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

It would be great to see some leadership in speeding up the removal of restrictions which are obviously pointless at this stage,it would probably be of benefit if more people caught this mild version while it is common here rather than waiting for a different variant to circle around in a years time without the immune system advantage of having previously had Covid, i won't hold my breath though.

The "process" requires that NPHET meet and deliberate, letter leaks and then likely we have another 5 days to an official government position. Coordination has never been a key part of it! Even so, any sectors benefitting from it need a little bit of notice to change things around.

Some posters are mentioning that us anti restrictions people are clutching at straws and to stop moaning about the restrictions that are in place and that they are not that bad.

I will continue to argue, discuss and debate with people that the restrictions must end and must end immediately. Until this happens and our freedoms are restored, then I will continue with my objection to this Ireland we currently are living in.

The restrictions don’t work. The masks don’t work. The vaccines don’t stop the spread (see our case numbers since Omicron started). Covid certs don’t work. Announcing case numbers day in and day out scaring people is wrong.

If you think that wearing a mask is keeping you safe, please keep doing it. Wear it in the place you work or on the bus. I won’t be.

Every second that these restrictions remain in place, we are unnecessarily adding to our massive debt pile that will cost us for the rest of our lives. Covid is not an emergency or even a problem anymore. We have the data, the science, the experience. It’s time to move on.

We have real crises right in front of our eyes to deal with such as poverty, violence on our streets and in homes, housing and the environment.

It not that you are complaining about current restrictions, it's that since it looks like they are coming to an end, you are clutching at straws for something to give out about, your post is a perfect example 🤣 thanks for that! Not sure how you didn't realise it!

Im not pro restrictions either but it's funny to see your stand point shifting when you haven't anything to get worked up about.

Of course your rebuttal will mention 'freedoms', 'oh it's funny is it, how funny is....etc.'

Is the final sentence a list of your next projects to get angry about?

Can you read properly?

How did you manage to get that the poster is not complaining about current restrictions?

When restrictions do come to an end then it'll shift to endless dull whining about how much it cost, "the psychological damage that's been done will last for generations", blaming virtually every ill of society for the next decade on COVID. In six months time they'll see someone wearing a mask in public and use that for a rant about Ireland and sheep and mental damage.

The anti-everything crew see the end of this coming and are upset that they're losing the opportunity to say, "I told you so". They were expecting restrictions to be permanent, or for a revolution to take place. As neither are set to happen they need to start sandbagging now so they can move onto the next thing without having to admit they were wrong.

And on the other end of the spectrum you have the Helen Lovejoys who appear to be slowly losing grip on reality. Posting articles a year old about the seriousness of COVID, banging on about long COVID, claiming that relaxing restrictions is tantamount is a human rights violation or unconstitutional.

I even saw one nutjob say, "2022 is the year Governments will try to convince you that COVID doesn't exist".

It seems that when people are off the deep end, they just pick a side and then doggedly stick with it.

Prof. Nolan: "Hold my beer..."

If and when everything returns to normal yes there will still be plenty to complain about. For one thing the extremely high tax burden to be foisted on the kids for a virus which barely affected them. Another, would be the high rate of undiagnosed cancers.

It is critical that such is highlighted for years to come so that, for example, governments and media cannot adopt Chinese-lite lockdown policies so quickly with barely any opposition.

Again, those who thought WFH and not going beyond 5km, not seeing their granny’s in order to save their granny’s etc was all great craic can choose to do so at any stage. Good luck to them.

In advance I make no apology for so doing.

Which one are you Seamus?

You came out with this bollix last October when freedom day was approaching as well!

You sure got let down then

I don't even know how to respond to that hypocrisy.

You literally talked the most rubbish here back then, with assurances about reopening months slower than every other nation in the planet so we "wouldn't have to roll back the reopening", and now you have the guile to accuse others of not admitting when they are wrong

Do fight the restrictions, but this paragraph is patently wrong, all of it, scientifically proven wrong with abundance of evidence. Including it adds no weight to your argument and makes you look like an internet crank, it's why people will be so quick to dismiss these calls, you have to build it on evidence and data. Omicron will do most of the work itself that you're pushing for, again, using an abundance of evidence.

ICU at 88, down 1, very steady numbers.

Unfortunately looks like there was 5-6 deaths in ICU

Hold up - what is it that we should be thanking you for? 😮

I'd assumed that boardsies just complained on here, but have you done other things too to bring the pandemic to an end?

More bollix about the pubs.

Pubs are something you have an issue with, but others are indifferent to pubs, it's just a personal scape goat you use to discredit the argument of others.

Most "anti everything " folk would have been happy if Ireland followed a European approach to lockdowns,and use them only and when required.

Ireland used them just in case, and they are still doing so now, when most of Europe has no curfew, Ireland is persisting with one.

No, no they dont

In fact, some believe life is normal now