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

I love hearing all the curtain twitchers losing their sh!t on the radio this morning because its too dangerous

I couldn't agree with you more but schools are obliged to enforce it still as they have to follow their COVID plans. Even the 3-6 class have to wear masks which was a recent addition.

They mean 3rd class to 6th class.

3 year olds don't go to school.

Well fair enough, that would be 9/10 year olds so if I recall my primary school days?

They will not tweak any remaining measures; they will either stay in place as they are or go in their entirety. February 28 may be a good bet for the end of them.

Given you have the likes of Pat Kenny calling for 2 year olds to be masked previously, it wouldn't surprise me if they had tried something in playschools as well.

Kids, period, shouldn't be masked. It's actually depressing to see them in shops with them because some people still think there's a "deadly virus" out there.

Won what battle? The purpose of covid certs was to keep unvaccinated people out of high-risk areas and help prevent overloaded hospitals. I think you'll find in reality the covid certs won.

The unvaccinated have "won" nothing. Certs weren't dropped because of them. There was never a campaign or plan to force vaccinations that they "fought" against. They literally had to "fight" by doing nothing.

In anti-vaxxer heads they believe there was some grand plan to force everyone to get vaccinated and lock them out of society. And they've "won" by holding firm.

Really easy to win a battle when your foe is completely imaginary.

Ultimately the pandemic showed that it is not the first order often most immediate consequences of our decisions that matter but those 2nd and 3rd order consequences that we ought to optimise for. It is only now that the latter will come up to the surface and will be judged.

Fundamentals for dealing with covid have been very solid from the early days. We knew that it affected very tiny portion of the population with everybody else with virtually at zero risk. If anything the fundamentals improved over time while the strategy of dealing with covid went the opposite direction - measures became more and more disproportional to the risk. That is something that needs to be answered as there is a massive gap between the science & data and policies that were forced upon us.

Hats off to those men and women who early on saw the pandemic for what it was and those who were not afraid to change their minds in time. It has been a pandemic of a very mild virus with totalitarian measures designed to enforce compliance and desired behaviour of the population.

Open to correction,but was Germany's social distance set at 1.5 Metre ?

It's obscene.

I don’t see much wrong with that thread tbh. Its not as if they are saying they are anxious about going back because they don’t feel safe in the workplace or because they are vulnerable etc.

I think I’d be the same if I had to go back to commuting etc.

The only thing they really did was get people under 30 vaccinated. As seen with the massive drop off on booster uptake,it was clear that it was to get the pass to go to pubs and restaurants. Despite what the media propaganda was hailing it as at the time.

But we all know at this stage, the young healthy people didn't need the vaccines and it did nothing to stop the spread

They are already preparing Canadians for food shortages. But it's totally OK and normal and nothing to panic about. Punishing those anti vaxx truckers who work alone is more important than full shelves