Scotland easing restrictions again, damn them for not understanding what permanent means!!!
Restrictions on large outdoor events set to be lifted in Scotland
https://f7td5.app.goo.gl/ygYqJD
It gets people to call out for lockdowns, not realising that they are doing it.
And you will never not defend the non-stop breaking of their won rules by politicians, governors, ministers, scientists etc. Party after party. Maskless event after maskless event. You'll be ready to justify it.
And I never said masks were popular. I said they were extremely popular.
What do you mean, eddie73? Sorry, I don't follow.
Masks, vaccine passports, a degree of social distancing, mass testing, school closures, business closures, restrictions on numbers at events, winter restrictions every year, working from home. They're the restrictions I believe will be permanent. The 1% is the lifting of the limit on how far a person can go from their home and how many people they can have over.
There's a reason it's 'new normal', not 'normal', 'returning to a new normal' (never 'returning to normal'), 'a semblance of normality', not 'normality', 'no level 0 in any of the roadmaps published', and 'living with covid' as opposed to just 'living'.
Sturgeon is already talking about embeding the ostensibly temporary restrictions: Scots may have to wear facemasks in public places for YEARS to come, Nicola Sturgeon warns | Daily Mail Online
May = will
And Neil Calrk's take on same: Neil Clark on Twitter: "Don’t say you weren’t warned about this. In May 2020 Sturgeon talked about steps towards a ‘New Normal’ not towards ‘normal’. Masks are meant to be a permanent feature of the dystopian ‘New Normal’ in Scotland." / Twitter
Yea man. 2 restrictions out of 11 is not 1%. So on top of all of the other stuff in this post that's wrong...
And again, you've not been able to show or explain why any of those restrictions will be permanent. You run away everytime you're asked.
So we can conclude that none of them will be permanent.
Either schools are open or my kids are a lot more intelligent than I’ve given them credit for.
Case in example:
Boris throws a party last year. The public go mad and demand the same penalties and restrictions on the high society as they have had to endure all year. Result..The public are calling out for enforcing the same sanctions without realising it.
Same thing happening in Australia with Djokovic.
Erm, Sturgeon is lifting restrictions on mass gatherings.
And what she actually said was
"‘That’s not what I mean when I say “learning to live with it”. Instead, we will have to ask ourselves what adaptations to pre-pandemic life — face coverings, for example — might be required in the longer-term to enable us to live with it with far fewer protective measures.’ "
You need to work on how you calculate your percentages and your definitions of the words ALL and PERMANENT still.
None of the things you mentioned are permanent and have come and gone as restrictions over the last 2 years, and would see them doing the same for a bit longer until this passes. That is not permanent. Seasonal restrictions is not permanent, and even then it's only a voluntary thing if you end up with people wearing masks indoors during each winter if they have a sniffle.
Even the vaccine passports, unless it somehow gets embedded into actual passports or ID cards details, is very unlikely to become a permanent thing for anything other than possibly international travel. The vaccine passports are only even needed at the moment for a very select few situations like going to mass sporting events in stadiums, not needed anywhere else and sports stadiums will drop asking for it as soon as they can.
I'm not defending them, I am explaining that you are using is as another excuse to validate your nonsense ideas about measures
You believe we love wearing masks so much, that we wear them at home. You believe a majority of people wear them out for walks and on the street. You live in some alternative fantasy universe.
gortanna has shown time and again here that they do not understand the concept of "permanent"
the funniest was when they tried to argue something is permanent until its not LOLLLLLL
In Ireland they're required for restaurants, pubs, nightclubs (that they closed again 5 minutes after they reopened), gyms (have I left anywhere out?)
When a person says '99% or 99.9%' they haven't whipped a calculator out and worked out what percentage number each restriction ia eual to. It's a figure of speech. I mean the vast majority of the restrictions will be permanent when I say '99%'.
They haven't come and gone in Ireland. And winter restrictions every year would absolutely be permanent.
Not a single country that introduced vaccine passports has dropped them.
Cept for the ones that have come and gone.
And again, still not explain the reason behind them. Because there is no reason. Because your conspiracy theory is paranoid nonsense.
sydthebeat, you might get one of Varadkar's 'periods of freedom' in 2023:
"I don't want summer 2023 in Ireland to be the summer in which we've the worst restrictions in Europe, or the toughest restrictions in Europe.
"I want 2023 to be a summer of freedom in Ireland, if that's possible."
'if that's possible', of course.
