could make a very good montage video of our government making promises or definitive statements that have turned out to be completely false.

"Antigen tests are snake oil"

"Covid doesn't spread in schools"

"covid certs are only being brought in for a few weeks"

"We're reopening the latest in Europe (by months) so we definitely won't be locking down ever again"

etc

If our opposition parties weren't so spineless I'd presume they'd already be on this, it'd go viral very easily and would make FF & FG look like either liars or incompetent..

Positivity isn't allowed in this thread!

In fairness he didn't say what number of weeks it would last for.

It is clear the difference that boosters make. Almost nothing in ICU, very little in severe cases and negligible in contracting the virus... compared to 2 jabbers.

Waning refers to existing antibodies in blood.

Unless Omicron has a very very different profile (i.e. taking weeks longer) then it's looking positive, now is about the time we'd expect to see bad news coming through if it was going to happen.

Boosters certainly will of made a big difference with the older people especially with the Delta part of it. But i think those that only had just the 2 doses have stood up incredibly well against severe disease when you think that data is from May onwards which was basically when Delta started from.

Yep fingers crossed we’re in the endgame now. Ironically enough I think they are seeing how it plays out over the ‘next 2 weeks’ before starting to open up.

By the end of March this place will be like a ghost town!

So just to be clear, you're defending the government's position for most of 2021 - as the only government in the EU against antigen tests - that antigen tests are "snake oil" and shouldn't be used in Ireland? That they would have been of no benefit to the country? Why have they done a complete 180 on this since so?

The government repeatedly claimed covid doesn't spread in schools. It very clearly does. It doesn't matter what other people said, the point is the Irish government was either outright lying or was completely incompetent. Either/or, neither is a good look or our leaders.

I've no idea why you're ranting about Sweden in response to a post listing multiple times the Irish government was caught lying within the past few months.

From an economic perspective open everything up in the one go tomorrow morning

I assume that all NPHET communications are recorded and that their online meetings are also recorded? Surely they must be subject to freedom of information requests?

It's not like its the Garda or department of defense where they may have sensitive information on criminal or international relations. Surely nothing can possibly be redacted from the NPHET communications or meetings?

It was called by many, very early on that they were very selective on the statistics that they used to reinforce the call for restrictions. Changing the death reporting from daily to weekly, was an obvious ploy.