This Should Be 'Summer Of Freedom In Ireland' - Varadkar (todayfm.com)
And that freedom is vaccine pass, mask, and social distancing being required almost everywhere.
So when you say 99% what number do you really mean? Are you rounding up from 1% and thinking that nobody will notice?
The vast majority of restrictions are not still in place, those that are are phased in and out as appropriate in response to the situation at the time, and in the end there might be some changes to the way people act in general such as not going into work as often when they have a sniffle, and wearing of masks voluntarily when they are feeling a bit ill and are in a public place/ transport.
What reason would there be to continue imposing any restrictions on the operations of businesses beyond when it's actually necessary? What is in it for government to limit what hours pubs and entertainment venues can open for example?
The vast majority of restrictions are absolutely in place. Masks, vaccine passport, social distancing, signs everywhere. Ireland is one of the most vaccinated countries in the world and yet it's illegal to have a pint after 8pm. Ireland is obsessed with covid.
Are you looking forward to one of Varadkar's 'period of freedom' in summer 2023: This Should Be 'Summer Of Freedom In Ireland' - Varadkar (todayfm.com)
A sign is not a restriction.
But in England these things are not in place apart from masks in shops so why qoyld Ireland be the only country to keep these restrictions permanently?
Because he's desperate and knows that he can't argue for a global conspiracy cause it's silly.
And even then its really just a request to wear masks in shops. There is zero enforcement, just most people follow the request for the good of us all. Nobody is questioned who happens to not wear a mask.
Masks, vaccine passports and social distancing are not anywhere near the vast majority of restrictions which have come and gone over the last two years.
Masks are voluntary and only in certain circumstances, social distancing does not result in any officer coming along with a tape measure to check for the size of the gaps people are standing in a queue and fining them for being 5cm too close, vaccine passports are about all there is for you to cling onto, and is barely a restriction, doesn't result in you giving away any information and is mostly just an annoyance for whatever venue you are attending and so will be dropped at their first opportunity.
Are you talking about Ireland or England? You appear to be jumping between the two. Masks are not voluntary in Ireland. They're mandatory almost everywhere.
Vaccine passports, masks, business closures, school closures (or the constant threat of school closures, if your prefer), social distancing (your 5cm thing won't be a comfort to businesses that can't operate properly because of social distancing), Varadkar's 'periods of freedom'.
And Donnelly hinted last year that the measures were permanent: Donnelly hints Covid power extension may be permanent - Gript
And if you don't like Gript, just listen to what he says in the video clip.
"They" haven't told the Spanish PM about their plan it seems. I thought all world leaders were in on this plot?!
Whats going on?!
Spanish PM calls for debate on treating COVID-19 as endemic
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/spanish-pm-calls-debate-treating-covid-19-endemic-82175665
But there would be a sign at the entrance to the shop. That’s the real permanent restriction. This is all about the signs!!!
They had one way system in place at my local supermarket last year. Was horrific how they made you try and remember to pick up the groceries in their set order, and if you went past the bread aisle before the tins and then ended up squashing your lovely fresh loaf in the basket... The horror... And it was all permanent... One way system in place forever.
Well not now obviously, but it's permanent I tell you, even if it's not been in place for over a year... Permanent.
On Pedro Sánchez and the flu: The 'flu-ization' of Omicron: Spain asks EU to consider treating COVID as endemic | Fortune
"Citing Spain's "exemplary" vaccine uptake—90.4% of Spanish residents over 11 have been fully vaccinated, and 85.3% of those over 60 have gotten a booster shot—Sánchez noted that with a fatality rate of 1% (down from 13% at the beginning of the first wave), it was time to respond to COVID with "new instruments." These would include adding Pfizer's antiviral pill Paxlovid—of which Sánchez announced Spain's purchase of 344,000 doses—to vaccines and "self protection" measures like masks."
So it's far from treating covid like the flu he has in mind. But of course why bother reading what he says when you can make a smarty post and get the echo chamber guys to thank you, I suppose ...
But but but....
Hows does this tie in with your claim that all covid restrictions are permanent???
Are you now openly admitting you were so so wrong???
Nothing. This is just his dump thread to repeat what he finds on Twitter and pretend it's something he investigated.
He has no idea how it connects to his theories about covid restrictions.that requires too much thought and effort an might result in him finding out something isn't true or doesn't make sense.
He'll forget about the links inside a day or two.
Wrong? It's an opinion. I believe the measures are permanent. So does Pedro Sánchez. If treating it as the flu doesn't get rid of masks, for example, then nothing will.
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